skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Modern game engines buffer 3 or 4 frames, sometimes 5. Not unusual to have 140ms latency on 60hz screen between clicking mouse1 and seeing the muzzle flash.

* deferred vs forward rendering (deferred adds latency)
* multithreaded vs singlethreaded
* vsync (double buffering)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uYMPszn4Z8 -- check at 6:30 the latency of 60fps vsync on 60hz. It's not even close to 16ms (1/60), it's ~118ms (7.1/60).

It's far cry from simplified pure math people think of when they think of fps in games or refresh rate for office and typing. Software is very very lazy lately, and most of the time these issues are being fixed by throwing more hardware at it, not fixing the code.
Yes, they did.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25151342
Are you reading the book? Do you like it?
Its safe to assume that as usual Amazon, Pinkerton, the unions and NPR/journalists are all being shady for their own self-serving reasons. Also, its appears they are all in bed with each other anyway. Some of them are trying to appear noble for extra credit.
Screw these fucking leetcode interviews
I'm just going to kill myself next time I'm on stream and asked to do one of these.

Someone has to take a stand against this bullshit.

THERE HAS TO BE A BETTER FUCKING WAY
I agree, Apex is awesome. Oracle Apex being written in stored procedures was actually a big inspiration for a low code tool project I did myself, which while not being written in stored procedures took alot of other ideas from Apex (I was an Oracle Apex developer for 4 years)
Which doesn't seem to be what was happening here though, or at least there's no indication to that effect.

At the same time, the narrative that someone above her in the management hierarchy decided to pull her research seems more plausible. In that case, I would tend to "Privacy for the Weak, Transparency for the Powerful." What you describe is the former, but this would seem to be a case of the latter.
1080p is fine for a 24" display imo, though I'd want 1440p for a 25". the current trend in laptop displays is baffling to me too. why anyone would sacrifice hours of battery life to have a 4K panel on something like an xps 13 is beyond me.
>How is any cryptocurrency even considered an investment vehicle? [...] [Y]ou are investing in a business by owning a part of it which naturally means that you will and do get the returns on it[.]

That is how Ethereum works. Validators get returns from Ethereum by holding shares, i.e. ETH. Validators, after EIP-1559, will be paid with newly minted ETH and anything over the base burn fee. (Currently there is no mandatory burning of fees.)

To stake in ETH 2.0 a stand alone validator needs 32 ETH (~$20,000). It reminds me of Outback's business model of requiring managers to buy in as stake holders (https://hbr.org/2005/09/a-stake-in-the-business).

This is before all the crazy features that can be built on top of eth-as-programmatic-money, such as lending. https://defipulse.com/
Congrats on the beta launch! Thoughts on supporting multi-tenant auth?
> Unions have historically been some of the most racist and discriminatory organizations in the USA.

The USA has been pretty racist in discriminatory, and I think it's disingenuous to single out unions for that history. I mean, who instituted Jim Crow and profited from slavery? White voters, government officials, and private enterprise. Unions were definitely not leading that.
Turning off ad id in the OS and checking which apps have access to location would do wonders. Would also recommend checking which apps have access to the contact list.
There are modern current examples of how decriminalization has positively affected countries where it's been tried. See Portugal where high school age students reported a massive drop in people trying the hard stuff for the first time, overdoses and new outbreaks of HIV and HEP C were drastically decreased, and money was spent on treatment and outreach rather than drug crackdowns which inevitably led some to get clean and others to lead more stable lifestyles.
Just about everyone knows that Tether is a ticking time bomb waiting to blow up the cryptocurrency markets. But for now Tether makes number go up and currently that’s the only thing that matters.
A few of my clients asked for it and kept raving on about the improvements long after it was done. Which is one of the reasons I considered it.

I think programmers might not care, I'm not sure their managers and PMs don't.
This is a question of whether the target is to the right or left of the line where the object is pointing. As OskarS says, you don’t need trigonometry for this at all. Just take the wedge product of the two vectors, and check the sign.

That is, if your direction is the vector (a, b), and the displacement to the target is the vector (c, d), you can compute ad – bc. If this quantity is positive turn left, else turn right.
Wouldn't it be a lot more productive to lobby for inclusion of more samples into the performance measurement datasets than to get into super-combative twitter pissfights with people who aren't even opposed to that?

That's, like, not even culture war, it's just basic correctness of the reference datasets. If a fruit classifier was missing oranges, we'd just fix it and move on.
Not inventing anything.

Northeast US:

Office hours: 9-6pm -> 9 hours (yes, includes "lunch" where people get a sandwich and eat it at the desk)
Note that many people work longer, till 7pm or 8pm (startups, etc). Many people need 2 jobs to pay the bills.

Average commute time: 45 mins (you can google it) x 2
E-mail checking/responding at home after the kids go to bed: 1 hr

Total: 11.5 hrs easily (or more if you want to climb the corporate ladder)

So market-browsing/cooking is not your thing - that's fine. But let me just note that we invented all these life "efficiencies" - and are less and less happy (loneliness, drugs, etc).

What's the point?
That is de facto slavery!
I would like to deepen a bit on "guerilla" and "paramilitaries":

* Guerilla is a movement born and driven by farmers, where they weren't receiving aids from the central government, so they got into this business so they could afford themselves some security and sovereignty over the government that wouldn't care less about these country people.

* Paramilitaries are more like mercenaries. They would basically be the guys that would do the dirty work of killing people that there is no reason to kill legally (i.e. enemies that the army should fight). These paramilitary groups have been hired (or created) by corrupt politicians and big companies to seize lands rich in gold or oil from their rightful owners. These groups would also end up being part of the trafficking networks.

The current president has been demonstrated to have relationship with these paramilitary trafficking groups. That is why the president isn't pushing any effort that would affect the way the cartels work. Congress is pushing in this direction, but the government party is still majority in the congress, so it has been a challenge.

A government entity that manages Cocaine networks would be a big opportunity for growing businesses, as it happens with some of the liquor brewers in the country. But that is directly against the interests of the current president. We all hope to change this in the next elections, as the current cartels are so powerful that they buy out, blackmail and kill almost any judge, senator, entity or individual that tries to fight back.
I'm very interested in this, as I come from the web world yet find myself in a company that has a 30-year legacy of putting business logic into the database. It served them really well, and that they run quite lean in terms of hardware. But they're built on Microsoft tech ($$$), and moving things to a traditional database=datastore cloud architecture would require a substantial change. Does anyone have resources they can point me to on the wisdom or folly of keeping this logic-in-database approach? It seems like the tradeoffs in the different approaches are all about where the smarts are, and whether you can horizontally scale those smarts. Does that sound accurate?
Junk made in China by impoverished and forced labor + union busting and poor wages in fulfillment = Jeff Bezos and his executives becoming even fatter cats.
Some proteins require help to fold properly (because there are more than one enrgetically favored conformations). The helping enzymes are called chaperons.
x86 chips aren’t “unusable” either, and if these other ARM chips wanted to compete in the desktop space they’d be just as - or more - “hot and/or slow, clunky, noisy”. ISA just doesn’t matter half as much as microarchitecture.
Please don't respond to flamebait with flamewar. That only makes this place even worse, and the site guidelines explicitly ask you not to do it.

"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
By your reasoning, gold isn't an investment vehicle either (a rather widely-held belief, btw).

Yet, a somewhat sizeable category of people still invest in gold ...

Could it be that the definition of "investment vehicle" is broader that what you may have willingly restricted yourself to?
This isn't the email that she sent with conditions she wanted met. Apparently she said she would resign if those conditions were not met, and the response to that email is that she was fired.
This looks like a reasonable system. It is however a sad fact that a similar system has already failed for opiates. It’s a hard problem.
Photographers will talk about their "workflow," where they spend time after a shoot to flag and cull. That's fine for professionals, but for you and me, it's a chore I'd rather skip.

Most photo managers use timeline views that make shutter-happy events overwhelm all the other events that might only have a couple shots.

I built something different: it uses random sampling and hierarchical tags to make browsing and rediscovery fun, even for very large (500k+) libraries.

Details are here: https://photostructure.com/faq/why-photostructure/#fast-and-...

(I'm making the PhotoStructure beta available for free in exchange for feedback, if you want to try it out.)
Y Combinator: Bookmarklethttps://paidera.com/?r=1609825
Licensing and selling the 'don't cost us a million bucks in 4 hours' code monitoring (I hope!) that stuff on the backside would be welcomed by maaaaany large organizations :)
Pretty interesting that Stripe is partnering with Evolve, Citi, and GS and not SVB whom they use for Stripe Atlas.
I would note that F500 companies are going to have the resources to move out of lock in if it came down to it, and AWS sales management knows it and would have to negotiate costs with that in mind. Smaller scale companies than the F500 that don't have that kind of leverage have to concern themselves more w/ lock-in.
At scale, cores are only a small part of the equation.

https://images.anandtech.com/doci/13124/IF%20Power%20EPYC.pn...

Given that scaling, you're looking at 140w between 64 cores which is right at 2w per core. The all-core turbo for TR is 3GHz. If we assume linear scaling on M1 cores, if you dropped them in to replace the x86 cores and the had to reduce from 3.2GHz at 4w down to 2w per core, the all-core turbo would be a mere 1.6GHz AND about a third less cache per core.

TSMC claims 30% less power going from 7nm to 5nm. That means those x86 cores power usage drops from 2w to 1.4w. With the same linear scaling and 4w at 3.2GHz, the M1 design is now operating at 1.1GHz competing with a part that is still 3GHz and the M1 still has only 3mb of cache per core instead of 4.5mb.

Now, I'm betting that actual power usage is 3w which bumps frequency up to 1.5GHz. Still half the frequency, but possibly close enough in performance to Zen 3 at that frequency.

EDIT: It's apparently 3.45w during cinebench according to these benchmarks.

https://twitter.com/panzer/status/1328715510100344833

I'm betting that if they didn't bottleneck on the IO that the M1 would perhaps be faster, but at that scale, interconnects are a much, much larger issue than the cores themselves.
How exactly does RSU comp at a public company not help buy food at the supermarket or anything else? These are not options or illiquid shares, it really is the same thing as having a much higher salary. The only real difference is that your total pay fluctuates with the stock value. But even an enormous drop in stock value would leave you taking home real money.
That's a crazy idea. There are sometimes unions that have racist members, and sometimes unions that are no good, but anyone paying attention to history has seen that unions are what fight for progressive change - material change that improves the lives of workers, who have always been multi-racial. Often they tackle racist structural problems. For example, in the Sanitation Workers' strike.

https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/memphis-sani...
Congratulations on shipping!

The hard question is, if this was a problem I had, why wouldn't I use Microsoft OneNote? (That's what came to mind).

This is a form of a more general question. Considering how much time and energy it takes to organize the fragments of my life and that the timeline on which I am working is (hopefully) many many years, why would I accept the risk that an unproven software tool is abandoned by its makers during the (hopefully) many many years of my life? (This is a version of "How will you make money?")

The value proposition is $0 price but unknown cost in a market with existing established tooling. To a first approximation a better tool won't grow on the assumption that supply and demand are already met by well funded suppliers. The fastest way to see if there's a possibility of a business to be built is to start charging meaningful money.

For 3 engineers @ $100k x 1.6 carrying cost, that's $480,000 per year, or $40,000 per month. Or 1000 users @ $40 a month. Or 40 users at $1000 per month. It's 8000 users at $5 a month and an infinite number at free.

A product that is worth $1000 a month only requires 40 sales. Users will be more invested. The will provide better feedback. They will be more available for research. And they will complain less.

Anyway, charge money and find out if what you are doing is a business, if you want it to be a business and not just for fun. There's nothing wrong with fun, it often makes sense to know that's what you're doing. Good luck.

And again, congratulations!
This is so unhelpful and dumb. The US has historically been one of the most racist and discriminatory organizations in North America. Does that mean we shouldn’t engage the US? Does that mean the US can’t be less racist? Does that mean the US isn’t a tool we can try to use to make the world a better place?

Unions provide countervailing power to corporate power. Racist people are racist. Sometimes these can overlap.
What is the "dev list"
Not true. I used to work at a very large us bank and while multi-region was a thing the regulators cared about, multi-cloud was not.
I really want to read that paper. Can't wait til it's published. Presuming it'll be at FAccT*...
Cool, good luck with your project!
Oh, I agree, I just found it interesting that the AI Researcher's case was treated the same way. It makes me wonder if the issue was really feedback about the paper and not some other HR complaint.

>That's how it is supposed to work.
The thing that sucked about it was that it was impossible to defend myself. I only found out details after the fact because the complaint was anonymously filed on behalf of a co-worker and it was the co-worker that later came to me to explain.
In reservoirs, there's ongoing cryptic replication, which would be blocked by drug. That is, the virus wakes up every so often, replicates (killing the host cell), infects another cell nearby, and then goes back to sleep. Blocking any one of those steps would eliminate the reservoir. There's actually some pretty promising work that's been done on how to wake up all the virus at once, because if you do that while the person is on ART, the reservoir would be entirely eliminated!
Compare unions to corporations and I think unions come out ahead on that front. Any large American unions who directly worked with Nazi Germany like IBM did, for instance?
Only if you consider sharing helpful information from the CDC to be spreading ignorance.
I recently spent 15 minutes going over a Rust futures tutorial and was then able to get a Rust program streaming live bitcoin futures (coincidence!) over websocket connections from multiple exchanges working in less than an hour.

I then then attempted to port some Python code to use Python's new async/await and was unsuccessful. I managed to get a bunch of async workers running, but only the first one would process jobs from the queue or the entire program would just hang indefinitely. Couldn't figure it out after two hours and just gave up on it.

Nice work, Rust team. This is a game changer for me.
Put it this way: if the new Macs had the performance of the fastest Qualcomm ARM cores available today, we wouldn’t be having this conversation now.
Ah sorry, I didn’t read it carefully enough, thanks for the explanation!
> The whole opioid epidemic is a classic example of accidental demand creation for the drugs

Perhaps orthogonal to your point but it seems pretty clear from information coming out that the demand creation for opioids was very much not accidental.
I'm also super curious about AWS's response. Because these numbers - and the aspect of backups - mean that, barring Timescale just not doing the benchmarking right, Timestream isn't going to be an option.
Another unusual usage for SQL databases (today!) is as a data type server. SQL databases have a very rich set of data types with rigorous specification and myriad operators, conversions, etc for all the types, more so than just about any other programming environment. If you need correct support for a complex data type operation in a development environment with weak or non-existent type support, you can use a SQL runtime to do that computation for you over a local client connection.

I've used PostgreSQL this way a few times to great effect. The connection is over local IPC and never touches storage, so the operation throughput is quite high.
"People in video meetings will, in future, be able to feel their hands being shaken and smell coffee in their virtual space, the founder and CEO of Zoom has predicted."

I think Eric may have been drinking something more than just coffee at Web Summit...
I found this out by accident.

I took some woodchips that had been used as bedding in a chicken coup (so it had feathers and poop in it), put down a layer about four inches thick, then covered it in a rich mulch that had lots of mycelium in it already[1], and left it alone for about six weeks. The mycelium went all through there and converted the woodchips to a chalky almost asbestos-like form.

I had another experience with this same mycelium mulch[1] where it literally sealed off an area of sandy soil and routed water somewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15059654

[1] Kellogg's GROMULCH 2-in-1, it's my secret weapon.
This takes a balance to get right. For some data yes drag it over and keep it on the 'client'. But for other data just join it out and let the SQL handle it. However, for some reason SQL seems to scare a lot of people. So they end up making lots of microservices/functions/methods that just drag the data together and mash it together in a language they understand. That comes at a cost of network bandwidth.

I found that if you are 'happy' with the style of lots of stored procs and data lifting on the server side you usually have a decent source delivery system in place. If you do not have that you will fight every step of the way changing the schema and procs as this monolithic glob that no one dares to touch.
Pretty disgusting and completely unsurprising. Most of us (sadly) can't avoid if our companies use AWS, but a significant fraction can absolutely do without the "convenience" of Amazon, shopping at Whole Foods, etc.

I'm lucky enough to be able-bodied enough that I don't need package delivery, so I haven't used Amazon in a few years. I don't miss it, doubly so when articles like this come out.
It was extreme flamebait, to the point of being a bannable offense.
Or maybe people could push back against normalizing support for these types of businesses. Many don't agree that this should be supported, and think Stripe is correct here.
For small businesses that don't have a large mess of legacy stuff to clean up, the requirements aren't that bad. Yes, it is extra effort, but mostly documentation, and lots of it can be minimized by keeping as little data as necessary.
That's also ignoring the cost of capital, as leveraging risk adjusted returns has to take that into account. You don't get the same rate of return if you use margin, say, in order to leverage.

If you use a 3x or other leveraged fund, then you run into tracking issues (look at https://www.etf.com/etfanalytics/etf-comparison/SPXL-vs-SPY) where you see tracking break down), you can lose everything (remember XIV?), and you have other potential issues.

So it's not as simple as leveraging up a low-risk portfolio to assume a given risk/return ratio. There's also diversification to keep in mind.
there are, but the tooling was ... very subpar. Truncate, for instance, didn't exist.
Sorry, i should say that it requires running a web server. And the local web server options are immature.

Running a whole web server just to use _git (lfs)_ seems absurd to me.

The pattern is clearly intended to be used with the big centralized players - and the idea of normal git patterns, like git lfs in a local fs or git lfs over SSH were secondary concerns.

well, not even secondary concerns really - it's not at all supported. To me, this is the core use case for Git. Git LFS is incapable of doing that in the current implementations. Which bothers me.
This seems like such a self-defeating move? You are already paying "Ethics in AI" researchers purely to whitewash your always expanding inscrutable data gathering and mining efforts, what do you care what they write on some internal listserv. It's all just regulatory cover. Pretend you are the leading force on researching this, never implement any of it.
It feels like a commoditize the competition strategy. Essentially the single deployment structure makes your competitors impossible to differentiate other than on price, while still being the access point to the cloud.
> But I think the overarching point is true: now desktop and laptop makers can't just pretend that having a hot and/or slow, clunky, noisy x86-based architecture is just a fact of life. I hope and expect that it'll help create a new generation of ARM-based laptops and maybe even desktops that will run cool and smooth.

Be careful what you wish for. X86 is the most open architecture right now. ARM, on the other hand, has locked bootloaders, messy device trees and so on. You can see that virtually every Linux distro running on an ARM SOC needs some specific tweaks.
Oh cool, didn't know that. That makes it way more promising then!
I feel the title is a little misleading.

"withering email" == "anger-fueled message sent by a manager to a large group that asks readers to ignore company policy and start arguments with other leaders"

I don't see where "ethical AI researcher" comes into play here. Instead, I see a leader at a company unprofessionally sending messages to a large listserv and is later fired.

What am I missing?
>I don't think the central factor here is Pinkertons. Union organising is the actual determinant.

"If you didn't want to be spied-on, you wouldn't try to unionize"? Really?
The M1 core is roughly on par with the Zen 3 core, so how exactly would an 8 core part manage to embarrass a 64 core Zen 2 part?
Yeah, that Lecun argument was a really bad first impression of her from me. I guess she found out life isn't Twitter and you can't just go around telling everyone they are bad and wrong without consequences.