skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree it’s not bandwidth limited. But the CPU is stuck waiting around for the results of that operation. So offloading it to dedicated Hw let’s you do an important background task without needing the OS and CPU to spend any wall-clock time on it. Same reason you have DMAs and other coprocessors/accelerators in the first place. A good such solution will increase effective memory bandwidth (offloading heavy background-worthy tasks for the coprocessor) but also latency-sensitive tasks (eg walking a large set of linked lists, you don’t need to pull in a 256 byte cache line at a time and can instead pull the 8 bytes for the pointer).

I don’t pretend that this is easy or an unbridled obvious idea. I recognize there are smarter people than me who have considered this (and from the posts clearly is being explored commercially). I am attracted to the idea on first principles that the CPU is served well by specialized coprocessors that have a performance profile better suited for some specific subset of operations. For example, memcpy is the easiest one. We still don’t have a simple (good) memcpy instruction/accelerator even though we know that an insanely large amount of work the CPU ends up doing is copying memory around in some way or another (yes Intel has one that isn’t useful/good performing).
They had thousands of machines, but it's hard to imagine why that is. It would be very interesting to get a description of what their hardware is actually doing.

Considering how StackeOverflow ran on a small handful of machines to a pretty large scale (and still isn't excessive), I can't see how more than a few machines should be necessary to run a site that serves small texts, even among millions of users.

There is one caveat though and that's media. If media is transcoded, and/or if more than a small fraction of messages contain video - then the service might face using most of its resources towards that. But in that case , if I was running their ops I'd just disable media attachments while figuring out how to run the full service.
Heating up the wood in an inert atmosphere until it decomposes to pure carbon would work. Where should I submit such a proposal?
Barring some radical breakthrough, progress usually follow an asymptote. Waymo has reached their asymptote after perfecting their autonomous driving for over 10 years, and is still not confident enough to launch it even in their spherical-cow geofence.

The real world is full of edge cases - cameras fogging up, proximity sensors confused by ice buildup, thick fog limiting visibility, sun low on the horizon blinding the cameras, badly marked construction sites, black ice, line markers under snow, potholes, slush, contradictory traffic signs, deep puddles, worn out ruts, suicidal wildlife, road debris, etc. etc.
I honestly think SpaceX could give those away in developing areas if they had to.

But yes, you’re right that being able to use LTE and existing phone radios was a point in loon’s favor.
Here it is, for your nostalgic pleasure (try Arizona, it works):

https://web.archive.org/web/19970212181139/http://www.tucows...

I'm amazed at how many clicks you have to go through to actually see software. No "top 10" list at the start, no "popular", nothing. You have to pick a mirror, which brings you to an almost empty page, click a small "Windows 95" link hidden on the left sidebar, then pick a category, and only then you see the actual software.

Odd how much UX leeway you have when you're about the only thing on the web.
I remember that TAL article too. It must be awful to be one of these people. I applaud those who endure without ever molesting children and staying away from them. I hope effective treatment becomes available soon

I agree that having a platform to talk about it is probably a social good, again with the caveat that pedophilia isn't glorified or promoted. I think of it like a mental illness and not a moral failing by itself. Any moral failure comes from acting upon those urges
This ignores the cost of sending data wirelessly over cellular networks so remote operators can see the vehicle, the cost of maintaining the software and hardware on the vehicle itself, the cost of maintaining the vehicle fleet, the cost of creating and operating a consumer-facing support system (!!! for Google), the cost of dealing with the enormous amounts of data those vehicles create (even for Google this is not trivial), the cost of maintaining the special HD maps necessary for the vehicles, not to mention the sunk cost of billions spent developing it.

That's not to say you shouldn't dream big (it's a moonshot after all). But there are plenty of reasons to think it won't be viable even if they can solve the technical challenges, and that much still isn't even clear yet.
Wow!! That’s a blast from the past. Goodbye and Thanks!
Thanks! Be sure to hit it up with some friends or colleagues to experience the full thing!
One primary, which they replicate to other servers in other locations.

https://github.com/letsencrypt/openzfs-nvme-databases
Model model S (okay, any dual motor version) have different gearing on the front and rear wheels, so that more power can be sent to the front as speeds increase.
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Oh God, the 1990, it hurts.
As a français, I second this. I'm extremely critical of most TV shows and I tend to quit very fast when get the impression I'm losing time.
Engrenages is about the only TV shows I am able to watch in french, and it's a really good one. I'd would say, frankly, that it's our equivalent to The Wire.
There's a trend of cutting out the middleman insurance company specifically because physicians want to continue to make competitive salaries and provide medicine.
> I've always wanted to build a big rig of buttons to surround my pc monitor that I could program for various functions I do every day.

I think it's called a keyboard ;)
Now, it would be ultra-ideal if everyone knew and confidently believed that the therapist could and would look beyond her own background—that she would suppress any personal offense and would be good at understanding and non-judgmentally discussing the perspectives of everyone involved.

However, I imagine most people wouldn't believe that, and it's probably not true either. Therapists are humans.

Of course, this kind of raises the question: So therapists have their own biases and we're just blinding ourselves to which ones they have? Is that actually an improvement? (Cf. the koan where Sussman says "I am wiring a neural net randomly because I don't want it to have any preconceptions".)

Perhaps the therapist having to pretend she has no background actually kind of helps her disconnect from it. A kind of theatre. (And maybe the brain having a habit of "when in this office talking with patients, don't connect anything to your real life" is useful.) But I would still wonder if it would work better to bring the issue into the open, and say "Well, I do have this background, which might lead me to think x, but I will consciously try to counteract that." Perhaps there are cases where this second strategy is indeed better (if the patient comes in thinking "I expect almost everyone to be prejudiced against me", and the psychiatrist says "Well, you're right, but I have lots of practice in noticing my prejudices and setting them aside, and it is a point of professional pride for me to do that"), but most of the time it's just faster and less distracting to not mention the issue at all.
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So AFAIK it’s not exactly so. One can actually change project license granted they have agreement of every single contributor to do so. Which they do since they had the CLA system from the start.

So theoretically they can even unpublish all the code if they want. It’s just probably not worth the reputation as damage.

IANAL though so I’d be very interested to hear a patent lawyer take on this.
Last year, I left the friendship zone with my current fiancée. Our wedding is in March. I'm happy.
I'm astigmatic but I never noticed any issue with dark backgrounds, not only in Windows Terminal, I didn't know it could happen
Roadster is due out this year with a 1.9s 0-60 (and an 8.9s quarter mile).

Can anyone here lend me a quarter million please?
I'm one of the people who's never particularly enjoyed HHGTTG, but very much enjoyed Unsong and Terry Pratchett's Discworld (both of which I read years later).

HHGTTG felt like it was being absurd for the sake of absurdity (IMHO of course, I know how much it's loved by others), whereas in Unsong it all fits into a complete and coherent world where the absurdity just arises from the nature of that world.
No. That is not what the other person said.

Did you accidently respond to the wrong comment?

What the person said was that a chemical manufacturing company should not be "biting their nails" over some random Marijuana decrimininalization speech, that a random candidate is making.
The original article still seems appropriate tbh.
Wing?
AWS slagging off Elastic in this post really isn't a good look. I expect more of them. There's one thing putting spin on their decision (which only non technical managers will be fooled by) but whinging about Elastic writing a 'blustery blog post' and doing something 'fishy' etc is pathetic.
I don’t know about museums but I do know that many public bodies in the UK will take enquiries from any member of the public, and will not automatically turn down requests - although such requests may go to the bottom of the priority queue if there are other requests of greater public interest.
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I hope you wrote it at 21:21:21 ;)
Ahh..the sound of dial up and playing connection roulette. I got a fluttery feeling just thinking about it.
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TLDR - applies to transcluded content but also pure linking - applies only to businesses designated by the Treasurer - gives no opt-out (i.e. Google cannot just choose to not index those sites)

Don’t quote me on this, I don’t have the bill in front of me but I believe it’s broadly correct
Traveller
If you believe that I hope you only write in assembler
This is a very interesting idea. Now I'm getting curious to see how this could be put into action.

Whilst probably not as beneficial as predicting behaviour, there could be a startup version to find the origins of buzzwords. Then try to predict how management will potentially push that company forward using these buzzwords or references to external sources.
Why webcams aren’t good enough
> and the clutch is just a dumb pedal

Thus completely negating training on a manual?

Learning how to effectively use the clutch pedal to me was like, 90% of learning to drive.
There’s quite a few. I think they’re called “dark stores”. https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/30/business/grocery-delivery-pic...
> the intent to overturn an election with force by disrupting a critical vote on the election that was in progress.

what is the evidence of this intent?
I’ve tracked every piece of clothing I’ve worn for three years
Sending 2nd rocket to the moon was much cheaper than the first one, so you can’t just divide by 10.
Oh I'm sure you can. The ruling doesn't say that.

The ruling says that when you do it in context of pretend-seminar that's far right propaganda, and you do it mostly to to anger and hurt people to divide society - then when you get fine of 480 EUR your human rights are not violated.
Any search company that is at a Show HN stage is quite far from really even beginning to threaten Google, unless they've managed to play politics to ensure regulatory capture to an extent that product quality is irrelevant.
In the situation (Tesla and others) looks not a big problem for other manufacturers because Tesla can't fill all EV demands and not all people (especially outside US) like Tesla.
It's an interesting anecdote.

I think a possible solution to that problem could be a universal basic income, itself funded on the likes of Amazon.

If you had the assurance that you'd always have something to live with, wouldn't you be more open to take the risk of going open-source and see if you can run a business of that ?
> Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies.

I've long been convinced that this is true, thanks.
The model X doors just scream "delorean" more than any other Tesla feature, in my mind.
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Sorry to be this guy, but I am quite happy this will not happen.

The sky - our sky - is not a playground for tech companies.

Imposing a mesh-grid of thousands of balloons in the sky is an incredible intrusion for people around the world who have not asked for anything.

It's the same for mega constellations of satellites (Starlink).

Would you be willing to have a company come and put unsolicited electronic equipment in your backyard? Probably not. It's the same for our sky - I don't want that Facebook or Google impose thousands of electronic devices in our sky. Or maybe ask "the owner" before you start, i.e. the citizens of the world.

What's more beautiful than watching stars in the sky in a July/August warm night?

Do you really want to lose this landscape forever and have 100 times more satellites than we already have? and have series of white dots one behind the other?

OK, companies and states have done it the past, but it's not a valid argument to justify the acceleration with a factor 10 or 100 of this process with thousands of Starlink satellites for example.
If you'd be working for a contract firm and not directly for intel, they often take a huge what-the-market-will-bear percentage. Right now there's a lot of uncertainty in the job market.

Having contracted a lot in the past, the fact that Intel is hiring contractors signals a hiring crisis.

Either nobody wants to work there, or work is ramping up. But a company full of contractors might not be too healthy.
Can you use the Tesla Tequila as fuel in the Tesla flamethrower?
I wonder if it is possible to implement an "out-of-band" cache clearing command(s). On Linux it would be quite straightforward, but I know next to nothing about Windows or OSX.
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the market allocates better, the hot allocates faster. the information (prices) is better because its more current.
cat? why not dog?
Your example has a link to a ZIP which has a windows screensaver in it.
> No. There is an entire range of actual leftist politics

Ok got it. Lets expand this then. So bolshevism is leftist. Also Stalinism. Also, Maoism. Also probably Pol Potism. What else do we have that can go in this list?

What about Huego Chavez? Nah, thats wrong, you probably would call him a centrist.
Good. This sums it up pretty well:

I also think that it would have been appropriate to notify about the
ulterior motive behind this defect report at the latest when the paper got
published. This underhanded approach of reporting a defect just leaves a bad
taste, really.

The behavior may be an actual defect in the classical sense, but I'm just
wondering what would have happened, had this been addressed "in time" by the
developers. It would seem that the researchers would then have triumphantly
proclaimed that all major browsers are prone to their newly found attack.
Must be somewhat disappointing that it didn't get fixed "in time" to make it
into the paper that way.
Thanks, I really appreciate your comment.
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An alternative way to restore access to an E2EE app account could involve Shamir's Secret Sharing, I wrote some ideas about it would work:

https://francoisbest.com/posts/2020/password-reset-for-e2ee-...
> a lot of people talking about the license forget that there's an entire spirit to open source

If your multi-billion dollar company depends on the spirit of your competitors, you're going to have a bad time.
Kennedy was looking to either cancel Apollo (due to skyrocketing costs), or try to get USSR onboard for it (which probably would have caused it to stall). In addition to that, Apollo was extremely unpopular for the entirety of its existence, save for a brief period in the middle of 1969.

The space program's history is very different from what most people imagine it to have been.
we are an ant colony on our own island.

we may not study all ant colonies on the planet, but we certainly check all islands, and if there are ants, we will at least check if those ants are the same as other ants we have already seen.
Optical beam link technology is old tech. It's also badly affected by weather and pollution (rain, clouds, fog) which is why people who do point-to-point communications for a living tend to prefer microwave.
> There's no way to force the remote SSH client not to store that RSA private key unencrypted

But there is a way to remotely attest that the private key has been generated on device (either through TPM attestation or https://developers.yubico.com/PGP/Attestation.html ).

Not to mention that the admin could just generate private keys on the token and give employees that.
Sure, there's lots of satellite internet services. most of them have failed to become financially viable
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Well a nine year investment in a company to end in failure isn’t what I’d call a strategic success.
I think Jeffbee resolved my confusion; InnoDB uses spin locks that chew up cpu cycles when the request rate exceeds the I/O rate. This is not as bad as it sounds; it uses extra power and generates extra heat but it is not doing any extra real work. InnoDB cores run at either 25% or 90% but the 90% indicates that you need an I/O upgrade not more CPU cycles.

Optimizing for CPU efficiency in a system that is I/O bound will not save significant money. Memory and NVMe are the critical factors and with the master/slave replication used, network I/O significantly undercuts the peak performance this single server is capable of.
They are answered right in the help article:
https://bitwarden.com/help/article/emergency-access/#confirm...

"To ensure the integrity of your encryption keys, verify the displayed fingerprint phrase with the grantee before completing confirmation."
I missed his passing, because I was taking an extended Twitter break. I've always felt a connection to your son, since I translated your article, even though we never met.

I often think back to your Quora answer when I feel like a failure, and I try to remember that we can focus and we can re-direct our lives.

All the best to you, your wife and your daughter.
Accelerating to a highway would be a dead giveaway to an examiner. Those who learn to use the clutch well enough in the mandatory 20 hours to do it as smooth as automatic gear are few and far between. And obviously they are the ones who wouldn't need to fake it anyway.
What exactly does `provided it doesn’t expose Elasticsearch functionality` mean? Is exposing KQL via a search field in violation or not? Is exposing the Lucene query language okay or not? Is selling an on-prem monitoring solution that uses ES/Kibana as datastore and visualization interface ok? Is accepting payment from a client to run and maintain that solution in the clients datacenter okay? Is running that solution in a clients private cloud okay?

Can I get that in writing from someone with the power to make binding legal statements?

The problem is never in the clear cases, it’s in the edges. Now, all of a sudden, when thinking about features a legal dimension enters the picture, something that hasn’t been there before.
When I grew up in Lake Tahoe in the 80s - near my elementary school, Monarchs would cover the near by trees in the THOUSANDS. HUGE populations.

Apparently their primary food source is milkweed - which has been decimated due to pesticides.

Monarchs take generations to migrate from mexico to america to eat, mate and rebuild their population, but humans have killed off their food source, milkweed, thinking of it as just a weed...
Translation:. If you have had covid before, or a vaccine, you are very unlikely to get it again. Not so with this variant.
I thought this was parody
I think if you read the two parent comments to "this is the correct take", they also take an authoritative mood.

Rather qualifying a statement with "I think", or "I believe", they basically assume some reality to be true and then describe it. And that's ok, as readers we assume that the author is giving their opinion.

So "this is the correct take" should be read as "in the reality that I believe is true, this is the correct take".
If not oil, I wonder what Alberta's future has in store.

It's sad to see a region's entire economy dissolve but I'm not sure I can feel bad about this one. The only good thing about the oil sands is money, the rest is terrible.