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Unikraft and the Coming of Age of Unikernels
That's what I do with Hacker News. Hello :/
I can confirm dragging an image from Firefox to Photoshop works. Krita too. It does not work in Chrome or Edge though. It sounds like it's a Chromium problem, not a Windows problem.
Toward Expressive and Scalable Graph Processing
Browsing a bit through the doc I believe this is targeted to developers that build "apps" that online merchants can (buy and) use on their e-commerce website.
I agree with alex: a sample app would probably make it more clear!
Personally, I prefer to just use the RDTSC assembly instruction (Read TimeStamp Counter), which provides the 64-bit number of clocks your core has ticked.

Both Windows and Linux provide more robust timers (in particular: if your thread takes longer than 10ms, there's a chance your thread will sleep to give other threads a shot at the CPU). So if you're timing something longer than 10ms, you probably want to use OS timers instead.

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There were a few programs where I couldn't add rdtsc easily to the code (in particular: I was trying to test something so fast that rdtsc took up the bulk of the time). In these cases, I went into the BIOS, disabled "turbo" on my CPU, locking my computer to 3.4GHz.

From there, I took the Windows timer and measured 1-billion events, and then divided by 3.4-Billion (3.4GHz == 3.4-billion clocks per second).

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I don't know the specific methodology that the blogpost used. But there's many easy ways to do this task.
I'm an employee, and I doubt he's hiding anything. Even while working as CTO, he has kept an ear to the ground in engineering and periodically participated in design discussions and other things. I really think he just genuinely enjoys engineering work. Internally I think many of us have great confidence in our current leadership, so it makes sense that Mitchell would feel like he can hand the reigns over.

I mean, many great open source projects are still maintained by the original authors. Why would it be suspicious for Mitchell to move into a better position for doing the same kind of work?
> And the crux of what von Neumann perceives as danger is "runaway" technology.

My reading of this article is that von Neumann was talking about carrying capacity, and not some runaway or rogue technology from exploding. We are just too big for this planet. He says this over and over.
> most car owners have no idea how to change their [..] tyre

Is this a regional thing? In Germany changing a tire is part of the "theory" classes. It's also fairly straightforward.

Changing oil on the other hand is illegal except in places with special drainage systems (like gas stations) because of the risk of environmental damage from spills, so it's not generally something you can do yourself. This restriction also goes for washing your car I think but some gas stations have places where you can wash your car if you don't want to use a car wash.
>>> "“I think [it] is probably going to resemble some kind of a hybrid between the social platforms that we see today, but an environment where you’re embodied in it”, Mr Zuckerberg also said. One of the benefits of this ecosystem would be that, “if you go back 20 or 30 years, a lot of people’s individual opportunities and experience was dictated by their physical proximity”, and that easy movement through a virtual space could avoid such barriers."

He seems to be saying they're getting (more) into the Black Mirror game.
Owning/Selling Private Stock
Latest fundraise for Unicorn I used to work for valued the Company at $15bn.

I have decent amount of equity that I've exercised and would like to liquidate a portion on my shares.

Has anyone had success selling private stock prior to company going for IPO? Would like to hear your experience and who you used to sell your shares.

Thanks in advance!
XPS13 here also, I love everything about it except my fingers have totally chewed through the keyboard and the keys are all popping off all the time now. you can't get replacement keys, I've tried ordering from those scammy places and what they send you is not exactly the right fit.

broken keyboards / trackpads is why i keep having to throw out laptops and get new ones. so I am very interested in this laptop if they are actually going to make working keyboards / keys / trackpad replacements available.
Show HN: A more convenient way of writing safe, in-line SQL in Python
You can save a couple seconds with git-fire.

https://github.com/qw3rtman/git-fire
They are also sometimes based on assumptions about the land upon which the rain is falling - forests and meadows absorb way more water before runoff begins than concrete and asphalt do.
I've been doing this with an rpi+ usb3-attached ssd for years (kept upgrading rpis). Syncing across my laptop, phone and server (server backing it up nightly). Worked well for years.

Now moved to a more powerful machine, but the concept is still the same.

This setup allowed me to conveniently stop using google drive.
Blameless post-mortems are good, but there have been rather a lot of bootloader level disasters on ChromeOS/Android and where they intersect at this point and it is probably worth wondering why this process does not seem to be generating sufficient improvement to make customer devices work better.

One notes that even years later Google still haven't figured out why the Pixel C occasionally just forgot it's own passcode and encryption key and locked users out. Thousands of reports, and publicly acknowledged as an issue. Never addressed. Pixel devices have had multiple bootloader issues and are currently experiencing a widespread Widevine downgrade for months and not fixed.
Would love to meet my interest doppelgangers!
And then there are people like myself who have aphantasia and can't visualize and (as in my case) can't hear an internal monologue. I can still think, obviously, but it's often done "somewhere else" (or at least that's how I think of it). I found it best when learning something, for example, to soak in as much of it as I could, then go do something else. I expect to get insights appearing out of the ether later on as some part of my brain assimilates it.

I don't know if this is because of the bicameral mind, but I expect that most people have cognition happening on different levels or in different channels all the time.
Really doesn't help that American porn imports a lot of the ideas from Japan, wager its not a coincidence they're dealing with a more severe version of the same "gender gap" issue here amongst people under 35.
Two points for the Bladerunner allusion.
>"do you think insurance companies would have insured the parts of Germany that recently flooded"

Many insurance companies will be happy to write you a policy for something high risk but they will absolutely charge you more to compensate. It's all a numbers and probability game for them.
Must be a long queue outside the boulangerie at breakfast time then? And I have lived in France, and French Switzerland, myself, so I am somewhat aware of what I am talking about.
No, the VR / Augmented reality goggles hype. They bought Oculus, remember.

Dystopian metaverse. https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/22/11087890/mark-zuckerberg-...
Oh and "The metaverse does not have a specific definition"
Metaverse seems like the new buzzword for the VC companies. Nowadays everyone is building metaverse type games just because of Roblox but reality is it is a limited market with high competition and only few players are interested about such games.
Does he really believe his own bullshit? I mean, I realize FB is literally the internet in some countries, but that's because they are essentially the only water in the desert so to speak. FB needs competition, badly.
Scientists produce first genetically engineered marsupials
If I ever retire early to build city building games, I think it’d be nice to step back from the “series of rectangular lots” model and instead model the house, garage, driveways, and the like, as objects that a constraint solver can place. Then zoning becomes a series of specific rules: setbacks, fire codes, parking, accessibility, and the like. Bundle up zoning rules and apply them as you will. Make your agents look for a place that meets their needs, or renovate their own property. Have actual landlords, offer rent control if you dare… build civic capital with community organizations so that displacing people or gentrifying the neighborhood too quickly means a loss of stability, and urban conflict …

Mind you, this is a boatload of work.
In the transcript they make accessibility to the average person a clear goal, i.e., a physical cash surrogate for a digital world.

> Architecture 4 is deemed “two-tier” CBDC in that it is expected that the CBDC will only be accessible through
commercial banks.11 This implies that a user will need to obtain an account with a commercial bank in order to receive and transact in the CBDC. This design is appealing because it preserves the current structure in electronic payments, but at the same time, it is unclear how this design alone will help promote financial inclusion in the US because it does not appear to address the main reasons why the unbanked do not use banks.

> All of these architectures need to be carefully evaluated for their potential to improve financial inclusion, risks and complexity of implementation, monetary and economic implications, and the potential to affect the cost of credit and financial stability.
you're right, and I roughly knew that, I just didn't knew how to express it well enough in a short manner. When you increase the blade you also have access to higher winds, so the total output is much much bigger. I was focusing on the quote below and I didn't knew how to express it better.

> Combining the effects of height and blade length, doubling the height and doubling the blade length will result in an increase of power over 22 fold.
They presumably didn’t die from their first detected infection which may be a false positive. And I guess by “some” you mean a small subset. Other sources are saying around 30 confirmed reinfections worldwide. Which is correct?
Its much more complicated and dangerous than you seem to imagine though. There all all kinds of ways nuclear weapons could still be used (including accidentally), and a lot more instability there (Samson option from a non NPT signing Israel, who by the way, used a Hollywood mogul with ties to Epstein to steal timing devices for use in manufacture, or what about an inceasingly unstable Pakistan, etc)

These days the threat model is broken because its preciously not needed to be a nation state to develops some major biological/chemical/drone etc attack with new technologies that on the battlefield would be called force multipliers.

So for those of you who also care about surveillance, I try to explain this is part of the reason for its increases... now when the threat model has evolved but you havent caught up, the rational response is (not saying right, but it makes logical sense on the surface to MICCIMAC) to surveil everything.

I have a great book on the post nuclear world I keep picking up to reread sections of that talks about the political transitions that will happen because of this that is worth a look: "The Shield of Achilles" tldr - corporations are going to take over the gaps left by increasingly ineffective government.
>Bitcoin was up 8% at US$32,160.16, while ether surged 11.6% to $1,993.36

It's quite ironic that cryptocurrencies whose stated aim was to replace a financial system centrally directed by states and multinational financial institutions seems to have created instead an alternative effectively directed by a single man. Often through the medium of random tweets
Has anyone who's worked for you had to write binary search from scratch on the job? It's pointless to ask candidates to write code that they'd never have to do in the real world.

I've been writing code for 25+ years, 15 years professionally, and the only time I had to write any search algos from scratch was in school. I'm sure I could do a binary search given enough time but I'd probably just refuse and end the interview.
With Oculus, IG and FB, they seem pretty close to being the ones to pull it off.
Variable brightness with an LED is achieved using pulse width modulation, turning it on and off REALLY fast. So no, this won't have any effect on the life of the LED :)
Using social media doesn't automatically qualify you to have a toxic relationship with it. It depends on the person if they decide to use it as entertainment. But one should practice self-discipline in navigating and interactive with SNS.
Associated I can believe, but it doesn’t feel bad to be in it.

Don’t get me wrong, when I was in a tiny quiet village in the UK I once came back from the local grocery shop to find my front door had bounced open instead of locking itself when I’d left and absolutely nothing happened as a result of this mistake, and I don’t expect the same here; and sure, Berlin has a lot of graffiti, but I don’t feel fundamentally unsafe in even the most loudly afearing places like Görlitzer Park or Alexanderplatz — I don’t even get why the latter is on the list of places people talk about when suggesting danger.

Really, the worst I experience here is the fire brigade and ambulance sirens (and, confusingly, one time where the sirens were on a van marked “Netzgesellschaft entstörungsdienst”, which both Google and my own limited German think is something close to “Network company anti-jamming service”, which feels implausible).
The discussion here made me try opening a ZIP file that Windows considered corrupted with 7zip. And it worked! I guess that could imply that it was truncated in transfer?

Edit: Extracting shows a warning regarding data after the last record. Yep, appears to have been truncated.
If you want a party place with a frat house attitude, you should start a social club, not a company. There is no legal way to run a company like that. Hiring only men is illegal. Creating a hostile work environment for women is illegal.
A couple years before pg wrote about classifying email, I was using the same technique on classifying movies. So close...
That scared me too. I just move what I want to delete from the original sync folder over to another folder, causing the phone data to be deleted, I even wrote a script that "partitions" that old data, also syncing to some random server after being fully encrypted (that server ofc doesn't have decryption keys).
Yes! I had noticed this - cool to read more about it.
I honestly don't know why more people don't hear about it and use it. Probably just hasn't hit that "critical mass" yet. I haven't used all of the tools out there, but I've used ECS, K8S and Nomad. Nomad seems to provide the most "efficient use of complexity". What I mean is, for a given increase in complexity, you get more utility out of Nomad than out of the other tools. You don't feel like you're fighting it, or forcing it to do something it wasn't designed for. Even in disaster recover situations, Nomad is surprisingly simple to manage.
It makes the job of the person referring you so much easier. If we agree that getting a referral is the easiest way to get a job, which I think it is, then making the job of the person referring you is the most important thing.

If they can talk about you for a couple of minutes and then email their boss a link to a well written blog post, you derisk the act of referring you. You allow the boss to sell himself by providing the material, so your friend isn't on the hook as badly.
You are assuming that search ranking is determined solely by an intelligent AI. This is not how search engines work. Search ranking is determined by people that decide that sites like A must be ranked higher than sites like B, update the rules and then maybe AI is somehow used to apply those rules made by humans.

So it shouldn't be difficult to explain why the site is ranked higher. But I don't think Google will ever disclose that secrets.
This kind of article is mostly clickbait at this point. There's a lot of "interest" in these kinds of topics and they attract a lot of attention on -funny enough- the same social media platforms.

I believe the main problem with those social media apps is not an issue of time, but of productivity and determination/will-power. Think of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, etc... These are not social networks exactly, but all contain elements from it. I've deleted my Facebook account about 6 years ago now and slowly got off all the other ones after. Now I only use RSS to follow websites I care about. At first I felt like I'm out of a lot of loops and circles of friends, but I later realized that it was all useless anyway, people who I care about and who cared about me still text or call me. I didn't need to know about every little random thing that happens in the world unless I specifically choose to know about it. It later felt really liberating. People were taking about who marked who safe and I just managed with a text message. People talk endlessly about how good/bad social media is and I'm totally out of the entire conversation. Still to this day I meet people who find it very weird that I'm not on Facebook, or if they are as well not on Facebook then probably because they have Reddit/Tiktok/etc.

I can't stress this enough, but I really felt like my productivity was fading away about 6 years ago, after quitting I find the energy to work on the most random stuff that take weeks of work, I don't get interrupted and my interest doesn't fade away from over exposure to random stuff (even if interesting). I've asked friends who felt the same way to try to delete Tiktok (and video games from their PCs) for a month to try to work on something and they all reported great results. Every single one said that they wouldn't have been able to do it if they didn't delete app X.

My point is this; it's not about time, it's about what you get exposed to. If you feel unproductive (compared to what you were before) or think "what could 10 minutes on Tiktok do", try deleting these apps one by one. The difficulty won't be the same for all people, but it'll be manageable for EVERYONE. It's not about being on your phone all the time, it's about being on your phone because you want to do something, not just for mindless scrolling.

(I intentionally did not mention tracking or privacy reasons from this because that's whole other beast of a topic.)

I love this quote from Stephen Fry:

> Jacking out of the matrix would cast one as a hero of the kind of dystopian film that proved popular in the 70s, Logan’s Run, Zardoz, Soylent Green, Fahrenheit 451 … on the run from The Corporation, with the foot soldiers of The System hard on your heels. We really are starting to live in that kind of movie, mutatis mutandis, so surely it’s time to join the Rebels, the Outliers, the Others who live beyond the Wall and read forbidden books, sing forbidden songs and think forbidden thoughts in defiance of The One.

https://www.stephenfry.com/2016/04/off-the-grid/
So i agreed with you until:

> I'd certainly classify that as addictive behavior -- i.e. when a healthy young man is more interested in what's on his phone than he is in the attractive woman sitting across the table from him. Something is very wrong there.

We can definitely debate online life vs "in the flesh" - but it seems small minded to me for you to suggest someones preferences for experience are only the result of unhealthy addiction.

Many would argue your allowance of modern life, from TVs to cars to in city restaurants/etc. That you (or that person, i guess) didn't make a home cooked meal, or go experience nature together - to be an addiction to the modern and lacking in down to earth, honest and real connections.

Not that i agree with any of that of course. My point is that i think there is a perfectly valid possible course where someone prefers to experience their life in cities, in the woods, or in more virtual spaces.

The reality though, and where i agree with you - is that i don't think we actually have a virtual space that _isn't_ fueled entirely be addiction. Powered by highly financed and motivated teams of people.

I just think we need to be cognizant of alternative life styles. Just because commonly certain lifestyles result in unhealthy behavior doesn't inherently mean that lifestyle shouldn't be followed at all. If that was the case i think this argument should probably switch to avoiding much of modern life. As it is full of unhealthy habits and poor balances. We'll be living in the woods pretty soon if we can't recognize the possible healthy and balanced ways to live in the unhealthy-unbalanced minefield that is so many alternate forms of life.
i had some of these problems with earlier versions. removing the database (after making sure everything is on sync) usually solved the issue. but that's years ago.
I wonder much of this is caused by recent installments of agricultural field drainage tile?

Land price increases allow for more farmers to afford to "improve" their farmland by adding underground pipes that quickly wick standing water away into nearby creeks and rivers. What used to be evaporated or absorbed into soils is dumping straight into waterways.
> If we had clean fusion under our current values, we wouldn't live as we do today only cleaner. We would grow again until we hit more limits and had to live again under scarcity or natural calamity. Borlaug worked the second half his career to help people see the consequences of helping solve only part of our system but not the system.

It's almost as if a population of apes that evolved to live in groups of 200 individuals maximum and has survived only by constantly spreading to new areas once resources are depleted can't run a sustainable planetary society.

Every single trait that we need to run a sustainable planetary society is selected against in the local incentive system of both evolution, capitalism, and technological advancement.

Frankly, our greed is eating this planet. And we are greedy because the greedy strategy worked best (evolutionarily) up until now, and greed was baked into our genes by all the selection pressures of the many systems we are a part of and set up ourselves.
Has anyone here switched between (from/to) ownCloud/NextCloud and Syncthing? I'm currently using ownCloud on a BananaPro and I'm really not happy with the performance, but also with some bugs that appear to be a result of this low performance. I have considered Syncthing before but I wonder if anyone else has made the same transition. I'm mostly syncing Windows desktops.
Great, because even 1 complaint there would be too many, wouldn't it?
Is there a checklist you follow when attempting to discredit, redirect, and misrepresent? It's a little formulaic and boring at this point - "quick, change the subject! Accuse of being right wing, conspiracy theorist, crazy, and deluded!"

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
Astronomers See Moons Forming in Disk Around Distant Exoplanet
The point is that a virus is a brute-force mechanism. This introduces a probability (even a low one) that a virus might "choose" to become more nasty in order to elicit a response from a "vaccinated" population.

Vaccinated is in quotes because many of the current vaccines are, admittedly, therapeutics rather than vaccines. The classical definition of a vaccine is something that prevents infection entirely. The current politicized definition of vaccine is something that decreases mortality / symptoms for a specific disease.

We know that these vaccines are "leaky", and now it's just up to random chance to determine whether or not this will lead to a scenario like the chickens. I believe the chance is very low, but it's there.
> I don't have the expertise to critique these findings, but they smell very weird (tiny sample size, control group that seems weirdly specific)

Huh? I think you're misunderstanding the situation here and misapplying a heuristic. That sample size of 40 people may be the universe of cases (at the time) or a significant fraction of it, and I don't know what could be "weirdly specific" about "48 demographically similar healthy controls."