skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if marketing was involved with using the term 'isolate' or not but if they are isolates as described by companies such as Cloudflare and Google, it might help to speak a bit more about the actual implementation at the infrastructure level.

Isolates are a really interesting approach to deal with the inherent nature of scripting languages to deal with the lack of threads as most scripting languages are inherently single-thread/single-process. If you have a 2000 line ruby class named 'Dog' you can easily overwrite it with the number 42. This is awesome on one hand, however it makes scaling the vm through the use of threads too difficult as threads will share the heap and then you have to put mutexes on everything removing any performance gain you would have normally gotten. Instead the end-user has to pre-fork a ton of app vms with their own large memory consumption, their own network connections, etc and stick it behind a load balancer which is not ideal to their compiled, statically typed cousins and frankly I just don't see the future allowing these languages as we continuously march towards larger and large core count systems. I'd personally like to see more of the scripting languages adopt this construct as it addresses a really hard problem these types of languages have to deal with and makes scaling them a lot easier. To this note - if you are working on this in any of the scripting languages please let me know because it's something I'd like to help push forward.

Having said that, they should never be considered as a multi-tenant (N customers) isolation 'security' barrier. They are there for scaling not security.
I'm not sure what to make of this. Does it mean Google, Amazon, whatever companies do all this leetcode stuff in interviews are just full of people who have superhuman motivation to memorize stuff but perhaps don't really understand it on a deep level? (no offense) If so it all seems a bit ludicrous.
Sure, and I guess that'd be fine for commercial applications. When you have a potential clog, though, you certainly want to be able to visibly verify the flush is working as expected before leaving.

Of course, that could be solved with a see-through toilet lid, but I can only imagine the absurdity of trying to pitch that to consumers.
Hence NFTs in the metaverse. You get to show off your custom avatar and worlds instead of flexing your iPhone.
Hardly aspirational.

They sell a (much more expensive) version that is FAA-certified for training.
a startup could be worth billions only based on the fact that investors continue throwing money at it

there are lots of companies, which are technically "unicorns", but haven't even got any revenue yet (Rivian and Nikola come to mind)
He doesn't mention fuselage lift. That's a thing in the F-4. I think 20%+ in some old aero reference book I had.
> a huge part of the lack of confidence in crypto right now is failed Ponzis like Terra Luna.

Terra / Luna is so last month.

Today is all about speculating upon Celsius.
cause that’s the way the world works
They provide VSCode as a free IDE because if they didn't, someone else would have, and in turn received all of the data that comes along with it. Let's not pretend Microsoft created VSCode out of the kindness of its heart
My setup is usually one very good joystick (VKB Gladiator II) and sometimes an additional throttle control. But the VKB joystick has a little throttle slider on the joystick itself, and if I don't want to make space on my desk that's usually enough. As long as you have a good joystick and a keyboard, you can often reasonably fly pretty much everything from GA to Airliners.

Though more out of curiosity I recently got a TrackIR, which tracks your head (usually using reflective surfaces that you can put on a baseball cap) and adjusts the viewing angle, and I must say that is an absolute game changer.

No longer having to either guess what's left, right, or even behind the screen, or awkwardly using camera controls is so much easier. And I was surprised how natural it feels: The head tracking has to heavily amplify your head motion, since you still want to keep your eyes on the screen after all, and to my own astonishment there was practically zero time for my brain to adjust. I even added some nonlinear curves and that works well, too.
Would be great if the timeline covered 19 minutes of 6:32 – 06:51. How long did it take to get the right people on the call? How long did it take to identify deployment as a suspect?

Another massive gap is the rollback: 6:58 – 7:42 – 44 minutes! What exactly was going on and why did it take so long? What were those back-up procedures mentioned briefly? Why engineers where stepping on each other toes? What's the story with reverting reverts?

Adding more automation, tests and fixing that specific ordering issue of course is an improvement. But that adds more complexity and any automation ultimately will fail some day.

Technical details are all appreciated. But it is going to be something else next time. Would be great to learn more about human interactions. That's where the resilience of a socio-technical system happened and I bet there is some room for improvement there.
I knew that xkcd before I even clicked. They should update it and increase the number dramatically.
He was pretty right about Sendmail.
VCs see a tiny chance that it can be a 100X return. So raising $20M at say a $50-100M valuation now, that means betting on a $5B+ exit. In return for getting money to take a shot at that level of artificially-fueled revenue growth, the founders are willing to cede control of the community to professional financiers. As others wrote, that's the VC model: make a ton of these bets, and as long as 2-4 turn out, the lottery winners pay for the bankruptcies.

Given every big company uses JS, and thus many SaaS VCs have JS in their annual set of thesis bets, it's reasonable that Deno got picked by a top group given their team & growth. Same story with npm, netlify, etc.

I wish the team luck in hitting significant revenue in the next 9-12mo, as that will determine a lot of what happens to the community. A lot of pressure & culture change to work through!
> There are basically no pathogens whose infectious innoculum is so close to dose of the average toilet plume that a factor of 2 makes any difference at all. Moreover, those are your germs. you are colonized with them already.

That's only true if you're living alone. If someone else is living with you, then it's always good to try and avoid sharing germs, especially when they're sick.
I had forgotten about summer reruns. That's a blast from the past.

I daresay a good part of the readership here would have trouble imaging that to watch non-live TV shows you had to be sitting in front of a TV at a particular time and if you missed it, that might be it.

Just one reason you mostly couldn't do heavily serialized TV. You could pull it off for a heavily promoted miniseries or limited run series. But, by and large, shows where missing an episode meant you were lost, just wouldn't fly in general.
Fair point about support. I’m okay with the responsibility of patching bugs, but buying a license key to my app doesn’t mean I’m employed by the company to build features and custom functionality (though I get some business may expect otherwise). i.e., please buy my artwork, but I’m not required to help you hang it on your wall or do interior design.

The point about making something new given my experience… I think I have done that naturally, and that may be the thing that I capitalize on. Essentially my app may assume a freemium model, where certain features are “premium” and require payment. I guess the daunting part is the work in establishing and enforcing the walls, all without diminishing user experience. I spent a large part of the day reading up on how to make this happen, it doesn’t look as daunting as I thought this morning. Thanks for your input.
It works great in practice for me. What issues are you running into?
It's not a hot take, it's just a bad take, and a complete failure to understand the value proposition of these types of offerings (and why we're seeing so many of them pop up these days)
> 7.2% died, with 4.6% (YES) and 17.5% (NO) on the 10-s OLS. Survival curves were worse for NO 10-s OLS (log-rank test=85.6; p<0.001). In an adjusted model incorporating age, sex, body mass index and comorbidities, the HR of all-cause mortality was higher (1.84 (95% CI: 1.23 to 2.78) (p<0.001)) for NO individuals.

Can someone better versed in stats than I translate the conclusion into plain english? I'm curious how much life expectancy loss a NO result implies.
100% agree. Thought I’d hate it and it’s been a huge productivity win
1. If half of Bitcoin users (hashrate-wise) wanted to disrupt the network out of malice ignoring their economic wellbeing, say a movement similar to GME/WSB, then they can disrupt it.

2. We can go into lower levels and find a number of ISPs specially level 1 ones being able to disrupt the Bitcoin network. Some other single points of failure I can imagine are common routers firmware.

Can Bitcoin never be disrupted? no, does it have mechanisms in place that make it unlikely to be disrupted? yes.
This is interesting, I didn't know this was an active attack vector for devices.
Key steps in creating an toxic data harvesting social media cash cow
Why would this be necessary to explain spread when COVID is aerosolized on every exhale?
Bidets don't spray dirty water.
Show HN: Starter examples for Project Loom in Java 19
But Copilot (or a human) is not copying some existing code. It (Copilot or human) just used existing code to learn. So it is only about the learning part, nothing else.

Yes, if Copilot (or a human) would copy existing code, that would be a copyright violation. But none of the arguments here are about that. It's just about the learning.
My project might help those getting started with Project Loom in JDK 19. A set of small, self-contained examples (SSCCEs) that can accelerate your own experimentation, especially if using SDKMan!. No IDE, no Gradle, no Maven.

Examples illustrate both "virtual threads" (preview status) and structured concurrency (incubator status).

Some of the more interesting examples:

Example #7 launches two tasks with a deadline to complete.

Example #8 implements a custom `StructuredTaskScope` that acts as `invokeSome(n)`. i.e. for M tasks, success is defined when N tasks complete.

Example #10 creates a small hierarchy within a `StructuredTaskScope` and then illustrates that `jcmd` can be used to interrogate the JVM for parent-child relationships.

The examples are highly contrived (often from the JEP docs), and NOT production-grade!
Antivirus on Windows are notorious at inserting itself as filesystem filters that triggered on every file access, which adds overhead into every read and write action. Combined with node_modules containing gazillion files, I'm surprised his project only loads in 2 minutes :)
> Also, a currency with massive deflation is not usabl

You got it backwards. Its currently inflation (BTC getting less-and-less valuable over the recent past).

Deflation was 2020, when BTC climbed in price dramatically.

Neither deflation, nor inflation, makes for a good currency. That "1000 ether" bet could be $1-million if executed today, but it was $3-million just a few months ago.

Because there's no stability in cryptocoins, they are neither stores of value (they decline too quickly), nor currencies (they go up and cause price changes).
Spoken like a true man. Clearly you have no idea the additional things women have to do on a day to day basis to merely appear as if they are putting in "no effort"
Yes, you save, according to OP, 2 seconds, 4, since you then have to open the lid every time. Since it has no impact on your health, you should prefer to save the time.

There is literal shit everywhere all the time. There's shit inside of you, right now. The bacteria that comprise that shit are basically the same as the bacteria on your skin. Performing little rituals to reduce the amount of perceived shit in your life is a symptom of, and perhaps even a pathway to, crippling neurosis.
>What percentage of x-plane users do you think ACTUALLY use it for learning to fly an airplane

What does it matter? I play city simulation games, and want them to be realistic, because I find the realism fun. Not because I plan on building my own city.

Wanting a realistic flight simulator that gives the real sensation of flying does not mean you must then become a pilot.
Alzheimer’s amyloid hypothesis ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure (2019)
It's not a matter of efficiency but of scale: we can't produce enough hydrogen by hydrolysis even with all the electricity we can produce. On contrary probably we can made electric tools to substitute tractors. Something that demand a bit of investment but last FAR longer and can run only on p.v. the hard part there would probably be convincing farmers that they do not need tractors anywhere but only for very specific activities...

If you use all Island electricity you can't even produce enough hydrogen to power a hypothetical nations-wide fleet of cars...
So? Why should you need elevation to interact with your own non-elevated processes?
I love copilot, but I don't even pay for github, maybe have it bundled with like an 8 dollar github upgraded account or something, might entice many of us who just use "free" github services to upgrade, but by itself. I don't think so.
Incredible that today this is a better deal and more accessible than any current Raspberry Pi model.

Nice to see netbooks making a comeback.
You are going to wash your hands anyway, touching the seat makes no difference.
other providers with an offering like workers+r2 would be great for the market.
Google is pro-whatever-is-most-profitable-for-Google. Sometimes this leads to pro-FOSS behavior (they’re consistently among the top contributors to Linux), sometimes not.
He is an outlier. He lifted very heavy weights and did tons of peds.
This would also be really useful for monitors with broken/missing EDID info

But yeah HDMI can have Ethernet too! Very overlooked and potentially dangerous attack vectors in HDMI
I’m happy to hear that my fear is justified, lol. But yeah, starting out I was just happy for the validation of people using my things. Now I don’t need the validation; if fewer folks use my app, but those who do pay and enjoy it, well I’d happier for that (and my wife would be too).
It depends on what it's being used for. Adhesion across the expected temperature range is likely the most relevant factor to consumers. The NFPA would likely not call it out specifically, and rather rely on NRTL approval for acceptability. For reference electrical equipment for use in ordinary locations (ANSI 61010), insulating tapes list UL standard 510, CSA no. 197, and IEC 60454.
Hard to out my finger on a single reason for it but I prefer it for hobby projects.

Part of the reason is I am already using node for tooling for the front end.

It is less powerful than say C# for example in multitasking - but for
hobby projects that rarely matters.

Typescript makes a big difference.

There is a lot of community support: stackoverflow, npm packages etc. Every SDK has a JS version.

It is fast enough for my needs.

NextJS is another good reason.
Actually it would decrease
If you can buy a house, UK is cheaper and livelier that any other place on earth.
Adaptations of image style transfer specifically for video came out pretty quick after the image ones, and there's been a few iterations. For the most part they use the same ideas, but add some extra steps to "stabilize" the result of the stylization across time so that it doesn't jump all over the place from frame to frame.

For 3D, it's more complicated as there isn't an obvious translation of image-based stylization to the 3D realm - if we are talking 3D mesh models, I've seen similar ideas applied to generating textures as well as geometry.

In this case, the novelty is combining the stylization with the NERF, which does result in a special type of 3D model (not a mesh, but a volumetric representation that lends itself well to rendering). There isn't really any video aspect to it, other than that videos of the result from different viewpoints are a good way of visualizing the result.
Can the same build pipelines be reused for CF/Fastly workers? The DX for workers is horrible with multiple buggy Wrangler implementations and zero observability into deployed workers.
> modern developer stack now involves dozens of companies gunning for a $5-10/month slice of the pie.

Can you name most useful ones? So far my only subscription is Idea. I'm considering to try Copilot as I've heard many good things about it.
Glad to see that you are active and not merely performative (presuming that you have actually done any of this), and you're welcome.

I completely agree about increasing scrutiny on and taxation of owners for whom it is not their primary residence, e.g., "passive income" rentiers, full-time AirBNB hosts, etc.. These dramatically reduce available housing stock and increase costs (renters pay not only the full costs of the property but also the owner's profits).

That said, you are now squarely in the camp of restricting what people do with property that you do not own - exactly what you didn't like about my position.

This also brings us to the reality of why zoning was created.

It was specifically because people did NOT like the results of no zoning: anyone who owns the land can do whatever the fck they want with it.

This always creates externalities that impose costs on the neighbors, whether pollution, noise, light, safety issues, traffic, blight, or whatever. I watched a town where I lived which had eliminated zoning — with the methods you described — then found that all kinds of problems happen, and then they PUT BACK STRONGER ZONING.

Also look at another contradiction in your position. You say anyone should be able to build whatever the fck they want on their land. What that likely means is many more rental units. This will not substantially improve the lot of the renters, as it will be like the highway building paradox wherein adding more lanes brings more congestion; after a possible brief reduction for new competition, the rents won't decrease.

What you probably want is more actual purchasable housing stock at more reasonable prices, so be careful what you ask for. Just killing zoning will get more of what you don't want.

I also note that you are looking at a different kind of community than mine. I'm in a quasi-rural exurb (literally horses, cows, chickens on our street) with a town meeting and select-person govt, not a town/city council. The residents actually come to town meeting — often a multi-evening or all-day affair — and vote on almost everything, instead of electing town reps that make all the decisions. It is also a very substantial commute to the nearest city and zero public transport - for example, implementing low-income housing would force any owner to own a car, which puts them kind of out of the low-income category. So we may be talking about quite different ends of the issues.
Similarly, the Bodensee contains the borders between Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, but the lake itself belongs to all three.
Agrivoltaics could save both the wheat and the farms.

The wheat, because partial sun reduces evaporation and heat stress; and the farm, because they provide a revenue stream year-round.

A good configuration for wheat is bifacial panels erected as simple fence-rows running N-S, catching morning and afternoon sun, widely enough separated for equipment to fit between.

It is said that wheat, like many grains and unlike most vegetables, yields a bit less with less sun. While strictly true under ideal circumstances, circumstances are rarely ideal. When they are, you can afford a dip. When not, you likely don't get one.
I’m laughing at the replies to your comments lol.

Didn’t you know that while all your statements might be subjectively correct, it’s only the Brits themselves allowed to moan about how much their country sucks, haha.
In my opinion, the article totally misses the point, which is really, "this is globally detrimental" versus "I can make personal profits".

Edit: On the other hand, it's a somewhat refreshing alternative to the usual exchanges, like, "Did you hear, X is bust?" – "This is, because you don't know how going bust works." – "???". (In essence, it's actually the same, as the alleged real worth of something going bust is the investment opportunity and anyone pointing at the values destroyed just doesn't understand this, since – allegedly – there isn't anything destroyed, but only opportunities created.)
Personally I’d rather monopoly keep its meaning (a commodity or market sector controlled by a single party) and people use other words to describe the other ways a large company can be anti-competitive. But languages do often evolve to take a word specifying thing A that is a subclass of B and start using it to just refer to the entire Subclass B, so wouldn’t be unusual for that to happen.
This is gorgeous! You packed in not just a texture but even a scene description! And reflections! However, I have a couple of quibbles:

1. It is not C.

2. It is not 9 lines.

To elaborate on the first point, it's C++, using the functional cast syntax int(C*N), C++ includes, and a non-constant static initializer, none of which are legal in C.

To elaborate on the second point, it's not "9 lines" of C++ in the sense that My Very First Raytracer is "184 lines of C"; it's only 9 lines in the sense that it has two lines of #includes, and then you've chosen to insert six newlines into it at essentially arbitrary locations! Conventionally formatted, it's 45 lines of C++, which seems in keeping with my estimate that the basic raytracing algorithm is about 20 lines of code if you have linear algebra, while having to implement linear algebra adds another bit of code that's slightly larger than 20 lines.

I'm not sure how to define logical lines of code for K, but it seems relevant that one of those 7 lines defines two nested functions.

Here's the reformatted version of your Tinytrace, which I look forward to studying in more detail:

#include <cmath> // sqrt
#include <cstdio> // fopen
int i, p = 0, h[] = { 3 << 16, 8 << 24, 0, 41944064, 8 };

FILE *f = fopen ("o", "wb");
int main() {
fwrite (h, 2, 9, f);

for (; p < 9 << 17;) {
float x = 0,
T = .2,
Y = p % 1024 / 430. - 1,
R = p++ / 327680. - 1,
E = 3,
C = 1 / sqrt (Y * Y + R * R + 1),
I, t, N, A;
Y *= C;
I = 1 | -(Y < 0);
R *= C;

a:
t = x - I;
A = T - I;
N = Y * t + R * A - C * E;
A = N * N - t * t - A * A - E * E + 1;
N += sqrt (A);
if (N < 0) {
E += N * C;
x -= N * Y;
T -= N * R;
t = x - I;
A = T - I;
N = 2 * (Y * t + R * A - C * E);
I = -I;
Y -= N * t;
R -= N * A;
C += N * E;
goto a;
}

fputc (i, f);

if (R < 0) {
N = (3 - T) / R;
i = Y * N;
R *= .4 - (((i + int(C*N)) & 1) + .6);
}

i = R > 1 ? 255 : R * 255;
}
} // "TINY TRACE" edition - JB'22 (but reformatted)

For anyone else who wants to run it, you will probably want to rename the output file "o" to "o.tga", because it's a TARGA-style uncompressed image.
> crippling neurosis.

Well that escalated quickly.

You are ignoring the actual benefit of halving exposure with a couple of seconds of effort. Worrying about that kind of time is itself crippling neurosis.

I reject your analysis.
the person using co-pilot on all their hobby projects described it as working best as an advanced auto-complete, so I guess you should ask them that.

I figure advanced auto-complete should not produce big blocks of code that are more likely to have logical errors in them, since the grandfather comment here suggested that problems show up when you generate larger blocks of code.