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Servless and threads don't combine, it is like trying to use threads in CGIs.
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> “few public figures, if any, draw the direct connection between the expensive barricades around scientific research and the conspicuous epistemic collapse of significant portions of the American political discourse.”

That’s because it’s a major claim that has to be defended, not simply declared. On its face the claim seems absurd to me.
The article presents algorithmic summarization as an alternative philosophy or paradigm to probabilistic modeling, but the thing is: we model when we have no choice but to model, which is any time when we can't perform a randomized experiment. I don't know a single statistician (and I'm in a department full of them) who would object to simple comparisons of two groups and few who would find the need to complicate the analysis by coming up with a full-blown causal mechanistic model, so really the author is arguing against people who don't exist.
I just skimmed through your link. Subinterpreters have been in the C api for a long time and never got around the GIL, and reading over the post that you linked — nothing has really changed.
The issues you're presenting seem real for some, but enthusiasts seem to be making it work[1: post from yesterday].

I like the call in your last point, but personally I think an innovation like 360 degree resizable and movable windows is a reasonable step up from where we're currently at. It would be nice to integrate the work we do into physical space a bit more though. I've wondered about doing practical programming work in an infinifactory-type[2] interface. I don't think it's necessarily a good idea, but it'd be fun to see attempts at no-code tooling embedded in the space.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28678041
[2] https://www.zachtronics.com/infinifactory/
Until people discovered the security and program stability issues that come with using them.

It was a cool idea that turned out not so be so great after all.

There is a reason why all major language runtimes are moving into thread agnostic runtimes, while security critical software and plugins are back into processes with OS IPC model.
> here news is equally often about US military presence in the South China Sea.

You're misreading your news. The US is doing miliary manuvers in international waters specifically to asser that they are not near the coast of China and are free travel for all. Meanwhile, the Chinese are claiming islands that are no theirs (or building islands out of the sea floor) and putting military installations on those islands. They then claim that as part of China, and trying to assert more ownership of the ocean because of that. The US doing maneuvers near them is a statement that those claims are not recognized.

The British recently did the same thing in waters near Crimea to deny Russia's ownership.
In some countries/eras the next generation is reliably much taller than the parents as non genetic factors dominate.

I'm not sure how the numbers play out but would expect that to be a big confounding factor given changes in global poverty.
http://www.righto.com/2012/02/apple-didnt-revolutionize-powe...
What I find disgusting about this as an Australian is that Singapore is taking advantage of the plethora of sunlight we get down under, but our own boneheaded coal-loving government isn't making any significant moves to renewable or green energy.

Props to Singapore
They should probably talk to someone who knows something about ergonomics–the way his neck was craning to look at those vertical "screens" looked painful
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How feasible is it to unload and reload a truck in time, if police can be dispatched almost immediately? You can't take the entire trailer in an era of tiny and cheap gps trackers.
To answer your question it is the leftist party line he is refusing to tow.
If only humans could somehow thrive outside tribal identity groups. If only atomized unbounded skepticism turned cynicism were a long term solution.
They were actually notoriously unreliable. I went 6 months without one for lack of money to replace mine. Using the ST without a mouse involved holding the Alt and arrow keys down, and man did that suck.
I have a question. Why? How it will improve my multi-monitor setup? I see only potential cons here. Wearing headset all day. It doesn't sound good for your neck and eyes, at all.
If I remember rightly, this incident was the motivating factor for adding "save failing images" capability to our software.
Well, fair enough. To split hairs ever finer, though...

Placebo is present in all circumstances, as is nocebo.

Regression to the mean is a statistical phenomenon. It can help aid understanding of the size and role of placebo effects, but it isn't a part of the placebo effect. Ditto data collection and analysis.

But yeah, I'm probably splitting hairs :)
As did Logic.
Why Are We Still Carrying Wallets?
I find that number so shocking that I question the methodology behind it. 140 million is nearly half of all Americans.

I can see nearly half of all Americans regularly engaging with SOME Facebook property, if you include Instagram and WhatsApp, etc. But the original old Facebook itself? In the 2020’s? I don’t know a single person who still uses that.
Yep,

Ikea in Ljubljana (slovenia), vilesse (italy) and klagenfurt (austria)... no mobile reception inside. They have wifi, if you remember to connect to it.
Read The Phoenix Project, the DevOps Handbook and the Google SRE book, then hire an SRE and listen to them
I never understood why we (in the US) treat eyes differently for insurance purposes. I can’t think of any medical device for which it makes more sense to have a single payer system. The positive social externalities from having a populace who is able to see is enormous and would more than pay for itself. Things like car accidents, workplace related injuries, better school outcomes, etc.

But for some reason we’ve gone the complete opposite direction. Not only is eyesight not single payer it’s somehow been excluded from most health insurance and the vision plans that do exist aren’t particularly helpful.
I could not figure how to get OBS to record a zoom call when either party shares their screen. It needs to record the shared screen. Spent hours searching obscure forums to no avail. If anyone can point to a solution (MacOS) I will be grateful.
Strong iPhone 13 Demand Sees Taiwan Suppliers Prioritize Apple over Rivals
I've always been unclear of the difference between all the terms. Whats the diff between "ping", "jitter" and "latency"?
Excited for this! I know it's early, but everything was early once - VR will definitely be one of the next big computing interfaces, and we need alternatives from the current options being put out by Big Tech.
I don't think so. Belief in a supernatural god is literally training your brain to suspend disbelief. This makes you more susceptible to conspiracy theories and other mental viruses.
Change jobs. The job market is fantastic right now.
Which features are we talking about? Bluetooth? NFC? Contacts? Because native apps enjoy all of them, AFAIK. These same features tend to have extra protections built in that native apps do not to ensure privacy and security. The web is extremely paranoid when implementing these features.

From what I've learned, WebKit is not engaging in discussions regarding these new features. They could have a say in shaping the web, come up with alternatives, new features, etc. Instead they dig in their heels.

If Safari needs "the requirement of iOS users using it" to hold back Chrome, it tells us people actually want to switch.

Letting Apple decide what's best for us (for reasons that have nothing to do with "what's best for us", I think is safe to assume) is not the solution for the monolith browser problem we're seeing.
The Future of Crypto: Shared Value Creation
> It’s social utility seems to have dwindled to almost zero

Unless you live entirely in their Messenger app, which I do. The timeline is full of contraganda, spam, and things like `Tell me your favorite color without saying it` bullshit
My neck hurts already just watching that teaser video...

Looks cool though!
What if trigger warnings don't work
It's pretty important to check, especially if you stare at monitors all day like the HN crowd. You may have a small impairment that's not noticeable. Except you'll notice you're far less tired after a day's work when you correct it.

Source: discovering my astigmatism (with about zero dioptries) only at 29.
actually it's only the light part. recent studies from South Korea and Australia find, that lack of light exposure causes vision impairment
I'm debugging a embedded system, and have three different minicom sessions going on, looking at the simultaneous output of the various consoles.

In general, I often have up to 10 tabs open on Gnome terminal, and a GNU screen session in each with up to 10 screens. Maintaining lots of context.

Within a single GNU screen session, I'll often have a build window, some editing windows for code, editing windows for config files, etc.
Wow, just skimmed over a few articles in the series and they seem very nice and well researched. Congratulations.
I somehow slipped through the UK eye-test system with -5 astigmatism until the age of 12.

I was 12 when I first saw a leaf on a tree.
UK 150 military drivers will be delivering fuel to ease petrol supply issues
JRuby also runs it quite fast, although I think does require some warmup measured in minutes, until it is almost C like.
Making bracket pair colorization faster
What if you are a better-than-average driver?
Packaging a movie is something that only needs to be done once right? Like filming the shots, hiring the actors, and writing the script?

So why does a few hours matter in a total process which is many months or even years?
This article (and the whole topic behind it) is so inane, it's like the fall of civilization...
seriously? i can set up a matrix server for private, family use only on that linode $5 servers now? holy shit that is awesome.
I guess you're right, maybe it should be they would prefer the normal levels of freedom we associate with human dignity and adulthood.
> Shy away from authority-based arguments. Saying that such and such is true because such and such individual says so, is counterproductive because the other side can do the same and the debate will be sterile. You can and should provide references and sources, but for the facts and arguments that they carry, not for their authority.

Isn't that contradictory ? At some point, if I provide references and sources, it's ultimately because I trust the authors to be authoritative (because of their expertise, not because of their positions.)

Otherwise, any source I provide will be met with "yeah, sure, scientist Y wrote so in journal X, but journal X has been wrong before, so your source is wrong."
In higher dimensions, you could do a series of 1d regressions, something like this:

1. Regress x1 against y. Call your curve f1(x1).

2. Regress x2 against (y - f1(x1)). Call your curve f2(x2).

3. Regress x3 against (y - f1(x1) - f2(x2)). Call your curve f3(x3).

4. etc.

You'd have to use your computer to read the curves and recompute the residuals each iteration, but there still isn't any algorithmic machine learning.

I suspect this would work pretty well, but it would struggle when there are strong interactions between the different input variables.
Almost all top pages on Facebook are run by foreign bot or troll farms. This isn't news.
This is pretty interesting. We should all know this by now, but it's a nice reminder. Outrage sells, and when sites must increase clicks and "engagement," they will necessarily be generating outrage.
85 lbs. One bag of cement + a margin. This covers most tools, a bale of hay, a bag of feed, a big bag of cement.
Probably acceptance. You can create that platform, but I wouldn't want to use it personally.

But I see room for that. I would prefer it for kids until they reach a certain age so they can decide themselves. Given, I would have a lot of requirements for the identity provider. This requires a lot of trust and I don't really see many on the horizon here.

But universally for the net it would be a huge setback. It would end up like TV and interactivity isn't the only reason it got less popular.
I run a script to autotag my Diigo bookmarks. (Using their API).
For now it's only at the c level, with a python api in discussion: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0554/

The idea is that the python code interpreter would not rely on global variables anymore, so that you can instantiate it several times.

The GIL is tied to the interpreter, meaning 2 threads in 2 different interpreters do not share a gil, and can be schedule on different CPU.
First, I don't think the other conversation partner will particularly like you for doing that. Second, it's not constructive. Why do you think people have to underpin a specific stance more and more?
I don't use either on a plane, can't sleep with facemasks, and I hate things in my ear.

However it's not the noise. A plane rarely has turbulence - you can board a plane at midnight in Singapore, put the bed back after a nightcap about 2am singapore time, get a good 8 hours, and wake for an early breakfast, with no disturbance as everyone else is either asleep or sat in their seat.

On a sleeper from say London to Aberdeen you are woken by various stops and the noise on the platform (Crewe, Preston, Carlisle), and then again by shunting and banging at Edinburgh as trains are coupled and decoupled.
No but any credible claim that the US has to defending interests in SEA / East Asia would evaporate once that happened. China understands this. If Taiwan goes, then that's it for the US's Asia strategy.
I'm not suggesting that it prevent you from being able to enter specific strings of characters. I think I made that clear by comparing this to a SQL injection issue. After all, how would SQL sites and forums discuss SQL without being able to store and display SQL excerpts?

I'm suggesting that surely these widgets and respective browser engines that enable them would be mature enough to not ineluctably evaluate anything that's entered.
There are a lot of apps that would benefit from being offline first.

Apps like Notion feels quite sluggish to me on a higher latency 15mbps. And Figma is pretty bad on a decent 3g when loading files on a fresh load.

Building a proper syncing solution isn't that simple especially when it's for multidevice and requires conflict handling. Replicache looks quite good to me but I haven't found any similar solution that's opensource with MIT/GPL license.
I only realized I needed glasses at 16 (and only started at 17), who knows how long I've been complaining the whiteboard markers are done and needed to be replaced. it's like living with gaussian blur filter.
>Inconsistencies and contradictions are found as much in science as they are found in religion.

I dont think its "as much" but anyway, science works to resolve these tensions, regardles of personal believes.
You had to reach for the edges of scientific progress to come up with these examples, whereas i was speaking of the foundation of religion.
Sorry, which languages? Go has shared memory multiprocessing, so does Rust, C#, Java...
wow the system really dropped the ball on this one
I hold conflicted views on this issue. I don't want to inhibit authors from publishing, as I love books. But often they are too expensive. So, about 50% of the time I pay for them, and 50% of the time I get them from sci-hub.

And certainly paying for scientific articles is a big rip off. It effectively means that once you are no longer enrolled or working at a university, your access to this paywalled information is gone.
This is nice and all, but since the dropping in price of larger monitors / TVs, it doesn't seem that practical.

Right now I'm using a 42in LG 4K TV as my monitor, and I've mostly gotten used to it. One thing is that since I'm older, it is nice to push the monitor further away from me than I had in the past, so the monitor itself is on a file cabinet (with an adjustable stand) not sitting on my desk itself.

TVs are not monitors, and it took a bit of fiddling with the TV settings (game console mode, turn off overscan) and drivers on the desktop side, but I'm fairly pleased with the setup these days. I really like having additional vertical space for editing windows.
It does yes, although pickle is pretty fast, it's still a penalty.
There's a bunch of old guys from Norway here for you, complaining that your name was already taken.
I noticed the same thing.

I don't think I "debate" much anymore. At least, not with the intention that I assume most people have when debating: changing the other's opinion.

Instead, I try to focus on understanding the other person's point of view as thoroughly as possible. I found that backtracking until the last point on which you both agree and then moving from there seems to be the most efficient. Whenever you disagree on something, make sure you're all making the same assumptions.

One tip to do this well is to rephrase what the person just said and ask if that's what they meant. If not, they'll elaborate. You won't even have to ask. If it was right, try to formulate your misunderstanding as a question instead of an affirmation.

For example:

"I understand that you feel y. Considering x (the point you both agreed on), what do you think of z (what you believe follows from x)?"
Why having a database if you can go without it?
I think something was lost during the last decades.

There we were using a mix of high level languages, with some C and Assembly along the way.

Some of us have watches more powerfull than they were, and yet there is this resitence to use more developer friendly languages like those used to be.

Like, probably someone would tell you that using Basic to code an ESP32 would be wrong, yet you experienced how good the development experience felt like in a similarly constrained hardware.
So, you do better if you can see?
1. Not sure how this is a problem.

2. Again, not a problem. Everyone should be using a pass manager.

3. If you use the same domain/email for your banks (or any other financial/important service) as you do for social media/gaming/whatever, then that's on you.
It's basic security practice to separate the important things so basic hacks like the one you mention are useless.

4. The purpose of this is basic privacy and security, not to be truly hidden.
Depending on the person, your flat either has an annoying bug or a fantastic feature.
For me personally, my main concern would be text readability. It was probably an older model, but on a Vive I played games on for a good while I was struggling to read text on the game's HUD (Elite Dangerous). Pixelation in the center was also an issue, but manageable.

I get by my workday nowadays with minimal head movement, enough to avoid it getting stuck but I don't have to crane around too much. That's probably not an issue in a VR environment either though, since your primary thing will be in front of you as well.

Comfort is another one, I think I'd like to be more reclined if I didn't have to look at a screen. But then I'm worried about muscle atrophy, I don't do enough sports and exercise as it is.
good question!

depending on the project, it'll normally be browser for reference (or if its web based testing as well, but thats rare)

then I have about between 1/2 and 2/3rds of the screen space left to have terminals in.

I'll have one/two long terminals open with vim for the main file(s) I'm working on, then 1-4 smaller terminals for running the program/tests. if its a big project, then more terminals for reference (ie library one, library two etc.).

Think of it more as having a really big desk, with loads of copies of the same reference book open to different pages. Its quicker to glance than it is to alt-tab. For me (and i'm not claiming this is a universal trait) that flash of screens where we switch context from one full screen to the other makes me loose context on what I'm working on.

I have virtual monitors as well, all split into contexts, so one will have email/slack/$messenger one will have "personal" internets (ie timewasting sites) and a professional browser, thats logged into company services. If I'm doing graphics, then drawing/editing screens as well.

I used to be a proponent of many monitors. I bought a matrox parhelia new to support triple monitors when they came out. (yes I am that old). However due to the way my mind works, I found that with three screens I would end up in a spinlock with two browsers open, one in each monitor, and not do any work.
All the more reason to incentivize real-world use of other approaches. "This is how we've always done it" is poor reasoning, whether it's about blockchain or lead pipes or asbestos.
This way, you don't have to defend or argue for you stance at all - or even define it.

So, another reason why they end debate quickly is that you created highly asymmetrical situation, in which you don't do the work of "being able to explain why". And of course with enough of why you will reach their limit at some point without exposing yours.

People who are not experienced negotiators will realize what is going on, but wont be able to turn the situation around.
OT: starting with covid, Netflix reduced bitrate to relieve stress on overloaded networks. Did they ever reverse this? Video still looks overly compressed to me, so much so that I find it annoying.
A Prehistory of DAOs
Journals don't actually sell editorialization though. They sell exclusive access to content. They claim the content is valuable because they curate/editorialize it. But the core offering isn't the curation. It's the exclusive access.

They could offer the curation without the exclusive access and I'm sure many scientists would pay for that curation.
Can't you use SQLite in the way that's proposed here? Or Firebase (Firestore / Firebase Realtime) with persistence enabled? [0]

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61315478/what-is-the-bes...
It's good to see more 5G SDR for Enterprise. This will accelerate adoption.

It is now super easy to get 5G frequencies in Europe for private use. See for example https://campusnetzplaner.kn.e-technik.tu-dortmund.de/ where you buy your spectrum online in one click. In France, you can get your private N38 spectrum for 150€/month/km2

And the hardware is just as easy to build and run. With less than two cores of a low-end i5 CPU, Amarisoft stack and SlapOS edge OS, we could manufacture for Rapid.Space our own 5G base station which delivers 5G over N78. There is still enough room inside to run a software PLC next to the gNodeB. See the pictures of the assembly process and what's inside:

https://handbook.rapid.space/provider/rapidspace-ORS.Assembl...

The PC is a standard IPC from Taiwan (Commell) and the SDR is open source hardware from FDL https://www.fdl-lef.org/projects/

I hope we will see more open source hardware for 5G base stations with different sorts of CPUs doing the radio processing (AMD, Zhaoxin, ARM, RISC V) without the need of accelerator components. 5G radio signal processing can be nowadays entirely done in software and it is not so hard thnaks to SIMD instructions found in most CPUs. I have even seen recently a sample of a fully software defined array of antenas (32T32R) with 100 MHz bw, entirely implemented with software.