skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I see it, ships are unloading their full containers and then refusing to wait to load empties to take to China for re-use because they want to push off to China and burn fuel to get loaded with full containers at, some say $22,500 per container, versus the usual $2200, because once the shortage ends, rates will fall off a cliff so every day counts. Since containers are worth under $3500, the ships will tell the Port of LA to fuck a few weasels and be happy. The freight companies will cry force majeure and disavow any fines/demurrage/fees levied and if pushed will give the port their keys and look for other work. Truckers are innocent and are moving as many containers that the cranes and traffic allow.
The only sensible thing this port has said is - we will allow higher stacking - on a good pad empties can be stacked 10 high, if lashed en bloc. (isolated single size containers - 5-6 if lashed as isolated towers one wide/deep can catch winds if empty)

All you need to know about ship lashing.
http://shipsbusiness.com/securing.html

All you need to know about yard lashing.
https://www.supercubes.com/blog/2012/05/how-to-stack-contain...

more
https://www.forkliftcertification.com/safest-way-stack-conta...
Awesome info. Thanks.
> New research by training platform TalentLMS and Workable, a provider of recruiting software, suggests that tech and IT workers are likely to be planning an exit soon.

Still thinking about it. Not happening yet.
Actually it hasn't cost them anything.
There's more to it, like migration of between 100k and 300k a year, to flatten the curve on the retirement wave and ratio of workers to non-workers, but also to keep the housing construction market going.

In Perth, when the government grants were being handed out, at some stage there was hardly a single property less than 400k, now in some of the less desireable areas you can get detatched houses down to as low as 200k.

Just this week, the bank stress test on mortgage lending increases from 2.5% to 3% tolerance to rate increase, lessening the amount that can be borrowed.

It's all over the place, but as y say the tax system has created the concept where a dwelling is an investment and it skews the whole market.

Renting looks pretty attractive at times, but the nature of tenancy agreements in Australia is 6 to 12 months terms with invasive property inspections on a regular basis, nothing like the european model with 10 year terms and decorate at will.

This also drives a desire for home ownership for families as if they don't want to pay for private schools then there is competition to get into suburbs with the better government schools, and even without this they want sme long term certainty such that if they move suburbs they won't have to change childrens schools.
Once you sell, do you really have the sway to demand an outcome? Get that in writing, signed, and notarized or "forget about it."
Ah, that makes sense too.
Could you clarify your position? It sounds like you are saying all patents are bad.

Also what license are we talking about? And what unwillingness to license?
It’s only talking about one way: WGSL->SPIRV, not the reverse. It also has to be trivially convertible to MSL and HLSL. So WGSL is a separate language now, most ties to SPIRV are cut off.
Getting batted in the eye will certainly make your lid drop.
> Is it also patent hell

What patent hell?
It has a name too -- крякозяблики (kryakoziabliki)
I was thinking about this just the other day and couldn't find it. Funny coincidence it got reposted and upvoted!
They used to be (and still are for some groups) a primary water source for certain kalahari foragers during the dry season. It's a pretty unusual cultural adaptation to an extreme environment.
True. But realize that's per prize, not per participant. Especially in the sciences, this prize is more often given to two or three people, who share the prize money.
No, I can't be positive, but I'm pretty sure they meant recompiling binaries to be x86-64 instead of 32 bit x86, or armv8/arm64 instead of armv7... At least that's how I took it, because not many things are compile-time constants nowadays, especially for databases. It doesn't distribute well.
It was. You can see that in gcc target triples.
i thought this was about advertising.
The editors of good journals (APS Physical Review Letters for instance) provide significant service and it is reasonable to pay for it: from simple things like significantly improving the quality of the prose and typesetting to more crucial stuff like properly moderating the review process (picking appropriate reviewers, controlling for conflict of interest, filtering out superfluous submissions).
Here's a good resource about web scrapping: https://bot.incolumitas.com/#:~:text=more%20sources%2Finform...
No need for array when i can create files and combine their content with commands like tac and other coreutils text utilities.
Yeah, I’m happy to try it but not happy to update to iOS 15 yet, so one more vote for iOS 14 support here.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status#cli...

> Although the HTTP standard specifies "unauthorized", semantically this response means "unauthenticated". That is, the client must authenticate itself to get the requested response.

So it would seem that it actually doesn't positively imply that you're NOT authorized.

Which kind of makes sense; machines can't detect legality of things, just that certain procedural niceties haven't been observed.
The lightning network is getting more popular. More people are using that for smaller transactions
The OpenJDK and OracleJDK are identical code bases since JDK 11 and are fully interchangeable. The only patches that exist for OracleJDK were the paid support patches for back ports.

If you stay on the latest JDK, then this was never relevant to you. If your company is not nimble enough to do that, then it could pay for the tired dinosaur patches and stay on old JDKs. Since other companies have started contributing to the effort of tired dinosaur patches again, it's no longer necessary for Oracle to charge a fee to produce them.

In other words, Oracle successfully averted a "tragedy of the commons" by asserting property rights long enough to make others behave and stop abusing the system.
Not the OP but when I was running Operations at Blekko (a search engine) I spent part of my time dealing with scrapers.

When treated like a puzzle it can be really interesting. So I thought I'd share a few tidbits.

1) We did a simple 'speed' test, how many queries per second were coming from an IP, and auto-ban on the limit being exceeded, started at 100qps and watched as the traffic moved down to 99.5qps. Pushed to 10qps and watched the traffic follow it down. Even at 3qps you would get traffic at bit over 2 qps trying to limbo in under the limit.

2) At that time, lots of people who highjacked browsers with toolbars sold scraping as a service to third parties. Their toolbar would check in to see if it should do a query and it would launch a query and return the results without the user even knowing. One company, 80 legs, was pretty up front about their "service", SEO types would use it to scrape Google results to see how their SEO campaigns were doing.

3) The majority of the traffic had criminal intent, looking for metadata on web pages to indicate they were running an unpatched version of some store software or had sql injection bugs. These would often come from PCs that had been compromised for other purposes or "zombie" PCs. We could rapidly map out these networks when we got 100 queries from 100 different IPs looking for "joomla version x.y",p=1 through "joomla version x.y",p=100. We briefly played around with sending them official looking SERPs but all the links went to fbi.gov though an obfuscator.

One of more effective strategies was to field a "black hole" server, basically it was an http server that answered like you had gotten hold of it but then it never sent any data. With some simple kernel mods these TCP connections were silently removed on our end so they took no resources and the client would wait basically forever. We ack'd all keep alive packets with "Yup, we're here." so they just kept waiting and waiting.

It really was a never ending game. We mass banned an entire Ukranian ISP because out of billions of queries not a single one was legitimate.
Casting to signed long is demonstrably wrong.

The code in question is (probably) pretty slow, offering plenty of room for improvement beyond just fixing the UB. But it has seemed to work well enough, so far, like most things.
i've often wondered this myself... non profits with ludicrous executive salaries...
Ask HN: What are some good resources on building scalable P2P applications?
> I believe the majority of code is slow because it's written without any consideration at all to performance. I like Casey Muratori's philosophy of non-pessimization where true optmization (measuring, working hot spots) is rare and rarely necessary but massive speedups compared to the general state of the art are achievable by simply not writing code using patterns that are inherently slow. This isn't deep algorithmic stuff it's just avoiding copies and/or pointer chasing.

I don't/can't watch videos; I would be interested to see a written argument, but generally my view is that copies and pointer chasing are irrelevant because code is so far away from optimal already. You're right that code is mainly written without any consideration to performance, but that manifests itself first in poor choices of algorithm and/or datastructure. I don't think there's anything "deep" about, say, using a hashmap rather than searching linearly through a list; indeed I'd consider it easier to understand than avoiding copying.

> The Advent of Code runs every year and I'm not sure about C (not something I track) but there are plenty of Rust submissions and while the Rust submissions take longer to come in, it's not THAT much longer. From memory it's like 2x on a timescale of minutes. The Python programs are not faster.

Advent of Code is still extremely tiny programs, and Rust is a much much better language than C for thinking in.
Which (taking the peer-review but not giving it) is what is done by most established scientists. Thoughtful reviews are much more likely to be delivered by early-career scientists (post-doc, mostly, since Assistant Professors are very time-constrained). Being selfish in academia is an evolutionarily stable strategy.
Only, that's literally what happened. Thankfully, he's only 5, so it didn't actually hurt.
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Do we even know that whales communicate with conscious intent? What if the sounds they make were mere reflexes driven by some internal state like adrenaline, sex or hunger hormones?
Even if SPIRV input becomes available as an extension at some point, don’t expect it to be any kind of optimization. Both Tint and Naga’s IRs are close to WGSL, so parsing it is really easy and fast. Processing SPIRV’s control flow graph, images/samplers, atomics, is quite painful in comparison.
Interest rates will not be over 5 % in our lifetime (50 years plus). Average home price in TO will be well over 2-3 million in the next decade. BoC understands that any meaningful rise will cause economic calamity that will leave everyone naked and hungry in the streets and a collapse of the financial system.

Just saying...
I don't think the choice is between a commercial publisher and open access venues. In fact, open access options are typically my least favorite, because they charge the authors to publish. Maybe the initial idea was good, but the term seems to be co-opted by publishers to basically mean "pay thousands of dollars to publish."

Since I was a student, I've decided as a matter of principle never to submit to either, and been able to follow that principle all the way through tenure. Though I don't discourage external collaborators from submitting papers to those places, as this principle is more about my or my group's papers.

Luckily, there's a couple other options that are very satisfying (and actually most common) in my subfield and most of CS: non-profit society publishers (e.g. ACM/IEEE), or self-publishing (arXiv or your own homepage). I've done both for each of my papers, and haven't felt like I missed anything. I've also declined reviewing for commercial publishers for a while now, and it makes me very happy to have a great excuse to decline.
Pointy – Be Found Locally
Remember that volume increases exponentially with distance. Even large objects out that far are needles in a stack of haystacks.
Why the crappy low res images in TFA
That's exactly the kind of missing the point that I'm talking about: tiny programs where all implementations are using the same algorithm and people have spent months microoptimising and are utterly unreflective of realistic business problems.
Some good learnings in here, but I’d add another layer of caution on top of this: Managing is often about balance. It’s a common mistake for first-time managers to over-correct after they realize they’ve made some mistakes. Over-correcting can result in swinging to opposite extremes, which can be problematic for different reasons.

To use an example from this article: Letting “brogrammers” overrun the team and drown out less experienced developers is, obviously, a mistake that requires some correction. However, it’s also problematic to start typecasting confident, experienced programmers as “brogrammers” and going out of your way to silence them would also be a mistake. The proper response is to facilitate proper, healthy team communication with a clear and firm condemnation of negative behaviors regardless of who they come from.

Likewise, measuring developers on flawed metrics like number of features delivered is a mistake, but swinging to the opposite extreme of not measuring anything at all would also be a mistake. The author points out a good example of how to find a workable framework without abandoning metrics completely.
Definitely no malice. You could start an open-access journal and claim that it will be as selective and prestigious as Nature. But where are your initial papers going to come from? Can you get enough people to submit their Nature-level paper to your journal?
Well yeah, I agree they probably would, I'm just saying that as it stands that complaint kind of falls flat (not that I'd agree with it if the video was more detailed, as long as there was some kind of warning). Although to be honest I think that danger is higher for relatively simple yet very dangerous projects like a microwave oven transformer jacobs ladder, rather than something that involves a fair bit of modification and equipment.
I think I read a short blog post about that a while before: https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/how-strong...

At least for how much would be safe.
Additionally the values of one person varies to the next. To post a question of "do you also boycott X" as some kind of gotcha because of perceived shared values seems presumptuous at best.
The best example I know offhand is the custom hunting styles of different orca pods. Given that orcas also play I find it more likely that there is rich communication than not.
Offtopic: why does something that everyone here recommends all the time need something like vacuum which is heavy and can fail? What is the reason people do not cry about that as much as the Python GIL? It felt like a hack 15+ years ago and it feels just weird now. I am curious why that was never changed; it is obviously hard but is it not regarded as a great pain and priority to resolve?
Right, SPIRV is a good format as the destination of your shader pipeline. But it can only be that on Vulkan. With other backends, SPIRV doesn’t help, and instead stands in the way.

https://kvark.github.io/spirv/2021/05/01/spirv-horrors.html
There is a difference between allocating capital for long term economic growth, vs. allocating capital to get a return on financial engineering.

Experts at making money are happy and very good at both, and will do whichever gets them the best return - and they don't have to care about the long term with any liquid asset.

But financial engineering isn't a compounding improvement, like improved manufacturing, or more efficient distribution, or faster and more reliable data systems, or developing a team of very creative problem solvers in some difficult area, ...

So allocating capital to financial engineering is legitimately attractive for an individual investor, but is a chimera as far as the overall economy goes - since the value of financial engineering doesn't compound and often doesn't last. PE's are unlikely to keep going up due to financial engineering no matter how you "package" (essentially market) the assets they are related to.
It's not malice. Academics just lack interest in improving a system when that improvement doesn't immediately benefit them.

There are much more difficult coordination problems that people are at least making some progress on, like fighting climate change. This is because a lot of people care about not letting the planet overheat, including the powerful. But academics largely don't care if their research is easily accessible to anyone who isn't citing them or on their tenure committee.
It is commonly thousands. And this is the norm in many fields.
Is there a (theoretical) possibility of having portable MRI scanners someday? The size of a big suitcase or maybe even something like the tricorder in Star Trek.

Like how we have portable ultrasound. https://www.ultrasoundportables.com/by-manufacturer/butterfl...
Although I realize an MRI scanner is a lot more complex.
This is a possible way to get free items.
They have millions of players, check every ticket seems not scalable. No?
You can go to the BLS JOLTS home page.

https://www.bls.gov/jlt/

It's better to talk about percent of labor force, given that the size of the labor force grows over time.

A quits rate of 2.7% is high -- it's a series high, but the series only goes back to 2000, which means we just have two business cycle peaks to compare against.

This gives you a better view:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JTSQUR

Quits rates peak around business cycle peaks -- people don't quit during downturns, obviously. So in the last two peaks, the quit rate was 2.2% at the peak before the Great Recession, and 2.4% at the peak of the pre-covid recession, so this cycle is at 2.7% now. Looks like the quit rate is increasing, but interestingly, the layoff rate is decreasing, so that total turnover is not high at all.

But we have a screwy labor market at the moment, particularly in restaurants and hospitality, which is driving this number. It will be interesting to see what happens once we get out of the lockdown situation and things settle down.
New 16-inch MacBook Pro review: More power and more convenience for more money
Every big construction project type has big cost overruns etc, even coal powerplants. For example:

https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/05/billion-dollar...

> And as the plant blows through deadlines, the cost has ballooned dramatically: An original price tag of $1.8 billion has swelled to $6.2 billion.
Oracle has indeed worked incredibly hard over a long period of time to accomplish that outcome.

By “that outcome”, I’m of course talking about the hatred of their business practices rather than the OpenJDK.
It’s worth reading the full article at the link, but I wanted to call out a couple things. First, this article has some details on the keyboard:

> Thousands of words have been written about the differences between the Butterfly keyboard and Apple's return to a scissor-switch. The new MacBook Pro has retained that same mechanism, giving it key travel of about 0.9 mm. This is compared to between 0.6 and 0.7 millimeters on the 2016-style keyboard, between 1.2 and 1.5 millimeters on the 2012 through 2015 style, and 1.0 mm on the Intel-based 16-inch MacBook Pro.

> As it pertains to the noise of the keyboard, we had a baseline of 36 dBa of ambient noise measured with a Kanomax model 4431 audiometer, with the test gear at head height and distance. Hammering away on the 2016 MacBook Pro keyboard with no other CPU load brought that up to about 43 dBa and 41 dBa on the Intel-based 16-inch MacBook Pro.

And some fine print details on the ports Apple added back:

> That HDMI is 2.0 and not the newer 2.1 spec. That SDXC reader is a UHS-II reader technically, and not even at peak UHS-II speeds, and not a Class III. Neither of these additions make any sense to us beyond convenience, and it would cost Apple maybe a dollar more to include the newer specs on a laptop, which begins at $2500.

> The target market who wants this machine can use the faster speeds on both. Adding HDMI 2.0 instead of 2.1 and the class II reader capped at 250 megabytes per second instead of the much faster 600 megabytes per second Class III now would make sense for a consumer-grade machine like the MacBook Air. It makes much less sense on the Pro-oriented machine — but there may be an engineering reason for it.

> We'd have preferred if Apple stuck with four Thunderbolt ports if it was going to just add an older HDMI and SD reader spec to the model, but we're not sure if this was an option. The new MacBook Pro has three Thunderbolt controllers versus two and two timers on the Intel-based 16-inch MacBook Pro. We're not sure what the PCI-E channel limitations are on the M1 Pro or M1 Max, as both the HDMI 2.0 port and the SD card reader capped at 256MB per second take up fewer channels in aggregate than a single Thunderbolt port does.

> Adding an HDMI 2.1 port or a UHS-III reader to the equation pushes the number of PCI-E channels over what one Thunderbolt port demands.
Land in desirable locations.

You can't create more land in the middle of San Francisco, so the land-owners of the land in the middle of San Francisco have a natural monopoly on the land in the middle of San Francisco.
Self-discipline and endurance are big characteristics of many successful people. I agree with the article, but I'm not sure about the causality. I've observed that the same characteristics that make people good (not elite) at endurance sports are those that make them able to get ahead at work. Basically discipline and goal setting. It's not surprising that people who can stick to an exercise program like marathon training are also able to stick to work related goals that get them ahead. So yes, rich people may have more flexibility to pursue training (my experience though is that's not true, the demands on your time in professional jobs is much higher) but maybe they got rich because they were able to maintain focus on their goals.

I say this as a competitive age group (not elite) runner that has not found a way to translate the required discipline into my work life.
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> But it's not the "investor class" that's cornering the market, it's current homeowners.

It can be both. One keeps supply from entering the market, the other buys out the supply that does enter the market.

Long term, yes, we need to build more houses. Americans should also probably adjust their expectations and zoning laws to expect less detached single-family houses. We also probably need to stop treating residential property as an investment, however we go about doing that.
My link goes in age groups 25-34 and 35-45. Both have higher home ownership levels.

And I’m not sure what your link shows? It looks at homeowners only?