skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shared libs on the 386 stole a register more, because IP-relative addressing wasn't a thing until AMD64 (except for jmp/call). Shared libs need to refer to their own data + they may need to form pointers to code within them.

(Shared libraries need to have a pointer to their code and data. This is done by creating a small table of entry code in front of the "real" code that sets a register to point to the library code/data memory before jumping to the real code. This code will look different for each process that has loaded the shared library so it gets its own little memory block. The rest of the code/data will be the same in all processes so it can be shared between them -- unless/until some of the data is written to, of course.)

So code in shared libs really only had 5 registers unless the frame pointer was fomitted. That's why it was necessary to tell the compiler whether to build normal code or shared library code.

The AMD64 not only had more registers, it also has an RIP-relative addressing mode so it doesn't need to steal that register for shared libraries.
Yeah, looks like people created it themselves. I couldn't find something official either.
> All of human history? Seems excessively generous tbh.

Don’t interrupt that sober-minded Patriotism, now.
I have an experiment for you, pour e.g. a 0.5L Erdinger Weißen upside down and observe the resulting mess, then do the same with the 0.5% version of the same beer.

There's much less foam in low alcohol beers, so it's not just the alcohol content (unless that affect it directly in some way I don't know about).
At least in NL, the final version becomes irrevocable when it is send to the customer (or supplier). Corrections are done with a new number (or more than one) Sometimes you need more than one sequence.
There are species which lie dormant for near prime years and then burst forth. Do you think from one visit by boat from Europe an explorer could know there are a million cicadas on the east coast?

And, at the species level I'd argue boom-bust is a fine survival pattern, witness plagues of mice and locusts.

Sigmoid or exponent to bust, doesn't have to mean life ends.

Rome as a state existed for multiple tens of generations across plague and famine. 4 per century is normal, a thousand years is 40. Would anyone alive today be able to cast back 40 generations and say "life is hard" at scale?

A thousand years ago we barely had discrete components let alone VLSI. Those monks were bespoke all day long. Machines had few moving parts. Radios weren't invented until the reformation, Linux came along in the age of enlightenment, and nuclear was invented by Victorian times? Wait.. wrong timeline.
That's very thoughtful!

> I wonder if you've ever actually felt hatred. Not of some general concept (that is more likely disgust than hatred anyway, and as far as I've seen is usually rooted in insecurity about whether the person earned their relative status and fear that on a level playing field they will lose), but of an actual specific other person.

> It was sparked in how someone was behaving towards me and the consequences his actions had, but my reaction was not some rational response: it was an intense vicious loathing that could have rationalized any response I chose to indulge.

> And when I looked into it, really sat and was honest with myself, it was because he was doing things I wouldn't let myself do. [...] Now, I wouldn't let myself do them for very good reasons, because they were bad things with bad consequences that hurt people, but there was a part of me that wanted to do them anyway.

This hits weirdly close to home, but you lose me at the end (I have to watch what I say since the individual has taken up cyberstalking). It's possible "disgust" is applicable, but I deal with disgusting people all day-- this one in particular evokes something more unpleasant. I have no interest in playing their games, and yet they're still at it years later. I'm not sure how to internalize that the way you have.
From a German perspective there was the “branntweinpest” in the 19th century in Prussia triggered by cheap and available liquor (Branntwein). This indicates to me that before the availability of cheap liquor alcohol consumption was more limited. Anecdotally I live in a wine growing region but the older generations would drink wine diluted with water, the local wine was a already produced in a way that it wasn’t entirely dry, I.e. more sugar less alcohol in the wine that then was diluted.

So I find it reasonable to believe that people used to be for most centuries consuming alcohol but moderately affected. As in, they would not have appeared heavily intoxicated. Of course it would have affected their health and increased risk to become an alcohol addict, but then, it seems alcohol was actually not so cheap until cheap liquor from grains and potatoes became available.

Beer used to be a seasonal drink due to lack of cooling, or without engineered yeasts it’s alcohol content low.
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- Society is now expected to be your babysitter. If your actions have negative consequences, they should have been forbidden and prevented.
> That a new hire has to be better than 50% of the interviewers

Not sure if a typo, but if this is what you actually meant, this is a _gross_ misunderstanding of the situation. The benchmark is that a new hire should _have capability to_ outperform 50% of folks in the current role, not a) _currently_ be able to outperform b) 50% of _interviewers_ (who are potentially of higher level than the interviewee).

Anecdataly, I am ~6 months into my first post-Amazon role (after 10 years there) and have only met a single peer who would have been passable in my previous team.
This is 100% true in basically any case of bigger than startup orgs - you don't desperately need that superstar 10x or 100x coder if he is pain to work with, creates code full of abstractions that are then hard to maintain for rest of the team or even worse, like potential security problem (looking into OP for 2 mins I already know he is rather hardcore christian, maybe a bit gun nut, antivaxxer/anti-mask, has long history of anxiety and other health issues). All sums up into 'probably difficult to work with'.

This would be a problem for me when hiring too (to be frank - hard pass due to above, and no amount of git code beauty would change that).

Collaboration, communication, team work are much more important long term in bigger teams. Willingness to help team/project even though sometimes bureaucracy might be Kafka-esque. Yes we are all cogs in big machine, so what? It takes 2 seconds to realize that for each of us. We still do the work, its work for christ sake, we pay the bills, vacations and go back to our families just like everybody else.
Volunteers complete projects left unfinished by Alzheimer's or death
IMO the whole approach to security in ordinary operating systems is practically flawed, if you actually need a strong security guarantee.
I love how the introduction explains "historians are debating about this forever" but Im going to tell you the truth.
I disagree it was a personal attack. I just said anonymous posters who claim they are <X> don't have credibility, in contrast with people who put their names and credentials up there. I haven't called the poster names or insulted them.

It's very easy to shape public opinion, dang; we shouldn't let anonymous posters set the tone of discussion or flung FUD around on the most important issue of our lives.

When I go to the doctor, I know I can trust them because I see a diploma on the wall, they have a name, I can ask other doctors about them. Would you, dang, let someone you just met on the street operate on you? Or diagnose you? Just because they said they were a doctor?
> It's not about virtue signaling. It's about bulk materials handling.

people have been taught that recycling is virtuous, and that's how they have engaged with it, and they were being genuine.

> That doesn't mean that recycling has "backfired"

people have devoted non-mythical man-months into processing, handling and even washing their trash, which trash has ended up in the same landfills they were going to before. Think how much free time the average person has in a day, this has been a tremendous waste of human potential. Using that much mindshare, children teaching time, and effort on nothing, only to cap it off with a rug-pull at the end, will turn out to be a backfire.
I agree, rational optimism is the way
The centralized organization you're describing is called a "functional organization" and is how Apple works, which is not typically described as slow.
Just read this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36854114

A few choice comments:

"I recommend finding everyone responsible for this and exercising your right to free speech on them. It works for politicians, and it should work on this other flavour of bastard too."

"I believe both of these users are acting in very-bad-faith, and not correctly observing any ethical codes of conduct in Engineering."

"As far as I am concerned the reputation of this Ben Wiser guy is so far down the toilet that there’s practically nothing he can do or say to recover it. Like the old joke goes “you screw a goat once…”"

"The people involved in this concept/idea/proposal should be shamed into retirement. They should never work in the tech sector again. They should be afraid to use their names before first knowing their audience (an agricultural audience would likely be OK)."

"sometimes I don't think constructive replies are appropriate or possible. "

"Magnitude of the malfeasance is so great they deserve to be held to account for it"

And lots more.

I'm pretty sure beyond the personalization of the issue, 90% of the difference here can be explained by ad blockers. There's no deep technical or philosophical principle at work in most of those comments but what's clearly shining through is that tech people block ads a lot, feel they have a right to do so and will get furious at any attempt to stop them. Apple doesn't care about click fraud, ad blocking or spam on the web because those are other people's problems so they limit their remote attestation to the CAPTCHA reduction use case. This use case has the advantage that it improves the browsing experience for Apple users only. HN posters dislike CAPTCHAs as much as the next guy, so nobody cares. But Google want there to be lots of web content that's free to access so also concerns itself with the publisher side of the web, not just the consumer side. They list more use cases and ask for feedback, there are more consumers than creators, so surprise surprise, they get a lot of hate.
I've yet to see any recycling guidelines with anywhere near the amount of required precision. They cover a few obvious things (food scraps, junk mail) and miss 99% of the stuff I actually have to throw out.

At university there was an introductory talk about recycling, where they threatened that a single wrongly discarded piece of trash (uncleaned bottles or food containers IIRC) would prevent the whole batch from being recycled. The obvious conclusion being that if there's even a small amount of doubt about whether something can be recycled, it'd be better not to put it in the recycling bin (and risk the rest of the properly recyclable trash).

I reached out for clarification on various policies - what about bonded plastic + paper, how clean, mixed plastics in bottle assemblies, unlabeled products, etc and they weren't able to answer.

So I'm not at all surprised consumers aren't effectual.

That said, while I want to believe machines are doing a much better, do you have any sources on the recycling statistics? San Jose claims to be an outlier at 74% recycling (diversion rate?) https://www.epa.gov/transforming-waste-tool/zero-waste-case-... - nationwide municipal solid waste looks like only about 1/3 recycled https://www.epa.gov/facts-and-figures-about-materials-waste-... . If these machines haven't been rolled out, are they very new, or are there some barriers to using them?
Petrochemical resources, I believe, will turn out to be some of the least important ones, all told.

Solar and fusion will, in the long run, be vastly more important. Talking about the how and the what of oil in terms of human advancement is sort of talking about printing ink production in 2023.
Not really, cuprates have been the standard for high Tc superconductors since 1986 and nobody could replace them with easier to work with materials.
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> Meanwhile FSD Beta is driving around cities

Beta.

We know a few things about Musk: it needs hype, smoke-and-mirrors overpromising. Get back to us when it's out of beta.`

Tested and approved >> beta hype.
It could be the other way around: they downloaded your resume after reading your blog post.
Next-generation Googles run a tighter ship
After 50 years, they will disintegrate and leach god knows what into the soi, of course.
Landfill is demonized.

And yet for plastic waste it’s the best destination.

Our society is obsessed with “keeping plastic out of landfill”. Why? Are we running out of landfill? No.

We’re so obsessed with keeping plastic out of landfill that we come up with ideas like putting waste plastic into roads. Sounds great doesn’t it?

Until you realize cars and trucks drive in those roads, grind them down. Grind out the plastic into microplastic as that go into air water soil food animals people.

But hey, the important thing is the plastic was kept out of landfill, right?
On systems without systemd, it (obviously) isn't.
I agree. I’m not sure what people’s preoccupation with increased population growth is. And how more people is inherently a good thing.

Sure, the Earth has resources that if distributed more efficiently, could support more people (some say by a magnitude). But are governments and companies incentivized to extract and distribute things more efficiently? Will they ever be? What is the cost to other species and the biodiversity of the planet? We’re already in the midst of a mass extinction event, and it’s sobering to realize that future children will only think of some animal species barely hanging on today as “dodos”.
These are the same people (I believe) who discusses post on Reddit or Twitter. I'd rather think that it is because UX, algorithms or other thing which is not related to whether locals are into or not into discussions.
that's the max temp beyond which it loses superconductivity, not a requirement. The paper has a graph of max current vs temp, and it gets vastly better at actual room temp of ~300k
Cost as well; water is dirt cheap (for now anyway, there's potable water shortages in plenty of places and that will become a worldwide issue soon enough), anything alcoholic has become more and more expensive for various reasons, including but not limited to taxes + extra "discouragement" taxes, at least where I live. Drinking is an expensive hobby, to the point where weed is cheaper and has less side effects if the purpose is to alter your state of mind a bit.
Here's a detailed analysis with reference to primary sources:

https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2017/01/salt-and-salary.h...

tl;dr: There is a genuine linguistic connection between "salt" and "salary", but there is no evidence soldiers were ever paid in salt, or given an allowance specifically for buying salt. Possibly "salary" meant "money for salt" with "salt" used metonymically to mean any trade goods, similar to how "fish" was used in Ancient Greek, but even this is pure speculation.
I think this has been happening for a while.

I got hit with a random suspension 4-6 months ago. Nothing important there, it was a personal test site and it was a free account. I think there was an option to appeal. Tried that but did not hear back from them. So I just dropped it.

They might have become more aggressive now for what ever reason.

One reason I am trying to shift back to bare metal servers. I had problems with almost all cloud providers(mostly sudden bills with crazy amounts. Plus a lot of them being a nightmare to move off of.). Bare metal is cheaper to run once you get it operational. But takes longer to setup and manage till you get it automated.
The alternate social pathology is maintaining some kind of illusion of ability to resist a fascist government with weapons a previous more liberal government allowed you to have.

If the government recedes to a level of totalitarianism wherein you must use your guns to protect your way of life, there's been absolute failures on uncountable levels, and guns won't fix anything. If you threaten to use your gun to destabilize the authoritarian government, they have five hundred ways to kill you easily from a distance. "But guerrilla warfare!" If you're stockpiling guns so as to be one day be a guerrilla, why not instead just take action now to prevent your government becoming that way, by voting for more progressive leaders, participating in protests, and engaging in civil disobedience and disruption?

I don't disagree with the general idea of restricting the ability of government to control personal freedoms to a certain degree, but it doesn't make any sense to me why we like to use the government to regulate what companies are allowed to put in the food they sell us, but not regulate what kind of guns our neighbors can own.
https://archive.is/iqd8Z
I don't understand your point.

What's the minimum materials needed to build a bridge? (Depends on technology: Design, Materials, etc).

Agricultural footprint is exactly the same – I mean we could build an underground farm from hydroponics if we wanted.

But what does that have to do with Social Sciences? And why contempt? are you saying there is no phenomena in social interaction/groups? Where do you draw that line? Is understanding Ants and Bees contemptible? Just humans? Why?
Often it's the case that the less a customer is paying, the more indignant they feel they can be with support. I don't know why this is. You get more reasonable customers with higher pricing. I imagine a free tier attracts all sorts of riff raff.
I host my own website. I can see from the logs that recruiters etc don't click on it, bar a rare exception.
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FYI I've made a patchset that pretty much allows me to actually use the EAS --local builds offline and without an EAS account, so it's in fact possible, even though they, for obvious reasons (e.g. https://github.com/expo/eas-cli/issues/1606), don't encourage it.
> Thanks for the link. This is certainly a different bill, and not the one that has been recently passed. As such, it indeed looks quite ridiculous and reaching too far and basically makes Supreme Court completely powerless - because the government controls 61 votes by default, otherwise it falls

Even supposing that law passes, how would it make Israel any different from the UK or New Zealand, in both of which almost any decision of the Supreme Court can be overturned with mere ordinary legislation. [0]

I don’t understand this heated rhetoric claiming it is the “death of Israeli democracy”-to be consistent, people who claim that would also have to say that the UK and New Zealand are not democracies

[0] New Zealand requires a referendum for certain changes to election law, so there are limits to the ability of Parliament to overturn court decisions in that specific area
Guns do enough killing to be compared to car crashes:
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-...

Car crashes:
https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/early-estimate-2021-tra...

UK for comparison:
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...

To be fair though, the root cause is probably a mental health crisis, especially seeing that suicides outnumber the homicides. But it goes without question that projectile weapons make it tremendously easier for mentally ill or desperate people to kill themselves or other people.
While he does feel that he "live[s] in a place where people generally share the same values" some of those values are probably a bit public for a "boring mainstream" company.

I'd suggest separate technical/non-technical blogs and only referring people to the first. I'm mostly thinking of all the blog posts that explicitly point to the disclaimer..

You don't have to hide the personal blog but this is probably a bit much for sites you point employers at.
I started doing talks this year to get better at speaking. Posted photos on LinkedIn and got an offer from an old acquaintance who saw it, for something related. Other than that, makes the day job mor fun and I became the 'expert' on the topic at eork
Not really? I just got those cards in separate PCI slots and the Exllama_hf handles spreading the load internally. No NVLink bridge in particular. I use the "20,22" memory split so that the display card has some room for the framebuffer to handle display
When only using the MacBook, I make use of ctrl-uparrow to switch between browser and VSCode. I have tree style tabs in the Firefox sidebar, not a separate window.
The In-Credible Robot Priest and the Limits of Robot Workers
I wrote about Plausible Analytics (popular GA alternative) a little while ago <https://medium.com/scoutflo/the-google-analytics-alternative...>

It's open source!
I would only ask if its directly relevant. If you have a fork of a few repos and a crud app, I don't really care. If you have something you want to draw attention to, do it in your resume with a link to the github profile.
Of course Greenpeace suggests making air travel more expensive, not train travel cheaper :)
Most discussions of economic limits in the future don't account for thermodynamics or the planetary energy budget and this article is more of the same.

On the sociology side, this article doesn't even question the assumption of "our belief in abundance", a thing that I doubt you'll find much of in places like Izmir, Dhaka and Guayaquil.
GMail does not support threads?!
There's an exceedingly simple way of doing this that's pretty much bullet proof: Just check the given text against the database of stored generations (which they no doubt keep) and you'll have a pretty much perfect result.
Logistically, searching untold terabytes of text might be challenging but to say there's fundamental difficulties is just not accurate imo.
In the 70s as a teen in KY a neighbor family had a Manhattan dispenser in the kitchen. Like those juice machines at fast food restaurants. Had to hold a couple of gallons, at least, of brown liquid. No matter the time of day, they always had a glass nearby.
A Tour through the Visualization Zoo (2010)
The other half are personal, but I live in a place where people generally share the same values, so those other posts shouldn't be a problem.

I read a couple of the posts; I can't comment on the demographics or beliefs of the people recruiting in the location you are looking, but I suspect they are not as uniform as you imply - and even those who share them may not share also your penchant for mixing the professional with cultural evangelism - especially if they have responsibility for team cohesion and company reputation.
There's also a TL;DR getting started guide at https://www.jvt.me/posts/2023/07/25/dmd-getting-started/