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They really don't (remain the gold standard, that is).

Don't get me wrong: I like RE2. However, it's 2-3 fairly standard ideas taped together in an idiosyncratic way that happens to work pretty well for Google and many other users.

I will confess (having designed Hyperscan), that it's 200-300 ideas ranging from 'boring as heck' to 'wildly non-standard' taped together in a idiosyncratic way that happens to work pretty well for a different subset of users (mostly in much more heavyweight network IPS cases)

I frankly think we're still waiting for a 'gold standard' in regular expression implementation. I daydream of a system that doesn't have the elephantine complexity of Hyperscan (and isn't inherently tied to x86) but still supports large scale regular expression matching and streaming. Ideally this system would also not have the weird "corners" of RE2 (dynamically constructing a DFA at run-time).

Even nicer: native support for 'difficult' constructs like backtracking - by native I mean "one integrated algorithm" not "first one run approach, then run the other from scratch if the fast path matches".
Not quite robotics, but some of our servers kept powercycling , had to plug in the physical terminal.

It was close to lunch, so I kept eating.

The finale was a jar of mayo spilled into the guts of a 50k server. Best mayo I ever had.
It's not one server, he's obtained control over the whole Freenode network.
This story is about Brad Smith. Attitudes can change, but he probably didn't body-swap Schmidt
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sqrt%28n%29%3D%28ld+n%... indeed goes to 620 Mio
This is simply amazing. I expect to spend hours on this with the kids. Thanks!
Very cool. Out of curiosity, wonder how much power it uses while running? :)
IMO the web today is kind of like a shared OS that desktops/smartphones/even consoles can access, and a data transit system that everything can access. And I really like this.

Of course most webpages are just documents (e.g. blogs, threads), which only need HTML/CSS/minimal JS. But honestly, having the ability to just type in a URL from any device, anywhere, and get random data, or even a full application, is amazing.

Also, HTML/CSS/JS has evolved and added new features to fix a lot of what was originally bad design. And we have tons of libraries to fix essentially everything. You can write Kotlin.js/React/TailwindCSS and be programming in almost a completely different system.

But a big issue with the current web is all of the legacy content. Everything still has to be built on top of HTML/CSS/JavaScript, and most of their quirks from the old days still have to be supported. From my basic understanding of networks I also assume HTTP/TCP isn't ideal.

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So if I could "reinvent" the web, I would make it a VM. Like what the JVM kind of tried to do. Although I would absolutely ensure that this is a security-first VM - optimizations (maybe of "trusted" bytecode) can come later, but first we need security over speed. Every site would basically be an executable.

But on top of that, there would be common languages and environments similar to HTML/CSS, React, etc. (of course hopefully improved), which compile into this bytecode. A compiler that creates bytecode which basically says "this is JSON (but actually a better, more compact version of JSON), here it is: 001000...)", and the VM would be designed so that this compiler is nearly instant, the data is compact, reading is nearly instant, since this would be common. A DSL and/or design app specialized for making blogs, another for forums, another for splash pages, etc.

And of course the web would evolve. We would probably get things wrong at first, so new languages / tools would come out later. Compiled "websites" would have a version number and the bytecode itself would upgrade, bytecode v4.0 would probably be a lot different than bytecode v1.0. Like how the web evolves now.

Except we'd be much better at "dropping" legacy features (since we can upgrade the bytecode OR tools), and have no more weird stuff to support. Hopefully we'd also have better tools for creating common websites than we have now, and these tools won't do weird things like e.g. simple blog posts with insane amounts of JS and polyfills.

Also a drawback is that bad code like malware and advertisements might be harder to spot, because it's bytecode not JavaScript. But honestly, JavaScript is already obfuscated and the code does weird things to hack / track you. And I need to reiterate, the VM would be security-first: potential dangerous or tracking operations would probably have special bytecodes or something to make them easy to spot, and they would need to request access which browsers could deny.

Anyways, that's my ambitious idea on how to reinvent the web. I'm sure something like that has / is being tried, lmk if you know something.
> Waymo runs self driving cars today in very specific locations.

Specific locations where the streets are practically tracks.
Self-driving cars are much much better, but they are not "intelligent" in any sense of that word
You forgot "very generic comment praising golang / rust on a deep technical post on how to do something specific in golang / rust". This is borderline cringe.
Stuff like this reminds me of the situation with healthcare, mental health and prisons.

The US is reluctant to set up welfare and social systems in a proactive way but then the situation can't be ignored and they end up spending way more money on some band aids. Probably a lot of people who cost insane amounts of money while in prison could helped be much cheaper with drug addiction treatment and other mental health care. Same with homelessness. No subsidized living spaces so people end up on the street which then costs more than the subsidized living would have cost.

Health care is the same. People believe universal health care is too expensive and somehow the country ends up with by far the most expensive health system per capita in the world with worse results.
Have you ever lived in Florida? Lots of homeless end up there because it’s warm and nice. It’s kind of interesting talking to folks and learn their stories. I don’t know the percentage, but I literally knew people who would move around cities in the urban sprawl over who had the best food, etc.
I'd imagine having a strict boundary between "software thing that calculates how much you need" and "robot thing that mixes stuff together" would help, and you'd set up guardrails and unit tests on the calculation part.

Worst case you could have physical guardrails such as "can't take more than x mg per week" in the form of only supplying a certain amount of raw materials and topping off intermittently. If you run out you find out sooner instead of a month later.
This is amazing, outstanding project! Interestingly, I got it "stuck" when I clicked somewhere random in California (Pope Valley, apparently): https://i.imgur.com/deOsIt2.png
Victoria’s ridiculous tax on Electric Vehicles has passed, starts July
My first ten minute as a lab instructor in a full intro to computing class. I was standing talking and backed up a bit stepping on the leg of my swivel chair. I fell right on my ass hard. Cracked a joke but the whole class of about forty students didn't laugh or say a word. Was rough and I was showing some code at the time and I blame this on the code to this day.
Er, a trillion miles is one sixth of a light year. The article itself certainly must not have referred to a trillion miles.
This would be a lot more convincing if the number was double what it is.
one area is the "point in time homeless surveys" here: https://hsh.sfgov.org/about/research-and-reports/san-francis... the data can be a little hard to interpret for different categories/parts of the report. For instance, when 10% of the respondents say they have been homeless for 30 days or less, you can extrapolate this and assume that this same number of people is rotating in and out of homelessness frequently and over a year the number of homeless in this bit is 12x the number in the point in time survey. I picked up a lot of this through volunteering and participating in homeless social services and doing housing related activism.
Yes. And "democrat" != "actually liberal".

The guy in the white house, sending Israel billions of dollars in aid while the Israeli government massacres civilians is a democrat, for fuckssake.
I’ve read all the books and S4 was my favorite so far as it didn’t look as cheesy (the first few seasons have that “syfy” tint to them, which is strange considering they have the same budget) but S5 was not good, imo, which sucks because it’s probably my second favorite book. Too much filler it really should have been 8 episodes tops.
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You forgot the factory that builds the factory that builds the factory to call get on. I’m sure you’ll need a StringBuilder or two too! ;)
Wow that's a phenomenal effort! It's surprisingly complex converting between regexp dialects.
The "consequences" thing is one of my biggest pet peeves.

Literally everything is a consequence of something else. If you cut someone off in traffic, they might hunt you down and shoot you. That is a possible consequence. It doesn't mean it's a just or appropriate consequence or that we as a society should allow it.
The latter. AI is like any other technology, it can make the world a better place in the right hands or destroy it when it is in the hands of children like governments and greedy corporations.
So, AI is scary because China?

How about we focus on Big Tech's attempts to subvert democracy before attempting to export what remains of American democracy?
Today's new expensive housing will indirectly create more cheap housing in the pre-existing housing stock, by pulling demand out of the market.

Only if people actually live in those houses, and they're bought by people living in the cheaper houses right now who then move up in to the new housing stock.

If people buy the new houses as investments and leave them empty most of the year then it has no impact on the rest of the housing market, or if people from outside buy them and move to the city then it just increases the population of the city with no effect on the lower social strata. This is precisely what happens in places like London. There's a boom in house building but it's often apartments bought by foreign investors (allegedly for money laundering... ).

Directly building more social housing would have a far greater impact than trying to affect cheap housing stock by 'trickle down' methods.
You can use a seedbox and then download via sftp. The seedbox is exposed and the service takes the piracy notices.

This eliminates exposing your IP from torrents and the file being downloaded.

For a site like HN, I'm really surprised at this discussion.
Interesting, always like Roam but couldn't convince myself to pay $15 a month for writing "cool notes". Notion is good but the "connecting" part is not as good/fancy as Roam. Just tried out Innos Note and this seems to be in the right spot.
I recommend reading Curtis Yarvin's recent writing on this exact topic [1].

[1]: https://graymirror.substack.com/p/there-is-no-ai-risk
Assuming the infrastructure is there to support it. Developers are more than happy to pass costs onto the government/taxpayer while keeping the profit, such as by building enormous neighborhoods with a single access road or in high risk flood zones. My brother's neighborhood is right now dealing with a developer who is building a 500-unit housing project whose only entrance and exist is the two lane road in front of his house. They'd have direct access to the highway except for the fact they're too cheap to bridge a five foot wide creek.
Facebook dark mode on mobile missing for some users
I don't think it's implying anything like that — it's just implying that there is better UX somewhere out there in the design space.
Mandatory "do some research before jumping to freaking out at GitHub for 'spyware.'"

Yes technically you could use OT to exfiltrate data; guess what, you can do it with http headers, too.

Been using OpenTelemetry for python and golang. It's great. I really like using Jaeger for tracing across small ML webapps. We have users on the scale of dozens so I just trace everything without sampling. Way, way easier than going through logs.

Also used python + jaeger to narrow down some wifi issues on my home network. Basically run a server on each device and round-robin a request through each and look at the flame graph. Turns out, some Macs' location preferences can cause 500-800ms outage multiple times an hour, as it tries to scan know AP ssids or something. Yeah, dumb.
Yes one that I could also ride on bike paths and park wherever I want. I would typically own the lane if it wasn't safe to pass or if there was potential for the door prize from parked cars on the side.
The ideal case is not sending naked fotos online, if you'd be embarrassed by that kind of thing. and I would never trust any kind of technology to keep medical or legal secrets. I generally assume that anything I submit to a remote server may be compromised and released at some point.

You always have to place absolute trust in someone, even Google. It doesn't matter what Eric Schmidt says. You're trusting dozens of companies with your privacy and your secrets every day, whether you realize it or not
Good lord I cannot believe this is being downvoted. If HN wants to defend that Scott Adams dork for his weird ass beliefs in his magical sexual powers, it says way more about the downvoters than the comment. Where's the defense? I'd really love to hear it right now.
Do you have something better to show harassment? That post doesn't appear to. As far as I can tell it's about an account that replied to people patting themselves on the back with clap symbols, which seems rather benign. Although I may just be too removed from twitter and people who use twitter culture to get it.
Get a seedbox and download the files over sftp from it. All your ISP will see is a large transfer, no file names or knowledge of content.
> Regular expressions in modern programming languages are far more powerful than the ones defined in the formal theory of languages.

That's why I always say "RegEx" instead of "regular expression" - to highlight this difference.
Same is true of tobacco. One reason vaping is effective at reducing nicotine consumption is that the addictiveness is highly modulated by MAOIs.
grow up
This. I’ve read them all but my god is the writing terrible, or at least half of it. It’s written by two guys one who is a big sci-fi fan/writer who writes all the good characters (Bobby, Avasarala to name two of my favorites.) But the other guy, Daniel Abrahams, is a horrible writer imo and his shit writing bleeds through. I’ll also add that they can’t really write women and it seems like it’s written by two male nerds who didn’t engage with many women before meeting their wives (which is why they write women best when there’s no relationships involved.)
Unfixable Apple M1 chip bug enables cross-process chatter, breaking OS security
Nix is probably the slowest and is missing many packages. It's Kool-Aid for the cool kids. MacPorts was good until everyone started using Homebrew. Homebrew has some weird quirks that drive me crazy, but it mostly works and is up to date. I tried pkgsrc and liked it, but a few common packages were weirdly named and it didn't have some Mac specific stuff.

Some new package manager that's a mix of pkgsrc, brew, and MacPorts would be awesome. Especially if portable and could somehow also replace nvm, rbenv, pythonenv, and things of that nature.
I haven't ever hurt myself with my own code, but I have done the reverse. I work on COVID research, and one of the programs I maintain involves pulling the data on all our the COVID patients and vaccine recipients enrolled in our study. One day, it was my turn to get the vaccine, and I also volunteered to enroll in the study myself. However, they were unable to find a vein to take a blood sample, so my enrollment was cancelled. After I received the vaccine, I went back to my home office and continued working on my program, which immediately crashed.

I drilled down on the offending database record, looking in the demographic data to see if something was wrong. After staring at it for a few moments, I realized that the demographic data looked... familiar. And then it hit me: my own enrollment record from that day had been left in an inconsistent state in the database that my program was pulling the study data from, due to the failure to collect a blood sample. This resulted in my program crashing on the inconsistent data. So I had to add a special case to my program to handle my own failed study enrollment from earlier that same day.
Good read, although for anyone with a sense of geography it seems hardly "unexpected".
Surely you jest.

Source 1: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/01/americans-m...

Source 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-peZ7IeD2w
It sounds like there's hope for you, especially since you are now aware of what you wish to mindfully pursue.

I'd suggest that you not beat yourself up over the past, and always, always keep in mind the Creative Gap:

https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/02/22/ira-glass-on-the-se...
It’s like looking at one’s own knowledge network, with a sense of accomplishment!
It's inevitable.
Yes and you have to be especially wary of cars turning across in front of you. Always paranoid and assuming they'll do the worst.
For me having been on the inside so to speak in the AI industry, what I fear is systems that so radically shift the balance of user power before the users (or victims) are even aware of the new technology. We need an industry ethics standard of a very terse nature and a whistleblowing nonprofit. Congress's legislative process is too comprimised by k-street for that angle to be very effective.
I think you got it the other way around. Christianity is Judaism + New Testament. Judaism is old testament.
What are your first and second choices?
I don't want to cast the central concern as trivial, because it's real, BUT, c'mon, "beating China in AI is imperative?" Grow up. To "beat" anybody (and for that matter to have any sort of claim to deserving to "win" anything), you would want to "beat China at Not-Being-A-Repressive-Dystopia" wouldn't you? Perhaps including "beating China at Not-Using-AI-To-Be-A-Repressive-Dystopia?"
It's just so unfortunate that there's so much focus on p2p/distributed internet protocols, and so little focus on local/nearby connectivity.

This is a very very rare example of someone not assuming the now-classic role of connectivity being an access point plus clients, and it's for such good, such a basic advancement.

Both AirDrop and Nearby Share have captured the market on another form of local connectivity, but both rely upon deep deep integration with centralized identity service, both are locked to a very limited set of OS'es. Yet both are built around semi-standard specifications that few others have tapped or tried to use. That used to be wifi-p2p or the proprietary-itized Wifi Alliance wifi-direct spec, but now there's also Neighbor Aware Networking (wifi-nan), which is yet another amazing capability basically untapped except by a couple remote few.

We just need more torchbearers. wifi-p2p has been semi usable by anyone, but never gotten far. neighbor aware networking alas has been a proprietary thing, only accessible to the paid up expensive Wifi Alliance members, what a waste. but trying to re-assess, trying to advance connectivity, beyond the narrow spectrums, beyond the deliberate, small bounds we have wifi connectivity now: it seems like such an obvious moral imperative. and, as shown here, there are some sincere technical advantages to exploring the alternatives. not relaying all traffic through a central access point can be a good boon. yet that's where we've been morally stuck. i think we need to stop relying on products & software, need to do like these chiefs, & advance ourselves.

beyond the latency advantage, i would love so much to have some means to hail & open ports to those nearby & about me.
I believe HTTP GET is "nullipotent", meaning that accessing a resource 0 times is supposed to be the same as accessing it once or more. So I don't think it's appropriate for actions like "lights on".
Math does not add up.

1/3 would over time vastly out number the 2/3 group unless the two third group is growing exponentially.
This is the personal responsibility narrative which is pushed by industry because it conveniently absolves them of responsibility for setting up a system which locks in high carbon usage.

Most of the necessary changes are too big for individual people: we don’t have direct control over heavy polluting companies, a large fraction of our personal energy footprints are things like inefficient transportation and housing designs which are strongly encouraged if not required by public policy, etc. For businesses, there’s a prisoner’s dilemma where nobody wants to take on the cost of rearchitecting ahead of their competitors.

This is especially important with the fossil fuel companies who don’t just sell materials but actively work to prevent alternatives. Companies like Exxon have known about the risks since the 1970s, when their own scientists concluded global warming would happen, and their response was to lobby hard against efforts to use less CO2 and astroturf an entire network of faux-experts whose talking points are all over the news. Just as with the tobacco companies, suing is appropriate and effective.
Concerning since, "Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Dry-Touch Water Resistant and Non-Greasy Sunscreen Lotion with Broad Spectrum SPF 100+" is the #1 best-selling sunscreen on Amazon. Maybe I'll just stick to my CeraVe for now.
> Unfortunately as the Tiktaalik mentioned, we have a housing shortage now. So the trickle-down economics of luxury housing won't work for at least a generation.

What data are you basing this claim off of? Many people (especially young people in finance and tech) move every few years, and some of them want luxury apartments. That reduces the demand for cheaper housing stock. A 25 y/o moving to SF isn't going to buy an apartment and stay there for their entire life.
Lois Ehlert just died too. She was 86.
That's a fair call, there's certainly places in the states that treat it as yet another utility rather than an investment.

From my experience in Asia the attitude is so wildly different, they build more houses than is ever needed, people can run stores and sell basic goods out of their spare front room for a few hours a day as side income.

I'm not familiar with local laws in the US but in Australia you'd get fined a few thousand dollars trying to sell groceries from a house in suburbia, many have to get in their cars and travel a few km to the designated "commercial" area simply to buy some bread. There's a lot the West could learn from the East yet we are far too stubborn to actually do it.
Request ID! I added that to the Amazon web servers about 20 years ago! My code probably doesn’t exist anymore but it’s funny to see it referenced on HN this many years later.
Cricut Design Space is down
Cricut Design space requires you to be logged in and on the internet to use your cricut machine. Auth.cricut.com has been offline for 2 hours with no acknowledgement from the company or an update to their status.cricut.com website. Every user is locked out from using their machine right now.