skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah it's fairly straightforward. You can boot your OS such that it won't schedule work on a set of cores unless you explicitly tell it to, which ensures isolation. You just have to pass the core numbers in. Otherwise it's possible to do it all in userland but it's not as reliable since a new process could spawn and you'd have to handle its affinity - it's way easier to just do the process core boot flags.

> Are there performance gotchas (outside of losing all core access)?

Depends on the workload and how the program is built. If you need to run tons of different processes concurrently (the 'user desktop' use case) it is not great. If your concurrency model requires creating hundreds of threads (Java, for most of the time it existed) it may not work well, especially if the threads don't have an even distribution of work (so you may see increased tail latencies). And, of course, if you have 8 cores but you isolate a workload to 6, you've just lost 2 cores that could have been used.

> Perhaps performance could even see minor improvement?

Considerable improvement, potentially. Less CPU synchronization means fewer L3 flushes, you'll get fewer context switches since your scheduler won't need to try to schedule other threads onto your core, fewer TLB flushes (relevant for kPTI/Meltdown mitigations), etc. If you lean into this approach you can get best in class throughput.
EU investigation into possible anticompetitive practices with Microsoft Teams
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> even ancient systems are still allowed to log into icloud, and those ancient systems didn't do any cryptography so all you need is a valid serial number that nobody else is using

The ancient random serial numbers are also in a standard format.

> Apple devices manufactured after 2010 generally have 12-character alphanumeric serial numbers, with the first three digits representing the manufacturing location, the following two indicating the year and week of manufacture, the next three digits providing a unique identifier, and the last four digits representing the model number.
Clearly the atmosphere's marketing team failed to effectively market their special blend of oxygen, nitrogen and spices.

Really it's just market forces at work and the cigarette manufacturers developed a superior product and should be rewarded for it.
Love that one. My favorite is "Enhance the reflection in her eye." :-D
What do you propose? Do you think people aren't currently told that littering is bad and then simply trusted (like adults) not to do it?
I posted a reply about Brave and got shouted down about it being a clone but I was sure it was a fork.

Thank you for the confirmation

I've migrated my desktops to Brave a while ago, it's just mobile I've been lazy on..whelp here is the motivation haha
That's not malpractice. Chrome's main competitors (except Firefox) literally ship their browsers with their OS and put in place hoops to make changing the OS default browser harder. If anything the ads just help neutralize the massive built in advantage that Microsoft and Apple have.
That's not exactly what the paper says:

(From Study 5 discussion)
These results are consistent with the idea that, while those with low expertise engage with the domain hedonically as a default approach, this is not experts’ default. Second, rather than experts being inevitably numb, these results suggest that it is not the acquisition of knowledge that leads to numbness, but the application of that knowledge. Indeed, when expert’s attention is redirected toward the hedonic aspects of a stimulus they can regain their feelings.

So, as I understand it: beginners focus on enjoying the experience by default, and experts engage intellectually by default. And experts who were told to just relax and enjoy the experience had the same emotional experience as beginners.
The problem is that it is a short trip from a requirement like that to a required inquiry for those that ignore the answer.

Probably most of the time when they ignore it, they'd be right. After all, neither the NN nor themselves are right 100% of the time.

But is that other case a lawsuit risk? And we've developed into a very risk averse society.
Try Orion Browser, it uses the same WebKit engine as Safari but lets you install extensions from the Chrome Web Store (yes, uBlock Origin works)

Orion also has an iOS version, and afaik they are also working on making a Windows version as well
But it's not going to do anything about Google pushing Chat and Spaces down your throat :D
No doubt, but its not zero.

The Fermi paradox assumes intelligent life is common. However, perhaps its not. It certainly was not rare on the one planet we know for sure life exists. Biodiversity on earth right now nears 9 million forms, with probably at least that many now extinct. So out of all of those forms of life there is one that evolved the intelligence necessary to detect life outside of this planet.

So even with the age and size of the universe…and knowing the conditions necessary for life to evolve being somewhat rare, and the conditions necessary for intelligent life to evolve where life is being also some rare given our experience here on earth, it is not a huge leap to say that while life might be common in the universe, intelligent life could be uncommon, and if it is uncommon, we could be early enough to be one of few intelligent species out there. So we may not be detecting anybody because there is nobody out there to detect…just yet. Especially given distance and time and the fact that evidence we are capable of detecting is coming to us from an intelligent species may still be quite a time away since we are seeing their past.
It will be interesting to understand how timing influences this. “Remote communication and collaboration tools like Teams have become indispensable for many businesses in Europe” is true, but only more recently. Before the pandemic you needed to share dial-in conference numbers - so audio conferencing was actually the indispensable collaboration tool at the time when teams was bundled, say 2018.

Teams benefited from being an existing product that was already integrated with company (and school) identity at a time when people had to work from home. It was the pandemic that stopped competition. What is an admin to do when suddenly everyone is remote - kick off a months long product evaluation, or use the existing bundled one?

Do we want to set a precendent that a future indispensible tool cannot be bundled? How do you know what part of your product is going to be so indespensible in future that you have to charge for it separately now?
> We've never owned a gas vehicle that met it's EPA range and the Tesla is no different. No one takes EPA MPG * GALLONS of gas and expects it to be a real life estimate of range.

Because gas stations are still far more common than fast chargers. We'll get there with EV charging, but right now range does matter, especially if you routinely see half of what was advertised.
I don't have a great view of how the organization behind Jupyter operates, but I'd be really surprised if they went with Medium as a way to support themselves. What feels off is an open source project (likely by accident or unwittingly) steering users towards giving to a for-profit company.
The obvious question is why don't you sell the car if you hate everything about it.

Sunk cost and all that
I’ve seen this argument repeated ad infinitum by opponents of voter ID. The idea that minorities and poor people are incapable of acquiring proper identification is so prejudice. Proper ID is essential for so many things. Almost everyone has one and can acquire one.
Which do you think has a stronger moat?

I have a toy model for e-trucking + autonomy + middle mile. But its a long hard slog to roll out (ha! pun!)
No they don't? They can lock it if they sold it to you, but they can't lock arbitrary devices.
Regen braking is not 100% efficient, closer to 70-80%. So climbing a mountain and then going down the other side does cost more net energy than driving the same distance on flat ground.

Also if the elevation change is such that you don’t have enough to get to the top, the amount you would regen on the way down doesn’t matter.
I rode ebikes for commuting about 15 years ago. Looking at electric cars, I need at least double whatever specs they state for max range. So if I need 400 miles for instance, I need to find a manufacture promising 800. Wind, cold, age of battery, emergency reserve etc all play into it.
Next you'll say race relations were better before Obama in the Bush years and after Obama in the Trump years.
I feel that in the realm of e-bikes. I have to hope that the manufacturer that I bought my with stays in business for the life of my bike and that I didn't just buy a couple thousand dollar paperweight.
This is not a hard concept, and it’s rather surprising that this of all things is what you have issue with.

The battery icon is Miles of rated range, where “rated” means flat windless road at 60MPH and 70 degrees. Call it “standard” range if you will. The car has no idea where you’re going so it uses the standard calculation.

When you set a destination it can now (and does) factor in elevation change, speed on given roads, wind speed, wind direction, temperature along the route, etc etc etc and is more accurate.

So your least favorite feature is one you openly admit to not using properly? If you want laser precise range estimation set a destination ffs. Or, if you’re like most drivers you start every day with 200-300mi of range and unless you’re going out of state you don’t even think about range.
Totally personal preference, but not a fan of the Brave UI. At least from my perspective they (like Vivaldi and Edge) are trying too hard to distinguish themselves from the outward look and feel of Chromium. It's their right as a fork, and that of whoever finds it works for them. I'm not even bothered by (or much notice) the built-in crypto-based gamification. I just wish someone would do a minimalist fork of Chromium, maybe with a rudimentary sync service.
Even if that's true (apple is a bit ambiguous here because they say passcode login is enough), this is still connected to a need to login physically, it sets a much higher cost of acquisition for most.. plus this isn't relevant.. the tech is still aimed at proving real human interaction, even if it's not perfect at that today..
> The Firefox way?

Yes. Though they could fundraise also using other methods.
The difficulty is because of the difference in operating regimes of the power trains.

An old ICE has to run within an RPM range, so the top end on MPG is set below infinite, and the bottom end is limited by the time to ramp the engine to its max consumption.

Electric vehicles have neither of these issues. On a downhill run that is long enough you could in theory fully recharge your battery, and you can always send full power (and resultant fuel consumption) to the engine.

On top of this EVs are operating at much higher efficiencies so the effective size of the tank is smaller.

This is not to say range estimation couldn’t be improved, only that it is a much more challenging model with EVs.
Digital Unix was definitely a strange beast! Not as strange as Ultrix though... Ultrix didn't even support shared libraries. Everything was static.

In the mid 90's, I worked at an ISP where we had an Alpha / DEC Unix box for shell accounts. All the users hated it and demanded SunOS.
Probably because Apple doing it isn't as likely to ruin the web for everybody as Google doing it.
Until and unless this story gets proven true, it's unknown. We can't reliably predict what materials will have what properties.
Semicircles seem excessive. At no point does the wall have an angle over 45 degrees, so a semi-circle which would be at a 90 degree angle for every inflection point seems way too wavy.

A sine wave is probably closer, which would give an arc length of sqrt(1+cos(2pix/L)^2). This has no reasonable closed form I can find but it seems like it would be about 21% longer than a straight line.

Edit: Also a semicircle is pi/2 times as long as its diameter, not pi times.
Of course title is a bit of a clickbait, because they are comparing walls of same strength, not single row straight walls with curved walls.

But how does this compare with a straight wall with brick columns every two meters or so? My guess this is the best compromise, and maybe that is the best compromise, as it uses about the same number of bricks as a curves wall, but the area wasted is much smaller.
Is there some context to this, besides wanting to express your personal bugbear? These things aren't in remotely the same category.
I would put WEI together with a together with a number of other recent changes that I think signal that the land grab error of the web is over, and that web based businesses need to get real about their economics.

1) Netflix restricting password sharing
2) RedHat pushing the limits of the GPL to restrict RHEL re-distribution

In some ways, I think this could be a good thing, in that it clearly separates the advertising funded web (the commerical web) from the altruistically funded web (the free web). Maybe with a little luck, the free web becomes something more akin to the web circa 2000 even it has alot less information. That might be better than the open sewer of a web that we have today.
I think the difference is that a gas-powered car will keep driving when the gas indicator hits zero. You can still get a couple dozen miles at that points, and those are so important. Tesla is really doing you a disservice by not considering that.
All the demos are JPG? Would be great to see an SVG included without having to run the model
Truck stops just outside cities (or hubs) are already a thing in my geo.

A human driver who handled an outgoing truck could just wait (an hour or so) on the same spot for the next incoming truck.
Everything is a file is certainly not correct, given that is one aspect that Plan 9 has fixed from UNIX's design.
This article makes sense and explains a great deal. Learning and training trigger dopamine release. Both "learning how" and "learning that." The photography example they use (tool mastery) is a great example. Amateur photographers will regularly change their tools and subject matter to maintain the "sense of wonder." Meanwhile, wedding photographers will be bored with their professions.

We can see this with software engineers routinely trying out new languages and tools and hobby projects.
It's an ongoing battle. Giants such as the FTC are able and willing to fight these battles. Other large orgs such as SEMA are also pushing back, for both the right to repair and the right to modify. Additionally, OEMs don't want us to realize how they are putting themselves on top of a slippery slope. If we look at the NACS example, when one or two break away from a 'gentleman's alliance' it quickly creates a domino effect.

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/reports/nixing-fi...

https://www.sema.org/news-media/enews/2023/28/right-repair-a...
What do you mean by real-time? Do you want your screen to zoom while you are recording? Or do you mean that you want the zooming to happen automatically?
ain't nothin trivial about having a kid unless you're a deadbeat dad and can just walkaway.
> My wife had to use the back seat for a month

Is the back seat safer than the front seat, even if the front seat airbag doesn't deploy? I know recent tests show the back seat is a good bit less safe, and I think it's primarily due to most manufacturers not using the same seat belt technology as they do in the front, but maybe some of that is the lack of a front airbag.
I don't think it's as simple as that. In some ways the very policies that made America the richest country in the world are ones that prevent the state from directly pulling the very poor and homeless out of the situation they're in; I'm speaking of a largely free-market economy with comparatively (to other advanced economies) smaller social safety nets, and a legal and cultural emphasis on individual freedoms.

The latter was a big part of the deinstitutionalization movement throughout the 50s-80s; there were several Supreme Court decisions that made it more and more difficult for the state to involuntarily confine mentally ill people in psychiatric institutions. That same subset of people are now homeless and addicted to drugs.

And in terms of social safety nets, two developed countries at opposite ends of the world (Spain and Japan), both with unarguably better social support than the US, have higher poverty rates[0]. And in all but one of those developed countries with lower poverty rates than the US, the median person is poorer[1].

It's possible that the very poorest of the poor (the kind you might see strung out on a street in San Francisco or Philadelphia these days) are better off in those other countries, but clearly providing that level of support incurs a cost that is borne by the rest of society. I'm not making a judgment call here on which approach is better -- merely pointing out that there is never a free lunch when it comes to social policy.

Well, I take it back somewhat: there is a judgment call to be made on the way we "help" those very downtrodden today, where taxpayer money is spent on letting addicted people continue their addiction in the name of "compassion", all while ignoring the damage it does to everybody else that lives in those neighborhoods. Bring back the institutions if we must, but the current approach cannot be the right one.

[0]: https://data.oecd.org/inequality/poverty-rate.htm

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...
Ads and download promotions are not bundling and it is an error to conflate them.

Aggressive marketing is not malpractice.
Delta didn't have a good track recording according to the accounting department.
Tesla advertises the EPA rated range. The car not actually achieving that range in real world conditions (which are more varied than the test conditions) is not necessarily defective or false advertising.

Now I do think that the EPA ratings are inadequate and inconsistent. Those could use some improvement to better reflect real world driving conditions.
> Teams would never have gotten any success without malpractice.

Maybe so but I think Slack is still hot garbage.
4 letters at #8,016,155: https://api.github.com/users/jmoo
UFOs and aliens bring a divided US Congress together
Glad it won't include Google's WEI, but it's not like it doesn't have it's own weird junk like BAT, so I guess pick your poison.
One datum: our 2014 BMW i3 (ev, no range extender) consistently outperformed its rated range.
SpaceX landings require reserve fuel and thus much lower cargo capacity to attempt, and failure to land cost millions in equipment when it doesn’t work. So, cost wise it’s little different than failing to send up an additional satellite.

Partial mission success gets them a paycheck, but it would be interesting to look at their financials and see if they lost money on those missions.
> "... that can bitmap"

!!

I knew¹ people who won't touch SciFi or anything that they think remotely whiffed of it, parrot because it was "unrealistic", yet lapped up NCIS and similar. Always amused me.

--

[1] Not so much now, science fiction seems to be more acceptable to a wider audience
It's likely that you waived your rights to a class action against Tesla when you agreed to some EULA.
lol "medicine"... damn phone. I meant "machine" of course.
I've seen reused plastic bottles, and even bought and returned one filled with orangeade before. German company, I think.

Dead giveaway was the outside looking super scuffed up, and it being thick as hell. Also, it having a deposit added at the checkout.
>People use it for two reasons: a) because they need to get those graphs on the screen and this is the only way b) running ML code on a remote, beefier server.

Do you have a source of this, or is it something you dreamed up? Weird claim as none of those are my use case.
As much as I’d _love_ to see a windows version of Orion, I’m afraid we’re still far from it https://orionfeedback.org/d/2895-can-we-pleas-get-this-app-o...
The gamification is a pretty out of date hot take now. They still have that crypto stuff, but they pivoted about a year ago to try to sell the built in VPN and get more value out of their search engine to raise revenue instead.
I believe it was AMD that said they won't activate Pluton functionality by default but allow for enterprise customers to possibly do so.
Let's hope that the regulators learn from their mistakes after taking bribes [0] from the same tech companies to slow down their monopolistic actions from being scrutinised in recent years. We have given them enough time and they will never change.

So we'll start with Alphabet which in September there is progress to put them on trial over their monopoly in search and ads. [1] [2], Then Microsoft who's dominance is overdue to be broken up after destroying Slack.

Finally, Meta. Which once they reach another billion users with another social network product via Threads without federating is almost certain to be investigated this time.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-facebook-microsoft...

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/20/doj-antitrust-lawsuit-agains...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/24/doj-files-second-antitrust-l...
Drive through rural northern England and you will see vast numbers of sheep moving through pastures that are bordered by old dry-stone walls. The roads will even have equestrian gates alongside them when they have stock grids to prevent the sheep from using the road.

It's all about adapting to local materials. The same technique was used by early settlers in New England (think about the ending of The Shawshank Redemption) because they had to get the stones out of the ground in order to plow and harvest - rather than just make a pile, they used the stones to build walls separating fields.
Except all the examples you offered harm people, and porn harms people like water harms people.
Its not false advertising, perhaps you could make a case of inaccurate ... but that's just advertising? You are not giving the car the context to provide an accurate estimate. Also you driving style might affect the estimate?
I don't hate Medium, it just feels out of place here.
Visual Studio Code can do that, Emacs it'd be harder. But not many Lisp programmers are interested in working that way as I understand it.
We do this for aircraft current state. The pilot manages the autopilot and exception handling. It's sort of silly we don't throw automatic emergency braking and lane keeping in trucks and call it a day.