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>I really hate it that big companies are rolling their own CPU now. Soon, you're not a serious developer if you don't have your own CPU. And everybody is stuck in some walled garden.

It is still just ARM. You can buy ARM chip everywhere. There is no walled garden.

> Shouldn't we have separate CPU companies, so that everybody can benefit from progress,

You are benefiting the same CPU design from ARM, and same Fab improvement from TSMC. Amortised across the whole industry. Doesn't get any better than that.
Neat idea. Couldn't find any evidence whether it helped sales?
Now both the idea and the execution do not matter. It's all about cornering markets and becoming monopolists of a tiny corner.
Australia supplies a lot into this market. We have a huge population of feral camels roaming the central desert regions. Brought in as pack animals during the great expansion of the Victorian era.

Hundreds of thousands of them, roaming semi-free.

Serious amounts of money bid at auction for OZ Camels to fly back to the M.E.
'"Global warming" in the United States is a political issue that has nothing to do with science'

Replace Global Warming with almost any other scientific concept and you would also be right. The fact we have politicized everything in this country is not a strength and is going to have negative long term knock on effects. I see the politicization of the covid vaccine giving general anti vaxxers validation now and would not be surprised to see a resurgence of measles in the near term (couple of years). I am completely comfortable with everyone making their own choice on the covid vaccine (I am vaccinated), I get the concern and there is enough noise that I understand their viewpoint. Politicizing it though has been the wrong approach, we cant let people have their own opinions anymore, everyone that disagrees is the enemy. This is the same with climate change, immigration and presidential elections. Issue is that the political parties know that doing this makes their base rally tighter and establishes a motivational us vs them narrative. Its not going to end well.
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I've tried to drive NFS to reasonable levels of performance in the past, and the bottleneck has never seemed like storage or network or the NFS server; it always seems like the combination of the built-in NFS client in the Linux kernel, the implementation of filesystem semantics, and the behavior of common workloads ends up making NFS much slower than network throughput. I'm impressed with these benchmarks and the approach to collecting them, but I'm wondering if the Linux kernel NFS client can get anywhere close to the theoretical limits.

I've tried this with a read-only NFS server, across an AWS multi-gigabit connection, and I still found that I couldn't get anywhere near this level of performance for the workload of "make -j$(nproc)" in a Linux kernel tree. As a quick baseline, some numbers from the last time I tested this, with a c5.12xlarge (48 CPU) client and server: a defconfig local build was 40s, and a defconfig build with a Linux kernel tree in read-only NFS (with a tmpfs overlay on top for writability) was 6m55s. That's a 10x slowdown. System stats during the build showed 4-5MBps net recv and net send, and 1-4MBps disk write.

Is there some well-known method to getting reasonable performance out of off-the-shelf NFS servers and clients?
Shut the fuck up, you stupid cunt.
That is great in principle, but sounds very difficult to enforce.
Tell me about it, man… guess where the „@„ sign on the German keyboard is? On „q“. Guess how often I’m closing applications when I want to type an „@„ haha. Outside of that I think it got a lot better though.
Point taken about making it clearer it's a popup rather than a link but...

> You need drill down pages for these links. If I click one, I expect a page with detailed information, a drill down, not a pop-up summary GIF.

I disagree here and much prefer browsing the summary information with a gif to having to click through every single feature into a new page.
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Who gets to decide what counts as optimal?
Same for Oracle.
Seems the concensus is that front end is the most imperative thing out of the gate. Seems true in my non hackathon side project, of which I'm the solo dev.

Can anyone please recommend a good front end framework/tool for a backend dev?

I've been working on a project for awhile and the sequence has been:

1. Get requirements

2. Make excellent back end (and clarify functionality, edge cases along the way)

3. Build non sexy front end that works functionally

4. Get complaints front end is not sexy even though it can do very sexy things through the back end

5. Requirements change massively and now I have to tear down and repeat 1-4 with ever-increasing comments about it not being sexy.

Right now everything is django templates + bootstrap + javascript/jquery. It works but is not sexy.
> And while none of these estimates is meant to suggest a single cause of mortality, such as a gunshot wound or a dose of poison in your morning tea, the calculus for air pollution is the same as for obesity or smoking: take the problem away, and the number of premature deaths will fall by many millions.

They mean that if air pollution was not there throughout our lifetimes up until now, we would have 10M fewer deaths per year. Longer lives translates into fewer deaths per year.

When diseases like COPD and lung cancer are extremely prevalent, we may not notice the deaths as caused by air pollution, but they are. Everybody should get rid of their gas stoves, but we instead have full on sale pr campaigns for them.
Businesses that don't prioritize winning in the market will be outperformed by businesses that do.

Let the government do the job of setting the boundaries on the market so they can do what's best for humans, and let businesses do the job of optimizing for victory within the market.

That's where their respective incentives lie, so that's what they do best at.

tl:dr; don't hate the player, hate the game.
> "While constitutionally given the right to vote by the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870 and 19th Amendment in 1920, the reality of the country was such that most African Americans and some poor whites could not vote until the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_suffrage#cite_note-V...
link seems to be broken

https://propertyofthepeople.org/document-detail/?doc-id=2111...
They dont have to deny climate change, they just have to vote like it doesn't exist and blame things like government overreach or protecting jobs or energy independence. Best of both worlds, it allows them to come off as reasonable without losing any donors.
That's not true. The Swiss government sat down with its largest food producers and signed an agreement to reduce the amount of sugar used in products.

https://www.blv.admin.ch/blv/de/home/lebensmittel-und-ernaeh...
- Massive bandwidth (up to 50 Gigabit/s in certain configurations).

- Allows real concurrent connections (one "antenna" can connect simultaneously multiple clients vs. the switch that Wifi does for each client).

- The above improves latency, and you can achieve 1ms latency in private networks with multiple connections.

- The stack allows slicing which can help to isolate networks or devices.
surgical masks only provide about 60% protection and cloth masks about 12%. The benefit is too low to throw our freedom away.
I recently wrote to somebody talking about a specific type of WiFi interference from idle wifi modems not transmitting traffic. No matter what you search Google for regarding the specific type of interference we were discussing, google dumbs it down for you and provides exclusively results for "Di'ja wanna know how 'ta choose the best wifi channel?" completely ignoring my technical terms even when I add plus signs and double quotes around them.
> Today I would like to tell you about the AWS Nitro SSD.

A bit light on technical details but very fun, very exciting. Kind of sad that such amazing work is no longer quite so public, is no longer something that say Intel is going to talk up in endless details with a product launch. A huge amount of the work & innovation here is extremely specific, extremely private- all this Elastic Fabric Adapter related stuff is advanced systems engineering, close integration of systems, that's Amazon's & Amazon's alone.

Anyhow. This article pairs very well with the "Scaling Kafka at Honeycomb"[1], which I found to be a delightful read on adapting & evolving a big huge workload to ever-improving AWS hardware.

[1] https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/scaling-kafka-observability-pi... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29396319 (38 minutes ago, 13 points)
I'm not why you're turning combatative. I was pointing what _a_ hackathon should be as the rest of the comment section is discussing.

You definitely should continue to measure what you like at your "hackathon"
Here to vote on the "please don't do this" option.

Can you just accordion the indicators in between the rows so that a user can choose to expand?

I find the popup insanely annoying and un-asked for. If I want something, I'll click it, please don't force it on me.

But that's just me.
You can get Ampere chips which are not proprietary to any specific cloud provider. Both Packet/Equinix Metal and Oracle use them.
>If Twitter doesn't already do this, then it's dumb, quite frankly, from a business sense due to all the extra labor (in terms of engineers, support, etc) to provide services for these VIPs compared to normal users. Like you said, if these Twitter VIPs are having their cake and eating it too with monetizing Twitter for their own benefit, why wouldn't Twitter ask for a cut.

They probably drive a ton of engagement, which benefits twitter.
Voynichese script is public domain but there's no Unicode for that either. You can get a font for it though, but people studying the Voynich Manuscript usually make do with a transcription based on the Roman alphabet + Arabic numerals (e.g. EVA). Unlike Linear A (or Ogham), there's no consensus that Voynichese means anything, and there's only one book written in it.
Because it's the kind of thing that makes it around the workplace.

Nobody's gonna leak that to the news because "trashy line cook does something trashy" isn't really a story worth getting a new job over. You just joke about it with your coworkers friends and move on.
A fib sequence can be defined corecursively using unfold and its actually a nice way to write it in some languages.

Here is the next fib in a sequence (in psuedocode):

(a, b) -> (a, (b, a+b))

And then you can get a sequence with unfold by giving it some starting numbers:

val fibonacci: Iterator[Int] =
Iterator.unfold((1, 1)) {
case (x, y) => Some((x, (y, x + y)))
}

(That is Scala. But lots of languages have an unfold method)

> fibonacci.take(8).toList
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21
Mobian at home, and Lineage without GAPPs at work.
>> Historically, our business requirements have meant keeping a buffer of 24 to 48 hours of data to guard against the risk of a bug in retriever corrupting customer data.

I have used much larger buffers before. Some bugs can lurk around for a while before noticed. For example the lack of something is much harder to notice.
Second this, hosted private (allowing interop with public) spaces will become ubiquitous.
Here’s the 2017 study mentioned by name in the article: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

I don’t pretend to understand fully, but these seem to be some sentences explaining their methodology:

> Ambient PM2·5 was the fifth-ranking mortality risk factor in 2015. Exposure to PM2·5 caused 4·2 million (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 3·7 million to 4·8 million) deaths and 103·1 million (90·8 million 115·1 million) disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) in 2015, representing 7·6% of total global deaths and 4·2% of global DALYs, 59% of these in east and south Asia.

> Attributing deaths and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) to ambient air pollution requires spatially and temporally resolved estimates of population-weighted exposure, specification of a theoretical minimum risk exposure level (TMREL), estimation of relative risks across the exposure distribution, and estimates of the deaths and DALYs for diseases linked causally to air pollution. We combined estimates of exposure and relative risk to estimate the population-attributable fraction (PAF), the proportion of deaths and DALYs attributable to exposure above the TMREL. The numbers of deaths and DALYs for specific diseases were multiplied by the PAF to estimate the burden attributable to exposure. A more general description of the methods used to estimate the PAF and attributable burdens in GBD 2015 has been reported previously;3 here, we present details specific to air pollution.

While I don’t know enough about this methodology to defend this study, I would just point out that no matter what you consider to be a cause of death, no matter how “direct” you think that cause is, is still “merely” a death of someone who would have died later anyway. This mode of argument gets used all the time to minimize deaths of e.g. COVID-19 (“most of the deaths are old people with multiple comorbidities”), but this is a weak mode of argument precisely because it could apply just as well to literally any situation. We generally wouldn’t apply this mode of argument to minimize, for example, a serial killer at a nursing home.
only because tech is one of the few industries where demand is greater than supply
I never used DESQview/X, though I knew about it, of course. I used DESQview, which was absolutely head and shoulders above everything else that was DOS-based. DV turned a single instance DOS machine into something far more. It was like I was back in University with the ability to swap between multiple terminals. Except the main difference was increased speed. It seemed as fast as the Cray I had used. It wasn't, of course, but there was no delay after I would press enter! I had the entire workstation computer to myself. A database job in one tab (foxpro!). A print job to a farm of rena printers in another tab (custom mail-merge). Ah, those were the days. lol. Back to the modern and more interesting problems of 2021 :)
> Longer lives translates into fewer deaths per year.

Are you sure about that?
cf. Wales and sheep,
I see, this is really a big impact on the subject.

While in the EU:

https://corporateeurope.org/en/pressreleases/2016/07/food-lo...
Yes -- now that we're just paying the cost to store once on S3 rather than 3x on NVMe, we can plausibly extend the window to 72 hours or longer! before, it was a pragmatic, constraint-driven compromise.
Honestly... I'm the exact opposite. It's impossible to craft a complex GUI intuitively I think.
You can do comparisons. If you can make good comparisons between places and the only major factor between them is pollution you can just compare average death per 100k citizens and then draw conclusions from there. You can also do the same for places that did not have a coal power plant and then when they did. Or the reverse!

Note: this is vastly overly simplified and there are other ways to do this and you need to do major and complex error calculations, but this will give you the highly abstracted view.
Strongly agree. Clicking though these, click off to close it, and waiting for pad the gif would have me off the page in seconds. Not to mention accidental clicks.
In the IPCC case, the report itself says the evidence rules out less than 1C of warming but can't rule out more than 5C of warming by the end of the century. My views are perfectly consistent with the science... it's simply that the science is very limited when it comes to analyzing "tipping point" scenarios.

But, yes, I also have some qualms about peer review.
During the Napster era Courtney Love made a similar argument that record labels are the real pirates. [0]

https://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/
I don't remember to be honest. I would hope so!
yeah signed stack pointers is a thing since at least 2017 : https://lwn.net/Articles/718888/
The entire point of a GUI is you get the behavior of -p and --dry-run in a much richer context! I've never seen a GUI that doesn't let you very easily select specific lines for commits and I honestly wouldn't use one that didn't.

I cannot imagine using git and only being able to push entire files...

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And for the record, I use Sublime Merge and it does a great job mapping to terminal commands.

Hover over any button and you get the exact git command it will run. It doesn't mess with your tree directly, every action maps to a normal human readable git command.

If you want to make a stash with untracked files for example, you just hit the arrow next to "Stash" and get a dropdown with command line args and descriptions for what they do. Sublime Merge will then run it with the exact args you entered, show you the exact CLI command it used, and will show you the exact output.

For me Sublime Merge is strictly better than a terminal. I'm comfortable with terminal commands but it's the terminal with a very nice diff view, clean graphs, easier text editing, etc. I never have any ambiguity about what it's going to do.
Top and bottom responses say the same thing, but the upvoted one doesn't even provide an answer in their harassment! Such is mob justice ^_^
I arrived in Seattle yesterday, staying in Ballard. Wow, it's bad here. Worse than it used to be pre-pandemic.
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Special taxes on sugary drinks etc are not exactly unheard of. But people love their sweet stuff, so it's not exactly popular.
As a leftist Asian-American who recently went through US university, I found much of it to be alarmist and incongruent with my own experiences and observations. I was unsurprised to see it was written by a European conservative think-tank. It's definitely unique, but I wouldn't say it's convincing.

There was no "wokeness" at my midwestern engineering state university. In my opinion, the best solution to the increasingly out-of-reach American dream is just to build millions of apartments in cities where housing is very expensive.
Storj DCS is a pretty cool real world use of crypto. I'm using it every day to make backups of my cloud data.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29394945 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29394945.
> Coolest thing about the Helium LoRaWAN offering is that you can buy a $20 ESP32 microcontroller with Lora radio on Amazon, write some software, buy Helium data credits and use it anywhere helium has coverage.

Or just go with the free TTN. But I do agree that it's good to have icentives and I'm quite glad somebody is rolling out a large scale LoRaWAN.
A fun scandal from a few years ago https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/24/580228837...
Most of articles comparing 4G/5G and Wifi are focusing just on bandwidth and latency.
That is somehow like comparing cars in just how fast they can go.

3G/4G/5G are standardized and built for operators that are used to manage huge amount of users.
A lot of effort is put in avoiding congestion, providing guaranteed bitrate/latency for dedicated services (like your phone calls), smooth handovers between different antennas, a lot of of security features, and obviously, an excellent user tracking in order to charge the customers.
Onto something.

Spacing it out can work, too.
GREAT!

my 2 cents:

the earlier the better; don't wait retirement.
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> All those charitable things done for free will be stopped.

Are you kidding? They clashes might be free for kids, but they can get charity donations, governmental donations, and it’s essentially a “buy our product” class. It’s great value for minor expense.
Well, to be fair, even the "positive" information here seems quite a bit broader than the "negative" information. Like, "war" is a very broad topic on its own. You can describe the events (battles and such), you can describe the technological issues of war (there's lots of books specifically dealing with history of military technology), the logistical issues (which is basically a specific branch of economic history if you think about it -- how do you supply an army on the move has always been critical), etc. etc.

So even if to some extent the scope was mentioned, saying that a book about Napoleonic Wars is (surprisingly!) a book about war (which is essentially what "foreign policy, war and some of its domestic ramifications" basically boils down to) isn't quite what I'd expect as new specific information on what a book about Napoleonic wars might tackle. Subtracting a few very specific aspects doesn't help here.
Possibly a useful doc for ya then: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Formats/V... . And beyond that it depends on the OS, so windows/linux/mac/ios/android/etc will all vary.

Some of this is also probably due to using ffmpeg directly, tbh. It's very happy to produce irrational combinations of things that are technically allowed by specs but not implemented anywhere in practice, often exacerbated by it trying to preserve metadata / colorspace / etc where technically possible.
So if you have something to hide, don't use iCloud backup.

And Whatsapp will give them the target's full contactbook (was to be expected), but also everyone that has the target in their contact list. That last one is quite far reaching.
We have seen this cycle play out in the past.

There was a time when you were meant to trust the church. You weren't allowed to read the bible or interpret it yourself, since that was the role of a priest.

It was not a good system, and the people who were in charge of interpreting the scripture for people used their station to enrich themselves and levy power over the people who had to come to them.
Every state-fair in the US has something like this, usually massively tongue-in-cheek.
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If you have a retro PC or a quality emulator you can get ahold of this and play with it. DOSBox won't cut it since an extended memory manager, specifically QEMM, is required and doesn't emulate well. Use a full VM or something like PCem.

https://winworldpc.com/product/desqview/desqview-x-2x
I disagree. It depends entirely on what the purifiers did and how the air quality was before/after.

The ability to concentrate really drops a lot once the CO2 content goes above 1k for example. I'd expect at least that kind of change if these managed to get the CO2 from 1.5k+ down to 500 ppa or other similar metrics.
Node knockout and rails rumble before that. :)

In which the Judges have to actually try out the submission instead of listening to people go through a slide deck on a video.
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