skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even such a task is subject to very specific requirements, because adding a number between 128 and 256 may be enough to take another path in the microcode depending on if the result overflows or not. I'm not saying this happens kn practice, but I wouldn't be surprised if a future generation of processor would do this and make the entire benchmark invalid from that point on.

A more likely scenario for such independent instructions would operate on an entire bit string, like boolean operators and vector instructions. I think you'd have a tough time producing any useful output from such an algorithm, though, because you wouldn't be able to do much with conditionals to keep the branch predictor score fair.

I don't think that there are any algorithms that could operate within a generic benchmark that could have random elements in them _and_ product a useful result. Either the calculations are different and fair but meaningless, or they're exactly the same with the same result.
Protesting against a war is nowhere comparable to demanding speech (correct pronouns and affirming the original sin of inevitable white racism). In fact, people from that era are marginalized because their brand of wokeness is no longer sufficient and too libertarian.

Back in those days one could also see Chomsky discussing with William Buckley (impossible today) and Enoch Powell discussing with people on the left.
Good point, but I bet this could be changed in ZFS.
True, but there's also nothing here you couldn't do with a pretty standard Django or Rails setup.
GOG pulls Hitman from store, admits shouldn't have released in its current form
This seems insanely over-engineered.

Yet, look at the source and the first thing that pops out is:

// this is a temporary solution until I can figure out a safe way to do this on the server
if (window.location.protocol === 'http:') {
window.location.href = window.location.href.replace('http:', 'https:');
}
>> The radical change here is that now anyone with some pocket change in crypto can deploy a decentralized application. We don't know how that's going to be used yet, it's still so early, but it's certainly exciting.

What about decentralized malware?

Web3 seems like a perfect opportunity for malware applications and hosting illicit content.

Have some CSAM you want to host? Put it on Web3! Want to dox someone or leak sensitive info captured in a hack? Put it on Web3!

Edit: This also begs the question: what legal liability might one face for hosting illegal content on Web3?
Yes obviously that's what you want, but the public interest is not served by having an economy of which increasingly large parts are held by dead persons and their unaccountable proxies.
Steam Deck Teardown: How Valve Designs Hardware
Fractal boards in WorkFlowy: a new way to organize
N-Ray
You seem to be pointing at the same problem, just under a different (and reasonably interesting) angle.
Complexity sells.

People in tech are generally terrified of saying “this seems too complicated” because it sounds close to “I’m not smart.” Combine with the snow-job culture of tech sales and, well, you get what we’ve ended up with.
We don't know whether the search for further Mersenne primes eventually gives birth to a new algorithm which will enable further advances in other fields.
e.g.

https://news.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/317006/affir...
What are you proposing to do with it when you're dead?
You are drastically misunderstanding arguments that you are parroting.

When you see a physical dollar bill , the federal government, specifically the Beaureu of engraving and printing, printed that money.

Which is however not what people mean when they say printing money in this context. In that case they are talking about monetary policy, generally old-school OMO or recently it's variation QE which expands the feds balance sheet with recently created money ( ie they print the money digitally to expand their balance sheet)

Banks engaging in fractional reserve lending does increase the money supply but economists and the financial press do not refer to this as printing money, they refer to it as lending.

And finally the "the government isn't a household" argument has grains of truth but is also incredibly trite and fails to understand the many ways in which they are accountable to the same forces a household is accountable to.
Ha, I would not be surprised if a lot of the related iteration work is done via PCI(-e). Those cards are probably a) already being made and are well-understood, and b) part of an accepted single-order-quantity cycle, which would mean the runway needed to iterate a few more times to make the card releasable would theoretically not only be that hard to justify but be able to reuse existing processes.

I feel like the amd64 legacy (and x86 in general) will maybe be like IPv4. Itanium, OpenSPARC, SH4, MIPS, Coldfire, etc (incl. many more I'm forgetting) all eked out a living for a while after they "died" as platforms, while others like POWER are still around. x86 on the other hand has been the leading-edge architecture for virtually all client and server applications on for literally 40 years, without missing a beat. That graph has been pinned at pretty much 100% for that entire time.

So, yeah, the ARM revolution is here, but even in a world where Intel and AMD pivoted all their advertising to ARM, the x86 industry would still have enough ecosystem-driven momentum to continue to stay pegged at 100% for probably another 15-20 years. But that's not the reality - Intel and AMD aren't going to pivot away from all the contracts and partnerships and carefully nurtured deals and stuff they've hard won over the years, so there's definitely going to be continued life in the platform.

Or at least that's my mental model, which absolutely does not account for network effects.

This being said, the relative openness of the ARM licensing situation, along with the fact that the architecture hasn't fully matured in terms of peripheral and chipset configuration and whatnot, makes ARM a very very interesting platform to do exactly what you mention regarding 1980s-esque "industrial-scale experiment" type computing. I actually got bitten by precisely this bug a little while ago :) and have been noodling over the subject ever since.

Sadly, virtually every existing enterprise out there would probably fear such an idea as anything other than an eyes-only thought experiment, and I feel it would be ideologically impossible to fully convince security-conscious customers of the foundational integrity of the systems' roots of trust if I went down the VC route, even if every investor was a unicorn :/
You're wording this in a way that's deliberately representing your ideological opponents in the worst possible faith and light, and if nothing else it demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of not only the views of your opponents, but of people who would be sympathetic to your views if you would take ten seconds to apply tact to your words.

This is the exact opposite of a good-faith argument and a demonstration of exactly the reason why having a person with tact give a speech for outreach is critical.
Let's say it was Sassaman and that it's true that he was primarily a Unix programmer. If he didn't have any pretenses that it would become an immediate hit, he might have focused on coding in his comfort zone. Presumably the people he interacted with who were most interested were probably also Unix users.

On the other hand, he was Bram Cohen's roommate, and he saw BitTorrent take off as a mainstream product. So it's quite possible he was sensitive to the idea that a Windows program would have more viral ability to pick up users.

In any case, he probably would have assumed that if the system gained even a minimal level of adoption, it would quickly be ported to all platforms.
The trustee must live in South Dakota for at least half the year. I'm unsure if there are any other taxes involved but it at least creates a number of high income financial jobs in the state.
Pass it on to whomever I choose. Since it is, you know, my money.
Looks like he is selling courses(have to justify those prices somehow) and simple stable boring stuff doesn't sell ;)
Those are both good insights.

Living around the world, I've felt a baseline anxiety while being surrounded by 'other' there's no doubt about it.

Being surrounded by 'people like you' feels like 'home' and that anxiety goes away.

Very obviously the same reason people in those situations often move to sub-communities in those regions where there are like-minded peers.

The term 'xenophobia' I think is misapplied in too many contexts. I suggest people are more often ethnocentric than they are xenophobic.
I wonder if those folks know the service they did for the next generation of computer professional? I remember the blue and green books they sent me. I poured over those things. Having some big company just send me books was amazing and really made me feel like I could be a programmer. Mine are in the same box as the NeXTSTEP documentation I would have as a professional.

That one little bone thrown to some nobody, poor kid in rural North Dakota was a lifesaver and light in the darkness.
What's complex about a blogging/marketing/workshop site? Or did you forget a /s?

I don't see any content here that couldn't be done with any of half a dozen site hosting platforms, maybe require a couple of plugins. Wix, Squarespace, Weebly, even good ol' Automattic/Wordpress could do this. Perhaps clunkier, less performant, less customized, but functionally sufficient.
It's always important to compare the whole economy, not just a single number. For context, the median income in 1940 was $18680 in 2021 dollars ($956 in 1940, https://www.npr.org/2012/04/02/149575704/the-1940-census-72-...)

So in terms of the income of the average US man[1] in 1940 the WW2 cost was double the nominal number alone.

[1] The source above explicitly says man, not person, so presumably the median household income was even less than half of today's numbers.
> However, bear in mind that the site is built by a popular JS influencer whose day job is popularizing frameworks and increasing demand for services of the sort he offers.

His day job is selling workshops and training materials. No matter how you look at it, he has a vested interest in promoting over-engineering because it translates to more sales of courses and workshops. That's why this blog starts and ends with calls to action about signing up and registering for workshops.
For what it's worth, I'm not trying to draw moral equivalence. I'm hoping to demonstrate that we just don't know what protests will be acceptable or not in the future.
> TypeScript: Typed JavaScript (necessary for any project you plan to maintain)

If stopped reading at that point :/
It's rumored that Midori was built on Singularity, so it's much more than a "spiritual" successor if that's the case. (Also sadly discontinued as well.)
? Or these highly-paid & pampered university admins could simply grow a spine.

And we can call them out on it in the interim which seems to have some impact.
The Dangers of a Mechanized Mind
I'm inclined to think that people do not have a consistent group identity, and I strongly believe there is more to what we are than our social relations. Nonetheless, social motivations are very powerful, and I respect some people who have attempted to understand selfhood from a sociological point of view. So with respect to your first question, I don't believe it, but I don't insist that my way of looking at the matter is right.

With respect to the second, I think far too little effort is made to resolve the lasting wounds of historical injustices, but I don't think that the attempt to tackle these wounds primarily through redistribution is politically wise. In fact, the attempt to tacle something like the aftermath of slavery in this way is certain to create massive political counterreation and is quite likely to result in new injustices.

Do you understand what the problem is with your approach to argument that I have criticised you for repeatedly?
Reading all the hype for Remix, a paid closed source tool, and still not knowing what it is really makes me jaded. I’d urge the authors to consider the signal to noise ratio they’re creating, and whether they are helping others vs themselves with this hype.
>Are you really comparing getting fired from your job to a lynching?

Blacks used to get fired (or not hired) from jobs, or thrown out of towns and establishments for being black on the demand of racist white mobs.

Is that serious enough for someone to make a comparison with a historical issue like lynching, or it should involve a hanging too?

Lynchings didn't always involve death, sometimes it was "just" beatings, not to mention the term has had a metaphorical issue for collective violence/threats, even merely verbal, for a century now.

And the "right to work" (not to mention feed yourself and your family) is as important as the right to live.
I like the large text on the homepage. The large graphics with the snowboard koala takes a bit too long to load (or render?) for my taste. But then again the colour of the sweater and the snowboard changes every couple of reloads, that's worth waiting for, right?

There's way too much empty space between some elements on the iPhone X.

If you consider this to be a showcase of (hopefully) cool new frameworks that can be used in a sensible matter on larger customer's websites, then this website is a success.
"helps save the trees" is where i lost it completely. Oh my god, we _deserve_ all of this hellscape.
Money quote:

> Entwarnung gibt DOG-Experte auch in Bezug auf mögliche Schlafstörungen, die das Blaulicht durch abendliches Lesen an elektronischen Geräten verursachen könnte. Auch diese Annahme sei inzwischen durch eine Studie widerlegt (Sleep Health 2021; DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2021.03.005). Bach empfiehlt daher, beim Lesen auf einem elektronischen Gerät vor dem Einschlafen lediglich eine maximale Helligkeit des Displays zu vermeiden.

> Der DOG-Präsident Hagen Thieme findet es wichtig, diese Forschungserkenntnisse in die breite Öffentlichkeit zu tragen. „Sie dienen der Aufklärung und schützen Verbraucher vor irreführender Werbung und verunsichernden Falschmeldungen, die rein kommerzielle Interessen verfolgen“, sagte der Direktor der Universitätsaugenklinik Magdeburg.

Translation by deepl.com:

> The DOG expert also gives the all-clear with regard to possible sleep disturbances that the blue light could cause by reading on electronic devices in the evening. This assumption has now also been refuted by a study (Sleep Health 2021; DOI: 10.1016/j.sleh.2021.03.005). Bach therefore recommends simply avoiding maximum display brightness when reading on an electronic device before falling asleep.

> DOG President Hagen Thieme thinks it is important to bring these research findings to the general public. "They serve to educate and protect consumers from misleading advertising and unsettling false reports that pursue purely commercial interests," said the director of the University Eye Hospital in Magdeburg.

To spell it out directly, this says things like f.lux are snake oil. No better than crystals against WiFi "pollution" and suchlike…
I think those numbers should be given relative to GDP or per-capita. Since 1940 the number of US residents has more than doubled, US GDP has increased by 10x.
Is there a formal definition of randomness that is just an information gap (like Shannon), and the predictability and measurability of complex systems breaks down because the chaos is just a loss of information in each iteration of its function? If so, where does the information go?
You make good points I wasn't considering when I wrote that, and thanks for the mempool expiration info
Yeah, but some of the stylometric analyses point to the other leading candidates. It doesn't seem like there is a stylometric consensus.
The combination of caching Postgres queries (because you are making over 30 of them per page), but still deploying everything to 6 distributed regions is just perfect chef's kiss
The parts that refer to interoperability all use phrasing like "interoperability of an independently created computer program with other programs". That "independently created" probably doesn't apply here.
I'm glad to see the hacker news community shitting on this. I deal with far too many developers like the OP on a daily basis, sometimes their crappy over-engineered ideas come to fruition and we end up paying millions to maintain it
Which is amusing because there's a whole section on how it's deployed across six regions globally for performance and reliability.
Currently I do not fail the build if the E2E tests fail. So far, I haven't been worried about deploying something that's broken and I didn't want to hold up a deploy because I accidentally busted something for the 0 users who expect things to be working.

I’m having trouble forming the words for how I feel about an apparently influential author promoting the sort of Rube Goldbergesque overcomplection in the rest of the article, while downplaying the single piece of value this CI pipeline could be delivering.
> So, if I cash a $1M check at another bank than the writer of said check, their ledgers are adjusted, but what happens to the physical cash in vaults?

The bank you cash it at takes $1M out of their vault. If this results in them having too little in the vault for expected needs, they take action to replenish it.
I think I’m in the same position as @curtis3389: I can look at the surprising — nay, shocking — graph, but I have no idea if I should care, as the one thing it definitely doesn’t mean is the 400% inflation that graph naively implies.

As you say, there are other relevant metrics; I don’t know those metrics, I just know they must exist.
...except maybe speed. But this is more about Python and Ruby lacking a standard and efficient JIT, unlike JS, and not so much about architecture.
Sigh. This article is based on scientific evidence. Please leave your politics out of it.

Anyways, the vast majority seem perfectly happy with the CBC.

Fewer than 1 in 5 Canadians want CBC funding decreased: poll
https://ipolitics.ca/2019/05/13/nearly-80-of-canadians-want-...
This is a great way to describe it! I gave a similar example of pagination and how the later pages might be better to prioritize over initial pagination requests, but your example is a nicer illustration. Thanks for that!

There’s also someone I was talking to after writing the article who said they can fall back to statically rendered versions of certain pages on Amazon.com during overload. The trick is to have a page that is still useful!

And for the “turning off features” idea - this happens today on Amazon.com. If a feature on the site fails to render successfully or on time, it’s left off of the page. Critical functionality can be left off, so it’s a judgement call on what’s allowed to fail the page render.
I know we're not supposed to say "did you read the article" around here but there was a fair amount of nuance in it and you don't sound like you disagree with it in any huge sense.

> Half the time when I see "JS is so broken!" posts they're by Ruby devs. I can't help wonder why they're all so keen to move away from Ruby.

That's an interesting assumption. I would have started from the position that javascript is a mainly a front-end solution so one wouldn't "move away from Ruby" to use it because you would still use Ruby on the back end.
Scale matters. You welcome a stranger first and ask questions second, but do the reverse with a mob.

Unfortunately most modern laws and policies do it in reverse.
I don't see why we should be limited to Mersenne prime verification, there are many other scientific computational projects in various fields that could benefit from it, astrophysics, molecular biology, genetics, chemistry, climate study, cancer research, ...

Wikipedia lists a few https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_...
Altough if you talk with xenophobic people, they often tend to explain it as some sort of deep feeling of disgust, rather than love of their community. This is also why foreigners are often called "dirty" or "filthy" - not because they are, but because this expresses the xenophobes feelings towards them.

Granted. Maybe there are people who are just "rational xenophobes" who have no ill feeling against the foreigner, but feel they are taking away from their community, but just anecdotally those are exceptionally rare (and often fall back to the disguist thing after a few beers). I have yet to meet such a person, but okay anecdotal evidence..

There is btw. a whole field of studies that researches the links between disgust and xenophobia, for example: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30639587/
Yes, the wiki takes the opposite approach. See: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_Wiki:About

“The NixOS Wiki is a community-run project to document the Nix Ecosystem. NixOS is a Linux distribution which is created with the Nix package manager as its foundation. NixOS relies upon the extensive Nixpkgs package repository, which is one of the largest and most up-to-date package sources in the Linux world. The Nix ecosystem also includes tools like Hydra, for continuous integration testing, and NixOps, for deploying NixOS machines to networks and clouds (e.g. EC2, GCE, and Azure).”
> Nix is common among consultancies because the more switching between projects you do, the more it pays off.

I feel like this is perhaps situational? I am yet to see Nix be used once in about 5 years of development in many projects in Eastern Europe, both governmental in private sector.

Though maybe the industry here is lagging behind trends - only in the past 3 years or so Docker has started gaining a foothold and even large corporations are just figuring out how to run their own Kubernetes clusters and Docker Swarm is still in use in some places, or even just Docker Compose.

Then again, some of these projects don't even have systemd services in place to ensure that they can be controlled easily, so who knows... Manually launching Tomcat or GlassFish instances never inspires confidence.
granted win95 codename was cairo
Are you aware of transport encryption?
South Dakota has a lot of financial jobs (check where your credit card is issued from) and benefits quite a lot from their tax structure.

They have no income tax but do sales taxes.
How should I interpret this? There’s a huge jump in may 2020, but apparently the metric was redefined in may 2020 to include more stuff?

from the Q&A page linked at the bottom:

> Recognizing savings deposits as a transaction account as of May 2020 will cause a series break in the M1 monetary aggregate. Beginning with the May 2020 observation, M1 will increase by the size of the industry total of savings deposits, which amounted to approximately $11.2 trillion
This so much. How I do "modern website": one HTML file, linking a typescript lib (if required). Optionally said page is generated by ASP.net Core. Database if required. So, ranging from 1 to 4 tech (not counting CSS), only one being compiled.
this concept is rather interesting, critical even..

how many people were right but too early

how many were too yet too late

sensing the right time is so important.