skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would like the suggest the Itanium was a huge business success. At the start of the 90s, there were many decent workstation CPUs: SPARC, MIPS, PowerPC, Alpha, and PA-RISC. Intel CPUs were not considered in the same class. Big engineering work was done on workstations powered by these chips. But as the decade went on, the chips became vastly more complex and expensive to design. Near the middle of the decade, it was becoming clear what the trajectory was and companies started looking around trying to figure out how to navigate this. On top of this problem, Intel/HP teamed up to design a processor that was quite beyond (in terms of complexity) anything being designed at the time and it became clear competing was just not economically feasible. So basically the industry folded. In one move, Intel took out entire industry of companies that could compete. PowerPC is still there, but is marginal. SPARC, PA-RISC, MIPS, and Alpha design teams are gone.

Interesting technical tidbit - I remember an Intel engineer giving a talk at Stanford about the architecture and Hennessy came to listen. At the end of the talk he asked why they thought moving so much complexity to the compiler would work when other (including John) found it to be problematic? They didn't have an answer and I could see the look on John's face and at that point realized they might not understand what they are getting into.
Google disabled my wife's voice number and business account for several weeks, right after she ordered new business cards, signs, and started a marketing campaign. They continued to charge her for Google ads each week.

Her accounts were re-enabled about 7 - 8 weeks later. No explanation given.

She averages 2 - 5 new customers per week, gained largely through referrals and her marketing campaigns, so Google's actions had a significant impact on her business.

My wife cancelled her accounts with Google after transferring her voice number. I've also moved off of GCP for my side businesses, and several people within our network have done the same after hearing about our situation. I've even stopped using their search engine, and am moving away from gmail.

I advise anyone considering Google's products to look elsewhere.
So it's really not technical debt, but rather cognitive debt? In Rumsfeldian, it is the difference between the current known knowns and the previous known unknowns. That hard won knowledge should be plowed into the source code, via refactoring, before it is lost.

Source code is the expression of knowledge about a problem
that happens to be machine readable.

Test code is the expression of knowledge about how things can go wrong solving the problem, and it happens to be machine readable as well.

I agree that a sad aspect to this is the use of a money metaphor. Once the Silicon Valley types hear a finance term, they lock on to it as something to be optimized, and deployed as a tool. It leads people astray.
Many times is that we are going to use you and burn you out in 2 years, but the pay is x3 of your current TC.
This was my approach on most of the cars I've had over the years, but I'm finding it is either harder or less desirable as the headhunt starts to control more of the car than before, namely the A/C. My 2017 Honda Civic shows temp and settings on the display, despite physical controls, and I'm not sure how that translates to a new head unit anymore. Fortunately, I'm comfortable in my CarPlay cocoon. Have you had good experiences with head units that control more of the car? I have the itch.
I think the thing with Tailwind that people are missing is the opinion that CSS's bigger general purpose classes to avoid repetition have failed. However, most of us are using some kind of HTML templating system. What matters is that the design work only happens once in the code, repetition in the finished product is just fine. So moving the job of avoiding repetition out of CSS and into your HTML templating system is the right way to go.
What F.r.i.e.n.d.s. Can Teach You About Software Development
Doh, misread the question
I think if it comes out in favor of the uploader the strike goes away. If not yeah I think it counts against them. I also think if they have content that tweaks it and they remove it the strike goes away.
I would suggest the use of convention like SuitCss for your custom component classes so you can lint them thoroughly to ensure low specificity.

I would recommend to use a prefix on your custom classes, to "namespace" them. "btn" is far too generic. This can even be linted by eg. postcss-bem-linter.
Related: botanically, a banana is a berry.
I'll be sure to tell all the thousands of small business owners who were forced to permanently shutter their business that it was just a simple mask mandate after all.
Can Redis be used as a primary database? [video]
You really have to try and make an insecure implementation of something like the noise protocols, for example.
> We’ve built systems that create content faster and better than a normal human BS filter can block.

How does this work? Specifically the faster than a normal humans BS filter.
I am not sure this is production-ready. I had a look over some components and the UI/UX is poor in general (bad alignment, padding, bad accessibility, no proper focus traps, no keyboard support, etc.). Maybe some of those are lacking because it is a CSS-only implementation? But you still can't use them as it is without proper accessibility support.
Last year I went down a long rabbit hole of trying to get the original After Dark screen saver to run on macOS. I got pretty close; following a guide and using a Wine wrapper I was able to create a stand alone application that when launched runs After Dark full screen. Wiggling the mouse would exit full screen and close the app. The only part I am missing is getting macOS to launch an app instead of a traditional screen saver.

A link to the original guide and the modified steps I used:
https://gist.github.com/atommclain/863e5cd47ab714c1e4e966606...
Obtaining intimate contact with, engaging, or clamping bodies of any shape
Was it the Starry Night screensaver in After Dark? I remember staring in awe at my parents’ Mac Plus showing this thing, when I was a kid.
If you are so successful why did you have to use military to coerce people into doing it? That's not success thats failure. If we can't agree on that I guess we just have to agree to disagree.
I wonder if they also studied T-cell responses. Because depending on the T-cell responses, this might have different implications for how long the vaccine protects people.

T-cell based protection persists while antibody counts wane over time. If these break through cases are a model for people who had their last vaccine shot years ago, it might imply that you need to get vaccinated regularly to actually be protected from symptomatic covid infections. Nobody wants to be affected by symptoms for weeks, but apparently in these break through cases, 19% still had symptoms 6 weeks after their infection.
“… I do regret not taking full advantage of them”

Knowing how to do so - or even what ‘full advantage’ includes - is almost certainly one of those ‘you don’t know what you don’t know’ things. Obvious later in your career, but invisible at the time.
This reminds me of recently learning more about ancient Rome. Since most stuff except for some monuments was built with wood, it's all gone now.

Most people lived in 3 or 4 IIRC story rowhouses. The richest were at the bottom nearest the latrine, and had their own kitchen and servants to work the kitchen. The middle class were in the middle, with some kitchen facilities they operated themselves. The poorest were at the top with no way to cook and relied on street carts.

I was kinda shocked to read this description and how similar it was to a modern city. But since all that is wood, it's all gone. We only know even this because Rome was such a powerful and rich culture that there was a lot of writing, and a comparatively lot got saved for centuries. (Although the vast majority has still been lost, just from estimating based on works cited by ancient works that we don't have copies of)

Writing wasn't cheap, and preserving and transmitting writing isn't cheap. Writing about obvious everyday stuff everyone knows in such an environment has a much smaller chance of making it through the many historical hoops it needed to make its way to us.

Many other more prehistorical places could well have had significant buildup that we would recognize as modern in all but industrialization, but except when someone went to the trouble to build with stone instead of the more common random natural materials like wood.... all gone.

Who knows what went on that we just will never know about because it didn't get written down enough or the culture that wrote it wasn't powerful enough or long lived enough to preserve enough of those writings?

(IANA historian and might be a bit or a lot off. Biggest sources are "Rome: A history in seven sackings" and "Against the grain" Not trying to make strong claims here, just a general sense of wonder at how big the gap between what we assume about the past and what actually was could be. As a layman just dipping my toe into learning more about early history / prehistory, it's shocking and fascinating)
At least the Luxembourg DPA is doing its job, unlike the Irish DPA that seems to think it is a division of the Irish Industrial Development Agency charged with shielding multinationals from accountability.
I'm not sure, but that is a good question. I tend to think that the data sources could count the same individual multiple times because the report ("2019-methodological-summary-and-definitions") says so:

See: https://www.samhsa.gov/data/report/2019-methodological-summa...

> An important issue for users of NSDUH and TEDS data to consider is that the unit of analysis for TEDS is admissions to substance use treatment, whereas NSDUH estimates are for individuals who received substance use treatment. Consequently, individuals who were admitted to substance use treatment multiple times in the reporting period would be counted more than once in the TEDS admissions data.

Earlier in that same document, the authors state that they only ask these two categories about suicidal thoughts:

- the individual is over 18

- the individual is under or over 18, but has had a major depressive episode (MDE)

The statistics also include multiple studies with variable sampling beyond NSDUH and TEDS. I think the best one can do is to presume mixed data, which would indeed include repeat attempts for the same individual.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1421014957110579203.html
AFAIK Intel and HP spent well north of $1B on VLIW compiler research, with crickets to show for it all.

The people prophesying the second coming of VLIW (for general purpose code) seriously need to explain the compiler breakthroughs that have been done to make the whole affair worthwhile.
Considering Amazon's revenue of $443 billion (last twelve months), this fine is less than one day's worth of revenue.
Well written. Well said. What a timeless post.
Ironically, you may not realize how accurate that is because the amount that will end up being paid is far far less after all the bribing and court cases and buying off/buttering up politicians and judges, etc.

It would be worth it for some government accountability group to track just how much the difference is between the fine levied and the amount paid. It's literally never the amount published so the people are assuaged.
I wouldn't be surprised if all this bruhaha is to kick them out from a lucrative market. Just curious if it's an American company or Russians trying to find jobs for their hacking forces, now that the US elections are over.
Does this also apply to German companies (I'm ignorant on this matter)? If not, all this regulation does is build a massive moat around US Tech companies
Thin, light-grey letters on white background indeed have poor contrast, but then again: thin, bright-red letters on white background have excellent contrast but are arguably even worse.
I'm pretty surprised to hear "MegaBank" ran AMD. Not that Opteron wasn't awesome and better than what Intel had at most things, at least until Woodcrest if not Nehalem. But because MegaBanks are usually pretty conservative. More than a few still run mainframes and proprietary unixes.

Unless you worked in their HFT group, that is.
10 billion market cap sound like a good evaluation for a company founded on complete fraud. The car experts at GM will probably give them another billion
Don’t forget HP and Oracle have been in a lawsuit for a decade about Oracle dropping support for Itanium. Oracle is on the hook for 3 billion.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/oracle-loses-bid...
The best case is a series of small refactors that split up modules that do too many things and combine modules that always work together and don't benefit from the separation. And most importantly to reduce pieces of code reaching in to the internals of other pieces.

There is no need to do a 2.0, and the number of lines of code will often drop. Though that depends on how much edge case handling code was skipped in the debt version.
a peanut is neither a pea nor a nut I think the author was drawing parallels to this aphorism so their writing would not come off as soulless and mechanical as your writing style.
Good question! We had the same one. They had a satellite phone.

edit: What I find interesting is that the things had location tracking built in and no one blinked an eye.
Germany only bans political views that oppose democracy. That's fine with the EU charter, which states "The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, [...]"
Oracle loses bid to upend HP’s $3B win
Second lab worker with deadly prion disease prompts research pause in France
Yes, it works when your best people get tired of middle management interference and quit to form a consultancy that upper management eventually hire in desperation.
Having worked in a US health tech start-up (and done some compliance work there), and now working with GDPR as a US company, I'm similarly frustrated with how imprecisely the regulations are worded. US health information privacy laws are much easier to interpret and follow. Large, important parts of GDPR compliance hinge on wording like "the processing is not occasional." "Occasional" is not defined in the regulations, and different countries' advisory bodies have completely opposite interpretations about what it means.
> BTW: The opposite to Multics the "Incompatible Timesharing System" gets some Maintenance-(love) too

The lore I heard was that ITS was the reaction to CTS but now that you mentioned this, I did some research and it looks like the you're right and the project MAC folks were just making a pun on the name, but wrote ITS in response to multics, as you said. Thanks for mentioning that!
I got used to twitter threads, it's like when you get one portion of information per tweet
Facial expression software confirms bronze medalists happier than silver
my calculations might be incorrect but is the prebate at federal poverty level usually less generous than the current system?

Two people, married filing joint status: currently $25k standard deduction. Current FPL for two: $17.4k. I picked a couple with no kids because the higher refundable child tax credits just started and raise the bar for where federal income taxes start on a family of four (nb: they pay many other taxes: state, FICA, sales, property...)

There is a talking point from some on the right that 47% of US households pay no federal income tax that also makes me think this could be a net negative for many.
At what? Amazon having to pay a large fine for illegal activities?
huh? both Mom and Dad - you lost a great number of people right there.. pulling their supers? over-65 wealth is that common? and this one, really interesting.. "gifting" .. what is that ? I see tooth-and-nail fights over any piece of money in sight among otherwise ordinary relatives.. Mostly Los Angeles SoCal but everywhere in California really.. "gifting" ?!?
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This is what I thought too.
> #8 Not enough whitespace

If anything software has TOO MUCH whitespace these days. It seems like with every UI update, everything gets 10% more padding, and I have to scroll more and more to see something that used to fit on one page. I bought a 34" monitor for a reason! Give me information density!!
MIPS is very, very close to dead now.

To be fair though, I think its death is more attributable to ARM than Itanium. And RISC-V is killing off anything that remained.
It would be better to require a license for (any) data processing at scale which is easily granted (covering all possible use cases) but can be perpetually revoked. That would be taken much more serious than these fines.
"Computer scientists and ‘techies’ wear the ‘neurodiverse’ label with pride"

Is this true? Maybe I'm missing some context on this claim.
I'd rather take the side of the end users. Don't forget developers are end users too. Developers benefit from an open ecosystem, not the locked down silo'd web that Chrome is pushing for.
Minor historical footnote: HP paid Progeny (Ian Murdock's company he founded years after creating Debian) to help port Debian packages to Itanium. They gave us a first-generation computer, which was epically slow of course.

That contract helped keep Progeny alive after the venture capital funding dried up; the company's original plan was to allow customers to reboot their Windows desktop computers overnight to run as a distributed Linux supercomputer.
I still think about the quote I once heard around that era... "Made with Bootstrap" is the "ft. Pitbull" of web design.
Darn, I was hoping this would be an article about organizing one's files. I was really in the mood for reading about that, then spending the rest of the morning reworking my own system.
Test out first, if possible, everyone is built differently. For a lot of us the Aeron puts pressure on our legs at the front edge of the seat, and it can become painful. Not something you notice in the first few minutes, but fairly quickly. For those people, the Leap v2 is usually a better option.
I recently watched a video of someone making a 3d-printed version of these, they called it a 'fractal vise'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCfw9fd0mHg
Yup. For instance, he mentions interest rate. Why? How is it useful to think about it and precisely define it in this context?
Next article: the cloud isn't even a cloud, it isn't made out of small particles of water!
Imagine a fly bumping against a glass roof. That is what humanity was for most of its time in the past. Ressources oversupply, exponential growth, bump, war and then dump back into the valley of exaustion. Rince and repeat. Those who could repeat faster and without distraction, and add more genetic lottery tickets to the cycle, got rewarded by being more numerous.

Try to envision humanity, not as a carbon copy of the same template, neuralwise, but as a adaptable to circumstances by shifting neuro-sub-group-proportions as a FFT curve mapped to the cycle.

Those that were able to drag the society towards the part of the cycle that is most adapted to their lifestyle, got rewarded. These adaptions to the various stages of the cycle, is what we call mental sickness now - or neuro diversity.

Now riddle me this. The cycle produces a creature, that is optimized for war. No compassion, no obsession but the one for the fight, no love, but for abstract concepts like the group, the country.

How to integrate such a element into a society? If a facist, is just a mental-adaption to a world were the roof comes down every generation, were does it have a place in that city on the hill?

Neuro-diversity is just a placeholder for a problem that is slowly recognized, but in the end, we will have to rewrite ourselves.. its the only way to get rid of lots of baggage.

The schizophrenic living in the cardboard box outside of your office, is optimized for dangerous times, hostile environments, wandering great distances and improvisation. It could be useful if retrained and forced to contribute, but then again, is neuro-diversity a idea, that has a willingness to invest behind it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_mobility != https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility
I worked with the Intel i960CA parts and the i960MX parts, while working for Applied Microsystems Corporation (now defunct.)

Applied made high-end in-circuit emulators. My team worked on software for execution trace disassemblers. We had wide and deep memories and could record something like 16,384 bus cycles in emulator (trace) memory.

Once we had some bus cycles to analyze, we’d sort out what the processor had done when it ran (an execution trace) and show it. It was a great tool for answering questions like “How did I get here?” when your embedded code jumped off into the weeds.

The i960CA was relatively simple to work with. The i960MX was a lot more complicated, as I recall.
large for once but insignificant at the same time.
Oh. I didn't realize that by "pedantic" you meant you were giving the wrong answer. Because the real answer is just as pedantic.
Excellent article--thanks for it. California has the initiative process. I don't know how specifically to frame the issues, this issue. However I regard the web browser as pivotal in history as the invention of paper and the printing press. I also know large ride-hailing companies directly used the initiative process to undermine fair competition in California of all places. If you frame the issue properly it could have an impact. I recall seeing initiatives around caged chickens, which if passed hurt protein sources for single moms and poor families. And force feeding geese grain (which most animals regard like humans do heroin). So if you frame the issue properly you'd like get some results.
Feel your pain. At my last job I worked with mostly EMEA and mainly EU countries. Worked directly with our lawyers in the EU to makes sense of it all. This was right when the GDPR was looming and it was stressful to figure out how to comply.
Not only that, but those governments also subsidize things like 30 year fixed rate mortgages with government guarantees.

So not only is there more money burning a hole in people's pockets, the artificially low rates create massive leverage.

I wager that if home buyers had to convince private hard-money lenders to give them 30 year mortgages the rates may increase. (Imagine if houses were denominated in gold)
Wow, this whole issue so low...

In the years before, how often were you vaccinated? Exactly: you probably weren't. Millions of vaccinations were given ib the last few months, orders of magnitude more than usual. And while most are usually given to toddlers, now the 60 to 95 year-olds got most of the vaccinations.

You know what happens a lot to 80 year olds in the six months after they are vaccinated? They die.

You know what happens a lot to 80 year olds in the six months after eating ice cream? They die.

Also, as has been reported plenty of times, read by you (in, for example, the article above), and ignored because it doesn't fit your worldview, is that VAERS is, as the URL says, "open". It's a relic from a time where people tended to be sane, and wouldn't just submit all sorts of imaginary things to a medical database.

The article cited above summarises what the people collecting that data have concluded from it. How can you make an argument about the data they collect and publish, implying that you trust them, and then, in the very next breath ignore them and, I assume, next accuse them of being either too stupid or corrupt to say anything about that data?