skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a Google Doc at <https://j.mp/softcpus-on-fpgas> which includes a bunch of information about what type of performance has been achieved on modern Xilinx FPGAs.

You can generally do quite a bit of parallelism, see the quad-core LiteX+VexRISCV solution at <https://antmicro.com/blog/2020/05/multicore-vex-in-litex/>.
I don’t see how a database (which they’re probably running anyway) would help, unless it’s connected to all other ports in the world an cross-examined for duplicates.

Which sounds like a lot of work and I’m not sure port operators want to share that, although it would be really cool.
A union makes it easier for employees to take full advantage of the shortage.

Just because a union isn’t “needed”, doesn’t mean it can’t be helpful.
They are now down from a P/E ratio of infinity at their high (up 900%) from now, all the way to their current P/E ratio of infinity at their current Price.

They have never made a penny.

So, not exactly a sale.
Man, it was a crazy situation.

Haim (DB) and Chris (Front-end) were sitting next to each other hammering out the API together, I was mostly working remote.
They would tell me the API updates/changes over IRC, I'd update the Emid code, and we'd kick the servers to restart.

> Never made any sense.

Nope. :)

(In hindsight, given what I know now, rewriting the whole thing in Erlang would maybe have been a good idea!)
6 million seems like a underestimate. There are meant to be 54k container ships in the world. That would mean an average of 110 containers per ship, and ignores all of the ones in use on land. Some of those ships can carry 24k containers _each_.
I don't think there's a way to extend union-find to do what you want in the general case. You might have more luck starting with a minimum cut algorithm.

For the specific case where you can identify some of your edges are more or less likely to be deleted, though, you can run union-find on only the stable edges, cache that result, and then do the unstable edges. Whenever an unstable edge is deleted, reload the cache and redo all the unstable edges. This works for something like a maze with open/closable doors.
"Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World" by Roy A. Adkins.

I had recently went on the boat the "RRS Discovery" and on the same day "HMS Unicorn" both in Dundee and it got me amazed by the Age of Sail.

The people of those days were made of strong stuff!

I hope to go and see "HMS Victory" of Lord Nelson fame at the end of the year because of that book.

Always looking out for new reading material so love these threads.
> software development as a whole decided on a pretty stable set of comments that are considered helpful.

I have no idea what you're talking about.
A long time ago, I saw the documentary "Supersize me" & there was a particular segment where a Latino family was interviewed. One memory that has remaind with me is how non-chalantly they say,

"America is a country where eating junk is far more affordable than eating healthy.."

I presume it is not specific to US anymore, and lot of other countries have caught on similar trends. But it was eye opening then, that eating home food with fresh produce, fruits milk etc was out of the reach of working class who normally had to depend on burger & fast-food often (at least during workdays). Growing up in S Asia, eating out was luxury (even McDonald's) as compared to home food which probably costed a fraction of the happy meals / dollar meals or equivalent - and understandably healthier.

I recommend watching that documentary on how American intensive cultivation along with proteins, steroids etc in their animal produce is harming the health. With purchasing power of lower & middle income group falling, they have to maximize their purchase by buying in bulk - usually from store chains, which source from run of the mill non-organic sources. Biomagnification of these steroids in human body becomes inevitable. Added to that, US loves it sugary drinks cheese & mayonnaise. Only a small percentage of population are genuinely conscious to keep a check on calories, food quality & regularly exercise - factors which can offset some of the adverse conditions available.
Just finished 'Subtle is the Lord - The Science and Life of Albert Einstein' by Abraham Pais. Easily the best biography of Einstein.

Currently reading: 'Inhibitor Phase' by Alastair Reynolds (60% read), 'Wayward' by Hannah Mathewson (50%), '10,000 Light Years from Home' by James Tiptree Jnr (50%), 'Rust for Rustaceans' by Jon Gjengset (20%), and 'Hands-on Rust' by Herbert Wolverson (10%).
Please confirm: this means the people saying the vaccine should be a strictly personal decision were correct?
This was one of the best reads in a long while.

It also made me think about how to approach long-lasting systems. Whether technological or societal, preparation, complexity reduction, and constant maintenance are key.
That's just someone doing retail arbitrage: they take your eBay order and immediately have a bot (i.e. https://zincapi.com/) place an Amazon gift order to your address. Amazon does shut down buyer accounts for this but it's so rampant that it's more or less whack-a-mole.
I honestly wouldn't recommend it as a first book - and I appreciate the TV mini-series that collapsed Colour of Magic and A Light Fantastic into a single coherent story.

Also, it had Tim Curry.

But the discworld doesn't actually need all that much introduction - each book is pretty self-sufficient but learning more about the characters just adds more to when they show up as Cameos (except, I'd point out, Monstrous Regiment, where not knowing who the "Butcher of Ankh Morpork" is actually adds to the story)
Cheers, I got a chuckle from that. :)
People never realize that you can do the thermal pad "mod" to the 13" M2 Pro as well, to make it reach beyond the speeds of the M2 air to get closer to the 14" speeds.

And you can do the mod to the 14/16" laptops as well - basically a thermal version of an overclock.

The thermal pad mod was applied on the 2019 Macbook Pro 16" intel model to great success before M1 was even a thing.
“First, you need to find some interests, some hobbies, some passions etc., so that you can contribute meaningfully to conversations. Meeting like-minded people then becomes very easy and very natural, since you can attend events (even virtual ones) where nearly everyone enjoys what you enjoy, and most will want to talk about it, or engage in some way.

But it turns out that it takes some work to discover these interests, hobbies, passions, etc.”

From:
https://moviewise.substack.com/p/movie-wisdom-on-making-frie...
then it's not free :)

anyway, spending on carless infrastructure to provide alternative transport modalities to people is what works, whereas trying to force people to just "do the healthy things" doesn't really

plus there's nothing stopping the US from coming up with "free healthcare 2.0" that also solves this with clever incentives (eg. via a voucher system, people who opt out of the hazardous things get a voucher, for example people without a car get a "free" monthly public transit ticket, etc.)
I don’t think it’s theatre. It’s difficult to audit applications when you lack context, it could also be seen and assumed benign / intentional. I think that the industry is immature and severely conflicted on the quality:profit ratio.
What you're doing may be considered "structuring" [1], which under the demented laws of the US can land you in jail.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuring
Comic: Living on Mars time taught me to slow down
Which pool did candidates end up being hired from?
... and not surprising it runs the other way too. I have relatives from the Canadian prairies who feel claustrophobic in the mountains, like the landscape is pressing in around them.
If you're looking for a Heroku like experience, I've heard good things about fly.io.
It’s not a big deal per se but is a sign of a potential big deal. Or a minor f’up
No it's not lmao
It’s worth noting the full number isn’t just the six digits (plus checksum) but the full number including the letters that indicate owner and type, so a single owner wouldn’t give two of their containers the same number.

That said, how many containers is one company likely to own? 1,000,000 is a big number but it seems like some of the big logistics companies could flirt with that. Doors anyone know if they have multiple “owner codes” or an I just way overriding the scale here?
A digression from tin cans:

Amazingly enough for home use of these Ball jars, I bought six "Ball Quilted Crystal Jelly Jars with Lids and Bands" to make Starbucks-style sous-vide egg bites. They were awesome-tasting, but the glass sides separated from the bottoms in three of them.

My hypothesis: I wouldn't blame Ball for this. It was probably a use that they didn't foresee or endorse.

The recipe tells you to only finger-tighten the lids, so the gases can escape during sous-vide'ing. This is error-prone, and if the gases can't escape, then you have an explosion waiting to happen. No explosion happens but the jar does fall apart.
There are not at all a vast number of 8,000 TEU+ ships however. Small enough that any one ship owning company might have a few dozen at most. Evergreen says it has something like 150 ships.
That's a big read into what I said. I'm not saying greed is good at all, I think it's actually counter productive to making profit.
A few years back I was reading 'Rivers of London' by Ben Aaronovitch on the London Underground on my way to work when I realised he was talking about a body being found in the actual tunnel I was passing though at the time.
sounds like depression
And it has an app!

This website actually has some pretty good news too. Didn't know protests/strikes were still happening around California.
For many of these reasons which I also experience, I was hoping there'd be more of a blend of home/in-office emerge.

Instead in both programming jobs Ive had post pandemic, it is all remote. I've met my workmates in person perhaps thrice despite working at the company for a year. It is surreal.

> it feels like I’m living in Groundhog Day everyday. Every single day looks exactly the same

This in particular, and it is even worse if you live alone.
Anecdotally: Amazon Canada has gotten really really bad in the past months.

My standards are low but woof. You can’t even get a marble run that’s not that super thin brittle plastic. The marble run at Walmart was half the price.

I’m the laziest, least ethics-motivated consumer and I think my time with Amazon is wrapping up.
>You can't knock someone who can earn a substantial amount more money with THEIR private property.

Of course you can. That is exactly what people in this thread are doing.

>Is it scummy? Sure.

Correct.

>Illegal? It's capitalism.

We are saying if AirBnB doesn't fix this problem, we will take our business elsewhere. That is capitalism. If you're trying to forbid us from threatening to take our business elsewhere, then you are the one who is taking anti-capitalist measures.

I don't know why so many people try to reinvent the definition of capitalism to suit their own needs. Capitalism doesn't mean we're supposed to give the "gig economy" some protected status, or whatever you're trying to suggest here.
Though that's about 1 per 1000 people, and if you imagine how much stuff you'd end up with using all that a container could carry when constantly in use, I guess about a thousandth of that isn't too weird an amount.
The article says the Albuquerque drain is flowing at 130 cfs?
My son was obsessed with this for a while and is probably ranked top 20 globally, what's the excitement of this game is beyond me. That ended up hurting his college application quite a bit, and he showed no regret and is still in love with it.

The only thing positive I see is that they actually have a closed circle from different nations, so he made some "online friends" there.
How does Vercel compare with Netlify, among others? I've used both recently but wanted to hear from everyone else.
I saw this Polygon story on reddit, and deep in the reddit comments was a link to this fascinating 9-minute YouTube video that explains the latest NES Tetris competitive tech which is apparently "faster than hypertapping!" (I did not know even know what "hypertapping" was)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-BZ5-Q48lE
Amazon isn't eBay. In theory, for us punters: we should be flogged goods by Amazon that conform to local standards. Beyond that all bets are off. eBay doesn't even bother with ... anything - it's all caveat emptor.

So even in the wild west of Amazon at least there are a few standards. Sorry if you feel aggrieved but I'd rather buy stuff that had to follow a few standards that I nominally trust. By registering a trademark/incorporating/etc you are declaring your intention to work within the rules or at least some rules.

You are not a second class citizen at all. You are actually trying to avoid being a citizen at all if you don't want to abide by rules designed to protect customers.

Amazon is pretty horrendous already if you are not careful but you seem to imply that you want to use it for ad hoc sales. That is what eBay and the like is for. Amazon is for shop style sales ie vendors with product lines and inventory.
Your guess that this is driven by a SaaS is built around assumptions of how process and repetition is structured in the West and its labor markets but this doesn't hold in China.

In reality, there's no SaaS to automate this because labor is still too cheap in China to build tooling for this. Rather there's a cottage industry of "design" contractors built around selling to Aliexpress/Taobao/FBA brands. These contractors have an evolving, but largely standardized set of practices and aesthetic principles that they use to offer a basket of products — logo, product descriptions, brand collateral — resulting in this uniform weirdness across every NeoProduct.

There's no centralized entity or product for Amazon to smack down. If it updates its merchant requirements to prevent this specific aesthetic from proliferating across the platform, the "design" hive in China will update its practices, go through a period of discovery where things will look a little different from each other, before settling back into a new standardized form.

edit: while I believe my comment above to be generally true, the parent actually explores my argument with other people and makes a convincing rebuttal. I'm leaving my comment up but I encourage folks to go down and read about the specific formatting choices that don't appear elsewhere on the Western or Chinese internet.
>> when stuff like this exists it’s pretty clear that large enterprises’ idea of security and risk management is all made up to sound good and lacks teeth.

For some reason your comment reminded me of a huge human failing ;-)

Imagine some security consultant running down a checklist of common problems. Number 15: Does your software have any hard coded passwords. Engineer actually thinks of one briefly, but dismisses it in his mind because "it's there for reason XYZ and this guy doesn't know anything about out XYZ need, so it's not what he's talking about" and verbally says "no."

I can't tell you how many apparently smart people have similarly failed to plainly answer plain questions due to this kind of thinking. Not sure how guilty I am of course, but it drives me nuts when other people do it and I notice.
I think the most polished adaptation is The Hogfather actually. It got Susan and Teatime[1] so incredibly perfect!

1. Points off if you didn't mentally read it as tay-AH-tim.
The problem here is Linux.
Imagine if you tried to submit your credit card number to a legitimate HTTPS page, but a MITM forced the connection to fail, and then your browser retried the submission over insecure HTTP. That feels like the equivalent of this problem.
3 months if you are Amazon Business shopper.
> What a pessimistic view from the person managing the River District.

Good managers are honest about their ability to address a problem given the tools at their disposal.
Audio channel layout API finally got a long needed rework

https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/commit/086a8048061bf9fb4c63...
Wikipedia says 20.5 million _in 2012_ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_container

This was their source. Apparently not updated since that 2012 survey: https://www.csiu.co/resources-and-links/world-container-flee...
As the world opens up, working from home doesn’t have to mean living from home. A lot of structure and friendship can come from self-selected groups and activities, not just those who the organization put on your team.

The author mentions a lack of willpower to implement solutions, and I totally get it, so if there’s just one thing I would strongly suggest getting a personal trainer, which several people described changing their lives in a thread yesterday. I got one when I was having trouble with energy mid pandemic, and even though I chose not to continue with her in specific, the kickstart was fantastic
What makes you think new construction would last longer? If anything, new innovations in building techniques and materials are optimized to be cheap and last just long enough.
You cherry picked a particularly bad year (and a far outlier) and ignored the years where Washington and Oregon had higher numbers than NY.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/186678/new-cases-of-meas...
No response, just downvote, as usual.

What has lately been up with the voting system on HN? Apparently people I reply to, with much newer accounts, can just instantly downvote my comments.

Yet most of the time I don't even get a downvote option, and pretty much never to any of the replies to my comments.

Feels like the system is being gamed by people with alt accounts.
The window is not 2D, it's 3D with depth as well. Now imagine that but with even more detail, like a cube lattice.
Technically yes, the promise can first do an RPC to a distributed key/value store, and only then do the expensive computation (which typically is itself an RPC to some other system, perhaps a traditional database). Promise libraries should make this pretty simple to express (though always uglier than blocking calls).

I say expensive because even in a data center, an RPC is going to take on the order of 1ms. The round-trip from a client like a browser is much greater especially where the client (if this is what you meant by "client") has a poor internet connection.

Therefore this pattern is usually done inside of an API server in the data-center. Additional benefits of the server side approach is that an API server can better control the cache keys (you could put the API server "build number" in the cache key so you can do rolling updates of your jobs), TTL, etc. Also, you don't want a rogue computer you don't control to directly talk to a shared cache since a rogue computer could put dangerous values into your cache, remove elements from the cache they shouldn't, etc.
This also partly explains why a lot of keystrokes in nano do the same thing and cannot be bound separately (see attached file keystrokes.nanorc in https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?61699 )
Picking a small online business in the UK, I can verify their company number with Companies House, verify that the street address listed is the same as the one on that registration and that the Nature of Business of the registration matches what I would expect for said business. I know that they were founded around ten years ago. I can then use Google Street View to look at the building they operate out of, and see the name of the business printed on the side. I can see that they have Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, TikTok and Instagram accounts, and that they own the .co.uk DNS entry for their company name. I can see that those social media accounts have followers and that they interact with customers on them. I know the full name of their director. I also know that they have a landline telephone number, and that telephone number has an area code appropriate for their street address, and that it's registered under their name in the telephone directory. Their website links to their Trustpilot listing, and that they're verified on Trustpilot. This communicates that they have some kind of a reputation, and it would be very costly for them to throw away all of those accounts and registrations should they want to throw away said reputation.

Compare that with that string of garbled pinyin: it returns zero google results, refers to an area of China with no Street View access, and I wouldn't even know where to begin to verify if they are actually a registered company, who owns that address or how long the company has existed, and there's nothing I could cross-reference with other sources. If they wanted to throw away that identity, they could probably get a dozen like it in under a week with minimal effort. So yes, there's definitely many ways they could be more open or informative to communicate their status as a legitimate business that values their identity.
IIRC that's what some manufacturers did. However, rather than squatting in someone's existing range, they ended up squatting in unused ranges that were unlikely to be assigned anytime soon (back in those days the assignments were sequential). IEEE ended up cracking down on this by randomizing OUI assignments.
I am not a farmer nor an expert.

My guess: Drier areas have fewer pests, less rain means there is less risk of flooding or crops washing away, and problems like mold or rot are rarer. Also, the sun is always shining. More photosynthesis means happier plants.

I hope someone here can share the details of the economics here. It's probably a very interesting cost-benefit analysis.
They should use a blockchain!

I’ll see myself out…
Years ago I bought a bag of Bluetooth 4.1 USB dongles for development only to find every single one of them had the same MAC address. Ugh.
I still wonder though, as their presentations are not slick at all. It's usually incomprehensible copy/paste work without a clear message.
There's a "psychic noise" (for lack of a better term) in cities. Less so in smaller cities. Ramps down as you go further into wilderness. The contrast is shocking.

I have seen little discussion of it so I'm guessing most of us don't perceive it. You might even call it woo. Nonetheless.

I could see some people becoming acclimated to it. Unable to tolerate its absence even.

Otoh, some rare weirdos might flourish in that wilderness peace.
No winners in cool Tube challenge (2005)
HIS MOTHER has undergrad in mathematics. "Engineering is just applied math after all" I guess he's also a theoretical physicist cause that's also just applied math after all.

You're a wonderful example of a menace to discussions, because you didn't even bother reading the first Wikipedia paragraph you quoted properly. Ted Cruz himself studied policy at Princeton and then got a Juris Doctoris from Harvard Law. You know, the same place Obama went to.

Your math is funky by the way, I'm not sure if you're an engineer, but if you were, it would definitely prove that Software Engineering is definitely NOT applied mathematics.
Could this also cause problems for the battery by effectively conducting the heat to it via the bottom panel?
Cool concept! Any efficiency numbers available? I couldn't see any in the linked press release.
Well, we'd probably just switch over to UUIDs since those things are practically infinite and we've now got a lot of well established infrastructure in place for handling them.
the problem is the allocation of the resources in the real economy. the copper production goes somewhere currently. if half of that suddenly would go to making these super long distance cables that would cause brutal inflation for a lot of things that depend on copper. (sure, eventually it would increase supply too.)
The planet periodically goes through floods and droughts everywhere...it would help if western nations stopped allowing immigration...less people, less water needed...no?
Not really though. It's way more important to know what skills you lack. If you can't sell, make sure someone is with you for the ride who can. Sometimes these problems can easily be solved.