skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His name is Raphael and not Ted. I am talking about perceptions and not facts. Yes he is white but he may not come across that way if he went by Raphael and had a bit of an accent.
What's missing is that those "worksite" trucks should require a special commercial drivers license and extra testing for the professional drivers who drive them, same as big rigs. And not be allowed for non-work trips like driving to school.
C is not better than B-?
Not the OP, but that's an interesting question!

Some googling got me to a quote of "Jehan de Sanlis made this for 6 pence per quire", The Hague, Royal Library, MS 71 A 24, 13th century from https://brewminate.com/making-medieval-manuscripts/ ; I'd guess that illumination and binding these quires (16- or 24-page sheet) doubles the price, so we're at half-pence per page; price summaries from a slightly later time (but different place) like http://faculty.goucher.edu/eng240/medieval_prices.html have similar values (~240 pence/ book) and indicate that a small house costs 500-1000 pence, so a house costs something like 1000-2000 pages worth of books, and it's worth taking into account that medieval manuscripts put less words on a page than modern paperbacks, so the same book would be more pages back then.

From a different perspective, copying the Bible was said to require 15 months of work (Life in a Medieval City, Joseph and Frances Gies) and the price a small house seems to generally be in the range of 1-2 years salary, so a copy of the Bible - which is on the larger range of books - would be comparable to a house.

In any case, an average codex at the time is less than the price of a house but on a similar scale, a collection of a hundred books is comparable to a fancy mansion in the capital.
> Most places have at least a couple hours of overlap with the US. What time zone are you in?

UTC+3 (Istanbul). Realistically I get 2-4 hours per day overlap with San Francisco and 4-6 with New York.

My criteria has been basically anybody using Terraform in the cloud. Everything else is negotiable.

What happens is the moment companies really where I am, they either get worried about the legality of hiring me (no concerns, unless they have an office here) or don't want to deal with the time zone.

It actually got worse since covid. Before Covid I would be unemployed 2-3 months in-between jobs or contracts.

This gets complicated by the fact that most company's ops teams tend to work later hours.
Indeed not insurmountable, but a plan is necessary. From the article, it doesn't seem that California are taking it too seriously, though.
Right now we're using implicit message queue in database using statuses. We have entities with statuses and cron jobs which run often, do some work and change statuses. It's more like state machine. But we plan to migrate this system to kafka, because every status change implies delay between cron jobs and that makes system somewhat slow.
> You could do much better by having partial SUMs in the index btree nodes, that way you could get the sum of billions of records without processing any row individually.

It sounds like you don’t want a general purpose database. Something like what you describe might be more efficient on certain queries but only because it’s giving up a lot of flexibility - consider what happens if you add any filtering or grouping changes and those partial sums can no longer be used.

This preference for general systems rather than optimizing for a single query shows through in the tools used for this kind of task: materialized views and indexes using expressions. Those would allow the kind of precomputed aggregates you’re talking about without the kinds of challenges around flexibility and correctness your approach would encounter.

> Transferring large amounts of data in the response is solvable by using shared memory

That’s a common optimization but it’s not a panacea any more than indexes are. For example, relying on that falls over badly once you need a network and the problems I mentioned before are still important — even if your shared memory implementation is perfectly efficient, you’re still looking at keeping data in memory longer so your client can aggregate it when the database engine could do that for you and discard the memory immediately.

Another way of looking at this is to ask why a field with billions in R&D hasn’t already done it, and especially why various big data tools have been significantly less impactful than promised. If you see what seems like an easy way to beat the current options, it’s usually a good time to ask why everyone working in that space hasn’t seen it.
i thought it were: cum, cock, cunt, communist...
I moved a queen bed frame and mattress in a 2006 mini convertible.
It is amazing how many lawyers are completely incompetent at everything other than billing. I expect that they will write a letter complaining that they are being harassed by Hotz and his associates and are cancelling the lawsuit for their own safety.
I live in a rural area where pickup trucks are used for farm tasks, hunting (deer season, coyote season is every day), construction, towing, etc at a much higher rate than you probably see across the US in average.

Among the community of people that use their trucks for "real work" (whatever their definition of that may be) an immaculately kept truck like the one you're describing would be referred to as a "pavement princess".
Judging by some of the comments it may not be the most accurate (also the odd emission of Microsoft, which I'd be genuinely interested in), however I do find it interesting that Twitter seems to be a far worse offender than Facebook.
They owe you nothing. They are posting code, not a promise to work for free for you forever.
Why would CloudFlare have any responsibility for the use of their services in this way?

Do you expect the power company to cut off power to that forum? The water company? How about the power and water companies cutting power to known members of the forum, to "fight against targeted harassment and murder"?
I grew up in Panama. I’m white in the classical American sense. I don’t have a Spanish accent. English is the only language I speak. Both my parents are white from the United States.
You should look at how much electricity it would take to replace LNG in the chemical industry.

Whilst all of these are possible it’s possible with a multi decade mega project style of planning.
This is really pretty cool. I hope it does happen this way or similarly.

I can see this hardware and software stack making tech support at financial exchanges much harder as now trades will be analyzed down to ns instead ms and there’ll be a guy staring at some FIX protocol packet captures yelling into a phone to some guy at Goldman “no sir, you lost because you weren’t first. I don’t care how much money your algotrading machine cost you, it wasn’t first. There’s a speed of light problem here. You want faster trades, move closer.”
I've moved all my email to Proton over the course of the last year or so. Each interaction I've had with customer support as been great, resolving my issues usually same day as I've opened the ticket. Only two downsides in my mind is the lack of an iOS calendar app (its in closed beta atm) and twice since I've signed up they have suffered multi-hour outages that left me without access to email.
To be clear, the danger is not in differing opinions, it's in overindexing on imagined motives and using those to dismiss a claim.

Unpopular opinion, I guess.
In the same sense as humans having a range of strength and speed is well adapted, sure. But athletics also tends to run in families.
You’re also missing the forest for the trees because you’re not seeing the real issue. What you’re describing is really just the core concept of any market.

The issue is that we’re seriously restricting growth and innovation in favor of using housing as a financial investment. Yes, it’s necessary to have some degree of inequality and nobody is entitled to to live in any exact spot, but it’s gotten out of hand at this point, it’s hurting our societies, and it’s unsustainable.
Many of the message queues I have seen are only necessary because of personalization or analytics features that the user doesn't want and the business probably doesn't need.

When I try to estimate ROI on those features it's usually miniscule. A/B test are unconvincing and the aggregate reports synthesized from the data look more like numerology than rigorous science. More-over, senior leadership usually doesn't realize how much additional liability they take on by collecting and storing so much customer data.

It's not 2010. The large tech firms are your direct competitors and regulators across the world have caught up, including in many US states. If you have a primary product for which people will pay money, then the "surveillance agency as a side-business" model of the 2000s-2010s is probably a bad idea. It's a net expense that exposes you to liability and distracts your team.

Additional benefit: without real-time analytics and personalization, you can go even further without a message queue.
The article seems to forget that calling a module "hardware" doesn't mean there's no CPU on that "hardware" with software running on top of it.

Same goes for DPUs, which are essentially just single-board computers.

The datacenter OS has been done, many times, and the only incarnation that has had long-term success was the mainframe for a rather un-diverse set of tasks (record processing as banks, tax offices and insurance companies are doing).

The problems so far have always been the same: a triangle of cost, performance and flexibility where you get to pick two if you are lucky, but with most of those 'mega systems' you really only get to pick one.

What has been a true improvement over the last two decades is the commoditisation of hardware, the scheduling of tasks and services (think in terms of container schedulers and even task schedulers) over that commodified hardware, and much more recently: the improvements in hardware-assisted parallel computing (which includes machine learning and the recent shuffling of FPGA IP).

The reason those have been an improvement is because they aren't vendor-locked, they don't have to be homogenous and they are flexible enough that once you meet the bar where you really need it, you can start out and grow and shrink practically on-demand. (and I'm not talking about 'the cloud' here, but about the size of what scheduling and parallel computing facilities you might need)

More true to the title of the article: datacenter software has fallen because it's the old "buy a license, a support contract and install an instance" model which drives silo'ed technical design. It used to be true that to perform a task at a specified performance a specialised silo to perform that task was required to be able to fulfil a business need at all (think network frame and packet processing). Up to a point, that has been generified and commodified so much that before your baseline performance requirements need you to get a highly specialised silo'ed system/device/appliance, you've already outgrown the 'do it yourself' scenario. (scale: think about one corridor/double row of 48U) At that stage you'll either be offloading to an elastic capacity provider or are in such a niche scenario that common rules don't apply anyway.
> If you go there and really want to take it all in, plan at least one full day (better two)

Also try to visit it at a weekday outside of school holidays in Germany (those vary from state to state though, so check that before).
It would be outrageous for CloudFlare to cut off service to this company/organization or its members over simple allegations, or anything short of a court order, wouldn't it? Surely you can understand this?
You can literally go on the forum and read it if you need any proof.
I'm confused, how have you been staying and working legally for the past 8 years in Turkey?
> Just don't expect the same wonderful experiences to continue if you try to put down roots.

Eh? It’s still a very nice country if you put down roots. It’s certainly one of the best countries in terms of social cohesion/structure.

Japan doesn’t cease to amaze me even after 10 years.

Today I was put on a sort of medical gyroscope and made to drink burp and glowjuice as part of a yearly medical checkup, after which the guy proceeded to yell instructions at me in half broken english, while he presumably took multiple x-rays of my stomach and throat. I didn’t even know this existed, but apparently all men 35 and older do it once a year as a matter of course.

To balance that, Japanese people have a fairly different idea of what constitutes ‘normal’, and that is hard to get used to. For example, everyone considers me a deviant for just wanting to start my day with cereal and milk, and not wanting to eat a (warm!) multi-course meal for breakfast.
Do company cars not use roads?
This is the most valuable comment I have read on hacker news. My mind is blown. Thank you.
But at what price? Will tethers be sold to debt collectors for pennies?
That's... not really a correct description of "hard real time". All system architectures have performance edge cases. The idea of a "hard" real time system is that those be known and fully characterized, and that they can be mapped to equally-fully-characterized application requirements. That way you know all the failure modes ahead of time.

Not all aspects of a real time system need latency control like you're imagining. It's entirely possible to imagine, say, an aircraft autopilot or self-driving system (something that needs ~100ms round-trip latencies to approximate a human pilot) being implemented using a garbage collected runtime, as long as you can guarantee those GC pauses are acceptably small (lots of such systems exist).

The same would be a very hard ask of a piston engine controller, where the timing needs are closer to 100us. Nonetheless the (again to pick an arbitrary example) logging/telemetry subsystem of that engine controller doesn't need that. So as long as you have an OS that can partition the engine tasks from the low priority stuff in a reliable way, you can still imagine a Lisp/Java/.NET/Go/whatever runtime being used there.

Real time is a design philosophy, not a tech stack.
It doesn't "copy". These are not collages patched together from different original images.
US "road tax" is in the gasoline tax. (Plus a nominal fee for electric cars in some places)
Does NL have gas tax? What's that used for?
Imagine how much of our own digital culture which uses a much less durable medium is already lost.
A basic driving license will allow you to drive a 26,000lb GVWR box truck with an actual length of 34 feet. Is this the right call? It doesn't seem to be a problem, because very few people are buying such large trucks for daily drivers.

The talk about "farm vehicle" is a red herring in this whole thread. Actual farm plates are rare. The significant distinction is cosplayer vs contractor, which happens to be independent of commercial plates.

The right answer is probably charging yearly registration (/road use) fees based on GVWR. This is already common for trailers. There should be a part that scales as the road wear from weight does. I think it's something like the third or fourth power?
They're really just mislabeling it for nostalgia and marketing.

It's actually just a control to increase torque more aggressively on command for increased acceleration beyond what is normally needed for casual driving.
But not in the United States. Hate speech at least, and harassment is a bit murky these days anyway. Swatting is certainly harassment, but is making fun of someone for being odd?

Imagine for a moment that Cloudflare leans in and starts doing this. Then, let's image a DeSantis Presidency, with a full hard-right Senate, House, and majority SC soon.

Now, imagine what those people feel like is harassing them. 90% of Twitter posts would likely qualify. Half of the post on this very site. Most of Reddit. Then they start passing laws that you can't pick and choose. If you are a piece of infrastructure that is gatekeeping what someone felt was hate-speech or harassement yesterday, well then you have to do it today.
After the CSAM debacle, I don't know how anyone can consciously pick Apple after they spent so many years saying they value data privacy and all that.
Photography is well known to have killed art.

Press a button on a box you barely understand and the camera shits out a pic. "Hey I make art". What a sad state of affair, tech is consuming everything and people are cheering, one more step on the path to being complete useless key pressers.
What you're talking about makes a manual have fewer torque brownouts for lack of a better term, but they'd cost efficiency not gain it. Being in a lower gear before you need it is worse for mpg than being in it slightly "too late"
Came here to say the same, except so far I’ve been using Blender with the CAD Transforms plugin (mainly for the Sketch-like snapping abilities). I watched a few videos on Blender for Precision Modeling (search youtube) and started playing around.

I’ve been meaning to learn FreeCAD or one of the others because the parametric modeling seems useful, but Blender has been good enough for my purposes so far - mostly adapters for tool vacuum ports, and other little things around the house and workshop.
I'm coming off as highly negative. I completely admit that. But arrogant? I'm not arrogant.

In order for me to be arrogant, I would have to advertise and over blow my own abilities. Which I haven't. You should look up the word before you use it incorrectly.

Also, you have to realize OP is not a kid. If a young kid was saying this stuff, I'd be encouraging. But he's basically an adult. And I'm not tearing him down, I'm telling him he'll turn out average.

Additionally the OP is bragging about his accomplishments. It's literally the definition of arrogant.
"Afford" is said in many ways. I know my kids will probably have to take out student loans to go to school. Other than that, you live frugally. Health insurance costs usually cap out at 3 kids.
Why would CloudFlare do anything like that???

If what kiwifarms is doing is illegal, then law enforcement should stop them.

If it's not illegal, then CloudFlare should continue providing service to them, regardless of how much CloudFlare may dislike what it believes they may be doing.

It should ideally be illegal for CloudFlare (given how large and important they have become) to refuse business to anyone unless under an explicit court order to do so. Law enforcement should never be up to unaccountable private entities.
Or unreadable. Due to changing formats both physical and digital. Not to forget later various copy protections and DRMs...
I would argue the minivan is the most comically underloved vehicle in the US given how perfectly it fulfills what people want from their vehicle. There is little reason to buy a ute style vehicle over a minivan in my opinion. I had to buy a used car last year (I have no kids, just a girlfriend and no plans in the near future for kids if ever.. lol who can afford that shit?) and used car prices were/are? absolutely insane. I widened my search to pretty much any car type and decided to look for a remote job/job with a very short commute so I wouldnt have to buy a gas efficient vehicle. I wanted basically a honda civic type vehicle but even old beat up honda civics with 250,000 miles driven by high schoolers were still far too expensive for what you were getting.

...then I realized that one of the vehicles taxi companies use are toyota siennas and read some articles about how minivans had actually barely gone up in price even though people were desperate for cars.

I got a 2006 awd sienna with nice newer tires, a 3500 pound towing package, roof racks, sunroof, power doors and hatch, disc brakes, an absolutely cavernous interior with removable seats that can fit a full size plywood sheet, window shades, a leather interior and the top trim level audio system with a newer android touchscreen radio unit for $6000. Yah it had 180,000 but on a sienna if it is maintained well that is nothing. I mean.. all the electrical shit still works on it somehow? Also this thing is fun to drive, it isnt a sports car by any means but steering is sensitive and accurate and the wheelbase is so long it eats bumps like a couch even though the suspension isnt floaty.

If I had bought a civic it would have had 250,000+ miles, cloth seats, shit tires, huge dents and probably a replacement panel that was a mismatched color along with innumerable random small problems.

Americans hate the idea of owning a minivan more than the idea of not owning a car and it is hilarious because minivans are what you get when you take a hard look at american life and design a large vehicle for it that ticks off every box. Unless you are towing very large things frequently ever other large vehicle is a joke compared to a minivan.

I mean.. sliding doors yo... I will never buy a large vehicle without them after owning one with them.
Wait, Bairoch's Belgian, though.

By your earlier logic, he shouldn't be trusted with this claim any more than Wikipedia or Britannica should be trusted with the claim of British origins.

Seems like we'd need a non-British, non-Belgian source to make any definitive claim, right? /s
I totally agree. Also, that sounds like a wonderful project :) You should post project updates somewhere to keep track of your model as it evolves!
You can amass 1000 person-years of testing with 10 subjects and 100 years, or with 1000 subjects and 1 year. Or with some intermediate ramp-up plan.

The "decades of public use" metric needs to also take into account how widespread that use is.

Now consider how many doses of mRNA vaccines have been given worldwide (1), since the public rollouts began in December 2020. mRNA vaccines are no longer unknown, at all.

1) Billions of doses https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-glo...
So they lose faith in the system... so what? Tether still has all the assets, why would they care that the itchy and scratchy money they gave everyone is worthless?
> The technocrats thought they'd be clever, and they basically outlawed reasonably sized cars for very small marginal efficiency gains. People bought light truck instead. People don't want to drive around in dinky death traps

I thought this comment was saying the opposite of what you meant at first. There are no small cars anymore, even the "Mini" is gigantic. And modern cars are safer than ever, due to smarter design and better engineered materials.
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The plot sort of makes sense, but the storyline is so hard to follow that I have no idea what it was after I finish the movie.
What wavelength range? Silicon detectors cut off at about 1000 nm, glass optics start cutting off around 2500 nm. Then you get into exotic materials that are expensive.
For others feeling out of the loop: apparently one of Cloudfront's customers is "Kiwi Farms", which is apparently a discussion forum for trolls, some of whom have apparently conducted swatting ("murder") attempts against trans activists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms
I don't understand the point of your comment.

You only represent yourself and you are mixing multiple issues. Why would car makers listen to this "compromise"?
It's not legal which is why they are based outside the US.
Power and water companies are utilities. I don't think Cloudflare would want to be categorized that way, as it comes with massive regulation.