skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the few things in the Debian (yes...) setup guide was emphasizing ashift, I remember explicitly setting it to 12.

It's not a laptop, it's a low-end motherboard currently serving as my primary workhorse :) (until I find the money to fix the issues preventing me from working... any day now... :'D). *Checks* It's an ASUS P8H61-M. And no, the disks are directly attached.

TIL ZFS can submit different IO sizes than what reach the disks. I've just been dumbly staring at iotop and thinking that was the last word on the situation. Now to figure out how to get that info from ZFS (and figure out which bcc script to use). Thanks.

Thanks for the layer consideration. The application layer (an ncdu scan I'm currently doing is has been reading 60 files/second for days) and VFS/cache layer (if I do two apt operations in relatively quick succession (seconds apart) with nothing else doing I/O, the second one completes the read step instantly) seem to be the effect/symptom, with file system (all ZFS, but obviously badly tuned) and IO elevator (oooooh that's what that is TIL, I might play with this! :D) seemingly the most interesting, and HBA (onboard SATA3 port *hides*) and disk firmware (I've never upgraded a BIOS in case I irreparably break something lol) beyond the horizon somewhat.

Thanks for the info!
Honestly most of these are positives not negatives.
I interviewed at Sikorsky back in the day. Sort of wish I had pursued it, because the factory floor was amazing, but the manager reminded me of a guy from The Sopranos, and then I got into medical school. But that floor, man. Swashplates. Have you ever seen a swashplate, naked and alone on a pallet? Thin wall machining. I mean, goddamn, that was some sexy machine work. But they wanted me to run business analytics for government cost-accounting programs. Fuck. That. Also, medical school.
Netflix has their CDNs at the edge. Their core infrastructure is on AWS, Disney+ technologically is an outgrowth of the BamTech acquisition which has one of the best regarded streaming technologies.
My vague recollection from my first year engineering course, that I dropped before failing, almost 20 years ago (caveat train! Choo choo!) is a failure critical component is a component that if failing would trigger a complete structure failure.

There are parts of bridges where any failure would be expected to cause complete collapse, like the cracked beam on the Hernando de Soto bridge (happily that span turned out to not actually be critical). But as the Hernando de Soto bridge showed you can have a complete failure of a major structural element without a collapse (in this case we’re lucky that accidentally happened).

So if the report says that none of the instant fail section were responsible I’m going to trust that.
Sorry to nitpick, and I agree with almost the entire statement you made, but I don’t quite understand how Go fits in there. I chose it in large part because it sharply reduces dependencies. Just curious about your inclusion of it in that list.

Totally not trying to get into language wars or anything. Just want to understand your thinking.
> This reads like Renaissance era propaganda

The fact that we call the time when Church was at the peak of it's power 'Dark Ages' is a testament to success of Renaissance era propaganda

> People did not go out and restart republics

The french revolution?
Serious question then: do you really believe that they are going to show you “the second contract”?

It seems like the better question is: are there other documents than this contract on which this job depends to sign and can I see them. If yes, can you please put this in the contract.
I do mot understand the assertion that one would "see evidence of lab tampering". No-see-ums are a thing.
Sorry to respond to such an old thread.

Of course pretty much all communication is advertising in some way, but the topic here is the corporate kind with teams of people trying to optimize click through rates and the like. I don't think they are really comparable and I don't think its particularly difficult to tell the difference in most cases.
Lol, until a couple of months ago we knew it was a lab leak because we couldn’t find an animal harboring the virus.

Now, apparently, we know it’s a lab leak because there’s a chain of 4-5 different species that were harboring the virus.

This is the epitome of a conspiracy theory. There is no consistent theory. It’s just a gish gallop that seeks to mold whatever morsels of new information we find into evidence of the same priors, even if the latest piece of evidence “proving” the priors contradicts the last piece of evidence that was supposedly “proof” of the priors.
Interesting. I had a similar experience. Different outcome. I _was_
the grad student who did a couple of military/medical projects in Ada
back in the early 90s. Loved it. Tried to take a startup down the Ada
route for a non-safety critical project mid 2010s and failed to
convince people. IIRC it was the bus-factor - "no one else knows this
shit and if you leave who we gonna hire?". Curious - how did
maintaining an Ada project work out for you?
> No one preaches "those people need to die" or "we need to harm those people".

Nobody says it out loud, they just strongly imply it.

Much like how nobody advocates for war by saying that <people in some other country should die>, they couch it behind nicer-sounding rhetoric.
I can't help but notice they didn't include any PCs in their measurements.

>Early Intel CPU requires 2W+ for AV1 4K60 content hardware decode.

Whereas Apple silicon has no hw decode for AV1. Benchmarks linked just use DAV1d.
I think you're comparing entry level tech jobs to mid to sr level blue collar jobs.

Take the electrician for example. Minimum 4 years of work as an apprentice, then you have to do a year of schooling, pay for it out of pocket, take a test and your making about as much as a entry level developer who only needed to spend 1 year studying in their free time, spent $400 on a laptop, got all their learning for free online, and isn't doing back breaking, more dangerous work. And from there the tech worker's salary is going to go to 150k+ in 3-5 years. You don't even need college to do that anymore.

Same thing with the crane operator. Starting salary for tech is more, requires less time to get started, and the tech worker's salary goes up quick after starting. You don't start out on the path to being a crane operator at 50k+ a year. You start helping doing rigging and spotting for $12 an hour.

I lived both sides of it, trust me. I see where your coming from, some blue collar jobs pay more than you'd think, but in reality there's just no comparison.
>Ada can be difficult to approach due to using a different vernacular to most other languages,

I guess people dont learn Pascal anymore. I still remember Turbo Pascal was what brought me into programming. It took me a very very long time to get used to C style programming.
Curiously, peplum, boucle, and rouche were exactly the ones I didn't recognize. (Well, and whipstitch.)
I can explain it: write throughput has become the bottleneck for an increasing number of applications and workloads. If you can't parse, process, index, and store real-time data at the rate it is created, or you can't load bulk data in a reasonable period of time, query performance doesn't matter. If you can only insert 100k records per second, how long will it take you to load a trillion records? A trillion row table fits on a single ordinary server these days and they aren't uncommon.

Note that even LSM-trees are only used for medium write intensity workloads. If you need maximum throughput for indexed access methods, newer database engines that use inductive indexing are on another level. I've seen a few implementations drive 10 million records per second through indexing and storage on an single EC2 instance (and with better query performance than LSM). These were not academic exercises either; they were invented to solve real-world problems LSM could not handle.

As for why anyone needs, say, 10 million inserts per second per server? There are quite a few modern workloads that generate many, many billions of new inserts per second if you run them at scale. Without the high throughput on a per server basis, managing the implied cluster size would become a serious challenge on its own. Server hardware can support very high ingest rates at very high storage densities if the software can drive it.
Where was this game hiding away from me all this time? How did I miss it on Steam?
I’m so used to the European way of employment that this blows my mind.
Isn’t that what google AMP does as well when you block some of their garbage?
The problem is that by your definition, every processor manufactured in the last 30 years should actually be called a "microcontroller"

Microprocessors going back to the Intel 486 have more on-chip RAM than many microcontrollers sold today have. CPUs have built-in firmware ROM for loading boot code. Also, CPUs haven't had a system bus with address/data pins for like 30 years — somewhat ironically, the only chips that have that are microcontrollers. Northbridges haven't existed for 15 years, and southbridges are basically just PCIe-to-USB/SATA/Ethernet/I2C adapters. And many mobile CPUs that Intel and AMD make have on-chip I2C, SPI, UART, GPIO peripherals.

In my article, I'm trying to differentiate between processors that can run a modern multiuser operating system like Linux and microcontrollers that runs bare-metal code, since that's a question I get asked a ton. After carefully considering all the options, the MMU seemed like the most obvious place to draw the line. Every CPU in the last 40 years (since the Intel 286) has had an MMU, while no microcontroller ever made has had one. I'm not sure why that seems so unreasonable to you.
I grew up knowing that my life could end any time in a flash... still could because I live very close to some of the heaviest industry in North America, a prime target if there ever was one.

My house would be pushed over, then burn, no doubt.
if you're into FPGAs, you could contribute to the ghdl compiler, which is written in ada (which I suppose makes sense since vhdl itself is also derived from ada).
Daily chart: A new low for global democracy
Thank you. After I posted I realised my stupidity in not checking
out your linked config file. Having fun with that now. Cheers for
the additional nfo.
LeetComp – Analysing compensations mentioned on the Leetcode forums (India)
Yeah, I thought that rendering a 1000x1000 surface for a dimensional wall hanging should be no problem, but OpenSCAD gobbled up 16GB of memory and then crashed.

I would also love for it to have a variable that rounds off corners to some diameter on the cubes, cylinders, and even polyhedrons. It's possible to round off corners using the intersection operator but it is a lot of work and something that I do in almost everything I build. Nobody likes unnecessary sharp corners.
Japan Air Flight 123? It's listed in the wiki link given.
Turbulence Equations Discovered After Century-Long Quest
Ok, I gotta check out blender now
> Feminists are out rightly man hating.

Some of them. Many are reasonable. I even have one to thank for doing as well as I have done.

The problem is I can't see many of them distance themselves from the toxic elements you mention below.

I'm squarely in the camp that women and men are born with equal worth but different abilities.

I also think society and every human has a duty to protect the weaker ones from abuse by the stronger ones, but unlike many others I won't tolerate abuse of men and especially young boys as a punishment for what other men have done long ago.
It does not have TWR it doesn't mean the rest of ATC is unaware, and as the Avherald mentions they have a UNICOM.

An interesting tidbit from wikipedia: "Straight-in approaches are discouraged at non-towered airports in the United States"
Exactly, maybe I'm missing something, but how could this be a result of testing the virus once it had spread, unless these samples represent a virus that reverted back to an intermediate stage.
I tried that but everything after the # got stripped when I submitted the link.
long before boeing tried and failed to paper over a singularity in the flight dynamics of a retrofit airframe with software and computers, there was the classic airbus vs. boeing debate.

regardless of whether fly by wire was implemented (which eventually came for boeing) there were two competing philosophies. boeing believed that when in manual control, the pilot has the final say. airbus built something new that looked more like a modern drone. if the pilot issued a control input and the aircraft thought it was dangerous, it would override it. similar to how it ranges from impossible to hard to flip a drone.

in the early 80s, a demonstration flight of the new airbus system at an airshow in toulouse ended in a fireball when a pilot attempted a low fly by and the plane switched into landing mode, ignoring his inputs to ascend and landing the aircraft in trees.

of course, official story was that the computer (and the multi billion dollar bet behind it) was fine and the pilot and crew were declared responsible. (i think they survived, only to be jailed)
Make your living space an obstacle course, put things in your common paths that you have to stretch to get over, or walk sideways to get around (but be mindful you can get out fast in an emergency). Instead of scheduling exercise, schedule cleaning of your place, you get two benefits for the effort of one. If you work in an office walk over to ask a question instead of sending an email. Don't eat at your desk, go out. Get out of the building you work in every few hours (most businesses try to make this difficult, some will even try to prevent it saying it increases company liability, but insist, you are not a slave.) Stretch often, it feels good. Arrange things so you -must- walk to get things (put the fridge in the basement, put the printer on the other side of the house, keep a pantry far from the kitchen, store things in a shed so you have to go outside to get them.) Convenience is the bane of your health.
Ah, I see.

ashift is definitely 12 (as I noted in my sibling reply)... but TIL about alignment (thanks). Parted says my ZFS partition starts at 8590983168 bytes (after an 8GB swap partition), which divides down by 4K cleanly. Is that what you mean?

Hmm, the RAM usage on this machine is generally low-ish, but with 8GB I suspect the smallest perturbations can make a big difference (even though I use it headlessly). I'll definitely keep more RAM in mind going forward, and yeah, SSD/NVME storage makes these kinds of considerations moot in high-performance contexts.

Thanks for the info!
It's supposed to really shine with procedurally generated geometry, like fractals, where code really is a more efficient way to describe your object. Some people are also more comfortable describing things with code, so it's useful to them.

It might be best to think of it as a platypus: An interesting element of the ecosystem, but disappointing if you need a duck.
I suspect there's an ideological influence to this weird outrageousness. But I'm probably wrong.
If they genuinely don't know, and want to, surely they'd be more open with their data and collaboration.

As it is, we get a constant drip of new evidence sort of pointing the finger, but no conclusion. The evidence is also all coming from 3rd parties, not the Chinese themselves, which further adds suspicion, and still there seems to be no new evidence in support of natural migration from Yunnan caves.
I tried FreeMind a few times in the late 00's after I had a coworker who swore by it. I never really "got" it either. Though in general I really dislike any data entry interface that requires horizontal scrolling, and that's the the biggest reason I avoid Excel.

Maybe keyboard shortcuts make a big difference? A video of a power user flying around in a very large mind map without touching the mouse would be a lot more convincing to me than the usual toy examples where everything fits on one screen.
I think the truth is somewhere in-between (hence the articles proposal of a hybrid approach).

That said it's not just the budget for hardware to take into consideration but the often ignored costs like man hours, support contracts etc.

It also ignores security. Many security departments would much prefer the risk of having a dedicated cloud provider take that on, rather than a bunch of local sysadmins who will come and go.
How do you go about bringing these up over the course of the interview?
Well thats depressing, I saw a similar documentary that didnt really have anything stark across gender lines, but did show how some private high school students in NYC had trouble reconciling their circumstance with the public housing across the street. The most apt similarity being how one boy took his life after pushing the school administration to lower admission costs for needy.
OpenTTD is such an awesome game. I never thought i could sink so much time in that game. I still visit it every few months even though there are way more polished sims available. I thank again the maintainers
It was not, sadly, Jacquard who invented the loom that bears his name; Jacquard found one after the inventor died, made some improvements, and a lot of fabric.

The true inventor's name, Jacques de Vaucanson, is rarely mentioned. He also invented rubber tubing, and the chain drive, and the essential precision machine tools still used in every machine shop, and lately in CNC machines. Important stuff. He invented the rubber tube to use in a mechanical duck that would eat, drink, and crap. His inventions form the core of the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, Museum of Arts and Trades, in Paris, not to be missed.
I think there's a missing angle from the engineer's point of view.

I have no interest in developing skills that are essentially just shallow knowledge of a single proprietary vendor's product brochure. I want to develop skills that are highly transferable, fundamental skills that allow me to continuously build over a career. I also think there is danger here for the profession if engineers allow their skills to be pigeon-holed and segmented that way. It's already the bane of our industry ("oh you only know React, we are looking for a Vue developer ...") that recruiters look at shallow skill segments instead of fundamentals.

For that reason if nothing else, I'd always want to work on Plan C - cloud providers as suppliers of standard commodity infrastructure. Possibly in a managed way but still standard things that, after I spend years acquiring knowledge about them, will have some value when I show up at a different cloud provider or need to design for internal infrastructure.
Microsoft will open up the Xbox store in light of the Activision Blizzard deal
I could be wrong but I think they built their product on research that was already open and public. I believe the technique predates the company.

Their "moat" was never the mapping algorithm itself; it was the suite of tools (hardware and software) that allowed users to easily map content without understanding the details of that algorithm.

I don't think their problem was that everyone was flocking to the open source tools. I think their problem is that the market for automatic projection mapping is extremely small.
It's different because of the high immersion factor. How this translates to long term effects is unknown, but I've always thought that the matrix storyline might be more accurate if the humans went in voluntarily. That is, I think the long term effects will be more social than directly health.
> The links you provided relate to China’s PR releases about female Chinese scientists

The third link is about affirmative action for minority groups, which has been CCP policy longer than it has been US policy. In China, people aren't allowed to complain about it.

> blacks had fallen even further behind whites and Hispanics during the pandemic in terms of education.

It only makes sense that those whose parents are less educated will suffer more when kept out of school, with school being a driving factor in closing the education gap.

Children of recent African immigrants don't have this problem, but while recent skilled Asian immigrants outnumber descendants of unskilled Asian immigrants, the same is not true for African-Americans. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2015-10-13/it-isn...
It's a uniquely American thing.

I studied abroad for a semester in England, and in one of the classes I took there the (Australian) professor asked us what socioeconomic class we thought we belonged to. It was a good university, but most of the British kids answered "working class." When he asked "Why?" they answered, "Because our parents work."

That always stuck with me. In England, the aristocracy is alive and well. They don't have to work, and they don't pretend to. They do live comfortably, but they're highly educated and reasonably well adjusted. They don't have to partake in the charade that they pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps, and they generally don't blow their family's fortune over a debauched decade in Vegas like their American counterparts either.
> I hope nobody is actually using this project

Definitely deserves upvoting lol
> Cutler goes to great lengths to prevent people from optimizing for x86 in the early development of NT, despite the intense pressure to do so for performance reasons. He intuitively knew that sacrificing portability this early would cripple the future design of the OS.

Is that so? Yet, no version of Windows has run on anything big endian.

Linus Torvalds started Linux in a way that was totally geared toward 386. He used the 80368 memory segments of all things: the descriptor tables and all!

Some of the 386-isms survived in some of the naming, like get_fs (named after the FS register):

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/182631/what-is-fs-s...

None of that stopped Linux from running on all sorts of stuff.
OK sure, but in 2014 in Norway a card without a chip might as well be broken. If I turned up to a restaurant where you are, asked if I could pay by card, ordered, and then busted out my UnionPay card and demanded they accept that, would you say that was reasonable?
Just learn Ansible already, it will take you at most one day.
I was surprised that 'kebob' isn't a well-known word in the UK. I believe it's a 'kebab' in the UK, which seems so close.

As a Canadian I was disappointed to find my familiarities sided more on the US side than the UK. Now excuse me as I go look up 'gazump' ...
The best time for finding a fully remote position was during the first lockdowns. The second best time is now.
I feel like the lede is buried here... If I'm reading correctly I can use flyctl to set up an SSH encrypted tunnel over user-space TCP/IP over wireguard encrypted IP packets over UDP over WebSockets over HTTP over TLS encrypted TCP/IP? And not even just for fun, but to solve real problems in production. I can see why you might have mixed feelings about that!
The CPU was called MBB (Microprogrammable Building Block).

Here's the C/30 Programmer's Reference for the "Native Mode Firmware System". That was the software that ran in the native 20-bit mode rather than emulating the 16-bit Honeywell mini.

https://walden-family.com/impcode/c30-nmfs-programmers-refer...
You can see the original vocab test that provided the report data still available at http://vocabulary.ugent.be/
From the UK. Can confirm I know almost all of the UK words and none of the US words.
Bungie does that out of organizational incompetence. You should not have to rely on "community" to tell you your bugs. That's what QA testing is for. From my friends whom work in QA testing it is completely the fault of the game company for bugs and bad changes. They're almost always reported upfront before the game or patch is live. Guess what? Money is more important than a good product.