skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So as someone else commented, a mainframe isn't really a computer, it's a whole cluster of closely-coupled computers, many with dedicated functionality. Quite possibly all implemented with different architectures, instruction sets, programming languages, bit widths, everything.

Nearly all computers more powerful than a simple microcontroller look like this in 2022.

If you find this fact surprising, you'll probably want to take a look at this talk from USENIX ATC '21: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36myc8wQhLo
> Productivity Slowdown

Blame FB, HN, Reddit, Instagram, Twitter? I feel like this is pretty glaringly obvious.
yes, one should always remember when reading shit from cato that its an evil PR firm.
Going shopping at Walmart works too.
I've read but not written any c since learning rust. I've written some c years ago.

I do feel that if I were to write more c now it would be better for me knowing rust and having a feel for designs that pass the borrow checker.

Unhelpfully the only c book I've read was the k&r book. It seemed fine. Perhaps the question would be easier to answer if the reason for wanting to learn c was given (eg to contribute to existing c based project or to write embedded code)
I think the title should be edited to add "so you didn't have to"
> I loved the Thinkpad due to its durability.

Typing this on a T480 which 2 years ago, I accidentally dropped, while open, screen-first onto concrete from height of about 6 feet. There's a little dent in the bezel, but that's it. Still going strong.

I am peeved about the USB-c port not being a replaceable module though. I can still charge through the Thunderbolt/Dock port, but the other one no longer accepts a charge from any cable/brick combo I've tried.
Didn't intel have a complete ARM XScale lineup before they sold it off?
According to wikipedia this was before x86, so I don't think they were trying to "move away from x86" with this, since x86 didn't exist yet.
These are just slides btw and unfortunately probably not helpful without a lecture recording (which is not included). The slides really look great, but I wish there was commentary along with them. (they are not self contained)
I agree with you on prostitution but when it comes to drugs I feel like your views are a little idealized. If you can buy cocaine at the store, a LOT of people are going to start doing it and then will get hooked. Cocaine is by no means safe, all it takes is a couple of extra lines and you’re dead.
Yes, when I learned about this practice, that significantly changed my understanding of the NIMBY problem's solution space.

Although high property taxes incidentally constrain NIMBY behavior, they're a cure worse than the disease. It is appropriate for a city like Toronto to be proud of being able to operate with low property taxes. (I'm not going to defend the way CA Proposition 13 distributes the property tax burden between longtime residents and newcomers; but low property taxes on longtime residents should not be considered a problem, ceteris paribus.)
Thanks for all the downvotes.

The point is - how can such a neuralgic facility not be secured? Deutsche Bahn is part of the critical infrastructure - and no one has carried out a vulnerability analysis? No one has thought about how this critical infrastructure can be attacked?

According to the newspaper WELT AM SONNTAG, a team of forensic experts is now at work. So it must be a place that can be entered, manipulated and left without being secured and without causing a stir?

Every $5 VPS server is obviously better secured than this facility.

And I still say: this is unparalleled infantility.
Funny, I did learn c++ before C. Now, I view c++ as toxic for the humanity, and "simple and plain" C a kind of less worse compromise.
> a mainframe isn't really a computer, it's a whole cluster of closely-coupled computers, many with dedicated functionality.

This is a great description. I think we're moving back to the mainframe architecture, but the "cluster" now includes all the machines in a data center, plus the mobile and PC clients connecting to services.

Tangentially: I talk about how programming models have evolved from the mainframe to today here: https://gridwhale.medium.com/gridwhale-and-a-brief-history-o...
There seems to be a glutt of demo services gaining popularity recently (walnut, demostack, etc). What's the USP for this one?
A different take on the same thing: the best models we have of the risk-free returns of equity markets are unbiased random walks, or martingales. Whatever value the index is at now is the best guess at what value it will be in the future, at least when absolute polynomial loss is the error function.
I have Youtube TV for football season and then cancel it when the season is over. At least shared logins work for streaming services, so I can be on a family's hbo max, etc.
Lithium button batteries of the size you would find in a tracker are allowed in checked baggage.

You are correct about transmitters though
The US is absolutely infested with ads. Visiting from Europe turning on the hotel TV is unwatchable. Also a fair amount of the ads are outright scams.

"Buy this rare silver dollar by calling a phone number" LIMITED SUPPLY!!

Making money by any means necessary even by scamming people who don't know better. The worst thing is that Americans I asked about this thought it was perfectly fine and normal.
every point release is a new language, yes
The whole moral crap is bullshit. Lots of European countries have gotten around the issue of pimps by legally mandating that sex needs to be sold on a 1:1 basis. I’m willing to put up with fringe human trafficking to be able to go downtown and buy sex. You can’t ban the best things in life and expect people to be happy over the long term.
Know that relative to previous events it is possible for a much larger drop. Be mentally prepared. Stick to your plan. If buy and hold is your plan you should already know that it routinely has 30% drops for months or years at a time. If you have all your money in one company stock then your plan could use some diversification.
You don't really mention which part of an IoT solution? An actual device in people's homes? On factory floors? Some kind of router or edge gateway? Backend components?

The component itself will already limit your amount of reasonable choices for a language or framework. You probably neither want to Java on a microcontroller with 256kB RAM, nor C on a backend.
That security pledge from the insyde CTO is just the cherry on top of this. Especially since it was published back in February
> I’d rather not pirate but it doesn’t feel wrong since I’m perfectly willing to pay for no-ads products if they are available.

Yes, providing only 1 payment option that comes with mandatory psychological manipulation is not a true payment option.
Hell yes I'm gonna get exactly what I deserve. Because I actually pay for these crappy streaming services and what I get is horribly compressed "high definition" video loaded with artifacts on even 90% black frames that I can't even download to my device which means service is interrupted if I lose my internet connection. Meanwhile the "pirates" are getting DRM free extremely high quality Blu-Ray encodes they can watch whenever they want on a player that doesn't suck such as mpv.
Isn't that a direct result of the Islamic belief that man made art is offensive to God? The same reason mosques are decorated with geometric patterns and not "art".
This is something covered very well by Taleb in "Fooled By Randomness." Simply by exposing yourself to random fluctuations on a shorter cadence, you are experiencing stress reactions that would never occur if you checked it on a less frequent cadence. Anyone who has played fantasy football will be familiar with this. If you check your players' scores every five minutes, it is infinitely more stressful than just checking them once on Monday morning.
Lots of things are fraud. Most of them are not theft.

The greatest ThinkSpeak the media industry pulled was to redefine copyright, contract, and license violations as "theft" and "piracy."

Saying something is not theft/harassment/abuse/murder/etc. isn't the same as saying it's okay. Precise language matters.

It's not possible for someone to steal my chair or my wallet without harming me. Actual theft usually is not a victimless crime, by definition. In contrast, most of the people I've seen engage in copyright violation are too poor to buy what they're copying. Virtually everyone I know starts paying when they get real jobs. How do I feel about a broke high school student breaking my license? It's complicated, but much less bad than about someone stealing my phone.
What about the music industry allowed Spotify to happen? Is licensing set up in a way that made it possible whereas Movie/TV makes it impossible/unlikely?

(I remember Classic Netflix, where I could get 99% of what I wanted … or, in many cases, over 100% of what I wanted!)
They’re trivial to rip
I'd guess that fire-starter and flint-knapper are the two oldest actual professions, with their origins pre-dating the evolution of 'modern humans'. The so-called 'oldest profession' (prostitution) likely required the development of agricultural civilization and wouldn't be that viable within hunter-gatherer societies. Similar arguments apply to the origins of priests and kings, to some extent. Hunter-gatherer tribes might also have had tribal leaders, shamans, and sex-for-food dealings.
They try and fob you off with a little compensation (ie. €100) in the hope that that makes you not claim what the law says you're entitled to.
It basically refers to data in salesforce being complete, accurate and input in a consistent way. It's a term used around software apps that drive decision making and are useless without the criteria I mentioned.
This. I want a streaming service that has more or less every movie and TV show ever made before, let's say ten years ago.

Fair enough if Disney etc. want to keep new stuff exclusive to them. Also, fair enough if certain big evergreen content is kept exclusive (Star Wars, classic Disney movies etc.).

But, seriously, why can't I go to one service and watch every Cary Grant movie, or every movie directed by John Ford, or every episode of Remington Steele, or every episode of Matlock or whatever.
The minute Netflix shows me ad will be the minute I will unsubscribe.
I read this in its entirety last year and sat quietly for a long time knowing many of these observations will one day be true for me too. Its sad, depressing and really harsh truth.
Not all creators are hacked by large companies, and even if they are - they deserve compensation, or no?
I read "What is life?" ages ago, I found it quite amazing back then.

But I didn't know how crazy this guy was. There should be a Wikipedia list: "Most crazy famous physicists"
Amazon Prime and Sky (or after their forth rename in 5 years, now they are called: "Wow" here in Germany) have ads for their own shows in front of paid content.
I've had enough of these impossible beauty standards.

I'd take a smart phone that's 3x as thick (thicc) if it had 3x the battery life, but I currently settle for a case that's also a battery.

When my T420 finally dies (if that's even possible), I'm hoping the Framework laptop is chunky enough to take its place
Preview of CBDC
I actually do, love UHD blu-ray, can’t compare to anything downloaded actually. Level of compression and haptics, physicality, etc.

That said, it’s not great for the environment, probably still worse even when comparing with the ecological footprint of data centre infrastructure (download-and-keep would be even better than streaming actually). Not everything gets a (timely) release either.

Sometimes a quick download would be great. FWIW I’m on a 400mbit/s connection.

Obviously DRM free versions would be the cherry on top and would guarantee “portability” into the future (I’d still buy the n-th version of The Terminator in 8K in any case ;)
> The entire market cap of modern Silicon Valley is based upon monetizing surveillance.

no, its not.. but a bulk of FB/Google dollars that are, dwarfs a lot of other things.. its a sick situation, I can agree with that.. important to speak out
> One can get a solid grounding in C reading Seacord's books and John Regehr's blog without even needing to know who K and R are.

I'm not familiar with John Regehr - At least recently, Regehr's blog appears to be extremely low level (relative to C at least). Reading about the IR in LLVM or the ARM machine code which makes a spinlock go isn't a "solid grounding in C". It's fascinating - but it's not about C. Perhaps he used to write more about C?

Robert Seacord though, I just don't see it. I think you've recommended Seacord because you're thinking about what you'd need to write good software in C in 2022. But if we wanted to write good software in 2022 we shouldn't use C for that task in the first place. That's my point here. "Secure Coding in C" goes on the shelf next to "Agile Development using the Waterfall Model" and "Version Control using Visual SourceSafe". In each case these should be one paragraph inside, "Better not I think".

My assumption is that the OP is curious about the language, to the extent maybe they'll solve Advent of Code in it or something, not that they're about to write or maintain serious C software.
What is the difference between 'invest' and 'gamble'?
This was right in the time period of Windows Everywhere. Windows on MIPS, Alpha and so on. And for server workloads just using going to Unix is totally fine.

People would rather run server workloads on Unix rather then using windows with shitty expensive processors.

People that are unwilling to move to Unix very likely just stick around on 32bit instead.
It is like comparing apples and oranges. I read a lot but also watch movie every once in a while. Those are 2 different animals.
> Wait what?

https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/passenger-right...
I do not have any short positions. Mainly investing in long term positions and sometimes speculation.
My Life as the Queen's Piper
For a) you can at least measure the ratio of managerial to non-managerial staff (which has become more substantially more heavily weighted towards management since 1983).
these comments are gem itself
> ruined the network

Pretty sure it’s doing just fine.

Maybe I am reaching here, but by “ruining the network” I assume you mean that you are blaming him Adam for the small blockers winning, in which case the network is better off for it.
Watch a {Google ad} to watch a {Universal Pictures ad}.

The last mile device ad interposition is going to keep pushing the boundaries until it's limited by law.

Which would be something like "hardware/software platform companies cannot own ad businesses* and must allow equal+ access to any ad bidder who wants to run an ad"

*Defined as anything more nuanced than bulk sales of ad space

+For some definition of equal

That we ever let platforms own ad businesses is the cause of so many current failures.
I once had a job developing strategy for one of the top business schools in the world in its revenue center. In this best-of-the best setting, there was little incompetence but lots of mediocrity. At university administrations, as you drift away from elite schools and drift away from revenue centers, in my observation incompetence becomes common. Administrators are in those roles, because they’d be fired from any high-performing workplace. We can see this play out clearly in the fast-declining high-ed market landscape.

I lasted about two years before it became unbearable.
I work that way. I generally constrain my changes to a single package, module or layer of the application at a time. The feature won't work end-to-end until after several PRs are merged. Sometimes it can take 15+ PRs, but it's a lot easier for reviewers if the changes are small and limited in scope and functionality.
Unfortunately once there are enough satellites there will be trails crossing most of the sensors. (The projected densities from starlink and oneweb are truly staggering)
Not the OP, but yeah, it is like saying "Oh, look, Fred over here is such a naughty drinker" when the whole city is chock-full of raging alcoholics.
For B) Parkinson’s law predicts that useless bureaucracy, if left unchecked, will eat any gains in productivity.
You might want to consider diversifying your distribution of content.

You are at the mercy of one companies political biases if you put all your eggs in one bias.
“I hate my Honda Accord”

“Have you ever considered walking?”

Also see: “I haven’t watch TV in 20 years. Do people still watch TV?”
As there is one good saying in investors community: Time in the market beats timing the market.
No IT system is 100% reliable.

They should have practiced what to do incase of a 100% IT outage.

And I think for an airline that would involve just letting anyone into the plane who claims to have a ticket.

If anyone wants to buy a ticket, you take their name and address and bill them later, then hand write a ticket.

Sure, you might get fined for not meeting some laws about id verification, or a bit of revenue loss from people who find out and travel on fake tickets, but overall you're going to make more profit and have more happy customers.
I would still prefer "something like PayPal, just not paypal" over Crypto.

Technical merits aside, volatility is considered a negative feature of a currency. At least until that gets sorted out the "Not Paypal" options are what I will stick to.
>AFAIK, exiting a block also is limited in that it can only return a single item

Multi-value returns were added after MVP but they are supported now.
Unobtrusive typo: there is an 'i' missing in restrictive.
Spotify didn't do anything special. Most of the (mainstream) subscription music streaming services have similar content. I assume it's mostly a function of the fact that music royalties were quite centralized so that once streaming became viable it was a pretty natural shift given that pay per play was already well entrenched with radio etc.

Video was much more fragmented and a lot of older content licensing never envisioned non-broadcast availability at all.

(The numbers also probably don't work. I'm guessing a hypothetical all-you-can-eat subscription would be in the hundreds of dollars a month.
I would highly recommend learning the slip box method.

See the book: How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
Those are probably a reflection of legal issues. 18 year olds are clear from child protection laws, and 21 year olds can be shown ads for alcohol (and maybe tobacco, I think that's 21 in many states now).

As long as there is potential, significant liability attached to showing under-18's certain content it's safer to just not show them anything questionable until they're 18.

I'm with you, I think a gradient would be developmentally better, but our legal system discourages that. I think the same thing exists across other parallels; people get a ton of options dumped on them at 18. It would probably be better to phase that in over time.
The Warmer Bros Discovery investors call slides basically laid out the future of streaming.

You'll have threes choices

1. FAST
2. AST
3. Ad free version with a premium tax applied to make you more likely to subscribe to AST.

For me the quality of entertainment has dropped to the point where I'll probably just drop all streaming and buy the things I like on sale.
Well, the content can’t be free ultimately. It costs money to make the stuff. I honestly would be happy to pay 2 or 3x the cost to watch without ads.
MakeMKV makes it easy enough to backup those Blu-Ray videos into a DRM free format.
If I am never going to pay for X, then nobody is harmed by me pirating it. That said, I haven’t pirated anything in a decade.

It’s up to content creators to create business models that work for them, but I really don’t care if they pick one that doesn’t work for me.
Interest is, after all, the return on capital. While an individual borrower may be over the moon to have to pay less interest, on aggregate it means lower return, and return on all capital across the economy is growth.
Being more methodical than emotional?

https://www.alphagamma.eu/finance/making-safe-investment/

Smaller historic alpha or standard-deviation?
vrms (virtual Richard M. Stallman) is what your asking for. Go install it, it has been packaged in most distros for decades.

Additionally, crashing into lighthouses with your ship or personal watercraft is considered a bad thing. Lighthouses are usually unreachable by water, they even have bouy perimeters to delineate where the shallows start around them to discourage getting too close/exiting navigable waterways.
It does literally mean that but it contemporaneously had a connotation of "not civilized" just as it does today. I don't think there's a word in English that carries this same double-meaning. For example, "un-American" certainly has the right meaning for the second connotation but it's never used in the purely literal sense. Conversely "foreigner" does have that literal first sense and can be used with a pejorative connotation, but still only one meaning; the foreignness is inherently pejorative, it's not a synecdoche.
With high quality subtitles and captions missing from the paid services.
There's no pollution. New Shepard uses liquid hydrogen and oxygen for fuel, which makes water. No hydrocarbons involved in the launch itself.

Fire != Pollution
> Here they behave the same

Well yeah, in this particular instance they do. That doesn't mean they always do. For example, with the commonly-used Tennessee capital election scenario (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting#Tennesse...), IRV would select Knoxville while FPTP would select Memphis - still not quite optimal for everyone (Nashville would probably be the ideal winner in a "perfect" electoral system), but good enough for the majority and a strict improvement over FPTP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_C._Rubin_Observatory#Hist...

Early development was funded by a number of small grants, with major contributions in January 2008 by software billionaires Charles and Lisa Simonyi and Bill Gates of $20- and $10 million respectively.[30][25] $7.5 million was included in the U.S. President's FY2013 NSF budget request.[31] The Department of Energy is funding construction of the digital camera component by the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, as part of its mission to understand dark energy.[32]

In the 2010 decadal survey, LSST was ranked as the highest-priority ground-based instrument.[33]

NSF funding for the rest of construction was authorized as of 1 August 2014.[17] The lead organizations are:[32]

The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to design and construct the LSST camera
The National Optical Astronomy Observatory to provide the telescope and site team
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications to construct and test the archive and data access center
The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy is responsible for overseeing the LSST construction.

As of May 2022, the project critical path was the camera installation, integration and testing.[34]

In May 2018, Congress surprisingly appropriated much more funding than the telescope had asked for, in hopes of speeding up construction and operation. Telescope management was thankful but unsure this would help, since at the late stage of construction they were not cash-limited.[35]

10m Video on the construction, mentioning "twenty years, over a billion dollars."

https://youtube.com/watch?v=kpdLDJXEmys
The notion of private property fails when it comes to things that can be multiplied in quantity practically for free, by a practically unlimited amount.

What I mean when I say private property "fails" is that it is not a useful concept to us as a society in cases like this. The consumption of goods of the aforementioned type are nonrival, meaning my consumption of it does not interfere with your consumption of it. That's why it doesn't really matter.