skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China has purpose-build non-nuclear anti-ship cruise missiles. There is a running game of chicken between the CCP and the US about whether they would dare use them against a US carrier group stationed in the SCS. The way the game theory works out, no they wouldn’t, but the sitting US president needs to have the stones to continue navigating the SCS.

Xi Jinping bluntly promised Obama he would not occupy the SCS, and then did exactly that, and Obama blinked and did nothing. All the other countries in the region, from Japan to Australia to India, are now crapping themselves as China extends further. For example, they are now regularly pushing military ships posing as fishing vessels into Indonesian waters as a repeat of the ‘cabbage leaf’ process they executed in the SCC. Indonesia is in a precarious position because it does not want to be muscled out, but they took on a lot of debt from Belt and Road for stupid initiatives. There are other countries in a worse situation. East Timor has taken on debt from b&r equivalent to a full year of its GDP, and sits on the edge of the Australian oil shelf. Australia is in a weaker situation than it should be due to not having enough coast guard style ships, and the difficulties sourcing world-class conventional attack subs.

This show may be the US signaling that it has learnt its mistake and won’t be had again.
They can not include it and instead provide a menu option that actually takes you to the store on first run :)
I haven't had hardware with a spinning disk in active use in years, so my experience might be coloured by the improved performance from SSDs and may thus be irrelevant to whether things are too slow with a HDD, but that's how I also see it.

Even if you don't go so far back as to require swapping disks, dist-upgrading a desktop Ubuntu or Debian system still took several hours ~10 years ago. Booting the system (again Linux, because that's what I had) took at least a minute, probably more. My laptop that's not bleeding edge by any standard is not booting instantly to the desktop, but it's definitely faster than that.

It is in some sense eye-opening to think that pure desktop latency might not have improved over the years. It makes you wonder if things could be much faster still, and being limited to old enough hardware might also change one's perspective. But to me, having a reasonably snappy desktop experience on a laptop from ~7 years ago without having to resort to lightweight desktop environments or older software is something that would have been outlandish for most of the history of PCs.
Why is this strange? I never worked in a project where fixes required tests beyond some QA guy/gal stating "it works, done".
did you believe in santa and the tooth fairy as a kid?
> Then I lost SMS on my computer because it got removed from Hangouts

This isn't true, if you were a Fi subscriber. Fi subscribers were able to keep using Hangouts SMS up until they launched the replacement, Fi support in Messages for Web. There was no time where Web SMS was unsupported.

The transition worked reasonably well for me. I do miss the Gmail integration, and it's lame that you can't have RCS enabled if you want Web support (of course Hangouts never supported RCS anyway so it's not a regression, and hopefully it will be fixed someday). But otherwise it's a fine replacement and I use it every day.
I wonder what process they use to then remove the hydrogen and put some carbon in to make steel?

It's been known for a long time that dissolved hydrogen makes metals brittle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_embrittlement
Where I live engineers aren't stack ranked either. Doesn't speak highly of the engineers to be honest to accept such conditions. Why should you? Money? Not really a problem in the industry, is it?

Although I do think that Amazon probably pays much more, it just doesn't seem worth it. It is hard to work with people in an eternal dick measuring contest. It just isn't fun.
> The content on Youtube isn’t what people want to see, but what Youtube wants you to see.

You're suggesting more intent than Youtube actually has. Youtube wants you to see more monetizable Youtube. Same as CNN. Its main bias it to get you to watch more CNN.
You miss my point entirely.
“Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft” [1]

Amazon is the New York equivalent in the analogy. The NYT article in 2015 [2] changed a few things, but not all.

Worked 4+ years in Amazon, or as the OldFart tool would say, was among the 4% oldest employees.

Left to preserve my sanity and to not become toxic, I could feel the negative change permeating my personality. I avoid most ex-colleagues from there, they "are now become the KoolAid".

The toxicity and gaming of the system by old timers is bad. Promotions and upwards-management are well managed by a select few who start charming the next level of approvers from day one. The ones who put their heads down and work will get spat out by the system. There is pressure on managers to "top-grade" the system, i.e. to remove bottom performers, never mind the fact that in a hyper-competitive environment that screens for the brightest, the so called bottom performers are merely relative to the top ones.

It's a system designed to burn and churn - burnout and churn the folks before they complete the 2 year cliff (5% and 15% equity at years one and two).

The system gnaws at your self-worth. It's good if these points come out in the open.

[1]: Mary Schmich, Wear Sunscreen: A Primer for Real Life. http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/poetry/mary-schmich.html

[2]: Inside Amazon, wrestling big ideas in a bruising place ... https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-...
The touchpad doesn't work properly on windows either, and the CPU draws a lot of wattage no matter what OS you use. I would bet on most people having a similar experience between the X1 Extreme and the X1 Carbon, but sure, maybe the design has improved too.

The fact of the matter is that the X1 Extreme suffers the same disease as many other Intel ultrabooks. It doesn't have sufficient heat dissipation for the processor, or battery capacity to service its power hunger. And it comes with synaptics touch pad.
> whose features are very thoughtfully considered and not "bolted on" at all

Rust has it's dangerous, unsafe warts. As someone learning rust, finding out that string slices can cause panics was utterly shocking to me. string slices should have had character indices not byte indices. This was a feature that was NOT thought of carefully. It completely goes against Rust's philosophy as a "safe", catch-errors-at-compile language.
mitigations=off
Again, we don't "obfuscate" binaries to make them harder to decipher. We do it because debug symbols are massive and cause a lot of bloat and sometimes even performance hits.

If you want a system like that, just compile Linux and all of your tools in debug mode. But again, why do this when you can just recompile from source?

This is a gross misunderstanding of how computers work, I feel.
The title is a click-bait. Please don't do this.
It's calenders events over http(s) with ftp-like file transfer (yes still over http)
Exactly, worth reading about this argument: “How the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive risks destroying Europe’s forests” https://www.euractiv.com/section/biomass/opinion/how-the-eus...
The trouble with page views and vanity metrics
Except it wasn't necessary for him, since the entire war was premised on miscommunication and misunderstanding, which he turned out to be uniquely equipped to resolve... but was instead pushed & tricked into violence.
The University of Texas at Austin only served (serves?) about 50k students and about 20k faculty and staff. I used to help run their mail system.

Our key tool that made the world of difference to us was the Ironport anti-spam appliances that we had sitting in front of the real mail servers. We sometimes got onto black lists, but we had good personal reputations with the big mail service providers, and were able to get quickly de-listed. It helped that I was the former Sr. Internet Mail Administrator at AOL, and I was friends with the principal SRE at the time for Gmail, etc….

But without those Ironport appliances running a highly customized configuration, we would have been dead in the water. Fortunately, we also had a really good working relationship with Ironport.

So, we were able to do that job quite well across the entire University with about 1.5 guys — Don Nash was the primary mail administrator for UT Austin, and I stepped in to assist as necessary.

But these days, I don’t think that would be enough. I think there are too many cowboys out there who just don’t care how much damage they do, or they actively enjoy doing as much damage as they possibly can.
This comment is funny because Skype was killed in favour of Teams.
That's actually a lot better - take it once and be done for every workplace.

SV "technical" interviews are (perhaps) like being asked to retake a piece of the MCAT on a whiteboard at every interview.

Another alternative of course is the take-home exam where for 20 different companies you have to do 8 hours of work for them without compensation.
is actually forever or is it google “free photo storage for life”-forever?
I'd stick to the spec and the conventions around them, if for the only reason that many tools have default assumptions based around these specs and once you start to veer away, you're coding around your tools instead of with them.

i.e. use POST to create new things and PUT and/or PATCH to change existing things.
Relevant documentation on their philosophy: https://developers.google.com/talk/open_communications

Although Talk was one of their longest-running messaging tools, they ultimately pulled back their openness approach, blaming... pretty much everyone else (for not following suit): https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-talk-to-...

Edited to add: I should note that their public reasoning for ending an era of open communication standards support differs from some internal accounts I have heard. Google Hangouts was launched amid a lot of internal turmoil related to Google+ and their desire to reclaim social.
Hi alxndrr, I would recommend you improve the SEO for the undo feature. I did a search a while back trying to find Git tools that offered good undo features. When I search for "git tower undo", I get articles about reverting commits and so on, but nothing about "undo anything".

The demo for Undo at https://www.git-tower.com/features/productive/Mac seems to be the wrong demo? It's showing a few lines being discarded, and no undo at all. (And the dialog says that discarding the lines can't be undone...)
On the contrary it’s important that they know the damage it do to society.
It wouldn't be, all teslas already have liquid cooling.

Few kilogrammes at most.
9/10 doctors do it, though
> During which time my hair was cut, but only the parts that might get in the way of the procedure, giving me that classically handsome friar tuck look

Of the many weird things I wonder about, this has been on the list for a while. Why was that totally weird haircut done? To make clergy even more irresistible than they already were? Some kind of trying to both having and eating your cake by having hair while not having hair?
So neglect with extra steps.
If you care about bit rot then add some parity.

Or even store multiple copies, it's still smaller!
Signal is just as easy to use as WhatsApp for example. You register with your phone number and you can call/text anyone on your contacts who has installed Signal.

It even has video calls and recently added screensharing to them.
The inception of C++ programming language began in 1979 when Bjarne Stroustrup was working in his Ph.D. thesis.

https://www.stroustrup.com/hopl2.pdf
59% Americans support breaking up big tech.

https://www.vox.com/2021/1/26/22241053/antitrust-google-face...
> An automatic theorem prover is a kind of AI. Gödel showed its limitations.

Which of those limitations apply only to AI and not to human intelligence and mathematical reasoning?

Is it somehow surprising that AI can't prove mathematical contradictions to be true?
I'd call '08 or '09 the beginning of a 3rd wave for the Web (not the Internet—I'd say it's had ~5 waves).

There was the early Web of directories and academics and early search engines with only a little commercial activity and a relatively small user-base; then the mid-period web starting, hell, I dunno, around the 2K bubble, roughly, dominated by (an apparently-benevolent and basically a force-for-good, kinda, at the time) Google, with home-Internet connections rapidly increasing in both count and amount of use, and normal people starting to get used to entering credit card numbers to order stuff online (I guess call this the e-commerce era, if you like); then we got the mobile-phone-and-social-media web (this one). It's very different from the earlier ones. It's overwhelmingly commercial in a way that even wave 2 wasn't. New content generation rates are off-the-charts high, but the "small" indie parts of the web are way less visible than they used to be and can be nearly impossible to find. Much of the tech is eaten with what we'd have considered, in wave 2, spyware and spam-websites, even the "legitimate" stuff. The Web isn't a place you go (a desk in your house, at the library, whatever) but is everywhere now. Smartphones changed everything.

Your "8ish years ago" fits with when that shift to my wave-3-Web was pretty much complete.
They might. It would not surprise me if a lot of people just type their calculations into the browser address bar or in their Internet search engine's input box. Or search for a calculator web application, and use that as their calculator.
I’m not suggesting Microsoft does this intentionally to push consumers to buy new computers because that is obviously not the primary motivator for the mitigation patches, but I’m sure they don’t mind.

Also your average user isn’t going to know or understand even if you gave them the option somewhere. It just doesn’t make sense.

If you are knowledgeable enough to understand, then you can disable the mitigations. This seems like the best approach to me for everyone.
This is incredible. Took me a minute to realize this isn't an image transform of some kind.

Really well done.
Electric braking has close to no wear, and much cheaper EVs use it.

A resistor bank with liquid cooling will be few kilogrammes at most.
It is very difficult thing to do. There are very excellent and very real completely logical reasons to be misanthropic.

However, I think that the only thing that ever countered it for me is when I hung out with groups of people with great attitudes.

For example, I joined a hiking group, and we went out and hiked twice a week. I noticed that the people there were upbeat, because going out to hike in nature seemed to attract people who are upbeat. I so much enjoyed those hikes years ago.

Then last year I joined a tech group that was very personal and everyone knew each other and very helpful and friendly.

But I have also joined groups that suck and I hated them and everyone in them.

So my solution to you is to go to a lot of group meetings and find one whose people you like. Don't stay at groups you don't click with, that is folly.

If there are no groups around, start one of your own. Advertise on meetup.com, craigslist, etc.

And, it is an "in person" kind of thing, not done over social media. Nobody should be allowed to fuck with their smart phones should be a rule - you have to interact with each other.

But, you have to make the effort. It's work. But it is rewarding, if you end up with a group of people that you like.

Also, constant and consistent vigorous exercise helps a lot. Exercise releases all kinds of chemicals - endorphins, dopamine, etc and it makes you feel better about yourself and others. And when you are in great shape, other people get a second sense that you are physically in shape and you let off some kind of pheramones or whatever, maybe have micro-non-verbal communications that let people know, and they like you more.

That's probably why hiking groups are the best. Everyone's endorphins are being released at the same time and it creates a feedback loop within the group, and everyone gets along. This isn't a guarantee, just more statistically likely, I think.

Good luck.
> Instead a co-working stipend just lets me hang out with strangers who are irrelevant to my actual job.

doesn’t sound like a good use of your time, but for many people, it’s a third option that definitely has it’s pros/cons
It's very unclear to me how much of a performance hit there is for most desktop use-cases.

My most recent CPU I use is a desktop i5-8500 which doesn't feel faster than my older i7-3930k aside from disk access [0], both of which are impacted by the vulnerabilities. I practically never use the i5.

Until recently my daily driver was a MacBook Pro that came out in 2013, and I don't really remember a before / after change in perceived performance or responsiveness – I haven't done any scientific benchmarks, but that computer never felt slow, and still doesn't.

There's also this Phoronix benchmark [1] that compares performance with and without `mitigations=off` on linux. There are some tests where there's a very big difference, but mostly, to me, it doesn't look that crazy.

In the Firefox benchmarks they do say that there's a big hit, but then I probably don't read the graphs correctly, nothing looks particularly worrisome to me.

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[0] The i5 has some NVME as opposed to an older, regular SATA drive in the i7. Still, I run a lightweight Linux install on both, so drive speed is never an issue for me, everything can fit in RAM.

[1] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=spectre-...
Not having a windows machine here to test this, I can't believe some of the results there. Specifically the "Win32 applications" ones. 7 seconds to open the file manager or text editor? Or MS Paint?! On my laptop here I can load gimp including plugins within ~1.5-2s, and I never even bothered to optimize anything about this. I wouldn't even be able to measure the opening time of e.g. gedit without some sort of scripting.

Are win32 apps really this slow to start up, or are the 7s "baseline" measurements in that experiment some cumulative value over all the applications?
What are some ways to deal with large volumes of variable-length timeseries for real-time predictions? The best solutions I've tried myself all hinge on windowed-feature extraction or LSTMs. It generally works, but starts to fall apart when you're squeezed for data.

It seems that almost everywhere you look, every example has just one timeseries that needs to be dealt with. However, since the methods are much more "statistical" in nature, they can actually make meaningful predictions on a single sample.
London Tube to get full mobile network by end of 2024
Nvidia brings DLSS to Linux via Valve's Proton
Wow, 2 major things introduced over 8 years and 4 different state management libraries and people complain it's too much?
And God help you if you point out strange warts and syntactic choices in Rust. You will be eviscerated.
I feel Murakami's earlier work was more natural and didn't try too hard. Not all was great, but his best work for me is Wild Sheep Chase. After The Wind Up Bird, he is mostly repeating himself. I don't see much depth in his works, at least in terms of "depth" how I would define it. Murakami is about alot of ideas who are not always connected or go anywhere. It's fun for a while, but gets repetative.
This won't restore your performance in this case: the microcode changes the behavior of the zero store optimization without any action from the kernel. If you accept the new microcode, you get the new, slower behavior.

Perhaps there is an MSR bit you can flip to set the behavior back to the old way, but none has emerged so far.
Good move.

I think the next step of mobility is a mobile robot. The cars of the future should be a central hub for move people between places, but able to do a lot more through physical manipulation, instead of becoming a enlarged mobile information terminal.

Thus, developing cars as robots are going to be more useful in that future.

I personally will invest time in building products that are mobility robots, not cars with giant screen.
Gulags are not a particularly good example of this, since they were never really meant to reform anyone - that was propaganda from the get-go.
> Is there a new crypto-coin based on who can store the most zeros

You jest but…..
Acorn Archimedes A3020 – Refurb and Mods
Man. I've been on the io_uring train since basically the beginning.

Since following, I've seen reason after reason not to ever use it. Between the skewed performance tests, the dubious funding (coming from Facebook), and the several security risks (including this one), I just don't see it taking off.
The purpose of the original dishwasher was not to save time but prevent damage: https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-institute/ieee-history/this-so...
Thanks, that might be a great candidate then - appreciated.
So that's euphemism for the algorithm doesn't work.
This likely would not help here. It is blamed on the cpu's microcode, not the kernel's mitigations.
I know, right? I mean, I paid my rent on time for the entire pandemic due to having a job. All those people who have back rent and possibly lost their jobs and only now are getting them back should also have to meet the same financial burden!

Or, ya know, accept that people need a place to stay and recognize that the pandemic was a global disaster that many places were unable to handle, and kicking people out now might be a bigger second order problem.
> Just searched "emissions cheating" and uh, is like, every auto maker cheating on emissions?

More or less, yes, they all did.

As an European I'd say it's a shared blame, though, as in the officials around Europe (both at national and at the EU level) who had very strongly pushed for diesel for the previous two to three decades (mostly through taxation/pricing policies) also deserve a very big part of this blame.

The Americans got it right (especially states like California) when relegating diesel to mostly commercial/truck/public transport use, but the hybris and the "we know better than the silly Americans when it comes to the environment" prevailed in the end, that's why it took Dieselgate and at least a couple of decades for those officials to reverse their past mistakes.
Tour of the server room in the Airbus 350
Google app suddenly in crash loop on devices worldwide
A secondary point of something like an LVT is to encourage density, since you get %0 taxation on the building itself, so it can afford to be more expensive. What uses less land, less energy and requires less miles of pipe, wiring and roads to service? A high rise with mass transit train service. A 50 story building on the same size of land next door to a 5 story building will have an approx 10x overall lower tax rate per sqft.

Land developers and people would naturally become economically incentivized to live in apartments as a result, unless they live somewhere somewhat rural already.
i’ll just continue to work for a company with the ability and desire to deal with those security issues, and whatever other problems my preferred way of working causes, since it makes me a happier and more productive employee. plus, in my experience, when you work from home, you don’t have to deal with an asshole control freak boss, since almost all of those don’t allow work from home in the first place, given a choice. ipso facto, one of the benefits of working from home is the opportunity to work under “better” management.
accepting affiliate money from criminals is shady

the criminals are criminals this wasn’t a debate

it would be debatable whether that would make the affiliate payment transactions criminal, but that ship has sailed as its too late, which only makes it shady, if that media was being intentionally provided

if not, then not shady

easy calculus for me