skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. We're apparently finding out that it's mostly a waste of electricity to get an extra 5% performance due to how far outside the efficiency sweet spot chips are being pushed.

Not just Intel either. AMD has joined the game as of Zen 4, and NVIDIA's been playing it with their GPUs forever as well.

Zen 4 desktop CPUs appear to have (as expected) virtually unchanged single core performance, and maybe 5% reduced multi-core performance, on CPU-bound workloads by reducing the power limit to cut total power consumption -- by over a 100W reduction in the case of the new 7950X! Granted, Intel's been doing that forever -- reign in Alder Lake and its power consumption also comes way down, again for barely a performance hit in CPU-bound multi-core tasks.

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Enthusiast grade CPUs and GPUs are basically sold in the equivalent of a TV's retail "demo mode" now -- where a TV has max brightness, contrast and saturation that you'd NEVER use, but is intended to just grab a customer's attention as they walk by. Being pushed so far outside of their efficiency sweet spot just to get that extra 5% to "win benchmarks", when outside of specific use cases (and even if you actually need that 5%!) you're just consuming 50-100% more electricity for utterly marginal gains.

What a waste of resources! All so children (or people who still act like them) can feel better about a purchase as they argue on the internet over nothing worth arguing about.
Data sections are a thing in assembly code.
It's actually pretty good.

Better than chat for fostering async-style communication. Better than email at discoverability.
Back in my day, I was running Transmission on a WRT350N router…

It was quite an ordeal to set up before there were DD-WRT builds where it was integrated into the build.
China’s property crash: ‘a slow-motion financial crisis’
As others have noted, the answer depend a lot on whether your data size is in kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes or terrabytes. For text (kilobytes) there are a lot more options that for video (gigabytes).
Are you sure that permuting the digits never gives a grid that could be obtained by shuffling rows or columns?
I meant the term being used for binary data.
Euler's Sum of Powers Conjecture
Maybe 10x are just people whose hobby overlaps with work?
If politicians always did the popular things at the beginning of their term they would be far less likely to be voted back in. Unfortunately the news cycle and therefore the voting public has a short memory.

It does suck a bit that the system incentivizes being strategic with the timing of key decisions, but politicians who didn't do so would be hurting their chances of reelection.
In this case they should have awarded it to one of the civil right movements. The symbolism of awarding it in the first year of Obama's presidency would have had the same impact in underscoring the civilisational progress of having him elected without making a mockery of the award. Trump bombed an order magnitude less civilians than Obama ever did per year in office. He even comes close to Bush's record.

If you want to award to him I think awarding it for his nuclear treaty with Iran comes closest to making sense.
Obviously you wouldn't (the network is decentralized, you can't know other peers communication) but also you don't care (peer A <> B might be able to upload/download, but peer B <> C can only download in one direction).

The important part is to keep track of what's happening with your own connection to others, not what other peers are doing.
I might be wrong, but afaik transmission doesn't use libtorrent. It's using their own libtransmission.
“Handing someone a demo CD is like saying to them, Hey, you throw this away.”

(Can’t recall the comedian, could be Dimitri Martin)

It’s funny but burned CDs are a great handout for me. I can see through DistroKid that some people loaded them into iTunes and I got a small match but if money for it. Considering how cheap they are and “put in walk away repeat” the process is, I’m still happy to crank them out now and again.

Plus! I have CD labels so they have personality and flair. Also they fit a 40-60 minute DJ set perfectly. Burn, pop in the car, party on the go baby.
I'm really excited to see support for torrents v2.
If only because transmission will stop chocking on hybrid torrent files, which should lead to more adoption across the board.

I wish transmission supported mutable torrents (BEP46). It would allow completely re-thinking distribution: grab a torrent of your favorite distribution, and have it auto-update to the latest version.

Or grab a "super-torrent" that lists isos for all known distributions, select the ones you're interested in, and let it update... Of course, that can be used for file-sharing repositories too.

Maybe transmission is not interactive enough for such a use-case (you'd have to ask the user what they want to do when the torrent mutates, and possibly add simple scripting interfaces for more complex heuristics).
Get DVD-Rs with gold foil. "Archival grade"

https://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-DVD-R-4-7GB-UltraLife-Archiv...
A lot of CAD work today is based on parametric design, constraint solvers and letting you CAD software solve various optimisation problems. One of the big problems with this is that the dimensionality and search space involved can be huge. Using AI to narrow the search space that these solvers have to deal with will be a significant and obvious win, and work is already happening in this space.

Combine that with an AI that can generate an initial design based on a rough specification, have the user apply some constraints and then iteratively have the AI generate new designs, based on known good designs, that fulfil those constraints could be very powerful.
Source for the 'the huge fall-out rate concerning vegans going ex-vegan.' please?
It used to be easy to falsify that information, but no more. Most private trackers would easily ban you for that nowadays, unless you can get all the other clients to also cheat with you using the same parameters. It's easy to cross-reference the information coming from N clients, so you'll be booted relatively quickly.
wow, so succinct.
So can it remove things like movies and tv shows and other noise?

I remember there was some work done to categorize articles like with the Dewey system, but so far, you can't really reduce the size of those exports.

Of course it would require a lot of work. Maybe it's already possible to categorize articles of they belong to a "portal".

But yeah, it doesn't seem the Wikipedia foundation really care about those kind of problems. To be fair they lack money.
And even in the Pentium 4 days, AMD CPUs managed similar performance as a Pentium 4 while running at lower clock speeds (which was a problem with some games that tried to auto-tune their performance-settings purely based on Pentium 4 clock speeds, even if you had an AMD CPU – thankfully at least in the Maxis/EA case, those settings were easily hackable, though, and could be easily adjusted to better match non-Pentium 4 CPUs, too).
You need to sign up for a private tracker to get that.
This completely ignores the stress of evacuating your home town and the fear of having been exposed to a cancer inducing radiation dose. Even ignoring those it would have resulted in poverty for those who had to evacuate and poverty is a known cause of increase death rates
The best? The language you(and your team) know. If you understood most languages then I'd say Haskell or Rust depending on the exact requirements.
You don't need to master it to change career, just do it. You can always go back if you need to
The cli is also used by Fragments, a Gnome torrent app.
Why?

If I have a complete grid, I can remove the top left number, and that's a puzzle.
Or, I can remove the bottom right number, and that's another puzzle.

So, one unique grid can be the solution to multiple puzzles.
We fear change as we get older and we no longer like to take risks, especially if those risks can affect our earnings, stability etc. But if you sum up the currage, things can really change for the better. Go for it
Yes.

It doesn't take 10k hours to master something. Nor do you need to master something to have it be your career.

Being an outside to a new thing at your age can bring insights that others can't bring. Use your head, but there are lots of ways you can bring this to your advantage. It is the folks that cross domains that bring the gains.
Remember that the price is based on one year of work, not the total of everything a person have done.

The Obama award was from one of his years as president.

From wikipedia:
According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who in the preceding year "shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses"
Well, webtorrents are just regular torrents using websockets as a transport mechanism, since you can't just have raw sockets from a browser sandbox.

If it supported these as a transport mechanism, transmission would be able to communicate with torrent clients that run in the browser, making the potential number of peers much higher (both for swarms that are mostly in-browser, and for those that have a majority of traditional clients). It would be very useful for seeding peertube videos from transmission, for instance, which was the quoted use-case.
The 10 000 hour rule is bullshit.

But you're right that you can switch career and with enough practice (of the dedicated kind) you can indeed acquire proficiency in any skill.
Negative, to enroll in Clear you must provide fingerprints. I’ve never been fingerprinted and travel regularly.
Wait, you're not allowed to run anything using the BitTorrent protocol on iOS? I never had the need myself, but I just assumed it would be allowed, because there is no reasonable explanation you wouldn't. Like the whole protocol is banned from the AppStore?
I fondly remember AvantGo! Surprisingly many sites supported it, it was really handy.
I tend to think of Bash as a syntax-free language. There are no clear rules, you just have to kind of make it work every time. It's like the programming version of a freestyle rap or Parkour.
> So if the path to prosperity is massive foreign investment, why was the invasion necessary?

The problem with dictatorships of all kinds is that there are very few foreign investors willing to invest money into them. Why should anyone invest into a country that can seize your assets for no reason at all, where female staff has virtually zero rights, where there is no educated populace that can be used for work or where there isn't any industry generating income to repay investments? Most dictatorships have a barely surviving 99% and a small elite that holds the power and skims assets for their personal wealth.

It's rare that revolutions are successful even in taking down the current regime, and the few that do succeed often fail very shortly afterwards because the security services like police and military are loyal to the old leader, too corrupt to be useful, the absence of a ruling power leads to a vacuum that draws in foreign warlords or other regimes or because the prior dictatorship has looted the country's assets and stashed the profit somewhere the post-revolution government can't access it. Additionally, some revolutions also fail and become autocracies of their own due to foreign influence (e.g. the US sanctions against Cuba).

Revolutions without an external force providing basic stability are doomed to failure and suffering.
If it were a sincere and principled choice, he would have done it in his first week in office.

For some reason this reminds me of the old saw about the economist and the twenty dollar bill. “The $20 on the sidewalk doesn’t exist because the efficient market guarantees that someone else would’ve already picked it up!” the economist said, while walking past the twenty dollar bill.

I think in reality politicians have schedules and priorities and the constantly shifting demands imposed on them by world events. Sometimes the things they always wanted to do get left on the back burner until election season starts to loom over the horizon. Then they actually look for these sorts of quick fixes because it can give them a little boost in the polls for something they were going to do anyway. What’s wrong with that?
Country is normally determined by doing a reverse DNS lookup, and then looking at the country code in the domain name. It's not very accurate, but you can do it for free without relying on any third party service or database.

Here is the libtorrent code that does it for every peer:

https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/blob/8786d17e59c90aee2c...
Let's chat! Can you ping me on Discord? (peterp) https://app.snaplet.dev/chat/
I found a great article searching through Hacker News the other day - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32497780

It's appropriately called "There’s no speed limit". A lot of rules from there apply here as well.

It's about a guy who finished college in 2 years, if I remember correctly.

I've written it down on my white-board and remind myself about it everyday.

Thought you might find it useful.

P.S. I'm working on believing in myself and shamelessly plugging my weekly newsletter for remote working parents everywhere - check it out. https://thursdaydigest.com/
> Downloading it from a side channel means you can buy it on your favourite platform and actually keep it on your computer.

That would give the distribution platform the idea that what they are doing is OK. In this case, just download it and don't pay for it, if they are not actually providing you of any service. Vote with your wallet.
Not to mention the environmental destruction. Use vegan sources.
For the general public it makes no difference. For the privacy-conscious power user, it means 3rd-party blocking no longer works (unless you unmask the 3rd parties by resolving CNAMEs before applying the rules).
You could do a million other interesting things academically or commercially before diving into yet another KV store though.
A lot of the time these landing sites / buildings are a bit further inland. At the beach there is usually only a buried armoured cable leading to a concrete slab or something where it connects to underground ductwork.

If you're interested in that and have an hour of time there is a youtube video[1] of a local tracking these down around the Cornwall area.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_nnUbX7uuQ
I feel this is false. If people thought that why wouldn't they just rent some pro gear? Much cheaper then a photographer.
I was reading about it, but I assumed it was just in Chromium? Did it actually make it into Chrome as well!
We now have a 30-70% mix silence room versus team open plan. The silence room also is open plan but with library rules. And the walls are sounds proofed.
If you truly wanted to maximize performance per watt, you'd pick a very different design more reminiscent of GPU's. But then single-thread and low-multi-thread performance would really suck. So it will always be a carefully tuned tradeoff.
Didn't know about that, thanks for the heads up.
Then I missed the point and your use case. I re-read your article and this is the only sentence where I believe I could have got it if I read it carefully enough:

> Now I can finally send my friends a link to a calendar event for our next pub crawl.

I suggest you update the tagline to say "link" as there is no "terminal" involved. That is, you don't use cURL and you don't send a normal calendar invitation email, but instead you send a message with a link that gives them the ical file when they click it.
> If it were a sincere and principled choice, he would have done it in his first week in office. Like Carter with his Vietnam pardons in January 1977.

I'm no fan of presidents in general, and especially not ones who forget what they're saying mid-sentence. But isn't it worth noting Biden has historically been pretty anti-drug, he introduced the RAVE Act[0] FFS. Maybe it took some convincing to change his attitude towards marijuana laws?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAVE_Act
Thinking I could time the market after a big drop on IPO day (thinking maybe it'd rebound - which it did but then subsequently dropped and dropped and dropped). Should've just gotten access to my stock ASAP and sold everything. Instead, I let it drop so far over 6+ months that basically got less than what I put in to exercise the options + AMT. This holding mentally came because I didn't actually need the money so I thought letting it sit would be beneficial (don't time the market) but holding all that in one stock was foolish and I wish I had better peers around at that time who forced me to sell. Instead, everyone was saying to hold. We all lost a lot of money over it.

The divorce didn't help either but I don't know if I regret that so much as had no real recourse about the whole situation. (My ex decided she no longer wanted to work and we split up over that)
Standard Pascal ISO 7185:1990 and Extended Pascal ISO/IEC 10206:1991
> I wish transmission supported mutable torrents (BEP46). It would allow completely re-thinking distribution: grab a torrent of your favorite distribution, and have it auto-update to the latest version.

That sounds horrible. My own expectation is that if I have a torrent file/magnet link and I download from it, I always get the same content. This is why I commonly keep the magnet link/torrent file around even if I delete the content itself, so if I want the same thing in the future, I just re-download it and I'm 100% it's exactly the same.

This change would break that expectation, for what benefit? This could be implemented as a HTTP call instead, that serves different torrent files, so you can just change whatever serves the torrent file in order to mutate what gets downloaded.
You don't have to master anything to switch careers.

I switched careers from marketing to software development at 37 yo. It took me 8 months of full-time study (I had the privilege to be able to quit my job to do that) to get my first job as a front-end developer. Now, 5 years later, I think it was the best professional decision I have ever made in my life. I am much happier doing daily work than before and, now, I earn much more than I used to (despite a significant salary cut for my first dev job).

To put in hours, I would say 8 months averaging 7 hours of dedication on week days is about 1232 hours.

And I am no master, far from it. I am a competent, mediocre, regular 1x web developer. Some weeks I am 0.5x, some weeks I am 2x.
These kind of arguments (and people who are so blinded to the harm of politicizing every action) are why we'll probably lose abortion rights by the end of the decade. American Democrats are playing checkers and are satiated by scraps
It's all down to whether or not there is any logic to the guess and check strategy. Most of the computer algorithms work by picking a number in the possible values, following the eliminations, and repeating. If they hit an error, they backtrack to the last decision, choose a new number from the set and repeat.

If you look at some of the Cracking the Cryptic puzzles on YouTube with "computer" in the title, that covers cases where the computer resorts to a guess and check strategy but where better underlying logic is available in the solve path.
Well for one, if you search nitrate instead of nitrite you'll get different results.
09-30-22 Solana Mainnet Beta Outage Report
Managers with a business degree reduce employees' wages, do not increase profit
Cheaper only until you have a war, or a tool taking shortcuts in managing the place

The nuclear central of Vaporhizeyou in Ukraine is a liability? In some aspects, for sure it is a weak point in the safety of Ukraine. It depends on the point of view and in what direction the winds blow.
I seem to have missed the author's point which is to craft the link and send the link to others to download.
It has generally been up the the DEA. When it came time to schedule MDMA it was actually challenged in court by psychologists and psychiatrists along with scientists. The judge recommended a lower scheduling. The DEA said "fuck you" to the judge, petitioners, and the American people and made it schedule 1

https://maps.org/news/bulletin/making-mdma-a-medicine-ii-res...
At the end of the day a job is a job is a job. I would suggest you look at your current work and see if there's a sideways step you can get that keeps your current skills relevant but also gives you different exposure.

I work in software, a sideways step for me would be to go towards admin / networky stuff, or to start doing BA style work.

Fresh starts are hard only if you have existing commitments.
> Obviously, given these data, volume is VERY important in business models that operate with high fixed and low variable costs.

Off-topic but I wonder how much cheaper mobile phones would be if the manufacturers did not have to come up with a hardware design update every year or so? What if mobile phones were built to last longer, which would reduce the cost per phone due to high volume? Of course, I am not suggesting this is good for business but as a mere thought experiment.
My opinion:

* The 10000 hour rule is nonsense. There are skills that require very much practice, and a lot of those are unattainable for most people. You could practice 10,000 hours on the violin or playing chess without reaching the lofty heights of Hahn or Magnusson. That does require some kind of "talent".

* Many other skills can be acquired in much less time, certainly if you don't start from scratch. E.g., learning a 2nd programming language takes much less time than the 1st.

* I've been switching jobs all my life; on average after about 5 years. 43 isn't very old to switch, IMO.

* Think about what is important to you: Money? Stability? Job satisfaction? Can you find a new job that gives you what you want and need?
People in 1999 could not imagine Android devices.
Because when I listened to him speak with enough time to give as much context as he wanted, it was clear that's not a claim he makes. He may have said something to the effect that he did a lot of early research in the field, possibly something that, if interpreted uncharitably, could imply he was taking more credit than was due him. But falsely attributing an untrue statement to someone and then calling him a liar for the thing he didn't say is precisely the kind of skillful misinformation I've come to expect from corporate journalists since the Iraq war. How someone can say 'trust the experts' in the morning and trust the New York Times over a widely-cited scientist in the evening is beyond me.

And please, tell me where in this account's relatively short history I've ever agreed with a corporate journalist on anything. While you're at it, tell me whether you're for or against informed consent for medical procedures.
It depends on a lot of factors. Building a highly concurrent application such as chat? You may find node or elixir to be good fits. Building a reports service with lots of data crunching? Maybe checkout Python for it’s data libraries like Pandas / numpy. The choice of language stems from the domain you’re solving and what your team knows. Finding a happy middle ground is best, but sometimes you need to prefer either what the team already knows for the sake of time to market and other times you need to prioritize the problem space if the team’s knowledge has a limitation that will prevent it from being a maintainable solution.