skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The M1 beats every old x86 CPU in single threaded performance.

The M1 is slower in single threaded performance than any AMD Zen 3 CPU at 4.8 GHz or higher clock frequency and also slower than any Intel Tiger Lake or Rocket Lake CPU at 5.0 GHz or higher clock frequency.

For example the maximum recorded single-thread Geekbench 5 score for M1 is 1753, while Ryzen 9 59xx score above 1800 and up to 1876. The first Rocket Lake record at 5.3 GHz is 1896, but it is expected that it will score better than that, above 1900.

In benchmarks that unlike GB5 focus more on computational performance in optimized programs, Intel/AMD have an even greater advantage in ST performance than above. (For example, in gmpbench even the old Ryzen 7 3700X beats Apple M1, even when using on Apple a libgmp that was tuned specifically for M1.)

What is true is that Apple M1 is much faster (on average) in ST than any non-overclocked CPU launched before mid 2020.
I’m sure there’s news, but it’s always buried under a mound of opinion. And there’s news worthy facts that get conveniently left out.
Scotchweld 2216 is often the glue of choice in space aplications, or if higher temperatures are needed there are other more specialist glues out there.

But Scotchweld is as easy to use as JB Weld and also very cheap.

Source: Am an spacecraft AIT engineer responsible for much gluing
The Facebook PAC also funds politicians like Andy Biggs, Michael Burgess, Mike Kelly, Tom Emmer and many others, so it's not just about the user base.
Another Euro-peasant living in a 2nd floor apartment with street parking here. My street and kiez is full of electric chargers and special parking zones for them. Recently Germany passed a law that enables all gas stations to have electric chargers. I’ve booked an e-up! and it’s a perfect city car for small errands and weekend excursions to Potsdam etc.
Watch recordings of the news coverage of 9/11. The news casters were sober and stunned of course, but they were emotionally calm and allowed for moments of silence. They tried to only reference what they considered facts, or were extremely explicit in stating that something was a rumor.

Look at them now. The emotionality of everything is amped up to 11. They reference Twitter constantly. Everything is an existential crisis, and when Trump was in office, everything was his fault. During the 2015 democratic primaries and 2016 election, CNN got the nickname "Clinton News Network" because of how one-sided the coverage was.

There's a reason that trust in news is decaying. Though this is kind of a tangent from the main topic.
Social media are too dangerous for <15 yo
The first site I visited was porn.com. 1998.
I've got 10/10. I've chosen to select people that I was instinctively afraid of as serial killers. It would be interesting to try this experiment on a larger dataset.
>> I understand that HN people who work for Internet platform companies like Facebook and Google push back on using open protocols and open distributed systems - never blame people for doing things in their self interest.

Strongly disagree. Live and let live is fine so long as we dont screw each other over. In those cases they are being actively hostile to peoples freedom. When they push, push back as hard as you can. Push them down the stairs if that's what it takes to make them see their self interest is actively hostile to others.

(No, I'm not advocating violence, just taking the term "pushback" to the next metaphorical level. Ugh)
Different Types of Ketogenic Diets
As soon as COVID is over, I’m planning to bring my kids to the library in person because it’s a whole experience. Do you have any plans beyond COVID for keeping the service running?
Seeking Hard Problems
Let me clarify that the “solved problem” I was referring to was that of the complexity for the building owners if they thought the only solution was to roll their own charging and billing solution.
Going to the Moon Was Easy Compared to 100UL
You are correct there. It is easy to take two facts and extrapolate almost anything you want. I think the issue is that in a lot of modern news the facts are lost in the opinions and rhetoric and extrapolation to the party line. It is better to have lists of facts than lists of opinions; and even better to have a coherent collection of facts that all corroborate one another. It is good to have a variety of primary sources and hard data over a long time period. Too often the news just quotes a death figure without giving you context of how many people usually die in a year, or other information; presumably that data exists. It would be much better to have death rates for each year over the last hundred years, then be able to compare.
> Moderation isn't censorship.

It it if it only applies to one side and in a form that the other side approves of, and that was the point of the example you replied to. If it was your example, "I want them for me and mine" then there wouldn't be a problem (or this problem, there'll always be problems).
That's a second problem. You still need to solve the first one to even have that one.
Sad.

(Ora Media inserting themselves into the obit so many times feels crass.)
Interesting, what happened to JavaSoft? Was it a Sun subsidiary that got merged back?
RxJS is not a replacement for redux, in fact ngrx is a redux implementation based on RxJS and Angular. It brings everything, including effects with their own plugins and it is quite a pleasure to work with.
The amount of value that the financial industry provides is multiple orders of magnitude greater. The market cap of bitcoin is a joke compared to gold and gold is an insignificant percentage of all financial services.
I’m in an analogous position. Added responsibility can give a lot of drive and meaning which can outweigh a bit of associated stress.
> They are released in 1990 at a price of 1,250,00[0] and 1,550,000 Yen, respectively.

1,550,000 yen in 1990 would be about $17,000 USD today.
Lotta that goin' around.
Some people have a couple of kids, and need more groceries that can be done that way. Some times there is this thing called "inclement weather" which means it rains 2-3 days in a row and makes doing this miserable. Or you work a double shift and are too tired to get groceries, or you work 2nd shift and everything is closed on the way back except convenience stores. Or you get sick and can't actually go out to get food for a few days.

There's so much of a bubble here sometimes. Narrow minded...dude, not everyone is a single, childless, wealthy knowledge worker that can waste their time to do this.
>But surely the majority of those cars have a short commute.

That is irrelevant. If you cannot always get a parking spot where you can charge then from time to time you would end up not being able to change when you absolutely need to. It's like parking at work and there's no charging available and you have to drive around for 20 minutes and turn up late for work. No, there's a need for either always available charging in every single area or a system that is a direct replacement for gas stations (IE. charge in a couple of minutes every week or so).

I have lived in an area like it (luckily I moved) and the amount of time I have driven around in circles just to get a parking spot is more than I'd like to know. If only some of them had charging people with cars would be forced to either move away or drive around in circles for hours on end every day.
Yep, next is great. It leaves you only with the following decisions to take:

How to do css, css-in-js etc
How to build the api, rest graphql or what
How to access your database
How to do background jobs
How to send emails
How to organize the project structure
How to do validations
How to do translations
How to do migrations

Other than this, it is great.
As the other posts point out it's not just a matter of material, but a trade off. As you increase the ductile strength you end up with something that is more brittle and the same is true in reverse.

Brittle materials are more temperature sensitive and can rapidly fail. Brittle fracture is no joke look for WWII Liberty ships split in two as an example. We didn't really understand why at that point in time.

The answer though is actually pretty simple and why you can't get a perfect material. The lattice structure of the molecules connected to each other can be soft (plastic) or hard (steel).

In the plastic example just take a milk jug and poor boiling water into it. Don't actually do this without protective gear (oven mit should be fine). The molecules holding everything together get excited from the energy (heat) move around and since they are not closely bonded end up in a different configuration. Your milk jug at this point does not look the same and is deformed.

In the hard example just boil the water you are using for the plastic test. The pot you used does not change because the molecules are tightly bonded.

It turns out the the tighter the molecules are bonded there is still a point where that bond will break. Hence the brittle fracture, which is every molecule mic dropping and going home at the same time.

While I could go down another rabbit hole to the atomic, subatomic, level of how those lattice structures work. I won't as I think this example gives you what you need.

Finally in this case we have a very old, by modern space technology, structure that is made of material that was most likely never expected to last this long. If you want a space ship to last you just have to make sure the engineers understand what "last" means. :)
7/10. I mistook Sussman for a serial killer
CNN launched in 1980.
The Gulf war was in 1990.
Larry King Live premiered on CNN in 1985.

CNN has long been a mix of news and opinion, like all news media ever. That’s why media exists: to push facts and interpretations of those facts.

Media is not a charity: William Randolph Hearst and Ted Turner want something for their money: they want to control the narrative.

It has always been blatant: you just haven’t been paying attention. Hearst started a war! He was such a reviled figure that one of the greatest movies ever made was made to dunk on him.
Micro benchmarks are written to avoid creating garbage since code is faster that way. C# wins these comparisons easily.

I haven't found a comparison of JVM vs CLR GC but I know the .NET team has intended to introduce a ZGC style collector for a while.

The need is not as severe in CLR because it produces less garbage.

But CLR stop the world pauses are long and it's definitely a problem for some uses cases. Many companies focus on their P99 latency these days and a 1 second GC pause will ruin those metrics. And stuff like HFT just can't be done in C# without turning GC off
Yes, I did drop 90GB of my work to Public Domain
Couldn't blockchains offer some new tools to tackle the problem? Imagine for instance wanting to create some incentives by distributing the value of correctly tracking an item to the actors of the supply chain, with some rule like "once the item is sold, part of the revenue gets distributed to all the actors that contributed to the tracking". Wouldn't smart contracts render this simpler to implement, since code is visible by all actors and guaranteed to be executed?
I Quit Twitter and I Can't Believe How Much It Improved My Life (2019)
unrealistic deadlines and clients who think "playing rough" gets them more bang for their buck (it doesn't)
I think some news was always like this; but I think investigative journalism like Glenn Greenwald used to be given more time in the primetime news. Really shocking things were uncovered and actually spread (like Norman Gorin's 60 Minutes Report on 1976 swine flu). There is news that is fantastic now, but it is getting pushed further and further out.
Every organization has bias, period. Some have more, some have less. The sooner one recognizes and accepts it, the sooner one is able to have constructive conversations and consume media with the appropriate level of skepticism.

News is a business like any other. They require money, which is equal to clicks in the online world. Hate the game, not the player (unless they are purposefully distorting reality).
She died a winner. How many of us will be able to say the same?
This goes against Daniel Pink's analysis, in his book Drive, of why people contribute to open source software.

They contribute to be a part of something, for the actual process, to up their skills, etc.

Though, this is perhaps the very reason open source issues go unfixed. I'm curious to see if this works.
Most Java 1.1 code still runs fine on Java 15 too. You'll get a bunch of warnings though
Thanks, I was not educated in the humanities, but I know of Max Weber. David Graeber's works sounds interesting; I will read some of it when I have time. Sorry he passed away.
Software Engineer/Solutions Architect at a fairly large company from SF. They opened up a European office, and now I am getting well above average income for a German based engineer, plus 30 day vacation etc. So sort-of SF pay (not quite) plus German social security and all the best of vacation days.

I worked in StartUps for 10 years and used to high output everyday. Now everyone seems stressed at this company but we have mostly corporations s clients and I am fairly good at my job.

During December, I probably played more games on Stadia than putting hours into work, but I still got 2-3 shoutouts from clients how pleased they were with my job.

I get nice stock options and it‘s the first time in my life I just want to sit out the next few years, do a decent job and wait for my stocks to be granted. This and Bitcoin will set me mostly free in a couple of years so I can say goodbye to fulltime work.

It‘s almost sad to see the mentality from my US colleagues who consntantly cheer and push themselves over nonsense in Slack, but their quality of life depends so much on their employer.

So yeah, being in Europe and finding a US company to work for, 90% remote is probably the dream, because you merge the upsides from the social system without the downside of boring company culture, and you get the pay from the US without all the downside of overworking yourself.

I am 32 and just realized how stressful Sodtware Engineering is in StartUps. I didn‘t realize how much I learned and did before I took a break. Now I want to do a decent job, be a bit loud or annoying in internal meetings so people think I really care, finish my jon in 3 hours and read or learn something on the side the rest of the 5 hours I have to clock in.

I mostly used it last year to get into Crypto and now DeFi, and made 3-times the money I did with my full time job.

This also broke me mentally, because it‘s hard to engage in „real life“ work after that experience.
You have been mislead, we don't need atmosphere to slow down. We have rocket thrust for that.
Mostly CNN is sensationalistic and wants to develop an attachment to it's brand. CNN has to fill 24 hrs of TV and has less budget to do it then a network has for the half hour evening broadcast.

That means as little flying to flyover states as possible, never leave WDC or Atlanta, certainly dont send Anderson Cooper to Egypt where he could get beat up by government thugs.

Thus its a lot easier to make the news about yourself; reminds me of the ESPN morning SportsCenter from years ago -- when they ran out of sports lowlights the anchors would get caught abusing people on tape.
Yea, but it’s still an open question when or if this stabilizes. A global population of between something like 100 million to 10 billion could sustain an advanced technical society capable of innovation. But, where slowly oscillating between say 1 and 2 billion people would be fine, regular massive population crashes could represent a great filter which generally prevents interstellar civilizations.
I am pretty left wing but what I have seen from CNN lately was basically a left wing version of FoxNews. Lots of opinion mixed with a little amount of news and clearly geared against Trump. Definitely not the CNN from around 2000.
I would say wait till Java 17. There's not a big difference from 11-15 and most of the new features are still in preview. Performance has been the big focus recently with new GC's, less memory use, and faster startup time
This is not economy, this is war.

They don't need to add restrictions (or benefits) on company they bought, they just need to keep as many market as they can (thanks to no restrictive market law)

When the time come, they will be able to destroy our economy, or drive it.

This list just show tencent investment, but if you get all China companies that invest in game companies, it much most scariest
Supervising and organizing volunteers is time consuming. For something like software engineering, vetting potential volunteers would also be a huge undertaking. Organizations are typically better served by contracting out important projects or having regular staff handle important work that requires brain power. Volunteers are not reliably committed over the long term to the degree employees and contractors are.

Maybe start small and volunteer at a local homeless shelter or food bank or hospital doing whatever needs doing irrespective of it being software engineering.
The poster mentioned someone like Jeremy Corbyn too, so they're not exactly just looking at the SWP and their voters.
I used to watch CNN, but it just doesn't seem serious anymore. It's all about getting people into heated debates (inspired by Fox maybe?) or presenters having emotions or interviewers trying to corner people with their righteousness. Amanpour has very different approaches depending on who she interviews; her preferences are just too obvious.

The news channel I like best nowadays is Aljazeera. I like some shows on RT, but it is not really a news channel either.
So I'm assuming this is only applicable for tumors which are on the skin or just below the skin? Or can they somehow selectively blast light through various layers of tissue without damaging anything?
Thank you for bringing this. When I saw this thread, I immediately thought of this parody. Clicked your link and was not disappointed.
same on tech lead front. unfortunately it makes my imposter syndrome worse because im never the most knowledgeable dev on the low level details.
Larry King: Veteran US broadcaster dies aged 87
They always leaned left. But there was an expectation of being neutral, or at least appearing so. Basically being professional.

That restraint has been lost. Watching young reporters is painful in his much they are tying to get jabs in.
Like a dog being rewarded for killing neighbors chickens.
As with most everything else that's too dangerous for people under 15, saying that will instantly make it popular.
Is is kinda hilarious that the SWP is reliant on the granddaddy of surveillance capitalism.

Obviously they feel the need to go where the eyeballs are, where they can target ads to the fertile soil of ignorance.

Many claim that FB can do what they want. Not so, they must respond to legislation wherever they operate (and make money). Just like Rupert they have huge influence, but they can be brought to heel if there is public will to do so.
How’s the experience of working on it? I’ve been struggling to get a decent remote setup even in my home lab due to network latency. Could be because I’m trying to drive 4K. Even Win10 RDP over a 1300mbps network struggles. I wonder if I need to bite the bullet and install a real graphics card in the R720.

Would love to hear more experiences of others who remote this way where you are “offloading” your compute power elsewhere.
That would be a useful website. Reading lists for documentaries and movies
If I had to guess, they were banned because of this:

"The SWP Facebook page regularly posts in support of Palestine, Black Lives Matter and against Boris Johnson’s Covid policies"

In particular, the COVID part is where I'd put my money.
Yet in 2020 Java is still one of the most promising languages and it's VM spawned one of the most diverse and enduring ecosystems/platforms allowing a multitude of languages and frameworks to thrive.
https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/java-archive-downlo...
I remember there was this CNN guy in Bagdad that reported the air attacks live from there. That definitely put them on the map.
Always enjoyed his interviews and his style. I happened to just watched a very short clip of him talking about his fear of death with Norm Macdonald last night. Guess we all have to face that moment, and even though he had a long and successful life i'm sorry for him and his family now.

I linked the clip[1] below, but it may be a bit disconcerting and too soon to view for some.

[1] https://youtu.be/8ZKq7CoZv4w
About the same
John Deere is to be commended, one supposes, for being much more concerned about blackhat terrorists than e.g. Siemens with all their internet-accessible SCADA installations, but neither ISIS nor Putin care about killing a couple of farmers in western Iowa. Thread parent was about automobiles, and while maybe professionally-operated vehicles like semi trucks or buses would be better with which to start using ammonia on a large scale, vehicles are unlike applicator implements in that they aren't actually designed to release ammonia into the environment. Conceivably a car could be hacked to lock the brakes at high speed, but there's just no mechanism to pour out its fuel tank.
Canada looking at declaring Proud Boys a terrorist organization
It’s not THAT bad. I don’t love GS, but I would be sad and disappointed if the one near me closed. It’s a convenient place to buy used games.
Jamie Dupree is what I consider a gold standard reporter of trying to get personal bias out of reporting.
I have kids and deal with inclement weather - it’s been a mix of rain and snow for most of the last couple of days. Granted, I’m a knowledge worker, but shops are open until midnight in the neighborhood and worst case, both of the large supermarket chains here deliver until late with prearranged slots.

For the majority of (urban) people it’s definitely manageable. More than 50% of all households in central Berlin own no car, numbers rising.

I used to own a car, and the tipping point from “I can’t do that” to “no problem to do that” was selling the car. It’s an acquired habit for most of us. I now own an umbrella and a good waterproof jacket instead.
I was the one who clarified that to begin with.
Many recent improvements in .NET performance are enabled by reducing or removing allocations in hot paths, so the GC has to do less work¹. The point was mostly that the .NET GC can get away with not being as advanced since it commonly has to do less work than in Java anyway. C# gives the developer more low-level control over what actually runs on the CPU in the end, so there's a slight shift in responsibility for performance from the JIT/GC towards the developer (although the latter two also improve, of course).

______

¹ Plus a number of algorithmic improvements and the ability to leverage specific CPU instructions that help as well.
No they really want to kill XLG and make Game Pass the only source of games, first on XBOX and then the world.

That way players have zero input in what games get made but well-connected companies (like one from Montreal famous for bad games and bad behavior) will get your money no matter what you do.
> Is there a reason you have disabled it?

is there a reason to require javascript?
What evidence is there to suggest the "blackout challenge" was popular?
> Being pushed by clients, the organization, dead lines. Often bad.

I disagree with this part, respectfully of course, based on my own personal experience. I can see how external forces do lead to poor decision making and short sightedness; on the other hand I also think of the vast ways I've grown and new things I've learned from designers who drew something I originally thought was impossible, or clients who wanted something built in a language I'd never had any interest in using before. Generally speaking these external forces may push you beyond the limits of your own imagination.