skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect that it's because perilogue code, of functions or of inner block scopes, simply isn't subjected to optimization, other than the settings that control the existence of framepointers, smart callbacks, and whatnot, which are fairly fixed alterations to the boilerplate. People also probably don't want to risk peephole optimizing code that has been carefully arranged to exactly match calling conventions, possibly including expectations of specific instructions in specific places.

Ironically, the best optimization that isn't done to perilogues in the x86 architecture is to take out the PUSH/POP instructions and replace them with MOVs and LEAs, ironically making them more like perilogues on other ISAs.

* http://jdebp.uk./FGA/function-perilogues.html#Standardx86
I’m not sure if it’s bureaucracy or human nature, as government procedures had been responsive to the pandemic, and pressure to urge inactions have been overriding the pre-pandemic determined actions.
> But it isn't a well-rounded laptop because of the screen size, OS, lack of GPU power, etc.

You are off in the sticks. By your definition, nothing is "Well rounded". Every product is designed for a purpose. Value is about how well a product suits its that purpose. When I buy a hammer, I don't complain because it doesn't work as a screwdriver.

Your continued assumption here is that every computer needs to be suitable for gaming and that assumption is nonsense.

> original discussion was about comparing entry-level laptops and high-end laptops to the Macbook Air, and excluding Ryzen because they aren't in high-end laptops.

Your original comment which I replied to was talking about how Ryzen wins on value. Which is only the case if you are willing to accept lower end components, less battery life, and fan noise.
> Seems like every time I see coverage about Firefox, it's Mozilla removing or crippling some feature I care about.

Maybe this reflects the coverage more than the reality. Read the changelog and you will see things worth getting excited by, but no one is going to write an article about each new feature and change.
In-person improv is one of the things I miss the most with the pandemic. Fortunately a lot of enthusiasts have adapted with web technologies and have been streaming shows on Zoom- I joined a team recently that has actually never performed in person!

In NY's scene there's a surprising amount of software engineers who do improv as a creative outlet. I started taking classes at Magnet Theater about 1.5 years ago and it's been a great way to pull my brain out of work. More specifically, it's nice to enter a mental space where I need to empty out my mind, listen to what my scene partner is saying, and progress a situation that's presented to me- its close to the concept of mushin[1] but in an acting context.

Improv theaters in NYC have (for the most part) been suffering financially, and if you're in the area, once things are in a more normal state, I strongly advise checking out shows, whether it's UCB, Magnet, PIT, or any of the other theaters! Some places (namely Magnet) also do twitch streams if you're looking for something to watch on a random night.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mushin_(mental_state)
> Which is cheaper than the 24c 7443 and 7413 but not the 16c 7343 and 7313.

28-cores for $1570 seems to be the "cheapest per core" in the entire lineup.

It all comes down to whether you want those cores actually communicating over L3 cache, or not. Do you want 7-cores per L3 cache, or do you prefer 4-cores per L3 cache?

4-cores per L3 cache benefits from having more overall cache per core. But more-cores per L3 cache means that more of your threads can tightly-communicate cheaply, and effectively.

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More L3 cache probably benefits from cloud-deployments, Virtual Desktops, and similar (since those cores aren't communicating as much).

More cores per L3 cache benefits from more tightly integrated multicore applications.

EDIT: Also note that "more cores" means more L1 and L2 cache, which is arguably more important in compute-heavy situations. L3 cache size is great of course, but many applications are L1 / L2 constrained and will prefer more cores instead. 24c 7443 with 2x32MB L3 is probably a better chess-engine than 16c 7343 4x32MB L3.
Thanks for correcting me - much appreciated
That's not a fact.
Chrome has an addon that's closed sourced but claims to emulate containers feature from FF. I've forgotten the name since I never bothered checking it out.
Thank you. We disagree on little. However one should be careful with broad terms like' offence'. To whom do you allocate the task of deciding for you what is offensive, is the tricky part.

The silicon corporates do move the goalposts to suit. Governments are not fair all the time. Where you are born impacts hugely on your life. And the laughably named 'free market' has the same flaws.

All of these issues we are discussing will be alleviated, though not eradicated (impossible), the more we move towards an equal and fairer society.
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I wish my buddies who are hung up on Signal's E2E, and rightfully so, would at least try Telegram to see what they are missing. An E2E-default version of Telegram would put the final nails in Signal if you ask me. The decision to resist this, and they could implement it fairly beautifully for new devices like iMessage does, and the in-house MTProto protocol do seem kind of bizarre to me. But look how far it's taken them. A beautiful product.
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One of the first things I try to do with all software is reduce the number of pixels used by toolbars etc. as much as I can. Needless to say I've been using compact with Firefox for years now. I just looked at standard again and can't see why I would want to use more pixels for the exact same interface.
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You're going to have a hard time comparing anything that doesn't involve death to the bad deeds of WWII Germany.
> There's a continuing push to get people in the industry who can code for startups wanting to disrupt the space.

In my experience disrupting spaces it's easier to find software engineers that are open minded when working with other professionals. Not like, super easy, most of the SWEs I've worked with can't do it, even on embedded when working with EEs... but open minded SWEs are out there, albeit usually more expensive or with good pay and job security by working on a less-softwarey company than "Big Tech".
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I dug into this once because reading from stdin on my Mac was so slow, but only when using std::cin. Using C APIs to read stdin was fast. Turns out libc++ on mac uses `getc` to read from stdin one character at a time. Madness.
Thank you for clearing it up for me - Germans can consume but not produce national socialist speech and content.
Arg. I've been looking for a way to make this smaller for a long time. How have I just discovered this right before it goes away?
My thought as well. The last two CEOs of ExxonMobil were engineers, the last CEO of Boeing was an engineer, and the CEO of General Motors is an engineer. Of course, all in mechanical or electrical engineering rather than software.

Not sure why it's so insightful that people who understand the business also run the business.
I'd be more than happy to pay for Telegram service for my family and I. I'm tired of depending on ad supported software where my input as a user is out of alignment with the paying customer. Better to be both user and customer.
Not quite sure why I'm getting downvoted for publishing those two links, but hey :)

Anyway, here's the UK's disclaimer from the Yellow Card summary link you posted.

Part of our monitoring role includes reviewing reports of suspected side effects. Any member of the public or health professional can submit suspected side effects through the Yellow Card scheme. The nature of Yellow Card reporting means that reported events are not always proven side effects. Some events may have happened anyway, regardless of vaccination. This is particularly the case when millions of people are vaccinated, and especially when most vaccines are being given to the most elderly people and people who have underlying illness.
Yes it would be, but I wasn't after good signs.
They touch on it, but I think one crucial benefit is the ability to see the scope of software work in general, which in turn drives and defines modern business.

Unrealistic scope expectations are a huge problem for business people without the technical background to intuit pitfalls.
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It's the trolly problem. Pull the lever and kill one person. Don't pull the lever and kill 3 people. I'm a lever puller.
Not to be "that guy", but he'd have to get past the HR filter first and if I remember correctly, Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard. Without a college degree, it's very difficult to get past the HR filter in and of itself to even get to the interview to solve those problems.
A very interesting experiment would be kelp transplant in floating cages out of the reach of urchins. We could learn something about it.
I'm set to take the oxford d vaccine, but I could also take the pfizer vaccine.

I've had elevated blood markers for clotting during covid-19, and now I hear of this.

I'm thinking of taking 75 mg aspirin, before and after the vaccine. On the other hand, the issue is the patients have low platelet count and I understand that this is the way aspirin reduces blod clotting.

So, do these patients have low platelet count because they had blod clots, or the other way around?

Afik, in the case of COVID-19, clotting is an autoimune issue, so perhaps the clotting is not something related to the astra Zeneca vaccine, but something about the immune response itself.
> They did not embrace LSP. They invented it. LSP came from MS.

I don't think this changes the issue: EEE became CEE (Create, Extend, Extinguish).
This would be so much nicer if it didn't use font size: 10px for the parts the author presumably wants people to be able to read. Even just removing the font-size for <p> and <code> makes it so much better, just leave them as the default browser sizes: no matter how good your post, it's not much use if people close the tab because it's too hard to read.
This doesn't answer the question "does the money just sit in an escrow account forever or is it eventually spent somehow?"
If it only happened on the continent and there really is an issue, it might lie with one or more batches from the Belgian factory. My country has only halted the allegedly problematic batch. The UK has been using the domestically manufactured vaccine without issue.
>which have been doing everything that they can to stop this

Except, you know, order enough vaccines for their population. Other than that though, everything that they can!
What is the benefit of Telegram over other platforms like Signal? I haven't been on it in awhile but was quite turned off by all the "HODL!" channels that it seemed to be filled with at the time.
The Whatsapp route is to get purchased by and subsidized by Facebook. There is no chance the antitrust authorities in the US and Europe will allow something like that to happen again.
Last I tried, telegram desktop on Linux didn't support e2e encrypted chats which is sad.
Yes, renewable is cheap, but also unreliable. And storage to manage that unreliability is, per your link, more expensive than the corresponding fossil fuel plants. It's either that or drastically over-provision the renewables, which then has to be factored into the cost.

Right now, the cheapest approach from scratch could maybe consist of:

1. Over-provisioned renewables,

2. connected to a large-area grid to mitigate local-scale negative impacts to renewable productivity,

3. with enough fossil fuel capacity to basically serve as "storage" and bridge large-scale negative impacts to renewable productivity.

But, of course, China is not building from scratch -- they've been at this for decades. And the inversion of prices between renewables and fossil fuels is a fairly recent one.
They just use what you need for the variables. In this case, I didn't have anything heavy weight, so maybe only a few tens of bytes per co-routine.
It looks like Zen 2 processors about about to become even more of a bargain than they already are.

I'll take a 7702P at $2-3K over a 7713P at $5K ten times out of ten.
Such is life everywhere, although some places have it more than others. European countries have small amount of grey areas if you compare with South America for example
non paywalled: https://archive.is/n2yra
Why wouldn't it? Almost everything prohibited in the past has caused its price to increase during prohibition, and we're talking about a place with 1/6 of the world population here.
> I still have my hair and my doctor says my blood pressure has improved.

Wise man.
As I understand it, one of the reasons vaccinations were so delayed in the EU compared to the UK is that they went through the normal approval process rather than emergency use authorization.
Well yes, but if they actually had the payload capacity to get a human and their supplies there, would batteries and RTG’s still be prohibitively heavy?

With fewer constraints, they would have built something different.
So far they only vaccinated older people with it. These complications all happened in younger people where we don't have a coverage if millions. More like a few thousands.

Thanksfully Germany acted now rationally, like the other countries. One idea would be to administer only half the dosis on younger people, as this was already tested, with much better results than with the full dosis. AZ is pretty strong, compared to the others.
Similar here, reading the file from stdin on a 2020 MBP on macOS 11.2.2 is incredibly slow.

int main() {
std::ios::sync_with_stdio(false);
std::string str((std::istreambuf_iterator<char>(std::cin)),
std::istreambuf_iterator<char>());
}

takes around 8 seconds to run, no counting at all.

int main() {
std::ifstream f("kjvbible_x10.txt");
std::string str((std::istreambuf_iterator<char>(f)),
std::istreambuf_iterator<char>());
}

runs in ~270 miliseconds. Factor 30x, yikes.
I use this feature as the UI takes a lot of space, and it would be bother me quite noticeably were it removed. However, I understand that maintaining features & options can incur costs, which may not be worthwhile if they're not widely used. So I'd be happy to accept the inconvenience if I knew that I was in a minority.

Stunned to see that's not the case, and completely baffled at how contradictory and indicative of incompetence this stated reasoning is.
It's unclear what you mean by the WhatsApp route. Their route was getting bought and subsidized by Facebook, and eventually, show ads.
The manufacturing of the vaccine is a three-stage process[0]:

The First stage is done in the US.

The second stage is done in the US and Germany.

The third stage is done in the US and Belgium.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer–BioNTech_COVID-19_vacci...
Same, I didn't know this existed. But I turned it on and it's nice.
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I imagine that remotely disabling customers' previously-working machines for subscription ransom is at the very least grounds for a class action.

I'm not a lawyer but I would be unsurprised if there is a criminal angle to this, as well, as this is really no different from any run-of-the-mill ransomware.
> If demand was double what the supply was then it should have been possible to give people power for say 2 hours every 4 hours

The problem is if that electricity is being used for heat, the draw of the 2 hour on periods will increase to make up for the time off. Perhaps even resulting in more total usage, because when power is on, people will set the thermostat to 80 instead of 65, anticipating the power going off and it getting colder. When really you need everyone's expectations of comfort to change to 40 degrees (half the delta T).

The only way to win and supply some power to all houses is to keep the duty cycle so low that the amount of resistive heating equipment becomes the limiting factor (1 hour every 6 hours?). I don't know if they could have managed this, but it's certainly more complicated to figure out than simply lowering the period of the rolling blackouts.
I just joined a weekly improv class via Zoom. It's a blast! I can tell it would be even better in person, but it's still good on Zoom. I wish I'd started years ago. It's like a hack for skipping all the tedious aspects of meeting people and going straight to the part that's actually fun: letting your guard down and being spontaneous.

I've been impressed by how legitimately funny a group of total novices can be. Sure, there are plenty of misses, but also times where everything clicks together perfectly and the result gets me laughing as hard as I would at a professional comedy show. I'd recommend it to anyone who could use a pandemic pick-me-up.
> Seems like every time I see coverage about Firefox, it's Mozilla removing or crippling some feature I care about.

I agree. They need an emulate chrome option: Match keyboard shortcuts, menu, and compact layout.
Thanks for sharing your story a lot to learn from it! I will definitely go through the brain food you posted, thanks!

Your process makes a lot of sense. Our problem is defining what you already have - "we're a butique consultancy specialized in machine learning."

I see you put a lot of work into it, it's amazing, congrats! Curious to hear how long you take the contracts for?

I believe that we are aiming for something similar to establish. I totally believe that studio like this can delivery much better work with less people that are well played together and are really good at what they do.

Again, thanks for sharing the story!
> Twitter created the platform and fostered the community.

Look, i see this as shorthand for "twitter gathered the attention".But that doesn't mean that they own the attention or the people whose attention they have. Good of them to be pioneers, but, like everything, social media is 15 year old tech now and is commodity. The undeniable thing is, users funded 99% of the effort with their work and often with their own ad money, and twitter did 1%. Same (or worse) would go for other social networks. They created a viral vortex, but the intrinsic value of that is not as high as is perceived to be -- in fact most of the value is in lock-in and monopoly rather than in technical facilitation. I find the fact that neither twitter nor FB pay their users quite egregious, and attribute it to 2 things: 1) they have no competitor in their niche and 2) user collectives dont exist and users are not uninionized while those companies are uber-powerful in terms of money and lobbying.

> they already exist,

They don't exist but are coming, in fact i'd say they are late already. I think we 'll soon see major shifts to that direction . Practically, yes they will be just an extension of freedom of speech laws, that's the category where they belong (like how e.g. sexual orientation was added to anti-discrimination laws).

I m not arguing that free speech/free assembly rights will trample on property rights, but that the state should make sure public spaces exist for people to exercise those rights. However platforms should be required by law to make user data (including their friends identifiers) exportable.

I m no legal expert but I wouldn't rule out that some companies may be held into account if a judge judges that they acted in coordination and maliciously to obstruct someones free speech rights.
How do they track views, clicks and payouts?
Pretty much all the responses of the government that were done quickly were to prevent action (i.e. no going to restaurants, no flights to certain areas, etc) so I'd argue that that also represents "inaction", just in a roundabout way.
> Personally I do not have time/desire to crawl down this specific rabbit hole

It seems weird to say this when you've posted dozens of times on this topic with many, many links and quotes to the arguments that support your position. Are you not at all curious about whether the abstracts and conclusions are actually true?
Ads create a twisted profit incentive that counters what Telegram wants to be, even if Telegram only pursues a privacy-friendly ads experience at first. Sell functionality, storage, customization, or digital assets. I know Discord doesn't _just_ make money off of these things, but that revenue stream is a compatible option for Telegram.
The process of properly reporting and working with authorities seems daunting. (Anecdotally,) It sounds too easy to implicate yourself for a technical violation of the law by (even unknowingly) hosting this content, or accidentally transferring it to one of your personal devices. Much worse following the advice of your local police to print out images which would be completely illegal! On the other hand, if the process was too lenient on reporters, hosting a file sharing service that "gets abused" with illegal content might turn into the ultimate scapegoat for illegal content users/creators/brokers

Nice job going through the reporting process and I'm glad you blogged about it to share with others
> someone's 2020 fork

pcwalton was the developer behind pathfinder at Mozilla (but was part of past summer's layoff).
Looking at the landing page I had no idea what I'm supposed to get when I signed up. Especially as a potential creator.
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"Kid, never write software for a hardware company."

The reason I was given for this advice is that they don't understand how iterations work in software, and so they can grossly misunderstand your level of doneness. This is first a big headache and then a source of post-release problems because you end up rushing things out.

Getting more software-savvy people into management in more industries would definitely help with that.
Disappointed it didn't include a category for the type of knots I was looking for.
The Squirrel Theater is a new one that I also recommend people check out. It's a non-profit founded by former UCB people, and has a strong commitment to diversity. They're completely online right now, but looking to get a physical space some time this year.

https://www.thesquirrelnyc.com/
Yeah. As someone not in any risk group I will prefer the Pfizer or Moderna one. I'll be happy to get the Janssen one or even the Sputnik, but if the vaccine they offer me is AZ then I will refuse.

And not just because of the obviously higher risk associated, but also because it appears not to be effective against the new strains. (Especially the new South Africa strain). Unlike for example the Janssen vaccine (goes by their parent company of Johnson and Johnson in the US) which was actually validated in South Africa or the rna ones which are just a technical masterpiece.

Keep in mind that the real shortage of vaccines is production locations right now. And the type of production of the Janssen, AZ and the Sputnik vaccine is all similar. So why even produce more of the worst vaccine in any of these locations.
Is that the real reason? In times of crisis one must be wary of propaganda. AstraZeneca has recently announced they'd deliver even less to the EU because of Italy's interception of the delivery headed to Australia [0]... Europe having to halt the vaccinations with AstraZeneca due to none being in stock makes europe lose far more face than halting them because of quality concerns...

[0]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/astrazeneca-warns-europe-of-lar...