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>> there are often times where it makes sense to use the platform's "natural" word sizes

In those cases we probably don't care about the full range of the larger types, so it doesn't hurt to use the smallest type for a range of expected values. If it does make a difference, the program will behave differently when compiled on a different arch or even a different compiler.

But maybe "generally" instead of "always". OTOH even I am guilty of using an int to loop over an array.
Have worked in various restaurants for short periods of time. One of the most miserable jobs IMHO, would never go back. No wonder people are quitting.
Happy National Chess Day... you've been served.

(n.b. National Chess Day is today)
I'm intrigued by the process that results in this being reported by a nominally left-leaning paper, but leaving out all the details that make it clear that it's left wing bias at work.

> "You can't cite the Daily Mail or Fox News on socio-political issues."

> On today's #LDTV, Wikipedia co-founder @lsanger
claims that the website's Left-wing bias is so strong that publications like the Daily Mail and Fox are "banned".

Don't miss https://unherd.com/thepost/wikipe

Is it purely monetary in that if they'd included any of those details in the headline then no one would have clicked? The right-leaning papers and source of the video all thought that was the main point of his argument, but this newspaper leaves it all quite vague.
>because there is no way to realize that value without liquidating my family's quality of life

not really. you can reverse mortgage it when you retire.
Cites are supposed to be more analogous to how many times a programmers' library has been used.

Unless gamed, it _is_ a useful measure.

But if your programming ability was measured by how much are your libraries used (eg. in hiring, determining salary, seniority...), there would be every incentive to aim for your library to be used as much as possible even when it is superflouous.

That is what has happened in academia, basically.
If you go through an intersection where you have a stop sign and cross traffic has a 45mph+ highway, without consideration for that cross traffic, it's probably going to hit you. They are relying on you to enter only when the way is clear.

One reason dashcams are so popular is people like to exploit the insurance presumption of guilt towards the rear-ender by getting in front someone and then slamming the brakes. Video which shows the scammer acting unreasonably to put themselves in the way can turn the tables.
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usize should be Into<u64> iff usize is <= 64 bit.

usize is already on that hook: `0x100000000usize` will fail to compile in 32 bit, so you already risk compile errors when switching archs.

As it is I'm just writing `as u64` which is clearly worse.
I worked for a company that manufactured and applied a hybrid sealcoat/asphalt product. The product was transported in 10,000 gallon tankers. During the winter my co workers and I would have to clean out the residual product inside of the tankers with pneumatic air chisels. It was freezing cold dirty ass work, I'm very grateful I no longer have to work that job.
Oh I think I remember the parnas one now, I was looking for it, so thanks
So this + Rainbow tables = pretty quick administrator rights for anyone?
I think the bean counters are missing lost sales because I dont want to go in a CSV/Walgreens anymore.
I don’t disagree. I’m simply pointing out it’s still used. That severing links and arguing in favor of that by saying “no one uses it” is inaccurate.
Consolidation is not necessarily a problem. 1/3rd of US healthcare spending is for administration[0], twice Canada's percentage. This is due to fragmentation and it doesn't make a ton of sense for each hospital to have a dedicated finance department, HR department, etc...

The free market is not a solution to the problem of healthcare spending. Consumers do not have enough information, they aren't in position to refuse treatment if it's too expensive, and hospitals aren't in a position to turn someone away if they can't pay. The rest of the developed world has figured this out but we're too stubborn to adopt what is undoubtedly a better system.

[0]https://www.healio.com/news/primary-care/20200106/a-third-of...
Always interesting to see ultra-authoritarian apologists come out of the woodwork whenever the discussion of trains comes up.
TL;DR: (Without providing any hard data to back it up)

- Design bugs are (more) expensive to fix after implementation.

(I really don't want to be an asshole here. The piece is well written. Particularly the part where it criticizes how a lot of CS research is done nowadays. But so many words for such a remarkably obvious platitude!)
super agree. But for some reason our government seems focused on fixing this by paying for childcare rather than encouraging community...
I guess, but they aren't deprecating http downloads, which have the same problem as anonymous ftp.
Would the cost of living go up with rent control? It seems like people who already live there have controlled costs.
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Digging through a mountain actually doesn't have to be dangerous. Assuming modern methods, how dangerous it is depends on how many resources are spent on the process.

So, in a sense I think that part captures the problem. People object to testing backups using the logic of "with our shitty processes, it will be dangerous". I suppose you have companies with a logic akin to "due to being cheap arrogant, we have shitty processes" -> "due to shitty processes, our processes are fragile" -> "due to being fragile, we avoid anything that would stress our system" -> "due our system not being able to take stress, we just pay ransomware instead of stressing system with a backup".

It seems like we've reached to "throw-away enterprise" level. Build it cheap until it breaks, then walk away when the fix cost is too high. There's a cost-benefit to this. Reminds me of bandcamp and other declining sites that just vanished one day with information some would consider valuable.
> rarely a day goes by that I don't question how Microsoft manages to get anyone to buy that steaming pile they call an operating system.

"But muh games!"
Those are factual claims about the protests being less risky than the rallies. They’re either true or false. There’s nothing hypocritical here where anyone is saying it’s okay to attend one event and not the other because of the purpose of the event. It’s literally claiming that one event is outdoors and attendees tend to follow health guidelines, while the other event is indoors and attendees tend to not follow health guidelines. Is the claim false? Perhaps, and anyone is free to argue that. But this is nothing close to an example of the situation previously described.
ssh would be a huge improvement over http. I'd be all for it.
I have desperately been looking for software where I can:

Build an opening repertoire from PGNs.

Drill that using spaced repetition (like Chessable)

Import all my games from Lichess and Chess.com

Tell me when I deviate from my repertoire in those games.

Do you know of a software or combo that can achieve that?
I think that Kubernetes has advantages for many small services but a few large services are still worth managing directly on bare machines/VMs.

Where I disagree with this article is on Kubernetes stability and manageability. The caveat is that GKE is easy to manage and EKS is straightforward but not quite easy. Terraform with a few flags for the google-gke module can manage dozens of clusters with helm_release resources making the clusters production-ready with very little human management overhead. EKS is still manageable but does require a bit more setup per cluster, but it all lives in the automation and can be standardized across clusters.

Daily autoscaling is one of those things that some people can get away with, but most won't save money. For example, prices for reservations/commitments are ~65% of on-demand. Can a service really scale so low during off-hours that average utilization from peak machine count is under 35%? If so, then autoscale aggressively and it's totally worth it. Most services I've seen can't actually achieve that and instead would be ~60% utilized over a whole day (mostly global customer bases). The exception is if you can scale (or run entirely with loose enough SLOs) into spot or preemptible instances which should be about as cheap as committed instances at the risk of someday not being available.
This tweet summed it up well:

https://twitter.com/Charly923407591/status/14162863209561210...
I'm not an expert, but in a recent article about the new mRNA synthesis techniques they were asked the same question. The answer was there's already lots of potential bioweapons and many simpler techniques for producing them, so these new technologies don't change the danger level much.
It is more that when the pandemic hit, most restaurants let go of their working staff, given they couldn't furlough or keep them on payroll when the restaurants were closed.

Since they were fired, they got unemployment. Now, restaurants are open again, but folks don't want to go back for the meager pay (and likely the extra freedom in their time is welcome as well).
This has very little to do with Windows, itself. The issue is explorer that tries to estimate sizes and put the files in the recycled bin. Also likely it checks all the permissions while counting.

Try the command line: "rmdir /s" and it's quick.
> That’s not true at all.

What they said was technically/precisely true, despite not being particularly meaningful.

https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2021/07/net-worth-gains-in-2...
My theory is that erosion of community leads to people increasingly not caring about how they are perceived by others. Previously, social pressure made people feel ashamed of their bad behavior. Now, there are no consequences for bad behavior, and it takes some modicum of effort to be nice to people you don't care about, and so the bad behavior continues.
Mussolini said fascism should rightfully be called corporatism because it is the marriage of the corporation and the state. If Elon wants to do those things as a capitalist, he can fund them without public money. Since corporations are married to the state, he (and many others) get that public funding without any votes or public oversight of how it is used. That's not democracy.
> The employers aren't obligated to employ anyone

And we're not obligated to provide them with people desperate enough to work their shit jobs either.
One trick I used to use is to put a small read/write cache in front of file operations. I would usually pick something like the size of a sector or cluster. Windows is pretty bad at small writes, and mearly 'ok' at reads because you usually can just get away with the windows file store cache in that case.

I came across the write cache bit accidently when trying to minimize wear on an embedded flash device. It was borderline I thought I had done something wrong.

Minimizing open/close and keeping your reads/writes close to sector/cluster size on many filesystems can produce some very nice results. As you can minimize the context switches from user space to kernel. In the case of adding in a 'db' layer packing probably helps as well as slack on small files is huge percentage wise of the total file. So you would be more likely to hit the file cache as well as any in built ones for your stack.
Meditation is a blade with no hilt.

I _accidentally_ fell into a vipassana state of mind after the first time trying a particular religious chant, seriously, from out of the pains of boredom as a 20 year old.

At the time I lived nearby mountains, and after 'coming to', I saw them through the window. I cannot describe to you the overwhelming feeling of beauty and awe that crashed over me. It was as though this was the very first time I had ever seen mountains. I think the best description I can manage comes from 'Both Sides Now' by Joni Mitchell.

'I've looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down, and still somehow It's cloud illusions I recall I really don't know clouds at all'

The experience was so disorienting. As if I was seeing the mountains for what they were directly through my senses and not mediated by my knowledge of what mountains were like, linguistically.

It changed my entire life -- weeks later later I lost my job and fell into a 5 year extreme depression / anxiety spell in the attempt to reconcile my adolescent religious upbringing with the continued insight from that experience. Absolutely worthwhile, in hindsight, but it cost me near everything for it.
The covid rule changes to UI were more flexible. You could leave/not take a new job due to covid concerns: https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/networth/article/Califo...
I try to follow the more science-y literature and news on meditation, so here's my take.

Diana Winston [1] runs the Mindfulness Education at UCLA's Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC). In her book, The Little Book of Being, she describes a mental breakdown--for lack of a better word--during an extended meditation retreat, just as this author. She spent a year as a Burmese nun, too.

In it, she talks about how she would cry every day on some retreats, even in front of her meditation teacher. Looking back, she credits the experience to some psychological issues (my words, not hers).

Sam Harris PhD, one of most unforgiving people of bad science, has a great meditation app, Waking Up [2], which I really like. In it, he specifically says, if this is causing you harm, or you're losing touch with reality, STOP immediately.

He likens it to exercise. Exercise is great for you; hell, it's one of the best things you can do for your mind and body, and the research is very clear on this.

But, some exercises might be bad for you. If you have a bad shoulder, DON'T DO PUSHUPS. If you have bum knees, STOP JOGGING. You need to talk to a professional to find out how to do work around your specific injury.

Most of us aren't able to self-diagnose our psyches like this. It's almost impossible. There are, however, trained meditators out there of various religious and non-religious persuasions that can help you on your journey.

My two cents, and others have mentioned this too, is that removing some of the "Eastern aura" of meditation is great for us in the West. Less robes and incense, more love and kindness. The Dhali Llama has said that the Buddhism that he here in the West study is some of the "purest" there is.

But there's thousands of pages in Buddhist literature about all the demons and bliss you can experience during meditation, and how to approach it and understand it. Put it into context, some one to tell you, "Keep going, you're starting to get it", or, "Stop, you're doing it wrong, you're doing more harm than good."

BUT going on a 10-day silent meditation retreat, even one day, is insane if you've never meditated. Much like running an ultramarathon with no training. If your body doesn't break down, your mind certainly will.

Personally, when I started meditating, I couldn't do >5 minutes at a time. Took me weeks to get to 20 minutes. And you gotta do the reading or join a group to help you understand what you're going through, which also was very helpful for me.

[1]: https://twitter.com/dianawinston
[2]: http://wakingup.com/
> OP was explicitly making a utilitarian argument

No I wasn't. I was making an HN comment, not engaging in moral philosophy, which I find boring and arbitrary. It's no coincidence that the preferred moral philosophy under any regime is one that is favorable to that regime. Thus the Greeks had virtue ethics, Nazis a bastardized Nietzscheanism, and our contemporary society Rawlsianism.

I actually agree with your criticisms, they were obvious to me when I wrote the comment, but we must ultimately decide what sort of world we want to live in (or have it decided for us), and I would prefer one without OnlyFans, that such a world is a fantasy for the foreseeable future is besides the point.
it is not, but carry on.

Skilled, in late antiquity/mediaval times, meant the engineer doing trebuchet, or building ships, or building high quality steel, etc.. et.c.. it was actually hard work.

None of them were things that the ruling class/aristocracy did. They just paid for it (with the levies/taxes they took from their land).

Eventually another higher skilled level arised, as thinkers/scientists became hired by the court of a monarch, or baron.... and being a patron (paying for someone to do poetry, science, etc) was a sign of status.

The skilled workers have always been the middle class. It took the industrial revolution, where they could become rich themselves, and monarchy started becoming irrelevant.
Have not actually read the comment yet (and also not voted, of course), but the name of the commenter appears to intentionally provide for certain priors.

Edit: After reading, I agree with your assessment of the post though!
> I thought awakening was right around the corner and now feel broken and betrayed

While I feel sympathy for the author, I can’t help but think that this is ultimately a self-caused problem. You shouldn’t be absorbing yourself in a meditation practice with the goal of “awakening” or “enlightenment” or whatever. That’s dragon-chasing nonsense which will lead you to bad times.
Emacs users are familiar with nnhackernews
(https://github.com/dickmao/nnhackernews)
which picks up comments on stories you've read
(and hides comments for stories you didn't).
FWIW, OpenWRT is used for more than just RPi. Also, I never said "embedded" was the only use case. The categories were 1. embedded 2. small form factor computers with limited resources 3. older computers. That is a quick list, not a fully inclusive one. To be truthtful, I am not comfortable with 56MB binaries even on newer laptops where I have GB of free space.

I simply cannot agree with any comments that imply that keeping size small is a worthless goal. I could list hundreds of past and current examples where people are trying to reduce size and/or complaining about large size. k/shakti fits in a 2000's-era CPU cache. Arguably it does more than go-ipfs. At least, one can certainly do more with it.

It makes no sense to argue against making programs small, for a variety of reasons I am not even bothering to mention. Large programs offer no additonal benefits. Generally, no one is forcing anyone else to use smaller, faster programs if they do not want to, UNIX utilities being one obvious exception; there are others.

I will continue to write, use and appreciate smaller, faster, more resource-efficient programs. I am not the only one. You will have many more folks than just me to convince that they should ignore size.
It was a Memphis (NT 4.0) goal, canceled. Later, a Longhorn (Vista, "NT 6.0") goal, also canceled.

The Windows file system is still as dumb as it was in NT 3.1 -- hardly any changes since then.
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This is a really great writeup. Amazing visualizations!

Don't miss the issue report on the repo (basically, "here are two images that happen to collide???"): https://github.com/cmuratori/meow_hash/issues/80
> Walmart and Amazon raising wages allows them to exercise their huge scale to further crush their competitors.

Sounds like they're in a no win situation.

If they don't raise wages: "boo they're paying their workers slave wages!"

If they do raise wages: "boo they're using their huge scale to further crush their competitors!"
How shocking national security agency keeping tabs on key people?

What next tax authorities conducting audits to catch tax evaders?

Yes, Modi bad man hai.
I guess it depends how often you expect to eat out. If it’s once a month, I think most can afford more expensive restaurants
> Common carrier laws already exist and are uncontroversial.

But as mentioned, applying them to forums is controversial. This is like saying that the death penalty exists and is uncontroversial, so the police should be able to shoot people. You can't simply take a rule that's deemed acceptable in one context and apply it in another context. First, it begs the question. Common carrier status is somewhat controversial. The question of whether it should apply to anyone in the tech space is exceedingly controversial, and you had the prior administration roll back common carrier status for a number of high-tech areas because they felt they shouldn't apply. That's, by definition, controversial.

> There are principles that the 1st amendment protects, and it is those principles that matter.

Yes, and one of those is the right to free association. It's right there next to speech in the amendment. You seem to be saying that your right to ~speech~ be heard is more important that Facebook's right to association.

>Your line of argument, should cause you to think that anti-discrimination laws, are some "cudgel" to force groups to associate with people that they don't want to.

But you're not talking about associating with groups anymore, you're talking about associating with content. We generally think that discrimination based on attributes of a person is far less acceptable than discrimination based on their opinions. I can't kick you out of my restaurant for being black, but I can kick you out for being an asshole. Now you're saying no, I can't do that either. Why does your right to be an asshole trump my right to associate with you?
You've got the causality backwards. Authenticity means steering clear of the siren call of mass market appeal. An overwhelming focus on creating things, despite their lack of commercial expedience, is what causes the struggling.

The analog in software is working for a surveillance company versus architecting your software to cut out needless middlemen.
I am unable to copy the SAM file out of that shadow copy path without becoming local admin. My regular user account cannot do it. So this might be overblown unless my environment is not standard somehow.
CDN is effectively read only and served from memory for the most of the part.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27850652
They care, as much as a group of people without a mind of its own can care, but it's a use case that was not common among windows software when NTFS was designed. Other design considerations were more important than high performance while writing or reading 1 million small files per minute.
> Commercial software engineering is a creative endeavor; it is not a science, nor is it a manufacturing process

Exactly. And it's less like movie production and more like 4,000 people trying to collaborate to produce a million-page novel.

It does bear some resemblance to design and engineering, but with custom materials and components that have never been used before and need to be created specifically for the project.
Cost controls imposed by the government will be required at some point.
The World Wide Web (WWW), commonly known as the Web, is an information system where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs, such as https://example.com/), which may be interlinked by hyperlinks, and are accessible over the Internet.
Space is inspiring to a lot of people because it represents both the the peak of human achievement, and humanity's future. Space is the final frontier; the next logical step in humankind's unending quest to explore the universe.

For me personally? I just want to mess around in 0G for a day or two. That seems like it'd be a rather unique experience; well worth a few thousand bucks and a couple hours packed shoulder to shoulder in a ship with a thousand other people.
your theory is based on ignorance and suspicion instead of anything real.