skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought so also, but decade of small improvements do accumulate to a large number. Something like 20% improvement 4 times would be doubling the IPC, but single threaded compilation is where I got more than that.

The after purchase testing was even better than expected.
i7 920 compiled a specific compilation unit in 14 seconds. 3900x in 3.5 seconds. And that was before any tuning, I had done some bios tuning for i7 920, while 3900x I just limited the power to make it quieter. The IPC is more than double, the larger caches are probably the thing that pushes IPC beyond expectations. (I got more cores to improve scaling of multithreaded code.) Both times were recompilations where there was enough ram to have all the files cached and the the folders used where on ssd:s with modern CPU used nvme and older one SATA. Even if the nvme matters that upgrade wouldn't of been possible without getting modern MB. The make system was make, and what I used was LLVM tutorial code in single file that included many LLVM headers. The software wasn't upgraded between those runs, just moved disks from old system to new system and copied the data.

I did look before the purchase if there was IPC improvements that would of made more sense to buy new than buy some Westmere 6 core to upgrade my system. Results made it clear to me that getting any cheap new CPU would of been preferable over wasting time with getting the westmere. The IPC improvements for compilation were way higher than average IPC improvements.

But even sandy bridge was weak enough in the benchmarks that it would of made sense to upgrade from that. Before purchase I just looked from phoronix benchmarks/open benchmarking database a compilation benchmark that had worst CPU scaling for more cores and used that as approximation for single threaded compilation.

My own results were much larger than what I assumed it would of been based on comparing the sandy bridge to modern CPU:s and then multiplying that with clock speed advantage and IPC advantage of sandy bridge vs i7 920.

Oh, when I got i7 920 I decided not to upgrade until I got 8 cores. Then it was AVX-512 happened I knew I must have that so that I could play around optimizing code with it, Intel just could get it's 10nm very soon so that I could get those 8 core AVX-512 parts in reasonable price and power envelope. I just did the math, and realized wasted time because slow CPU would cost me more over next 2 years than upgrading.
> it's not obvious that numerical algorithms would in general play nice with it

Perhaps. Some algorithms in numerical analysis are only "backwards stable" as opposed to forwards stable. This includes all possible algorithms for things like Singular Value Decomposition. See: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/369930/why-is-uncomputabi...

> With the world going more and more the route of ML, efficiency of numerical algorithms is not a secondary concern.

ML is going in the direction of very low precision floating point numbers, like 16 bit floats. High precision doesn't seem to matter there.
Google seemingly kills more products than they run and I wouldn't rely on them for any aspect of my business, based on this, and their historically awful CS.

The petty snipe is not necessary or appreciated.
Asbestos could be a powerful weapon against climate change
Thanks for sharing.

Jiddu Krishnamurthy’s 1985 UN speech also resonates here: https://youtu.be/qcga8ATBNh0
everytime* not everyone

And yes, I have done it so many times myself too
The other key to understanding this is that multidimensional arrays in Postgres are not simply arrays of arrays like typical programming languages. That’s why you can’t do things like array_agg on an array column.
What could go wrong?

cf. The Scunthorpe Problem[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
Extraordinary Product People
> There are a lot of libraries in a lot of languages for supporting arbitrary precision, big numbers, and other various representations. I’d venture to say that almost every programming language does have it, if you count a third party or open source library as having it.

Arbitrary precision is very different from exact real arithmetic.
VH1 was the first rock album I ever bought, back in 1979, and I’ve spend 41 years loving it. I know the band has had their ups and downs but I think that Eddie’s playing on their last album was just as fresh, vibrant and exciting as it ever was. Impossible to overstate the impact this man had on my life, as well as the entire music genre. RIP.
Not really. It has gotten worse.

It used to be if you are a graduate or have experience working in a Canadian company you would score points. Which was much less prone to abuse.

Now they still have point based system, but the above don't get any extra point, and if you have those said qualifications anywhere, as long as you can prove (through documentations) you get the same points.

Result is rampant abuse with overseas companies that "vet" candidates' degrees and experience providing certificates and such things. And it takes longer for graduates from Canadian universities or someone with experience working at a company here since they compete in the same lottery pool.
It is still far better than US, but it could take you a while before your points start closer to the draw.
In my entire life I've only ever felt screwed over by two--and only two--entities: Comcast and private universities.

Not Apple, not Google, not Facebook, not Amazon, not banks, not credit card companies, not even my cell carrier. On the whole—as a customer at least—I feel like all my dealings with these "big tech firms" have been fair and mutually beneficial. I love Apple products, I think Google basically deserves a Nobel Prize for their democratization of knowledge and their creation of useful tools, and I can sing the praises of how much Amazon has simplified my life with easy ordering and reliable product reviews. Frankly, I even sorta like getting targeted ads!

In contrast, Comcast keeps sneakily raising my bill, charging me BS fees they don't disclose ahead of time, locking me into punitive contracts, providing mediocre service—and I literally can't do a damn thing because they are the ONLY service provider in my area.

As for universities, they demanded that I take out hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt to pay their insane tuition bills. They would in fact prevent me from registering for classes and would even withhold my diploma if I was even a little late paying their bills!. They employed these draconian tactics despite having endowments in the billions and receiving many hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants each year. And, these universities received all their money up front and pawned off any repayment risk to the Government or private lenders... And despite asking me to mortgage my future to pay their bills, they now have the outrageous gall to send me letters almost weekly asking for more even donations. And, very conveniently for somebody, educational debt is non-dischargeable in bankruptcy.

That's my longwinded way of asking: who the hell decided that regulating big tech is America's most pressing issue right now? I have nothing but goodwill toward big tech.

Meanwhile, I don't hear any politicians saying a anything about Comcast (in fact, I see many Comcast execs throwing fundraisers for Joe Biden), and all hear about universities from many Congresspeople is how we need to increase their funding and make sure more students can pay their insane tuition bills—not actually reigning in those bills.

Something seems... off.
Any experiences with lion's mane?:

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323400#potential-b...

There are more supplements. You better do your own research on these:

- Tyrosin
- Theanine
- Creatine
- Protein
- 5-HTP
- GABA

At best they might help, at worst, you wasted your money.
PS: Have you tried fish oil (or perhaps algae oil) and zinc? According to the findings I provided, they might help you too.
> How many of your fellow citizens do you know who have the skills to get a good job and don't get one because of foreign competition?

It's kind of a chicken and egg problem. I certainly know people with skills to do what used to be good jobs, but aren't good jobs anymore due to foreign competition.
Well I’m not wed to anything - maybe sometime we’ll see an article about reasons TO switch.
Ultimately trust busting comes down to the impact on the consumer. A monopoly is defined as having market power, exclusionary conduct and business justification (1). In theory, if consumers are happy, nothing happens.

As you state with Google, you're pretty happy with the services they provide. At some point, Google stops trying to compete with better products and simply uses its dominate position to takeover markets. For example, Google Flights. Is Google Flights a better product? Does it save me money or provide more options? I honestly have no clue but the fact that Google can just integrate with the top of search, pushing down the market tested existing companies is bad for consumers. Google can just singularly introduce worse products and instantly gain significant market share by putting them at the top of search. Similarly, they have an infinite adwords budget.

As for punishing success, I wouldn't frame it that way. In general, if the companies split, it will make way more money for the existing equity holders. They get shares in all the new companies and they tend to do well.

1) https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
I don’t really get why you think this isn’t a market solution, and I don’t really see where you think the problem is at all. Research institutions compete for fee paying students, endowments, and government funding. When they come up with marketable ideas, those ideas tend to make it to the market.

The fact that private capital can even find its way to funding ideas that have not and may never be proven to work completely disproves your point. Long term, high risk business propositions don’t seem unable to find investors. There is no tragedy of the commons here. If the market values something, there’ll be somebody willing to produce it. The only real room for disagreement is when the market doesn’t value something as much as you think it should.

> You’d have to state your measure for this. Scientific breakthroughs are not advancing at anywhere near the speed of the early 20th century

There’s more to science than quantum mechanics and a good approximation of gravity. It’s generally seen as rather obvious that our rate of innovation is increasing exponentially. I’m typing this comment on a pocket sized computer that’s orders of magnitude more powerful than the most powerful supercomputer in the world was on the day I was born.

https://www.nature.com/news/polopoly_fs/1.19431!/menu/main/t...
Couldn't you get QMK to send CTRL+C, or whatever as a dedicated key on a different layer? Easier then rebinding every program.
> The private eye went and sat in the pew behind her. At the end of the service, he followed her out, stopped her, and asked for help; he said he had Parkinson’s (he didn’t) and was having trouble licking the church’s donation envelope. The mother kindly obliged, leaving DNA-infused spittle behind (and the church a few dollars poorer).

Could DNA evidence obtained this way be admissible?

Would the defendant estate’s lawyer ask the mother in court if she had provided her DNA for analysis and she would say no?
This will take 50 years to pass and countless kids will again be at a disadvantage while searching the Internet.
I don't fully understand hacker news I think, I am curious as to why this is still on the front page but the Nobel prize that was announced today has been on page 2 all day (unless I missed its original front page landing)

also, RIP Eddie!
Moving tech out of the h1b and to something specific with higher pay requirements makes more sense to me.

What happens with the non-tech fields that can't find skilled labour, but aren't money printing machines?
All of this sounds great in theory but a dollar on food vs a dollar on a browser, I know what that mom is spending it on.
So what? Equality of floating point numbers is only "decidable" if you don't care about getting the right answer.

Likewise, equality of functions is also undecidable, but you never see people bringing that up in the context of Higher Order Functions.
I don't think that's a downside. If you have that superpower, you can build it at a different place.

The downside I find is that some people who can do this assume everyone can do this. If complexity is not difficult for you then simplifying (code, architecture, etc.) is not a priority and it becomes harder for other people to understand and maintain.
Yeah sorry, I stopped reading after I felt the discussion was going round in circles. But it's funny how the same viewpoint results in different takeaways. Of course, the topic under discussion is a pedantic one.

However, "that's true of any type system" just feels dismissive of the current state of the world. The comment you were replying to was pointing out that at present, enabling strict type checking in Python, that has been bolted on as an add-on only recently, will not be able to provide benefits to the same level as the ones in Java and Rust where types are front and center. That might become true tomorrow when all Python libraries have adopted types. Hypothetically, tomorrow the Rust community could also decide to adopt Any as the central type everyone uses. But today, the state of the world is very different. Python is still known as a dynamically typed language where devs can essentially forget explicit types, and Rust is a strongly statically typed language where devs will rarely have to worry about missing types.
Would cost ~$80 with cloudfront.
I'm pretty confident you can commit crimes that matter without physical presence.

Most people don't approve of making millions from insider trading, for example.

Or of cryptolocking beloved photo collections and holding them ransom for bitcoin.
I think it’s reasonable to assume that in this hypothetical scenario, the app part of Google Play would get split off and follow their Android business.
s/developers/firefox

Current link redirects to addon management page (behind auth obviously).
> The author's substack earned a unsubscribe based on it.

Stretching the author’s argument, you’re not abiding by the culture that the First Amendment and other laws have wanted to create, and you’re as guilty as xkcd in unsubscribing (re-emphasizing that it’s according to the author).
And I'll never buy another APC UPS. Last year mine was telling me the battery was dead. I wasn't in a hurry to replace this one because it wasn't powering anything too important at the time, but it was still useful to leave there as an overpriced power strip until I could get around to replacing the battery, so that's what I did. A few weeks passed with the dead battery in there, but no new alerts. I was cleaning under my desk and ended up touching the UPS when I realized it was uncomfortably hot. I very quickly turned it off and unplugged it. I wasn't sure what the safest thing to do was at that point, but I figured I should get the battery disconnected ASAP. It was difficult to remove, and after I got it out it was easy to see why. The battery casing had actually deformed.

That scared me of of APC. The unit should have shut down before letting itself get that hot.
It doesn’t really make sense, for the same reason that corporate income tax in general doesn’t make much sense. A corporation is owned by people, when the corporation makes money, that money, one way or another, ends up in the hands of people who pay progressive tax on it. If you think that the government isn’t making enough money off of corporations, the answer is to raise capital gains taxes.

Progressive income taxes on corporations are bad policy for many of the same reasons that corporate income taxes are bad policy in the first place. Corporations are artificial constructs and they have a really easy time reorganizing to behave in artificial ways to shed tax burden. Institute a progressive corporate income tax and watch as every major corporations spontaneously transforms into hundreds of micro-corporations that own each other’s stock, and “contract” all of their responsibilities to each other without changing anything except to increase inefficiency and make internal job transfers more complex. Just tax people and be done with it, taxing corporations is taxing people, just with an added incentive for wasteful tax-avoidance.
Tracking the Top H1B Employers and their Median Salaries
The other comment said it well—I would additionally encourage you to help other diabetics to understand what flexibility they have, using your experience.
How is that an abuse if the person is actually required to perform the Android Dev role at work?

This looks like a rule that will block all the self thought developers, which are plenty and some are among the best.
Unfavorable Views of China Reach Historic Highs in Many Countries
> we're overpaid already anyways

Who’s we? Rent is astronomical
Even doubly as funny when you go back to 2016 and the biggest haters were screaming REEEEEEE because he was sure to start WW3.
Combined with work from home trend, that will just lead to jobs leaving the US entirely.
Like I said, its been a while since I read up on the literature, but when I did (more then 10 years ago) there were similar models backed most of them not backed up by any evidence, but those that were usually had some flaws in the experimental design that made the results biased.

E.g. they were asked to rate neutral images as positive or negative, some were primed with images of outgroup person while others with ingroup. The outgroup group would respond more negatively. But there is a problem with this design and they found out that it is not bias towards the outgroup that created the result. Maybe they have experiments that demonstrates (without a bias) that xenophobia is natural in humans, but I doubt it. I want to see some extraordinary evidence before I believe such an extraordinary claim.
It's not a good idea to close all elements in HTML because browser does not care about your closing elements, they'll be closed automatically regardless of whether you closed them or not. And your closed elements will be opened automatically.

<p>List: <ul><li>item1</li></ul> of items</p>

becomes

<p>List: </p><ul><li>item1</li></ul> of items<p></p>

and that's probably not what you wanted. So you have to understand auto-closing behaviour either way. And if you understand it, you can just spare yourself from closing them.

Now with XHTML, that's a different thing. But I think that ship sailed many years ago and HTML is a preferred way to go nowadays.
EBay offers a number of Xeon D boards at reasonable prices, many with extensive passive cooling. They have a lot of life left in them, to my mind, with good enough power efficiency for a box with normally very low CPU load. No moving parts, nothing to break. Yes, they are not speed demons, but low TDP presumes that anyway. ECC RAM support is there, though.
EVH was a classically trained, incredibly talented and highly creative musician. He was also a founding member of an amazingly successful band that was very popular right around the time many of your average HN readers were growing up. His death is impactful to a lot of these people -- events like this just seem to have resonance. Sorry, that's the best explanation I can come up with.
Covid-19 Lockdowns May Have Had Little Effect on Virus Spread
It has been a few years since I read some of Spengler's "Decline of the West". As I recall, he believed that history had a certain determinism to it; it had universal laws like the laws of physics. I don't think it does, and I have a hard time understanding how he could have thought this was true. See https://goodlifeodyssey.com/universal-historical-laws for an essay about this, but basically what one dictator ate for lunch can have big effects. Thus, no law could account for such complexity. Its like he took the idea that history repeats itself and over-generalized it.

Spengler also seemed to believe it was impossible to "truly" understand how people from earlier times thought. But then he made some very strong claims, like stating that the ancients didn't have a sense of time. Once again, there is some truth here, but he over-generalizes.
It's about 90% accurate with 10% creative license.
The software he mentioned stores macros for each keyboard. So you can still type 9 on your main keyboard.
Does anyone have experience with big industrial dishwashers? We had one at a school I visited, based in an old military barracks. It was about the size of a large fridge, extremely loud (used high pressure) and cleaned dishes spotless in about 15 seconds.

I've wanted one of those ever since, along with one of those giant laundromat washing machines with shock absorbers that run a spin cycle in complete silence.
$5 a month for the cheapest option?

I mean, the cheapest Droplet is $5 a month with 1GB of Memory, 1 vCPU, 1TB transfer and 25GB storage. While the same tier of App Platform only gives you 512MiB of Memory and 40GiB Outbound transfer, plus you have to pay extra for the storage/db.

Why the price varied this much? Kubernetes was that expensive?
while body parts shrink after reading "lock and clamp"
Like most tradeoffs, it depends on the particular circumstances, I think.

I don't have this set up in my current gig, because we have more pressing priorities.

It is incredibly useful when you do have it, though.

Generally it's more important for really large projects - IIRC Android is really strict about not merging branches containing any commits that break tests, for exactly this reason.

As that implies, you wind up rewriting branches in this approach, too, but for different reasons.
Types of Definitions – Words Are Like Functions
Well there's a phrase I never thought I'd hear: Blowjob fingerprinting

Long story short, there are products that you can buy that plug into your computer and perform blowjobs on you.

You can design your own blowjobs.

You can email these custom blowjobs to other people so they can... click a link and enjoy the blowjob you designed.

She discovered an XSS vulnerability. I have to quote her because this is amazing.

"I will leave you to ponder the consequences of having an XSS vulnerability on a page with no framebusting and preauthed connection to a robot wrapped around or inside someones genitals..."

Someone asked how she discovered this vulnerability.

She found it "while on a mission to download as many blowjobs as I could from the internet because I was trying to prove Blowjob Fingerprints are a thing."

She is currently midway through creating a "blowjob analytics service".

She posted a bunch of blowjob graphs.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPNEqQ3UEAAaQVd?format=jpg&name=...
Indexing Library for Go
You're right that big companies should only be broken up if it would benefit consumers. The point I'd raise is first that you may be unaware of better alternatives because of anticompetitive behaviour by Google and second by Google's very nature they could limit the discoverability of competitors.

(I have no idea whether better competitors exist or whether Google could, let alone does, hide them.)

Antitrust cases are hard to generalize I believe. If an airline lowers prices on a route following the entrance of a (smaller) competitor, it's hard to know whether that is or should be illegal without knowing a whole lot of specifics.
Eddie became a better composer as he grew like most Musicians. His early work was based more on his guitar virtuosity.