skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently did a deep dive on gc issues at work, and compared eden the default collector and z.

Our app was collecting pretty heavily, and an average collection time of about 50ms. With Z, and Linux huge pages it was collecting sub millisecond. This was at the cost of a bit more cpu, as z uses more threads for collection.

Using gatling for performance testing, we saw a small increase in requests per second. But the benefit was a smoother response time, with less spikes to high p9X measures.

Using flight recorder with this is a great way to get details of how the gc is performing.

Addendum: As noted below zgc uses more memory, I only found it viable on 16GB heaps or above. With it really improving performance around 32GB.
I'm sure this is mostly due to the economy but I would be interested to find out how much of this is due to lack of funding after the CentOS Stream thing.
So many replies here that are essentially "I hate them too, but I use them because they work"--i.e., "I am a hypocrite because capitalism."
“However, layoffs are off limits in some areas.

“We will not reduce roles directly selling to customers or building our products,” Hicks wrote.”
I see LLM's as the new UX layer, mobile was it for a while after mouses/keyboards.

Since LLM's work mostly with text, I see how a downgrade in the interaction medium can become a downgrade in the information outputs.

The thing is, lets hope the current web doesn't totally disappears/obliterates.

HN will still be HN LLM's or not, shitty comments are shitty however they get produced.
That was when it blew up.
So many questions: Are these books copyright by Tom Lesley, ChatGPT, OpenAI, ...? Should he share the money with OpenAI, or with the internet? Do we need to update the definitions of plagiarism? So it goes.
Could add metadata to the customer when you create them as part of the create checkout flow
If the power was out in large swaths of urban areas, then a lot more people would suddenly be able to see the night sky. A similar thing happened in parts of the LA area after the '91 Northridge earthquake.
I read it as the students being familiar with a similar "trick" question and erroneously pattern matching on that.

Another similar riddle goes like:

"If it takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets?"

The correct answer there being "5 minutes", and the intuitive wrong answer being "100" as per your post.

That would make sense as to why the teacher also expected "3", since they should be familiar with the existence of their non-intuitive questions, even if they misremember the specific non-intuition.
See the problem here is you're projecting your feelings about popups (which I totally get, to be clear) onto my business. From a business perspective that's a bad thing to do.

What I've done (and what countless other website owners have done) is operate based on data. I've done a lot of A/B testing of my email capture popup - I've tested content, timing, and whether or not it's there at all. "How many of the 6% fill it out because they think they have to? How many just give you a garbage email address?" Sub 3%. That one's easy to validate, and I've done so.

You're calling it a "slimy sales gimmick" (which I think is somewhat harsher language than necessary), but the reality is most new users who hit my site come in from Facebook ads. I would wager that you and folks of your same mindset about the popup probably see advertising on social media as slimy as well. The people who come to my site clearly don't.

What a lot of HN fails to realize is that the overwhelming majority of the world is not like HN and does not share the beliefs of the typical HN user vis a vis digital advertising, sales tactics, websites, etc.
Well, it shifted it from “Block the Blue” to “I’m not actually paying for this shit” from the falsely-labelled “subscribers” (well, except the dead ones, who are pretty quiet about it), with a possible side order of legal action for the Lanham Act violations (and if the Disney Junior UK mistake of gifting false “verified organization” status to a parody account of a real brand isn’t an isolated incident, possibly some additional legal fun…)

Actually, the first part isn’t even true; lots of the “Block the Blue” types given Blue are still doing Block the Blue (and leveraging the “changing your display name when you have Blue suspends your checkmark” policy, too.) But they’ve added “I’m not actually paying for this shit” on top of “block the blue”.
Fast in what sense? Dev speed, performance, or something else?
The excellent backwards compatibility rocks too. This weekend I wanted a library to diagram the class hierarchy of a Java project I put together.

I found a 10 year old library that worked with no issues, I was done in minutes even though I rarely use Java or Clojure so my familiarity is low. There are very few languages where I would have a similar experience.

https://github.com/stuartsierra/class-diagram
> The layoffs come after IBM reported last week that Red Hat quarterly revenues had increased 8%. However, that was far below recent performances. “Red Hat had been averaging at least a 15% revenue growth, every quarter since IBM purchased it in 2019,”

Looks like the enshittification of Red Hat is hitting its stride.
To ban end-to-end encryption you effectively need to ban math. Even if all messaging apps will remove built-in encryption function you can still use e2ee in your keyboard app or something that would seamlessly decrypt incoming messages and encrypt outgoing messages on the fly.
How to Use a Fountain Pen When You’re Used to Ballpoint Pens [video]
What if that part would be in software - interpret the movement of the tongue as if it was rolling a ball vs sliding across a surface. The device could have a spherical-shaped sensor pad instead of a flat one.
It's true for me. But, that was the age I was and that was the age of wonder. It was glorious, and I still remember it. Should you be younger, I'm sure it was the 90's or the aughts. Depends on where one stands.
I consider 100k USD for a few months of work sending out emails just to coordinate a three day conference to be “bank”.
I've been using valinet/ExplorerPatcher on Win11 for a bit just to bring back all the old Win10 taskbar stuff. I know we should even need this, but I hope this is helpful.

https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher
2. Firefox user, right? It should be fixed now. Thank you for reporting this issue.

1. You reminded me of another nice example of wrong shortcuts. Average speed of car from city A to city B is 120km/h. Average speed back (B -> A) was 80km/h. What was the average speed of the car on the whole path (A -> B -> A)? It's not 100km/h.
Yeah, of course. But there's a difference in things like, "I don't want Tailwind, I want Bootstrap" or React vs Vue; instead of things like I don't like Ruby or I don't like convention over configuration. The former set of things ARE decisions you can make within the framework, while the latter are things you can't. You can have this exact same conversation about most frameworks, it doesn't have to be just about Rails. I also had a Symphony repo set up in a similar way when doing consulting many years ago.

Having said that, some of Rails opinions are becoming more optional lately.
> Rails is arguably “technology batteries included”, whereas this is more like “product batteries included”.

This seems like a great way to put it! At the lower level of abstraction, there's all of the technical stuff, but at the higher level of abstraction, you think more about the product and the business domain concepts.
'There is no law forbidding the monarch from not granting Royal Assent'. True but I await the day that happens! The Brits don't go in for revolution but there'd be all hell to pay if this occurred. It would likely mark the beginning of the end for the House of Windsor. Anti-monarchists should hope such a thing comes to pass.
I don't know that many "real scientists" that agree with you. This has nothing to do with making "excuses" for the lockdown; you're shoehorning your politics into any COVID adjacent discussion.

Your tone is absurdly condescending, for someone that's provided a ton of text, and little substance. I'm not interested in debating you. Someone just pointing out that the lockdown was good for them personally is not justifying the whole thing.
Try searching the play store for "Life Perspective Wallpaper"
All-day thermoelectric generator using solar heating and radiative cooling
How are you coming across this content? I'm in India and when I see Indian content recommended it's generally one of:
a. Movie clips and songs
b. Religious stuff like prayer songs
c. Local channels that mostly do comedy (kinda like CollegeHumor used to)
d. Nerdy channels like solving math puzzles or doing Geoguessr

I can't really visualize what you're describing, though a sibling reply says there's "literally thousands of such videos with millions of views each" so there must be a lot of these out there. Do you get these recommended to you, or how are you searching them up?
I haven't used Bullet Train, but I've found their "Teams should be an MVP feature" blog post [1] a really great overview of how to model team structures in relational databases before. Worth a read!

[1]: https://blog.bullettrain.co/teams-should-be-an-mvp-feature/
FWIW, my reaction to the side-of-a-bus adverts for Saw franchise films in the UK was visceral disgust that there exist enough people who would buy tickets on the basis of those adverts to justify the existence of the adverts, let alone the films themselves — if I thought banning them would actually make any difference, I would call for exactly that!

I don't know of human psychology really works like the toy model in my head (probably not, typical mind fallacy), but that's a separate thing to my own affect.
Should have read JPEG XL.
My experience: Skip most of the talks (maybe only 1-2 per day). Spend time drinking coffee and bumping into random strangers. Then spend more time with people you found nice/interesting.
I might also point people at ConcurrencyKit.
> It allows the possibility of an entire category of evil maid attacks that were never possible before.

No, if an adversary has physical access to your phone and can unlock it, you've already lost.

> It allows vendors to attempt to force users who don’t want to use 3rd party app stores, to use 3rd party app stores.

The refrain from defenders of this policy up until has been "just use a different device". Thus, I'm giddy that I get to turn this around: "just use a different app".

Think about what website you're on, and realize that you're fighting a lost battle.
It should be "If you outlaw End-to-End Encryption, only outlaws will have End-to-End Encryption."
What's the difference? Aren't bit flips also just spurious electrons being produced by the cosmic rays' ionization trail?
Graal Python is compatible with python 3.x https://www.graalvm.org/python/
Yes, only a few lockless algorithms require only a single atomic operation. And as soon as you need to do cmpxchg in a loop and there is contention, you can burn a lot of cycles while cache lines bounce between cores, potentially an unbounded number of cycles if it is not a wait-free algorithm. While a mutex would have to pay the price of a futex call in the contended case, it is at least bounded.
The butler that led the industrial revolution and hosted the 2 most important scientists of all time (Newton and Darwin).
I think my parents realized when they were adults (late 20s, early 30s) is that games had staying power and were potentially evergreen entertainment. They could see it was more than a fad, especially when N years later their kids are playing with the same things (plus Lego) all the time, and weren’t asking for the new whatever toy.

Games get old, but the good ones hold up. Some of my favorite games from 35+ years ago still hold up extraordinarily well. It’s rare that you’ll watch a single movie hundreds of times, but there’s games where you easily can. Certainly not all, but a good chunk of them.

My folks put them down because of real life and because their son could demolish them in anything competitive (heck, I did speedrunning for a bit at some of the highest levels), but when you give them some top quality games and they have the time, they remembered the value pretty quick. As they’re moving into a very fixed income, they see the value for money they get from them.

Granted, they lucked out that one of their kids keeps a pulse on what’s good for all audiences. I don’t think my mom would’ve stumbled onto Baba Is You if I didn’t gift it to her. Dad would’ve never found his ideal digital train set (I now have my father’s trains) in OpenTTD if I didn’t point him in that direction.
a better analogy might be a dude on a soapbox on a street corner demanding you give him your phone number because you heard his yelling:

if your yelling is worth a subscribe, people will find a way

focus on making the content that way, rather than feeling entitled to the personal info of everyone who heard your yelling
Welcome to life under IBM. They’re in the business of a financially engineered shrinkage. This is what happens when innovation and growth stops.

What you see from IBM:

- Cut expensive (old) employees.

- Market everything as the New thing. (Watson)

- Audit your customers. Settle by forcing them to buy the New thing even if they don’t need it.

- Current and former execs go on book tours.

- Buy back shares.

This is all rational when you can’t put capital to good use anymore. It just sucks to be a customer or employee of them.
Depends on the friction imposed by the way 30% cut is implemented.
found in Laos by Shi Zhengli by any chance? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-chinas-bat-wo...
Your comment made me think of the images of Jupiter like this one:

https://i0.wp.com/planetaria.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/J...
Metronome did this for embedded hard realtime use cases. I don't know much about it. ZGC has bounded pause latency at least but it's not really meant for very small machines. Android has used a pauseless GC for a while.
I can't read it because it's paywalled, but can you tell me the difference between this article and all the other articles we've been spammed with about how WFH is somehow bad?

>Commercial real estate could have a vested interest, and there could be real downsides with many companies' implementation of work from home.

You're also moving the goalposts I think. I just bet that both the article and the study were funded by said interests. Studies don't fund themselves and people who do funded studies have incentive to find the results that they are paid to find, or at the very least, omit any evidence to the contrary.
Meh. It was fun in a different way, but man, trying to get even basic things working was a pain. The tooling sucked, documentation was terrible, community was whatever happened to be physically nearby (or a local BBS if you had a modem), compiling took hours (10 hours to compile a BSD kernel on a 68030), you needed specialized, expensive equipment for so many things, compatibility sucked, storage was expensive, UX wasn't a thing so user interfaces were crappy or sometimes downright unusable, "If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand" neckbeards...

It wasn't until the mid-90s that things started to suck less. But a lot of people remember the hacker days of the 70s and 80s with rose tinted glasses (probably with a little help from that Halt and Catch Fire TV show).

Different, not better. The stuff you can do today is astounding, and for cheap. Languages are plentiful and powerful. Help is almost guaranteed on anything. Open source everywhere. Open protocols everywhere. Open collaboration everywhere. AI does your grunt work. Run-anywhere is a real thing. If anything, I'd be tempted to call NOW the golden age...
Sure, that's fine. I don't see those, I see popups that cover up the article I was trying to read, and I'm pretty sure this is quite intentional, someone designing it believes that will maximize "conversions". (I have no idea if they are correct about that or not, they may well be).
That's a great place to look for story-telling, I just don't think it's been shown yet (I would love to be wrong about that). If you could decode in their language something about characters taking actions, time and place, past and future, that would be pretty incredible.
The post goes into this in some detail. In human languages, the embeddings for specific concepts seem to follow very similar geometric relationships no matter what language. If that holds across species, then you could use geometric similarity to map animal embeddings to human concepts.

Also, since chatbots just output "meaningful" strings of tokens based on a string of input tokens, you can build a chatbot that can "talk" to animals without us necessarily being able to understand it. But sure how useful that would be, but interesting nonetheless.
Depend on what you consider to be computing and what are golden days. Computers were not so widely available. In my country only Universities and big companies had them. Magnetic tapes and punch cards were used for data entry. In the 70s there were no personal computers. In 80's Spectrum, Commodore, Amstrad, Amiga, Atari and some other local computer brands entered the schools and homes. Companies were mostly using "dumb terminals".

If you where in computers then and if you worked on them you were possible on the forefront. Internet was still a new thing. Before it we had BBSs as places where we would gather.

Most of the knowledge was in books and magazines. They were hard to obtain.
> > assuming I'm an idiot with no experience

> That's what you're trying hard to look like, unfortunately; if you're not, then stop.

I encourage you to take a deep breath and consider how you would like to treat people before you make future comments on the internet. Perhaps it's unwarranted optimism on my part, but I would guess you want to behave better than this.

I've responded in other comments to everything else you said in this post. You're not saying anything which hasn't been said more kindly by other people in this thread.
Feeder – Android FOSS RSS Reader
We went from new page popups to these modal popups. Web has come a long way in 20 years.
Walmart-backed PhonePe to launch Android app store in India
This reminded me of "Two Minute Papers" YouTube channel where in most of the videos he always, "Two papers down the line and...". I think ML/AI is the main topic of his videos. Interesting stuff.
Eternal September 2.0?
I doubt it's shillposting, their search is genuinely very good. Better than Google at the very least - which is admittedly a low bar these days, but not every alternative manages that, e.g. Neeva (in my opinion, anyway).

That said, I stopped using it after they increased prices. I'll reconsider it when they figure out how to decrease them and add privacy-friendly payment methods.

I think Kagi is good, but not $25/mo good. People with SV salaries will disagree, though.
Results for "Regenerate Response" are also very funny, example:

https://mavensoft.in/drop-vase-zf1muq

And they are even funnier in LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/content/?keywords=re...
Are there, or have there been, devices where one might have seen Inferno running 'in the wild' e.g. digital signs, PoS terminals etc.?
> So here we've got someone who considers Romanian and Dutch dialects

No, but Dutch, English and French are pretty close (hence the reference to Max Weinreich: "A language is a dialect with an army and navy").

> I doubt you know anyone who knows five languages in your definition (...) Such people are rare.

They certainly are! I didn't mean to say i know a lot of people that fit the definition - only that I have heard such people mention that it gets easier after the fifth.

I only know Norwegian/Swedish/Danish (close enough to count as one, one and a half), English, Japanese and some French (and marginal German, Spanish, Italian etc due to limited exposure and the intersection of Norwegian/English/French).

I would have to add something a little different, like Sami, Maori, Russian or possibly Farsi, Arabic to fit in the five languages boat.
This was an inevitable outcome of ChatGPT/LLMS, no? I expect to see a lot more of this by a lot of different people. I feel like a ton of the examples I’ve seen to date are effectively regurgitating Stack Overflow (sometimes verbatim!) and in a kind of abstract way, I feel like this is exactly the same as someone opportunistically publishing a bunch of auto-generated books… publishing a model trained on a bunch of web sites is effectively re-publishing these web sites with a different interface.
There's a correlation but I wouldn't say coordination

Cultural drives are somewhat globalized, big news stories which might lead to some desire for government action are unlikely to remain purely local, and they're even more unlikely to be isolated events

The whole world uses the same apps to visit the same websites and see mostly the same news stories, tv shows, movies, books, songs etc

This kind of big legislation doesn't sprout from nothing it takes time to gather momentum and in the world right now it's not crazy to think that multiple people are thinking about the same thing at various stages at the same time

And when one of these laws gets proposed or passed somewhere it helps provide momentum elsewhere so you get a slow boil and then everywhere "at once"
I mean, NFTs are about as primitive as Bitcoin and Ethereum... I don't think NFTs will be relevant in the way people think or want during the next crypto rush.
As someone who runs a news letter take my opinion with a grain of salt. The reality is that the marketing tricks work. The stupid thumbnails, the pop up windows, and the call to actions. They have been demonstrated over and over again to increase growth.

It sucks that it's the case, but the internet is not the same internet of 15-20 years ago. We are in the attention economy now, and since most users expect things to be free, we have to worry about things like tops of funnels, SEO, evergreen content, and virality. The things that people have to say and do to stand above the crowd are ridiculous. And it's not just newsletters, look at the guy who made the AI Drake/Weeknd song, look at Andy Kelly's post^1 Why I'm donating $150/month (10% of my income) to the musl libc project, look at all the current advice for how to become a new published author. How you market plays a huge role in your success, and merit alone won't cut it unless your program or content is just that good.

I write my newsletter because I'm excited to contribute to a space that has provided so much for me, both financially and intellectually. I'm eternally grateful for the opportunities tech has given me and every post I make is sharing that gratitude. But I also want my posts to be heard by more than just myself, so I've got to market it, even if I'm getting no financial gain from the newsletter. The tools and techniques people will choose to employ to get seen and heard vary, and each content creator must decided where they draw the line. Maybe it's my ego that demands I have more than a dozen eyeballs viewing my posts every week, or a corruption in my soul from decades of internet consumption. But I genuinely believe in the content I post, and I want to find the largest community of people who will enjoy it too.

1. https://andrewkelley.me/post/why-donating-to-musl-libc-proje...
Yeah, this is odd. Getting added to someone's RSS feed sounds like a marketing wet dream.
Quantum physics falls apart without imaginary numbers
It's a completely valid memory management strategy for "one-shot" command line tools though.
Or they could license strong cryptography to organizations that need it like banks & fintech. The 'banning' part means the ordinary citizenry can't use it except for online banking.