skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The number of transferred bytes is important because it affects the latency and hence the user experience. Using this estimate, we calculated that between June 1st and 28th, 2019, the average BPP (weighted by the number of bytes transmitted with that BPP) was 2.97, 2.24 and 2.03 for small, medium and large images, respectively. We confirmed that there was no considerable difference between mobile and desktop platforms. This data indicates that image compression algorithms should target rich images with a relatively high BPP values, aiming to produce 1 BPP images almost free of artefacts instead of 0.5 BPP images with artefacts that are not too intrusive.

This is excellent, and does indeed suggest that JPEG XL should be broadly preferred in the browser. Thanks for the reference.
Good politicians do things they know will be popular. This isn't always a bad thing. Presidential actions can influence a lot of down-ballot races. For good or ill, both Obama and Biden are politicians, and only took the steps they felt would be popular with their constituents at the time.
Advanced Micro Devices sinks as Q3 sales miss estimates by wide margin
> serverless is when you [...] don't keep a machine sitting around when there are no requests

FTFY

The key part of serverless is that you don't have a server idling around. Whether or not you use a hosted db is not relevant.
It's bad enough that loads upon loads of sites require people to use their E-mail address as a user ID. What a stupid policy, one that embarrasses many companies that should know better (YES, THIS MEANS APPLE).

When you force people to log in with their E-mail address, what percentage of the public also thinks they need to use their E-mail password? I'm going to guess at least half. Now, if that site is compromised by a hack or disgruntled employee or whatever, people's E-mail accounts are wide open and identity theft galore can ensue.

Not to mention that your E-mail address is on thousands of spammers' lists. Combine that list with lists of common passwords, and you have a shitload of compromised E-mail accounts right there.

Nobody should have tolerated this amateur-hour policy, but here we are.
I thought they'd be pretty fuckin bad, you're telling me they're worse than that?
This YouTube video "Simulating alternate voting systems" by Primer seems apposite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhO6jfHPFQU
Applets ?
Yes it will, because the relevant assembly instructions aren't available to userspace, in most current designs.

Trying to do otherwise will trap.
In all fairness, whenever someone says they left CA it's either Austin or (if they mention anything related to snow) Boulder or Denver.

I've yet to hear anyone gushing about how they left SV for North Dakota or Alaska.
OpenAI Codex can do that.
Who said the trust is blind?

It is utterly impossible to "think for yourself" when it comes to modern science. To fully understand the thinking and evidence that goes into some of these statements might take decades. You should trust it because all parts of the chain of arguments are being critically looked at by experts all the time.

If you distrust scientists just like you distrust priests, it is your blind distrust that's deeply irrational (under the guise of rationality no less).
This sounds really interesting but I’m not sure I follow. Having a hard time expressing how I’m confused though (maybe its unfamiliar nerf terminology) but if you have the time I’d be very interested if you could reformulate this alternative method somehow (I’ve been stuck on this very issue for two days now trying to implement this myself).
What were influential engineers called in the companies you were in before?
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> People think things that range from typical to highly atypical. The more typical your thought patterns, the higher the probability that others can infer your thinking. This leads to more successful social interactions because people will infer your thinking incorrectly less often.

I do think this is true, but as I've gotten older I have come to the conclusion that the two most typical people in the world would still fail to infer each other's thinking because typical thinking misattributes motivation in others to an almost absurd degree.
Similarly, a single 30-minute lesson taught me what I was doing wrong on the ACT Science section (trying to understand the science instead of treating it as 'find the answer in the text'). Brought my overall score from 32 to 35 (I was already a good test taker, but those 3 points made a big difference),
If you follow the news trail on this topic at all, you would be aware that the Democratic Party has been pretty loud about marihuana reform for at least a year now.
So basically Six Sigma will now be split into 3 Two Sigmas
No 3.5mm jack, no deal.
I certainly think that role is missing, but I don't think it's at a role of a staff engineer. In my experience, _The Therapist_ has the ear of a lot of senior people, and more importantly their trust. They understand the technical issues as well as the business problems, but more importantly understand the personalities and politics of the organization. These are the people who can convince people that if they give up a little, then they can get a lot in return. They generally tame strong-arm managers that are just looking for more headcount or more prominent projects that tend to drown out other projects or initiatives that are genuinely needed.

Those people are an absolute necessity, and I think it's very tough for someone to be effective in that role if they don't have a solid technical understanding, but I also don't think that an engineer has the clout to wrangle people the way a _therapist_ needs to. In a small organization, maybe, but at a decent size, mid-sized company and larger it will need to be someone working on the business side, not development or IT operations
> because it means you are implicitly deciding your current existence is not enough

> that is what bothers me with religion as well: it is a rejection of ourselves and reality traded for comfort. I get people need it due to bad life circumstances, but like any addiction it is just a pain killer for a festering wound.

Is it only drugs and religion though? And not just illegal drugs, but the legal ones as well?

Couldn't one argue that people seek out religion for emotional needs, and that emotional needs force people to reject themselves in favor of the community? Or is this a misguided take?
We're diverging from your question here, but I'll stick to my previous comment: an IP address is not in itself personal data.

A more nuanced, and realistic explanation may be found at [1] (UK GDPR is the same as EU GDPR but Brexit...)

That does not really help about your question, though. Again, if you clearly state what is collected and why you should be more than fine.

[1] https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
Sounds like someone needed a Scrum master
What about the archetype Staff Software Engineer who’s good at creating a promo packet but not good at much else? They come into an org, replace some open source / well-documented well-built tool with an undocumented poorly working tool, then they convince other org members to use this new tool as they actively disable or undermine the existing tool. Come promo time they now have a line in their promo packet “built new tool, drove adoption of said tool to 80%”. At the last company I worked it seemed like a good many of the staff engineers were like this, though may be just the symptoms of a company with braindrain.
This isn’t an approach (that’s a specific term in interrogation), this is Direct Questioning. There are many approaches but I wasn’t talking about them here. Approaches are used to gain rapport and trust with people who would rather see you dead.

You use direct questioning once you’ve succeeded at your approach, when you lose trust, or when you’re not trained properly on approaches because you can fuck it up pretty bad.
According to the article, it would "affect more than 6,500 people" surely not all of those people are in federal prison, but I guess it will be cleared from their record?
This feels revisionist. Obama won by a healthy margin in 2012 and those that subscribed to the racist politics probably would not have voted for him even if he locked up every African American in the US. He had every opportunity to push for bold change and instead disappointed his base by being timid.
Enjoying Korn und Sprite, I hope.
For what it's worth, non-american citizens on non-american soil have no legal protection against the same. And big ad monopolies are not in the business of pissing off the security state.
due to change in materials of shrapnel

"Current Ukrainian stocks of the precision rockets use the M31 Unitary Warhead, best suited for destroying individual targets such as headquarters buildings or ammunition dumps.

The M31 has a 90kg explosive charge contained inside a fragmentation sleeve which produces distinctive, diamond-shaped shrapnel. It is not ideal against targets spread over large areas, as the deadly chunks are not designed to fly far.

In contrast, the new M30A1 rocket contains 182,000 tungsten ball bearings specially designed to cover a much larger area."
It's pretty easy to become familiar with conversion therapy information if one wishes to. An estimated 350,000[1] children have received such therapy. I hope this information finds you well.

1. https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Co...
This alarms me considerably, as would anything that forces someone to do anything they do not want to do, whether it's for their own good or not. That said, however, I think there must be a system to treat those who are dangerous to themselves, or to society. I see the problem but once you go down that pathway where does it stop?

Government does not back down, and I am deeply concerned that a system that mandates the treatment of someone for a disease could expand that definition, far beyond what anyone intended.
>see: Arrow's impossibility theorem

Arrow's theorem only applies to ranked systems. That said, cardinal systems are still susceptible to strategic voting (Gibbard's theorem)
In addition to 1-to-1 chats and group chats, telegram has channels, which are kind of similar to twitter timelines, 1-to-many communications.

There are a large number of channels that take advantage of the 2 gig filesize limit by uploading pirated media. It's actually more convenient than torrents for most things, but it's still a hassle compared to a good usenet setup.

You can find entire seasons of animes just by doing a global search for the name of the anime. Sometimes there's even a chat attached for discussing the anime!
I wonder if these assholes (Meta, Google) could be prosecuted under a Net Neutrality law for blocking particular sites.
This does imply a hard limit on transactions per second on a particular object, since those transactions must be serialized in a thread. But, this is true of all databases: there is a limit on transactions per second operating on the same "chunk" of the database, since those transactions by definition have to be serialized.

In fact, you may find a traditional database behaves much worse when everyone is trying to modify the same row: if many clients do a read-modify-write at the same time, all but one of them will fail with transaction conflicts and will have to start over. If you aren't careful this can easily be O(n^2) total work done.

With Durable Objects, because your application code itself runs serialized in the object thread with zero storage latency (assuming cache), it's easier to make each operation "atomic" and avoid transaction conflicts entirely.
Twitter opposes Musk’s motion to delay trial
What is an "inventory correction"?
Twitter Declines to Stay Trial [pdf]
how much marijuana do you have to be in possession of to be charged at the federal level? Federal charge means it's a felony correct? It has to be a lot to be considered a felony. That charge may be pardoned but i'm sure it qualifies for intent to distribute at the state level which is a much more serious charge than possession.
It's quaint :-)
The President also has pardon powers for those convicted of violating District of Columbia laws and this order also applies to those convicted under DC simple possession laws.
Meh, I cited some non-material conditions too.
I have a friend in SV who got arrested for possession in one the national parks around there. Apparently it's a federal charge and hence he is still struggling to get citizenship.
Switching from SAS/SATA to NVMe for heavy traffic websites/web services?
Server storage technology is undergoing rapid evolution in the last years - platform vendors began to support directly attached NVMe SSD disks, which are theoretically many times faster than SAS/SATA disks, for similar price.

There are even some daring unorthodox voices that "hardware RAID is dead and a bad idea" in 2022. If not for SAS/SATA, then probably for NVMe drives, as they are so fast that they better be connected directly to a fast CPU or chipset.

One can find some reviews and comparisons of NVMe drives on technology websites, but many of the "performance disciplines" are often artificial, or of smaller relevance, and the relevant indicators, especially performance for many hundreds of independent processes doing random 4K reads/writes (heavy traffic webservers or databases) are poorly covered.

I'm looking for real-world stories with NVMe, whether they talk great success, disappointment or even disaster.
These things take months and months to train (hardly fast progress). Any new model that’s coming out is generally known in the atmosphere (not unpredictable) and these applications were pretty expected the day stable diffusion came out.
Sounds like he was working with agility! Do just enough work to find out you're building the wrong thing so that it informs your next attempt. Repeat!
I'd like a sync'd work env that does local as well as remote-from-anywhere ability.

The fact that Microsoft failed at a dozen sync frameworks (as chat is for google, sync was for Microsoft) and in 2020 this is still not really doable.

Also, I still can't find a good guide for spinning up a desktop in AWS.
Both the other commenters make good points. Meta is uniquely positioned to build the first metaverse. It may not be the only metaverse and it may not come out on top in the end but it will likely prove a lot of the technology and patterns that will continue to be used. That’s why I don’t think they’re mismatched, you might be right about them being too early. They’ll have to build a lot of it themselves and try to stay competitive in the market at the same time. Difficult, but other companies have done this. They’re off to a good start as well since their hardware currently dominates the market.
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Not my experience at all (Midwestern small city, ~90% white). Parents with Honor Student bumper stickers, subtle humble-brags, and general celebration of academic ability were all around me.
First time I've seen a Pico-8 game with a loading time. It must be really pushing it. Impressive!
It doesn't look like this deschedules marijuana, nor does it remove it as a potential dealbreaker with a security clearance
other possible types:

0) the wizened emeritus engineers staffed with special 'futures' or 'next-gen' bluesky type projects

1) engineers who may not be overly technical anymore but are really good at negotiating the organizational hierarchy and might know where and how to poke and pull at the cybernetic organism to nudge it in a desired direction
Right, I was a bit harsh with the "it's not the web" remark. Ultimately, the web is what we make of it, and it's not up to anyone to claim it's one thing or the other.

Initially, the "web" had a clear definition: a client-server architecture, a markup language to render data from the server, a protocol for the client to request data from the server, and a universal format to reference data. Then we added more technologies to improve styling, interactivity, P2P protocols, etc., and it's been evolving ever since. Instead of documents, we served apps. Thin clients were deemed unsuitable, until we realized performance might be an issue, and now we can choose whichever approach makes sense for the product.

So I'd say I'm a bit of a traditionalist in this sense, and think that a web app should still involve frequent communication with a server. If you're building a product using web technologies, but it's running entirely (or mostly) offline, that's great, but it's not part of the World Wide Web. You could use any number of technologies to build a desktop app at that point, and using web frameworks and a web browser is a choice made out of convenience, rather than suitability.

After all, if you download an installer over HTTP for an offline desktop app written in a non-web language, would that still count as a "web app"? We have to draw the line somewhere, and I suppose it's a matter of preference where that is done. Or maybe the line is forever blurred and web apps are all that we have now...

> Because if you're ruling out his approach - you're also mostly ruling out the entire article here (since this approach does not in any way solve your datastore needs).

I don't think that's the case. I may disagree with the assertion that "the future of the web is on the edge", but the article still suggests a traditional client-server model. It's just that the server is now distributed and closer to the client, which in general is a good idea.
Presumably that 400nm size is important for specificity as well
I don't see how, for instance, with a Austrian customer of a Belgian data center operator, the Belgian data center operator does not have a legal obligation to form a secure database pipeline connection and replicate everything directly into the NSA.

Obviously whatever signals intelligence gathering method or data copying the NSA might be doing in Western Europe could very well exist, but it's not a defined requirement for that theoretical Belgian ISP.
I do that.

I visualise the variables as being on the number line. If they’re the way round that they appear in the code, then the condition is true.

Unfortunately my code reviewers tend not to like it when I write constant < variable.
Thank you. I will not miss to read this one. Last year I read https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Lights-Out
The full quote is "While our product portfolio remains very strong, macroeconomic conditions drove lower than expected PC demand and a significant inventory correction across the PC supply chain."

I assume that means that PC suppliers sold down stock and didn't replenish it.
Sounds like this angry fool is about to get scammed by some "support team" crooks.
> Water desalination + solar combo needs to happen for California.

With the end of ICE vehicle sales in 2035, the need for solar is an understatement.
I found a lot of nuggets of wisdom in this collection of small lectures from his streams: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrg1NICzlqVc_fV37bT7VmySD...

RIP to a tremendously talented man.
Only downside with this is that each mesh takes like 5 hours to generate (on a v100 too). Obviously it’ll speed up but we’re far from the panacea
Developers are now included in the WIPO Global Innovation Index
You honestly believe that you would finish, let’s say a CLI time manage like timewarrior in Scala even 3 times as fast as someone remotely decent in Java?
That is actually kind of Buffets point. Airlines are mostly undifferentiated businesses selling a commodity service, which creates a race to the bottom with low margins. In combination with being capital intensive, that makes it hard to turn a profit.

You picking a cheaper airline with worse margins does not mean that airlines are a good business
For someone who once bemoaned the lack of deeper discussions, you sure throw out a lot of flippant one-liners yourself.
I keep coming back to this performance. Always blows me away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qjq_4uaG0w
one of the driving patterns behind the whole internet (in concept) has always been to have dumb pipes and very smart edges/endpoints

so this is merely re-asserting one of the (now taken for granted) ideas that make the internet what it's become.
Yes, you need to not run away as soon as a non-alphanumeric symbol is used. That's hardly even mathematical notation.
Apple is a scummy, back-stabbing business "partner." Everyone from small-time developers to publicly-traded companies gets screwed by Apple burying their apps (or simply not showing them at all) in searches that spell the publisher's name exactly right. They lie about app discovery to developers, lie about it to judges, and lie to the users doing the searches.

However, the public hysteria over "big tech" should not be dragging Apple into everything, because developers are essentially the only aggrieved party. Unlike Google and Meta, Apple is not the gatekeeper to the Internet for millions of people. And I can almost always get a human being on the phone or chat from Apple, which today is truly worthy of praise.
Could this subpoena be used by SimulaVR as evidence of behaving anticompetitively by sucking away resources for legal proceedings?
Wonder how much the decline of Mining hurt them?
A lot of people don't know basic civics.

IMO our education system should be focused primarily understanding and respecting history, law and civics.

I think the vast majority of Americans have no idea about any of the basics of the American system, which is frankly... scary.
Politicians and public figures could use something like this for interviews or taking questions on the podium to tweak their speeches in real-time to sound more legit.

An antidote for this would be an OSS alternative for the rest of us to identify dishonesty/inconsistencies and fact-check in real-time.
The only voting system that isn't "vulnerable" to bullet voting is FPTP, since it obligates you to bullet vote.
Thanks for the info on the timing. And that's my kind of oncologist. Risk in doing that on multiple levels, of course, but reassuring that some physicians are willing to do what's right vs what fits into into an insurance company's flow chart.
Debian left a huge opening, and Ubuntu went right through it. Good for them — and us.