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by ot 3y ago
I never understood this obsession with eating eggs or milk. They seem a lot less sustainable than soy.
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Intel QuickAssist Technology Zstandard Plugin for Zstandard(community.intel.com)
144 points by ot 3y ago|67 comments
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Immortal Objects for Python(engineering.fb.com)
14 points by ot 3y ago|8 comments
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by ot 3y ago
> To be quite blunt, the sages' abilities are implemented absolutely horribly in this game I agree 100%. I loved the game, but I don't understand how anyone at Nintendo thought that these mechanics were a good idea. To make mat
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by ot 3y ago
Amazing, finally!!!
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by ot 3y ago
CFS, the default Linux scheduler, has a hierarchy of "domains" that by default is organized following the cache topology. When doing load balancing, it is increasingly less likely to migrate tasks across domains as it goes up the
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by ot 3y ago
Which also does not affect cmov conversion. Every time this comes up I bring up this long-standing LLVM bug: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40027
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by ot 3y ago
"hierarchize" only describes your own mental model of how knowledge organization and reasoning may work in the model, not the actual phenomenon being observed here. "generalize" means going from specific examples to gene
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by ot 3y ago
How is it theft? The original source is prominently cited, the author of the blog post is an active participant to the original discussion, the whole point of the post is to collect and summarize various sources in one place.
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Meta's quick Threads launch to rival Twitter – and what's next(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by ot 3y ago|0 comments
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Did Facebook fuel political polarization in the 2020 election? It’s complicated(arstechnica.com)
13 points by ot 3y ago|6 comments
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by ot 3y ago
I haven't used conference submission systems for a while, but IIRC the ID gets assigned on submission of the first revision, you can just submit a blank document as soon as the system opens.
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by ot 3y ago
Clang-tidy only supports AST-based matchers, you get type resolution but you still can only match simple patterns that only need local reasoning. Infer does whole-program analysis, so it can for example detect whether it is safe to move an
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by ot 3y ago
The server demand doesn't depend on how many servers you have. If your demand is D, you have X servers, and you need to decommission Y due to age, you'll have to buy D - X + Y. If Y gets smaller, you buy fewer.
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by ot 3y ago
Until a few years ago each CPU generation brought so much performance improvement that you would actually save money by replacing the server, because it would cut down your operational expenses (power, rack space, cooling, ...) per unit of
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by ot 3y ago
It is not an accounting trick, it means they'll actually hold on to those servers longer than originally planned, meaning they'll buy fewer servers to replace them over the long term. That's actual savings. The accounting &qu
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by ot 3y ago
At least in this case it's self-referential (not sure if intended)
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by ot 3y ago
The layout is very confusing, but the page is a review of various recent research papers about Wikipedia and the title references one of them, search for the section titled > Wikipedia-based LLM chatbot "outperforms all baselines&qu
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Twitter's Dying. Time to Drop the News Paywalls(bloomberg.com)
11 points by ot 3y ago|5 comments
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by ot 3y ago
> It was not easy saying no to Super bowl ads, stadium naming rights, large sponsor deals a few months ago, but we did. Today, we are hiring for 2000 open positions for #Binance. https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status
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by ot 3y ago
> Anyway, point is mathematics is a language. Yes, and like any language there is context-dependence. In calculus you're right, epsilon and delta are usually small variations (for example in the definition of a limit). In randomized
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by ot 3y ago
> δ is also typical (though not "standard") for "small difference" No, that's epsilon. In this area, delta is usually a probability. Epsilon-delta statements are usually of the time "error > epsilon with
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by ot 3y ago
As others have explained, whenever you salt a hash function you're creating a new hash function. "Multiple hash functions" doesn't mean completely different definitions of the function, but usually it is just a parametri
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by ot 3y ago
All the suggestions in this thread are exactly the kind of thing that gets you a "Company X Uses Dark Patterns" post on the HN home.
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A Tour Around Buck2, Meta's New Build System(tweag.io)
20 points by ot 3y ago|1 comments
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by ot 3y ago
> How is that relevant? Roaring bitmaps and similar data structures get their speed from decoding together consecutive groups of elements, so if you do sequential decoding or decode a large fraction of the list you get excellent performa
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by ot 3y ago
> We haven't discussed other solutions like Partitioned Elias-Fano indexes or Tree-Encoded Bitmaps. We simply did not investigate them. There are no efficient off-the-shelf implementations of these solutions, so we had to implement
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Meta developer tools: Working at scale(engineering.fb.com)
245 points by ot 3y ago|219 comments
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by ot 3y ago
Impressive that it translated "Morgenstund hat Gold im Mund" (morning hour has gold in the mouth) to the equivalent English expression "the early bird gets the worm", instead of going for a literal translation. I wonder
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by ot 3y ago
How often do you drive your car from North America to Europe?

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