skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
when memory was expensive, and memory bandwidth was doubly so

...and now with multiple cores and many levels of cache along with very large latencies to RAM, it is even more important to have good code density.

Things changed in the mid-to-late 80s

That reminds me of a graph I saw in a relatively popular computer science textbook, the title of which I can't recall at the moment, showing the relative performance of RAM and processors over time --- and that period you note is exactly when the RAM was faster than the CPU, with both before and after being the opposite. Had that brief inversion not occurred, I think the whole idea of RISC would've never happened.

For evidence that code density is still important, there is this interesting study from a few years ago where the "purest RISC" MIPS is solidly beaten by ARM and x86 despite having several times the instruction cache:

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/188396-the-final-isa-sho...
> What can we do, now, as developers ?

create a killer app for the average person that _only_ works on linux, and force users to move.

If your app is attractive enough, and there is enough developers doing this, it will force users to slowly migrate.

To compete, walled-gardens will court you, and you can then negotiate conditions to make it better (instead of taking just money that they will offer).
This is yet another bait and switch where a public corporation is presented as a private party.

To put it in the melodramatic language of the 18th century: A corporation has no soul to save and no body to punish. It has no natural interests and no natural rights. It is a legal fiction whose only use is to protect its owners from ruin and whose only justification is the public good. To pretend otherwise is an affront to both common sense and god.
This is funny and relatable, but from my anecdotal experience it doesn't really matter whether you click boxes that contain a little corner of the object you're supposed to identify. I think those are weighted less, or the scoring mechanism isn't that simple/binary, or something like that.
Conventional wisdom says don't jump ship until you figure out what really interests you. Hating something won't translate into the energy needed to be successful in something else. You need to figure out what to run towards, instead of just running away with no direction.
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> Alas, most spending of the US federal government isn't an investment of any type.

Unless you consider being the sovereign issuer of the world's reserve currency, and the military, civil government, legal system, and property rights behind that to be an investment of some type.
Google says it's actually six different K-12 schools crammed into one mega-complex.
Turn off JS, and all such annoyances instantly disappear.
https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js
is militantly maintained.
It documents and make it easy to use many of the features upstreamed into Firefox by the Tor Project.
Now you are in sockpuppet land, and there are a few established companies that keep a low profile as is the modus operandi for the miccimac (curious about the term?, look up Ray McGovern)
Ditto. I for one would love to have Vagrantfiles-like Ruby scripts in Docker. Or even Typescript.

So many setups would be achievable with simple ifs.
It actually surprises me how expressive just head and hand tracking can be. Just watched a friend do his stand-up debut in VR and I stopped seeing the avatar fairly quickly. I just saw him performing.
I wish it would not be the narrative. I think in university and where else appropriate, it should be taught, like a friend of mine who works in finance said, everyone will need this as a skill eventually for complex work

The whole narrative of producing more 'software developers' in general though? No thank you. I see enough people coming off of less than stellar bootcamps (there are, in fact, good ones, though I'm finding this less true over time) who just see dollar signs who have no interest in this as a craft. I don't want to encourage that, at all.

In fact, I want certification for the title of Software Engineer, no different than having to be certified like civil engineers do. Uncle Bob is right about this one.
For Amazon specifically, you can have up to 50 unique items or 1000 total items in a cart: https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/G200497950

I would hope all shopping cart providers and e-commerce sites would have some similar sort of hard limit.
> Finally, we track how many times our developers ran the command dev tc to typecheck a project with Sorbet on their development machine.

How? Do they track all of their devs commands?
>> you're implying "nuclear = bad because France is moving away from it" which is not what France is doing.

> They literally are, and have formally said so

Citation needed.

As I stated in another reply to you, reducing dependence on nuclear has a lot of advantages unrelated to "nuclear is bad" or "nuclear is not clean" or etc. Like I said before, no matter what your energy source is, 75% of your power being produced from a singular source is not a good idea. You may be familiar with the old saying "don't put all your eggs in one basket." This is the same reason we don't invest in a single stock. Dropping to 50% is far from getting rid of nuclear and it is an absurd claim.

> But that does not change the fact that many of the reactors will not be replaced when they hit end-of-life.

Many, but many are planed to be replaced. You're focusing too much on the reduction aspect. Reduction is not elimination. France has no plans on eliminating nuclear in the foreseeable future. The only way this would happen is if ITER was a major success and small versions could reliably be developed and deployed. I'm not counting on that.
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A more meaningful comparison is if you can optimize your code so that it runs 10x faster that means it will also run just as fast as it is now on something 10x slower.

That's like going from needing a small server to something you could wear as a watch. (So to speak.)
Can you provide more information on this? A blog post or some instructions? I'd like to read more.
whelp, a quick check on my macbook - latest versions of everything.

chrome w/ privacy badger: unique fingerprint
firefox w/ privacy badger: unique fingerprint
safari 14: nearly unique

something like DNT actually make your score worse
Thank god for Wayback Machine!

https://www.goo.ne.jp/

https://web.archive.org/web/20131120212107/https://www.goo.n...

Pretty close, same dense pack of information, tiny photos. Seems to check most of the list.
They're aware; they're saying that targeted temperature is a simpler control that obviates the need to try to manually tune the fan, used vents and degree of heat.
This is a student paper, and it’s from 1998 not 2001, according to this page which lists many other student papers from that course over several years:

http://web.mit.edu/6.933/www/projects_whole.html
Relevant: https://adnauseam.io/
It's what Skype did when MS bought them. P2P -> P2S2P
Software Dev here:

The biggest challenge were the stupid interviews. An online furniture selling shop asked me a NP complete problem in the interview. No problem with that but their compensation wasn't even half of what FAANGs would offer. And I bet most of the engineers over there wouldn't be able to solve it without preparing for it first. When you're interviewing someone, you feel smart because you already know the questions but these shops make it incredibly hard for the average joe to get in. Questions like design a logging library or a rate limiter in a 45 minute interview cannot possibly be solved. Most interviewers think they're evaluating the candidate on merit but in my experience it's just to check if the candidate says what they want to hear.
Looks like you may have double posted. Not complaining, just letting you know in case it was unintentional: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25166141
I absolutely bemoan the duplication between iMessage and FaceTime. Slack and Zoom are separate companies, different ballgame.
The Byzantines never called themselves Byzantines, they called themselves Roman. Lots of places adopted Roman names with varying levels of legitimacy.
Yes I'm pretty sure that apple uses 16k pages, and I believe a larger L1 cache is exactly the reason they went for that.

As you said, x86 can only add more ways. I guess in the future intel and amd will have to increase cacheline size and think of some clever solution not to tank the performance of software that assumes the old size.
You're not being "wiretapped" if the site you visit explicitly included tracking. As an analogy, the sites that you visit are already providing one-party consent (all that is needed with current federal wiretapping laws) by including said intentional tracking.

In the case where non-essential sites are required to disclose what they track to the user, the user is arguably also providing consent on their end even if it's mandatory. Nobody is forcing you to visit non-essential sites.
The article said the area he normally anchors in was expected to get rough, so he headed for what should have been a more protected area. He was anchored in that area, and his boat didn't right itself in the wind like it always had before.

When things go bad on a boat, they go bad fast. The skiff he planned to hop in and get to shore sank before he could get into it. He did get his survival suit on, which kept him alive long enough to be rescued.

This is a 70 year old man who's spent his life fishing in the area. This was his day where almost everything went wrong. But he'd done enough right on his boat, and in his training, to set himself up for rescue.

I live in Sitka, where the helicopter crew that did this rescue is based. We hear stories about these kinds of rescues all the time. People have deep respect for USCG personnel here.
What the fresh hell is this?

> Our tests indicate that you have you have strong protection against Web tracking, though your software isn’t checking for Do Not Track policies.

> Unblocking 3rd parties that honor Do Not Track? ..... No [marked in red, as if this were a bad thing]

Are they suggesting that I unblock trackers when the provider posts a text file pinky swearing that they honor a do-not-track policy?

This smells like another "acceptable ads" program.
It's the first death pang to not be funded in a company the lives on getting promoted by 'new features or products'
Not to mention keywords such as ret, inl, imm, mut, mat and even yon - 'readable' is certainly subjective. Not to dissuade anybody from trying anything outside the norm but I wonder if calling it readable is accurate.
I think the ideal is using Nix to manage development dependencies and to handle building minimal docker images for deployment.
The book "Obfuscation" shown at the bottom of the page is a very interesting one, definitely worth taking a look at.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/obfuscation
And yet, not enough:

> Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 2xx,xxx tested in the past 45 days.

> Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 18.xx bits of identifying information.

Biggest offenders: USER AGENT and HTTP_ACCEPT HEADERS. Especially the USER AGENT is crazy, 9 digit browser version to everyone who asks?!
I'm not sure that on average over real workloads, the x86 instructions are significantly shorter than ARM.
We do screensharing + voice call after chatting all the time. With google chat it sends you to the beginning of a google meet flow. Now you have a silly dance to get a meeting going with the person you are working with.

In slack you click the phone icon, and voice is live, then screen share and voila. Same app etc.
> This collaboration immediately multiplies our capabilities for delivering some next generation technologies that we have been working on and are excited to share with you.

I wonder what are these next generation technologies?
They've had some pretty good memory decreases over the past couple of years actually in Plasma, it rivals a similarly configured xfce nowadays. Gnome is bloated in comparison.
Docs are combined with drive.
>I don't actually think there is any evidence to suggest they want to do that on the mac

Gatekeeper, requiring Developer ID, deprecating kexts, T2 chip, deprecation of the inclusion of Tk/python/PHP. We are slowly boiling frogs here. It's being squeezed into the direction of iOS.
Publishing private NPM packages with AWS CodeArtifact
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> Why does it feel like no other software company has these sort of branding issues?

Google's internal incentive structure strongly favors shipping — at least, it did back in the day, and I believe that's still true now to a great extent. Steve Yegge said it most concisely back in 2006 [1]: "At Google, projects launch because it's the least-energy state for the system."

The problem is that when one dedicates so much optimization power to shipping, there's less left over for things like maintenance and support. That might not be a huge deal for any individual product, but in the aggregate it sets a higher bar for keeping an initiative running — which presents externally as an excessive proclivity for killing products.

That perception, in turn, erodes user trust in the continuing existence of Google's portfolio of non-flagship products. And that leads to even fewer of those products clearing the bar for maintenance funding, because users are less willing to commit to using a product that may be discontinued.

Google's shipping-first bias was probably a huge advantage for them in the early days. But sometimes a company outgrows aspects of its culture.

[1] https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/
> Do you know of any new technology that come into existence already free of issues and as efficient as physically possible? Me neither.

After 12 years of crypto and blockchain the tech has nothing to show for itself, but to facilitate crime and people chasing lambo money.

> Also: should I assume that you don't fly anywhere? Don't buy anything from China? Only consumes local produce?

Oh so predictable. I should warn people up front not to come up with whataboutism that just deflect valid criticism.

You can’t get away with theft by pointing at somebody else and cry “but but (s)he stole too!”.

> The instrument does not "solve" anything. But it allows people to change the scale of the problem.

It all reads like after the fact reasoning to me by people just chasing lambo money. Your story was never why all those firestarters bought mining rigs to consume 3KW 24/7.

But back to those poor countries: I would like to see (hypothetically) actual independent evidence of a positive impact of crypto for those people, but I am very skeptical

> Quite frankly, are you the type of person that always waits everyone else to do something in order to think it is worthy doing? Must be horrible to live with such apathy.

What remains is a weak ad hominem, I think I’m done now.

Anyway, I do wish you good luck, if I am proven wrong, that would be a good thing.
Same. Interestingly, I've accepted two offers off Hired over the years, both with a bonus and bottle of Dom from Hired, both with startups that ended up folding within a year.

We're all just LARPing having a real economy.
The article explains why. Perhaps you should read it.
I think soldered storage is the thing that matters more. RAM does not retain state, storage does.
Check the first link in the "resources" section at the bottom of the article page.
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I'd be happy to support whatever "path" he wants at this point, though it'd of course be much easier for me to support something related to STEM. Best I can tell, he doesn't have any plan or path. He just expects to ride on my coattails for the rest of his life, which I articulated to him many time is not something I'm willing to allow.

In contrast, growing up in rural Russia I had no coattails to ride on (and my father told me this countless times), so I'm a rather extreme example of social upward mobility.
On iOS, if it’s deprecated, what’s the replacement for Hangouts for normal users?

As far as I know there isn’t one. There are people I message with Hangouts pretty regularly and it’s never told me it’s deprecated or suggested anything else to use instead (except for just now, to switch to the dedicated Voice app for Voice, which… fine, but no suggestion to do my chatting elsewhere).

So is Hangouts deprecated? I have no idea. If it is, does that mean chatting with my Gmail contacts is deprecated?

I wouldn’t say it’s a straw man to call it confusing. Maybe the product lineup is less confusing if you’re on Android? But from where I’m sat… yep, confusing!
At this point, I would be spinning up 96 core AWS build servers to retain sanity :)
You should also add that China started to build two EPRs after France and Finnland and they are both already operating commercially.
>The only Google products I use that I feel I can rely on for daily use without fearing the rug getting pulled out are Gmail, Gcal, Search, and Docs.

Surely maps as well? Or has there been any bad news I don't know about?
+1 for the best WebExtension ad blocker there is, a fork of №2 µblock Origin
For anyone considering taking the dive: NoScript takes a bit of time to get used to, but stick with it. You'll build up some things you are happy to whitelist, plus always have the backup option of disabling temporarily within a tab. In a week or two, your new workflow will feel completely natural.
Perhaps that choice comes from wanting their target platform to be linux, rather than systemd?
I am completely ignorant here--how common is the polite form on websites?
If you told an American in 1995 that AT&T was selling their call records, or that Visa was selling their transaction records, they would have gone ballistic.

The fact that all this tracking is still hush-hush means that most people would not react kindly if they were aware of the true scope of the tracking, and how widely distributed the data is.
That's basically what DNT was supposed to be—browsers said "do not track me" and "legitimate" trackers respected it. I agree that it's dumb. Ironically, DNT is now just one more bit that makes fingerprinting your browser easier.
Another resource I found that is related is a Thesis paper "If It Works, It's not AI" https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/80558/4355745...
It is when they have to build the thing for <$25 though.
Yes, and two EPRs up and running in Taishan, China, that were started after the two you mentioned.
Definitely an upgrade from your MP3 player! http://wandel.ca/homepage/jukebox.html

Always have been a fan of your site.
By this time, there will be a demand for the development of space resources.
readability? who needs it when i can now say `this, but camel case and no nulls`

export type Camel<T> = { [K in keyof T as K extends string ? `${Uncapitalize<string & K>}` : K]: T[K] extends Record<any, any> ? Camel<Exclude<T[K], null>> : Exclude<T[K], null> }
No I guess thats not so easy. Every new part in a design for a nuclear power station has to be certified. So just use another almost same chip is not so easy, because you have to make o lot of tests, so the new part is allowed. Thats why a lot of things for nuclear power station are so extreme expensive.
Okay, you're right, but I guess in my head I was thinking pre-seed/seed and you were thinking post-series-A.
> “Add-ons and browsers that randomize the results of fingerprinting metrics have the potential to confuse trackers and mitigate the effects of fingerprinting as a method of tracking.”

I would like to dispute this. It is easy to detect when a user is spoofing certain settings. As such, randomizing fingerprint data increases entropy, making your browser more unique, not less. There is a reason why the Tor browser works so hard to make sure every user has the same fingerprint, rather than randomizing it.

More on that here: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#smal...
That's a fair point. I didn't clarify the size. I guess I was thinking of the latter case.
My new phone is faster than my current desktop CPU. Faster everywhere except in embedded applications is still pretty compelling!
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Claims 78.8% on the Abstract Reasoning Corpus [1] (ARC) in the abstract, but clarifies that this is only on 100 out of the 400 evaluation tasks, all on 10 x 10 grids. The 10x10 grids are hard-coded in the network architecture so it's not possible for the system to perform any better without re-design and re-training.

Trains on a dataset augmented to 1500 tasks by permuting colours and "exploiting that the tasks are invariant to rotation and symmetry". So it's cheating, but that just goes to show that the ARC dataset is not the full-proof benchmark of intelligence that its author meant it to be. It's possible to solve at least a quarter of the tasks by cheating and without demonstrating what the author considers the hallmarks of intelligence- the ability for abstraction and reasoning [2].

____________

[1] https://github.com/fchollet/ARC

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547
Any extensions that block probes for system fonts? That seems to be the most identifying piece of information.
As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, this does not require DinD. You can connect to the host’s Docker daemon. (Other interfaces such as K8S are also much safer.)
Considering their abysmal failure in California, yes, we don't want them.
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This is actually exactly what Brave does! Both for Canvas and WebAudio, which is also used for fingerprinting in a similar way.

There's more info here if you're curious: https://brave.com/privacy-updates-4/
Use an extension to spoof your user-agent string. Something like this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-st...
Anyone remember the5k? https://the5k.org/

In my day, we'd tie an onion to our belt.
Does Google have a choice, though? The crux of the problem is who gets to capture the value. Conventional companies don't let employees capture value, so employees rationally act like employees and not like business owners. This is why Zoom's founder left Cisco. This is why the GCP's "most important person" will rationally jump ship shortly before the tough conversation about revenue targets.
Why not just use nix at that point? You can at least retain the advantage of having truly immutable and reproducible builds.

I use docker for most of my clients' work but for in house stuff I just use nix.
History is full of technologies that are superior to existing options on one metric or another and yet failed to take over due to switching costs. Attacking someone as “optimizing for stagnation” is a really bizarre way to view their reaction to a product offering a smooth on boarding process.
Here’s an in-depth piece covering its benchmarks.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...
But it’s over regulation.

The simple example is anyone who has ever started a business, no matter what field. At some point, many had to pony up more cash (either as investment into the company or as drawn out living expenses).

So what’s the difference? And why allow one but not the other?

The goal of the SEC isn’t to prevent people from making stupid decisions - it’s to have a fair an honest paying field without bad actors.
You need more constraints than that to explain why you can't just mount /run/docker.sock in the CI container.
Telomere length in these studies gets used as a proxy for "cells acting young" or "cells acting old." Telomere length tends to shorten as you age and it gets looked at as a proxy for de-aging your body at the cellular level.