skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is my understanding. I've heard numbers around 10yr +-5, but I've never seen a study on it. I wonder if storing them zip-locked in a freezer would help (but I guess you could just use a magnetic hardrive :D )
Intel’s New Xeon W-3300 Workstation CPUs Get Decimated by AMD’s Threadripper Pro
> For example if you want to customize a Bootstrap button, you need to write additional CSS files

No you don't need to write CSS files for that. Bootstrap also offers utility classes.

If I want to customize padding I can add "p-3" or "p-4" class for example.

Same for other properties including colors like "bd-blue-800".

See: https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.0/customize/color/
My favorite trick was to take a screenshot of the desktop, hide all the icons and the task bar, then set the screenshot as the wallpaper. It gets even the most advanced users every time.
I asked my dad this who's a virologist, and he said this isn't known yet, but it's likely that there isn't really a correlation. The symptoms of the vaccine and the antibody production are caused by two different mechanisms. The first is the innate response which reacts to any antigen and triggers inflammation, fever, etc. The second is the adaptive immune response where your body develops memory B cells which produce neutralizing antibodies that bind to the spike protein and prevent it from entering a cell, and killer T cells which identify infected cells and kill them before the virus can replicate and spread. If you didn't get a fever from the vaccine, it just means that the innate response didn't cause noticeable symptoms, but it doesn't mean that the adaptive response wasn't strong.
My understanding is that the problem with VLIW is that it exposes too much. Anything you expose via the instruction set becomes fixed permanently, so if you have say 4X wide VLIW there is no way to ever make it wider or change how things like dispatching work. The only way to do that would be to start pipelining and scheduling VLIW chunks, in which case you are back where you started.

Instruction level parallelism achieved by decoding a single stream and then sorting and scheduling requires more silicon and a bit more power, but low power high performance superscalar chips like modern ARM64 CPUs have shown that the cost is not that high and that you can go very wide. The M1's Firestorm cores are 8X wide from what I read, which is better than Itanium.

Since the whole superscalar architecture is hidden, it can evolve freely.

That being said I don't think VLIW was a horrible idea at the time, and it might still have a chance if it were revived in specialized high performance or ultra-low-power use cases. The mistake was betting the farm on it.

The other big thing we learned since then is that the important part of RISC wasn't reduced instruction set size, but uniform instruction size and encoding. That allows you to decode arbitrarily wide chunks of instructions in parallel without crazy brute force hacks like those required to do parallel decoding of the variable length X86 instruction stream. The problem with CISC isn't how many instructions there are, but the complexity of the encoding and the presence of a lot of confounding requirements that arise from instructions that to very different things at once (e.g. complex math with memory operands). You want the instruction stream to be trivial to decode and easy to schedule.

In the end the best approach seems to be a simple general purpose instruction set augmented with special instructions for common special cases that can be greatly accelerated this way (e.g. vector operations, floating point, cryptography, etc.), and all with a logical fixed length encoding that is easy to decode in parallel. Load-store architecture and a relaxed memory ordering model seem to also be performance wins since separation of concerns simplifies the scheduler. The future (for conventional CPUs) looks a lot like ARM64 and RISC-V.
Just because something happens often enough to become cliché doesn't mean it's common, representative, or sufficient to move markets. And I've never heard of this, so it might be a noisy but localized thing.
I love little optimizations like this.

What I'm reading is that the node in the b-tree remembers the most recently found index during search, and if the next search happens to be for the same value or one very close, the binary search goes much faster. This only helps in situations where searches correlated in time tend to have nearby key values, but that's probably very common.
> Holy crap, what do they even do with that money?

Free public transport for one.¹

I holidayed there a couple of years ago before they made it free and even then, it was still heavily subsidised. It cost only €4 for a ticket that covered bus, tram or train to anywhere in the country for that day. Even in rural areas, buses were travelling every half hour from early morning until late evening. It was great for long hikes (or kayak trips) and returning by bus. I loved the freedom of it all.

1. https://luxembourg.public.lu/en/living/mobility/public-trans...
I had this as well. It also included sound effects so you stumble to bed late late at night after a long session of _Pathways into Darkness_, or maybe after meeting Achanar for the first time in _Myst_ and just as you're drifting into sleep you're jolted awake by the sound of a communicator establishing a connection, a red alert claxon, or more gently roused by tribbles cooing. You have to stumble back to the computer to turn off the power to your beige Yamaha powered computer speakers.
These people must not have kids! I’ve worked from home for 8 years, 4 of which have been with kids at home.

An office in that situation ends up being important!
Oh interesting, they were going to roll it into xSeries.
Maybe so, but that's a different sort of problem.
Well past it. The bribe is "be a normal everyday docile consumer who minds your own business". This is relatively easy and affordable for most folks
> Oh please, she was an accused murderer. There was no sure proof she did it, nor that she was innocent, so she was cleared

From the Economist:

https://www.economist.com/europe/2015/03/28/innocente

> The Court of Cassation in Rome found Ms Knox and Mr Sollecito not guilty on the grounds that they had “not committed the act”. Italian law recognises different levels of acquittal; this is the most categorical.
This is something I've struggled with in the past as well.

I have a player, NPCs, enemies, and wild animals. Should they have any class hierarchy at all? If my code matches the game world, what happens when I was to add golems and let mages turn castle's into entities that act just like an NPC would? Should my class design be so tightly coupled with the elements of my world? I don't think so but what alternative works best?
You need to make plans to leave the country in an orderly way so you can move somewhere safe with job opportunities.
As someone who was involved with music competitions I can attest to being happier with 3rd than 2nd. For me it was the fact that if I was 3rd, well at least 2 people were better than me, but if I was 2nd (and it was a close competition) it became an issue of "why did I loose?"

When competition is close you can loose for factors outside of the competition itself. You can loose because of differences in judging opinions or because of a Judge not liking you, worse ranked competitors can win due to scoring calculation systems, you can even loose biased on how hungry or how bad the judges last meal was.
Flash and Java applets were a big thing, these ARE client side languages. But to work well the vendor had to install a runtime on your PC. Back in the day JavaScript/HTML was too slow and inconsistent for intensive client side work. So people that wanted into intense client side apps used these runtimes.

Cross platform support across many vendors has always been hard. Look at cross platform libraries in C. Different compilers, OS, and std library implementations. Python or Ruby on the other hand have one “vendor” that works to make the runtime consistent on different platforms.

So for something like Python or Ruby to work well, it’d need to either be:

1. A central vendor driving development, who would need to manage and install a runtime on your computer

Or

2. All browser vendors have to buy into a single spec and make a very consistent implementation across their browsers.

Or

3. Compile to JavaScript (or web asm etc)

For (2) browser vendors already invest heavily in JavaScript and have a hard time keeping up! For (1) I’m not sure why any language vendor cares to try to compete with JavaScript seriously. The browser is quite different environment than the CLI or Desktop that it’d be a significant investment without clear upside.

We do see (3) with Typescript and Coffeescript. These create some debugging friction. Also as JavaScript gets marginally better the appeal of these other languages can feel more niche, and many people just use the common denominator.
I didn't know Ward Cunningham had a YouTube channel.
Everyone knows you don't eat or drink around a computer. /s

But in all seriously, is this regular use? If I'm driving a Lamborghini, and I misshift, grind gears, and break a synchronizer is it my fault or lamborgini's for having crappy gears.
A person having $10m spare to invest, and coming to NZ to invest it, is exactly the kind of person who goes and buys properties to flip or sell or hold as renter-subsidized investment properties.
Yes, this is exactly what I am saying. I did not say a word about whether people should or should not take the vaccine. Obviously, as long as vaccines work, the more people get them the better. This is a statement of fact. What I wrote about in my previous comments is why some people are hesitant.

That you chose to read my comments as an instruction for people on how to act, is entirely on you.
Yes, but that's irrelevant for a discussion on restrictions for society. (One might argue how well a insurance of whatever kind should cover for obesity etc.)

The discussion here was about COVID and need for restrictions and restrictions come from the infectious nature.
The first step is to use a word besides "privelege" since that's an ideologically loaded term that, regardless of the many definitions its believers and confused non-believers will offer you, is functionally a form of original sin that can never be truly wiped clean, requiring eternal penance from the privileged.

If you don't agree with that concept, you shouldn't cede the linguistic territory by using the term coined by the people who invented that concept
You think vaccinated people die from COVID and people think they were hit by a bus?

Enough to make the ratio 150:17850 in roughly equally-sized populations of vaccinated and unvaccinated people? So for every hundred people dying from COVID, 99 are missed?
Are those fines really collected?
I know Russia has troubles collecting fines say from Twitter.
Google always successfully "negotiate" them way down.
cat /dev/zero > /dev/null
Very cool project. Thanks for sharing.
What's the alternative? Giving the responsibility of resource allocation to the state? Aren't they the ones who locked her up, which is the overwhelmingly huge original problem?

The state locked someone up who it knew was innocent, and years later a business badly misrepresented that person's story. Damn it, capitalism!
> One could claim that just refactoring code without changing anything is a "purely technical" exercise.

The reason is still partly non technical; the goal is to make future changes less costly or less dangerous.
That's also the reaction [1] of "La Quadruature du Net", the association that brought the complaint

"(...) this historical fine shows even more blatantly the complete resignation of the Irish authority for data protection, which in 3 years hasn't been able to process any of the 4 other claims we made against Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Google."

it also goes after the French authority for data protection (CNIL) to say basically: you used to be one of the best in Europe, now you're a mere shadow of your former self

[1] https://www.laquadrature.net/2021/07/30/amende-de-746-millio...
I have tapes as my last line of defence (ZFS snapshots, backups to NAS, online are my earlier lines of defence).

The hardware itself is relatively simple but (at least in my experience - I tried quite a few options but they were all missing at least one key feature) there's no good "set and forget" software solution out there in the same way as there is for online backups so you're going to spend a long time scripting it all and tweaking it properly. You can build a solution on top of whichever other tools fit your needs that way. I have a set of scripts which create my backups in single large files on disk ready to be spooled out, then I use mbuffer to actually put the data onto tape.

In terms of hardware, 1 or 2 generation old LTO drives are often available for a decent price in good condition on eBay. You'll also need either an SAS or Fibre Channel interface depending on what drive you buy. As far as I can tell they're pretty much all supported by Linux these days.

Given the complexity of scripting and potential for user errors, testing that you can restore properly is pretty well essential, of course.
Has anyone traced the history as to when equity, which has historically meant fairness, got corrupted to mean "equality of outcome", which is really the opposite of fairness?

I've recently discovered Thomas Sowell and I'm really itching to find time to read his book on the subject: Discrimination and disparities.
There are plenty of ways to make money that don't involve screwing over innocent people. Maybe I'm a bleeding heart socialist, but I think the moral imperative to blue ruin someone's life trumps the one to make a few more dollars.
Almost oil and gas spills and fires get effectively no attention, despite their being a very significant number of them. Typically only the largest disasters get any sort of coverage, unlike battery technology.
Yea, some people sleep in hammocks.
Observation of Time-Crystalline Eigenstate Order on a Quantum Processor
No, it isn't irrelevant. You seem to have missed my point entirely.

An obese individual poses more risks to others than a non-obese individual. They are more susceptible to every disease, which means that if you interact with them in a public place, you are placed more at risk. Obesity itself is also starting to be deemed socially contagious.

> TUESDAY, Jan. 23, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Living in a neighborhood with a high rate of obesity might raise the odds that you and your children will become plus-sized, too.

https://www.webmd.com/diet/obesity/news/20180123/is-obesity-...
>Maybe we figure out how to dodge most of those bullets and end up in Star Trek?

Even in Star Trek society didn't dodge those bullets, they just plowed through them and learned from their past.
I don’t have a source, but I think I remember seeing something about this in the context of a study about olympic swimming, back in my swimming days, for what little that’s worth.
> Best screensaver I used to have was the BSOD one from xscreensaver, so many people fell for it.

Same here - including myself, when I came back from a bathroom break to find it had landed on the MacOS error screen.
I wonder at what point anyone will be willing to work for them and at what salary, though.

Surely there comes a point where even paying triple the standard rate, you can't get more engineers working on dusty old code while remaining profitable and their customers' best offer.
> The speed at which nAb resistance develops in the population increases substantially as the number of infected individuals increases, suggesting that complementary strategies to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission that exert specific pressure on other proteins (e.g., antiviral prophylactics) or that do not exert a specific selective pressure on the virus (e.g., high-efficiency air filtration, masking, ultraviolet air purification) are key to reducing the risk of immune escape"

So the CDC made a grave error in telling vaccinated people they could remove their masks.
Start you some alternate, backup accounts on sites that you might want to keep using. have email accounts at several providers and scatter the other accounts among them. Premade throwaways, if you will, to prevent what just happened to you repeating.

Deleting things off the net isn't reliable; but if you've said things you might worry about later you can go delete them now and at least you'll be able to point to that as a disavowal if need be. If you're really worried about something you've said, maybe update it with a retraction an/or publish such separately.

And of course VPNs etc etc... act like you're selling horse porn and keep some in stock, just for cover.
Yup, holding out.
I never understand the ability to work on a laptop. For me it would be a significant blow to my productivity. How do people do it?

I have 3 full monitors, one for running 10 or so processes that I can glance at stdout, then the other two monitors for having many different editor files open, numerous data plots, and multiple reference guides open, etc.
U.S. Crypto Traders Evade Offshore Exchange Bans
Yeah, coz those are huge. This is just one unit not the entire facility as the title implies.
this hurts my wrist, neck, and back to think about
> I thought she was exaggerating when she complained about people accusing her of being a media whore

Not to pick on you, but why would you reflexively think her to be exaggerating about being called a media whore? People do that with literally everyone whose public complaints become a news story. And what motive would Amanda Knox have in particular? She was labeled an actual whore for the many years when the case was still in active prosecution.
I'm italian and I remember very well the shitshow that followed the tragedy. When a case has no clear ending, and the press has already issued its weekly verdicts, noone comes out fully innocent and in that moment justice has failed.

I'm surprised to read her name for the second time in two weeks, now even here on hn.

Just a week ago, out of the blue, even if people had rightfully forgotten her...

https://twitter.com/amandaknox/status/1418628570453200897

She has all the rights to tweet everything she wants, but that's not the best way to go under the radar.

I'm convinced that, when there's the will, the world is big enough for anyone to disappear and get a new life.
If you click the URL bar, then press ctrl-F / cmd-F, browser-native search should work. In my experience, this works around sites that override those keyboard shortcuts in JS to implement custom search functionality.
Let's keep our focus: Jumping ship is not always the solution
>floats the idea of defaming and slandering Matt Damon under the guise of fictionalization. She makes an excellent point-- Matt wouldn't put up with that.

But it seems like Matt Damon would have to put up with it. What could Matt realistically do? Filing a lawsuit would probably go nowhere. See the informal "small penis" rule by fiction writers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_penis_rule

The 2010 film "The Social Network" didn't even bother with fictionalized names and made Mark Zuckerberg look bad but he didn't sue. One legal opinion thinks MZ didn't have an easy case of defamation which would make the lawsuit a waste of time: https://www.litigationandtrial.com/2010/07/articles/the-law/...
On a long enough timeline, 99% turns into a much lower cumulative probability number - even if it doesn't weaken over time.

That's why it's essential to work towards having the whole world vaccinated, and to understand that weakening so we can do boosters where appropriate.
Harvard Astrophysicist: We Will Need Advanced AI to Speak with Aliens
Accurate Throughput Prediction of Basic Blocks on Intel Microarchitectures
> They throw a lot of their weight around and bully small local governments into succumbing to their conquests. They are a largely unethical company, IMO, and supporting them risks further eroding small business and democratic checks and balances everywhere.

If you strip out the first sentence, and leave the rest... I think you've just ruled out every large corporation, and especially all of the tech megacorps.
"While I know of some really good cloud providers, such as rsync.net and Tarsnap, I recommend that you never trust cloud providers blindly."

This is very good advice.

That being said, humans need heuristics and shortcuts to aid in decision-making. I hope the fact that rsync.net has been doing this work since 2001 is helpful in that regard.

...

"There exist some really cool open source backup solutions such as Borg, Restic and duplicity, but you should never rely solely on these "complex" solutions. These tools work really great, until they don't! In the past I have lost data to duplicity and other tools."

I think this is very good advice as well - and that is coming from someone who has whole-heartedly endorsed 'borg' as a backup tool and regularly recommends it. It is the "holy grail of backups"[1] after all ...

It's also a magic black box for most users and would be difficult to work out failures.

The safest and (in my opinion) most useful workflow is to back up your data locally to some kind of NAS or fileserver using plain old rsync and then back up that fileserver to rsync.net (or whomever) using the fancy borg tool.

Now you have quick and simple local restores but still have a backup in the cloud that requires zero trust in the provider.

[1] https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/
Don't worry, HP sells more than enough inkjet cartridges to keep their evil mastermind dreams alive

(I know that's not HPE's business, but whatever)
No it doesn't. The interest on the mortgage can be as low as 0.5%, so even if you pay in cash, you would only be at 1,5% yields (with my generous example of achieving 1% yields via the rent).

The "appreciation" is not a given and not risk free at all. Certainly not 9% per year - for how many years do you think that would continue?
Maybe they should join forces with https://tldrlegal.com/
I knew nothing of this case until today but it seems like he breached an injunction against reporting the identity of complainants or information that could lead to their identification. From the little bit of reading I’ve done it seems pretty like an open and shut case (and I actually went into my reading expecting my be on Murray’s side).

Can anybody explain why there is an injustice here? Almost every comment I see here in his favour gives no reason why this is unjust.
> The WebAudio API is implemented in Rust

Ah yup, for Servo that would make sense eh?

Well neato. I hope you do, seems useful. Audio landscape needs more options besides JUCE and iPlug2.
This is nuts arrested for reporting on the justice system, thats a pretty fucked justice system.
"Two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech or Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine are estimated to be 96% and 92% effective against hospitalisation with the Delta variant, respectively

Vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic cases with the Delta variant is estimated to be 88% after both doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and 67% after both doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine."

Source:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...
Michael Knowles latest book, "Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds", delves extensively into this subject. The PC culture partially wins by corrupting language; redefining words to mean new things, often the opposite of what they used to mean. "Privilege" is one of those corrupted words. So is "equity". These words used to mean something far different than they are being used for now.
Before PulseAudio there was ESD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightened_Sound_Daemon