skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't find the benchmarks so it's not possible to know what they measured, how they measured it, and if it's a relevant measurement.

Skimming the repository it doesn't seem to be an unreasonable claim. C++ with Seastar compared to Scala on JVM. It's in line with the Scylla/Cassandra improvements.
It says XFS only for data directory in the setup guide. Curious to why that is and how does this work in MAC if that's the case.
So many of the thought exercises present in your comment are missing rather obvious validations.

Why do we not ask this of other professions? Because other professions have metrics and regulatory bodies.

Why are no skyscrapers falling? Because they are well regulated and required a huge infusion of cash to build. A software company with such a large cash infusion is also likely to not fail.

Software engineers are best analyzed on a bell curve and once identified according to such plotting relative to other developers the criteria becomes clear. The problem, for many people, is that selective bias prevents people from seeing the objective distinctions. If not for those blinders the question of what makes an excellent software engineer is largely self answered.
Japan shop deploys robot to check people are wearing face masks
Redpanda is built on top of Seastar, as is ScyllaDB, so the reasons might be closely related: https://www.scylladb.com/2016/02/09/qualifying-filesystems/
But if the majority of the population lives in the northern hemisphere, shouldn't that make it heavier and thus flip the earth, placing the south pole on the top?
> Exactly. So it was never really the hardware that held back gaming on Mac, but the fact that from a game-development perspective it's an esoteric platform that has limited or no support for the main industry standard APIs (DirectX, Vulkan, etc).

I think it's more that gaming wasn't held back on the Mac. It was just bootcamp was much more common than people think.

> If you're going to port your game to iOS (and why not? It's a huge platform with powerful GPUs and a huge, "spendy" market)

Because mobile gaming and desktop gaming have very little in common. Note that Nintendo didn't port their titles when they released iOS games, they made new games. Users want different experiences, and flat ports of successful console gaming titles to iOS tend to fail. There are, all told, very few ports of successful PC/console games to iOS, and those that exist tend to be brand reuse rather than literal ports.

> then you basically get Mac for free with close to zero additional effort.

Not even remotely. The way you secure your service has to be totally different, the UI paradigm is completely different, you have to cope with totally different aspect ratios etc etc. It's significant effort, and it will be very hard to justify for most game studios. It's certainly more work in most cases than porting a Windows game to MacOS was when using a mainstream engine, and that was not a huge market.
The variety of tools that many software engineers work with today is so large that I find it virtually impossible to fully master them.

Let's say a software engineer writes a C++ application that stores documents in an inverted index and he also takes care that the program is stored in a docker container and deployed to Elastic Kubernetes Service via Jenkins. Good luck understanding your IDE, C++, Tries/Radix trees, docker, Jenkins and EKS "all the way down to the metal".

It may be possible for a small subset of those but if the expectation for great engineers really is to deeply understand "all that they touch", I wonder how many can keep up with this standard.
I would recommend chess for kids/teens, because it's an interesting way to teach certain self-control and tactical/strategy concepts which can be applied in real life.

As an adult, chess is a time sink with very little upside if you want to be at least decent, especially at longer time controls. I've been playing chess for more than a couple of decades, but recently decided to stop partly because of the pandemic, but mainly because it just takes too much time.

Chess at its core is a battle of intellects. It's not a relaxing thing like watching a movie, or cooking or even kicking a ball. It's a competition and at the end of each match there will be a winner and a loser. Unlike other sports it only requires mental effort without the benefit of working out the body.
I've tried it once. It tasted like ashtray and didn't help with focus, instead I've felt agitated and unreal. Even filtering in aeropress didn't help with that taste.
The effect is much much slower then the melting though. For example Finland, Sweden and Norway are still rising up from the last ice age (over 10k years ago). Don't know the other countries numbers but Finland is rising at 3 to 9mm (more as you go up north the gulf) per year from Gulf of Bothnia.

The land area of Finland grows by ~7km^2 every year because of this.

Fun fact in parts of Finland the land rising from the sea is projected to be faster then the current sea level rise scenarios due to climate change (not the worst ones but the "middle of road" scenarios that play out when we actually do something)
thanks for posting :)
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... for your own safety.
We Judge People Based on Their Relatives
> Glass woulda fixed that. But it would have made everything else worse.

Kinda like using x-ray machines in shoe shops. But now that I think about it, that could be said even about many uses of social media. Yes, it achieves something, no, it's not always an essential or even very good thing, and the price is rather gigantic compared to the convenience.
The largest commercial cylindrical slide rule has a scale length of 24m
Better exploiting hardware (via seastar and the one-thread-per-core model, see ScyllaDB vs Cassandra also) and probably better architecture.
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Sorry, what?

What does MS market position have to do with the design of the game, it's not like it has any sort of monetization within the game mechanics at all.

You are conflating so much BS that it shows a profound lack of understand of both game mechanics and dare i say market economics.

It appears that you've rapped yourself up in some anti market bubble of cognitive disonance and can not longer think straight, I'm sorry for your pain.
I'd do the reverse, block any internet access unless it's over a VPN gateway.

Additionally, block anything by default that wasn't looked up over my DNS proxy and/or uses HTTPS without SNI...
> One of the hallmarks of Apple news and commentary is how whenever Apple merely announces it will do something, Apple is treated like it already did it, while exactly matching its own promises.

And yet, this thread and every other Apple thread is full of comments like yours assuming negative intent. Check out other comments in this thread, you'll see comments asserting that of COURSE this feature is for harvesting or that Apple doesn't want you to own your devices any more. You comment is another critique based entirely on what they might do: that are not going to do what they promised.
I believe this 'ban' is a ban on the sale of new vehicles, not a ban on all vehicles on the road.

> The ban won’t quite as totalitarian as before, though.

I think the author means 'absolute' here instead of 'totalitarian'.
My home computers have been GNU/Linux exclusively since 2003. Recently I had to install Windows 10 on a computer at work, and was horrified that the thing has advertisements!! Not only that, the level of manipulation to avoid you from just using a local user account (and get an online one instead) is terrible. You get two choices:
1. Get an online Microsoft Account,
2. Miss on all the great user experience!

Who wants to be a loser and miss all the great stuff?

Hence if I ever needed more reasons to prefer Linux over Windows now I have "to prevent the creators of the software from manipulating me".
This is really useful. I'm finally getting around to looking at beginning to think about writing a FreeCAD macro to create 3D celtic knotwork panels for 3D printing, and this will help :)
Incomplete coverage, no competition, an addiction factory, and an inability to competently address a widespread health emergency. Quad-win!
I loved it too. But also interesting to watch the McKee documentary[0] if you can find it available.

[0]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0996623/
According to this Data Engineering interview (beginning around 8m in) the improvements begin with moving from the JVM which has a latency impact. But the real improvement is that fsync on a file handle puts in a barrier in the FS. RedPanda does some work around batch coalescing, they skip the page cache to side step a bunch of kernel locks, and adaptive allocation (preallocating FS space):

https://vectorized.io/dataengineering-podcast-interview/

The throughput is 4x, the latency is 10x.
I got 92nd and 95th percentile on the GRE with 87 hours of study
It's probably bigger than you thought if you drag it down to the Antarctic, at least on my browser it covers about 90% of the planet. Bug obviously.
As another commented, they would prefer native apps. If emulation were so good it may cause may developers to just keep putting development of the native apps off.

however the cynical side is, Apple is having difficulty getting developers on board. Apple is notorious for not encouraging game developers to be on OS X to the point the common refrain in the Mac community has been to "buy a different system to game on". Many people don't have that luxury or like me don't want two systems on my desk when one should be sufficient.

That M1 debut was notable for one reason too many overlooked, they had very few developers showing off their wares and most of those they did are not well known.
FWIW, I do think Apple is targeting non-techies a lot, and really not caring much about tech users.

The developer experience on Apple tech is pretty bad and getting worse -- but for the other 99% of the people, Apple seems to be the best tool for them.
That's 7 years old
In hospitals.
Most drum machines just have the swing % setting. You can kind of emulate what you want by have 12 or 24 beats long patterns (not sure that's the case with drumbit)...
The draconian face scanning devices on the airports of London already do the job mate
The Netflix series was an adaptation of a 35 year old novel of the same name.
“But I’m not ready ” Common barriers to writing and how to overcome them
So you install Linux to install a bunch of proprietary software on it? I don't get the point.
There were some ex-Intel people commenting on a previous thread and they told about a lot if internal politics/fighting between inside groups. It might not be the main reason but part of it.
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> What exactly are your threat models that this is causing a problem for you?

I would like my computer to not connect to anyone or anything when it's powered on if I'm not running interactive apps that I specifically wish to use the network.

It's sort of like the bad old days with linux distros coming with like 47 listening services enabled by default. It took a while before they realized that defaulting things to "off" was the best move.

I encourage you to look at the pcaps coming out of a fresh macOS install with everything turned off: App Store, iCloud, analytics, FaceTime, iMessage. You'd be surprised how much it's doing when it's sitting there "doing nothing".
> on Friday I’m better than average,

I wonder if this is because the opponents might have been drinking.

For me at least, I know that even two beers has a noticeable effect when I do lichess puzzles.
Yes I've long thought similarly that's its the ability to grasp, manipulate and convey multiple (if not all) layers of abstraction.
The process reminds me of 'Ultralearning' by Scott Young, do you have any book/resource suggestions for tackling similar projects?
Which is the stupidest motivator under the sun for brexit. UK is not part of the schoengen zone and can deny entry to anyone they want to, even EU citizens if it has enough reason to. The only entry points into the country are either by plane, ferry or train, so UK has 100% control and inspection of every person and vehicle coming in and out.

But of course the most damning argument against this nonsense is that countries which have this "absolute control" over their immigration have exactly the same levels of criminals coming over. It's almost as if criminals aren't going to care about regulations, I know, shocking.
Hi Alex, I'm an amateur programming language enthusiast & designer, so I've a question related to this.

Looks like the project is mostly written in C++ and Go. What was the reason for this choice? Have you considered other languages, like Rust, Zig or similar instead of C++? TBH not sure what an alternative to Go would be, maybe JVM AOT-compiled with NativeImage (but AFAIK that's still experimental).

Did Go's GC and/or C++'s lack of GC help/impede the project? IMO memory management is one of the main differences between languages... the other is concurrency / memory model / undefined behavior, where JVM is significantly ahead of the rest (no undefined behavior), I'm not sure exactly where Go stands (there seems to be a memory model, but no mention of undefined behavior or lack thereof).
Sounds like "The yips". I know what you mean. It's as if overusing part of the brain makes the connections less powerful than they'd normally be. Possibly already some credible science behind it.
No it didn't. But the lovely guy in this thread who called me a racist did. And the 2-5 trump posts per day do. And the guys who openly call for violence do. The guidelines have been ignored or months now, leaving nothing of value on this site.

I will continue to do what I do. I recommend that you ban me though.
Let’s not forget that Maxwell equations are shaped as such due to the respective algebra. In clifford algebric spaces it is simply one equation.
One idea is that not only it is important to conceptualize a complex phenomenon but to also whether we can formalize it in a simple way.
What's stopping you from installing an ad-blocker like uBlock Origin? You can't help but notice them (no one really can), and it doesn't sound like they add value to your life.
European activist files complaints against Apple's tracking tool
What makes GNOME3 good is it keyboard usability. GNOME is comfortable and fast to be used with the keyboard. For professionals as well as normal people. It is incredible how underestimated the success of GNOME-Shell is outside of ther user base.
GNOME made mistakes with GNOME3 and the removed beloved features and many required options. But getting rid of the flawed Desktop-Metaphor and concentrate on usability improved GNOME a lot. And yes, GNOME is also usable with a pointing device.

Aside from GNOME. For professional users CLI and TUI usage on the terminal is bless and necessity. What is needed are more developers, testers and companies investing into it. The decline of Nokia and their withdraw from Gtk was a huge setback. Then the lost of Sun. And least Canonical helps now again but - years where lost. Canonicals current improvements are significant.

Aside from that. Free software seems to strive always to improve existing solutions when necessary, people see actual problems and want improve them. Within closed-ecosystems this is impossible and you're required to stay within boundaries to survive.
Sorry, there is correlation between graft function post-transplant and length of the so called "cold ischaemia time".

https://www.kidney-international.org/article/S0085-2538(15)3...
What a bizarre post considering all the pro-Apple smugness we see in Windows, Android and Linux topics. To the point where some of them are almost outright Apple ads.

Almost as bizarre as loyalty to a single brand even when they stop treating you well.
Have these books been scanned? I get that the physical original books have a value in their own right, but if they haven’t already been digitized we should do so. A digital version of the book that anyone can access would at least ensure that the content is preserved even if the physical original is lost.
The collection of Notion-based products and services
Hey guys,

I've started with a collection of Notion-powered products and services.

Let me know if you know some products or services I can add on the list, OR perhaps if you are a founder of Notion-related product or service, I'll gladly add you!

Tnx
Big Sur(veillance). This should be illegal.
You bring up an interesting point (and perspective) on this. I have to admit, I honestly don't know if/how things might be regulated (if at all) for works of literary art (with historical/cultural significance).

AFAIK, with buildings these regulations (now) exists because they didn't in the past. People got really upset with other people just demolishing what they held dear, public outcry as a result and eventually regulations too. But in this situation the destruction is often driven by space being a scarce commodity (especially in cities).

I doubt that books often get destroyed to make way for new ones (barring a few criminal/extremist authoritarian regimes), so it might never have reached a point where enough people got upset about it and demand regulation.

But now I am curious though, if there are indeed regulations for these kind of works. If there are, that would essentially render my original opinion null and void.

Still, I would prefer it that way, rather than know that these works will end up in the hands of the financially powerful private hands. For I have little faith in that lot and their antics.
Why there‘ll be fewer Product Managers in the future
Reading that article reminding me of a television show called Person of Interest.
"We're talking about a specialized security feature which is not easily available on other platforms is only used by a minority of users and still works for most programs"

I'm confused by this statement. We are talking about being able to implement firewalls and VPNs which can filter/redirect all outgoing connections. These are both abilities easily available on Windows and Linux.
They already had that control, https://fullfact.org/europe/border-security-eu/
I'm pretty sure IQ tests aren't supposed to work that way. At least theoretically, they're measuring intelligence, not education.
> In basketball, it is quite easy to prove that some people are simply unable to ever be a great basketball player; there has never been an NBA player shorter than 5'3, only 25 shorter than 6'0, and only 10 under 5'10. Are you really telling me NO ONE shorter than 5'3 ever decided the trade offs were worth it?

Anecdotal, I'm 6'1. At a middle school age, I was _hounded_ into playing basketball (until they realised I had no talent whatsoever, or any inkling that I wanted to attempt to improve that). There's definitely a selection bias in who gets started playing basketball in the first place.

Back on topic,

> some people simply don't have the genetic attributes needed to be great.

I think this is a massive stretch. I think it's fair to say that some people don't have the attributes to be in the top 0.01% of the their game (in baskebtall, there's a few hundred(?) players in the NBA - that's the equivalent of the John Carmack/Peter Norvig types that have come up here), but is there any proof whatsoever of any form that says that an "average-to-poor" engineer can't become a "great" engineer - (in basketball terms, going from the person who can't dribble to the person who absolutely dominates your after-work league consistently)
If you are interested in web apps, you should pick a platform first:

* Node with TypeScript

* JVM with Scala

* CLR with F#
On a related note, there was also a Fench-Icelandic pidgin

https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/jpcl.4...
Digital authoritarianism: Technology designed to empower was seized by autocrats
I'm a Vit D3 taker, not because of Covid, but because my levels years ago were very low, and they need to be maintained in the reference range, which is easy to do with supplementation by https://www.vitasave.ca/ . I need to stay out of the sun as I'm very fair, burn quickly, and don't want any (more) skin damage or freckles or age spots, so using sunshine to build levels isn't the right solution.
Advice is an anecdote you can add to your model for understanding the behaviors associated with success. It is not a tutorial for success.

Everything this author is saying about advice seems to hinge in the misunderstanding of the real value of advice. He mistakenly believes advice quality is directly correlated to proven outcomes for the listener. That model will never work.
TL;DR: No, we are not expanding. The phrase "expanding universe" is most attributed to the empiric evidence of red shift of the photons we see from outer space. But the red shift does not mean that the space fabric itself is expanding, it only means that photons and their frequencies are not simple local phenomena, they depend on relative aspects of space and observers. The frequency of a photon is not best seen as just the photon, it is more accurately described as source/photon/observer system.

The distant galaxies that are sending photons are indeed moving away relative to us as observers. But the atoms in the earth, and inside your body do not expand in the same way, and the space fabric/ether itself, "the grid of coordinates" that the earth sits in does not expand.
Ability to read through all of the code that's running on my computer, and understand it all at some level, is what I like a lot.

Arguably my desktop is not that complicated (i3wm), so there's not a ton of processes running around.

When I find a bug, I can try to fix it myself. When I want an extra feature, I can add it. I did this so many times already, it's ridiculous. From adding support for new HW to the kernel, to patching my postgresql to support my language better, to adding zstd support to qemu qcow2, and hundreds of other small things over the last 15 years or so.

This is what's great on GNU/Linux.
I am a Vit D3 taker, not because of Covid, but because my levels years ago were very low, and they need to be maintained in the reference range, which is easy to do with supplementation by https://www.vitasave.ca/ . I need to stay out of the sun as I'm very fair, burn quickly, and don't want any (more) skin damage or freckles or age spots, so using sunshine to build levels isn't the right solution.
Nah chess is fun. Let people play if they want. It’s a great way to pass time in a forest cabin :)
Specifically for the GRE the books I used was Manhattan series both the course and the 5 lb. book of problems. For learning in general the ones that have helped me the most are Ultralearning as mentioned, Tim Ferris' series of books, Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin. I also rate Atomic Habits by James Clear and The War of Art by Steven Pressfield to create the underlying habits that are needed for this.

As a bit of a left field set of books, I love getting inspired by amazing fantasy characters. Characters that have superpowers. Kvothe from the King Killer Chronicles, Luo Ji in the The Dark Forest. I always walk away inspired when I read a scene about a character rapidly acquiring skills.
I'm lucky to have met my wife on OKC right before they started their crappy algo-monetize push. I don't think I would have in the current environment.
You are comparing the sugars in raw food to something heavily processed. That's not a good comparison.