skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not true from what I’ve read. The problem with x86 is not complexity but variable instruction lengths. This makes it hard to determine instruction boundaries, complicating decoders and making more than 4-way decode hard. M1 has 8 decoders for comparison, and it would be easy to have 100 with ARM if there were a benefit to that many.
Who is cppreference.com? The domain registration is concealed, just like that of the other dubious site, cplusplus.com.

I don't see any such a claim about memcpy having magic powers in the N4659 C++ draft.

All it says is that the underlying bytes of an object can be copied to an array of char, unsigned char, or std::byte. Then if that array is copied back into the object, the object subsequently holds its original value.

Anything more about memcpy comes from C by reference, and that would be about the last document on Earth to grant definedness and portability to something like this.
I've been cognizant of that for a long time. I figure if civilization collapsed, the human die-off would be something like 99%.

Just think of things like cars. It's fairly straightforward to keep cars pre-1980 on the road even if the manufacturer is no longer making parts for it. A craftsman can still make the parts.

But more modern cars? Fuggeddabootit. Watchagonna do with the computer systems? Write a few million lines of code? You can't even buy the chips anymore.
thats realy impressive... and really vindicates the whole "if your serious about software, make your own hardware too"
Why Indian farmers are protesting against new farm bills
Discovered this via a tweet: https://twitter.com/asynchio/status/1332399494634225664

I've been personally thinking about such things recently and found Drew's article reassuring that not needing to think like a unicorn is OK. Having taken a step back from raising funding has been freeing. Witnessing what it can do to companies, I worried what it would do to my OSS ethos. Still, to make something people love takes effort and money can help a lot.

Projects I work on for the interested:

- https://github.com/cuelang/cue

- https://github.com/hofstadter-io
But I think this further proves the point. Google had already grown a search monopoly 15 years ago while everybody was still fawning over them and thinking they were going to give us all free internet via flying balloons and self driving cars.

We just assumed they would use their powers for good and not evil, because we were judging them overly optimistically. We ignored the bad.

Now that they've been cemented as a dominant incumbent, we've seen the other side and judge them with a hyper-critical eye. We've forgotten the frustrations of life under the old guard. We take Google for granted, and ignore the good when discussing them now.

Of course, Google has always been both a useful product and dangerous given its power. Rationally, we knew all of this was true 15 years ago. But emotionally, we were unable to correctly evaluate the risk.
Blaming people/employees is bad. That said, the idea of not updating a status page quickly, to reflect reality, is a problem at almost every SaaS company in the world. As others have said, status page changes are political and impact marketing, they have very little to do with providing good, timely information to customers.
They were outspent by almost $200 million. What exactly were you hoping they would do? Why did they go out of their way to write a law when the courts had already reclassified workers? Your conspiracy theory does not make any sense.

https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_22,_App-Based...
Champagne can be produced in numerous areas, only they can only say they're using the champagne method. In fact the first actual records of sparkling wine predate the various French Champagne producers (e.g. Dom Pérignon) in Italy and England, with some suggestion it was England first due to their stronger glass and tendency to add the necessary sugar to wine - for example there's no documentation of why Dom Pérignon spontaneously switch to bottling wine. The English were also the first to see the bubbles as an advantage.

The original French champagne was a flat wine, so maybe Champagne from the Champagne region of France should actually be flat and sparkling champagne (from England) be renamed?
Here fire hydrants are common, but almost always underground.
All zerohedge submissions have been globally blocked on Reddit for 1 month
If someone wants you to run code that's obfuscated, and it's not a game, it might be a good idea to ask "why"? It might be legitimate code... but it might not be. Yes, yes, some proprietary software is shipped that way... but a lot isn't.
It uses SingleFile under the hood so it saves a full offline page in HTML.
Dollars to donuts PG could sit down and write down an in-depth philosophical article with all kinds of references and probably get it into periodicals.

I think you're mistaking the type of writing this is.

This is for a blog not a book or an academic journal.

These are his semi fleshed out informal ideas and you can take them or leave them.

I don't even think he's claiming theyre objective reality.

They're interesting neat ideas based on a smart man's experience that help you look at the world in a certain way and I can appreciate that and I'm glad he writes them.
Perhaps I'm confused, but doesn't that site indicate that the midpoint of the positive rationals is 1.0? Or am I misreading it?
Yes, of course it is a tooling issue.

I apologize in advance for my jadedness, but I see this sort of comment every time someone mentions the possibility that information organization tools could be better: "This is all very nice, but this other tool I've tried was kind of bad, and didn't really solve the world, so I think that actually everything sucks, and we should just (learn how to) deal with it."

Besides, I really don't see how this is relevant here, as it doesn't even seem to apply to most of the article's content - for instance, how would "organization" help with the fact that e-books/PDFs are woefully uninteractive and retain print-based limitations? Sure, I could manually collect all the illustrations, their backreferences, and look up every paragraph's mentions online, but isn't that kind of what computers are good at? Same with the book recommendation / sharing system.

And as for the "queue manager" and the "memex", this was exactly the author's point, it is a call for tools for organization! No amount of self-organization will help with the scatteredness of digital information, that's just its nature - we communicate in different modes, using different media, on different platforms, for different purposes. Sure, you can and try to limit the amount of services one uses: only use Twitter instead of other social networks, only use e-mail instead of IMs and Slack, only watch videos on YouTube... or file every little bit of potentially interesting info into a unified personal database - but I think it's obvious how both approaches are untenable.

Regimented approaches only work in their own, specific contexts - for a multi-modal multi-medial landscape, one needs tools that operate with these principles in mind, and so far one can only wish they existed.
Caching Firebase callable function requests with a service worker – DEV
This remark doesn't appear to add anything to my original unedited comment, which includes the clarifying words "you can't memcpy an object to one of a different type and then access it as that type without invoking undefined behavior".
Except, the option to ping a service in order to programmatically inform a status page is almost never used. The dirty secret of status pages is that they are almost always manually updated, typically only when a very high bar is met, and after senior managers, sometimes even comms people, approve it.
>That's a culture problem, not a cert problem. Some people get certs to honestly learn and signal that knowledge to others, not just to tick a check box or add a resume bullet point.

But certs cannot be isolated from culture, which undermines their value.
Ooh, can I hear why Beeminder didn't feel sustainable? (I'm a cofounder.)
this would have been easier years ago when everything you surf on the web was stored as files in a cache directory that is accessible to the user. you'd just have to copy all text from that directory into another persistent directory and use something like ripgrep over it.
KVM is the kernel virtualization module on Linux, QEMU handles the userland side support, all device emulation. The kvm binary on Linux is equivalent to running qemu-system-* with -enable-kvm. Newer versions of QEMU also support the '-accel kvm' argument but also adds other acceleration backends, such as '-accel tcg' (slower), '-accel haxm' (Intel/Windows), and finally '-accel hvf' for Apple's Hypervisor.Framework. This work here is extending that existing support from only Intel VT-x to also cover ARM Silicon, factoring out common code and API differences made by Apple.
Alexandr blocked all comments on the post. The tea leaves on working at Scale don't read too kindly.
That word alone doesn’t quite capture the narrative of science as something non-linear, meandering and somewhat accidental.
No, that's not how warrantee expiration works
It’s crates all the way down that url
Try https://cocalc.com/ . To be more precise install your own on-premise version of cocalc using their free docker container:

https://github.com/sagemathinc/cocalc-docker

It allows you to collaborate in realtime on jupyter notebooks. It has a cool time-travel feature, a chat, latex editor, etc... And all this for free on your own server.
Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Stockholm would probably be the leading candidates vying for Europe's Silicon Valley, at least as an American looking from the outside. Next to those are the obvious economic hubs where talent exists en masse: London, Berlin, and Paris.

Switzerland? Maybe, there's a lot of tech that crops up there for sure, but much of that is FinTech and certain other specialized areas where there is an advantage to be had under Swiss law or as a result of the country's reputation.
I didn't down vote you, and your question deserves a serious reply because the same principle is broadly useful.

Communication is hard. People actively in the team probably have the context to understand the differences, but that implied context is what tribal knowledge is made of.

OP indicated that there were non-trivial "non-linear" differences going from 1 to 2 and -1 to -2. The use of numbers implies a relationship that doesn't really exist. The use of accurate language makes the actual meaning immediately obvious without the need for implied context. For example, I had no idea that only privileged devs could give 2s. "Accepted" and "Declined" do imply a finality that more accurately mirrors the intended usage.

This may seem overly analytical for something that is easy to just explain, but this kind of thing build up in layers.
Oh my God. This is hysterical. My hippie parents used a couple of these lanterns inside the house when I was a kid because something about being more natural. When in fact, they were dousing us all with radioactive gas. Awesome!

(The kerosene smoke wasn't an issue to them, of course, as they both smoked two packs a day. I'm sure they didn't notice it. I did of course. I can still smell it in my head.)

Ever wonder how seemingly normal, healthy people develop some random form of cancer? It's this sort of crap they did to us in the 20th century.
Tim Ferriss frequently talks about the writing class he took with John McPhee (author of Levels of the Game) and how as he took that class, the grades went up in the rest of his classes.

He says it’s probably due to refined thinking from taking the class.
I am older then you think.
I've noticed the same. My theory is that it must have to do with COVID, but that doesn't really make sense, given that Amazon & Co. have been making a killing this year.
>Ok, some of these aren't proprietary, that if the big company supporting it would drop?

I think the bus factor for all of these technologies is not the same. Nor is the ease of switching. If AWS died tomorrow, people would switch to Google Cloud. If Facebook dropped React, it's insanely likely someone would come and take over (esp. since it's already open source).

The cost in switching technology is just too big for big libraries/big languages (e.g. even with Oracle somewhat dropping Java, it's still top 3 of must used languages).
> At the basic level, a farmer who sows a field and harvests a crop is making the world one harvest richer, and no one poorer.

Not quite true; the farmer using that land to grow crops is externalizing an opportunity cost onto those who might use that land for something else, e.g. for the carpenter's workshop or the mechanic's garage. Same with the water consumed by those crops. With these natural and finite resources, there very much is a zero-sum game, since your use of that resource is at everyone else's expense.

This is something Graham entirely misses in his article: the wealth, contrary to his core assertion, does flow from a common source, specifically land. The wealthy, in turn, are such specifically because they happened to be the ones able to control that land at the exclusion of everyone else. This was the basis of Henry George's advocacy for a land value tax.

"But YellowApple," I can already hear, "${ARBITRARY_FAANG}'s wealth ain't tied up in real estate!" Au contraire. Their software is developed in offices that consume land. Their hardware is built in factories that consume land. Their hardware is further constructed from materials extracted from that land. It's land all the way down, and the company externalizes those opportunity costs on everyone else. That is where the injustice in their wealth lies; it is unjust for them to reap the benefits of that land without adequately compensating the rest of society for the opportunity cost the members thereof now bear.
And even if the EU would introduce a right to repair directive, it would be kicked back to the individual countries who then would have to come up with their country specific law on how to achieve this goal. If no law was implemented within a timeframe, there will be sanctions, eventually, or not, depends.
> The Windows on Arm devices [...] are not locked down.

https://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2012/jan/12/microsoft-c...

"[...] But for ARM devices, Custom Mode is prohibited: “On an ARM system, it is forbidden to enable Custom Mode. Only Standard Mode may be enable.” [sic] Nor will users have the choice to simply disable secure boot, as they will on non-ARM systems: “Disabling Secure [Boot] MUST NOT be possible on ARM systems.” [sic] Between these two requirements, any ARM device that ships with Windows 8 will never run another operating system, unless it is signed with a preloaded key or a security exploit is found that enables users to circumvent secure boot."
So do you retain priority date on O-1 that we get on H1b? can you please DM me info on how I can reach out to you for next step?
Apple already had those programs (I’ve taken the training!) - they are not enforcing their policies, and protecting someone who broke them.
It's worth reiterating that leadership and management are (at least in academic circles concerned with such things) rather distinct concepts.

Management concerns the organization of people, tasks, information, incentives and all such things. Bad management is a common plague upon many an engineer, and probably for good reason.

Bad leadership is more commonly felt through its absence. Managers could and maybe should be leaders, but often are not. Leading, of course, can also be done by someone positioned elsewhere in the formal hierarchy. Nowadays, the formal hierarchy (aka the org chart) of a firm may not necessarily reflect the informal structure of a well-functioning team.

This then leads to the question: What is a leader?

Surprisingly, the whole concept is rather elusive. If we do not mean management, what precisely does a leader do? The answer depends a lot on whom you ask. For example, economists have traditionally very little use for a leader. Coordination, information and all things amenable to traditional econ models, are things that a manager does. "Leading by example" is one of the few concepts where a leader has any use in economics of organization.

Other literatures, by contrast, have an overwhelming amount of roles and theories about leadership, to the degree that one might question if the entire concept is well-defined at all.

If you are interested in a shameless plug, we have analyzed the entire corpus of Harvard Business Review - a publication that concerns itself with leadership - to find a semantic definition of leadership "from the horse's mouth", so to speak. Results were fairly surprising - we see changes in roles and contexts of a leader over time: increasing reach and importance of the concept, but also sharper definitions of contexts of its roles. All these things mean that leadership is elusive. It means many things in different context (presentation on youtube under v=z2uceIRQA6g - again sorry for the plug).

In my current view, the most important role for a leader, next to determining the strategic direction, is sense-making (or more precisely, sense-giving). Whenever the expectation of the team differs from reality, a leader's job is to provide the frameworks and consensus for a united narrative, one that allows the team to react and move forward.
For me these kind of things aren't supposed to be "backlog", but more "library of things I'm aware exist". If I save/bookmark a few resources on X, that doesn't mean I intend to read all of them, but that I think if I need resources about X, those could be useful.
I'm super interested in Roam for this reason too, but the online-only subscription model is a deal breaker for me. And I'm not usually the one complaining about subscription based things or online-only things, but when it comes to all of my collective information that I've painstakingly organized, I'm really not into someone locking my memories behind a paywall.

I used to use DayOne as a journaling program until I realized the same thing: as soon as I stop paying, all those memories are gone, lost in time like tears in rain. Sure it is really nice and convenient software and the user experience is fantastic but if I stop paying, it's all lost. If they raise their price higher than I want to pay, it's all lost. If they go out of business or pivot or get sold or... it's all lost.

I'm willing to take that risk... but I'm not willing to pay for the pleasure of taking that risk. I ended up just writing everything in Apple Notes that's free on all my devices. Sure it's the same risk, but at least I'm not paying $165/year for something that can disappear whenever the founder gets bored.
> repositories for Greco-Roman knowledge

True, but a lot of that stuff was re-invented only to be later discovered that the Greeks/Romans had done it first.
I would strongly recommend the latter. The former is playing the lottery. Even if you win, stock appreciation in big tech over 10 years beats the startup stock. Not to mention, you won't be at a no name startup for years to find out whether you won the lottery.
Posits are a real alternative to floating point numbers [0] proposed by John Gustafson, the discoverer of Gustafson's law [1].

My very limited understanding is that at the sort of bitwidths you care about they are not amenable to efficient hardware implementation, unlike IEEE-754 style floats, which is part of the reason why you don't see them implemented widely.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gustafson_(scientist)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustafson%27s_law
Amazon already has ARM processors with better than Intel price/performance.

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/
To answer myself, here is a comparison: https://cocalc.com/doc/compare.html
WaPo works.
> am just relieved that we don't have anything as obviously insane as this nowadays

Maybe not at IBM, but...

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWUhqoAGsfk

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B1v6cqDcXQ
Use a block list, probably not worth the time to block domains you read about one by one.
And color and type of car as some taxi does not imply it is taxi. Like not at all.

Taxi comes in exactly same colors and types as any other car.
The purpose of these essays might be more PR exercise for YC than an effort to foster efficacy among would-be world-beaters.

"When E.F. Hutton speaks, people listen" ;-)
Nice t-shirt on that cover photo. "Black tech, Green money." Smart optics, lady. Really enhances your credibility as a witness.
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You are mistaken, the Hodge star does not belong to geometric algebra more than exterior algebra, that's the wrong way to look at it. Exterior algebra is just only a sub algebra of geometric algebra, they both have the same Hodge star. Saying the Hodge star belongs more in one than the other is a bit silly.
>You are correct that the people in the article that either filed complaints, or spoke with the New York Times risked repercussions, but not all of the folks the Times spoke with are identified. People were willing to talk, but not necessarily on the record, or to be identified. That is because they are fearful of reprisal, based on past experiences and observations.

You're arguing against a straw man here. I did not say that the only acceptable proof was an on the record statement. Anonymous corroboration or reporting a general description of an e-mail to preserve anonymity would be fine. There's nothing even like that.

>Getting justice in civil matters often boils down to the size of a victims pocket book

That's not really true. Susan Fowler blew up Uber with a single blog post. The difference is making specific accusations and providing some level of detail. There's essentially none of that in the NYTimes piece.
I worked for blobcity as a freelancer 5 years ago, in May 2015. I worked for maybe a week or 10 days. Never got paid, they stopped replying back. Emails, whatsapp I messaged them for weeks.
Pwintln uwu and other fun with elves and dynamic linkers
The light was so much brighter when they contained thorium. No real substitute has been found.
Techies are usually too naive about how the media works. This is a hit piece. Cui bono? Who are Coinbase's competitors? Who would stand to gain from Coinbase taking a hit?
I think this is a great point and the economics of the job come into play too...

A lot of the initial challenge in interviewing is proving you can meet a certain bar to get your foot in the door for an interview. And $150 to prove that you can do a 100K+ /year job seems like a pretty rational investment
Given that the article's description of IEEE-754 isn't even correct, I'm going to go with "high-brow Time Cube". :(
He was writing this way and thinking about this for years before YC existed. I think it's more that these essays and YC have a common cause.
Ha! Just watched that episode a few days ago.

I think a more HN oriented Columbo murder was the high-tech, computerized phonograph...

"The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case"

https://stereonomono.blogspot.com/2010/10/adc-accutrac-4000....

https://columbophile.com/2019/10/27/episode-review-columbo-t...
There's a scene in the series where Burke specifically holds up a series of coins and makes the point dramatically.
And some architectures have magically improved performance by reconfiguring caches as scratch pad memories.

http://rexcomputing.com/
uber accidents and problems get tons of media coverage. taxi accidents and lawsuits. Ignored completely
Regardless of whether the argument of the commenter is valid or not, appeal to authority isn't very compelling.