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Gaudi Training Accelerators on EC2 in Early Access
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-of-elevator-mu...
Yes, there are many ways email could be used to assign tasks. The way I said, the way you said, by dragging it into a folder. It doesn't really matter how it works in detail as long as the general concept is there; people want to assign work to me via email and they don't want anything more difficult / time consuming than forwarding an email.
It was known from the start that the PoW phase is just a temporary development phase, with no parameters set in stone. Eth2 has a deterministic inflation schedule that depends on total amount of stake.

def calc_annual_reward(total_staked_eth):
return math.exp(31556926 / 384 * 64 / 31622 / total_staked_eth ** 0.5) - 1

This is the return rate for validators - this should be multiplied by the average online percentage, eg. 0.9 if average participation is 90%.
On top of that comes fee burning, which is inherently variable, but likely to lead to deflation at least initially. Extrapolating fees from the last 24 hours and assuming 10M eth is staked, the net result is a deflation of 1.3%.
Ask HN: I have a question regarding strong consistency. The question is related to all geo distributed strong consistent storages, but let me pick Google Spanner as example.

Spanner has a maximum upper bound of 7 milliseconds clock offset between nodes, thx to TrueTime. To achieve external consistency, Spanner simply waits 7 ms before committing a transaction. After that amount of time the window of uncertainty is over and we can be sure, that every transaction happens to be in the right order. So far so good, but how does Spanner deal with cross data center network latency? Let's say I commit a transaction to Spanner in Canada and after 7 ms, I get my confirmation, but now in Australia someone also does a conflicting transaction and also get his confirmation after 7 ms. Spanner however, bound to the laws of physics, can only see this conflict after 100+ ms delay, due to network latency between the datacenters. How is that problem solved?
Is Zulip Chat close to what you have in mind?
Actually, the NavMe app for Pebble was really useful as a navigator when riding a motorcycle. It would vibrate to yr attention when you were approaching the next turn and the turn info was easy to see on the watch while riding. It was a brilliant solution that would take you to your final destination without y having to stop once in a while and take out your phone to see what's next. I always used it when going places I never been or were unfamiliar with.
Nonsense. Fraudsters use protonmail because it’s particularly easy to create new accounts.
As I mentioned above, Tesla has issued about $6 billion worth of stock since the IPO, So it is not like there is absolutely no benefit to the company, but is just a small fraction of the amount of money that pours into the stock.

>if the stock price increasing doesn't really gain the company any money, why are board executives typically concerned about share price performance? Obviously because they get paid in grants, but... are there any other reasons that actually benefit the company itself instead of the shareholders?

Board executives represent the interests of the shareholders, not the company. The shareholders literally own the company, and can call a vote to replace the board members. Hell, if the shareholders think it is more valuable to liquidate the company and cash out, they can do it.
So that explains the "Slackifying" monicker.
14nm and 7nm are NOT what you think it is – Visiting Tescan Part 3/3
Never heard of this person until now (I'm not from the
States) but when those that hold the monopoly on violence (in this case the Governor) force you to do things against your will without any due process then violence is indeed one of the avenues of stopping all that.
A hearty chuckle here:

> We are like you, and this is why we are on GitHub: we hate big corporations that do not have at heart the best interest at heart for their users, even if they say otherwise.

That's definitely what I think of when I think Microsoft!
> It's the freedom to get things wrong, iterate and try again. It's the freedom to move resources around. It's the freedom of not having to wait for your procurement process and approval from a purchasing department. It's the freedom of not having to wait for your operations team to plug in and configure bare metal.

I don't understand your point. How is any random cloud provider, or even hosting company, a blocker to moving resources around or wait for procurement or to iterate?

I'm looking at the Hetzner cloud dashboard and I'm free to launch how many instances I need at the drop of a hat.

In the end there's an itemized bill, which unlike AWS you pay only for what you ordered up front and you can reason about without having to endure advance courses or freaking machine learning tools.

Where exactly are you seeing any freedom at all on AWS?
> It's the first step for a major cryptocurrency towards ledger security that does not damage the environment via mining.

Not true. Cardano has been operational with PoS since early 2020. And it’s staking process is much more straightforward and user friendly.
Wanted: UK site for prototype nuclear fusion reactor
argv getting GC'd is surprising, isn't it implicitly part of the environment?
Slack is valued higher than Kroger, which runs 2,700+ grocery stores in the United Stages.

Apple and Sweden have about the same valuation right now. Apple is worth 30% more than Saudi Arabia.
I've been told adding a custom domain to ProtonMail requires an upgrade to their 'premium' services, which, is payable. Wonder if there is a way for those of us who own a domain get forwarding with their free plan. Genuinely curious.
More than thousands should be able to find this kind of security bugs, potentially many of them from state-backed hackers from China and Russia.
Great example. Seeing as I'm working on my Merced box I felt like commenting on this.

Intel/HP did many things wrong when they designed EPIC. The
absence of dynamic scheduling was supposed to have made it simpler and thus have a faster cycle time. Alas it was so bloated when it finally arrived and horrendously complicated that it clock very slowly (mine @ 733 MHz while contemporaries ran at 1+ GHz).

The EPIC designers probably also didn't anticipate the advances in OoO machines that got really good. Trying to statically schedule for unknown load-misses isn't just difficult, it's impossible without code explosion.

EPIC got some things right, but design by committee and betting again dynamic scheduling doomed it.
Thanks! This guide is really useful!
The risks of having an unsecured API, if there's no sensitive data?
Panel discussion: Types for All: From weak to strong, from static to dynamic
Thank you for this topic. Its wonderful that Promscale keeps on maintaining the top-performance, each time in the compatibility test.

Disclaimer: I work on Promscale!
When I looked for a similar tool for a publication, this did not work for my use case as I have a fully-connected neural network with thousands of node per layer.

I falled back to draw.io wich is not specialized in neural networks by great at drawing schematics and very configurable.
On the other hand, if flash loans are not sound economic policy, doesn't that imply they won't prevail? Evolution will weed them out.
Project Bicep v0.2 IaC for Azure Deployments
Not everyone has a good memory, even if they care a lot about people.

I once had a girlfriend I cared about tremendously. She was, and is, amazing. Her birthday, she told me, was the 7th of December. I didn't save it, because how could I forget? It's a day that will live in infamy! It's also don Vito Corleone's birthday!

It's proper infamous now: my forgetting it in no small part contributed to our breakup.

Some people just have bad memories.
Software or apps including their own cloudsync are a layering violation. I already have tools to sync my filesystem, just make sure your software writes to a logical location on disk and tools already used will sync.
Winter and the ways to perceive it in different countries
Singapore approves lab-grown 'chicken' meat
Thanks you for this, I managed to miss this page and thought they only had the Youtube channel.
Feature size between Intel and TSMC compared by viewing and measuring a section of L1 cache from modern Intel and AMD processors in an electron microscope. Parts 1 and 2 of the video covered creating and preparing the samples.
Counterpoint is that when Salesforce acquired Heroku, it had almost no negative impact on the product at all.
I'm an old guy now but this just sounds like a standard ticket system. What's the big deal?
Someone already thought of this.
https://symphony.com/
How would that work, though? It sounds like guaranteed arbitrage? But does arbitrage work as a trading strategy? I thought markets quickly become too efficient for that?
Show HN: Fuzz Ball – VST plugin with Fuzz effect written in Rust
High cardinality on Promscale is very efficient. I have been testing prom-migrator, migrating and ingesting 7 million+ samples a second, and till now, I have seen Promscale's memory usage to be the most efficient, along with a better CPU performance. I have tested Promscale, VictoriaMetrics, Thanos, M3, Cortex, and Promscale continues to lead in efficiency and performance. Also, the added advantage of native SQL support is a big bonus.
A Year of 379 Computer Days: November Added
Performance benchmarking: beware frequency scaling
the first game title is 'neverending' (flick), the second game title is 'glitch' (slack), combine both and you get 'neverending glitch'
"A righteous person would say that making money off the back of a global pandemic is at best opportunistic and at worst downright immoral—that the ghoulish deus ex machina that made short-sellers rich included hundreds of thousands of people dying and widespread economic devastation"

Well, indeed.
Thanks for pointing this out, I hadn't really thought about it this way.

You're technically correct (the best kind of correct!). Since raytracers draw pixels on the screen, and the screen is an array of horizontal lines, anything that draws pixels to the screen is a rasterizer.

On the other hand, "polygon-pushers" are rasterizers in a deeper sense: triangles are explicitly sliced into arrays of horizontal line segments, and this shapes how everything else works in them, e.g. the need to interpolate attribute values along the edges of each triangle so you can then interpolate them along each raster, etc. Raytracers do no such thing. So all renderers are rasterizers, but some are more rasterizer than others ;)

I also wonder what happens, for the sake of brainstorming, if you change the output to be something that is not a rectangular array of horizontal sets of pixels. In that case you probably wouldn't call a raytracer "a rasterizer" since there would be no raster data, but a polygon pusher would still fit the name, since it uses rasters internally?

BTW, I'll never accept "literally" used as "figuratively", "there" for "they're", or "could care less" unless you do care a little bit. So I don't think you're a jerk, and your comment prompted some interesting thinking!
The best workplace communication tool I used was effectively just a Usenet newsreader. Ie, topic-based threaded shared email. With a good client that shows eg the number of new messages on a thread, or only unreads etc, ie standard email stuff, nothing else comes close IMO to that for efficiency and clarity.

I'd add in IM for quick 1-to-1 chats but that's all.
It’s the same distance as between Dropbox and a Git + Rsync setup.

The later will work the same for half a percent of the users, but the 99.5% left would be crying tears of blood. I remember Mozilla employees’ blogs about the contraptions they had at individual levels to make IRC fully work for them, and you just can’t ask that to the HR recruiting intern.
I believe we're close. I believe it's only a year or two away.
Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 Vaccine Wins U.K. Authorization
...and it was an awesome idea.

The execution and shoving it down users throats, not so much.
The Steve Carell character in "the big short" summed things up for me in this space. He hated what he was doing being right. It's complicated stuff, confirming that thousands and thousands of peoples life savings have evaporated.

These failed investments destroyed lives.
I can’t believe no one has mentioned Jabber yet.
The NSF budget increased dramatically between 1951-2008 -- but when accounting for inflation in the figures you linked, has declined by about 10% in real terms since then.

(That is, the 2010 NSF budget of $7.045 B in 2010 is in real terms equivalent to about $8.413 B today, about a billion dollars more than the real 2020 budget of $7.066 B, using the inflation calculator at [1].)

[1] https://www.in2013dollars.com
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25264555.
Relevant book by Douglas Hofstadter - "Surfaces and essences: Analogies as the fuel and fire of thinking"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7711871-surfaces-and-ess...
Have you checked out rsk? It lives on top of bitcoin and apparently does smart contracts.

https://www.rsk.co
Sort of, 5 degrees isn’t exactly a lot.
> (...) in the rare event that it does happen and you suddenly need to handle 10-100x more traffic, having things auto-scale up and then back down means you (in an ideal world) get to watch it excitedly, instead of furiously running around spinning things up and putting out fires that arise when you start operating at larger scales.

Emphasis on "rare".

And also, AWS is not the only cloud provider which offers autk-scaling. I've used an european cloud provider which even offered Kubernetes with node autk-scaling, and there are even scripts in the wild that implement autk-scaling for small cloud providers such as Hetzner.

I'm starting to believe AWS only benefits from bandwagon effect and resume-driven development. None of AWS's value propositions are ever mentioned in these discussions, which is telling .
Enigma: Archaeologists find legendary Nazi cipher machine in the Baltic Sea
Correct it is of the staked Ether not total supply. It's an important detail of course and easily missed, a good way for future people stumbling across here to think about it is that any attack only involves those participating in consensus. For Bitcoin consensus is mining. For the beacon Ethereum chain consensus is staking, therefore only staking Ether is relevant.
I was using email in the 1980s and still am (still plain text even) so I'd say you are right!
It’s not too surprising that SF can be exploited. The interface is designed to be operated from a (non-adversarial) GUI, and efficiency is paramount, so it understandably has little sanitization.

Also, this would be more interesting on previous versions of SF before the NN eval, as the handcrafted eval has been battle hardened for years.

That said, this is still a cool analysis to identify a concrete exploit!
I forget my own birthday.

You and others probably have a much better memory than I.

I don't use tools though, we have a physical birthday calendar that helps.
If someone is wondering why this is huge. It's because of the problems you face, when you don't have strong consistency. See this picture to get an understanding of what kind of problems you might run into with eventual consistency:

https://i.ibb.co/DtxrRH3/eventual-consistency.png
Yeah, Google has a chat app addiction that’s not going to be solved by buying yet another chat app.

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/
Just like USD :)
This needs a (2016) in the title. It's not evident from the text but it is from the announcement: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4fysrk/qbe_my_...
I tried it some time ago and liked it. Self hosted aspect is a big plus for me.

However, I've since stopped using it because the upgrades did fuck it up more than once I think and it was too slow to add information, too much friction.

I've since started using markdown files edited in Sublime and synced over Dropbox. Quick, no maintenance overhead.
> There's a (repeating) notion in this thread that keeping up with people is somehow linked to how much you care about them. I care deeply about many people I meet, personally, but I don't think the two are necessarily correlated.

I wholeheartedly agree. There’s a similar resistance towards books like “How to win friends...”, like you’re a sleazy car salesman for trying to improve your social skills.

It’s like harping on people going to the gym and watching their diet for not being “naturally” fit.
> That's where Terraform comes in.

...and CloudFormation, and SAM, and CDK, and...
No. A magical do-everything datastore would have strong consistency. Eventual consistency is something you might settle for given the performance cost trade offs.

To see this, consider that strong consistency has all the guarantees of eventual consistency, plus some more. And the additional guarantees might make your application much easier to write.
I've loved every mi band I've had - they are great simple devices.

I loved the first one (or the 2nd revision of the 1st) that just had vibration and 3 coloured led.

It meant I turned vibration off in my phone, and I set the band to vibrate and flash 3 times white for sms, green for WhatsApp and red for calls. But if any of those were from my wife (who was pregnant at the time) it would vibrate longer and flash for 20 seconds.

It was so simple to feel and glance and get the info I needed - no need to squint and try read. It annoys me in meetings when people think they are being subtle reading a full notification from the apple watch or similar. If it is important just get your phone out it will be quicker to read and reply.
Can't get any darker than that!
Eric Satie invented the form, composing music to leave the theatre to. He's said to have got very angry when people refused to leave.
It isn't about the products, it is about the pricing model in a similar market.

Second, for sub 50ms workloads [0], Workers is absolutely a superior solution to API Gateway + Lambda or Cloudfront + Lambda at Edge if the workloads can fit 128MB RAM and package/compile to 1MB JavaScript or WASM executables, in terms of cost, speed, latency, ease of development etc

[0] For Workers, 50ms is all CPU time and that is definitely not the case with Lambda which may even charge you for the time it takes to setup the runtime to run the code and time spent doing Network IO and bandwith and RAM and vCPUs and what not.
Sadly I have had great results but in the end have made a conscious decision to avoid benzos, simply too alluring. Thanks for the advice though, definitely a game changer.
A good rule to follow in software engineering in general is "never write your own lock free data structures". I'm the one writing them so that my coworkers don't need to, though. I've used atomics to implement various flavors of queues in low level C for use on microcontrollers. A good single-producer single-consumer queue abstraction is helpful for communicating with interrupt service routines in peripheral drivers. Bespoke multiple-producer single or multiple-consumer queues are often useful for implementing logging abstractions that work from any context, including in interrupt handlers and critical sections.
https://vimeo.com/485900573
TIL. I've always wondered how to select range besides starting from totally empty space (below the rows). Never imagined so much thought needs to go into this!
Google Cloud storage has behaved this way for years. According to other comments, so does Azure.
I agree. I’m a contractor and my client is running Azure. Having the possibility to snap my fingers and have a Redis cache appear ready to go is a no brainer - it costs per month what I cost per hour.
Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccine wins licence for use in the UK
It’s also probably much easier to share code between those two implementations with the new container based lambdas :)
It happens all the time, offering government pay for the DC area. Sometimes there is an added bonus of drug testing or a polygraph.
What happened to heroku?
For me on Windows, the map is rendering very poorly: ▫ is much narrower than all the rest, so that the map is painful to behold.

But, in the mean time, I’ve applied this to make the map a bit more tolerable while I play through:

#gameMap {
text-align: justify;
text-align-last: justify;
text-justify: inter-character;
}

It would be best to do this as an actual table or grid, so that you can definitely align everything properly, regardless of character width.
Yeah right? People are just conveniently forgetting Heroku.
Yes, you can use them to play around and experiment with OS-level stuff and even have some fun with it.

But you definitely cannot build a performant and robust kernel from scrtach with these languages.
I don't think Apache really have that much interest in whether member projects duplicate each others' functionality. That's been going on for years. Remember all the Java MVC frameworks they spawned back in the day. Even today there's Spark, Storm and Flink (and probably others) doing very similar things.

They're not a corporation with unified goal, just an umbrella org.
Slack Sold to Salesforce for $27.7bn
But then you're basically describing normal currency backed by the nation state. The state can basically print its own money because it backs up its currency with state power - whether it be enforcing laws and governmental institutions, enforcing taxation to force citizens to use its currency, funding military defensive/offensive operations, provide various welfare services to citizens to create a safety net for the economy, and using monetary policies to modulate its growth. And every one of the activities I've listed above is achieved through human labor.

Obviously there is no nation that backs its currency value for an objectively "good" common cause - every nation probably only thinks within her interest for most of the time. If you want to create such an institution which can print money backed by the values you like - then the answer is much more political than technical, and the crypto algorithms alone wouldn't help you in achieving that.
I heard people say the thing they like about discord is that it's not associated with work.
> Amazon itself used to be that environment. Before AWS was adopted internally, which it wasn't for some time, to say nothing of the many years before it was created, getting capacity involved a weeks or even months long political game with the infrastructure team.

It's my understanding that you're describing how Amazon worked in the 90s. It's my understanding that Amazon afterwards moved to an internal cloud provider, and afterwards spun off AWS which worked in parallel with Amazon's internal cloud provider.
Beautiful Handicrafts from North India
So my partner has been getting really deep into transcendental meditation and it has really been seeming to help with him. I just tonight had him show me some of his methods and just tried to focus and my breathing and I’ll tell ya what, there has been great advice throughout but this has potential for sure. The meeting is soon so I’m going to for sure try breathing deeper. Thanks!