skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree. Or just load test on your own software, publish how you did it, and let other vendors respond for themselves.
Mold/macOS is 11 times faster than the Apple's default linker to link Chrome
> copy that stream of instructions to RAM ahead of time

Even this is easier said than done: there are only 128 bytes of RAM in the entire machine, and that has to suffice for global variables and stack memory in addition to storing modified code like this!
I wouldn't feel bad. I listened to the audiobook five times - a yearly pilgrimage to try and "get it."

I loved the language and the cleverness from the start; and I understood more of the story each time. BUT I no longer feel like the "payoff" was worth the journey. I assumed there was some deep understanding or message that would come through eventually, but I no longer think that's the case.

Robert Anton Wilson described the book as a joke at the expense of English majors (can't find the exact quote) and I tend to agree. Kind of like the obfuscated C contest; try to read it if it entertains you, but stop if it doesn't.

I've decided it's a little too "inside baseball" for me.
We ported Fabrice Bellard's QuickJS engine to Cosmopolitan last year. We ported Python3 too. (You can build Python3 as a 5mb single file Actually Portable Executable!) So integrating them into redbean is on the table. The big question is whether or not redbean should be multitenant with languages, or if we should ship separate binaries where you choose the redbean "flavor" that has your preferred one. I'm leaning towards the latter, since there can only be one REPL language. What do you think?
"while QuestDB utilizes its full indexing strategy to read just a tiny fraction of the actual data"

Can you please elaborate on this?
Hah, plausible. Not far off timewise, and yet totally wrong, but understandable how such a conclusion could be made.
Good point - the "open source/non-profit" energies seem to be focused on things like mastodon and simple forums, and competitors that aren't trying for venture capital such as Facebook would just want you to use their offering instead. I suspect for many people, "Facebook Groups" is their Reddit replacement.
We go from decrying use of an arbitrary implementation detail of a database not fit for purpose, to recommending using a separate database for its intended purpose that just happens to be from the same vendor.
Benchmarks are nice but I would like to see some side-by-side workflow result testing like was done with the M1 Mac mini versus the $15,000 Mac Pro (the context there was video editing workflows, a market the Mac Pro is made for). If/when such a side-by-side comparison is made we'll see that the M2 MacBook Pro is faster than the M1 Mac mini, not quite as fast as the Mac Pro, but that the gap between the Mac Pro and the M-series competition is shrinking fast.
Taking salad != eating salad
How the cloud helps the Warriors win playoff games
High deductible health plans are widely available and members pay for most routine care out of pocket (often via an HSA). However in practice this does little to hold down costs. Most patients aren't able to do effective price comparisons, and can't really switch providers just to save a few dollars.

https://www.healthcare.gov/high-deductible-health-plan/hdhp-...

There's pretty much a free open market for cosmetic medical procedures not covered by insurance. But markets can never really work for medically necessary treatments. Demand is essentially fixed regardless of price. Patients who are in pain or at risk of death will pay everything they have and go into debt besides in order to get treatment. On a large scale basis the only effective means of holding down costs is some combination of rationing and price fixing.
Deadly heatwaves threaten economies too
PolyScale [1] is a serverless plug-and-play database edge cache. Our goal is for devs to be able to scale reads globally in a few minutes. It’s wire compatible with Postgres, MySQL, MS SQL Server (more coming including no-sql).

It has a global edge network, so no infrastructure to deploy and AI managed cache and auto invalidation, so no cache configuration needed.

[1] https://www.polyscale.ai/
If you have any nature nearby, take walks. Take walks every day. I personally prefer evenings. An hour or two is perfectly fine. No headphones, no audiobooks, no music. Just you and nature.

Normally, to deal with a burnout, I'd recommend to take a month off and shed as much responsibilities as possible, but this doesn't seem to be an option in your situation.
BSL <https://github.com/readysettech/readyset/blob/main/LICENSE> so they're serious about the "freely available" part I guess
There are often health issues that need to be fixed first, but besides that:

- Take a minimum of two weeks off, preferably more. That's how long it takes to start to disconnect. If you need to borrow some money, do it.

- Start exercising in the morning, minor weight-lifting is good.

- Go for long hikes in the park... really long, the kind where your "dogs are barkin'" later that night. Great way to clear the mind as well.

- Read a book in the evenings, preferably something uplifting and unrelated to your worries. No TV, no anti-social media.

- Get a great night's sleep, multiple times. i.e. Go to bed early, ~9pm at the latest.
"we" meaning you are an author on the report, or just at your job?
This is why I added Techrights reference here, which fixes what I've been wrong about and supports me what I was right about.

The most important thing is, De Icaza is with Microsoft for much longer than people remember (or want to accept), and the events I remember (albeit a bit blurry), when I was a grad student were actually happened.
It is a resource strapped project. I doubt they have the bandwidth to throw in additional languages. Plus, Lua is perfect for this niche: small, easily embeddable, fast, and simple enough to pick up in an hour. There are even a variety of languages which can transpile down to Lua.
To be honest I’ve come to suspect I may be guilty of this myself. I’m trying to do better at being open-minded to unpopular opinions (not always successfully).
No, not usually. When a company is acquired it is rolled up into the company purchasing it, brings in some fresh funding to start in another direction, with a dedicated 'team' going forward to run the org, etc. etc. Sometimes this is done for strategic reasons, or plain and simple acquihires. Deals are not usually done by a single individual pooling capital from various places to take a public entity private.

There are obvious examples where this has happened in the past, but no - this is not a normal acquisition by any means.
The human designing the machines don't really know their own stack so to say I don't they, even subconsciously they encore this in, and the devices purposes so far are limited, most machines don't have self sufficiency as a goal.. some complex cybernetics but not much more.

Also our lives don't rely on raw logic, we're more probabilistic.
Andy Jassy’s First Year on the Job
How do you come to that conclusion. Seems entirely unrelated
It is one thing if someone brings in a guy they know from their soccer team to interview, another if 90% of the people in a department turn out to be playing on it.
https://justine.lol/ape.html

One of best technical posts I’ve read in a while.
In my experience this is likely one half of a principle in which there are at least as many examples of people who can do things really well, but have no idea how to pedagogically transmit the building blocks of their domain understanding to others in a tractionable way.

Maybe a more wholistic take on this is something like:

'Those that can't do, teach, and those that can't teach would really be doing everyone a huge favor if they would just go do somewhere.'

If this is a more complete take, it suggests to me that the master/apprentice paradigm existed for so long for a reason; masters have spent their lives specializing narrowly, not necessarily transmitting their understanding, thus the deconstruction of their expertise is only accessible via osmosis over time, because essentially they can't teach.
was discussing this the other day with colleagues. you google CockroachDB and are immediately served Yugabyte and PlanetScale, which are imo much "hotter" right now
The comments on this thread did't age well at all... They aren't going closed source and updated the thread to reflect so. Tldr; they are bringing closed source tools to the open source crowd.
I have always felt that DB benchmarks are useless, always use your own dataset

https://gauravkumar.blog/performance-benchmarks-are-useless....
That was the point I was getting at - the book presented you information in a way that helped, but you still did the hard work of actually implementing it.

Almost all diets work if you stick to them, and almost nobody does. People want behavioral changes to be easy but they're not - they require hard work.

Perhaps more diet books would be successful if they treated it as a food addiction instead of a "eat healthy to look sexy".
Unfortunately, I have to agree. I've been using Elixir for the last year and it's one of the very few languages that I've really enjoyed using, a lot. I would love to see it get traction, but it doesn't have the same momentum as Python, nor Rust for that matter.

I don't think there's anything special about Python and data science/ML, it just happens to be everyone's go-to wrapper language around C code. Personaly, I dislike Python, it has been nothing bit pain for me in the past (not necessarily the language, but the design of popular libraries such as matplotlib), but it's always handy when you need to get something done.

That being said, there are a lot of really high-quality Elixir projects being developed at the moment, Liveview, Livebook (that I think far exceeds Jupyter in innovation), Nx, etc. Perhaps that's one of the benefits of having a smaller community. I like how Elixir has slowly developed into a mature and beautifuly designed language, with focus on stability and not hype.
For anyone else fooled by this title and disappointed this isn't actual rechargable battery content here are some good reviews:

The Best Rechargeable Battery Charger (for AA and AAA Batteries)
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-rechargeable...
(https://archive.ph/6Z5nG)

The Best Rechargeable AA and AAA Batteries
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-rechargeable...
(https://archive.ph/vGvg1)
TypescriptToLua is excellent and actively maintained
This afternoon, discussing with my boss, why issuing two x 64 byte loads per cycle is pushing it; to the point where l1 says no..
400GB of l1 bandwidth is all we have..
Is all we have..
I remember when we
could move maybe 50KB/s.. Ans that was more than enough..
No no. The idea is that before, you had plates and bowls sitting on top of a tray. All had to be washed and disinfected. Now you don't have the tray, the students carry their plates in their hand directly. No tray to wash.
‘Summer will be monstrous’: Barcelona wrestles with revival of mass tourism
That's awesome, nice work!
This is really great! I was fortunate enough to do my master's under a professor who included these visual representations in his lectures. I loved enough to write my thesis on the next step generalization, hyperelliptic curves.

You might be interested in the fact that a variant of this visual representation still works: https://www.juricho.me/files/masterarbeit-hyperelliptic_curv...
Ubuntu Core brings real-time processing to Linux IoT
HN ignores dupes when the original got little traction.
“The 100 MHz 6502” does a different clever thing - it copies all the dedicated RAM and ROM into its own FPGA copy. Then it can perform 7 to 25 instructions before the next external read/write cycle!

http://www.e-basteln.de/computing/65f02/65f02/
It's not like you can get whatever, whenever medical care in Europe. Whether private or public, the entity that's paying the bills will be making decisions on what procedures are or are not "necessary" and how much they will pay.

My uncle in Denmark had cancer, and they basically put him in a hospice-type facility to die, because anything else would have not been justified due to his age, the cost, and the low probability of success.

In the USA, he or his family would likely have demanded aggressive surgery and/or chemo or radiation, he would have died anyway, and there would have been hundreds of thousands of dollars of "medical debt" created.

I suspect many people who like the idea of socialized medicine are not prepared for the reality of the limits on care that would bring, particularly for the old and terminally ill.
I would be interested to know more background on this one. Without more context it just looks like a FOSS disagreement.
The main optimization at that stage seems to be preallocating the weights. I don't know pandas but such a thing would have been possible without dropping any of the linalg libraries I do know how to use.

I doubt the author's C++ implementations beat BLAS/LAPACK, but since they're not shown I can only guess.

I've done stuff like this before but the tooling is really no fun, somewhere between 2 and 3 I'd just write it all in C++.

Changing the interface just to get parallelism out seems not great - give it to the user for free if the array is long enough - but maybe it was more reasonable for the non-trivial real problem.
Right, because it has been: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/wickr-amazon-aws-chil...
I have canceled my auto renewal for Fusion 360 as I have moved completely to Linux and their product does not work without using an unofficial Wine setup (also my space mouse does not work in Wine, it works perfectly in FreeCAD and Blender). They do have a web version but it is not available to paying customers?! They also keep removing features from the paid version I have. I'm done with this garbage. I can't even easily export my work.

I tried a few times to switch but now I have to.

What's really cool is how easily I can export Kicad projects and import them into blender. Check out my latest PCB render: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svU7NyfJJKY
Thanks for the info, that's unbelievable to even have that odd idea.
True! But not taking salad means not eating salad. Also, people typically eat salad first, at least where I live (US). So it's not likely they're already full by the time they get to it.
Payment for order flow should be illegal. It was invented by Madoff and is illegal in most countries. Citadel submitted a request to the SEC stating that payment for order flow represents a major conflict of interest and should be made illegal. When the laws weren't changed - Citadel built their business model around it.

I don't fault retail for approaching the situation in the way they did. It seems logical given the understanding that they're being preyed upon in situations advertised as beneficial to them.
I am going to propose a radical idea: There is NO PATTERN.

People reach mastery and expertise in all different kinds of ways. Some folks have it handed to them on a silver platter, others overcome outrageously unfair circumstances, some do it alone, some have mentors, some read-learn-do, some just do, some do it despite hating what they do, others do it out of love.
Sounds promisingm, especially now that macOS defaults to Zsh... I very rarely see any documentation where that is the default.
Shame on the OP. Emacs is 46 this year. As is vi (which is not Vim), but we all know Emacs is much better.

OTOH, ed is 3 years older (Wow! 3 years between ed and Emacs!), and I'm very happy I don't use it today.
Redbean is amazing. I was able to run some TLS stress tests against it (where you setup a handshake and just disconnect). I was able to pump out about 1200 connections per second between my desktop and laptop on 1gb ethernet. I only had 5 handshake errors.

I look forward to playing with this!
Better press already exists for anyone who wants it. Almost nobody wants it. It lost the popularity contest to more entertaining and pandering versions. You have to give people what they want. If you want change you have to change what they want. That's the hardest pill to swallow.
I've discovered this while fighting another issue: if you long-press a link to a video file to try and save it to your device (I occasionally do this while ripping videos from Twitter), you get the long-press context menu you want (with the "download linked file" item) for like half a second before the full screen video covers up your whole screen, and when you swipe it away the context menu is gone.

You literally have to race the video popup, and sometimes I just have to memorize the location on my phone's screen where the "download linked file" button will appear and have my finger ready over the spot because there's not enough time to scan over all the menu items.
Anybody feel brave enough to try merging in SVR4?

https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Researc...

https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/9ecd05bdc59e4a1...
This is totally reasonable. However, I found that going out of her way to find a product marginally cheaper to be counter productive. I was unable to explain to her the concept of alternative cost. For instance spending extra 30 minutes to save £1-2. I mean there is nothing wrong with that if you don't have anything else to do and can be a form of entertainment, but these things pile up and that shows in her looks - constantly tired. She could have spent that extra £1-2 and used gained time to do something else like relaxing bath, listening to music or reading a book.
The username suggests GP works for Twitter.
Apple addresses zero days and security related bugs every single update, I wouldn't get paranoid about a visual glitch on its own honestly.
What are some use cases for this sort of libraries?
In their defence, often there's no way of telling who is expert and who is faking.

Though it applies to almost everywhere online.
Quantum electrodynamics tested 100 times more accurately than ever
I get that, but just studying one sample of the population, deliberately ignoring any other grouping in that population, and then drawing conclusions for the entire population, is still ludicrous.
I disagree. Exposing your users (including non-FB users who visit your website directly) to FB stalking isn’t a good enough justification (and in breach of the GDPR).

You can track advertising effectiveness yourself by having all your ads point to a unique URL with some query parameter (“campaign_id=123”) which preserves the privacy of everyone. FB can stalk their users on their own properties but at least non-FB users are protected from it.
That's correct. Redbean is already capable of booting on bare metal. We do what we must because we can. The executable file format redbean uses is a DOS Master Boot Record with a partition table, so it's technically a valid disk image you can `dd` too. If you're willing to trade away Windows support, then it can be an EFI image. The main blocker is figuring out how to get an e1000 and/or VirtIO driver in there with a TCP/IP stack. Right now Cosmopolitan bare metal support is only adequate for stdio applications, which use the serial port and read from the zip fs.
That we really are living in unprecedented times. If you look any of a number of indices, things really starting changing for humankind as a whole about 150 years ago.

A lot of this I knew before, but didn't grasp how many things changed, how dramatically, and how recently. It kind of is like living through the onset of the dawn of agriculture or something, but compressed into 150-200 years.

I think people (myself included) aren't aware of how much uncertainty we're facing as a civilization.

I don't actually mean that positively or negatively, just blew my mind.
That's actually called a Morph Cut in most editing software.
Doesn't list all.
Their product is open source and MIT licensed, so their intentions shouldn't be relevant.
This is why the commercial offerings do not allow you publish benchmarks.
Most likely a missued of Pandas. DF are heavy to create, but calculations on them are fast if you stay in the numpy world and stay vectorized.
It was Discord but the behavior matches the one you've described about Reddit. Unfortunately, it's not used for in-depth technical discussions relevant to my sphere and you can't use WayBackMachine on Discord to preserve knowledge which is unfortunate.

It's funny that while discussing the incident, some other people would get agitated when you mention that unjust bans are by all means should be evaded.

Never understood people who ready to jump on anyone disobeying the law in letter but could never care less about actually following it in spirit.
Given it existed for 5 days and you’re only now finding out about it, it sounds to me like it was perhaps a bug that was fixed without realising the full impact of it, or perhaps without realising it made it to production; and only an audit that happened later caught it.

Not ideal by any means. I’d be curious to know if my theory is correct or not.
I know a number of "secret experts" -- one of which has been a good friend of mine for more than 20 years. He is an expert you have never heard of, but you have interacted with his efforts in everything from VoIP, streaming, ads, all sorts of stuff...

He is a cowboy from texas with a stereotypical texas accent, looks like he works at a gas station, but can look at a PCB, take the labels of the chips on the board and the layout, and actually write linux drivers for said board. (HE ACTUALLY DID THIS) - but he will regularly tell me "goin hog huntin" in the most deadpan texas drawl... and this week was "went deep sea fishin. back in dallas."

I am really lucky to be on a firstname call any time basis with this guy.

There are TONs of them.
So is this a variation on the trolley problem or something ?

How many cats are we talking about ?
Having been a long-time user of Wikia (now Fandom) as well as Reddit, it's been interesting to see Reddit go down the same path Wikia did. In my opinion, both websites started out similarly: somewhat simply designed, focused on content, and with room for communities to form themselves. Over time, both websites started pushing harder for monetization and in the process, made changes to prioritize advertising over content, and started pressuring communities to behave and interact in approved ways. It doesn't look like either website is struggling or likely to go under financially, but the charm and community of their younger iterations is definitely gone.
This program looks like it fulfills its purpose quite nicely. Well done!

Unfortunately, that purpose happens to be something that absolutely drives me up the wall. Few things cause me to close a video and outright block its creator faster or more vigorously than cutting out pauses between sentences and phrases. It's great that your demo video recognizes that to be a problem, but even after accounting for it it's still jarring - and let's face it, just about zero users of your software are gonna account for it.

What happened to the good old days of doing multiple takes and rehearsing?

In any case, nice work on it, and I hope your customers use this power responsibly and unnoticeably :)
Full disclosure: I am CTO of QuestDB and I took part in JIT implementation. The quote above is not mine, it was written by Clickhouse staff. "utilizes its full indexing strategy" statement is false and is news to me.
What they describe is pretty much how it works in my local elementary/middle schools.
Interesting story.

From the headline, I thought this was going to be a culture-war type of article. I wasn't expecting evidence of a real cult.
nice. one blog post per year. this one is certainly once-a-year worthy.