skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Racism is endemic in the US. It was founded with the notion that black people were basically livestock.

The existence of slavery in the past isn’t driving the current race issues in the US so much as fallout from much more recent segregation policies. Nobody alive today was a (or was born to) a slave and the majority of the states that make up the United States were not even part of the country during the civil war.

To claim racism is endemic now because of slavery is lazy. Racism is endemic because segregation didn’t end until approximately the same time as TCP/IP was being invented!
> If we don't do it, China will.

Love the boogeyman ending, just saying.
> The comments section on HN do not leave me feeling like racism is being given enough consideration within the community.

Like it or not, there's an instinctive urge to deny that there are problems, and make it look like the victim is at fault for complaining. Nobody sits down and actually listens to what they have to say. Really disappointed by the HN community on this - and a bunch of big VCs - Jason Calacanis, Paul Graham, Balaji Srinivasan - who flocked to the defence of Coinbase after the memo pre-empting the story, but then were conveniently silent once the report actually came out.

I think this is a broader silicon valley problem - that oh, our companies are perfect! We can do no wrong. This applies to sexism, racism, any kind of -isms. It might also be illuminating reading to take a look at what HN commenters were saying about for example Susan Fowler's blog post (questioning her credentials, speculating that she was making false allegations) or even the Google protests about Andy Rubin's payout.
Welcome to Spotlight reindexing everything immediately after new OS upgrade.

Wait a day then come back if the pain persists.
The Zappos website now has a Steve Jobs-like tribute on the first page (as well as a banner), which seems appropriate given how amazing Hsieh has been (not merely founding Zappos, but the renewal of DT Las Vegas, plus cool stuff he did back in SF before Zappos -- the 1000 Van Ness place was quirky and awesome.) A really amazing person.
You are misunderstanding this paper deeply. Quoted summary from the paper itself:

>>>We use this framework to compare
the time-space performance of a range of garbage collectors to explicit memory management with the Lea memory allocator. Comparing runtime, space consumption, and virtual memory footprints
over a range of benchmarks, we show that the runtime performance
of the best-performing garbage collector is competitive with explicit memory management when given enough memory. In particular, when garbage collection has five times as much memory
as required, its runtime performance matches or slightly exceeds
that of explicit memory management. However, garbage collection’s performance degrades substantially when it must use smaller
heaps. With three times as much memory, it runs 17% slower on
average, and with twice as much memory, it runs 70% slower. Garbage collection also is more susceptible to paging when physical
memory is scarce. In such conditions, all of the garbage collectors
we examine here suffer order-of-magnitude performance penalties
relative to explicit memory management.<<<

GC is "competitive" when is has 5x as much memory according to the authors. Well, probably this is because GCs are fast when they have low to no memory pressure. They simply don't need to garbage collect anything. In fact, a non-collecting, non-managed, memory approaches can be faster than any memory management. That is, you have a short lived application that just allocates what it needs, never frees anything, then dies when done. But this is not apples to apples.

The paper also says that with 2x more memory than manual management, GC is 70% slower and under paging scenarios GC can suffer "order-or-magnitude performance penalties relative to explicit memory management."

Except under unusual conditions, there is no case where GC is faster than manual.
Given the population density of the UK is three times that of Romania it’s not really a surprise that you can get your R number below one with less strict measures than we have in the UK.
Completely disagree.

Windows resets itself once or twice a week without control because it’s “updating” and reliably takes something down with it.

Windows crashes, again once or so a week, using software from another Fortune 10 company to view content from a Fortune 100 company — nothing exotic.

That’s the level of crashes I dealt with in the 90s.

“Planned bad behavior” and “unplanned bad behavior” is a distinction without difference, as a user.

Total “not do what I want” is near daily, in some form. That’s 90s level bad.
> but tests that would run much much more often (like every seconds or couple of seconds), in a continuous manner.

That's an unusual expectation, especially with the noisiness of performance measurements.

Can you describe your use cases more?
If you want to check R's history for any country/region... you can try out our website: https://reproduction.live/world

There is also a search on the landing page: https://reproduction.live which I should probably put in the sidebar of the dashboard page as well.
> due to complications from injuries sustained in a house fire

Sounds like a very painful way to go... I wonder if we'll get any more details in the coming days.

EDIT: He passed away in Connecticut, see child comments.
My council and university also declared themselves '100% renewable powered'. What they do is fund a solar/wind project which will generate the amount of electricity they use over the whole year. Of course in reality their power comes from the grid which was only 26% renewable last year. https://opennem.org.au/energy/nem/?range=1y&interval=1w

Its not a scalable solution! A lot of Australians already have solar panels on their roof which generate more electricity than they use in a 24hour period. But we cannot say we are 100% renewable because we also use power at night, where the electricity is still mostly from coal, especially when theres no wind.
That's true. The tradeoffs are different. There will be procedures you can't readily get, and more complexity in getting others. Some of those are procedures you shouldn't be getting in the first place. You'll have far less control over your own care, but most people weren't taking advantage of that control in the first place.
A further problem for those of us who are adults with at least a decade or more of experience in this industry is that Wang is practically a child, and that means 100% certainty that he does not have the leadership experience to either convincingly swagger or lead a company. He needs to dial down the attitude on posts like this and learn from startup leaders who understand what success and healthy work/life balance looks like.
Random Forest Classification Machine Learning in Python and Sklearn
I think your first question is asking about something different than we did at the time (PHP 5.x). There was no central process that “ran” the backups—is that what you mean? There was a cron job on each backup server that started the work (systemd would do the job nowadays). The code would figure out what database servers it was responsible for and kick off those jobs, then exit on completion. Reporting and restaging to central storage was another set of crons, and so on. So though they ran for hours or days, the PHP processes had a well-defined start and terminus. The “master” process on each host started the worker children, did some housekeeping, wait()ed for hours, and took note of the exit codes. What you’re trying to do sounds a lot harder.

If you’re missing a magical command that sets up a test environment, I recommend writing it in shell, PHP, whatever, and sticking it in $HOME/bin. Or a makefile with a target so you can just run “make testserver” or the like; that way it will stay with the project. Or scripts in $PROJECT/bin or $PROJECT/scripts. Doesn’t really matter as long as it’s documented in the README and simple to execute. It’s permissible and customary to have a cleanup command, as well, if you started a background process. You could even have those start and stop commands create and then disable a systemd unit—that way you won’t have to look it up every time.

> How was killall isolated from nuking important server processes?

In general we didn’t isolate our processes against signals, because there was occasionally reason to send them. When we did send them, we sent them precisely. If a few kill -9s didn’t stop a backup then there was almost certainly a disk issue on the host and it was stuck on a kernel I/O system call, and we’d “nuke” the host (send it through a self-diagnosis and reimage cycle; cloud analogy: terminate and reallocate). It was definitely a cattle-not-pets environment. Other backup hosts would take up the slack.
> Pretty much everything is about diminishing returns though, so nothing special about bikes.

Mostly truth. Some things more than others.
Are people seriously discovering with this essay that they should ask themselves if something is true?
Hi Peter,

How long can you be outside the US if you're on 1. TN and 2. H-1B (for both COVID-related reasons and for non-COVID related reasons) ?
Could be, though it was ~2010 - so internet information wasn't that good and it was a late hour, 9pm or so - I was looking for an open at that hour orthopedician IIRC, and I barely walked and thinked.

Relevant anecdote - my friend here in Switzerland developed a kidney stone (resulting in an "interesting level of pain" according to him) and went to ER b/c also a late hour. He was actually given some opioid, but he had to take it directly in the hospital (strictly controlled substance I guess), and the doctor told him jokingly that he should be happy, because the amount of people who are prescribed heroin-derivative drugs in Switzerland are very very small.
I don't have any specific info, but I would be very surprised if this MSR setting wasn't on a per-core basis. So only cores that are currently running code that requires x86-TSO would be running in that mode.
No tax on capital gain is just the most important one for any startup... (btw you do get this tax on fictional rental value of your house, but you can deduct all loan interest which are normally higher even today with the 0.8% loan rate)
Are you saying that the highest standard you’d hold a company to is mere compliance with the law? Hope I never have to work somewhere where that’s the best we can do.
Hi Peter,
If you're currently on H1-B, what are the ways you can achieve Green Card through founding your own VC-backed startup?
My guess would be that startup times to load all the JS libraries needed for a full tool would take quite a while.

In build scripts, it's important that you can start up each task (k6 instance) very fast.
> which there is some social pressure

Lol, that’s understating it a bit. The president elect said “you ain’t black” to black people who even consider Trump. An old white man confidently telling black people their identity is jeopardized if they even consider not voting for him.
Isn't it paradoxical to be told how to think for oneself?
It happened in Connecticut.
>Quebec is 97% hydro, but 3% nuclear due to a historical political horse-trade.

This? https://www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-analysis/energy-markets/ma...

Couldn't imagine wanting to import nuclear instead of moving trains full of oil to burn during winter had anything to do with the decision: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lac-M%C3%A9gantic_rail_disaste...
No, faster than light needs negative energies.
> I think this is a broader silicon valley problem - that oh, our companies are perfect! We can do no wrong. This applies to sexism, racism, any kind of -isms.

Shorter: We can't be racist! All we care about is money.
As sjy points out, there is a "commerce clause" in the Australian constitution, the "interstate trade and commerce power", section 51(i).

There are a bunch of other ways in which Australian states are weaker than American ones:

* In the US, marriage and divorce are primarily state responsibilities; in Australia, they are primarily federal ones, with states only having some residual responsibilities related to marriage registration (and the federal government could legally take those residual responsibilities over if it wanted to). This meant that while things like marriage equality or divorce law reform could happen on a state-by-state basis in the US, in Australia they could only happen at the federal level

* US states have power to levy state income tax; Australian states are de facto banned from doing so. (Federal law says that if a state imposes income tax, it makes itself ineligible for federal funding grants, which makes state-level income taxation infeasible).

* More generally, Australian states are far more dependent on federal funding than US states are

* The Australian federal government has massive direct economic expenditure in several areas – health, education, disability, broadband – which in the US are primarily state or private funding responsibilities

* The external affairs power gives the federal level the power to override any state law if required by an international treaty. Although the Treaty Clause of the US Constitution may be similar, that requires a 2/3rd supermajority vote in the Senate which is a difficult bar to overcome, whereas the Australian external affairs power only requires a normal 50%+1 majority in each house of the Australian Parliament. As an example, Australia has a national ban on the death penalty enacted on the basis of the UN treaty "the Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights"

* US constitutional amendments require approval of state legislatures; in Australia, the federal government directly seeks approval of constitutional amendments by the voters in national referendums, leaving the state governments/Parliament with no direct role in amending the national constitution
Show HN: If Correlation doesn't imply causation, then, what does?
"the highest risk activity" seems somewhat hyperbolic. Eating at restaurants when tables are appropriately spaced and masks are worn when not actually eating is not extremely dangerous.
It’s not like Switzerland has one of the highest number of nobel prize and patent per capita in the world...
That’s really not a spot on cliché quote...
> Interest rate payments are lower now than they were pre-pandemic

For now. But some major ingredients of inflation are on the way: currency devaluation and more expensive imports, both due to a no deal/shit deal for Brexit. And if inflation goes up, interest rates will increase to try to control it (or even more government spending which will rack up even more debt).

> CoE is not signaling for a return to austerity

How else will we repay the enormous debt? They won't call it austerity just like they're now using the euphemism "Australia-style deal" instead of "no deal", but austerity is coming alright (that along with tax hikes).
Yes, and also all of Tasmania's Hydro generation was built before the whole "green" movement - actually I believe the Australian Green Party started the last time they tried to build a dam in Tasmania in the early 1980's.

Tasmania is also blessed in that Hydro is our "base load" which can be ramped up or down in seconds based on the fluctuating wind and solar generation.

I was driving past some of Tasmania's older dam's today on the way home from a hiking trip and I found myself trying to imagine what the river would have been like if the dam's had never been built. While I am thankful for Tassie's dam's and what they'll mean for our future, it's hard to not notice how much they change the environment.

> They are probably still burning lots of fossil fuels for heating and vehicle traffic.

Car's YES... although I'd say a LOT of people (perhaps most) heat with electricity.
Stoicism comes to mind.
So there are no cycling paths in your area.
"The entrepreneur passed surrounded by his family in Connecticut, the organization said to the station in a separate statement."

https://heavy.com/news/tony-hsieh-dead/
I agree that pg's model for thinking serves disruptive-based enterprises like small startups much better than consensus-based endeavors like a large corporation, a military, or a football team. Groupthink is an essential skill when cooperation is more important to success than innovation. Propaganda and the delusions that ensue from it are how you build teams.
Thank you! I've searched for this three years ago, and I think it wasn't available on the Internet back then.
I should clarify: being vocally anti-GMO isn't really a movement anymore. That's not to say GMO-free products aren't ubiquitous.
That's actually more restrictive than Britain. Schools are open there, and are the current highest transmission vector.
Could you give this a rest? It's ghoulish and unnecessary.
AI in Photography Workflows- Is the Present or Still the Future?
Define "uses".

If you just run it in your own CI/CD pipeline: no.

If you want to offer this as a SaaS: yes.

If you want to extend this somehow: yes.
Intel has been at 5 decoders since Skylake (~2015).

I'm not sure why everyone focuses on the decoders as the primary determinant of width. There are other bottlenecks which may be narrower than the decoders, and the decoders may not even be used when a uop cache or something like a "loop buffer" (LSD on Intel) is present.

So AMD doesn't believe that wider chips aren't useful or that 4 is a limit, because they went to 5-wide in Zen (or 6, depending on how you count it) and I expect them to go wider in the future.

Intel went from 4 wide (narrowest bottleneck) to 5 wide in Ice Lake.

Wider chips are the future, and there is no "hard wall" at 4 for x86, just like any earlier width increase: just constantly diminishing returns.
Iran's top nuclear scientist believed assassinated by Mossad
Came here to say that. A distant runner-up would be the murder by rubber gun and scarab beetle figurine in Murder Must Advertise, same author, same Lord Peter Wimsey.
This is what happens when a huge proportion of your die isn't doing instruction decoding.

That's a misconception. Yes, decoding x86 is somewhat more complicated, as far as I'm aware that's mostly because instruction length differs at a byte granularity. Still, the area dedicated to it simply isn't that large on those huge out of order designs.

I'm sure the instruction encoding plays some role, but I suspect what we're seeing is rather down to consistently good micro-architecture execution over the years and Apple being ahead of everybody else on manufacturing process.

Compared to the x86 processors that exist today, M1 also benefits from having the memory in-package.

Intel tried to be brave with Itanium, but failed because compilers weren't up to the job at the time.

Compilers "failed" because VLIW is fundamentally not a particularly useful idea. The main problem for general purpose single-thread performance is memory latency, and VLIW just doesn't help there.
Reminds me of http://artillery.io - a modern, powerful & easy-to-use solution for load testing and synthetic monitoring
Futuristic Public Hospital in Norway
The best real world example Ive heard of so far is rendering an 8K video on a MacBook on just battery power. Base MacBook Pro with M1 did it and used 17% of its battery, intel MacBook Pro couldn’t get through the render before its battery was 100% depleted. I can’t link to it as it was discussed on the ATP podcast but those guys are pretty good sources.
This is ignorant. My local bike path is combined and separated and alternates between the two. There's also a bike lane in the road. There's also the practical fact that people walk in bike lanes anyway. Riding a motorcycle in that environment is going to increase risk.
Those people aren't going to be riding an e-bike, and if they are they won't be riding one with flat handlebars.
Are we talking about Europe where you are free to live where you want? If people are living in France it’s just that it’s cheaper nobody is prevented to live in Switzerland. The main problem arise when the janitor working in SwitzerlanD is getting 3x the salary of the high school tacher in nearby France. Btw Zurich where the cost of living is higher is far away from any border....
I wish more people just read Anandtech ( which is a well established Site, no idea why many are not reading it ) but decide to make crap up like this twitter thread.

Javascript instruction has nothing to do with it and even JSC guy from Apple confirms it. ( The instruction wasn't even used at the time the comparison was written )

And the memory model isn't even cheating or specific to Intel x86.

And the worst of all it is getting freaking hyped up all over the place even on HN. It is like watching misinformation spreading like wild fire in real time.
Heating in Tasmania is either electricity or wood fire. Wood fire usage is much lower than it used to be as the city I live in the past has given generous grants to replace wood heater with electricity to combat air pollution (it's a valley so all the smoke used to just sit there).
This is impossible. The internet killed that kind of simplicity. You just can't have the kind of minimalistic OS that you could back then. It wouldn't be able to handle the security and performance challenges of the modern web.

Of course, if you just want a simpler GUI for Linux, then that is indeed possible. But that's an uphill battle for another reason... the underlying libraries that you'd build you hypothetical GUI on are all built with the assumption that the user wants a rich command-line and config file interface to everything. Also you'll have to give up modularity. If you build a GUI frontend for ALSA, you'll also need to make it work with PulseAudio and Jack.
The sad truth is that most people I’ve met, even if tremendously intelligent in their field of focus and work, are still quite “simple”. I don’t mean this derogatorily, but rather that said people do not think about the nature of their reality any broader or deeper than the framework of thought imprinted on them by their culture, their religion, and their parents.

I am with you on this approach, fully. I’ve thought about it a lot over the last decade in particular. I find it odd that someone would insinuate it somehow lessens our humanity. Is it more humane to keep animals (like pigs) with provable consciousness, intelligence and feelings within the horrible meat farms we do today? Apparently that’s “humane” because it’s a necessity. How narrow minded is that?

I’m continuing to slowly introduce this idea to people via different angles — ethical meat is a great one. Thanks for sharing and giving me hope by showing there are more out there with a broader mindset.
Increased spending with no matching increase in taxes.
"Far less control over your own care" implies a very small, and wealthy, subset of the population.
Why doesn't someone port 7zip to old computers and be done with it?
He was dying from an OD, brutishly helped along by a poorly applied restraint move, held too long, because filming onlookers challenged the authority of the cop, and the cop was afraid to have to fight Big Floyd, before the ambulance arrived.
What writing can do for your life