skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are using CPU intensive synthetic benchmarks to compare tight loops, fannkuch-redux, spectral-norm, and similar done in PHP code and aren't directly implemented in C.

The kind of things they are benchmarking aren't what people typically use PHP for.
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It could be a matter of experience. If you are more experienced with Linux, it could be easier than if you are more experienced with Windows.

For me, Linux is easy to install, and it has been for a while, but then trying to customize it to do what I want, is much more complicated than Windows.

For example, I want RAR support. There is no LinRAR, so I had to download a library and install it. It wasnt that bad, but in the end I ended up with a tool that was not as simple to use as Winrar.

Want to use Total Commander? Either install Wine or run Midnight Commander or some other similar program that are not up to par with TC.

Want to use Office? Wine or Crossover. Want to use Illustrator? Same.

Need to install VMware? In Linux you have to import some signing key first and do some additional steps (don't completely remember). Nothing major, but you need to find out first how to do it. In Windows, just download the installer, double click and follow the wizard.

For me it seems like it is always more complicated to do simple things in Linux, and you end up with some not as good solution.

Also, I don't understand how can I download an installer from Windows XP and will 99% of the time install in Windows 10. However, if I want to install something old in the latest version of Linux, it won't install, will have to fix dependencies or similar.

And for me the worst thing is that energy management for notebooks is not exactly the same. If my battery lasts 4 hours in Windows, it lasts 3 or 2 in Linux.

Drivers it could be what you say for old ones where the manufacturer did not update to Windows 10, but if you have a supported device, usually the support is better on Windows.

Of course there are advantages, like no telemetry, no antivirus, but for my use case, I found the experience worst.

I am not saying totally worst. Maybe it is a 10 to 20% worst.

Of course, I have used maybe 90% of my time Windows and 9% Linux and 1% MAC, so maybe I am just more experienced.
Whether the mandate is effective isn't as critical as knowing whether the mask itself is effective. Knowing that they're effective opens up lots of policy options, one of which is a mandate.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7314683/
Ever since we started working from home, I've come to realise that that's exactly what my wife's job is: constant meetings the whole day.

To me, meetings distract from the real work, for her, they are the real work. Meetings are where decisions are made, but not where product is made. I make product, she makes decisions.
Security reports reveal how Assange turned an embassy into a command post (2019)
Personally, (despite, or perhaps due to) Python once being my favorite language, I can't wait. Dynamic typing is too much of a mental strain once you are handed someone else's ML algo code and have to integrate it under tight deadlines.

Though I recently discovered opentelemetry and I'm working on a set of decorators I can use to instrument these monstrosities and figure out what all these rando 5 letter undocumented variables do.
I was holding my breath reading that. If you wrote a whole story in this style, I would gladly read it !
You say that as though everything above the Linux kernel isn't a nightmarish hodge-podge of software with interconnections ever increasing in complexity that creates conflicts so readily it needs third parties to carefully maintain specialized builds of each component to keep it all from blowing up.
With work from home and virtual meetings, it's become surprisingly easy to do work during a meeting.
Unfortunately, nothing is free. Someone always pays the bill.
What once was a culture of skepticism in the US seems to have devolved into a culture of mistrust. I wonder what has driven this apparent shift. Is it because of TV shows that introduce and entertain these ideas in people's minds? Is it because clickbait has driven media to resort to entertaining more fringe ideas in the quest for viewership? Is it because media literacy hasn't kept up with the flood of reputable-looking but agenda-driven media outlets?
If you don't mind, at what time of day do you take it?
I think parent’s point is that these measures are intended to stretch out the curve so the peak is lower (not overwhelming) but the area under the curve is the same (same total deaths). The hope is of course that a vaccine chops off its right tail.
I don't know if it does or doesn't, because I've never seen any scientific studies on universal mask mandates. That's why I'm asking.
Isn't .MOV already .MP4?
> Gauntlet thrown down
The corporate media in the US and UK is no more diverse and pluralistic than the major corporate-funded political parties they identify with. This kind of media mirrors the same flaws as the Republican and Democratic parties in the US: they cheerlead consumption-based, globalised capitalism; they favour a policy of unsustainable, infinite growth on a finite planet; and they invariably support colonial, profit-driven, resource-grabbing wars, nowadays often dressed up as humanitarian intervention. The corporate media and the corporate political parties serve the interests of the same power establishment because they are equally embedded in that establishment.

And this is exactly the problem right there: corporate media isn’t really doing journalism!
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very polish comment :-D
If your political opponents are guaranteed to never achieve any power because there is no requirement for primaries, then no it isn't a democratic achievement.

Not poisoning people because they can't do anything is not an achievement, it's just a prudent use of resources.

The US has also already assassinated political opponents, such as Fred Hampton, or various Union leaders.
Author here.

For the first system, it was deprecated without replacement, and just let to run by managers and people who had moved on to other teams (but used to work on it) who did the minimal maintenance required, and former employees were given emergency contracts in weird circumstances to deal with things. Roughly 3-4 years after, they finally replaced it after 2-3 attempts at rewrites that had failed before. The old design with minimal maintenance for years finally approached limits to how it could be scale without bigger redesigns; I consider this to be extremely successful.

It wasn't exactly bulldozed nearly as much as declared "done" and abandoned without adequate replacements while major parts of the business was just being rewritten to use Go and a more "standard" stack. Obviously these migrations always start with something easier and by replacing components that are huge pain points to its contemporaries, and you're left with more legacy stuff in the end that is much harder to replace done in the final pushes. I felt that the blog post would have veered off point if the whole thing became about that, though.

The people on these teams left in part because the hiring budget was redirected towards hiring on the new projects. The idea was that everything could be done in Go for these stacks (by normalizing on tools and libraries developed in another project and wanting to have one implementation for both the private and shared platforms), and the rewrites were to start with Ruby components.

You knew working on the Erlang side of things that no feature development would ever take place again, that no new hands would be hired to help, and that you would be stuck on call 24/7 with no relief for years. All efforts were redirected to Go and getting rid of Ruby, and your stuff fell in between the cracks. I was one of the people who left on the long tail there. After my departure, I was brought back on a lucrative part-time contract as a sort of retainer for years to help them in case of major outages (got 1 or 2 in 4 years) since that was the only way they could get expert knowledge once they drove us all away.

I'm still on good terms with the people there, it's just that "maintaining a self-declared unmaintained legacy stack without budget or headcount until we get to rewrite it in many years" is not where any of us wanted to drive our careers.

Interestingly, we tried very hard to add new developers. We wrote manuals, tooling, a book on operating these systems (see https://www.erlang-in-anger.com), wanted to set up internal internships so developers from other teams could come and work with us for a while, etc. Whereas our team was very willing, internal politics (which I can't easily get in a public forum) made it unworkable and most attempts were turned down. These things were not always purely business decisions, and organizational dynamics can be very funny things.
One of the many results after a quick search: https://royalsociety.org/-/media/policy/projects/set-c/set-c...
Great point. Individual publishers are to be trusted so little in describing their own content that Google completely ignores the keywords meta tag (and also description now I think).
I've heard that governments got access to source, maybe from there?
Radio waves are electromagnetic while sound waves are a physical wave. I assume that having to actually move the air molecules would require a lot more power and time than electrons in an antenna as well as having to deal with air density and environmental sound interference. I would be interested in knowing the limit of bandwidth here though.

It also brings up an interesting thought I never had before. With early home computers, and I assume before that as well, you would place a phone handset onto a coupler to receive data. It is odd to think now that there is a little air in there that is transferring sound between the handset speaker and the coupler microphone. I assume that without that little bit of air it wouldn't function.
Ask HN: Best way to get started with service mesh trials/comparisons?
I'm bumping into more and more folks looking to install and compare service meshes. What's the best practice for this? Spinning the meshes up on minikube, using KataCoda, or some other tool?
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That doesn't help much even if true. A vendor could create an account with lots of good fake reviews and a few real reviews, good or bad. They'll look the same as an established vendor with lots of good real reviews.
I read before that another thing he did was tell Manning what software to use to crack passwords to gain access to more info. That definitely seems like crossing the line from just receiving information, to actively helping someone commit a crime.
How many forced Windows 10 updates have bricked peoples computers? Just looking at the dates after googling has dates from '18, '19 and '20. So at least once a year. On an OS that has been out for 5 years now.

Do I control my computer or not? If I do then I should be able to control what happens when.
Hold on. Is enlightenment a widely accepted phenomenon with an agreed definition?
> Assange and Wikileaks dumped the entire set of files, without redactions, while the Guardian, Der Spiegel, NYTimes were spending time and resources trying to redact them

Sorry, this is plainly false. This article and the testimony of people involved with Wikileaks (see Craig Murray's reporting for that) show that Assange was actually incredibly careful and diligent in redacting. It was the newspapers that were eager and impatient to publish.

It was a Guardian journalist's recklessness that let everyone see the unredacted cables, not Assange's.
Hmm; you start off with a point I agree with completely, but then you seem to take further steps I don’t think are warranted.

Everything up to this sentence, we are on the same page:

> But acknowledge that he has the right to make the best guess he can and had rather more at stake with that guess than a mere opinion.

I would say he has the capacity, not the right. The right stopped the moment his appeals against his extradition to Sweden ended.

I do totally agree that people think differently when their skin is on the line. That’s part of why I’m in the “well I recon” rather than “totes innocent” or “he’s a wrong’un” camp.

At the time, and now, it feels logically incoherent to argue that Sweden is less safe for Assange than a country which has literally just decided to extradite Assange. Doubly so if you want to claim that Assange did not commit the offence and America conspired to fake it, because of the latter was true America could easily have done so with other offences that would have him sent to the USA direct.

America not liking Assange was obvious even back then, but it felt (and still feels) irrelevant to the specific claims in Sweden.
As a matter of fact, yes, albuterol is used by bodybuilders and "adrenaline junkies" I guess. It's an adrenergic agonist, works somewhat like coffee, but with different/stronger effects.

Oral intake is the best, although inhalation works OK.

Clenbuterol is overall better for that purpose, though.

Still doesn't change the fact that it should be OTC.
Let's be clear. Safely administered heroin is much better than street heroin. It's far far worse than not taking heroin.

Letting all the children in the country hooked on safe heroin is not a solution.
Maybe you underestimate how unpopular your opinions are.
I use the indexer setup to ignore parts of my system. That works pretty good. Especially if you are doing any work with nodejs. Also defragging just the index file helps a lot. That thing can end up with thousands of bits all over the drive. Even with SSD it is not great as random seek on many SSDs are fairly terrible and contig read is amazing. One trick I also do is pre-allocate my swap file (I usually pin it to 4GB). As the default is to grow/shrink.. That can do the same thing as the indexing file.

Something also changed around sp2 with 7 and file writes. Files get fragmented very quickly now even when there is plenty of space not to do so. I usually would only end up with systems badly fragmented in XP if the drive is full (much like ext4) now it just does it as a matter of course and is acting like the old DOS alg of find the next free spot.

You can still turn off the readyboost/superfetch cache service (not sure where it is win10). If you have an SSD you should not notice much difference on or off but it can happen. Turning those off makes your free RAM act more like in linux where it just caches recently read items and gives it up right away if needed.
Unfortunately, many engineers will consider themselves “blocked” after doing only 5 minutes of research and deciding they needed to interrupt someone else’s work for help. They are concerned only with their own productivity, not with the productivity of other team members who have to context switch to solve a different problem.

A standup encourages people to solve their own problems as best as they can, and to aggregate their interruptions to limit the number of individual interruptions throughout the day. Without a system like this, a team’s senior engineers may get nothing done besides assisting others.
I am in no way an expert, which makes me very hesitant to answer these sorts of questions. I am a random person on the Internet. Take that into account when you read what I've written, and weigh it very skeptically.

My knowledge comes from my own health. I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia (which is probably not an autoimmune disease. Probably.), after a ten year long process. MS was the other diagnosis being considered at the end of that process. If I had lesions, MS, if not, FM. Because the latter leaves no physical traces that can currently be detected (there is some progress on that front, but one study does not a trend make).

Some illnesses do have a likelihood to be co-morbid with others. FM for example, has a large number of illnesses it often masks, which may mean it is more likely to have that sort of comorbidity, or it may mean that the statistical model to work out if it is more likely to occur is extremely difficult to create.

I can't speak to whether a disease being autoimmune in nature makes it more likely to trigger other autoimmune illnesses, but it wouldn't be surprising to me. A malfunctioning immune system can malfunction in unexpected ways.
I think this trend started with the Internet becoming mainstream, not with Trump. Trump has certainly encouraged and leveraged it though. Not sure if on purpose or just because he happens to be one of them.
While I agree with what BLM protests were protesting against, they did pick the worst possible time to do so. Especially because, numbers in hand, COVID has killed and will kill more people than police brutality would.
If you go by the stance of the Chinese government, there should never be a Wikimedia Taiwan. There is Wikimedia Canada, Wikimedia Deutschland, Wikimedia France, etc. Note they are all countries (France, Germany, Canada). Taiwan is not a country but a rebel province (per the Chinese law).

China doesn't like it when other people use the name Taiwan. Maybe they should change it to "China Taipei"

EDIT: this is not my opinion, but what I see as reality..
It's why I prefer to schedule all our meetings immediately after the Daily. (Used to be a Daily Standup, but now it's a sit-down.) I have a tendency to forget afternoon meetings because I'm busy working. (I might still go if I can't work for some reason.)
Here is one, took me about half a minute to find: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0843-2

Counterquestion: Will presence of this evidence modify your position?
Of course, he doesn't tell you _why_ λ = c / f. So kids will do this experiment and learn very little. That's the sad state of "STEM" (excuse me, "STEAM" because math is hard) today.
I've only seen M$ used for Microsoft.
I had an interesting experiment during lockdown: getting groceries delivered meant disposable bags rather than my usual shopping trips with reusable bags. Since then, the disposable bags have piled up. I simply don't produce as much trash as plastic bags.

That's not unexpected: most of the trash I produce enters my house as food packaging, and it takes up less volume going out than coming in. There are some other things, like junk mail and cat litter, but overall I have a lot more disposable bags than I will ever use.

I'm sure not everyone has a lifetime supply of plastic bags (I wish I could share the wealth), and a new niche opens up for that. Probably many will buy some, which doesn't seem entirely unreasonable -- after all, you buy most of the other things you use in life.
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And population growth...
So until you see one which side of the fence do you land on? Wearing a mask or not wearing one?
If you're going to use a cable, might as well just use usb so you have a real data connection.
This is very interesting! Would definitely be useful non-technical users. I have a few UX concerns, though.

- By default, it's set to All Features instead of Basic Features

- The app repeatedly says it doesn't upload your files, yet there's a big button in the app saying Upload File. Perhaps "Your files are never uploaded" should be reworded to something like "Your files never leave your device"?

- It also was not obvious how to get started with the app. Perhaps some text could be added to the play button?
Which personality would that be? These people exist in every country.
I agree about the spamming. Which is why I am asking this question here. I'm trying to put some content out there without it being spam and getting honest feedback in return. Sometimes, it's obvious to myself what I need to improve, but there are multitide more things that other people can direct my attention to.

The goal of making such tutorials is not always making money. I can't speak for everyone, but in my case I have two goals in mind:

1. Improve my speaking/presentation skills.
Consequentially, improve my writing skills after writing a prep and a follow-up post.

2. Put myself out there.
If the content is bad, I'll get a ton of negative feedback and will have no other option but to improve. If I'm good I'll get a chance of gaining a following, getting better job opportunities/higher salaries, etc.

There are many more good reasons why a person might want to share his content with the world, even if it is in broken English.

Finally, you as a consumer of such content always have an option to walk away, which is very powerful. If I put up shitty content, people don't have to consume it. However, some people might push through an give me some feedback. With each article, I'll get better and therefore attract more reader and feedback, creating this loop of learning.

So, advice to not post something, just because it is not good, is a bad advice. I would recommend people share their work, even if it is far from perfect.

Big caveat. I am talking about honest people with the best intentions in mind.
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> The right to free speech

Compared to the US? I don't see it except for a few EU countries, mostly the ex-USSR ones.

> and to defend yourself + your property

Are you talking about the "right" to kill someone that tries to steal your laptop at night? Yeah, that's not usually allowed in the EU, only if your life is at risk.
Student are "driving" bioreactors that can easily start manufacturing bioweapon and spread it around. Some responsibility must be imposed if the one they assumed themselves was insufficient.
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00818...
I wonder how often science gets derailed simply because people are in the habit of expecting a single answer to their questions. We know that car accidents cause lacerations, although there are plenty of cases that happen in the absence of car accidents. Isn't it possible that MS is a symptom with multiple possible causes, any of which could set off a vicious cycle of nerve degeneration?
Personally I think it’s because journalism and media don’t so much seek to investigate what holds as much as they carry water for a certain narrative.

If someone has a legitimate question it’s batted away with out weighing evidence or lack there of.

From this POV they cannot be taken at face value. The Vitamin D thing or HCQ thing. Whether or not they prove useful, the media would not even consider whether they were useful or not. It was just “NO!” Likely this knee jerk reaction was due to a certain person floating them as options. If Bill G had floated them as he floats his own favorite solutions, the reaction would have been different.
The PHP team is pretty transparent about the JIT not really helping much with the sort of things people use PHP for. It just opens up using PHP for more CPU intensive stuff that you would have called out to a C library for.
Finding one of those studies would have taken you way less time that typing your comment. So I think we can all safely assume you are not asking this question in good faith, and you wouldn't believe one such study anyway.
I got some response to my question if Microsoft could allow redistribution of the cl.exe compiler: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/idea/975508/allo...
Have you tried googling? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2440799/
know asl myself - though what do you mean by this?

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Yes! Interfaces predict outcomes. And Scrimba's well-architected front and back end looks ridiculously engaging.

Will recommend to all prospective coders. And am definitely mining that Imba scheduler for ideas and inspiration ;)

Best of Luck, Per!