skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Notable is that PoW is a way of polluting outrageously whilst transferring wealth to the wealthy, PoS just transfers it more directly without the indirection via physical capital. Neither of them solve any of the issues they propose to solve.
Charged by commercial banks. Because they are the ones printing the debt contracts.
Why did only half of the linebreaks break here? I see this all the time with pasted braille art like this.
You are correct, of course
Which is why it's a saying about how it doesn't work: it starts from a faulty premise, that people know how to the job properly and aren't out of malicious intent.

When in reality, the worker who's not maintaining the machine properly, isn't doing so because he was never instructed in it's operation, his supervisor who's "been doing this job for years, never had a problem with this", the manager of the department loves how many run hours they're getting from that machine and "it hasn't killed anyone" is said when the dangers of not cleaning it are mentioned in meetings, and after all they don't want to look bad to the executives who are saying serious things like "the economy is tightening, we need to find savings!" a lot.

In that chain, pick out who is directly responsible for the situation? Better: pick out who can be told to fix this problem, and they'll actually know how to do it? Pick out who you kill as a lesson to the others that will actually be learned?

Suppose you kill all of them: great, so what are you now doing to make sure the next group actually do their jobs properly?
They are not. Companies are abusing data. The services should still be free.
They could at least give out some NFTs :)
While the idea that "bullshit jobs" are common may itself be bullshit [1], one can imagine that at companies like Google whose major task is preserving their current market position rather than innovating to enter new markets, and who allegedly employ smart engineers simply to prevent their competitors from employing smart engineers, there is a higher than usual level of bullshitness.

[1] From Wikipedia: Using data from the EU-conducted European Working Conditions Survey, the study found that a low and declining proportion of employees considered their jobs to be "rarely" or "never" useful."[14] The study also found that while there was some correlation between occupation and feelings of uselessness, they did not correspond neatly with Graeber's analysis; bullshit "taskmasters" and "goons" such as hedge-fund managers or lobbyists were vastly satisfied with their work, while essential workers like refuse collectors and cleaners often felt their jobs were useless.
In a similar vein, albeit with less geopolitics, Big Oil companies funded various environmental groups' anti-nuclear stances and protests, in order to solidify their grip on the energy market.
Headline is literally wrong. I notice that every media outlet has gone
to great pains to label the perpetrators as ex-eBay executive.

This seems to dodge the fact they committed their crimes while in the
employ of eBay.
Can someone explain to a layman, is it good to have a high metabolic rate? It can burn more calories, so the risk of obesity becomes lower, isn't it?
Minimalism is a good thing, I like it. But the invention of hyperlinks is also a good thing. I think making urls clickable would be a nice improvement.
So don't do what Donny Don't does?
Following the announcement of Fly.io acquiring the Litestream project and hiring its creator Ben Johnson I've been looking into it (and am very impressed by what I see!)

Reading through the docs I was delighted to find this full set of instructions including script commands for setting up a simpler regular snapshot backup using cron - for situations where Litestream is (quote) "overkill" - ie where the database is smaller and your durability requirements are lower.

In fact, the docs have a whole alternatives section for different requirements. I think this kind of thing is great, and something more projects should do! Wanted to share it because of this meta thing, but also because it's just pretty useful per se.
You didn't have to post a novel. It ends here: "Free means it's rightfully theirs".
I wouldn't use the word the "propped up", I would probably use foundational. It is not like the Canadian government is eager to turn away the flow of money entering into their economy as they say. Canada is doing as great of a job of preventing this moneyflow as UK is doing with stopping Russian Oligarchs to "invest" in their economy. UK too have laws in preventing money laundering I presume.
Completely agree, but also I remember that 'piping curl into bash' was always one of the biggest no-no's. I held onto this for so long, but then realized every time I run 'npm i' arbitrary commands can also run, and now it seems wild that I ever cared about curl | bash on websites that I trust
As I consultant that works extensively in Excel, I understand your point. The lack of decent syntax highlighting, auto-indentation or “IDE mode” instead of the formula bar can be painful. Especially when working with models developed by others.

On the other hand, you can see it as a feature. It forces you to keep your formulas short, break them down in helper columns and overall make your logic cleaner. If you are writing a 4 line long formula, you are doing something wrong. Sytax highlighting would still surely help, but it is not a replacement for clean modelling.
You are not entitled to labor of someone else for free. Don't act like you're forced to pirate, if you don't want to play the price - don't watch that show! It is that simple.
Ah I did not know.
For workstations and servers there's still hundreds of low priority housekeeping threads that can run on efficiency cores. Using them means the work gets done for less power and thus less heat. While a server isn't worried about battery life every saved bit of power is saved dollars in aggregate in a data center.
America has the NHS but it's far from universal
How would fake lack of ERA demoralise the enemy when the enemy is getting destroyed anyhow, even if they have ERA? (And in your scenario, if it did have ERA)
we should put top people on this, just in case.
This method is fine, but with it you must always take care to choose bufsize as a power of two, otherwise the overhead of having to do integer divisions for all queue operations may be noticeable.
Also most books are 300 page long for no reason and have simple idea stretched with 90 stories
Goat's milk was the historical alternative, since it's a close match. We don't have a lot of goats, nor a lot milking of them. But my wife's grandfather was in fact fed on goat's milk when he was young.

Cow's milk is absolutely inappropriate [1]: it has way too much protein for babies and the wrong nutritional profile - even when they start being able to drink it you have to be careful about how much since they're not great at digesting it yet. It's missing all sorts of things - i.e. not enough iron.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4882692/
I read studied like this and just am thankful/grateful I don't need medication to function. People who live with having to be medicated sure have it rough.
Just like the telecom industry, Making it ludicrously easy for an attacker to taken down communications during a war.

I hope the current world events forces the governments to rethink their strategy of keeping the telecom industry an oligopoly and decide that reducing the barrier for entry to the telecom industry is vital for the national security.
Hm. You know the answer. If you don't, walk out your front door.
You get a bunch of smart hardware guys into a room, they design this funky exotic architecture. Then the software goes "Allocate these threads to whatever is idle" and suddenly you've completely lost any possible advantage and are thrashing around with no idea what you're doing. The big-little architecture from Apple was accompanied by software that basically handles that for you. From what I heard there were similar problems with Xeon Phi - great theoretical performance but a very difficult programming model and as a result very challenging sales for the Intel sales guys.
What's a 3090?
As an aside, I don't think even the early Atom processors were as terrible as their reputation branded them. I had an early Atom-based netbook, and it was totally acceptable... if running Linux (or XP).

Kind of like the "Vista debacle", I think Atoms were just unsuited to running Windows 7. Maybe I'm too forgiving or forgetful, but I used that netbook for many years, and it wasn't that slow with Linux. (7 was pretty sluggish, though)

...I do remember intensely disliking the introduction of early gnome 3, while running Fedora on that netbook. Not kind to the integrated graphics :-)
A classic example of this imho is the "create filter" dialog in Gmail. Used to look like this https://images.ctfassets.net/lzny33ho1g45/3Bjwe3vYdJTAr9L6oV... i.e. had a bunch of options for what should happen when an email matched the rule, and also a "also apply this rule to existing email" checkbox.

Now it looks like this https://bleakton.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Create-rules... . Some designer obviously thought, there are lots of checkboxes for what should happen when an email matches the rule and the "also apply this rule for existing email" is also a checkbox so just put them all in one row, despite it having a completely different meaning.
remedies and compounds that work widely have a name: medicine.
Chances are the only good way to make your engineers stick around is to keep adjusting compensation to market rates. If an engineer can get a higher salary at pretty much any other company, there's no question if they "deserve" a raise.

I don't think compensation should be used as a reward for effort. If you do that, you'll end up creating an incentive for people to only do stuff that looks great for a promotion -- and people who maintain software and don't create flashy new features will end up being under-appreciated.

If you don't think a person "earns" a raise then they shouldn't be working in your team. In a great team, everyone "deserves" a raise because teamwork is the result of the entire team. If a person pulls that teamwork down then they shouldn't be in that team.
Wikidata does that: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q151018
Curl isn't the problem they're describing. The remote can assume you're running it in a terminal (especially since the user agent string indicates you're using curl) and can send malicious escape sequences in the body, which will be interpreted by your terminal emulator in most cases.

This is true of any program that prints output directly from a remote host / untrusted source.

In the event your terminal emulator has a vulnerability or allows you to run arbitrary commands (this is a feature of some emulators), the site can target that functionality for users of that emulator and wreak havoc.

I maintain a lot of ANSI escape related code. These exploits have always been theorized, but I've not once heard about this being exploited in the wild. It's certainly possible. Not very probable. Refer to your threat model, as always.
Why? Users volunteer the data. Just ask them if they're ok with it being public.
It was considered before.
Good write up. It’s important to hear from someone that works with the tech day to day.
Yes but easier comes with a greater cost.

It isn't like we are choosing easier because we are lazy. The reason it is easier to say is because with a lot of diseases and afflictions, we simply do not know the cause or do not know how to treat it. And honestly, it is Much better to treat symptoms than to treat nothing at all. Heck, sometimes it might mean death - like in the case of diabetes - or more suffering and disability - like with MS.

It isn't just because we are taking the convenient solution, in other words, and I find it disingenuous not to remember that we have a lot of holes in our medical knowledge and to realize that our imperfect knowledge leads to much of this.

And redefining side effects isn't really helpful. Sure, the medicine causes them, but it isn't like any researcher or doctor is trying to make you have unwanted effects. They are there because we don't yet know how to do the treatment without unwanted effects, and we still do it because sometimes those are better than the disease.

I don't think "big pharma" is innocent, mind you, but it doesn't help anyone to focus on conspiracy theories when you could be looking at things that actually happen and including other organizations that allow the abuse to continue (for profit medicine, for example).
Graphics card from NVIDIA https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards/30-serie...
There were s small number of phones shipped with differing cores but it did not work well.
I've not used columnstore in MSSQL but in fact I likely know more about the innards of MSSQL than you. WRT memory, all I mant was that if your working set doesn't fit in RAM, you're screwed regardless. Nothing will save you, so check that first. I don't know what your 70GB means in this context - please check.

> It then parallelises this across all cores/hyperthreads, so I get 100% utilisation on 16 cores.

that suggests your working set is indeed smaller than ram. Good.

However be aware that the parallelise feature of mssql is much better that it was but is still moderately crap. Disable it and see if you get a 16X slowdown. My guess is you won't, which means when enabled you won't be getting a 16X speedup (also hyperthreading can actually slow things down - disbale it and see what happens). Edit: I'd not be surprised if you were only getting 4X to 5X speedup (I may be wrong but I do have experience in this).

> With 8 cores going at once, this is 64 rows per clock, or up to 234 billion rows processed per second.

(giggle) Oh, I don't think so!

> I've seen "sort spills" reach 600K IOPS on my laptop.

Then you're hitting IO and yer cores are useless. It spills to disk because it's overflowed ram - you may have a problem.

> Learn to utilise it better and you'll be better at thinking.

... agreed, but the reverse is true also.

edit 2: Depending on what you're looking for, and if you do it often, check if MSSQL's free-text indexing can index it, if so you may get a far bigger speedup from that than anything else. Maybe. Depending.
If you were going this path, I'd say you're not thinking big enough. In rice packaging for example, literally every single grain is inspected: there's an automated imaging system which analyses the grains as they are fired through the air by air pressure, and a deflector system which emits a puff of air to kick rejected grains into the discard pile - literally grain by grain.

We should be trying to do this for everything, but formula in particular: ideally tin-by-tin we would be testing samples and barcoding the accreditation data onto them. That's the challenge here.
Console history is full of such examples.
No, maybe the people in West not the east, the love for gold is universal.
Here in the Basque Country we have a public health system, named Osakidetza. Such system implemented, like five years ago, a centralized electronic prescription system. Now doctors in the public system have to use that to make prescriptions which solved all problems caused by bad doctors handwriting, and also solved problems like you mentioned, because the system detects and warns against conflicting medications.
Where is the code to do that?
>"A Philosophy of Software Design" by John Ousterhout

Indeed, very interesting little book! He's done a talk[0] about it if you want a taste before buying.

[0] https://youtu.be/bmSAYlu0NcY
I think some work should be put on the slider. The fast forward mode goes from decade to decade instead of just going from year to year faster. Also the site can't keep up with the accelerated speed so you miss tons of changes
Did you miss that I explicitly stated "for several months" and not "forever"? It's enough to get you kickstarted and then you can begin varying (and also you will learn a lot about yourself during that time)
Alacritty was far from the first hardware accelerated terminal emulator.
https://archive.ph/YorDT
Web 3.0: When in Doubt, Do the Opposite
Long rebuttal comments
Yeah, and there's no way to insert a picture except for ASCII art. Sounds like a really bad idea.
> You can't change Chuck-E-Cheese tokens back into real money.

Same thing with Tether. Retail "investors" can't change Tether back into USD unless they do so on amounts > $100,000.

It's the same scheme.

> The entire point is that they get all of your real money at the time when you buy the tokens, making it irrelevant whether you use them afterward at all.

Yup, Tether in a nutshell.
That is actually a brilliant idea!
It's a brain designed by humans. Of course it acts like us.

Where does it think it came from? The power supply? Who has absolute power?
No. The article is an opinion piece not an in-depth reporting. You can read this "straight to the point" news source [0] to get some facts on that particular matter.

I am not saying that the current crisis is entirely due to this event. But it made what was probably already a bad but manageable situation into a full blown crisis.

This "newsletter" piece [1] in the NYT mentions several other aspects like business concentration.

[0] https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2022/04/former-employee-blows...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/briefing/baby-formula-sho...
I may be way off here, but to me the transition to heterogeneous cores is more of a long term than short them play, anticipating the era where we'll have different kinds of cores in our systems.

Even the performance cores of today have circuitry that's there to make certain workloads faster (video decoding, crypto operations, etc.). Other stuff has mostly been offset to the GPUs (actual grahphics-related stuff, machine learning).

In an architecture where you can mix/match different kinds of cores, it doesn't sound crazy to have cores that are specially designed for those tasks. Processors could ship with one "crypto-core", a "video-decoding-core", etc.. These should provide similar performance to full performance cores at _much_ lower cost, energy consumption and die area.

If (and that's a big if) they can get to a point where:

a) Designing/implementing new specific-purpose small cores is not outrageously expensive because the whole coordination/integration part is already solved

b) They have a combination of cores that provides similar performance to current p-cores-only cpu's at similar processor cost and power budget.

That would be a huge win for processor companies. They would be able to open lines of specialized processors commanding huge premiums for certain industries (think about processors with 128 ml-cores, 128 video-encoding-cores, etc.).

Or maybe I'm just delusional :)
The list of "thanks" people is clearly fluff, I don't see the point either. It reads as an excuse to name drop to make the whole thing seem more novel and interesting than it is. Sorry if that's harsh.

There is someone on that list that I wouldn't even want to be associated with to begin with, too. Their conduct in the OSS space is consistently hostile, arrogant and unproductive, and what they're credited for here is not something they themselves even devised or created, so not sure why their inclusion is significant here.

Really strange article.

EDIT: Someone at Microsoft involved with this article has a history of not crediting security researchers, too. Not the author, but someone on Twitter who is clearly involved.

Dunno why but this article really rubs me the wrong way.

EDIT2: Thinking more about it, why wasn't Tyriar of Ansi.js mentioned? IIRC that library was the basis for ANSI rendering in VSCode, at least at one point, and I would imagine WT was heavily inspired by it as Microsoft had a huge interest in it at least as recently as a few years ago - around the time WSL and WT started to get popular.

ANSI.js did a lot right and used hardware acceleration as well. It's just a weird, seemingly random collection of credits...
Just following orders ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders
There is a glaring difference, though.

The chiropractors aren't having folks call them doctor because they have the right to (as someone with a PhD would do). They are doing it to make folks think they are medical professionals in the same manner as an M.D.

In other words, posing as a medical doctor.

And this kills folks when you consider the sort of scam practices that a lot of chiropractors tend to practice. Honestly, I think it is too bad that we've decided to use the same word for all of these and I'd be happy to change things legally to protect folks from this sort of sham.
Intel Cell B.E but just around 12 years late.
In today's modern age of always-active surveillance, cancel culture and advertising, clickable URLs seem harmful. They can be logged, tracked and profiled. And most URLs are spam anyway, meaning most clickable links on the web are actively malicious. Just observe how few people on HN are even willing to click on links submitted to HN. At worst, you're taking your life into your own hands, at best you're probably just wasting your time on clickbait.

Making links clickable also forces the user to use browser or browser-adjacent tools of near infinite complexity, all of which are owned by surveillance and advertising megacorps associated with the American military industrial complex. By only having bare URLS in plaintext, I can use any tools I want to process them in any way I choose. Those tools can all be simple and free.

Maybe it's best that we be done with hypertext altogether. Clickable links were the original sin of the web. Maybe they were a good idea decades ago, in the naive cypherpunk days of the early web, but now they just provide another way to feed the panopticon, and form the basis for all of the unnecessary complexity, dark patterns and bloat in the modern web. Maybe we should just go back to plaintext and open directories.
It's not HTML content.
I believe that we are yet to observe how interconnections within brain matter more than the actual amount of neurons. You get a lot when combinatorics of these neurons forms huge networks
The multiple-consumer version looks extremely similar, if not identical, to the Go [1] and Tokio [2] local work-stealing queues.

These do a bit more though, as they also allow batch stealing operations.

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/runtime/proc.go...

[2] https://tokio.rs/blog/2019-10-scheduler#a-better-run-queue
The amount of spike protein that manages to circulate the blood stream is super low, like orders of magnitude lower than in a typical live infection.
Microcharts or sparklines are another option. I've seen a few implementations along these lines for shell prompts / shell use.

This might be useful for temperature, humidity, wind, preciptitation, and similar measures, either as quantities or timelines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkline

https://github.com/deeplook/sparklines

Similar:

https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2016/183/Calc-Conditio...
200km range .. too short for personal use. How long till we have an 800km range ?
Youtube can be "Trained"
(with a blank profile/container)
into TikTok type content by repeatedly
watching first recommended video and
skipping videos in 2-3 secs.
I agree. I always avoid these aggregators that offer world-wide coverage. The quality of the data is often questionable.

As a cyclist I'm mostly interested in rain. So I check the rain radar of the national weather service, which has excellent resolution.

Even when travelling I spend 5 minutes to dig out the relevant local pages of a national weather service and bookmark them. Not something I have to do so frequently that any kind of automation would be needed.

Weather apps and this client are a solutions in search of a real problem. Yes, it's a nice demo, I like working with the terminal. But I am not working with weather all day long.