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FP hardware is in this sorry state where they have varying capabilities, but we need to dispel this notion that floating point can't be made deterministic across architectures. If it runs on a computer of course it can be made deterministic. Right now it requires some care, but I hope in the future it will be easier.

You can absolutely have determinism across different architectures, if you stick with architectures that support IEEE 754-2008. Also if a compiler break determinism this is a serious bug (as long as you don't enable -ffast-math of course - otherwise you're asking for breakage).

Unfortunately this means no SIMD, also you need to bring your own transcendental functions (sin, cos, etc). Also you need to be wary of other forms of nondeterminism like threads.

There's a physics engine meant for games and robotics called Rapier [0] that has a feature enhanced-determinism that will enable cross-platform determinism (by disabling threads and simd). If you spot any form of nondeterminism, it's absolutely a bug (either on the compiler or on the library itself), just like it would be a bug if it used only integers (which, by the way, was how nphysics, the antecessor of Rapier, implemented determinism: it used fixed-point math with integers [1])

[0] https://rapier.rs/docs/user_guides/rust/determinism/ - also it has amazing docs

[1] https://rustsim.org/blog/2020/06/01/this-month-in-rustsim/#m...
>Why and What are important, but they are limited in possibility by the How

Very well said!

This is why we do trial-and-error, proof-of-concept, prototyping etc. In general, you have to play with the "How" a little bit before the "Why" and "What" become clearer and you can nail them down as actual "Requirements". All three are interlinked and cannot be looked at in isolation.
Does this work for podcasts? Would you be able to try ripping a Joe Rogan episode with this app to test? They use widewine and so it breaks yt-dlp. They play ads even if you pay for a subscription.

Here is an example link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0DsunsN5MGI0CWwvuaxZdt
The system you describe seems to be rigged against the employee. Employees will try to optimize their financial situation much like the company does, and knowing one's own value to the company and the industry as a whole is an important puzzle piece.

This system is doomed long-term if it only works because of information imbalance, since ways will be found around that (levels.fyi, random walk across employers, ...).
Is it regular folks, though? I imagine it's mostly big whales who are probably also doing shady stuff, too. We're talking about people doing money laundering, so financially savvy.

Few outside people get rich off the mafia.
Does this work for podcasts? Would you be able to try ripping a Joe Rogan episode with this app to test? They use widewine and so it breaks yt-dlp. They play ads even if you pay for a subscription.
Here is an example link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0DsunsN5MGI0CWwvuaxZdt
I mean, I think having a ballpark range is sort of important and pretty easy to do.

It's also one of the first things I'm going to want to know before interviewing somewhere, so I can make sure that I'm not wasting anyone's time.
> It's not because they are racist or don't care - it's because it takes a tiny minority of people to get the entire business derailed, and it's hard enough to keep that from happening in the best of times; once you add a catalyst like salaries or politics, it's like adding fuel to the fire.

It might worth asking laborers if this is worth it for better pay / more pay equality.

If all laborers were happy before and then you introduce transparent pay, and suddenly 90% of people are unhappy - it might seem obvious this is bad.

But that's sort of like saying the truth is bad if it hurts your feelings. Is it?
Yes. Just like the original.
$112k this year almost all cash. American software dev, but working remotely from overseas.
Prevent people from 'scraping' job postings by manually asking for salary range.
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If you look at modern shortcut knitting equipment like knittingboard.com it looks pretty similar. It sounds more and more like shark tank gadget of the roman empire.
I was shocked to read that the Netherlands has a private post service. How could the Dutch people ever have let that happen?
> The absolute most enjoyable open world MMOs I've played had essentially no content. Players forged their own content in the form of geopolitics, war, economics, and copious communication (propaganda and shittalking, largely). They felt like a completely unplanned, natural simulation of militaristic human societies from hundreds or thousands of years ago. Probably not ideal in real life, but very fun for a game.

What MMO was that? This sounds like a MUSH (a kind of text only roleplay server which is a couterpart of the more combat-focused MUDs)
Ok what's the first best thing on the internet?
In other words, all non-trivial code builds would break? Sounds unreasonably painful.
Not sure why you are downvoted you have a valid point with regards to over provisioning and storage.

I wonder how much dispatchable generation has to be kept around to only have two 12 hour blackouts per year due to lack of generation.
Modern distros just have a single bin directory and symlinks for the rest to resolve this.

My favourite one is how people try to come up with reasons for the /usr dir and why /bin and /usr/bin both exist. The original reason was that one of the original Unix devs ran out of space on their hard drive and needed a second bin folder for the new drive.
The most basic Wi-Fi enabled plug is cheaper than a timer switch.

They start at $6 price goes down to under $5 if you buy a 4 pack.
There is one they "burned" here https://github.com/widevinedump/LenovoTB-X505X-L1-KEY

Just a keypair + certificate.
using it as a base makes it so you aren't dealing with fractional values that much, and a lot of other neat properties ...
I really dont mind smoking bans in public places. I hate Japanese restaurant when everyone can smoke etc.

But a full ban, which I hear people discussing in some countries (NZ I think) is just too hard: cigarets will remain legal in China and India most likely, with 3bn people able to buy them, so smuggling will be low cost, the death and general damage of cigarets is much slower than even alcohol so smuggling cigarets will be as risky as smuggling dvds, so you ll end up making random people very rich, smokers will smoke maybe a lot less but you ll have to spend the cancer money on enforcement without the current tax revenue...

Best is to move to vaping and study it a lot, and regulate nicotine content. Children are no more at risk of vaping than smoking cigarets (meaning: very at risk) and if we can study it enough to make it a lot less cancerous, well they can smoke it just as much as the binge drinking they already do anyway.

Big Tobacco MUST move to vaping, it seems much better than cigarets already. And the addiction is for me not the worst, it's everything that goes with tar and high nicotine dosage.
Even totally excluding covid, i find it very hard to look st the world over the last 5 years and say nothing has changed.

You would have been laughed out of almost anywhere if you had predicted memestocks or cryptopunks 5 years ago.

Our debt to GDP is up something like 30-40 percent since then.

Our interest rates werent 0

Inflation wasnt 6+
The results are only relevant for AWS ECS Fargate due to the specifics of how they do volumes and CNI.
I don't see either lying or stealing as ethic subjects. They're just derivatives from other ethic points.

Kid accidentally saw his Christmas too early and started asking about it. I see it much more ethical to work my way out by lying than the alternatives.

I grew up in ex-USSR. Stealing form occupant Soviet government was the norm and even cheered. Because why not? Evil regime with corrupt elite deserves such treatment. Obviously it did bit us back since some people still had that attitude and kept stealing from our own free state.

Some people may say that now some people sabotage current regime by stealing so that must be OK. Yes, that may be OK in those people mind. But regime can fight back (just like Soviet regime had full rights to fight back). And I support the regime that I think is fair. Obviously different people have different life experiences and that brings us to conflicts when different people support different regimes. And all sides think their side is ethical while the other is evil. But such is the cost in the diverse world.
That's a pyramid scheme and/or gambling. You're relying on many marks to lose money to make money.

There's a reason we regulate or ban that.
Also, under neutron radiation bismuth transmutes into polonium, which is somewhat nasty to deal with.

Most current research on lead-cooled reactors use pure lead. The downside, as you say, is higher melting temperature.
Discoveries like kinopio.club is precisely why I find myself browsing HN every morning. This is incredible! It is now going to take over the world, and I don't think it was meant to.

<offtopic> This reminds me. For quite some time, I've been thinking about how the "infinite canvas" concept could be applied to a browser navigation (replacing tabs, history and bookmarks). Something like "tab overview" in Safari, but instead of just currently opened tabs, it takes you to an infinite canvas of tabs. </offtopic>
German prices are extremly high compared to the sallary. If you want to buy a house in a German major city, you would have to take a credit for your whole life.

Really everyone is complaining. It is not affordable. So even persons with high income like doctors or engineers are struggeling. So often you just hear, the only chance is to inherit it...
I guess we just have a fundamental disagreement.

I argue that the increase in savings and therefore money spent participating in the economy is inherently valueable.

In addition companies are less likely to fail, and can continue to generate value. Individuals have a bigger safety net and can be more productive for society. You already touched on the fact that government has reduced burden for social services.

Government tax revenue can be poorly allocated and wasteful.

The accountants provide a valuable service navigating the complex tax laws. This allows me to outsource the work and spend more time being “productive” for society.

A great example is Tesla. They may not have survived without the billions in tax credits they received. Lots of people believe they generate tremendous value for society.
This is my take. Highly increased volitility but in the end thkngs are nominally moving up.

If there was a real dip. 20 or 30% on dow or spy, i would buy the absolute hell out of it.

The fiscal stimulus that will follow is going to be the stuff of legends. It'll make the new deal look quaint.
> We don’t rely heavily on HomeKit automations, collections of light and outlet states that trigger based on time or some other variable.

Good thing. Even the most basic multi-scene zone automations are challenging to “program” in Homekit.

The official Home app lacks an interface to reasonably create and administer:

“after 10 pm, if motion is detected by any of these four sensors, set these three lights to 30%. Do not turn them off until all of the motion sensors in this zone register as clear.”

This describes lighting a hallway and turning it back off to and from the bathroom.

I’m glad this author is comfortable talking to Siri all the time but I’d prefer to just get the automation right and use buttons for overrides. Siri requires a verbal response to homekit requests and they are almost always too loud and loquacious. Soft success or failure tones would be far preferable.

I spent a fair amount of time and money trying to make a pure homekit setup work. It did but it’s not scalable or maintainable.

It seems like there may be a plan around shortcuts but whatever it is needs to look like programming in Python. Not this set of unsortable, ungroupable table view cells.

If you look at homekit forums, you’ll see that the updates to HomePod have been disruptive to homekit, silently breaking automation until all HomePods have been restarted and contained bizarre bugs.

I generally like Apple products, but Homekit is the biggest mess of all categories right now. The head of the department left at the two year mark ~ a month ago. It will probably take some time for someone to step in and make serious progress.
When talking about wall heating, it's typically an interior wall that's used (and a solid stone one at that - no breeze block and plaster here). Exterior walls are obviously suboptimal.
"They did as much good as those who spent their time trying to prove it. "

There is value in trying to prove something is wrong - and then there is also fighting against new ideas with institutional power.
Multiple Return Values Research
Has anyone tried polishing one and putting it on a necklace? Could be a fashion piece, how does it look when the sun hits it?
Optimistically assume we as a species manage to survive to the point where distance, or relativistic speed differences, cause sufficiently frequent change in the observation of time passing that a single number, of any size, is no longer sufficient.

time_t is sufficient within bounds. It is expedient and quite correct in many computer science use cases. It can be extended with small additions for many other use cases.

However those bounds are a set of assumptions and simplifications that shouldn't be forgotten. I agree that the problem would be solved until the next paradigm shift in our understanding of time and the universe, and maybe forever if it turns out that the rules are cruel or we're too stupid to reach a more complex situation. I just wouldn't say once and for all, there's far too much uncertainty there.
I thought it meant CCS (capture and sequestration), but I have no idea about claimed efficiency.
Because it's time limited. National lab postdocs are valid only upto 5 years from PhD. Many grants won't fund you if you are X years since PhD.

That's why the position of Research Assistant Professors exist - the way around the postdoc time limit loophole.

However, RAPs are significantly more expensive than postdocs, which is why faculty are more eager to phase out senior postdocs and hire fresh blood rather than convert them to RAPs.
Researchers have plotted their locations but no-one is sure of their significance https://images.huffingtonpost.com/2011-11-09-mcsparenesness0...

I think the quote probably comes from "The Demon-haunted World" but I read it a very long time ago so I may be wrong.
AIMe registry for artificial intelligence in biomedical research
Consider that vast majority of people are eating meat. They harm (or somebody else harms for them) animals literally every day. Just like a lot of other living beings on the planet. Maybe cognitive dissonance is the norm? Or harming someone for your own survival is not automatically a bad thing?
It doesn't matter. If you can't buy a house on leverage, you really can't buy a house.

Take a quick look at house prices in Ontario. The list prices are understated and they're still too high. Add 20 - 30% for the sale price depending on the city. I've seen houses sell for 150% over the list price. Moving 100 miles from the city centers still isn't affordable. Not even factoring in heating, gas and electricity costs.

I could move to Alberta... but it actually doesn't make much financial sense either. Buying a house doesn't make sense when your government needs to raise taxes in the future, because it's incapable of funding its social services and promises to an aging population.

Ignoring the USA, which I don't want to live in. In the middle east I'd have a 0% income, capital gains and a lower corporate tax rate.

Most of my relatives have Range Rovers and five story >4000 sqft houses. Healthcare is actually really good now. The highways are amazing. I fit into the culture there.

Yes. There's poverty. Yes. There are poor people. Yes. I'd be rich there.

But you know what's immoral. Letting asset holders accure all the wealth, have low to no taxes, while taxing the people that work to build your nation. Upwards of 63%. Taxing the middle class to its extinction.

I can't fix the middle east from here. Me moving to a wealthy country doesn't fix that. It'd be better for the country if I moved back.

The hard part is finding an income there.
Computer Organization and Design RISC-V Edition: The Hardware Software Interface (2nd Edition) by David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy
To people like me, "discovery" is worthless. Most of the day we do things together in the real world as a family. Like building a Lego marble run for the umpteenth time. Kids have a lot of energy. That means us parents are willing to "waste" maybe 1 hour every evening to watch TV together.

My wife's friends watch Emily in Paris. My friends watch Expanse and Silent Sea. So I already know the 3 series that I'm watching in the near future so that we can gossip about them with our friends. And if I want a movie, I can ask that one friend who has been giving me great movie recommendations for the past 10 years...

When I think about using Netflix discovery and going down the rabbit hole of watching random stuff recommended by a robot, it kind of makes me feel pity for the lonely people who have nothing better to do than watch TV alone. I really can't imagine how that could be beneficial to the human doing it.
Ask HN: Are there any popular websites built on github.io?
Sometimes when starting new content websites, I think I could just use a GitHub page instead of a domain.

I mean, myproject.github.io is not worse than something like getmyproject.com, right?

But then I think: I never stumble across Github pages when I google for something. Maybe they are at a disadvantage compared to custom domains?

I know that one can use custom domains for Github pages. But I would like to discuss the effect of using just a github.io page.
>... more people having sex in fMRI machines can only be a good thing

The British Medical Journal actually published a serious article on this, back in December 1999, complete with cross-sectional images.

https://www.bmj.com/content/319/7225/1596

I remember it well as my MBA back then had a Healthcare Management elective. Assessment included a short presentation on a recent advances in medical technology. So this was what I talked on.
This is just what I have been needing ever since Notify17 shut down. Thank you! I'm using your server for now but will be self hosting it soon.

Use case: basic server monitoring.
Thanks a lot for the advice. I am only 4 years into my career and my last employer didn't have any such clause. Hence my indecision.
If it can prevent hospitalisation, even if it can't prevent infection, it's worth it. We're obsessed with perfect. In populations, it really is "the best is the enemy of good enough" and i say that having been given AZ which was being derided as inadequate compared to Pfizer and Moderna. Get as many people protected even partially, and stop the load on hospitals and vital health staff.
David Simon on why he created The Wire [video]
Indeed. You can use filesystem permissions to lock the socket down, and do client auth via the PID and/or UID of the client process instead of at the HTTP layer. For example you can assert that the client is from the Docker container that it's claiming to be from, by checking that its PID is in the list of PIDs in that container.

Of course this also requires some discipline from the user, like not running containers as root, and not running containers with Docker socket access (which is as good as having root).
Don’t focus so hard on guaranteed type safety, and write more code.

For real engineering I think it’s a wonderful compromise between formality and practicality.
I agree with most of this including pay-to-earn, more worryingly there are other types of to-earn being floated like learn-to-earn. It’s almost like people are rushing headlong into dystopia and ignoring all the downsides of extrinsic rewards.

That said a successful game like this will always have a non-trivial part of the player base willing to pay to skip parts of the game. They want the success now not later and aren’t willing to work for it. Even if the journey is actually fun. Most games take this quite seriously though and work against gold farming and cheating as it ruins the experience they set out to make.

Where it becomes evil is when you set out to make it horrible intentionally so a bigger part of the player base has to pay to remove it and continue playing.
Lava lamps are functional as lamps - that is what they were originally designed for.
Better Observability for Chaos Engineering
I cannot disagree. I was a fan of pic in the past for its much superior (IMHO) syntax, but I also envied tikz beautiful results (for it's based on tex rather than troff).

I haven't looked at that field for a good while but I'm still genuinely interested. And so I'd like to better understand your comment. It is unclear to me whether you are arguing in favor of using another similar tool using a better syntax, or using an automatic graph layout engine, or a manual general purpose vector drawing tool. How would you recommend one to draw such diagrams?
So your argument is:

- people in cities are wealthier

- so, therefore, they consume more services from elsewhere, just like wealthy suburbanites or rural people do

- therefore, handwave, it doesn't matter that the actual daily bits of their life (transport, logistics, construction, etc) is more resource efficient.

This argument makes no sense to me. Controlling the variable, equally wealthy people emit more in suburbs, towns, and rural areas. Unless you're just hoping by moving people out of cities, enough wealth is obliterated to lower resource consumption?
This is less of a concern with modern batch-rocket stoves that also burn fine particles, once hot, after a few minutes, they burn without smoke.
I'm probably alone in thinking home automation is a tremendous waste of time. I think there's maybe one exception, and that's being able to switch on heating remotely, which is actually useful. The rest is IMO gratuitous nerdery. Mildly interesting/fun: maybe. Needed: no.

In a world in which resources are scarce and everyone is getting fatter, getting off one's ass to switch on a light is probably a good thing...
Hear, hear! I have lived in the Bay Area for a couple years longer than the author of the article, and I haven't experienced any of what they say they have. Specifically, I've experienced 0 home break-ins, 0 car break-in, 0 other thefts, and never been accosted or chased by anyone, much less someone who seemed homeless or mentally ill. I've always lived in the East Bay and commuted into SF for work, except for the past couple of years, due to COVID, of course. My typical commute has been to either walk or drive to the nearest BART station, ride the train to my stop in SF, then walk the remaining distance. I've never felt truly unsafe in all the hundreds of times I've made that trip.

Other than the fact that I may never be able to afford to buy a home here, I love it in the Bay Area. The only thing that will ever force me out is money, and I'm doing my damndest to make sure that doesn't happen.

> Is there a problem with homelessness? Yes there is! Maybe we should do what other cities and counties have done and just chase the homeless out to somewhere else, kick the can down the road? HELL NO! I happen to work at a company that actually does something about that.

We totally agree here. BTW, I'm looking for a job. I have an email in my profile (not my "main" email, but it will reach me), and I'd be interested to know more about your company. I'm very interested in doing something that does some good, if your company is hiring a software engineer.
Reminder: The Home app requires iCloud, and most data in iCloud (such as photos and backups) is not end to end encrypted, which allows Apple and the USG to read all of the data at any time without a warrant.

It makes these sorts of systems a nonstarter for me, personally.