skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I agree with that too. There was talk of doing something about that but I don't know if it has gone anywhere beyond talk in a meaningful manor.
There was a study which focused on pilots...

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/carbon-diox...

The results are very interesting to say the least:

The findings showed that the pilots were 69% more likely to receive a passing grade on a maneuver when CO2 levels were 700 ppm compared with 2,500 ppm. When CO2 levels were 1,500 ppm, the pilots were 52% more likely to successfully perform a maneuver than when CO2 levels were 2,500 ppm. When the researchers compared the difference in pilot performance at 700 ppm and 1,500 ppm, the difference was not statistically significant, but they did find that pilots were more likely to successfully perform some of the most difficult maneuvers at the lower CO2 level. The study also found that the negative effects of CO2 on flight performance became more pronounced the longer the pilots were in the simulator.
Almost correct. You typically need 2-4 transmitters to emulate the system. So you modulate one or two channels under test and modulate the rest of the band with a single modulator and use some decorrelation tricks to be realistic. Then you scan your channels under test through the whole band. This is in typically a lower bound of performance, i.e. a real system would likely perform better. As you said, using individual transmitters is economically unfeasible even for the best equipped industry labs.
Yeah, there is this game for my Xbox 1S which has required multiple 50GB updates.

https://www.bandainamcoent.com/games/sword-art-online-aliciz...

It is pretty annoying when you sit down to play and it tells you you will have to wait a few hours for the update. I have a double ADSL connection which can handle this kind of download easily overnight but it sure takes the fun away.
Interesting hypothesis but I doubt an org like Greenpeace would complain about coverage. Same with a lot of research published in open access journals
Why do I remember awk with that story?
It takes care of all the boring stuff like reliable reloads, .env files, routing, config (without me writing any), bundling, etc. It leaves me the fuck alone.

SSR doesn’t add too much complexity and at the very least is a reliable way to serve a server-rendered shell of the application so the content doesn’t fly about as it loads.
Curious, can you enumerate the red flags you saw?
That's still standard in Corsica (and I think Sicily though less sure), local pigs are partially feral.
No. Modern intensive training of pigs is a change that’s well within historical periods with extensive records. I guarantee you pigs are like dogs in that the huge majority of modern breeds are less than 200 (250 to be conservative) years old. Before that there were landraces and we know what they look like, at least roughly.

Using modern pigs gives a false impression even if I’m wrong about that because until after WW2 pigs in the West that were raised industrially were raised for lard more than lean meat. There have been huge changes in what most pigs look like in living human memory.
Some random thoughts:

Even if you don't intend to be the first to attack, you want a shield in case you're attacked.

Even if the shield can't protect 100% or 50% (say just 10%) you want a shield.

You probably don't want to brag very loudly about your shield. Actually, you might want to hide it as much as possible so the attackers don't feel the need to overcome it. On the other hand, if you shield is crappy, you won't talk too much about its crappyness either.

Current situation has very obvious differences with Cold War and these differences are being revealed right now in Ukraine. "Experts" (I guess actual experts shut TFO) were very surprised of how reluctant Russians were to use aire force, how ineffective their tanks were, etc.
Switch to Firefox ESR
I'm curious where the majority of the win came from? Do you have a before & after trace handy to compare what changed?

Looks like you opted not to use SSR, which I think is a good choice for smaller teams. CSS changes are unlikely to account for a large performance win. Did you use a CDN before? Perhaps the biggest win was moving to a better CDN + built-in preloading/prefetching provided by NextJS?
Bathroom Quantum Fields and Vacuum Energy [video]
Please explain what "Boomers ruin everything" has to do with the rest of your question.

I can imagine that at the beginnings of Bronze Age collapse, immediately following generations deemed the waxings of their elders as merely the anodyne of old age (nostalgia), not real, not lived. After a century or three: not imagined, language and knowledge lost.

The pressure of survival becomes more pressing. True knowledge of the old ways becomes "magic". Those who want to continue to practice the old technical arts wander off, in preference to being scorned or worse stoned.

The revolution will not be televised.
Is it prohibited to include `X-Elastic-Product: Elasticsearch` in the output of your server if the user instructs the server to do so? :)
Isn't there a confusion between memtest86 from passmark and memtest86+?

and memtest86 from passmark has a lot of nice features that aren't available MemTest86+, includin UEFI support, writing logs to disk, fully 64bit code, additional RAM tests, benchmarking, row hammer testing and more?

and passmark shows that: https://www.memtest86.com/compare.html
The btrfs key isn't necessarily a hash of the content, just a unique ID, so it's not really a CAS. Btrfs can allow in-place overwrite of data, which would be impossible in a true CAS store.

I'm not aware of a great write-up of this, but btrfs uses a "chunk tree" to map extents of logical addresses to >=1 physical stripes.

https://github.com/btrfs/btrfs-dev-docs/blob/master/tree-ite...

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/On-disk_Format

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Data_Structures
I really have to wonder what the corporate process behind implementing this was. they must have known people wouldn’t like it. they must have known they were literally making their product worse. when these decisions were made, did they feel bad? did they not care? did they delude themselves that people want “recommended content” against their will? did anyone at any point say “hey maybe we shouldn’t do this?”? I bet at least one person who was involved is on hacker news. maybe they’ll see this and can comment. or maybe someone who’s been in a similar position at a company
I believe that if we acted today, that there could be salvation. Institute massive taxes against plastic use. Ban it for take-out food and other single-use instances. Start heavily taxing other wasteful areas. Heavily encourage if not enforce composting and recycling.

Immediately start restoring mowed lawns with native plants. Ban the use of chemical fertilizers.

It could be done, but we won't. Salvation is at our fingertips, but we close our fists.
Those aren't creating traumatising content though. Totally different thing.
In far too many parts of the US, what you're doing with your yard would be considered "neglect" and might result in harassment from your neighbors or even fines.
This reminds me of the other day at a "medieval" festival we were offered turkey legs, which I have seen before on TV perhaps, and didn't ponder at the moment. A few hours later thought... wait a minute, turkeys are from North America? Why are these faux Europeans walking around with turkey legs?
OpenPGP: GPG Suite 2022.2 with GPG Mail 7 for macOS 13 Ventura is out
Maybe Google can by traversing the virtual DOM and other trickery but it's not as simple for other small players. Moreover, in a healthy web I should be able to easily deeplink to something I'm thinking about without jumping through hoops. The SPA web is not as easily discoverable and connected as it is very much meant to be. I think there are valid arguments to be made for SPA, like that SPA need to SPA because they are not just a series of pages and documents but complex applications which need to be that way (though I would still tread with caution: I remember java applets and javascript bits doing complex things, submerged within pages, and that was all fine).
I also got curious

→ date -d '@2222222222'
Fri Jun 1 08:57:02 PM PDT 2040
You can’t move “var” to a “System files” folder. This would break programs which expect /var to be, well, at /var. Long ago on macOS, everything was in “System Folder”, and it worked fine, but macOS has since inherited a massive Unix legacy.

Thumbnail caches are not stored on USB drives, they’re stored somewhere else, away from your files.
https://nitter.net/david3141593/status/1057042085029822464
> do we particularly care how medievally our video game pigs are?

Details like this are a big part of what makes historical fiction compelling! The more things one encounters that diverge unexpectedly, yet believably from the present day, the greater the sense of immersion.
What about Analytics Engineer, the hypiest-of-the-hyped right now?
How long before these processors hit the market in rapsberry pi replacement products? 5 years?
I don't think that our current character for 6 is the same as it was when those scriptures were written.
>It is not just about ocean plastic. Garbage is burned as fuel too in less developed countries. Stopping dumping of garbage in 2nd and 3rd world countries by developed/first world countries is going to benefit the environment in more ways than just reducing ocean plastics.

But if only 2% of plastics worldwide is traded (source: same article I linked in my previous comment), and most of that is traded within the same region, how much waste could possibly end up getting shipped to less developed countries and burned? You'd still be better off trying to reduce domestic garbage production/burning in those countries.
> Microsoft's unfriendly us-first, customers-second process

Fortune 1000-first, themselves second, and customers last.

Thankfully, Apple has recognized that their devices and software are -- at least philosophically -- designed for people, not companies. A phone is a distinctly personal device. I think the reason Windows Phone flopped is that it was ultimately designed to deploy in corporate fleets, with all the usual "the company owns your device and everything on it" experience that most of us have with the corporate laptop. You can say that Microsoft's monopoly in businesses pushed Apple in this direction, but at least they have capitalized on the distinction, and didn't sacrifice user experience to try to court the "corporate purchaser."

This is why I HATE Gartner "market share" numbers. It lumps in corporate purchases (to Microsoft's overwhelming benefit), which completely distorts the view of how people are using operating systems "on the ground." It's my gut-level impression that Apple is leading at least 4-to-1 in individual purchases, and Windows is something everyone but gamers just put up with to do their jobs.
Apple Releases iOS 16.1 with Live Activities and Matter Support
Wow, you have me excited. That would be so neat.
Pricing: Pros/cons of the most popular models for B2B SaaS
Should you price a fixed fee per month? Per seat? The Max of usage during the month? Based on usage only (but what about predictability?) Implement a "fair billing" ? (What does that even mean?)

We crunched the pros/cons of the most popular models and decided to share our notes.

1/ Typeform: standard subscription model
2/ Snowflake: purely usage-based
3/ Customer.io: highest usage value recorded during the billing period
4/ Revolut Business: hybrid, mixing subscription, add-ons, and usage
5/ Retool: standard "per seat" pricing model
6/ Slack: fair "per seat" pricing (based on the active seats)

None of the models are one-size-fits-all, but hopefully it can support you in designing the right one for you.

Full post: https://www.getlago.com/blog/which-pricing-model-should-you-choose
It's a legitimately interesting observation that we think that domesticated pigs always looked like they do now, when they didn't, and without people like him researching these things we would be equally wrong about many things concerning history.

He plays an important part in preserving history. I don't know how we ended up in a situation where selling advertisement on the internet is a more respectable job than preserving history, but it explains a lot.
The biggest was probably stating the results as facts in the result section and only as "more likely" in the conclusion. Sample size, taking only part of the genomes. The code quality of their scripts on GitHub and especially the comments in them. Bad spelling and convulted sentences... there is a lot more have a look yourself.
I think the best method would be to follow us (@rsyncnet) on twitter - the publication of these tech notes is one of the very few things we post on that platform ...
>This is a serious thing, and it paints humanity as being far darker than it would seem from the surface.

"Build it yourself" internet bubbles are giving people hilariously wrong impressions of society, and humanity.

These same bubbles led to many millions of people shocked and flabbergasted when Donald Trump won in 2016. There will probably be just as many flabbergasted people when Democrats get thrown out of the House in three weeks. Internet "safe spaces" and censorship of differing opinions give people that impression that society is changing, or has changed. It hasn't.
Thank you, this is enormously helpful for having some context to add to discussions.

I've talked to a lot of people in recent years who have seen these headlines and concluded that all recycling, including aluminum and paper products, is actually a lie. We really need more clarity around the recycling situation so people stop drawing their only conclusions from random headlines.
There's also an aspect of "reality is unrealistic". A modern audience would likely be baffled, by, say, brightly painted ancient Roman statues and buildings; while that was the contemporary reality, it's not at all what people expect.
Landfills almost do not pollute. Plastic pollution is caused by bad management of it (and accidental loss) that spreads it into nature.

Placing them in landfills is the right thing to do.
Perhaps look into a "kneeling chair".
Getting to Know Edward Gorey
https://twitter.com/acritschristoph/status/15834864034169692... among other scientists has a long list of criticisms. I have not looked into any of this work and make no judgements about the relative believability, but many of the criticisms are entirely about the claims, not the pedigree of the scientist.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33279281
like when do you absolutely need it and can't settle for version control with GitHub?
I can only imagine it's incredibly difficult and would require quite a bit of subjectivity, even for academics. I don't have any insight into that. However, being a game designer, I have a related point to make: "game" output should be separated into two distinct categories when considering accuracy. They are:

1) Video games geared towards entertainment:

Historical accuracy will ALWAYS take second fiddle to providing a great gaming experience, as it should.

2) "Serious" games and simulations:

Some of the same academics that do all of the other research on these topics are now using game engines and 3D modelling tools to make accompanying models, and though I haven't seen any personally, probably more involved simulations. They're no more or less likely to be accurate than any other academic work on the topic. Critique by other academics seems like a pretty traditional way to advance a field even if the medium is pretty new.

Assessing the historical accuracy of an entertainment-based medium seems to me a bit like assessing jokes for factual accuracy: perhaps useful as a qualitative study, but probably missing the point if it's a quantitative measure of value. That said, if the marketing copy makes specific claims, then those claims absolutely deserve to be evaluated for accuracy.
> My JetBrains IDE does so much out of the box

That's exactly what I don't like about it. I'm a simple guy; I like simple editors. I will spend more time turning off things in JetBrains and VSCode that I find distracting and annoying than I will spend on setting up Vim to add some features I want like LSP support.
Blockchain Solutionism [video]
Trusting an entity is different than trusting the specific process / people within it etc. not to mention being able to create an ecosystem.

Crypto by this point is a type of platform so to speak. Actions are verifiable; and of course you need to interact with the real world. However; this doesn’t mean you have to say fuck it; just trust fully.

If we can limit the parts we need to trust; idea of auditing / verifying etc. also becomes easier. I no longer need to trust what the bank will do to let me have a transaction for example; even though I may need to trust them to verify my ID. Off the top of my head, “Are they being racist about giving me a loan?” becomes as simple as “can I get onboarded without prejudice (obviously need auditing) and is their system to allow me to get a loan look at my race (verifiable based on code.).”

I know it is popular to hate on this at the moment however as far as democratising finance and access to it goes crypto is a marvellous tool. Both sides just need to realise that the correct answer is a combination of two worlds, not either or.
I will say that I would be in favor of a blanket ban on clothes made with synthetic fibers. An exception could be made for winter jackets, wetsuits, and the like, but I welcome sartorial tyranny.
An updated look and feel for YouTube
> Perl is preinstalled on pretty much every Linux and MacOS since time immemorial

awk, bc, and sh are POSIX base utilities, they are literally preinstalled on every unix derivative.

That doesn't make them linga franca, which is what Scarbutt was asking about.

Hell, ed is a POSIX base utility. Does that make ed's command mode the linga franca of text manipulation? Of course not, the thought is preposterous.
And the more we can learn from it! Ubisoft has shown an interest in using this series to teach history, with museum modes where you can harmlessly walk around, appreciate the architecture, and talk to locals about what life was like at the time.
At the risk of sounding like a quack, I also wonder about the ubiquity of wireless radiation and it’s effect (as it’s rise also matches this rise). I’m less concerned about Wi-Fi router signals because of radiation dissipation at proximity, but I’d love to see more studies on devices we use that do not benefit from the inverse square law. Specifically AirPods or other Bluetooth devices that travel directly between the ears with no distance.
Remember when Google's CEO quit Apple's board?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-schmidt-sb/google-c...
I still even today have never seen any legitimate use case for crypto at all.

it does seem it is a solution looking for a problem.
> backend API calls will be very fast because of colocation on GCP

Any chance you guys measured this speed difference? Was there a path considered to locally cache api responses on the vercel server or in middleware somewhere?

Trying to reason about a similar decision right now. There's probably a simple way to cache hot backend request/responses to get static-like speeds?
"You probably don't want to brag very loudly about your shield. Actually, you might want to hide it as much as possible so the attackers don't feel the need to overcome it."

That's what always struck me about the US being very open about its successes and failures with missile defense. They have absolutely nothing to gain by telling the world any of this, so the only logical conclusion is that their public disclosures are very carefully controlled set pieces to essentially neither confirm nor deny the actual capabilities of the system. I imagine this also applies to the US and its hypersonic weapons program and the very public display of their "failures." Right.
I know there are better ways but this can/should be seen as part of the learning curve with Excel. The guardrail was seeing "surprising results" they should have known to double check their steps, see if they could recreate it, etc. before showing it to you. Not sure how you handle this but some times it's a hard lesson to learn. Eg. I've seen people convince a public company executives to do strategy X based on analysis Y. Then when things aren't going as promised I get asked to review the strategy, I might find some elaborate model where somewhere deep in the layers of math/logic/lookups, someone divided instead of multiplied or something like that. They then have egg on their face, the strategy may have been implemented already, and I usually have the uncomfortable job of explaining to management why the projections were off and the strategy is probably doomed in terms of reaching the expected outcomes (basically throwing somebody else under the bus due to an innocent math error). I see this so much in my job, it's actually routine for me or my team to review any numbers the company management will see before they see it because of things like this.
The title "rent-seeking" is deceptive. I'd call it "clickbait" but my preferred term "illegal collusion" also draws clicks and is more accurate.

Sharing your own negotiated prices may or may not be legal, but it's often bad manners at the very least and damages your business relationships.

My submission today "Culture at Google: Part One, the Movies" deliberately does not say how much I paid for PPRs, because I was asked not to tell other distributors that.
It says SHAKTI is an "open source processor" but I cannot find any design docs anywhere.
Why would it matter if someone was Batman at night if they could complete their duties fully during the day?
If it's using nix for building - there's multiple ways to DIY turn that into a docker container, like pkgs.dockerTools.buildImage or nixpacks:

https://github.com/railwayapp/nixpacks
Approximations of Pi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximations_of_π

> In the 3rd century BCE, Archimedes proved the sharp inequalities 223⁄71 < π < 22⁄7, by means of regular 96-gons (accuracies of 2·10−4 and 4·10−4, respectively).

223/71 = 3.1408450704225
666/212 = 3.1415094339622
π = 3.14159265359
22/7 = 3.1428571428571

Is π a good radix for what types of math in addition to Trigonometry? And then what about e for natural systems; the natural log.

"Why do colliding blocks compute pi?" https://youtu.be/jsYwFizhncE https://www.3blue1brown.com/lessons/clacks-solution https://www.reddit.com/r/3Blue1Brown/comments/r29vm5/rationa... ... Geogebra: https://www.geogebra.org/m/BhxyBJUZ :

> The applet shows the old method used to approximate the value of π. Archimedes used a 96-sided polygons to find that the value of π is 223/71 < π < 22/7 (3.1408 < π < 3.1429). In 1630, an Austrian astronomer Christoph Grienberger found a 38-digit approximation by using 10^40-sided polygons. This is the most accurate approximation achieved by this method.
Why bother with nginx at all tho? Why take the chance of borking your ENTIRE system with software you aren't intimately familiar with? Dockerize that shit and move on. If you want to get into the weeds with some bare metal installs, have at it. There just isn't enough time for me to learn every sub-system in the entire software stack to be productive. I say, pick your poison and get after it!
What about clients who "want that one feature that isn't present currently but you show your future roadmap does so they will wait till you get there? "

There is a chance without revealing your roadmap, they "mught" have gone with the current version, like you make a pitch and they like it and want to buy but then you show your roadmap and they are like "oh nice. Let's wait till you reach this" ?