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Hi, author of Bun here

> they were leveraging the ubiquity of C ABI - via zig - to leverage JavascriptCore, and looking into V8 bindings, and focusing on lightning fast hot reloading instead of reinventing parsing

This isn’t entirely correct. Bun embeds JavaScriptCore similarly to how Node.js embeds V8. Bun doesn’t use JavaScriptCore for parsing and there are no plans for V8 bindings.

Bun uses a new JavaScript parser based on esbuild’s JavaScript parser but ported (by me) to Zig. There are very few large external libraries in use by Bun — just JavaScriptCore.

Extremely fast hot module reloading is a priority though :)
And the bigger AGX Xavier has a PCIe 4.0 x8 slot at the top, a PCIe 4.0 x4 M2 connector sandwiched in for NVMe and a x1 M2 one for a Wi-Fi adapter.

Was among the earliest launched PCIe 4.0 platforms.
Because one of the basic axioms of equivalence relations (which equality should certainly be) is reflexivity; anything should be equal to itself, and other code will break if it isn't (e.g. in many languages you can corrupt a binary tree structure by inserting multiple NaNs into it, because they'll both compare less than each other).

Maybe there are legitimate use cases for that kind of comparison, but you shouldn't use the conventional == operator for it. I think OCaml avoids the problem by having separate operators for floats, and Rust sort-of does by having a distinction between PartialEq and Eq.
His next tweet is interesting.

> In other news I updated my phone to iOS 15 and put it down to charge last night. When I woke up it was hot, and my battery has gone from 100% to 15% since 7:30am. I gotta get off this ecosystem.

I mean, if you have tends of thousands of photos you accumulated over the years. I bet scan of these against CP lib will take some time and battery.
I think it's reasonable for the ad industry to assume that you bought the belt once you abruptly stopped showing interest in comparing belts for a couple of days. No access to purchase history needed.
For instance when science shows that burning fossil fuels causes environmental problems.

Rational preference would be to take that into account and consider risks and potential mitigation into the preference to keep using them.

What we observe in much of the political sphere however, is often just abject denial to maintain the current preference.
> I remember the original herd immunity was 60-70% and 70% was the high end. Then what's the herd immunity number?

The target is 100%-100%/R0.

The original COVID had an R0 of 3-ish, so 60-70% was plenty; delta has an R0 more like 8-9, so the new target is more like 90%.

Typical high-end infection rates were estimated at 25-35% of the population in most of the US after the second wave. 60% vaccination rates plus 35% infection rates gives you about 75% with some form of immunity, which was enough to shut down the original COVID, but not enough to shut down the Delta variant.
Yes, I had assumed SMT because they say they give you between 2-6 vCPUs. I assumed that meant 2,4, or 6 hyperthreads...where they could keep you from sharing a core with neighbors. But, seems you get real cores.
Overall success or failure rarely comes down to a single decision or single event. It's more about having enough compounding success and avoiding compounding failure.

Probably our worst failure was our 2016 outage where we were down for an entire week. I remember thinking we would lose a big portion of our customer base. What we did really well was our outage response and customer communication. We proactively reached out to customers, fully owned the mistake, and were very transparent about what was going on. As a result we didn't churn a single customer! I later heard that some investors passed on our Series B as a result of our outage. Which is so funny to hear that now because it's such a stupid criteria to evaluate a company. It just goes to show how much sheep mentality there is in the investing world. Here's the retro: https://amplitude.com/blog/amplitude-post-mortem

Product/product management is a new buying center in the enterprise. There will be a giant company built around selling to that function.
MiG is a Russian manufacturer?
Well, what you want me to say?
>who are the cult followers

Anyone who won’t accept that vaccines save lives
Is it using the firewall to block egress traffic? Or ingress?
The question isn't "was this specific level of capabilities available previously" but "did the introduction of new media technologies significantly disrupt the cultures into which they emerged?"

And the case that Eisenstein makes, at book length, is "yes".

She's building off earlier work (notably McLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy), and you can find numerous prior and subsequent references.

I've copiled a few here: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/7k7l4m/media_a...
I will add my two cents, which are that people don't tend to look until they are at least slightly dissatisfied with their current job, and then hop when they find a position with a high enough raise. That has been universally true in my circle of friends at least.
Mark Zuckerberg and Mike Schroepfer on Acquiring Instagram (2012)
Wow, I really appreciate you taking the time to thoughtfully answer these. Thank you!

There's no particular mantra I had in mind. Some examples would be to "do things that don't scale" or "fail fast" or to not focus on what your competitors are doing.

I understand there's no one-size-fits-all of course.. and I suppose that's the reason I'm asking. I'm curious what in your experience has turned out maybe counterintuitive or where you went against the grain. And what standard wisdom you may look back on and say: "Wow if we had done what everyone had advised us to do.. I don't think we would've ever gotten here."

Thank you and congrats again! Best wishes to you and Amplitude moving forward.
>infinitely informationally dense

That can't possibly be true, because then there would be no point to space and time. If a single location could hold an infinite amount of information, then the rest of reality would be redundant.

>hence there is an extemely firm footing on which to reject [the Matrix]

This seems to be the opposite of the conclusion that your premise implies. I'm the one that doesn't believe in matryoshka simulated universes, but infinite information density is what would make it possible, no?

If we lived in a non-discrete universe, why would computation be unable to exploit it?
Another feature about the Stripe docs that made me go "shit, these guys are good". When you are looking at the docs in your account, the "examples" will come from your own sandbox calls if you've made them. I remember the first time I saw that I was like "wait a second, that's my test data". I thought that was such a brilliant little touch, one of those things that immediately seemed like such a great idea that I wondered why I hadn't thought of it before.
Looks to small for a real cockpit bulge either way, unless it is a scaled model
The purpose of this particular device was to permit a vote in the National House of Representatives to be taken in a minute or so, complete lists being furnished of all members voting on the two sides of any question Mr. Edison, in recalling the circumstances, says: "Roberts was the telegraph operator who was the financial backer to the extent of $100. The invention when completed was taken to Washington. I think it was exhibited before a committee that had something to do with the Capitol. The chairman of the committee, after seeing how quickly and perfectly it worked, said: 'Young man, if there is any invention on earth that we don't want down here, it is this. One of the greatest weapons in the hands of a minority to prevent bad legislation is filibustering on votes, and this instrument would prevent it.' I saw the truth of this, because as press operator I had taken miles of Congressional proceedings, and to this day an enormous amount of time is wasted during each session of the House in foolishly calling the members' names and recording and then adding their votes, when the whole operation could be done in almost a moment by merely pressing a particular button at each desk. For filibustering purposes, however, the present methods are most admirable." Edison determined from that time forth to devote his inventive faculties only to things for which there was a real, genuine demand, something that subserved the actual necessities of humanity.
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/820/pg820.txt
Well, yes, but I had guessed based on them saying "between 2-6 vCPUs per Lambda". They could avoid single hyperthreads that way.
> because "if it is forbidden by authorities, it should be somehow true".

Note that that is incorrect, and ironically demonstrates a unjustifiably high degree of trust in authorities. Rather, if someone supports censoring something, it means that they believe that it[0]'s true. But that doesn't mean they're right - their revealed internal beliefs are no more infalliable than their externally claimed ones.

0: Technically, they believe that something in the general class of claims they're attempting to censor (eg some anti-vaxx claim, but not necessarily any of the specific ones that have actually been made) is true.
the reddit group for this about items in general and it is called, buy it for life. not exactly a market but just a subreddit for stuff that lasts longer.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/
Yeah - Martingale strategy is a good example of high win % strategy that doesn't work (unless you have infinite money)
I read this article three days ago, I've been sceptical for 72 hours
> I think that can be bundled into the efficacy number if you look at it as "efficacy against infecting others".

Absolutely, I'm just stressing it cause people have used the word 'efficacy' to measure lots of different things!
More specifically: Activation Lock. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201365
Yeah I also didn't know that "hard drive based audio players" was a thing :)

But I remember that ipod was awesome (comparing with the other players with shitty controls and sticky buttons). I hated apple products at the time (religion) but I was amazed by the quality and UI of ipod and the quality of ipad (took me and my kids many attempts and years to actually kill it).

I don't think any other product amazed me that much since then.
You go away. You go away right now and you think about what you’ve done.
Whats the point? You'll just debunk it with a bs "fact check"[1] article that links to outdated information or quotes people with outdated information and call it a day.

When the reality is:

- Spike proteins from the virus and the vaccine are in-arguably cytotoxic[2] (but the low load has not lead to any long term negative effects and you should still get vaxxed).

- Spike proteins do not stay near the injection site.[3][4] (only 20% of the dose is found to remain in the injection site after 48h)

The thing that fucks me off so much about this censorship from youtube is that it leads to the fact checkers becoming gospel, the same fact checkers that have been found to be paid shills of big pharma.[5] Even the fact check article I link to here links to a youtube clip where this is all discussed in detail, only it doesn't discuss it in detail be cause its only a clip. A clip that was created to avoid youtubes filters. The full video[6] covers all of this in detail.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-vaccine-cytotoxic-...

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41375-021-01332-z

[3] https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-vaccine-sp...

[4] https://www.docdroid.net/xq0Z8B0/pfizer-report-japanese-gove...

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44B-OJcOXxc

[6] https://odysee.com/@BretWeinstein:f/how-to-save-the-world,-i...
Ask HN: Engineers who have left jobs for new ones, what was your primary reason?
No we haven't. We wear masks when we have flu symptoms, not all the time.
I think the level of expectation is just far too high. It's an ML algorithm, feed it some high quality training data and it'll give you some good results. Out of the box it'll give you some very default generic crap.
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It's being ignored because it's fraught with problems.

People think they had COVID in the early pre-testing days, but it was just the flu or a bad cold. (My son was in this realm; severe pneumonia in early 2020, but later testing showed no antibodies.) You'd have restaurants swamped with angry "but I've already had it!" people.

Verification is hard; you can't just take word for it, so that means an antibody test, and at that point you might as well have just vaccinated them anyways while they were in.
Are tcl functions shared between threads? Or does each new thread interpreter start from a clean state?
It’s much slower. GPU single thread performance is very slow. Unless you are doing some specialized operation that has a special instruction on GPU, it will be slower.

GPU clock speeds are lower in general and the CPU has a much wider super scalar pipeline. Can be 4-8 wide vs single or double wide for most GPUs. It also has many latency-hiding techniques for a single thread. The GPU has none, it uses multiple threads to hide latency.
My question remains unanswered and ignored from the very start even before you replied and the aforementioned comment [0] still needs to be supported with evidence, which is why I am asking otherwise it remains unsubstantiated.

Unless you think there is ANY evidence in it? So far in this thread I have asked for it many times and no-one can give a simple citation to support it. Maybe you can answer the following question?

Where exactly is the evidence or citations in the aforementioned comment that I have highlighted? [0]

If there is no evidence to a claim or a statement then it can be safely dismissed as baseless and it most certainly qualifies as off-topic divisive flame-bait which breaks the HN guidelines [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28693548

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I agree with you. That's exactly what would happen (in the western democracies that exist now, and I use the term "democracy" in the most tongue in cheek way).

Nonetheless, the point stands that the only thing stopping people from doing those things effectively is the people themselves.
One man's opinion.
> but I'm not interested in the tool

What are you doing in this post? HN guidelines are clear about fostering open, quality discussion. This is not a thread to rant about Dropbox just because you hate it.
Embraers are so much nicer for passengers in nearly every way than Bombardiers. I wonder what the advantage the other way is - there must be one?
or maybe they're just reporting data creatively

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/pxizb1/oc_...

and it seems like it works
What do you mean "not mesh"? It is a direct quote from the commerce secretary. The quote is in the second paragraph, not just the title.
Right now it's just an egress firewall. It bundles the "nft" userspace utility and creates its own isolated nftables table to block traffic in the forward chain. See here for details:

https://github.com/firezone/firezone/blob/master/apps/fz_wal...

It wouldn't be too hard to add functionality to block ingress traffic as well, though. Is that something you'd find useful?
Seems like a fun joke
I felt sad for the person who was fired for trying to pay people what they are worth.
Money. I got a promotion in my previous job which got me a small raise but all the new joiners at my level were getting much larger salaries. So I jumped for a huge salary bump. Working with new tech to add to my resume was a bonus.
Domestic terrorism is one potential outcome that doesn't seem all that far-fetched.
Hi, kens. This is my n-th time rereading this article, this time I noticed a small typo. Footnote 90, "More recent VMR specifications" should've been "VRM".
I'm really surprised this thread isn't more active! CEO of a newly public startup opened a thread and is active in the comments. This is great stuff.

- Just rewinding back to when you decided to get started - how did you convince yourself to leave a (presumably) comfortable, reasonably paying job to starting your own thing? It's that leap that scares me the most, so curious of your take.

- If you have anything you'd care to speculate, what would be easier and what would be harder about doing a startup now versus when you all kicked off a decade ago?
"1917"

-- Some Russian factory workers.

"Spartacus"

-- Spartacus

"Haiti"

-- Hatians
The roadshow is all virtual now. We talked to 32 different investors in 4.5 days. I tried to push for in person but almost everyone preferred Zoom and it was probably for the best because we could meet more people. The downside is it feels more transactional vs building a relationship. We still had to pay the bankers the same amount even though there was no private jet provided. What a rip off!

RE traditional IPO vs Direct Listing, you hit my rant!

The traditional IPO process sets you up to massively underprice your stock. Instead of selling your stock directly on the open market, investment bankers sell it for you. They're incentivized to give public market investors a "good deal" by advising you to price your stock low (because they do repeat business with them even though we're the ones paying for their services!). As a result, on average in 2020, companies that went through the traditional IPO process underpriced their stock by 50%.

As a CEO I could never sell a dollar for 50 cents. It's against my fiduciary responsibility to my shareholders. I once heard one public company CFO call it "the largest arbitrage opportunity in all of finance". Why would I want to be on the other side of that?

I strongly encourage all other CEOs at taking their companies public to go through this path.

IPO underpricing data: https://site.warrington.ufl.edu/ritter/files/IPOs-Underprici...
The claim that masks don’t help was absolutely an early claim spread widely throughout US media.

The motivation may have been to prevent stockpiling, but the messaging was that masks don’t help. I remember it clearly.
This actually reminded me of a couple positive experiences I had with police in Mexico. They weren't sitatuations where I'd been robbed so not totally analagous, but twice I dealt with officers that were very thoughtful and helpful.

Living in the US has probably skewed my impressions of police generally.
Discipline by King Crimson
This is always an interesting debate.

Is someone closer to their true self when they are drunk? Tired? On a power trip?
If I'm being honest, that sounds like a net win for you and your company. Even if they aren't still around, now you've got a better and more attractive interface!
I'm not sure if we are on the same page. I am simply talking about syntactic sugar, not semantics.

To restate, I still don't understand why you think

str.dropFirst(1).dropLast(2)

handles unicode better than

str[1:-2]

What does dropFirst(1) drop if the first _element_ is a Black Santa? Why can't whatever it does be implemented using the bracket syntax?
so does a bullet
In Brazil the VoIP calls are tremendously cleaner than directly phone calls, no matter which service is compared (Discord, Meet, Zoom etc)
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J&J is not like other most other vaccines. It uses an adenovirus vector to do the same thing that the mRNA vaccines do.

If you're worried about that, get Sinovac or Covaxin, which are the only traditional, inactivated virus vaccines available (that I'm aware of).

Oh, but for the purposes of mandates, those vaccines aren't accepted.
> "cough that doesn't go away" for six weeks or so

I had always assumed that was because I have asthma, I didn't realize other people get this as well.
I can't edit my post anymore-- before someone realizes my mistake, it was the XBox One, not the 360. Rails barely existed at the time of the XBox 360 development.
I've seen this with many friends right now in Melbourne. People are easily leaving for $30k-$50k with recruiters emailing and calling daily.

I've also seen manager friends hire like crazy in the past few months only for those new hires to leave for more money as well.
This fits my perception as well having worked in Europe.
If they didn't do it, someone else might. Isn't that how everything gets justified?
I agree that we can’t reject the hypothesis that reality is continuous (and, even if spacetime turns out to be discrete, it seems hard to imagine that the amplitudes of the wavefunction(s) have finitely many possible complex values, though I suppose we can’t rule it out)

I disagree that this necessarily implies any difficulty for the possibility of brain scanning and AI.

Just as things sampled faster than the nyquist frequency (or twice it or whatever) of a uh, band limited thing, can be perfectly recovered, (I mean there’s still discritization of the amplitudes but I hear this can also be handled), I don’t see why uh, arbitrarily high frequency (in space and time) should be necessary in order to model the behavior of a brain to the point of long-term indistinguishability.

(That being said, I don’t particularly expect whole brain emulation to ever be achieved, I just don’t see “spacetime is continuous (or well approximated as continuous)” as being a strong argument for it being impossible.)

I’m not sure what you mean by computationalism.

If you mean the idea that the way the world works is computable in the abstract sense (not requiring any practical bounds on the computational resources needed), then the idea that the world is discrete and finite, merely with extremely fine grains, then this poses no issue for computation in that abstract sense (just make the imaginary computer even bigger).

If you mean like, an accurate simulation of the past of the world being run within the world, yeah that doesn’t work.
Are.... you actually reading my comments? Do you think you could actually read it? I am legitimately not sure if you are a bot, because you aren't actually directly responding to anything that I said.

But I'll summarize once again.

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My statement is about you. I am talking about how when you act this way (and by this way I mean, just posting links at someone, over and over again), not someone else, you come across as pretty bad faith.

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Do you understand what I just said? Do you understand the problem?

Or are you just going to copy paste the same thing again, without actually reading my post?

I am trying to talk about you here, because you are the one responding. And I don't think you quite understand how you come across, or the problem with your behavior here.
Martin Gardner illustrated this principle in "Paradoxes to Puzzle and Delight" back in 1982, and I'm sure he wasn't the first to think of the concept.
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> The "stages of grief" is not especially well supported scientifically

As a therapy aid, no. But as a general model for describing (or recognizing) the most common experiences post loss, still considered useful.

> because employment is a negotiated agreement

This does not logically follow the rest of the sentence preceding it.

The fact that negotiation takes place at the beginning of one’s employment does not have an automatic connection to the things a manager experiences when that employee resigns.
I've been using a GaN-based power supply for my MacBook Pro and it's just as good as advertised. Slightly bigger than a deck of cards, yet it runs cooler than the stock unit.

Hopefully this tech finds its way into more devices as it gets cheaper. It would be neat to have GaN based inverters for electric cars.