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> Very fast code can be written in high level languages with the proper skills

I sometimes wonder why we don't have mandatory coursework that demonstrates the upper bound of what a modern x86 system is capable of in practical terms.

If developers understood just how much perf they were leaving on the plate, they would likely self-correct out of shame. Latency is the ultimate devil and we need to start burning that into the brains of developers. The moment you shard a business system to more than 1 computer, you enter into hell. We should be trying to avoid this fate, not embrace it.

We basically solved the question "what's the fastest way to synchronize work between threads" in ~2010 with the advent of the LMAX Disruptor. But, for whatever reason this work has been relegated to the dark towers of fintech wizardry rather than being perma-stickied on HN. Systems written in C#10 on .NET6 which leverage a port of this library can produce performance figures that are virtually impossible to meet in any other setting (at least in a safe/stable way).

This stuff is not inaccessible at all. It is just unpopular. Which is a huge shame. There is so much damage (in a good way) developers could do with these tools and ideologies if they could find some faith in them.
I'm currently listing to the recent Hardcore History podcast about slavery and this strikes me as very peculiar human nature.

Apparently back in the heyday of the trans Atlantic slave trade, most people understood that it's a bad thing, that treating those people like shit will someday bite them in the ass, with slave revolts and the like. Given the sensibilities of the time - French Revolution, American Revolution etc proclaiming that people should be free etc. everybody understood this was just a matter of time.

But then you have all those voices saying - yeah its bad, but "Think of the people! How are they going to raise their children and feed their families without the slaves" ...

And it just sounds crazy, I wonder how future generations are going to think about all of our carbon problems. Well I guess I don't, the question is how much we're going to be condemned and called crazy.
The government doesn't change every 4 years, just the figurehead and on the average he changes every 8 years.
The core thing I am saying is that our circadian rhythm naturally tends to clock to sunrise and syncing our lives with sunrise is the healthiest option. Actually performing that is a bit problematic on various fronts, mostly related to the way we do timekeeping.

Agreeing on location data is relatively easy (with day-to-day precision), because we have well-defined units of distance and reference points. Agreeing on time is likewise difficult, because we have neither: both length-of-daylight and start-of-daylight tend to vary by location and time (heh, recursion).

The time on the clock (the way it works today) cannot really correspond to position of the sun: the further you stray from equator, the less defined this relationship becomes, until you cross polar circles where this relationship breaks completely. People agreeing on time *only* locally is not really helpful with close international relationships.

Essentially, there is no good way around this. Time references like "at sunset" or "a year from now" are just not universally defined. We could base our time references on universally coordinated time which would require local time reference adjustments (work starts at 8:00 in location A, but at 13:00 at location B), or we could keep time references consistent in local, but adjust the meaning of local time. It is the same in the end - you need some logic and context to work out what "at sunset" means.

And this is my gripe with anti-DST. DST is not problematic. If anything, DST is easy, because DST adjustments happen in large chunks and therefore errors in DST handling usually become apparent quick. What if we did DST in 1 minute increments and northern regions had a total of 6 hours DST shift? It would be much harder to spot handling errors, but the underlying mechanism would still be the same.

The problem is not clocks or timekeeping itself, but rather how we communicate and synchronize what an ill-defined time reference actually means.
> I don't think anyone disagrees that moving away from hydrocarbons is a good thing.

You'd be surprised. Mostly these arguments come from people who think the whole thing is bullshit (or have financial incentives to say so) and we should take no action at all, or even actively move back to more fossil fuels.
I've wanted something like this for ages. In fact I wanted something much simpler: just the ability to pipe tabulated data from a script into something and display it in tabular format. I wrote my own at some point but found too many quirks for it to be useful. Visidata can do what I need and much, much more. Awesome!
Yes, I think it's the book with the biggest emphasis on romantic human to human relations.

Maybe there could be an index - how close a story is to Romeo and Juliet? Solaris ranks quite high.
You're owning a slice of companies that have loaded up on cheap debt.

In the 70s you'd have lost 30% of your money in adjusted terms if you put your money in a tracker.
COM, .NET Remote and RMI do it.
That's hyperbolic and false. Dev salaries are much better than the rest at equivalent education levels, just like they are everywhere. And pensions are quite low, although they usually assume that pensionneers own their home and have lower expenses than the working population.
Joined as employee #2 of a startup. Over the years, accumulated about 1.9% of the company shares. At one stage, the company was valued at ~$300M. Several buyers approached over the years, the chairman only wanted to sell at a ridiculous near $1B. So it never got sold. Several in-fightings, layoffs and a few years later, we exited with $18M acquisition.
Yeah not sure about that. I purchased ST recently and because VS Code is so slow.
Slightly offtopic:

what is the current status of fuchsia?

In the sense, of when could one to expect to use it as a daily, stable driver?
It's not, I'm just doubting my own memory so was wondering in general if there was an example, France or elsewhere.
Microsoft Faces Antitrust Complaint in Europe About Its Cloud Services
It's neither. It's a negotiation tactic. Make an unreasonable demand so that the concessions you actually want are met. In this case it's Ukraine to be demilitarized. All of the aggression on Ukrainian can be traced back to them moving closer to the EU, NATO, and putting western hardware on Ukrainian soil.

It a bit like how America would panic if Russia put military hardware in Mexico. Basically Putin is trying to create a neutral zone on it's borders.

This doesn't excuse any of Putin's actions though.
Everything that can take down Putin is an ally of mine.

Once Putin is taken down, we will discuss about the appropriateness of this or the other leader.
There might be an oversaturation of Mac native apps on the HN front page relative to Linux/Windows native apps. I, too, feel a bit disappointed when they are posted for the same reason as SomeCallMeTim (especially if it's not clear from the post's title that it's Mac exclusive and it only becomes apparent deep into the linked page), but I also know there are tons of native tools for Windows and Linux — they're just not discussed here as often. Though this could also be confirmation bias on my part.
Interestingly, the surgeon published a post-mortem case report titled "Managing in Flight Emergencies" in the British Medical Journal [1].

The title of the publication makes it seem as if this in-flight surgery with a coat-hanger is a routine occurrence. Remarkable!

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/311/7001/374
Wow, this comment, is almost art.
Stocks as a general protection against high inflation is an extremely bad advice, unless you specifically pick those stocks that will go up together with inflation.
But most stocks will do exactly the opposite! The reason is that stock prices are inversely correlated with market interest rates. And when inflation goes up, central banks will increase interest rates to suppress inflation. This is happening at this moment already.

There are very few stocks that will keep up with high inflation. These are for companies whose valuation is mostly based on the properties they posess, such as e.g. real estate.
Launch HN: Betasort – Customer Feedback, Simplified
Hey all! We’re Rita and Gui, co-founders of Betasort. We've built a simple way to collect user feedback on a feature level.

This all started when we were working on another product and were in an urgent need to get into the brains of our users. Which features they like, and which they don’t? Why do they think something is useful? or not useful? And knowing all that without any extra work was a must.

We were surprised to see that there are so many customer feedback tools out there, but none gets the job done quite right. They’re often over-complicated and none offered the minimal UI we wanted.

So we’ve built Betasort. We think it’s the simplest way for collecting user feedback on a feature level, and getting all insights extracted automatically.

Not quite like getting into your users’ brain, but close enough :)

We’ve just published the very first version of the product. It has a limited feature set so far, and we are not charging anything yet. Our goal is to get the very first users really using and getting value from it. Then, with their feedback, we'll improve the product and add the next few features.

If you find it relevant, I would love it if you tried Betasort for free:
https://www.betasort.com/

Your feedback would mean the world to us

P.s: We’re committed to keeping the product as simple as possible. So if you can’t start collecting valuable feedback in 10 minutes or less, let us know and we’ll buy you a coffee. Or two!
FYI this is being banned in multiple cities in France
https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/ou-en-est-la-loi-interdi...
I added some sources for the the unit tests thing and also rewrote the point with the e2e test to describe it better.
Why would you need to do that for code running on Deno? It doesn't need to be sent over the wire.
> It might as well happen a bit more quickly.

This sounds a bit rich, I mean, many of us here in Europe don't have the financial resources to just shrug this off as "it might as well happen now than in 10 years from now". I agree though with the take on France, they're one of the few countries in Europe who can afford to make that move right now (at least on paper, I don't know the details of their electrical and power grid).
Don’t put your emergency fund in gold and BTC. It needs to be liquid (I.e same day available) and predictable.
Hello, please excuse me for another post but I’ve been thinking about it since and I have more things that I’d like to add, I have updated by bot programming haha let me know if this is better formatting :)

Consider, if you will, a perspective of the book Lord of the Flies, in which a group of school children who are stranded on an island descend into chaos and violence. At the end, the children are saved by a passing ship and it’s crew.

Presumably, had the ship captain been there from the start things would have turned out very differently.

Is an aristocratic education analogous to hiring a sea captain?

In that vein, is sea captain an even better fit than educator?

To put some flavour back into the story from before, viewed as a group, as the group got older, the trials and tribulations of the world were exasperated by the inexperience or lack of wisdom of the group. And so had the sea captain been there, they would have acted as guidance, direction, wisdom type roles. For roughly all of life’s things.

The tutor would go on the grand tour and would live with them. They would often have multiple for different areas of interest, …

Ok so flip it around and now we’ve got a single child instead of a group and a group of sea captains instead of 1.

A group of sea captains of different specialities would approach total cultural transfer as the group got larger. For a definition of cultural that would be analogous to tesuji or clever reactions to the things that happen.

Therefore it goes beyond “teacher” in a modern school way.

So is it also therefore that the failure to produce geniuses is the difference between school in our context and life. Their context was closer or the difference smaller.

I’m going far field into blindly assuming that book learning, what we might call academic knowledge mostly remains, some might argue watered down or perverted but they at least still exist, where as non academic things, like you’d discover on the grand tour with Jeremy Clarkson have completely vanished.

If it could be shown that a focus on that version of academics has increased over time it might even be possible to say that more academia produces less geniuses, reword that into makes people dumber, smudge it a bit and: academics makes people dumber. Which would be quite funny.

End.

Ps. There would maybe be interesting things to find by looking specifically as the types of tutors and their life curriculum. Marcus Aurelius lists maaaaaaany things iirc. “and to Epiclitus I owe…” parts.

Ps. People argue about, paraphrased by me, life skills lacking in home schooling being problem with this but maybe I’ve shown that’s not necessity correct.

Ps. Similar themes to my preceding comment but I feel like it’s better. More of a statement than the beginning of a dialogue. More focussed and fleshed out even if relying on shorthand for some of it. Otoh I’ve introduced more of my own things and dropped threads for the sake of that focus. Still, I’ll think I’ll mark it positive progress. Good bot.
Because some of the reported changes of speed are not within any technology conceivable for the next 100 years. Like physically doing Mach 200 with no noise or sonic boom and show up 80 Miles ( the way point of the interview...) after a few seconds. ( And how did they know where the way point was?)
> Algeria cannot readily provides ressources

Algeria already provides gas to most of Southern Europe, it is the 5th largest gas producer in the world.

> another source that I can't seem to find anymore that indicates that norway gas reserves are not that great.

Norway is 6th largest NG produce in the world and yields a cubic output equivalent to a quarter of Russia's output.

The point is a very large investment/infrastructure rollout will come around to pluck gas dependency from Russia, it will happen either by alternative sources or eliminating the need for NG in specific applications.

The cost issue is no longer on the table, the European block has woken up, this is a geo-political issue now, economics has been relegated.
Most of the solar cells are produced in China. China is not a democracy.
There's occasional calls to ban them in NL, but it's so contentious that's it not worth the political capital compared to the energy they waste.

Luckily I see infrared heaters more and more which fulfil the same role but are much more efficient, and with the current energy prices the financial incentives might be good enough that places replace them voluntarily.
> All of the aggression on Ukrainian can be traced back to them moving closer to the EU, NATO, and putting western hardware on Ukrainian soil.

That's what Russian propaganda keeps saying. But they ignore the huge amounts of gas that was found in the region of Ukraine that was annexed by Russia. Further, Ukraine gave back their nuclear weapons. Meaning, Ukraine already acted to demilitarize.

Ukraine moving closer to EU and NATO can be traced back to Ukraine finding huge gas reserves in 2012 and Russia attacking Ukraine in 2014.
Deno is the best thing to happen in web middleware, potentially over its entire history. It's like someone solved those problems over many years, took a break, then started from scratch to do it properly.
An emergency fund is for paying your mortgage if you lose your job, or settling a large car repair bill. No one here is seriously asking how to protect their investments while fleeing on foot from a genocidal regime in total war.
Falsehood in War-Time
Since when does popurls exist, it is also looking nice
I don't get the enthusiasm. It's just the old IoT radiator controller. Am I missing something here?
Thank you for a detailed reply! It’s sad that we don’t have a good VC scene. I suspect all the money is being poured into the housing market instead :p I am not actively pursuing start up life atm as I’m trying to adjust to life abroad in Japan. But I might actually apply to this batch as you’ve suggested, just to have a crack at it anyway!
COM/MS-RPC/MIDL are all different things. COM is build on top of MS-RPC and MS-RPC use MIDL to describe their protocol
I studied peak oil intensely back in 2008. One thing I learned is the scale of world energy production is very hard for most people to understand.
In the UK, cost of running an air-source heat pump was on par with a gas boiler; now, I'd imagine, gas boiler is more expensive. France IIRC has cheaper electricity, so the imbalance is even greater.

So this seems like exactly the right approach: the state is shifting subsidies to the cleaner source, doing what should be done anyway.

I agree affordability is an issue, and the state should step in where necessary.
Capn'Proto would be the closest thing to FIDL that I am familiar with. It has a capability / interface passing mechanism.

DBus as well, but DBus is horrible.
Learn to use the revolutionary PyTorch in your Raspberry Pi based projects
> I always thought that this seemed like a capital waste of energy, basically "heating" an unenclosed outdoor space.

If we're on the topic of nations wasting energy, let's talk about the US (no hate, just pointing out the facts).

I was shocked to see Las Vegas casinos on the strip keeping all the doors open while running the AC at full blast to have 22C in the middle of the desert, basically outdoor. Single pane windows in Miami that don't even close properly and have no outdoor blinds to not let all the sun heat in the house and instead vent it out via the AC, and a general level of poor building insulation that would be illegal in most of Europe. Plus, 4 way stop signs at many intersections causing vehicles to consume unnecessary fuel, tires and brake pads with the accompanying fine dust that comes with it.

It all seemed mad to me.
> The patient was now comfortable, felt well and we retired to our seats to recover. Eight hours later I was again summoned by the stewardess to see the patient, who had developed more chest pain and dyspnoea.

> I found her sitting on the toilet with the underwater seal drain on a high shelf. All the water and air had syphoned out of the bottle into the chest. The crisis resolved when I placed the underwater seal drain on the floor—draining the water back from the chest to the bottle. The air bubbled out of her chest when she coughed. After a few minutes she was almost back to normal, but exhaustion precluded the completion of a third full medical report.
> Windows 7

is EOL and should be treated as such.
As a general rule, I’ve found if you have to choose between a Google maintained project and a Facebook one- pick the Facebook one.
It's not just about the IME. I'm on macOS, where it's possible to type Devanagari/Gurumukhi into both iTerm and Terminal.app without any issues.

However, neither of the emulators can render the typed text correctly. I tried typing "नमस्ते" into both just now, and they both broke in different ways.

Here's iTerm failing to render a half स: https://imgur.com/a/vg1i4aB

Here's Terminal.app messing up how the quotation mark gets rendered: https://imgur.com/a/B5zd85V

Can foot handle this case? What about GNOME Terminal, Konsole, and Windows Terminal? If I can't reliably read Hindi text on the commonly used terminal emulators on all three major operating systems, then from my perspective a TUI app is worse in every way compared to a native GUI app or even an Electron app.
>Buchler would just sit down and type, he says, as if he was writing in English and not a programming language like C or Lua.

seems weird but the first thing I thought was, Why Lua?
Heh, I commented before reading, it seems it's simpler than I expected too
Interesting -- I got quite a bit up until 3 or 4 years ago, but it's essentially vanished for me. Not sure which cases they've cleaned up, and which ones they haven't I guess.
Russia says it made a Payment to avoid Default
I'm using vs code which is quite flexible
The article argues against every word of this statement.
Given that it is already running Chrome: [0] I would guess in another few years or so.

Probably will first replace the Linux kernel in ChromeOS first, then Android later.

[0] https://9to5google.com/2022/03/04/full-google-chrome-browser...
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Some brokerages let you have a debit card and/or checking account, and you can borrow on margin from invested funds.
5 dollars per user per month, I think?

If it was 5 dollars one-time fee for a greater level of access to the docker hub, many companies would have gone for it. At 1,000 employees you'd have to get $60,000 authorized yearly, which is going to make many companies look for the cheaper/free option.

Upon waking up some more, I found this: https://www.docker.com/pricing

"Teams" option is $7/user/month. "Enterprise" is $21/user/month.
Ahh thanks for clarifying everyone. Makes sense. I didn't know overlayfs is near native, cool! I guess I wasn't doing too much file io to notice the containers being slow or perhaps I just got used to things being slow. Either way, glad to see this improved for folks not using Docker on linux distros.
That sounds really interesting (and congratulations)! Do you have any pictures of the invitations? And how did you get the 3d printer to print your document?
Isn't this what a mentor is?

I never said to somebody: “you are my mentor now”, but contributing to open-source projects I definitely had a couple of guys who helped me constantly over the years, of which I am genuinely grateful for.
I like and use Clicky.
Google will match your donation to support Ukraine
> That's what Russian propaganda keeps saying.

Not really. Russian propaganda talk about liberating Ukraine because it is ruled by Nazi's. They talk about themselves as the heroes rather than wanting to destroy Ukraine "just" to create a neural zone.

The gas might be a motivator too but as you said yourself Ukraine was moving closer to EU and NATO before Russia started any hostilities.

Summarizing will always leave some detail out so I'll instead link to a talk that does go in depth into this point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
It's not about computation, I like the text to stay still. When I was aware of this it started bothering me, so I've changed it to the right ever since.
Of course this is a very small and picky detail.
After reading that page in its entirety, I still have no idea what this is.

> Be an architect of the energy transition

OK, what do I do as an architect? If I'm not university trained, do I still qualify?

> A unique Home Energy Management System

What is home energy management? Energy - electricity - comes into my house then straight to the fusebox. From there wires to the lights, the refrigerator, the air conditioner, the water heater. Each of those appliances I turn on when I want. Does energy management mean that this system manages when to turn them on?
Same idea, but for income: https://howrichami.givingwhatwecan.org/how-rich-am-i

Most people are blown away when they do this.
It's funny because displaying bitmaps in a terminal-like interface has been possible for many years. Even TempleOS[0] can do it! But somehow it's just never caught on. But the unicode thing works because it gets shoehorned into existing standards and functionality. Legacy is a bitch. "The things you own end up owning you".

Makes me wonder, though, is there enough space in unicode to just encode every possibly 16x16 bitmap? 256 bits?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS
It's all happened before, it will happen again.