skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Benchmarks going back a couple years show near parity on both.[1] Even recent NVidia cards show comparable results.[2] It's perhaps a 5-10% hit for running via Wine, sometimes less, and rarely it's faster on Linux. There's certainly very few actual compatibility issues with most games, and generally those I've encountered affect both Windows and Linux equally (see: GTA:V shadows on AMD cards).

As someone who only has Linux systems and games often, my big barriers are not performance related; they're Anti-Cheat related.

So to suggest that this is the source of Microsoft's decision making is laughable.

[1]: https://youtu.be/aE5WyObAFtk

[2]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=rtx3090-...
It's not supposed to benefit you - it's supposed to benefit them.
Fields level, meaning good enough to possibly win one. Not necessarily actual winners.
You've said a lot of things but none of these respond to the comment you're referring to.

> 1) Single-handedly forced the other 2 major vendors to implement a standard API.

I (and I'm sure you too, you seem intelligent) would be surprised if say EKS is anywhere close to ECS usage. k8s is considered so complex/poor Amazon sell ECS-on-prem.

It's the epitome of resume driven development - nobody uses k8s for any other reason except to say they use k8s.
$100,000 divided by 1.9 = $52,632.

The “less” in the statement turns multiplication into division.
OP asked for the benefits, no cost-benefit analysis. So here are a few items:

- Family time is enjoyable, certainly helps cut down social media addiction and replace it with something meaningful (unless your perspective is that you'll die anyway so nothign is meaningful, but then you have other issues).

- Having kids forces me to push myself to be better, control my emotions, be a role model that inspires my kids. Without kids, I would find it harder to have such a clear drive to consistently be the best of myself every day.

- Kids are not independent. A priority that tops everything else shifts your perspective from you being at the center of your world to something else. That something else is fragile, needs care. That helps bring focus, consistency and growth to everyday life.

- Helping someone discover new things brings me joy. I can do that almost every week with my kids and I love it.

Does that make it a good choice in terms of cost/benefits? Depends who you are and how you see your life I guess?

Edit: reading another comment - the list about is indeed a descriptions of the symptoms of what it takes to bring joy and happiness to a new counsciousness in this world. I like the perspective of that other comment and wanted to highlight it too.
I'm surprised at the amount of vitriol being spewed at FedEx in this post for their decision, mostly about the doom-and-gloom that awaits FedEx.

Either there are a lot of Fortune-500 CTO's on Hacker News that know better than FedEx, or there is a deep-seated fear of the cloud, specifically PaaS.
Because the people who don't consider the long term ramifications of having children are still breeding, so the trajectory of humanity (compounded even more by social safety nets) is now toward R style reproduction (aka "spray and pray"). So if you are concerned about the future of humanity, having at least one child that you raise well (assuming you have no genetic diseases) is a large portion of your contribution to it.
Would it be possible to vectorize the mathematical operations so that the hotspot isn't the interpreter?
Is it? I expect those are only the top x%.
Just some random thoughts.

1) If you really want to, you can probably take out a loan and buy/build some kind of summer house with $100K savings. That's more than enough for a solid down payment and the needed extra expenses, or even buying something in cash if you're willing to sacrifice on the size/location of the property and quality of the house, depending on your desired living standards.

2) If your budget truly is already tight, perhaps going to buy a second house might not be the wisest move heading into a potentially very rough economy. Perhaps you can reduce those concerns by AirBnB'ing it, but take into account that in a down-economy excess travel is going to take a hit too.

3) Depending on many factors I can't possibly evaluate (age, health, relationship status, kids, life satisfaction and mental state, etc) an optimal middle ground might be to try and save more cash and evaluate where the economy is in the next couple of years. Being cash-rich when there's a downturn is a great spot to be in.
Some people think outside the box, other times it's difficult to determine where the box was to begin with or how it got there.

>I’ll just be doing my routine lab work and get showered with ideas occasionally.

That's what you're supposed to do in the lab.

If you stick with it and get good, eventually you'll be showered with ideas continuously in the right lab.

>Main problem now is trying to filter out what to do now and what to wait for in terms of viability. Have had ideas that are definitely 10 years too soon…

You think that's a problem now?

You will have plenty of time to refine the most futuristic concepts which through time may also naturally come more within reach.

In 10 years the world will often catch up with ideas that were once a decade ahead, this is also to be expected.
Same way you can be fined in another country while on holiday even though you don't earn any money there. They set the law, and if you (or Apple) doesn't like it don't go/have business there.
I really hate having the government involved in regulating this sort of stuff but Apple has brought so much destruction in bad faith it's hard to feel sympathy.

They have nearly single-handedly killed open source chat software (people forget that before the iPhone you could actually send messages from Goolge talk to AIM thanks to XMPP, this still exists but Apple has made it nearly impossible to use comfortably on the iPhone.) Fuck them, I hope they go out of business. As for the "consumer tech industry" that's practically dead at this point anyway, no sense worrying about it.
And substantial crime rates.
Other make replacements have solved this by making the dependency graph independent of the file structure. Hopefully beast does this too
> It has built a way for OSS projects created by large enterprises to move towards vendor-neutral community governance.

In what way does the cncf do this that the Apache foundation does not?
Yup.

"just ignore your boss" is usually considered a CLM (Career Limiting Move)
This is a very naive view of how the food economy works. It's not some Edenic paradise where everyone maintains a homestead. It's an Asian country in 2022. There are plenty of people in the countryside; though it's questionable that they can automatically feed themselves off the land).

But 25% of the population lives in Colombo alone, in a population density double that of New York City's.
AR indoor navigation use case, no beacons
Same. Could it be HN overwhelming their servers rather than the tool itself?
Or Stefan Banach and Alfred Tarski, who would have doubled the money.
There isn't one and there won't be one. Europe is incapable of growing one. Government centrally manages your salary. Government centrally manages the whole economy. Government employees are half of the entire workforce. There is no unifying language. There is no unifying culture.

And I'm sure someone will question it: I do live in one of these euro shitholes.
I would like to point out that you absolutely can have conversations with your children.
> The libraries and drivers are closed.

Are you including the new open source kernel modules? https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-sourc...

> it’s still not direct and transparent enough.

Out of curiosity, not direct enough for what? What do you need access to that you don’t have at the moment?

> features introduced mostly to be able to o say: “Oh we have feature X” - even if the feature does not help performance.

Which features are you referring to? Are you suggesting that features that make programming easier and features that users request must not be added? Does your opinion extend to all computing platforms and all vendors equally? Do you have any examples of a widely used platform/language/compiler/hardware that has no features outside of performance?
Not everything in life can be quantified. Having children causes a major change in one’s value system.

One could argue that it doesn’t make any sense to have children. It is more work, costs more money, and can cause more stress at times.

But people still do it. People still say it is worth it.

I for one never thought I would have children, but I cannot imagine my life without them.
> Have you seen the quality of most open source software? It’s a joke.

Sadly, yes, you're not wrong. However, have you seen the quality of most proprietary software? No, you haven't, no one has, because it's proprietary.

> Most of it is about people pushing their own agendas and self promoting

Perhaps, but some of it is not, and that is the difference to proprietary software.
Because neither my fixed line or mobile ISP support it and have no plans to. It's not something that customers are asking for. I remember trying to use the HE Tunnelbroker but then quite a few things broke on the network.
there was a fan-made IIgs version LemminGS made in 1996

https://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/apple2gs/lemmings.html
As an amateur rockhound, I've always been suspicious of mineral names because there are dozens of things called "-ite" which sound like random words or names suffixed with -ite. After reading this article, with 10,500 minerals, I guess I'm not surprised the names are so silly.

FTA I learned about the real list:

http://mineralogy-ima.org/Minlist.htm
Anything less than 1.5 miles is walkable in a reasonable amount of time, at least to me - that comes out to about a 30-45 minute "commute." The problem is that everything is so spread out (there's not that much to walk _to_), and walking paths are not guaranteed to all destinations within that distance (walking isn't even safe).

I wish American towns and cities were built in the traditional 4-over-1 style of places like Amsterdam, so that even in densely populated areas there was room for shops and restaurants that could survive off of foot traffic. When visiting old European cities not built around automotive infrastructure, it was so easy to get 5+ miles of walking in every day because everything is so close together.
And have you compared the same device with windows?
As I understand it, this is not really how most practical materials research is done today. Bridging the "scale gap" between nano-scale research, micro-scale research, etc. up to something the size of a foundation for a skyscraper is very hard (read: almost impossible) right now. Those nano-scale research areas are pretty siloed and only in extreme cases like transistor manufacturing is there any meaningful overlap with production use cases.

In general, materials researchers for something like concrete are going to be better off exploring the (very large!) high dimensional space of possible formulations of existing concrete ingredients and pushing out the pareto frontier for the best possible concrete that way. Also, one probably shouldn't be using bleeding-edge concrete tech for a skyscraper foundation - in a safety critical application like that you just build it 1.2x bigger than you need and it'll still be much cheaper and safer than a process like what you just described.

Materials research is super interesting, though, even if it's not building up from quantum-particle scale research. And atomic / molecular features of inputs can yield interesting material candidates.

Source: I work (as a software dev, not a materials researcher) at Citrine Informatics, selling software to assist companies who are trying to do practical materials things like make better concrete.
Matrix/Element: Drop-in, drop-out chats with Video Rooms, new search experience
>Happy that I might be able to install something else than Safari. I want the Gecko engine on iOS. Sad that being in UK probably means we'll ignore it because "Brexit."

Specifically on this point, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority are taking action.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-plans-market-investig...
#0 Your automations must still work even when the internet is down.

Just skip all of the SmartThings and IFTTT online only crap for day-to day operation. If the internet goes down and you can't turn on the lights anymore, your setup's WAF goes down FAST.

Just pull the plug on your internet and see what happens. Use online features to enhance the smart home experience, don't rely on it.

Apple HomeKit is good, it works local only, but it also allows secure remote access when needed. You can still use your phone to control everything when the internet is down.

Same goes for Home Assistant. Just pay the fiver for the Nabu Casa cloud if you want remote access, no point in hacking it together yourself.

Alexa and Google Home are very bad at this, when they go offline, they just say "sorry" and can't do anything.
i foresee a fiasco in general, but a few stand out:

> Share data and metrics with developers and competitors, including marketing and advertising performance data.

with competitors? :))

> Allow developers to integrate their apps and digital services directly with those belonging to a gatekeeper. This includes making messaging, voice-calling, and video-calling services interoperable with third-party services upon request.

could have been solved easily if they proposed a working group to come up with the next video and messaging standard. right now i foresee the discussions we had back in mid 00s: we use our own video encoder. they use h263. and those other guys use vp9. good luck to the team writing a transcoder that works real time :))

> The Digital Services Act (DSA), which requires platforms to do more to police the internet for illegal content, has also been approved.

“think of the children” legislation.
Probably it can be defined as "A is X times more than B" if and only if "B is X times less than A", just not to go to negative values.
I appreciate this answer because it does make me think twice about my own views.
I don't think XFCE intends to switch to GTK4, and if they do then it will probably be towards the end of the update cycle.
> when clearly their life is a lot of worse and they're full of regret.

Well I can’t give you any reason why you should have children, but my life isn’t in any way worse for having a child, and while I certainly have regrets in life, my son isn’t one of them. Ymmv.
Hetzner is about 10x cheaper than AWS, give or take.
Thanks, it doesn't give a succinct definition, but the parts about knowing the "truth" and being under constant attack seem essential parts to "conditioning", and how such are applied to some sketchy religious sects and conspiracy theories. But, I guess, my question is how can it be so effective and why are people so susceptible, since I'd guess if you went up to most people on the street to tell them you had the truth and they're under attack they'd probably give you the finger, yet some people are highly attracted to such suggestions.
If you had a RPi setup and your SD card died, I would suggest one or more of the following:
1. Buy an endurance-oriented card (e.g.: Samsung Pro Endurance), and try to get a higher capacity card just for the added endurance.
2. Make sure to disable write heavy configurations if possible.
3. If you can bear the expense, consider swapping the RPi with a used corporate mini PC (HP ProDesk/EliteDesk are my personal favorites, but the Dell Wyse 5070 is great bang for your buck) - you can get a pretty powerful setup with plenty of CPU, RAM and a real SSD, while still consuming ~10 watts at the wall, which is close enough to the RPi for my taste. Most of these units are not fan-less, but they are extremely quiet unless you're pushing them...
> Curious how Tao is pushing the limits on that front?

I don't want to put emphasis on "pushing the limits" because I'm still very new to language design and mostly self-taught. There are bigger and better languages pushing the envelope further than Tao!

That said, I've been experimenting with:

- Expressing totality and type inhabitance in the type system

- Effect systems (including user-defined effects, effect handling, parametric effects, lowering to monadic IO, etc.)

- Typeclass inference via typeclass variables (Tao can handle several cases that are ambiguous even in Rust, such as the following: https://github.com/zesterer/tao/blob/master/examples/debug.t...)
>> looking for new perspectives on why one should choose to procreate nowadays

Your partner may want it, your parents may want it, no circumstances change the biological need to procreate.

Also, people do it during war, during draught, during ice age and on falling planes. You doomers aren't living in the end times. This isn't even close.
I've got a bunch of Hue motion sensors (which have lux and temperature sensors too btw). I've replaced the batteries (2xAAA you can grab at any store) exactly once during the 5 years so I've had them.
Would be curious to learn the specs of current day mainframes, and cost.

What sort of work is typically done on such machines these days.
That's not the problem. The problem is that any Flatpak I download also comes with several gigabytes of GNOME runtime dependencies, which is absurd and shouldn't be treated as "the new normal" of software distribution. Running to alternative DEs doesn't solve the problem.
if you are a darwinist, this question will quickly resolve itself at the species level
Pretty sure I stumbled across this via Homestar Runner fandom. The author made a custom level shaped like Strong Bad's head.

Even on this page, the mention of a Peasant's Quest port and the references to "good graphics" give him away as an h*r fan.
Then I wonder what would happen if Taiwan introduced the same legislation.
> the standards simply couldn’t keep up

Or rather: developers were so up their own backsides that effectively refused to cooperate. Obviously you go faster if you don't have to talk to anyone, and everybody loves lock-in. Which is why this legislation is welcome.
In a competitive market, margins are dictated by marginal cost of production of you and competitors.

Data center/SaaS is somewhat naturally monopolistic due to cost of switching though. Legislation should target "high cost of switching" areas to make them more competitive. Translates to lower prices, better for society in the end
CALS professor turns yogurt byproduct into hard seltzer biz
Most large companies do at least some elements of multicloud. This may be as simple as doing ETL in AWS and then pushing the data over to BigQuery for dashboarding, it might be using all AWS and also Office365, it might be building applications which part run against Dynamo and part run against Cloud Spanner.
It's also the case that the applications you run each year have some turnover rate. Maybe you're running Jira this year, maybe you're switching to Asana in a couple of years. Maybe over a 5 year period you're moving from Teradata to Snowflake. Which cloud env do you deploy Snowflake to?

Your negotiating power is then in the momentum of change. If GCP is working better for you than AWS right now, send your new spend to GCP where possible and where stuff is rotating out, move the new stuff to GCP. If you just got a good deal from Azure, start moving in that direction.

This is one of the 'big company vs small company' things, by the way - it doesn't make as much sense for a 100 person startup. But FedEx are a 300k employee juggernaut who spend $75B each year servicing $100B of revenue. They'll have a lot of tech in use.
The Interrobang Is 60?
And in all fairness it is the only common language anyway. I read a study that compared the percentage of a generation in the EU that studied a particular foreign language that is not their native language in high school or university. English is north of 95%. The second largest are I think French and Spanish at around 30%. So when you have 27 nationalities in a room, there isn’t really any other practical alternative right now. English is the modern latin, whatever you think of the US, UK or Roman empire.
The language used is positive. For example instead of "good business decision" one could say more neutrally "maximally lazy, standard breaking and anti competitive". In the context of mega corps it means the same but doesn't try to present it in a positive light.
Decoding the qualities of a great VC (2017)
Google already does this in its iOS apps. When tapping a link in e.g. Gmail, it won’t just open your default browser, but instead open a menu asking you to choose your default browser or Chrome. It has a “remember this choice” toggle but it shouldn’t be there at all… just obey the OS default browser setting.
Japan has been in a dialogue with Europe for a long time regarding anime and manga. Anime has been huge in Western Europe since probably at least the 70s. France and Italy commissioned some in the 70s to cut on animation costs and it worked so well that it spiralled into a ton of imports. France is still the second largest market for manga in the world in front of the USA despite having a sixth of its population. Strangely I think France and Japan are culturally a lot more permeable than the USA and Japan are.

> Do Studio Ghibli fans care to know what Miyazaki's favorite films are? I guarentee almost none of them are anime or even animated

Miyazaki got part of the King and the Mockingbird by Grimault actually printed to study them when he was a student. It’s notable because the movie was written by a famous French poet and screenwriter from the poetic realist movement and you can some the influences that had on Miyazaki career are fairly obvious.
If you need to ask you're not ready to be a parent.
My first window manager (on Unix) was Open Look Window Manager (olwm, later olvwm), since this was the default when starting Open Windows on SunOS 4 in 1992. After a few years of mostly using the Open Windows tools, including using MailTool for e-mail, I went through a process of trying to pare down my tooling dependencies to the bare minimum, in order to be able to discover what my actual needs were, so that I could choose better tools appropriately. This included switching from MailTool to Unix mail(1), and using twm(1) as a Window Manager (Not a tiled window manager; the Tab Window Manager, i.e. the basic window manager which was and is included in the standard X11 distribution). I have since switched to more capable mail readers, etc. but I continue to use twm as a window manager to this day. I have found that I simply don’t need anything more than that.
> the world is already over-populated, and however hard it is for you to compete with your peers, it'll be even harder for your children

I’m not sure this is true. Most modern economies in the world have a declining birth rate.

My perspective on children has changed recently. We need more people and in the world to solve the problems that we’ve created. We don’t know if life exists outside of the earth and I want living things to thrive, and for that to be the case, I think we need more people.
Not really a meaningful dichotomy.

There is a smooth curve between cloud and dedicated DCs, which has various levels of managed servers, co-location, and managed DCs. (A managed DC can be a secure room in a DC "complex" that shares all the heavy infrastructure of DCs.)

Primarily, the FedEx managers are committing the company long-term to Oracle/Microsoft platforms. Probably mostly to benefit their own careers.

Outsourcing hosting and management of DCs would have been something different, and probably healthier for FedEx and the industry.
I would say one benefit of having children is that you learn that life is not just a transaction.
Exactly the point I was trying to make in the OP.