skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That bike salesperson is (probably deliberately) steering you away from the secondary market.

This interaction happened many years ago. I wish I could give that person that much credit about being so savvy about the secondary market, but I think it's really just a question of cost sensitivity. A person who really wants a cheap bike is going to Walmart (my conversation happened before Amazon existed) or another big-box store. Anybody who goes into a bike store either a) didn't realize bikes would be more expensive there or b) less cost sensitive compared to somebody who would never consider going to a bike shop in the first place.

The point being, by selling a lifestyle choice instead of a bike, they were trying to upsell me.

Which is exactly what I've seen with so many things on social media sites. It isn't just a hobby, it's a lifestyle.
Javascript being 41x faster than Python seems a bit excessive.

In my experience, having done quite a lot of dynamic language benchmarks, Javascript is about as fast as PHP and both are about 6x faster than Python.

Has someone looked at the Python code used here, if it has any obvious gotchas?
WASM is not really a replacement for Graal. Graal is more of a language implementation framework, while WASM is a compilation target.
There is no universal solution to "emotionally trick other people into voting for them". If the politicians don't follow up, you vote them out. The problem in the US stems from lack of choice, owing to the entrenched 2 party system. Almost every other country around the world has more than 2 options, and there are many examples where democracy is functional.

If you're assuming that every voter is intelligent enough to make their own voting decisions, then no one is being "tricked". And assuming to the contrary puts you on a slippery slope of who gets to decide if someone was "tricked" vs not.
Feels like https://freifunk.net/ deserves a mention in this thread. It's an association in Germany that works on broad, open access to the internet via Wifi (with optional Meshing functionality). They have, among other things, ISP status - so if you provide an open Freifunk Wifi based on their infrastructure, all/most potential legal troubles go through them and not through you.
aesop #1 - king spots an ant drowning in the pond. king uses a leaf to rescue ant. courtiers admonish king for wasting his busy schedule on trivia like ants. at night the king sleeps & the snake opens his fangs to strike the king's leg. the ant bites the king's toe & king moves his leg in the nick of time. the next morning the king admonishes his courtiers - if not for the ant i wouldn't be alive.

aesop #2 - man falls off horse and breaks leg. pretty damsel unwilling to wed man because he is lame. everyone says, you are so unlucky. lost your leg. lost your lady. now what ? king announces war and all the able men of the village are drafted. our man stays home because he is lame. the able soldiers are killed off by the enemy. pretty damsel marries sole surviving lame man.

many more where that came from :)
It goes back further than that. He was widely seen as the most viable opposition candidate in the 2018 presidential election, before being banned from running on trumped up charges.

https://www.economist.com/europe/2017/06/17/aleksei-navalnys...

I don't know much about his political views; Wikipedia confirms that he does advocate nationalism and controlled immigration, but also supports legalising same-sex marriage, and opposed the annexation of Crimea and Russian interventions in Syria. He certainly comes across as less hawkish than Putin based on that.
> This artificially restricts supply as they take these houses off the market, they don't care if the house sits empty for years as long as they can sell it at their target price

Private owners would also sit it out if they can. Unless they can't. You think that's better? People having to sell at a big loss?
Apple collaborated with Motorola on an iTunes phone, which was very much ill-fated.

I remember seeing it before launch at a rooftop party in Chicago. The Motorola engineer said “it’s going to suck, Apple made us cripple it”.

Apple learned; I guess FB gave up.
Couldn't the T2 chip (or other Apple security chips) do similar things?
Perhaps I'm too used to the California market, where the carrying cost of a long-held property goes basically to zero, and most landlords are long time holders of property.

So those who have recently bought a property, even corporate buyers, are far far more likely to keep a property occupied than most landlords.
Classes can also be unloaded.

What JIT does definitely better is when coupled with PGO data that survives between execution sessions.
Unless your car is old enough to have mechanical spark plugs, it will be just a heavier paperweight.
On a semi-serious note, you use surplus renewable energy to pump water up to a higher elevation and then use that when you need it. The energy storage capacity of pumped hydro can be very impressive.

> The upper reservoir (Llyn Stwlan) and dam of the Ffestiniog Pumped Storage Scheme in North Wales. The lower power station has four water turbines which generate 360 MW of electricity within 60 seconds of the need arising.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/water/pumped-storage-hydropower

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...
You are completely missing the point.

Please don't fan this flame.
The original TSM engine is still used by InfluxDB v2 OSS.

The InfluxDB Cloud platform uses a variation of TSM that's tailored for a distributed SaaS rather than stand-alone nodes (this was originally intended to be used in InfluxDB v2 OSS as well, but alpha-testing showed that the old engine performed better there so it ultimately was reverted for the beta release).

So IOx is really the first major new storage engine in InfluxDB.
Nice speedup! I'd love to see a comparison between 3.8 and 3.11 of the same script, but using numpy
I am not an expert in Apple hardware / firmware, but I admire your trust that the US government could not exert the same influence on Apple as they did on Intel.

Intel probably had to disclose the existence of IME due to collaboration with mainboard vendors. Apple does not face this constraint, so it is a lot easier for them to keep such subsystems under wraps.

Of course I'm just speculating here, but a product typically mirrors its environment.
GPU-Accelerated Computing with Nanos Unikernels
It is still informative to see how slow native Python really is.
Huh? I've been using LUKS for FDE (with unencrypted /boot) way before 2015, and it's never been a problem. Debian has offered an option to set it up during installation, and it was 100% smooth sailing from there.

More recently, you can even set up GRUB to ask you for the passphrase, so even /boot is encrypted, you only need a tiny 2MB partition at the front to hold the bootloader.
Really the only thing the article is missing is a rent-a-quote “expert” talking about this shows more controls and surveillance are needed. Of course no where in the article do they even address whether the money was legally obtained or not.
They do. It can be expressed through many different means but the end result is the same: people want to exert control over each other, especially people they consider “their own”. Having a representative legislature with members on equal footing is a bulwark against this. Which is why in the absence of consensus the consensus is to do nothing at all.

> And the rules in your state affect me living in my state quite a bit.

So two things about this: you’re not exactly wrong, but as far as humanity goes: the Earth is a closed system which means as far as we go there’s no limit to this line of thought except those we impose upon ourselves. Recognizable borders are a compromise, even internal ones.

What I do might affect you, and things my State does might change conditions in your State in the abstract, but in the absence of a damages claim or a legitimate grievance, we are not automatically entitled to effect the lives of others as we see fit. Which is why we have representative legislatures and governments: these are chambers and actors which are vested with powers to negotiate amongst themselves on behalf of their constituents and diplomatically engage with other governments.
especially if I have to write a dumb presentation letter and write again every skill that I have in my resume
>but under what conditions?

Windy ones?

Seems as long as it could be a plug and play solution, it would be a great compliment to solar. Typically days with lower solar gain are more blowy.
Terminal velocity varies a LOT based on body position and individual mass to surface area ratio, so honestly hard to know.

A ‘standard’ human falls between 110-130 mph in a ‘flat’ belly to earth position (which actually requires non-trivial training to achieve reliably).

Someone tumbling in an uncontrolled fashion will have wildly varying and often higher speeds.

Someone ‘tracking’ can have highly reduced descent rates, even as low as 90mph (no wing suit required).

Someone falling with a drogue chute or partially deployed chute can fall slower, or faster, depending on what body position it ends up putting them in and how much drag it actually produces. If it wraps around their leg or arm for instance, it can put them in a feet down or head down position, which will have them falling a lot faster. Head or feet down can easily be 150+ mph without special gear.

Having done it, it’s quite noticeably faster, and you have to watch the altitude a lot more as your floor comes up much faster than your intuition expects.

Source: licensed skydiver (C for anyone who cares), with a decent number of relative formation work and free flying in my logbook.
The boundaries are getting fuzzier. Implement this in Python _with JAX_ with little if any extra effort, run it on GPU, and you get performance you’d alternatively get only by writing custom CUDA kernels in C++.
let me know if you find anything! Happy to edit the post with a correction.

For a little more information, this is using Bun 0.2.1, which uses JavaScriptCore (JSC), a part of WebKit which powers Safari. Since I'm running on an M1 Pro (Apple's ARM chip), there is probably somewhat of a benefit in using JSC.
Rust Evangelism Strikeforce assemble!
Voting with your feet has always been bullshit. We simply don’t have the critical mass to effect change.
Makes total sense to avoid wasteful duplication of effort between Native Image and Leyden!
Ha - no. Absolutely not. I don't know where this total myth came from that RISC-V is open source therefore implementations will be better.

RISC-V is just an ISA (Instruction Set) that anyone can use, but what people use it in, and how they use it, is not specified and does not have to be open source. Apple could take RISC-V, plop it in their iPhone, and release it tomorrow in a processor that only boots Apple-signed code and requires proprietary firmware without any issue whatsoever. Intel could literally release a Core i5 with a RISC-V instruction set and an Intel ME built-in, no problem.

Where the hope mainly comes from is small chip developers like SiFive, who make many of their drivers and such open-source. But that's only if you buy from vendors like them - if you implement your own RISC-V core, there's no requirement that the drivers or firmware be open-source for it, in any way. You might say that's a missed opportunity. I say RISC-V wouldn't have caught on otherwise.
> JS is 41x faster than Python

Except that Pythonistas often delegate such computations to libraries like numpy that achieve C-level speed. Python is supposed to be a glue language, JS is supposed to be a language that can run on browsers, so of course the two have different goals and performances.
Good thing there's nothing in like that in the Apple chips... or is there? :think:
Is there a current WASM implementation that can out perform HotSpot? Will WASM ever outperform it? I highly doubt it.
> GPL was never about doing charity.

Adopting GPL used to be a philosophical mindset consciously chosen (as opposed to freeware), and required some level of zealotry. Now, it's just a means to an end / pragmatics / a tool in the "growth hacking" toolbox because "everyone knows" having an open source project gives it an edge over closed-source equivalents on adoption.

IMO, it's not that open source developers have to earn a living (which they always have since the beginning), but that developers who want to earn a living in any way have started adopting open source by necessity. I'm no purist, regardless of motivation, the more open source projects there are, the better it is for everyone. For once the source is out: it is out.
Hey AMD, me too.
I'm interested in Rust or Unity Game Development.
I think the OP’s point is that Google has basically only generated 2 profitable revenue streams over their lifetime.

1. Google ads. The vast majority of their products are funnels into ads, but ads are the business. Android, for example, is simply a channel for the ad business. Alternatively, Google could have chosen to sell Android to manufacturers the way MS does Windows. That way it could have become an independently profitable business, but they deliberately chose to not develop it as a business but make it a channel for the ad business.

2. GSuite.
Apple on iPhones, Chips, Privacy, Working from Home (WSJ Tech Live 2022)
I completely agree that it is not possible to maintain the same velocity. I have always optimized to decrease velocity as little as possible as you scale the team. That you really want to avoid is doubling your team and your velocity dropping by 50% or more.

Ideally you double you team and velocity decreases by 10-15%.
The sheer number of people. 7% of all humans who have ever lived are alive today.
Usually when I'm reminded about IME (and whatever the equivalent is in AMD chips), it's in the context of some strong claims about it being "game over" for security and privacy against mass surveillance, engineered / funded by nation-state intelligence agencies, and rendering all other technical efforts moot. They make it sound plausible, and I think "why isn't this talked about or investigated more?" The section of the Wikipedia page that discusses the "backdoor" claim is frustratingly thin. I just don't know what to make of it. Hyperbole about a crappy thing, like the bloatware pre-installed on most new laptops and phones by the vendor? An open secret, with discussion about it suppressed?
It's a small, local government run by people who actually live in the area they are governing. It's objectively better than a large, non-local government that has no skin in the game and doesn't have to live with the consequences of their actions.
> Oracle does not currently intend to contribute the polyglot technologies supporting other languages such as Python, Ruby, R, and JavaScript.

Beware that this polyglot feature you've mentioned is not moving to OpenJDK.
Yeah, I do. Every system has tons of non-architectural cores for security, power management, and for other purposes. Apple advertises some of theirs as for example "secure enclave" and, on older Macs, the T1 and T2 security processor which runs the proprietary closed-source BridgeOS and has unfettered access to everything on the system.
Q:

>but why the hell would this tech be put inside consumer devices?

A:

>It just sits there as an exposed attack surface
In my experience they're right at least at the junior level. As a fresh grad I knew I was as shite as everyone else so I sent several thousand applications and then only put effort into the few that contacted me back. I think the more senior you get you are the one selecting and not the other way around, so it makes more sense to put the full effort in up front.
Twitter Banner Autoupdater using Tweepy Python Module and the Twitter API
You mean the very thing, the very same people are desperately and obsessively trying to keep them from being able to do?

You seem to be under the delusion that this is about anything other than the ability of a handful of well connected perverts to effectively silence opinions, information and people they don't like, off of the net. It's pretty humorous for you to argue the need for proof.

Also don't forget the the person being talked about has been obsessively stalking and harassing the site owner in question. And yes, that's an objective statement since even the media openly report on his activities against the site.
There is - it's called the "Secure Enclave." However, it is just another block on the processor and isn't this always-running ghost system underneath you. It cannot be shut down once started without a reboot - but it is completely up to you whether to start it in the first place. So, if you don't start the Secure Enclave and load its Apple-signed firmware, it will just sit there dark and unused.
md5sum using a bash script and find, then compare on live.
migrating an open socket to me sounds like it'd be more hassle than it's worth. It's possible to do, but unusual.

Can't you not involve the client and send it an explicit "reconnect to server XYZ" message, only move clients that really need to move?
No it isn't. You kayak in real life and share experiences. It doesn't always have to be video. There's a subreddit for practically everything.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Kayaking

I've been into keyboard layouts until I finally settled on my local maxima of comfort more so than speed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/KeyboardLayouts/
You're saying it a future tense, but browsers already have these capabilities. Apple just doesn't allow any browser engines that would embarrass Safari.

There isn't even a performance gap any more. A lot of CSS rendering is GPU-accelerated these days. There's WASM and WebGPU for heavy computation, and it works, e.g. web-based Figma has become a $20 billion threat to Adobe's native applications.

OTOH SwiftUI is still immature and a big step backwards in performance.
This is the big benefit of companies like System76 that disable this for you.
At this scale, there wouldn't be enough spares.

You'd have to wait for replacements to be made, and everywhere in the world is also waiting, but the factories will have to be reworked first so they don't rely on electricity either.

I'm sure there are civil engineers working on making sure none of this is necessary, but I kinda doubt the politicians are giving those engineers the resources needed to preemptively build and deploy solutions.
Are there incentives in place for the employee to turn in work early and ask "what's next?"

Most people won't lie about it when they turn it in on Friday, they'll just turn it in when it is due and not explain. Why turn it in early if there is no reward for doing so other than more work?

As I've said elsewhere, this is a management problem, not an employee problem. As a manager I made sure people knew that there was a path to promotion, to advance within the corporation. I checked and tracked their progress and their work, and worked myself to make an environment where contributions were noted and rewarded. If a company or manager doesn't do that, they won't have people outperforming the base expectations for long, and they don't deserve to.
While they are the largest desktop OS monopoly company, Google is currently the largest OS monopoly company, with 43% of the total market going to Android and 29% going to Windows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...
I kinda figured there was more of an idea there if you're suggesting fighting it in some specific way.
With unlimited data connections I presume offering WiFi really only works for tourists anyway.
November climbing in the New River Gorge.

November mountain biking in Asheville/Brevard NC.

November road biking in Brevard/Hendersonville NC.
> It's incredibly useful for companies and organizations

Is it? We don't use it for any of the 40k+ desktop or mobile devices we manage.
I tried to imply the meaningless of labels by using quotes around "progressives" in this phrase:

> The majority of people in the US who bother to care about human rights abuses and exploitation of vulnerable populations are "progressives".

What I am interested in is an effective approach, regardless if it's considered progressive, conservative, regressive, old-fashioned, etc. I am tired of watching the primary discourse over human rights in the US play out between uneducated "conservatives" who would establish a Christian fascist state in a week if left to their own devices and naive "progressives" who think that violent criminals just need "access to resources" in order to civilize themselves.

> Or, we could create the circumstances to enable atonement and redemption. A "time out", as you say, followed by a reintegration into society. The effects can be monitored for optimal outcomes, empirically.

Sure, good luck with reintegrating a slaver into society with those they enslaved or a violent rapist into society with those they raped. I am not opposed to an atonement/reintegration cycle, but it needs far more rigorous severity than I've seen any "progressive" ever argue for.
That's awesome, thank you. I may have to re-up my subscription!
It's just too old for people to be outraged about still.
The core CLR is written in C++ just like HotSpot.
As I read the comments here, and observe discussions about housing in the media and among friends / family, I can't help but to pick up that two opposing groups start to manifest:

1. homeowners, who have total confidence in the market, willfully ignoring the influence of federal reserve policy, and everything "just work out in the long term," and

2. aspiring homeowners, who are hoping for a fall in prices, regardless of how destructive the secondary effects might be.

Yet another fault line to fracture American culture.

Anyway...

Prices are going down. Both groups 1 and 2 will feel some kind of pain - both groups are connected and do not realize or ignore that fact. It's the debt we will all have to pay for pretending we were rich.

A lot of assumptions will be challenged - including the assumption that asset prices always go up in the log term.

I find all of this to be very sad and avoidable.
Hack The Box -> Fix The Box
Advanced Postgres monitoring with Coroot (Apache 2.0)
cfbolz implements an allocation removal pass similar to PyPy's.
There's an epic rant on youtube from one of the old Sun guys that gets linked occasionally. I can't remember all of it, but basically it goes that Larry Ellison/Oracle is just as simple as a lawnmower - if you stick your hand in it; it'll shred it without emotion because it's just an unthinking machine that cuts whatever you put into in the same way that Oracle is a machine to make money.

I've been at this long enough to have had my own experiences and they are indeed as bad as everyone has warned me, but it does feel like something you have to experience yourself (or at least through a trusted party like in my case) to totally believe.
Writing an email and attaching a resume is a small fraction of time it takes for job sites.
Qbix reason #55 why people need their OWN platforms
There are two ways to do this:

One is to buy an expensive, specialized test socket with pogo pins and a clamshell, from eg https://www.loranger.com/loranger_edc2/html/index.php or similar manufacturers. This is what you'd do if you wanted to do a burn-in test of some exotic amplifier or sensor, or to set up a small-scale assembly line and custom-program hundreds (not 1, not thousands) of these chips, and could write off a $100 standard socket or $10,000 custom socket as a cost of doing business.

The other way is to just use a hot-air gun to desolder the WSON from the motherboard, use some Chip Quik to temporarily solder it (or an identical chip you bought for $0.50 from Digikey) to a breakout board, program that, desolder it, then reattach it to the motherboard.

Of course, the third way is to have the manufacturer or the distributor do this for you.
There were a lot of technical failures here...

I wonder if OP was very unlucky, or if perhaps many of the rarely used bits of safety equipment perhaps aren't as well designed and robust as they ought to be...