skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi, I am one of the authors of snmalloc. There is a pool of allocators. When a thread exits it returns it to the pool. When a thread is created it first checks the pool for an allocator and uses that in preference to creating a new one. If your application has generally a uniform number of threads over time, then this works well. If you have a spike of threads at start up, then are purely single threaded after that, then this heuristic does not work well.

We have not had complaints about this heuristic, yet. We have a solution that involves marking the remote free queue as sleeping, and a thread that sends to it and observes "sleeping" would then have to do some work for that "sleeping" allocator. This is fairly easy, but I haven't had time to implement it.
No more arguments about daylight savings times!
And to exactly no-one's surprise, everyone in China uses an unofficial local time, because it turns out that people really like solar time.

Well, I'm presume the timezone abolishionists are surprised...
Even better :) Either way nothing to be mad at them about.
Do they ruin it completely though?
What we are seeing now could fit a timeline where Microsoft is doing EEE again, as well as a timeline where Microsoft is trying to change its ways.

Building VSCode, LSP and Typescript could still prove to be the Embrace and Extend phase. There are some worrying signs, e.g. many VSCode extensions built by MS don't work on open-source VSCode builds like code-server and VSCodium. From a business perspective, this makes sense, as GitHub Codespaces and vscode.dev now have features that are difficult to get in competitors. Maybe at some point they will try to Extinguish all local development and push everyone to use a cloud version of VSCode? (See e.g. Python integration in Excel)

The truth is probably a lot more complex, but we can't rule out anything yet.
Then you get the same spin, but obscured from you. Is that really better?
In Yugoslavia, various companies 'produced' computers by essentially relabeling Western equipment, especially during the eighties when I was a child. For instance, the Electronic Industry in Niš (EI Niš) imported Honeywell computers. My father worked on a Honeywell DPS-6 imported from the U.S., which bore EI stickers. Surprisingly, sometimes they didn't even bother applying the EI stickers.

During my time at university we had VAX 11/785, MicroVAX 3100, and by the mid-'90s, we even had an SGI Indigo. Additionally, we had some IBM VM computer, though I can't recall the exact model. There was an IBM 1130 in the seventies.

As far as I can recall, the western parts of Yugoslavia had around 300 VAX machines deployed across various companies. Each republic developed its own computing ecosystem, resulting in a diverse landscape.

While there were some microcomputers in limited production, such as the Orao, Pecom, and Oric Nova, the ZX Spectrum and C-64 enjoyed far more popularity. Later, the Atari ST and Amiga took their place.

In the late eighties, my high school had a collection of original Apple II computers, along with IRIS 8 clones.
How do they accomplish this in the arctic circle? Daylight hours are all over the place if you go far enough north.
big.LITTLE allows a hybrid microarchitecture, but all cores must support the same instruction set architecture.

Even SVE must use the same vector width across all cores, which makes it unlikely that >128b SIMD will ever show up on consumer cores in the near future:
https://gist.github.com/zingaburga/805669eb891c820bd220418ee...
Try a constant pressure massage instead of the thumping. Pressure should be high enough that the sensation is intense but not painful. The goal is to get muscles around the base of your skull to relax. I was amazed at how quickly it had an effect
I particularly like Statistical Inference by George Casella and Roger Lee Berger.

You could also look at Introduction to Probability by Joseph K. Blitzstein and Jessica Hwang (available for free here: http://probabilitybook.net (redirects to drive)).
I know stress is an aggrevator of tinnitus for me, clenched jaw and tight neck muscles etc.

So in a practical sense, worrying about it literally made it worse by triggering those stress reactions which worsened the tinnitus.

It's that mechanism that acceptance helps me with.

I am not always accepting, but if I can calm myself down and just deal with it, it lessens drastically.
No, it's not.

Dividing one day into just 1000 units is way less precise unless one uses decimals, in which case it's just plain inconvenient.
Personally I think the innovation required to refine something pales in comparison to first inventing something new. It’s just so less risky and so less expensive. You start with something that already know works and that’s huge.

If you’ve ever tried to DIY something, it’s so so much harder if you can’t find someone who has done it already.

So to me, the people who may have made 3D printing cheaper aren’t exactly in the same class of innovation and risk.
> Maybe it's just easy to work with?

Yeah, that's my impression anyway. The Mini connector is a comfortable size to work with, particularly considering DIY electronics at home was usually a through-hole affair a decade or so ago. Type B is large enough to get in the way (although it being so chonky is rather satisfying) and micro wasn't significantly smaller in general terms but was fiddly for soldering or probing etc. I'm not sure if USB Micro connectors were even generally available as through-hole?

Appendage:

> for quite a while a lot of ergonomic keyboard designs featured mini usb as well.

Thinking about it, a lot of them probably used off the shelf Arduino Nano(?) based boards, which most commonly featured the USB Mini connector.
Loved the metallic palettes of the Bitmap Brothers! Speedball, Z (one of the best RTSs), Xenon (one of the best shoot-em-ups)
I understand then that there's a known and increasing tension in this domain. Instead of seeing it crash and burn, do you see any glimmer of hope? I mean we still need science and we still need research, so we need a solution to be able to go on with it, even if it's outside the current framework...
Always loved pascal and always will. It was one of my first introductions to "Structured Programming"
yes harvard students can say what they want, and CEO's asking to blacklist ALSO have freedom of speech - freedom of speech is not the same as freedom from consequences.
I'll add that for serious scheduling, people use digital calendars extensively. Some sort of "work hours" would need to be marked on those, but everything else would be simpler.
I'm sure all six users of it will be happy
If the symptoms go away with benzos, it seems that the source of your tinnitus is some form of generalised anxiety syndrome, with all the niceties that come with it: tension headaches, teeth clenching, TMJ disorder...
The burnout stresses were eased thanks to the pills, but once withdrawn came back probably harder which could have then triggered your tinnitus.

This is why benzos should never be prescribed without any other therapeutic approach alongside. They just hide the pain under the carpet for a while only to see it come back worse after and the root cause needs to be addressed with other means in the meantime.

Good luck with the road back to balance. There's no secret remedy and it's probably best to take a holistic approach for it and work on your well being from multiple fronts.
When it comes to tax-free allowances, groups of companies can sometimes be considered one - if, for example, they shared a phone number or website.
yeah the stupid "crackle pop" tunes are just deliberately running rich.

There's also "DSG farts" which actually have a performance benefit, but sound truly awful with aftermarket exhaust systems.
>My classic example is the 3D printer.

It may be your favorite example but in this case it's a very poor one. You keep harping it as if it proves the point that patents are always the biggest problem holding all tech back, but in this case you're comparing apples to pickup trucks and omitting the forest from the montains.

The price of 3D printers dropped because the demand for 3D printers is huuuuge and they're also very easy to manufacture meaning in that case it actually was the patens holding the technology back and not the manufacturing challenges, but E-ink film is both tricky to manufacture and the demand for this kind of limited technology is very niche beyond e-readers and price tags meaning there's no economies of scale.

I built a 3d printer with a work colleague over 10 years ago in his garage using aluminum rails, stepper motors and an Arduino. I can't build E-ink film in a garage.

With your example you'd also think that the reason we don't have mass adoption of 3nm chips everywhere must be because of TSMC's patents and not because that sort of tech is tricky to master at scale.

Your 3d printer example just does not work in this case so please be so king as to reflect on the matter and update your viewpoint accordingly.
Xenophobia in the United States
I just realized reading all these replies with people who also suffer from it does somehow help. It helps to worry less, because evidently there's not much that can be done medically (at least for now). So, thanks for this!
I don't think they'd have to transparenty blend into all environments on Linux. Anything akin to old Java apps would suffice, for as long as the apps can be ported over. I imagine many of these cross-platform apps would have their own UI, anyway, like games for example. And basic Wayland support would suffice, too.
AutoGen: A Multi-Agent Framework for Streamlining Task Customization
The AutoGen Framework Developed by Microsoft is Powerful; a Multi-Agent Framework Making Customization of a Series of Work Tasks Easy. https://github.com/microsoft/autogen

As an example, if we want to implement a web scraper program to collect and save webpage images, handing this task over to ChatGPT would result in a string of executable code but with potential problems such as execution errors or missing dependencies. This requires multiple conversations with ChatGPT to create a complete program. Of course, we could set up a more complex prompt to instruct ChatGPT to execute code plugins, but with the AutoGen framework, it can be simplified to just a few lines of code:

1) Define an Assistant Agent that solves problems.
2) Define a UserProxy Agent that substitutes human inquiries and executes programs on the local machine.

Neither of these agents requires a prompt. When we hand over the web scraper task to UserProxy, it understands the task, inquires of Assistant how to proceed, and following Assistant's instructions, UserProxy installs dependencies locally, creates files, executes code, and reports detailed error messages to Assistant if any problems arise. This process repeats until the final result is obtained. When the task is completed, the target image is saved to the local disk.

AutoGen has a wide range of capabilities, and best practices can be found in the project's notebook: https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/tree/main/notebook

P.S. To ensure safety, it is recommended to perform program execution in a Docker environment. UserProxy has a code_execution_config configuration, which can be set to True for use_docker. Additionally, there is a human_input_mode parameter that can be set to NEVER to automate the entire process or to wait for human input, allowing for people to participate in the task execution process and avoid mistakes.
As soon as a scheme has a wikipedia page, you can be pretty sure it will become illegal within a year or two...
I'm looking for help with distilling 'truth' from folk belief systems by formalizng them under a Bayesian network framework, in case anyone is looking for a project through which to sharpen their statistical saw.
Aren’t in ear headphones with noise cancellation better than not using them and instead raising the volume to overcome background noise?
I'll not argue your point, but I think the IMO does illustrate why the BBC is absolutely right to avoid using the term. Various governments, organisations, people try to define terrorism, but always meet the response "well, didn't the USA do that in Vietnam" or "didn't the British do that in Ireland", and they did. So now it is generally left undefined, or defined by diktat (see "it is a fact of law" mentioned above). In other words it is a yah-boo word, it means "use violence that I disapprove of", it has no place in reporting.
Not really. I just meant that an OS team probably should only work on engineering and shipping the actual OS and should not dedicate a minute of their time to running a repository with Audacity or Wesnoth in it (I like and use both). Someone else should (as long as they feel interested).
This is a little bit off topic but sort of related in how there seems to be at least 2 kinds of tinnitus which might have different cures, if any.

I have the kind I believe is called "somatic tinnitus". It's very high pitch and multiple tones. If I stretch my body or clench my teeth it becomes louder. It does not really sound like they come from one ear or the other.

It can also become louder if I'm drunk, or if I get a nicotine rush. It also becomes temporary louder if I listen to noise for a long time and then turn it off.

But from time to time I also get the occasional high pitch ringing in one of my ears that last for a few seconds. I've also gotten temporary tinnitus from a loud concert. While they are similar they seem different to me.

Just having casually talked to other people about this, I wonder if a lot of people have somatic tinnitus but are sensitive to it to varying degrees.
I’ve had it since I was a kid too. Only notice it in small closed rooms. If I’m outside I don’t hear it.
Thanks so much for the feedback! Those are good ideas.

And thanks for sharing the link where it failed to load books! I’m going to try and figure out what’s going on with that so the link is helpful
I use a combination of sleep deprivation + 400mg of caffeine followed by a Power Nap between 4 and 5pm to successfully trigger a lucid dream.
> government of Bermuda nationalize that piece of intellectial property

And, more importantly, nationalize it while compensating the owner for it's declared value, which was zero (or near to).
Hamas behead civilians including babies and paraded them on Tiktok and telegram channels. Clear definition of terror to answer BBC's quandary.
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I'm still not sure the costs outweigh the benefits, but I agree that this is the only concrete requirement that can't be solved with time, slow cultural change, and adjustments to some software.
> having an idea with serious merit that only has some subjective drawbacks.

Abolishing local solar-approximate time is an idiotic idea with multiple objective drawbacks, not to mention that it would be massively unpopular. IF you think it's a reasonable idea, you really haven't thought it through, and you absolutely do not understand how time has meaning to people, and how our entire societies are built on shared collective ideas of what different times of the day mean to us.

The level of stupidity of the idea is on par with "hurr durr, why don't we get rid of our nuclear waste by shooting it into the sun in a rocket?"
I really appreciate that you've taken my comments in good faith, but more than that, I appreciate that you've taken your time to inform my perspective in detail.

It's a very refreshing and positive start to my day!
i still do not know the propper english word, in german its hörsturz

In several forums I've seen them talk about "spikes"
Can't have it due to the tragedy of the commons.
I think I'm an odd case, in that I did have "tinnitus" (a constant high pitched buzz in my right ear), along with a constant tension headache that resulted in me not getting any sleep. I was prescribed sleeping pills and then a visit to the neurologist said all my conditions were caused by anxiety. I actually didn't think I was anxious (I think it was the result of a bad night on cocaine).
Err... Anyway, a large career break with lots of relaxation gave me relief from both my daily headaches and tennitus. I was doing lots of exercise and also drinking a lot of water mixed with corriander (I was convinced this would help to detox me for some reason).
The tennitus went away after about 2 months and it took about a year to get away from the constant headaches. I haven't done class A drugs since...
Probably not at all helpful, but I thought I'd share.
They should remove "modern" from the title, because who the hell uses the "R programming language" these days anymore?
I would like to see an experiment where a country disallowed any company from keeping any secrets at all - IP or otherwise. Everything on all the companies computers and hard drives would always be visible to competitors and the public.

While it discourages long research projects, it really incentivises fast execution and building on other companies designs.
A 33 MHz 486 CPU (the recommended spec for Second Reality to run smoothly) is MUCH more powerful than the 7 MHz 68000 of the A500... It's not just nearly 5 times faster, the 486 is way more cycle efficient, not to mention having a nice byte-addressable bitmap screen to draw into (vs 2-6 separate bitplanes).

So yeah you forgot how underpowered OCS Amigas are :)
It’s wild to me that now people are making something like this just for fun, while if this had actually been released at the time it would have been a best-selling game.
This metric time goes only part of the way. "Day" shouldn't be a metric unit, since it changes over time and only makes sense on Earth.

Unix timestamp is the real metric time because it only uses seconds which is a metric unit of time.
I think the idea is that for most human uses of time we don't specify start or end times to a precision of more than about 5 minutes. Stuff like train timetables you might want to go down to about a minute. So one could argue that we have at least 60 times the resolution we really need for day-to-day use.

If you absolutely need more precision (accurate timestamping) then decimals are available.
Previously done as an art project: http://metriclock.com/
I could see an argument for that. If society is already paying high costs in order to prevent poor mental health and loneliness, pet ownership may be a cheaper solution in some situations than letting people fall into worse conditions that require time off work, pills and therapists.

A cost-benefit analysis could try make a reasonable argument for subsidized animal welfare.
Been a while since I read Excession but SC was definitely involved to some degree.

> The Interesting Times Gang (ITG), an informal group of Minds loosely connected with Special Circumstances, try to manage the Culture's response to the Excession.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excession

> Whilst it appeared that the Sleeper Service had been Eccentric for 4 decades, it had in fact been a dedicated, if secret, military resource acting on behalf of a sub-set of Special Circumstances Minds known as the Interesting Times Gang

https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/Sleeper_Service
So US13.28?
I made a prototype, I told 2 host to explain one book acutally it works really well after using in-context learning except for sounds.
Doesn’t macos require you to rent it out with a one month minimum? At that point just buy the hardware
Thanks! I hadn’t heard of open library before but it seems pretty cool - what’s an open library list? Are you also able to track books you’re interested in there?
A perfect example of how scarcity drives innovation / creativity.

Pardon the use of cliche but...The limitations of the box force you to think and act outside the box.
I like statistical rethinking. It’s targeted at science phd students so the focus is “how can you use statistics for testing your scientific hypotheses and trying to tease out causation”. It doesn’t go deep into the mathematics of things (though expects readers to be decently numerate and comfortable analysing data without statistics). It only really talks about Bayesian models and how to fit them by computer, so won’t cover much of the frequenting side of things at all.
Consider that Doom is sometimes blamed for single-handedly causing the downfall of the Amiga's position in gaming because of how long it took to get even a half-decent Doom-like game for it, as a result of how badly mismatched the Amiga graphics chipset was for 3D graphics.

That is why is this is impressive.

The number of gamers who switched to PC's just because of Doom was huge. After Doom everything was measured against it for a long time. Even many diehard Amiga fans suddenly decided the game was up and switched.

That your reaction is that it is "barely more than a Doom reskin" demonstrates why it is incredible.

To the extent that if a "barely more than a Doom reskin" had been achieved near the time Doom came out, computing history might have looked quite different (though Commodore was so badly mismanaged at this point that they'd probably still have managed to mess things up even if they'd been handed this kind of reprieve on a silver platter, but one can dream)
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YES! Unfortunately I couldn't tell you how it went away as it just went away over time and never came back. Not even trolling.

Had a mild(?) case of tinnitus from about 17 to 20 years of age. Haven't really even thought about it since then but in my case the prime suspect was probably loud music. During that time period I was super depressed and angry at the world so I used to listen to loud heavy metal music nearly all day every day from my earbuds.

I stopped doing that because of the tinnitus, but it lingered on for long enough such that I can't draw a clear link between the music and tinnitus. Other potential suspects have been quitting dairy, cigarettes and weed, which I also quit in that same time period as the loud music.

If I had to guess, it was probably damaged stereocilia as @RelativeDelta mentioned.
No they don't, picking the first example "Armv9.2 - DynamIQ big.LITTLE - DynamIQ Shared Units-120"

https://developer.arm.com/documentation/102484/0001/The-Cort...

https://developer.arm.com/Processors/Cortex-A720

https://developer.arm.com/Processors/Cortex-A520

You will notice that for e.g. Asymmetric MTE isn't supported across all of them, and the differences in microarchitecture are enough to have impact in the kind of instructions being used.
Why focus on s expr then?

Every data format will eventually evolve into a tree
Interesting, has that lanuage learning podcast been useful for you?
I've often wondered if it might be possible to set up an 'auction' system for papers. Post on arXiv and then have journals 'bid' for publication - saying how much they would charge in publication fees, review turnaround etc. Authors can then choose the journal they prefer. The advantage would be that the initial stage of 'shopping around' would be eliminated (sending a paper to a journal and being rejected without review) and there would be incentive for journals to reduce publication fees. Just a thought...
Everyone in my branch of Toxicology? Tons of people in biological sciences. Just because you have bias against the tool and don't run in the same circles doesn't mean that R isn't used and love by a subset of devs.
Statisticians do. The Berkeley curriculum, which I've linked to in another comment, uses Python.
Is the IRS saying it is evasion? That’s not at all what I read. Any source for that claim?
Wow. That's the first time in my 25+-years on the internet I've ever heard someone say that dns "just works".