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> IOW, parent was talking about timer wait, not event wait. Timer events are only processed at timer interrupt ticks.

No they weren't. Read parent again, my emphasis added:

>> you can signal on an event from the receiver thread, and it doesn't wake up the waiting threads instantaneously, even if they are waiting on a kernel-level object.

>> The WaitForObject will only return at the next interrupt of a system timer.....so exactly at the same point when a Sleep(1) would have woken up too. There is no benefit to using the event architecture, because for those sub-16ms events it doesn't actually bypass the constraint of the system timer interrupt.

They described their threads in another comment. There's a receiver thread which receives network packets, and sends them internally to processing threads. The processing threads use Sleep(1) in a polling loop, because they believe the receiving thread cannot send an event to wake a processing thread faster than Sleep(1) waits anyway, and they believe the system would need special interrupt hardware to make that inter-thread wakeup faster.

IOW, they are using a timer polling loop only because they found non-timer events take as long to wake the target thread as having the target thread poll every 16ms using Sleep(1).

But that's not how Windows behaves, if the application is coded correctly and the system is not overloaded, (and assuming there isn't a Windows bug).

My hunch is a race condition in the use of SendEvent/WaitForMultipleObjects in the test which produced that picture, because that's an expected effect if there is one. But it could also be CPU scheduler contention, which would not usually make the wake happen at the next timer tick, but would align it to some future timer tick in future, so the Sleep(1) version would show no apparent disadvantage. If it's CPU contention, there's probably significant latency variance (jitter) and therefore higher worst-case latency due to pre-emption.
Oh this is bloody awful:

> we developed a guinea pig model of tinnitus induced by noise exposure ...

> choosing a stimulus interval known to induce long-term depression (LTD). Twenty minutes per day of LTD-inducing bimodal (but not unimodal) stimulation reduced physiological and behavioral evidence of tinnitus in the guinea pigs

https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/10/422/eaal3175

I'm not anti-science and I understand the need for animal testing to reduce risks to humans but this raises serious ethical concerns where no such risk to humans exists.
Very cool idea!

I tried gather.town the other day for something similar but couldn't get it to work on Linux, couldn't detect my mic and camera correctly.

I am able to hear some background noise on the Calla room as I approach some others but I do not hear any talking and I do not know if others can hear me. I also can't get my webcam working, just a black screen and my webcam doesn't activate. It activated the first time I joined but now seems to have chosen a different camera.

I think camera/mic selection options need to be added for systems with multiple devices.

Really hope this gets refined!
The thing with building something for myself is that it's hard. Sure, I do have a hobby project that will, hopefully, make the world better at some point. But that's a hobby project. It doesn't help with this crippling loneliness the slightest. And then starting your own company is a lot of responsibility. Much more than I'm willing to ever take. Not only do you have to have an idea good enough and that there's market for, you also have to devise a way to make money, preferably without ruining your product both in the long and short term. And delegation. I don't like delegation, but running your own startup demands a lot of it. I'm such a kind of person that it's almost always easier for me to do something myself when I know exactly how it's done rather than to explain someone else what I want.

The software industry is trending towards dumbing everything down and making increasingly user-hostile design decisions. This is the exact opposite of my values. Then there's the purely technical side of things. It's becoming scarily common for software developers to not understand the abstractions they're using and the compromises they're making while choosing those abstractions. This leads to poor-quality, underperforming products. It's become so ingrained into the culture that people legit look at you weird when you tell them that they don't need react and 50 JS libraries to build a website and that using the Android APIs in an app directly is a perfectly okay thing to do.

So, there are diminishing opportunities for creating a startup, and most existing companies' values go against mine. I feel lost at this point. I truly have no clue where to go next and what to look for. Nonprofits maybe?
>When it comes to cooling considerations, the limitations are: fast, quiet, compact - pick two.

Xbox Series X may have beaten this dilemma. The recent talk about it running "hot" misses the point; the heat has to go somewhere. A MacBook running hot (and boy, does it) matters to the person whose lap it is on, but not so much for a console sitting at the other end of the room, as long as you leave enough room for air flow.

The fact that the Xbox Series X previews universally report that the console runs quietly is promising. (Yes, they all tested with X1/360/original Xbox games, as opposed to Xbox Series native games. But they are all getting upscaling and HDR added, so the console still has to do work.) This may change in seven years when the new GTA8 pushes it to the limit just before the next Xbox comes out.
aside from it being embossed tape added after market:

blind covers a lot of ground. the ability to discern a red led against a black background when you're a couple feet away is well within the realm of blind
I'm not sure how to interprete it in that sense, or what the math looks like, I have only Roger Penrose saying "the math checks out" to go on.

Sounds like you're asking "is it really getting bigger endlessly and we take a larger distance as the unit value each cycle" and if so, that feels like the wrong kind of question when talking about distance not existing, but I don't know anything deep about it I've only heard him talk about it in interviews.

I don't really get why you can't reason the other way and say if there are photons and light, then there must be frequency, distance and time, therefore energy, and therefore mass. Heck, maybe that is the same reasoning; there, at the place of infinity, is all the energy and mass which ever was in the universe, all in one place. And what do you get when the whole universe is all in one place? A big bang? Transforming from matter to light (via stars burning and eventually Hawking radiation from the last things remaining: black holes) carries all the energy in the universe off into the distance. Where does it go? Off into infinity. If you take infinity as a place that means it all goes to the same place? Then that process is the "collapse" which brings everything together into the same place ready to be turned into matter again? That's my pop-science understanding of his proposal.
> so there are 6 times out of 9 where the host shows you a goat total.

No. He picks goat 100% of the time. Choosing not goat is outside the bounds/parameters of the initial constraints.
Still confused about how micropayments for content would work practically. Either you have to wait at least until the next block is produced to verify that payment has received before responding to the HTTP request, or you respond before getting paid. Even if the block period is only 10 seconds (which would result in tremendous ledger bloat), the delay would still be too long.
Don’t need a department to handle an occasional tweet.
Most places offer rapid immigration controls for frequent travellers. Singapore's gets you into the country in 10 minutes[1].

[1] https://www.flystaypoints.com.au/the-singapore-frequent-trav...
> Once you're 200 miles from the coasts there is a lot of open space to fly through.

That's really only true west of about a North-South line through the eastern edge of the Texas panhandle. From there east, there's still some open space (not a lot once you hit the Mississippi River), but you'd have to dodge around to make path not going over population concentrations.
I think this is very cool, but their song and dance about making nothing seem foreign and allowing people to experience other cultures is actually backwards. If they are successful they will enable and accelerate the further dilution of distinct cultures. It’s very sad to travel to other parts of the world and find it to be tainted with many of the global brands and customs that you already know.
I go to McDonald's in UK and get charged money for ketchup.

McDonald's in the US, ketchup is free.

who's nickel and diming? US prices are lower across the board.
So they fix your car, but take an inordinate amount of time? That’s not good.

Are you being held against your will?
That would have been really helpful to know somewhere on the website.

The website is rather context free, are users supposed to scan the QR code in an app (eg: FreeOTP+, Zoiper, etc) or just use it as a means to get a link for use in Safari/Chrome/Firefox on their smartphone? What does the website do exactly?

All are unanswered questions for the random passerby that loads this website.
> It’s unfashionable these days to play Bach on the piano.

According to who? I've played Bach to all sorts of different people, and all have appreciated it and enjoyed it. Sure, they might not listen to it in the car on the way to work (like I might) but that doesn't mean it is "unfashionable" to treat somebody to a live performance of a technically challenging piece by a master composer.
Really? Because my wife’s Model Y is way more fun to drive than my BMW M3.
Favorite, from Telepath: "Tesla receives free, over-the-air convertible update"
> I think I've seen people advertising, literally, "Ship your brand new Tesla to me, and I'll get the body work/alignment perfect and ship it on to you" services. Not sure how real, or valid, but something of an indictment.

Hah! This kind of service exists for top-tier saxophones. Spend $6,000 or whatever for a Selmer Paris horn, then take it to a technician to "set up" the springs, pads, etc.

Nevertheless it is pretty sad when GM is knocking out junk with better body/panel QC.
Thank you, I have only recently been on HN and I love it. Its amazing, I have been on reddit forever and was just curious as to how it was on the front page for awhile. This is a pretty good explanation, I don't know why I got down voted, honestly curious about the Hacker news process of what makes it to the front page vs other things. I was stoked to hear about Penrose winning the Nobel and shocked it was on the second page vs this story. And now an article Penrose has co-authored is on the top spot! Thanks for the solid response! And RIP to EVH too, I saw VH with my pops years ago, he saw VH open for Black Sabbath back in the day and said they destroyed Black Sabbath! Madness!
There is rumor(leaked video) of an AWD speed 3 coming.
Both my wife and I like the 3.
> Wouldn't there be dos2unix file format issues there?

I assume you'll have debugger issues if IntelliJ sees a different OS than you want your apps seeing.
My favorite space junk mag, Orbital Debris Quarterly:

https://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/quarterly-news/
Beanstalkd is probably the only beautiful queue I instantly fell in love with. It shares it's DNS with memcached, and makes life so much simple! I know people have the tendency to write complex abstractions and questionable choices around simple things. But sometimes simplicity and capability to reason well is the answer to everything.
Those people also benefit from cash, opaque walls, and freedom of speech. That bad people benefit from something is hardly a damning case against it.
> Immersion gives a very weak version of this

Agreed. Many adults attempt immersion by e.g. moving to a place where the language is spoken but then set themselves up in an expat bubble, which is roughly equivalent to wrapping a sponge in plastic and then immersing it in water.

In order to truly immerse yourself you need to actually need to have a life, friends, coworkers in that language, and the things that occupy your mental energy for 80% of the day (probably work, but in the case of children, schoolwork and homework) need to also be in that language.

Adults also often get "homesick" and create those expat bubbles for themselves to have a piece of home. Understandable, but children don't get homesick in the same way -- they didn't have any prior culture to think back to, and they don't have a concrete sense of self-identity until later in their childhood.

In many cases one may find that the locals actually are a force against immersion if their English is better than your knowledge of their language. It's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem but I do feel the right time for adult immersion should probably be after you've surpassed the local average English level, which then turns the local language into the preferred working language. If you haven't gotten there yet, you may find that you move, and then everyone wants to use English with you because time is money (and in some cases they want to practice their English, but less so in the workplace). And then -- you don't learn.

Children are at a huge advantage here, because schools mandate a certain language be used regardless of who knows what other languages to what level.
Your first paragraph looks very plausible, though I am not aware of any data saying it is a prevalent one. Are you suggesting that people still look at this problem as if the choice was random, even when they know it is not? (e.g., if they think the 'random' and 'chosen' cases are equivalent.) That is also plausible, but if it is common, that would imply that the phrasing of the problem is not the root cause of their misunderstanding of the optimal strategy.

Personally, IIRC, my first reaction was to assume the second box opening was not random (perhaps only because the question is not phrased as being conditional on this act revealing a goat) but did not see how this gave any useful information.

Here's another possible way of getting it wrong, regardless of the phrasing of the problem: assuming that, after the reveal (and whether one thinks of it as random or not), one is, as it were, starting over, except with a choice between two boxes rather than three, and no other information.
Yeah, but as you can see in this thread the rock star programmers of HN only know enough epidemiology to complain about code formatting and improper RNG seeding.
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Very weird how much smell/taste means to us but how do you don’t notice it going.
In our house no one noticed their sense of smell going yet it was a massive impact to me when I was eating flavourless food for two weeks. It was incredibly depressing not being able to go outside and being stuck in eating gruel.
The only reason we got tested was because someone wanted a sick note from the doctor and she asking everyone what they’re sense of smell was like.
They should have been finished years ago
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Your proposal is changing the scenario, though.

In the original problem, Monty always opens a door to reveal a goat. This strongly implies that he knows which doors have goats.

Your alternative is different. If the doors opened are truly selected randomly, then the odds are high that he would reveal a car, especially in the 1000-door version. What are the odds that Monty could choose 998 doors randomly out of 1000 and NOT pick the one with the car?

If Monty doesn't know where the car is, then you're arguing with a completely different version of the game that could result in him opening the door with the car, so the strategy is going to be different.
Do you have a source for that? I understand that there _are_ situations where your hair cells can actually start to ring noticeably (due to biofeedback mechanisms going haywire), and I've noticed that type of ring - an extremely loud, piercing sound in one ear that drowns everything out for a few minutes before going away - but I've understood that to be different than normal tinnitus, even though mine definitely responds to jaw clenching.
Why is it remarkable? The point is that (in Christianity), God is all-knowing, and doesn't suffer from the same limitations as humans, or ants.
Well strictly speaking I guess I'd rather have fast ad-laden pages than slow, but more likely these gains will vanish as ad congestion re-converges to the previous equilibrium. Users' tolerance for sluggishness is the true constant, not the amount of ads companies want to serve.
Title would be improved by simply removing "Results were surprising"
You’re comparing dumb and dumber.

You can buy an equally boring looking car to the Tesla 3, say a loaded Honda Accord, and avoid the finicky bullshit that comes with the BMW.
It's kind of trivial to do that with Docker, either on Linux or on a Mac. On Linux you also have KVM and, on Ubuntu, you have LXC.
I hate to break it to you, but no one envied the nerds and D&D kids in high school. No one wanted to be one of the deviant outcasts who spent their time in the basement rather than having a normal social life with status and friends and sex. It's only been relatively recently, with the popularity of the web, that many aspects of former "nerd" culture such as anime and D&D (and of course, using a computer to begin with) haven't been viewed with contempt by the mainstream.
It makes sense that the first iteration of a new product is going to be easy to disassemble, because large products are easier to design and manufacture. It's the later models (PS3 slim, PS4 slim, the future PS5 slim five years from now) that are optimized for maximum cost reduction and manufacturing efficiency and will be as hard to fool around in as a current iPhone or Macbook.
Their current 3D model also shows just one seat:

https://boomsupersonic.com/xb-1/model

Maybe they plan to put a second seat behind it sometimes?
The biggest users of MITM technologies are companies but there are probably quite a few individual users too --- I have a proxy for network-wide adblocking and page rewriting/filtering.
Autopilot. Just Stay in your lane, and forget about break/accelerator dance. It may extend your commute by 5 or 10 minutes, but man, it is a massive help. Other cars have some limited capabilities like this, but they don't seem to drive the car with the same confidence, IMO. Tesla's version drives through curves with ease, and for the most part, i only leave a finger on the steering, just in case.
Their competitor[1] has $2.4B in orders from Easyjet, so there seems to be demand for the concept.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerion_AS2#Orders
Linguistically, there is no such thing possible that a native speaker not being a master of their languages. It is by definition true that all natives speakers who do not have intellectual disability are masters of their mother tongue and are idiomatic, except for idiosyncratic (personal/creative) phrases. However, the issue is, languages live as a complex cloud of many mutually intelligible dialects and argo. The language you learn in school can really not be the language you learned from your parent; that does not mean you're an imperfect native speaker. It is just the case that over the 19th century many nation states (such as Italy, Germany etc...) had to standardize their languages so that there is a way for all citizens understand each other; like a lingua franca except easier to learn.

Following this thought, it is possible for a non-native speaker to absorb the "formal" grammar of a language, however learning idiomatic speech and tiniest differences in connotation is a completely different deal. It is very plausible that a non-native speaker cannot master non-formal, "human" aspect of grammar.

Languages are formalized by people, so that we can teach them to other people. The assumption is that, although English is not a universal language, human brain has certain universal concepts, such as logic, that can be understood by everyone. Then we exploit this feature of this brain, we construct human languages as formal languages, so that we can study them. Purely speaking, languages are not formal objects, they're just whatever native speakers use to communicate.

We can use physics as an analogy. Surely the universe does not operate with mathematical formulas and calculations. Humans observe the nature, then build models that predict nature. And the more predictive a model is, the more useful it is. If you're designing a car Newtononian physics can be a very useful tool to understand the nature, but that doesn't mean nature, intrinsically, uses Newtonian physics to "behave". Similarly, we can observe human languages and construct imperfect models of them (grammar) after the fact. This is only good enough to explain 99% of the spoken language (good enough for all citizens to communicate).
Especially since they had this small precondition that they "were not struggling with serious substance use or mental health issues."
Not important, and just barely relevant, but "Let's Make a Deal" was Monty Hall's gameshow and it's still being made.
I envy your wife then ;)
Using "cultural norms" seems .. odd, those are waaaay more restrictive than pure legalistic viewpoints.

I mean, when we're talking about competing cultural norms, now you're including "fire in a theater", "think of the children", "I know it when I see it", "fighting words", taboos, morals, indecency, fighting words, Popper's intolerance of intolerance, "slippery slopes", and all kinds of restrictions on speech that aren't seated in anything but "cultural norms."

Better to stick with the legal arguments.
When you reach mastery you will usually end up breaking most rules. For starters, rules are meant to be one size fits all, but every body is unique which leads to different biomechanics. I knew a pianist who played Grieg concerto at the BBC Proms but she could barely stretch an octave. How she could play all the Chopin etudes from age 9 blows my mind.

Speaking of Chopin his first teacher wasn't much of a pianist and realised Chopin's ceiling was far greater than his own so left him to his own devices wrt technique. Chopin ended up unlocking new techniques on the keyboard which he crystallised in the etudes. He essentially wrote them for himself.

You will see rule breaking common amongst masters of a skill. In fight sports some of the best boxers have all kinds of bad habits - Inoue Naoya doing massive wind ups and Muhammad Ali dropping his hands. The rules are there to help us reach mastery but they shouldn't shackle you either.

To quote Bruce Lee

"Man is constantly growing, and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or ‘Way’ of doing things, that’s when he stops growing."

On the subject of Gould his touch is very fussy (although characteristic) and his humming can be frustrating at times. I prefer Perahia's Bach
In the early days of auto racing there were maximum weight limits--it was thought that more weight -> bigger engine -> faster car. Of course now things are just the opposite, to the point that race winners hope to collect enough loose bits of rubber ("marbles") to their super-sticky tires from the track during the victory lap to avoid penalty...
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