skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a remarkable list of achievements in the PARC alumni. It's hard to think that amount of computer related talent will ever be concentrated to that level again, especially given the rapid ascent of our field driven in no small part by the innovation that went on at PARC.

- Sent from my (not quite) Dynabook
Happened in my wife’s company of around 40k people. Mail to all, replies to stop replying, many hours to stop the firestorm. Then next timezone 8 hours out started replying. I don’t know why they didn’t just kill permissions to the mailing list.
wait - the managerial class will lose all that equity they put in their homes!

on edit: somehow put learn instead of lose.
The only way to fix this is you have to build a new cloud that has lower networking costs and force the existing competitors to lower their prices.
Chinese space station crew launches into orbit
Improvised filters can remove most of the fallout at it is attached to particles. Not that I want to do this to survive.
I am not entirely convinced WFH will stay the norm either. Certainly more normal, but I think the HN crowd might be uniquely positioned to exploit the situation. Your average office worker doesn't usually have the agency to push back on office policies at the best of times, and you already see plenty of pull back into the office.

The other part of the equation is the more common hybrid arrangement. If you still have to come into the office twice a week you get a similar dynamic to traditional in-office work.

I think we are currently underestimating the desire to get back to the status quo and overestimating our leverage long term. Right now is a very unique time, sure to have lasting impacts, but I don't think it will stay like this.
Can you recommend some good comprehensive books on fixed-point, big num Maths with code examples in C/C++ ? If it has practical applications showing usage that would be even better. I am interested in knowing how you get precision in Computers both by using floating-point and by substituting it with equivalent fixed-point representations.
Browsers on iPhones (and any device in iOS) are not using chrome's engine but (are required to) rely on Apples WebKit instead. Problems ocurring in Android/ Windows/ ... Chrome versions might not be reproducible in those devices.
> even if ovh never had a fire, these clients could have lost data

On the other hand, would OVH had power-kill switches and extinguishers, some clients may have ended up not losing their data, even as the fire occurred.

This DC was designed for no power loss and with nah-there-wont-be-any-fire hopetimism. Lawsuit is imo fully deserved.
Freudian burn? idk, but yes very good observation
That’s not the kiddo’s fault.
GitHub should have a feature when you tag a group, it should show how many people will be notified and ask for confirmation.

Anyone will be afraid if they see a warning like “This message will notify 400k people. Are you sure?”
Something like this should have happened 5 years ago. I'm surprised it took so long. It's a proof that github users are generally good citizens.
I do not treat Kubernetes as Cloud-Native. While the ecosystem that CNCF build in centre of Kubernetes provides the shortest way for end-users to achieve cloud native goals.

What's more, cloud native seems not only by the way how to judge by technology trend, but also by the industry's de facto standard how to use cloud. In the previous one, the tech ecosystem of CNCF could be regarded as the largest one. In the latter one, AWS comes almost without anyone could catch up with.
If anyone was trading futures on DDR5 the price would be even lower than this level, because that's how the price always works on new types of memory.
My notes on working of CPU profiler
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2021/01/30/the-wind-p...
This is like a meme in software development reposts and I hate it because it just says "things can go wrong with component X of your system". It doesn't say when, it doesn't say what the threshold is. There's no equations, no direction for someone that hasn't dealt with one of these problems before. It's less than useless.
One of the foundations of privacy is that data sharing in any form should be opt-in, not opt-out.
Powered Air-Purifying Respirator
Thanks for writing your heart out.
I'm hearing it already start to reverse in Sydney at least. So a bunch of people bought houses up the coast thinking they could work from home after covid pushing value of houses up and commercial down. But turns out people can't be trusted and and companies want people back in the office and they can't sell these coastal houses for same price they bought them for. Anecdotal of course. I have no data.
Why do people get so easily pissed off? Can't you just ignore the email?
It's just very common GitHub spam/abuse. Suspect these are automated accounts trying to look legitimate by doing legitimate-ish things (e.g. cryptocurrency mining via PRs that require one-time approval).
This makes no sense. There is nothing to prove that that WhatsApp is really using the aformentioned Signal code. It's closed source, so it could be anything inside.
I believe compilers may not stick to strict ABI in a LTO build since there’s no real object files and the compiler has a full view of the build. I don’t know if clang/GCC do things to take advantage of that but I feel like they would be doing that for easy perf wins.
Network is much much more reliable than it used to be. In a typical large-scale datacenter today, it is becoming common to deploy clos networks with multiple ECMP paths to get from one server to another. Also, cost of network relative to cost of the server is quite low (less than 8-10% of overall cost). Also, fat connectivity between datacenters in a metro area is much much cheaper than ever before (due to huge increases in fibre capacity in the last 10 years). If anything, network has become cheaper faster than compute has in the last 10 years. (And storage has done the same at an even higher rate). So, this affects architectural decisions in very interesting ways. Of course, public cloud make a huge profit on network bandwidths by billing to customers based on old mental models.
It's actually pretty easy to induce a Pavlovian response to just about anything. Neural plasticity and response conditioning are on our side here.
This is my point exactly. It doesn't matter as long as the app is closed source. You could do the worlds most secure E2EE implementation, but then send a copy of all keys to Facebook servers.
The worst part was that even unsubscribe to the thread does nothing and I kept on getting emails. However, this was fixed for me by creating a new email address and pointing all epic organisation emails to that one. … I wonder why unsubscribe didn’t work.
In short - no.

Science doesn't like proving a negative - there may yet be things we don't understand - but all indications so far (80 odd years later) are that genetic mutations from radiation exposure are not passed on.
This at tagging thing is sorta dumb anyway. Its a bandaid on the lack of reasonable user notification add/remove controls.

I made the mistake a few months back of saying something like "and if you use our @corp.com email address the internal filter does X", and the stupid "chat" program proceeded to ignore the .com part and notify the entire company of a small tech discussion on my team.

Cute.
while(vbucks < Long.MAX_VALUE) {
++vbucks;

Incredible
Wait what? I never knew "open source" was different from "Open Source"
As Carl Sagan purportedly said, "In order to draw a triangle, you must first invent the universe". Once you have a thorough understanding of the proprietary hardware and its drivers, it's not a complicated thing to draw. But you need to do a lot of groundwork to construct that simple shape on less-than-friendly turf.
This.

My work and hobby life is completely entwined. I have one powerful machine and micromanage my time by switching between windows of work and leisure.

Add the fact that I do coding as work and video editing as a hobby which both need powerful machines, and it would be very stupid, unmanageable, and inconvenient to buy two MacBooks.
Intel processors are currently actually very efficient on the workloads they're actually designed for.

The mid level 12th gen chips absolutely fly in gaming workloads, it's only if you max all cores for hours on end that the "Sell your grandmother for a MHz" approach Intel currently has makes a difference.
What can everyone do before that "new cloud" happens? The approaches like the above post mentioned how their cloud database tries different things from technology side seems the right and practical way to pursue though.
To improve performance, consider using `export LC_ALL=C` (credit: https://benhoyt.com/writings/count-words/). But note that it sorts uppercase and lowercase separately, and doesn't handle Unicode well.
Sorry for grumbling, but back in the '90s we called tables “advanced” if they could work with multiple lazy db data sources, provide sub-tables for value selection, formulas and so on [1]. Multi-sorting, interactive filtering, grouping was just “regular”. These tables were basically the entire UI part of your database, apart from detail forms.

Nowadays “advanced” seems to be a static array or rows that can be sorted by a column.

[1] http://www.ehlib.com/en/screenshots
I noticed that I hadn't charged my Macbook Pro for almost a week once. I wasn't using it much per day but it was being used.

Also I don't really care about the battery, the amazing thing about the M1 chips is that they just don't get hot.
There has never been a land bridge to Australia. Getting there involved many sea crossings, no matter when you place the event, no matter how low the sea level fell as water was locked up in glaciers.

Look up "Wallace Line". Animals, likewise, could not walk from Australia to Asia, for the same reason. Thus, we do not have kangaroos and wallabies in Asia, though they are in New Guinea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Line
All of the non tech people I know in Australia are now back in the office. I think we might see a halt in new office construction, but existing offices do look like they will eventually fill up. And a lot of the big names like Apple and Tesla have signalled that in office work will resume.
Sometimes fixing a typo would be a new coder’s first open source commit. It’s pretty stupid to assume every new PR would be a major new feature or bug fix. It makes OSS unnecessarily hostile to get into.

Although this commit in question isn’t even that sadly.
i was interested in how the tower looks, seemingly its white from the outside but looks more or less untreated from the inside. this is the company making them, with images:

https://modvion.com/
The Xeon E3-1220 v5 is not the same as the original E3-1220. You want this link: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/88172/i...

The E3 v5 series were part of the generation codenamed Skylake, introduced in 2015. But the Skylake microarchitecture was reused in each subsequent new Intel desktop processor generation through 2019's Comet Lake (due to Intel's 10nm failure). They didn't introduce a new microarchitecture in that product segment until Rocket Lake and Alder Lake, both in 2021. So despite being almost 7 years old, the E3-1220v5 is still representative of most of the installed base for Intel desktops and entry-level workstations, and a large chunk of their mobile installed base.

(The original E3-1220 predates AVX2 by two years, so this code wouldn't even run on it.)
Man it's still ongoing, and now the trolls have discovered it. The original thread somehow managed to crash my iphone due to the sheer number of replies.

Amazing GH even made this possible. Not sure if there's also a data leak, I notice my email was CCed, not BCCed. Now they've managed to email nearly half a million people, this could go on for ages as idiots keep responding to the original chains.

Wonder if EpicGames should temporarily mark their account as private till this gets sorted out. Glad I'm not the guy at the end of the phone trying to sort this car crash out.
I don’t think I’ve ever had confidence in Amazon - possibly because out side of the US they are simply lacking in almost all ways.
Basically all out of order superscalar processors are vulnerable to Spectre. Intel have already mitigated meltdown in hardware, remember that it was disclosed 4 years ago now...
Are factories now built downtown or am I missing something?

Do you think that cities of the future rely on cars or on more efficiently scaleable means of transportation - like trains, subways and trams?

> Ask yourself how many people are unable to work remotely.

Please elaborate.

Personally, I don't think there's any elected mayor on the planet that has "moving more factories inside the city" on their agenda.

Note that I was specifically arguing about office spaces. And everyone in an office space can work remotely.

I'm not arguing about politics, I'm arguing that technologically there's no need for office spaces inside the city. It's a societal expectation that doesn't make sense anymore and isn't necessary. What COVID showed us is that most if not all of the tasks that were done in offices before can be done remotely just fine. Additionally it showed us how quiet and livable cities can get when there's no traffic jam of commuters.
I thought this was an article about archery. Still satisfied though.
I think a lot of people had a lot of interesting things to add in the comments section here overall.
I tried getting petty and submitting complaints to Postmaster General. Eventually they told me if I kept refusing mail, especially the Direct Mail that advertisers use (to Current Resident), they just wouldn't deliver my mail anymore.
Yea the Levi sizing from Amazon is all over the map, right?
I've used Launchy for many years and have never really found anything that felt as good and was as fast when using.
It's a bit mysterious to me how one can talk about structured data and not also discuss schemata and validation. If a schema exists, one can avoid reinventing the wheel. Name your poison: DTD, XSD, RNG, JSON schema.
This comment from Parent just got #18 locked. lol
We are at the "cashing in" phase of the scam.
“Some of you may die, but it is a sacrifice I am willing to make.”
I work for many different software projects.

I also do a lot of 4K video editing both as a hobby and occasionaly for work.

I also switch between tasks a lot daily.

I am mobile.

Yeah it would be perfectly economic, riskless, convenient, and definitely manageable to carry two fully specced MacBook Pros in my bag.

Not even jumping into the software licensing territory.
The original article seems to be from 1994.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_com...
Hehe when I was an intern working on a big chemical industry site someone also accidentally reply-alled a plant-wide safety mailing list.

This quickly started a similar deluge of mails until someone high up the chain of command all-caps yelled "NO MORE REPLYING ON THIS MAIL, OR IT WILL BE AN HR VISIT FOR YOU"

Good times
“Contributed to Unreal Engine source code. It welcomed well, hundreds of people commented”
Section 3.4, "Identifying the Persistence of Work From Home", is weird. They are trying to calculate the persistence of work from home based on data about what rents on high-quality office space did during the pandemic:

"A key parameter in the calibration is p, which governs the persistence of remote work. 13
We identify this parameter as follows. We assume that the economy transitioned from the
no-WFH expansion state (the E state) in 2019 to the WFH state and a recession (the WFH-R
state) in 2020. We compute the model-implied return on the NYC A+ office market in this
transition (using the A+ calibration)."

Why this should be a valid predictor for post-pandemic / endemic periods is not clear at all.

These guys have a data set of office rental data, and seem to be trying to infer way too much from it.
The holding allows you to defer paying the taxes on the sale of the startup as part of an investment round to simply restructure the company. You don’t have to pay taxes now on gains that aren’t liquid, and if the startup goes bust u just count the losses against the gains and u get zero tax burden.
> I do not treat Kubernetes as Cloud-Native... for end-users to achieve cloud native goals.

Do you mean that Cloud-Native is about applications that are built on top of K8S, not K8S itself?

What are the cloud native goals? Abstracting out end-users from any cloud?
UnsubscribeNotificationWorker has been queued. :)
Why would it be a very long To header? It’s not like the email headers include all 400k emails in one go.

That would be a massive privacy breach, and people here would be making a lot more noise about such a large email database being leaked.
Oh, thanks for the link. Looks like I'm out of date. Seems to be a relatively newish feature (~2020), but on the surface that does seem ideal. I haven't dug into the specifics, so I'm not sure if there's a gap preventing its use or if it's just a matter of priorities.
Prob would be horny federal prison since it would be a federal crime.
I tend to agree. After working with data outputs from a variety of Linux sources for years I find the PS output is much more standardized -- or at least PS handles string outputs in a much more standardized way. I love the Select-String ... approach to field display. Making and outputting tables in PS is much slicker than the same magic on Linux. Ugly is a matter of opinion, but the real magic of PS is never having to drop characters or spaces to munge text into a column.
The real question is why on earth do you have notifications enabled for all emails?
The value was transferred to the companies who no longer pay that rent, no?
Carrying two machines around all the time is no fun.
> Just send them their crap back

After my mom passed I had all her mail forwarded to my house. She donated to a couple of charities, but they all sell their mailing lists to each other so there was so.much.charity.beg.crap with the little trinkets. And a lot of political donation stuff. The charities were pretty all right, honestly. I told them she was deceased and some even offered condolences and took her off. The political stuff, if there was a prepaid envelope inside I would return it with "deceased, pls remove" written on whatever silly survey they enclosed. So they would have to pay a small amount each time I had to tell them to remove her. That took about 2.5 years, but I no longer get anything.
This is just the beginning of a wider shift that will destabilize domestic economies worldwide, particularly in well developed nations, if the trend continues.

It's not just urban office buildings. It starts there, then it leads to deurbanization, increased populations in less urban areas, a more flat population distribution. Why live in a city unless your job requires it? All the other perks of a city only really apply if you actually need to be there to sustain yourself.

It will lead to several big cities filing bankruptcy, most service businesses in dense cities going broke, city services unable to continue to function. Information workers are the core of a city's economy, all service oriented businesses cater to them. Once they're gone, the service workers go too, it's a cascading process of the collapse of big cities. When they said the internet was going to revolutionize humanity they weren't kidding around.

Overall it will be a good thing, but the process will be very painful.
Wouldn't a major difference be that a burning building spreads the fire, while a melting building does not? One thing I noticed while fiddling around in the fireplace is that if you have two logs neither of which burns very well - everytime you try to light one it goes out soon after - if you put them close together, they can support and warm each other enough to sustain an intense burn.
Chiming in with my siblings, not to berate an OSS project and I'm probably missing something as I just skimmed through the docs, but how is this advanced?
The post office literally provides a service to advertisers that you can't opt out of. If it is addressed to Current Resident or something similar, then it is most likely USPS Every Door Direct Mail. There is no opt-out.
What? It’s not E2EE by default? This is honestly disappointing. So most of their privacy-focused stance is just a marketing ploy? A lot of my peers now use Telegram to move away from the Facebook ecosystem and now you’re telling me they’re just as worse?
There are "clouds" with lower networking costs, like Digitalocean/linode. But they are not "capable" enough to support a sizable company. Actually, networking is like a "tax" on top of the whole platform.

One of the real problems is that cloud providers can just waive cross-AZ traffic for their own managed services but charge a lot for cloud customers.
Umm, I remember a time when Personal Computers were seen as universal, do-it-all devices. And there was this expectation, you know, that your FOSS-OS will put all your security and privacy choices into your hand. That was roughly before folks took the red pill and went all-in on intransparent browser apps and would program their change-the-world app for themselves, to be released when ready. Unlike today where they flaunt non-novel, insignificant, uninspired crap on github.
I saw a reddit thread with topic of discussion a few days ago. Are we now ripping off user content to grab eyeballs and get more clicks?

This type of low effort stuff should not be popularised
Auto-correct gone wrong - off-shore was correct.
Video game worlds are often devoid of children–here's why
But how do you fill it to a good density when the cost to live there is higher and there's no need to live there to earn a living anymore?
Call your senators and representatives. Tell them to treat robocallers like terrorist.
The latest news is a few days old and concerns their cooperation plans with the Kyoto University:

https://www.biospace.com/article/releases/altos-labs-announc...

There are four concrete topics mentioned.
Wikipedia Is Badly Biased (2020)