skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the other appears to 0f 0e. at least if you go off this tweet. https://twitter.com/eigma/status/1373155650432290819 . 0f 0e is a 3DNow! instruction that AMD supported but not intel, which would explain why it has a mnemonic in Ghidra even though its undocumented for Intel processors.
Imo the big takeaway from the story is that the code probably needed an explanation (aka comment) to prevent others for making the same faulty assumption that the images were inlined for no reason and wasting the same amount of time "refactoring".

In other words, it could/needed still to be improved for better maintainability, not just in the obvious way (Chesterton's fence, as mentioned by another commenter)
I just started doing a large overhaul (first in 10 years), and moving to 10GbE was a pretty big deal. When your storage is fast, waiting for the network is the real bottleneck. Uploading things on a WAN link (I have 1Gbps down, but only 40-50Mbps up) is the new drag.

For video editing I can use the SSDs on the workstation, though I can also saturate the 10GbE connection to an iSCSI target on a Synology full of hard disks in RAID 10.

Want to provision a new virtual machine? I have some 1L form factor computers (Some 175x175x35mm HPs with 8-core Ryzen 7 PRO APUs that sip 12-15W at idle) in an XCP-NG cluster. Build an image and provision it quickly. I'm a bit limited here as USB 3 NICs tend to cap out at 3.5Gbps because the top of the controller's block diagram is a 3.2 Gen 1, but when USB Type-C Gen 2 NICs hit they'll rip along at around 7-8Gbps, pulling large built images down from the Synology and writing it to their SSDs (980 Pros) in well under 10 seconds.

Scary stuff though is the virtualized Spark cluster running on my workstation. Four Intel D7-P5510s in RAID10. With ~25GB/sec of sequential reads you're not held up by storage anymore. Just the network when you want to write out results, and any suboptimal code to ensure you don't starve the CPU cores because you're not ripping through memory fast enough.

The fast new reality is great. Join in. :)
Denmark reports a death and a critical illness after 2 AstraZeneca vaccinations
Maybe, at least people won’t be tied down 100% and can work remote. If you have a family you can now afford a home to raise kids in.
> Optics. Optics optics optics.

Maxwell would have agreed.
> the crucial difficulty of Emacs comes from its messiness, from the huge number of people writing interesting extensions in it, and how they don't always quite play nicely with each other without a bit of glue code.

This is actually how I feel about VS Code! I'm a VIM user (both in and out of VS Code), and there are things I regularly go to MacVim for that the VS Code plugin doesn't support.

The thing that keeps me coming back to VS Code isn't the quality of the editor or the quality of any one thing. It's the quantity of "good enough" plugins and its integration of a good enough terminal.
Where can I read about "hardening of Linux’s hibernate"? I'm curious
Er TLS also needs signatures, and there’s a ton of work on PQ signatures
Troubleshooting OutOfMemoryError – Heap Dump, Eclipse Mat
Insofta Cover Commander 6.8.0 and Serial Number Full Latest (2021)
Thank you for this thoughtful comment. I assume you are talking about use-package? I've been using it for several years.

There is a long standing effort to have it merged into emacs/elpa, so we hope the situation will improve.

https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package/issues/282
> not teaching a person what a person needs to know to go into any related industry job

I'm not sure they ever did. They should imho be teaching the ability to learn and adapt to changing and emerging technologies, and to think critically. I'm still using the mathematics I learned in college, to understand things that didn't exist back then such as elliptic curve cryptography.
Gaussian units seem to be on their way out. I, for one, won't miss them. (Or cgs.)

The Z-transform is much more related to the others than is clear at first glance. This post on transforms [0] from the The n-Category Café is fascinating, and my go-to for understanding what the Laplace transform really is, even if I don't quite grasp many things in the post. (And I also have a math degree! But not a graduate one in active use, as most of the people around there do.)

https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2019/07/what_is_the_lap...
Ok, I see it's not really maintained...
Well, I’m using undo-tree without needing to think about how it works. No big brain involved. It’s just an undo tree and it works great.
This may be the way you want the world to be, but it is not.
Emacs 27 helped a ton with language server performance, I believe because they reworked the JSON parser to be quite a lot faster.

There’s also a “native-comp” feature that’s available experimentally in 28, which does native compilation of most of the .el files in emacs. I’ve played with it a bit and it does seem like a significant speed up across the board.

Definitely a lot of exciting things happening!
Almost as dumb as the LCD panels they put over the freezer aisle doors that track your eye movement response to what they show on the panels.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90302382/its-not-just-google-or-...
So open source was just tech people not understanding their core purpose of "extract value out of technology" ?
The article makes an intellectual stretch from dumpster diving and seeing listings for a 36 bit PDP-10 mainframe BASIC and then years later implementing a BASIC interpreter for the 8 bit Altair 8080.

I seriously doubt you'd find any copyrighted commonality in the implementation.
Im so tired of random writers, even if it's O'Reilly himself, trying to predict that Silicon Valley is doomed. That's like saying Hollywood is doomed, or Wall Street is doomed. I've been around long enough to know that nothing will unseat Silicon Valley as the tech capital of the world.

Silicon Valley has the critical mass of talent, VC money and greed that can't be replicated anywhere else in the world. There's a reason why we have never seen a world leading tech company come out from anywhere except the US. Despite having much higher educational standards even in 3rd world countries, the best the world could do is China which just stole US ideas and then built a firewall to keep others out.

Do I like what Silicon Valley has turned into? Hell no. I like the 90s version so much better, where nerds were tinkering with cool stuff and writing software because they loved software, not because they want to increase engagement by 1%. But it is what it is, and Silicon Valley will change with the times, I'm sure. I would love to see another dot-com-bust and clear out some of the chaff, but it doesn't seem like it's going to happen this time around.

If there's anything that will kill Silicon Valley it's that people since 2010 have made *too* much money. Practically anyone at a FAANG is now a multi-millionaire no matter what you've worked on. One of the factors I listed above, greed, is now missing for the most part. People have too much money, and with that they stop getting hungry. The hunger for making money, which propelled a lot of the advancement in previous decades, is absent in many people here. Even I've become a multi-millionaire over the last 5 years by doing nothing differently except buying a house and working at a tech company. This causes a financial convection current, which you're somewhat seeing, of the bored rich Googlers moving on and doing other stuff. The incentive is gone for many.

But as long as more immigrants from other countries come to Silicon Valley because they've heard about how rich people come, that will continue to fuel things for decades to come. These days, if you get funded by a VC, you're getting $5 million for 20%, which is a lot of money. Deals like that can't be matched elsewhere and another reason why you won't see people trying to raise money elsewhere, they will just come to Silicon Valley with their greatest ideas and keep propelling it.

Silicon Valley will never die.
No code :(
WSL2 with GUI Using Xvnc
“Cryptography behind the top pyramid schemes.”
Isn't another growing/bigger centre for technology innovation now in China/Taiwan? Are we just pretending that Silicon Valley is still Mecca?
> Janelia farms

I’m pretty sure they do basic science for medicine, with many of the same goals as the NIH.
Last week, I refactored an update query into smaller queries looping and doing only 20 updates at a time because too many updates was taking more time than allowed. It turns out that one query that happens is to remove a field of it isn't one of the query values. Well, if you split that list of query values into several disjoint sets, then it turns out that the field is removed in all records! Whoops.
been using chatwoot, which is opensource too. is this better?
I agree, but never say never.

The Chinese will for sure have their own version of Silicon Valley and their giants will rival ours, no doubt.

I think there will be other critical centers of tech innovation, similar to how Hollywood is Hollywood but NYC has an industry as well.
Open source is an entirely different movement. OSS is written the world over, yet SV is where everyone is busy extracting orders of magnitude of value from it.

From plenty of experience, SV open sources because it provides a business advantage, because it costs them nothing or because it's part of the business model of OSS+Support. Individual contributors are the heroes here, people doing it for the love of the software. The software industry will spin their work for a dollar all fucking day with no contribution back.
I wonder if i'm the only one who sees the phrase "order(s) of magnitude" and expects a vague story.

I don't mean to denigrate this article, just wonder if others have the same reaction.
Until 1988, California was ruled largely by Republicans.

Since 1988, it gradually cane to be ruled more by Democrats, with the notable exception of the "moderate" Republican governor Schwartzenegger.

https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-california-voting...

In both eras, its GDP and population went up, until it became the 5th or 4th largest economy in the world.

A bit of mean reversion occurs, after massive spikes in housing prices, wildfires and a pandemic and everyone loses their crap. Seriously, people... this is about as bad as cries of "CARNAGE!!" in 2016 when crime has a slight uptick after 10 years of decline.
Female Prisoner Allegedly Raped by Male Identifying as Female
> I'm advocating for improving the out-of-the-box usability story so that the editor isn't putting people off before they get a chance to understand and experience its power.

There are atleast a couple of projects like spacemacs and doom-emacs that already do that. The problem with the point you are making is someone has to do that hard work and also need to market it to the beginners. There isn't any money to make Emacs friendly to beginners. So i doubt it's ever going to be better than it already is through collaborative efforts of people with different goals.
For some business plans, open source is a means of keeping competitors some number of releases behind internal development, perpetually, while they're none the wiser.
> The real problem is going to be all the stashed encrypted data that US and China have stored on each other of a sensitive nature

While there's no doubt they've stored lots of encrypted messages sent by each other, would it really be such a huge catastrophe if those messages were decrypted years after they were sent? Presumably neither side is sending the most sensitive information that has long-term value (like weapons designs) across a channel the other can read, encrypted or not. And the US and Chinese governments losing control of some of their secrets wouldn't necessarily be a net negative for the world anyway. Snowden "decrypted" some of the US's secrets and we are better off for it.

The bigger threat isn't both sides decrypting each other's stored messages, it's one side breaking the other's encryption without them knowing, like what happened with the Enigma in WWII.
basic physics to be more precise

Look at the actual physics of the size of the virus particle (even with the lipid envelope) vs the width of the weave in conventional masks. It's like stopping BBs with a volleyball net.

The myth of mask = protection completely ignores that the eyes are a bigger attack surface than the nostrils or closed mouth. Eye coverage is at least as important as masks, yet it was always ignored by mainstream US media.
We do not have reasons to believe that a quantum computer would be much better than classical for this class of problems.
> the best the world could do is China which just stole US ideas and then built a firewall to keep others out.

So where was WeChat and ubiquitous QR codes for everything stolen from? Silicon Valley still haven't figured out how to do Ubiquitous contactless payment... it's like going back in time every time I travel there, and I have to swipe a credit card and sign with a pen.

Or Taiwan's COVID/PPE Supply tracking system's?

Sorry... Silicon Valley is dying.
Emacs user here. I ind the undo tree neat, but in practice it's a bit finicky sometime unreliable (as in losing history / not being able to undo).

I find IntelliJ local history https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/local-history.html , infinitely more reliable and useful. Some time I'll switch to IntelliJ for a second just so it snapshot my project then go back Emacs. The history is preserved between app restarts and over multiple days. It end up being like a parallel to git it some ways. Not replacement for git, but a very nice addition.
Thanks for the concise answer :)
WebExtension support might make me consider this over qutebrowser.
Well, I don't know how old you were, but ECC has existed in college for a long time - but may not have been so useful to a lot of engineers building machines (for sure), at the time.
Anyone care to comment on the name ?
They're built on Ethereum, not stablecoins. The stability of the network currently relies on stablecoins only in the sense that people use stablecoins to store wealth in situations where fiat is more stable than crypto.
That sounds really backwards, from an environmental point of view.

I imagine that nowadays, anybody who can afford any smartphone already has access to some standard 5V USB power supply. In fact, for returning buyers of iPhone, I would even recommend making the Lightning cable optional.
They probably saved $20 million, if not more.
Oh really... So the open source code that contributed/drove the delivery of that comment wasn't written in SV?

edit: To the second part of your comment... so why are the browsers all open source (at least at their core)? What's the business advantage? The non-organisational contributors are hardly the "heroes" of those projects. And they have contributed a ridiculous amount of free value to world.
The people that he mentions at the beginning of the article who have left have all peaked in their careers. The real loss would not be of people who have peaked leaving but of people who haven’t peaked yet leaving.
I mentioned this in another thread: currently we do not have reasons to believe quantum computers are better than classica at solving NP problems.
It was. Once upon a time, the year started at the spring equinox, March 1st.

Since then we have stuffed up the calendar mightily. We shifted the New Year by two months, from March 1st to January 1st, and then we stuffed up the changeover from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar by jumping days, instead of adding Leap days to keep everything synchronised. Thereby pushing the Equinox from the 1st to the 21st.
The USPS had the transportation infrastructure to do this... but it had no PPE inventory to distribute.

The previous administration had done nothing to maintain or replace the ample PPE inventory that the preceding administration had left it (in thoughtful response to SARS and H5N1).
High-profile entrepreneurs like Elon Musk, venture capitalists like Peter Thiel and Keith Rabois, and big companies like Oracle and HP Enterprise are all leaving California.

Oh wow! Larry Ellison, that one guy who lies about his cars putting literal lives at risk, a figurative vampire (infuses literal blood of young people into himself) and his thrall, and a company that hasn't been relevant since the 1970s all are leaving the Valley!

I don't even live there, and I never plan on living there, but they're not citing anyone all that meaningful. Larry Ellison is somehow the person who comes off the best out of that group! Larry Ellison! A guy who can best be described with a lawnmower metaphor! Come on!

And now a guy who corporatized free software to the point of it being completely unenforced and also coined Web 2.0 to sell you books is telling you to leave!

I'm skeptical about this "end" of the Valley, somehow. Almost seems like they're trying to get you to leave to devalue the price of real estate, scoop it up and then advocate once more for the Valley.
if it's a limited number of Root CA certs that are not supported, you can likely install those manually.
> The friendship between India and US started blossoming during Clinton era, and continue to flourish under Bush as well as Obama

And yet the US sanctioned India after Pokhran II, and Bush was actively selling weaponry to the Musharraf regime during Kargil. It was only during the Obama years that relations began to thaw.
If you want a Chrome/Firefox extension that does some of these things and more, check out Surfingkeys:

https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys
> Literally just plug in the hard drive and not think about it.

First you have to know that utility exists. Will most biology students know about Windows Backup? I doubt it. Even if they do, they're using a college administered PC. Backups are not their concern. They probably won't have permission to set it up even if they want to. In the article the staff member doesn't have permission to install the applications they need on their desktop PC.
Its been in decline ever since outsourcing began. Inevitable in a connected world. Time to move on. Whats the Chinese/Indian equivalent of HN?
:) 16mb on my first computer and that had Win95 (then redhat linux)
Flatpak – a security nightmare – 2 years later (2020)
I think its fair to say that they're growing for sure, as the government and corporations have been investing there. What I feel makes Silicon Valley unique (backed by the history as I understand it) is the proximity of things

- The foundational organizations and proximity to an intense congregation of early innovation orgs, many of which started in Silicon Valley, or always had a large presence from the early days

- Proximity to a delta of good universities (large hiring pool, of ready to work post grads helps a lot)

- The incubation of VCs that despite many attempts to lure them, are still largely located in Silicon Valley

I think these over arching factors are the biggest reason Silicon Valley is unique. They're also not often talked about in this way very often in the 'mythos' of SV, but are very much the bedrock

It also doesn't make SV unique, per say (I think for medical device startups, states like Minnesota would be a good fit for your company, since they have a lot of investment in this area by multiple entities, as well as the same university graph so the pool of students you can hire is pretty good, and I feel this is pretty key to a lot of it)
You've listed literally 4 things.

You can't really believe that compares to the innovations to come out of Silicon Valley, right?
> To the extent that these events have no impact on the rules or the outcome of the game beyond the current game state, they don't influence how much equity a player has in the game

This is a really odd statement. Past events can most definitely affect events beyond the current game state.

I think the AlphaStar paper [0] has a lot of good examples of my overall points. Here are a few excerpts:

"Central to AlphaStar is a policy [formula], represented by a neural network with parameters θ that receives all observations [formula] from the start of the game as inputs, and selects actions as outputs"

"To manage the structured, combinatorial action space, the agent uses an auto-regressive policy7,10,11 and recurrent pointer network"

I.e. the policy does account for past actions, and these are not encoded in any way.

"The agent parameters were subsequently trained by a reinforcement learning algorithm that is designed to maximize the win rate (that is, compute a best response) against a mixture of opponents"

I.e. the winrate value is _not_ a "win probability", it's a maximization like I said in my original comment.

Do these hold true for discrete action games and/or perfect information games? I don't know, but I find it likely they hold for at least discrete, imperfect information games.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1724-z.epdf?autho...
Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #202: The justification for profit is profit.
The fear of China "overtaking" the US is like the fear of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Real, but with no substance. A system built on top of paranoia is very unlikely to succeed.
Correlation does not imply causation, son.
Any rate above ~3.8GB/s is impossible on PCIe 3.0 x4. These things clear 4-5 GB/s with large block sizes, especially on sequential reads. It's probably workload dependent whether you'll see much use out of the PCIe 4.0 (over 3.0) with these particular devices.

> (let alone SATA)

NVMe is (very) noticeably faster than SATA, especially for random IO, but also for sequential io patterns. Multiple queues and reduced protocol latency go a long way. SATA III throughput maxes out at 600 MB/s. In comparison, these drives do 4000-5000 MB/s.
This isn't exactly a time loop story, but the theme seems kind of similar, and it was published in 1967:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Sc...

There's also "time loop" stories like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Zombies (from 1959), which aren't really the same, but then as I think about it, how exactly are they different?
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I just got my first iPhone, without a charger.
Now I have a MacBook as well, which has my only charger having USB-C out (and the ports on the machine). I find it pretty funny that I have to use an older Apple device with only USB-C ports to charge a newer Apple Device with a port I only have one cable for and have no charger to plug that cable except the MacBook. By Apple's thinking only has these ports because that's the future but somehow they missed to put these on the iPhone.
As somewhat of an arcade obsessive, I traveled long distances to places that were supposed to have Hyper NeoGeo 64 cabinets back when they were new. Of the few dozen that I was able to track down here in the States, only two were in any sense working. Both were actually unplayable.

The Wild Ambition machine had severe video glitches and wouldn't take any input (although it would take your money).

The other machine was a Beast Busters machine, but the guns were not calibrated and were so far off to also be unplayable.

Both machines were off shortly afterwards and disappeared within another month.
Shame, really.
I don't recall having ever seen a mailing list following that best practice. It's always a

[] keep me informed about products

checkbox hidden somewhere in a purchase form, often pre-checked even though that's illegal. Recently I was somehow added to the mailing list of a car dealership after getting my car checked up there, and can't even unsubscribe without creating an account on their website.

I'm sure there are some legitimate mailing lists out there, but there are so many others that are scummy and in flagrant violation of the law. It's hard to shake the feeling that making things harder for mailing lists in general is going to be a net win for consumers.
Not including a charger only becomes acceptable if outlets are mandated to have USB plugs by law. Otherwise it's an excuse for the company to save money while making me pay for a charger in the future if one of my old ones I got in the past breaks or is lost.