skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Optane was an interesting solution that was still looking for a question. One of the things that drove mass SSD adoption was the experience was plainly better. Even the most illiterate user could see how fucking fast an SSD machine booted and how much more responsive they were.

SSD to Optane? There's no practical difference. The high end desktop users and serious gamers that have serious cash for their rigs turned up their noses at Optane because it turns out SSD sequential read was good enough for most use cases. At least good enough to not pay 3x more per GB. Nobody really cared about insane sustained write speed when the SLC caches did almost as well in most use cases. Plus as the interfaces scaled up, plain old NAND drives were ready to flood the bus with as much sequential read bandwidth that the bus would take.

What could have saved it? I dunno. If Intel wanted to be anti-competitive they could have slapped on 8 PCIe lanes direct to the CPU exclusively for Optane on their desktop products. As we've found out, 4 lanes of NVMe to the CPU and the rest having to go through the chipset is some sort of unfunny, market segmentation joke. It could have forced high end users to grudgingly accept Optane as the path to the absolute best I/O and an actual, tangible difference in performance.
It's an association thing. I thought carrot too. Maybe it's because of the tedious nature of processing. Maybe it's because the orange bar at the top of the screen makes me think carrot.
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I always remember PCMCIA as "People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms".

To be fair they did change the name of the standard to PC Card - people just kept using the old name anyways.
It's an analysis and I find the comparison with The Wire quite interesting. There is no rule or law requiring a solution to be proposed with every analysis of a complex problem.
Smart metering would make it easily enforceable but couldn't tie into the smart thermostat system to at least delay charging to off peak hours?
> One happened when a machine was shipped by a commercial shipper. The other happened when the machine was moved between residences. It doesn't occur to people that the mass of a card swinging around is a problem when the case is moved.

Huh. Good point. I'll be moving soon, and have kept the box my case came in as well as the foam inserts for either end of the case. I might just remove the GPU and put it back in its own box for the move, as well. Thanks for bringing that up.
Steam ...

Let's hope they bring it out on GoG too, soon.

Looking forward to playing, but there's no way in hell I'm buying this with DRM. Especially not a monkey island game. This I want to own properly, and show my kids one day. Not "rent with disclaimers".
CIA has the same problem other government agencies always do with recruiting programmers: they just don’t pay enough to compete with the private market.
Real human bean. Love this movie.
> "new" keyword is basically introducing side effects, everywhere,

>> I don't think that's what it does.

From a java testing perspective, it does. There is no way to mock something that is new'd. This is a failure of the language. ie Python, p1 = MyClass()
Now you have something mockable.

> the Lombok and Jackson ones are pretty decent.

They are, but they aren't in the language because Oracle (and the existing language development practices). Actual improvements are haphazardly added to java because 3rd parties already did the work, so why should they make the language better? Just use the increasingly obscure set of 3rd party additions.
You should read his essays, they're good.
Even assuming you are correct on all these points ASLR is still an important use case and the effective security of current 64-bit address spaces is low.
When I search for a current political topic on twitter, I find a lot of posts from popular and usually verified accounts from both sides of the spectrum, using this rhetoric which shares this identical... cadence? Style? I'm not sure the word for it. But some recent trends with these accounts are starting tweets with "to be clear...", making liberal (lol) use of line breaks, and ending on some short "mic drop" sentence. Like this:

"To be clear, if you're opposed to student debt forgiveness, you're not advocating for 'fiscal responsibility'.

You're just an asshole."

I'm assuming that this trend is just influencers noticing what gets a lot of engagement lately, but they're all copying it so well that it almost feels like they're being coordinated. It's uncanny.
The screen was off when the event happened...

1) Does your iPhone still record audio when the screen is off?

2) Can you see the audio indicator when the screen is off?

3) If a background app starts then stops recording audio while the screen is off, would you have an indicator that it recorded audio?
My house uses around 3-4MW/mo. I hyper optimized when I had true spot pricing before Griddy energy was disbanded by the state. My bill was extremely low compared to what I pay now.
Microsoft should have based Edge on Mozilla's engine instead of blink, and should not have tried to get Mozilla to move to blink
There is nothing easy about them, cheaper yes (only for the lower instances), but not easier. Until they have first-class, evergreen, support for Heroku buildpacks, they are a subpar replacement.

They are also missing a proper managed database with point-in-time backups through the web UI like those offered by most proper PaaS services.
Late morning and early afternoon.
So, basically, people would charge their cars where they park them during the day while they work, not at home while they sleep.

Seems very doable to me.
This source (https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-412-charging-withou....) says efficiency is only 75-80% when charging inductively. Do you have any better sources for those 90%?
I think we can safely say a place that has an extremely low population density and actively pays people to go inhabit parts of it is very underpopulated relative to other places in the world.
I guess that poorly designed IQ tests often fall into these category as well. Some of the patterns you have to match seem soooo arbitrary.

In the real world it's easier to reverse engineer someone's train of thought, as there's more context than some abstract shapes or numbers. In fact, as a programmer or engineer it's a necessary skill to develop.
The problem is, you need a full charge in the morning if you're leaving on a road trip, so then your car will not be powering your house the night before. This would likely lead to big spikes in demand the night before the start of holiday a weekend, for example.
Not to be snarky, but I 100% need some kind of source for that claim. My experience in higher ed is the literal opposite of that.
Only in Sacramento
Man, I feel this.

I worked for a corporation that was so change-averse, that we needed to buy our development systems on eBay.

They actually had a point, and it was hard to argue against, but I found it absolutely infuriating, as the solution was to plan for change, and establish a process to be constantly evaluating and refining for new developments.

Instead, it was "Wait until we can't bear it any longer, then have a huge screaming match meeting." A new budget would be approved for new machines (and, thus, new operating systems and development tools), processes would be updated, and that would sit, until it was no longer new.

As I said, it was hard to argue against, because it was a 100-year-old company that had been successfully delivering really high-end stuff, since Day One. They did that by being so conservative that they hadn't discovered fire, yet. Measure 300 times, cut once, etc.

When there was a problem, it escalated quickly (and was used as fuel to tighten things down even more), as the company was held to standards that are probably up there with NASA.

Speaking of NASA, I can't help but notice that this rather plucky little outfit, called SpaceX, seems to be running circles around them. They seem to have figured out how to "fail fast," yet also deliver insanely high Quality stuff.

Might be worth ignoring their CEO's tweets, and look at what they are doing...
>Their claims were actually a mix of comparisons against NAND and DRAM; I don't think they ever claimed it would be denser than NAND, just denser than DRAM.

You're right. I looked up the slide before commenting to look at the numbers and misread it. Actually, that reminds me that the first time I saw the slide years ago I hoped we were going to have Optane memory sticks and desktops with hundreds of gigabytes of main memory, even if with worse latency. I remember being so disappointed when Optane finally came out and reading the actual numbers. Yeah, the latency was okayish, but the throughput was barely better than NAND.

>Also, the Optane SSDs were never locked to Intel systems, just their caching software for Windows and the Optane DIMMs.

If anything, that just makes it worse. I was quite interested in Optane, and I can't remember which things were what and what they worked on. The product line was so confusing.
This is a good summary of a specific motif in The Wire, but I think it misses the larger message of the show: that there is no institutional or even individual difference between the two recurring groups in the show (Baltimore's police and drug dealers).

In the show, both groups of individuals are subject to their institutions: power figures come and go (and bring changes that superficially alter the state of affairs), but the game fundamentally remains the same. This repeats itself in every explored institution: industry, schools, news, &c.

In other words: there is no avoiding "corruption," only moving it around. The show's few "good" characters are characterized primarily by the ways in which their personal corruption does or does not affect the corruption of the larger institution they belong to (Daniels' FBI investigation, for example, or Kima's personal descent.)
Have you tried looking at the screen while using the Facebook app?

Also, I feel like the goal posts are moving quite fast in one direction.
This is exactly what it's about. Google has made a point of ensuring their employees think of themselves as the absolute best. They have nurtured an attitude of arrogance, because it has benefited them greatly from a recruiting perspective and created a positive brand in our prestige-obsessed current market. Now that the ship is turning a bit, execs are wanting to redirect company resources back to themselves at the expense of employees, and they need the employees to know their place.
you’d think that a educated group like this would understand that anecdotes are not sufficient evidence for something like this.
It seems the cmdline script is smart enough to switch over automatically, but invoking it from python just fails if the correct option isn't set
Get some N95s and wear them for a few days, then look at how dirty they are.

Unscientific, but it'll tell you a bit.

Much of emissions may not be caught, but those are relatively "clean" now, brake dust and tire rubber falls to the ground relatively quickly (unless it's being kicked back up by the vehicles).

You can get various air quality meters, too.
> keep up with the pace that Google manages.

Absent security issues, what's the value of the last N releases of Chrome? How far do you have to go to get something of value that changed?

Serious question, because I'm not on the cutting edge of browser technology. From a step away, it seems like it's been fairly stable.
And I hope you see the hipocrisy in saying that my idea about banning ideas that are bad for society is a bad idea. Because if that was your "good idea" vs my "bad idea" it didn't win that fight, just like it almost never does, and instead marketing, marketing budgets, preconceived notions, convenient beliefs, upbringing, the hard limit in the number of ideas one can learn about in one's lifetime and many other factors outweighs the fantasy that all ideas should be given equal exposure, as in a book titled "we should kill black people" should be countered with one titled "we shouldn't kill black people" and that every single person in every generation should extensively read both and come to their own conclusion and not use any conclusion society already learned as a whole.
>Is "don't be evil" still part of the Google's official ethos?

No it is not, and has not been for decades
it is, but that's the part that technology can actually help us with. all the internet-connected smart home stuff that companies have been trying to sell us is a bit silly when electricity is sold at a flat rate, but if my car charger, my clothes dryer, or my or my dishwasher could sit idle until electricity prices drop into the cheap zone and then turn themselves on, that internet connection becomes useful.

an attitude of "i don't want to deal with the stress of thinking about the electricity i use" is absolutely the sort of luxury that you should pay extra for, the people willing to schedule their power usage to reduce peak demand should be paying less than the people who aren't willing to do that.
I like the not so subtle dig at John Major's total lack of policy regarding the internet in 1994.
Very cool. Unfortunately I'm going to have to plug my tool too. I've been using it for a while now and it has changed my life: https://github.com/AndrewVos/proj
In the beginning they had no idea how bad things would get. And keeping the hospitals from being overburdened was a big reason as well. Did they err on the side of safety, yes and thankfully it wasn't a worse virus. I have no doubt even if it had been deadlier people still would of done whatever.
I share/approve many of them! I think that is incredible how a computer/software can change your life. If you’re born for the ‘80/‘90 and you remember how it was the life “without software”.
Use a truly disposable service like https://yoursecretnumber.com instead of Google Voice. This gives you a number with an OCN type of Wireless as well, instead of one that shows up as IPES (IP enabled Service Provider) or CLEC like Bandwidth.com and nearly all VoIP numbers.
Average US residential consumption is under 1MWh/mo so you are definitely not a typical customer.
Having had a few GPUs go bad on me over the years, I would hate to have to disassemble the entire thing to extricate the mobo/gpu combo for RMA'ing, rather than just removing the GPU and sending it off.
The hotel monopoly continues up into space
You’re right I misread that. I still think an overzealous prosecutor could find some violation, especially if p2p exchanges are used. They have charged people with operating an unlicensed money transmitter for merely being a customer of an unlicensed money transmitter!
AMD CEO to Negotiate 2nm, 3nm Chip Supplies with TSMC
This gentleman made a great web game for the UK TV show, Countdown. Been using it for years...

https://incoherency.co.uk/countdown/practice/
Scientists who discovered cause of narcolepsy win Breakthrough Prize
Can you explain it? I think I'm missing something.
Yes, by far, and you can even see it. When the entire air is foggy and orange with dust and ash and smoke, it's much different than when you are near a fire.
Just keep things backwards compatible, then do whatever you want.
>The irony here is that Youtube videos from ten years ago are still alive and well.

Roughly 1/3 of my YouTube bookmarks are dead and most of them are much more recent than 10 years. They purge videos at an alarming rate.
For anyone who wants a Factorio-like on iOS, there's a great game called Builderment. It's not as complex as Factorio but it does get rather involved. Works well with touch and even works well on the smaller screens of iPhones.
Yeah, but whipping out your phone could be deemed autopilot, in fact, I would say it's a defining feature of modern implementation of autopilot.

I kinda feel like what you're getting at is that your iteration of autopilot is better than others. In the abstract most people are pulling information out of the web and ostensibly using it to construct a model. The difference here is priorities and to some extent the framework of moral schematics.

I would expect you're under the impression that what you're doing is productive, and productivity is good. That's not necessarily the case though - that's just a lens that post-Christian western society has adopted for scrutinizing individuals, and frankly it's a little harmful.
Humans have ~500 million neurons in the gut.

Cats have ~760 million neurons in their total neural system.

So guts can have characters of their own.
> it doesn't take long before you want multiple clusters, or vlan peering, or customising the DNS

Then, Fly is not for such an application. Just not yet. I mean, we wouldn't buy a snowboard and complain we couldn't go skiing. Different tools.

The point really is, for a similar thing that which Fly is capable of (and other NewCloud services to an extent like railway.app, render.com, replit.com, convex.dev, workers.dev, deno.com, pages.dev, vercel.com, temporal.io etc), you're better off NOT using AWS/GCP/Azure. I certainly have found it to be true for whatever toy apps I build.
Time to get some popcorn and read the news =]
This seems not quite correct:

>>> On the contrary, they seem to be a century behind. Even China told them they should try to find a diplomatic solution. India told them this is not the time for war. The world has other problems than an old man's ambitions.

>> Apparently not....

This seems to me like disagreement with the parent assertion that "The world has other problems than an old man's ambitions", and then add to that that you continue on at length about the many problems "caused" by old men (which I do not disagree with at least in an absolute sense by the way).

> ...it’s just that some ambitious old men can indeed cause huge destruction

Things like this can be perfectly true, while simultaneously being misinformative, in that it can cause the mind that ingests the idea to assign inaccurate causal weight to the individual phenomenon/variable, form confident non-comprehensive conceptualizations of the system, etc.
On a universal scale no human even matters that much (maybe cumulatively we can make a dent at some point), we are insignificant, and i mean that about even the best that humanity has to offer. So really, whether you are better than others is meaningless in the face of time, eventually no one will remember you let alone the fact that you are better or worse than others. In light of this, i suggest you don't compare yourself to people period. And the notion of success is not a good metric, you can be succesful and unsuccesful along multiple dimensions at the same time. You can be rich and miserable, poor and happy. You can have a beautiful family who falls apart because you neglect them while working 90 hr weeks to be "succesful".
I work in system engineering/architecture. My job is some of hardest to even tell if we work.

I've been back and forth with multiple managers and C levels that any metric chosen can and will be gamed. But they again and again want some quality assessment to use.

For a while, they used tickets closed. So we all started submitting BS tickets to do tasks like "send email". You all can imagine the inanity of that.

From my experiences there is no good way to track... Well, perhaps having a grab bag of conflicting performance metrics, and then choosing one at random? (But again, even that can be gamed)
An industrial air scrubber with a 3-stage filter at 500 CFM is now about $500 new on Amazon. They were a lot more expensive during the height of the pandemic. They're great, also critical if you are cooking with natural gas.

No referral link: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=air+scrubber
The retention mechanism in the PCIe spec he's quoting here isn't metal; it's literally just an extra piece of plastic on the PCIe slot. I've used motherboards with them, they do exist. You have to move it out of the way if you want to remove the card. I don't know that it really adds much mechanically though, it's just a retention mechanism. Since it's part of the PCIe slot, any load it bears is pulling on the same thing: the motherboard. Image: https://www.vortez.net/index.php?ct=articles&action=file&id=...

It does feel like GPUs are getting rather ridiculous and pushing the limits. PCIe SIG seems to keep having to specify editions of the PCIe add-in-card electromechanical spec authorising higher power draws, and sometimes it seems like these limits imposed by the standard are just ignored.
Then pump and dump.
The article predicts that even with the proposed changes, 4.2 GW of storage or other generation capacity will be necessary, as opposed to 5.2 GW without the changes. I'd advocate getting on the power supply or storage solution immediately rather than trying to change consumer habits by e.g. funding or legislating power station installations in workplaces (a nice convenience, but not one that will solve this problem).

Tesla has already built a very large power storage station in Australia https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/07/27/tesla-big-battery-beg...

Obviously the notion of building >5GW of generation capacity on fossil fuels or nuclear in under 10 years seems wild. So it's probably going to have to be solar + storage.
Which declarative ad blocker?
Evidence of Harm
Is that strictly the definition, that the bit-width of a processor refers only to its native pointer size?

I know it's hardly a typical or modern example, but the N64 had just 4MB of memory (8MB with the expansion pack). It most certainly didn't need 64-bit pointers to address that pittance, so it was a "64 bit processor" largely for the purposes of register/data size.
I often wonder this about unsolicited media text messages (which, for me at least, are almost all political) and whether they might use the iMessage automatic “preview” function to track whether or not a message has been opened/viewed. As far as I’m aware it’s not a feature you can turn off on iOS.
Denver geography traps bad air into the occasional brown cloud. Get higher.
Custom Domain Support in Creator Economy Platforms
> Do you believe developed countries with below-replacement fertility are suffering?

Yes. Life in parts of the western world where below-replacement fertility has really taken hold is lonely, atomized and self-centered. People anesthetize themselves with entertainment and distractions. I love Germany and Japan, but in some ways it makes me a bit uncomfortable. They're societies that will be much smaller 100 years from now than they re today, and they know it, and it is kind of awkward. Closer to home, I visited Garland, TX, during the pandemic. The contrast from DC, where I live, was remarkable. Garland was alive! DC was dead.
This was the approach that I took, kind of. I was too young to really understand what I was doing though, and any guesses about what someone will be like as a parent are probably just guesses, no matter how well you know them. Mostly I just tell people I got lucky.

Not to discount your approach, I think it's a great criteria.
It was just an experiment, but this person was (and is still doing related stuff): https://twitter.com/MarcJSchmidt/status/1551961839394865152

(and an example: https://twitter.com/MarcJSchmidt/status/1552781654065905664)
SpaceX shows the success of using modern, commodity hardware rather than purchased-by-government contract obsolete components for space applications. The same is true for the cubesat revolution.

I honestly think the idea of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" is pretty silly as applied to large, engineered systems. If your system is more than 1000 lines of code, I guarantee you have a latent bug somewhere. Even if you don't have any bugs, the ecosystem around you changes so fast that you eventually will.
Adobe defends its $20B deal for Figma
Chromium got to be a dominant position because google nagged every user that visit google for a period of 10+ years to install chrome for a "better experience"
Man, I need to give the wire another shot.
Why do you say "even Apple"? I would have expected Apple in particular to be against working from home and for on premise secrecy