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Such games use only Kana without Kanji, so bit per character is like 7bit Alphabet vs 8bit Kana+Alphabet. It's just(?) 14% increase.
If you find out the answer, let Australia know.
The book "Trust me I'm lying" goes into detail about this phenomenon. It is the interest of the media to be tricked, the authors get big stories and clicks and can then turn around and play dumb if things blow up. No one remembers the individual journalist who wrote the puff pieces, so the negative effects of eroding trust fall to a tragedy of the commons situation.
An awful lot of this seems spot on to me. The final point (from Wirth) seems the weakest - we do build many systems whose multiple layers no one person cam fully understand outside of the domain of computing. I don't see a great reason for computer tech to be that different. But that these systems are over complex, built on fragile layers of crumbling abstractions, and grossly inefficient, is hard to dispute.

What to do about it is another matter. There's a lot of momentum built in.
It’s passed on through us recording their traditions
You used magicians selling magic tricks to other magician's earlier, then said "smart" later.

I think it's just domain awareness, and the "they're smart" trope needs to be dismantled.

I think it plays into the technocracy problems we have now. We can solve it, we need more tech. More more more. People think we can solve social/political problems with tech - insidious.
Zoos are artificial environments constructed to put things on exhibit outside of their natural environment for the education and entertainment of others.

A preserve is an area carved out to prohibit the others from going in and screwing with someone or something.

So basically, they’re polar opposites.
> Which is why the definition is being updated to include them. We discovered and are now socially recognizing a different kind of man and woman.

Ah, but there is the problem. You've declared that the definition is changing. The majority of people are not on board with this, and yet you press ahead. This is where the authoritarianism of this movement emerges...

> If I define good person as someone who doesn’t misgender trans people then you are NOT a good person and that’s okay to say

There it is again. "I decided on a new definition. If you don't participate, you are a bad person." This is a cynical ploy to seize the moral high ground, but it is not actually accompanied by moral superiority.

> we’ve updated the definition of men and women to include trans men and women

Who is "we"? You belong to a tiny minority that has declared victory without the vast majority of English speakers consenting. Yes, changing the definition of "woman" hurts women.

> treating them in a manner different from a cisgender woman including but not limited to calling them something other than women.

You don't have the right to declare a new definition and then call other people bad for not agreeing. This, again, is the authoritarian problem with this movement. And, thus, it will fail.

You have a right to be treated with respect. You don't have a right to control or bulldoze other people. "Your reach ends where my nose beings."

"Trans woman" is the most apt descriptor of a trans woman. "Woman" is not. Trans women ARE different than biological women.
Like... Gmail? Netflix? Chrome

No ... not like these. I can control any communication through these.

You have no knowledge or control over Amazon's communication with the "smart speaker" in your home.
ah based on obesity rates and failures of basic drug tests I would respectfully disagree...
>just get a few days of severe nerve pain throughout body.

What is this? I get the same experience and my docs haven’t given any explanation after multiple times bringing it to their attention.
So, public sector here. We use Honeycomb with OTel and it's most definitely solving our problems. It's incredible being able to see traces up and down our whole stack and pinpoint where an issue is.
Try reading what I wrote.
Google to start forcing new Gmail interface this month
Are you in possession of any Linux ISOs which you'd like to retain for more than a month? Or other bulk data which is inconvenient or impossible to recreate. If so, ZFS can help keep them from bitrotting.
“Twitter as a business could have kept running in exactly the same form he acquired it in - he could have been moderately successful had he just left everything alone.”

This is not correct. The acquisition added a huge debt load. That’s what driving these decisions.
Show HN: Automatically Copy Two Factor SMS Codes to Your Clipboard on a Mac
This uses sqlite to read the latest SMS from the Messages App in Mac and uses a regex to parse out the Two Factor Code.
Bro the adjective is usually pejorative. Bro the noun may be friendly.

In other words: bro, I hope no one calls you a crypto bro.
We run a pretty complicated SaaS system.

All these tools have their limitations (and we have all of them, we use Prometheus, we have tracing, we have logs - your entire stack of everything ;) ). There is a limit to your ability to tell what's going on inside a black box based on those, sometimes they'll answer the question you're interested in, and sometimes they will not. As pointed somewhere else in the comments tracing every single interaction in your system doesn't work/scale and often the one failure you care about is not going to leave a trace. Similarly with metrics at some point just measuring everything with the right labels becomes too expensive. More than once I'm looking for a specific metric to help troubleshoot something and we don't have it (despite having a ton of metrics for everything). Alerting on metrics can be very tricky because you may not have good context, some requests might be slow because they're big, some might be fast, finding rules that tell you when the system isn't behaving is extremely difficult. Usually it's the users/customers that are going to tell you that.

Adding metrics, tracing, alerts, dashboards etc. etc. takes time/effort. This needs to be weighed against time spent on other things that can improve the quality of the product. Like design, testing, etc. Really understanding what the requirements are and how the system behaves. Just because Google or Meta set that balance somewhere doesn't mean you need to. Likely your system is significantly smaller and less complex.

This is not a new problem, logging and other methods of observability have been with us since the beginning of time, and it's always been something that needs to be approached with balance. There's some logging that adds value and there's some point where it is counter-productive. When things break, more than often the logging just gives you a starting point for debugging- not the answer.

My personal philosophy is invest in quality early on and you will reduce your operational costs. Simpler and more reliable software needs less monitoring and conversely no amount of monitoring is going to turn poor quality software into reliable software. There are many domains where the software just has to be right (lessay in your car or airplane) and you can't rely on someone monitoring the software to go and fix things if they go wrong... That said, it's always about the balance. You shouldn't care about the fashion of the day or what Google does. You need to decide where the balance is for your product that optimizes things over its lifetime with the given constraints. Every project is going to have a different balance.
How the Feeling of Pointlessness Can Derail Us
This also helps cover up constant early morning construction and traffic.

If I can help it I just use:
play -n synth brown
on any linux system with sox installed... it's definitely the cleanest sound I've found.

Problem with most phone programs is that despite brown noise being comically easy to generate live, they record a clip and then loop it so there's weird artifacts.

I honestly don't know why I don't have the ability to run such a trivial command for an open source system on my phone. If I paid for a phone app to make noise it'd be inferior for money. I don't know why it's not at least equal for money.
Page 3 of this doc [1] lists the definition of city by state

Apparently most states recognize a place as a city if it just has a few hundred residents/voters. There's plenty of abandoned houses (thus $0 homes) in places that fit these definitions.

[1] https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/reference/GARM/Ch9GARM.pdf
Careful not to confuse this with the brown note.
Fantastic language. Truly freedom for a programmer. Thank you Dennis.
Modern languages program you. :)
I always saw the kludge that was Time Machine on HFS as a stopgap until ZFS plans were finalized, yet they never were.

One of the biggest modern what-ifs for system underpinnings.
JSTOR went apeshit internally and reported Swartz to the authorities. like they are the ones who got the ball rolling. and they didn't have to.

maybe they decided to do the right thing later but it was too little too late.

this is why SciHub exists.... there has never been a netflix or spotify for academic research and probably never will.
Thanks for that. The jargon wasn't transparent at all. Makes perfect sense once it's pointed out though.
Erlang asserts that all errors can be grouped together and managed as if they are of the same category, i.e. that any error is crashworthy. This model of errors isn't wrong,
but it is naïve, and it makes it impossible to design a system whose entities are resilient to what are, factually, normal runtime faults.

Erlang and the OTP are
interesting and worth studying and may be a good design choice under certain constraints. But in no way does the crash-only model of the Erlang OTP represent an optimal architectural model in general. Technology has advanced since 1960.
With the faster pace for Java now, I wonder if I'm the only one feeling lesser need / lesser incremental benefit of moving to Kotlin.

Yes, some of my fellow engineers like it for the language itself, but I feel these days it's getting harder to argue that "the team using Kotlin is so much more productive than the team using Java".

Curious what HN thinks about this.
im not going to criticize other countries when in my own country the USA, the middle class has been shrinking for 40 years and life expectancy is actually going down.

when i grew up it was rare to see a homeless person, now there are tent camps all across the city. and i live in a red state where almost every local and state wide office is run by republicans.
Immigration is a little talked about subject, but over the last administration, legal immigration was contracted pre pandemic. This is on top of 40 years of illegal immigration being a hot political topic and specifically the last 10 years of state level enforcement creating worker shortages.

But you combine that with

1. Baby Boomers retirement surge was forelorned prior to the pandemic, and accelerating at the beginning of the pandemic.

2. Boomers, GenX, and Millennials were culturally trained to a 2 child policy for environmentalism.

3. Pandemic job shifts for logistics for technology (Amazon warehouse)

4. Over Stem and glorification of college prep.

If we want to look at this globally, Japan is an example of how a decreasing population decreases economic growth; but China is appearing to be the most policy active; they had 1 child policy, then they were let's up it to 2, and now they're really afraid and wanting more than 2.

The US government would more effectively fight worker shortages, wage inflation if it increased legal unskilled immigration - to target a higher unemployment rate rather than have the fed control it with the money supply. That is until we work on policy to keep the birth rate closer to >2.0
Not only that, but it (Helium) was clearly a fraud if you read their technology white papers with a critical eye.

This guy has no credibility whatsoever if he is posting this today, indeed he looks like a complete stooge.
>The semiconductor guys don’t know much about computers

and you'd expect an opposite huh. Can anyone comment on how accurate this statement is?

Hopefully one day I'll finally get to the point of being able to design my own circuits.
Dementia [Incidence] Declining Among Older Americans; Inequalities Still Persist
High is relative. Remove multiple pilots that cost 10M+ over course of life of air frame. Adopt hi-lo mix of master UAVs with full sensor suits mesh with simplified bomb truck units. Cutting out manned training will also dramatically reduce operation/maintenance costs, you don't need to waste 1000s of hours per air frame on training, just store the drones in a warehouse and "spin their tires" every once in a while. Hardware costs also goes down when most of fleet aren't optimized for service life. It's not 100:1 ratio, something like 3:1 can dramatically enhance capabilities.
The person you're replying to seems to have an idealogical bent against OTel. I'll say that "moribund" is about as unrealistic a term as it gets for OTel, given that it's now the #2 CNCF project by activity and still growing.

That said, OTel is far from being easy to adopt still, and despite a lot of us trying hard to change that, it's got a long way to go. If you're using one of the "major" languages (Java, .NET, JS, Python) then it's pretty easy to set up automatic instrumentation and a Collector that you can tee off to your preferred backend analysis tool. But if you need more context from your apps, manual instrumentation outside of tracing is pretty hit-or-miss, and you need to build up a vocabulary around concepts (Resources, attributes, baggage, context, spans, etc.) that isn't easy unless you've got the time to sink into it. It's extremely powerful and has the building blocks to let you capture just about any data you need, pluggable processors and exporters, etc. -- but these building blocks are very unevenly composed into easy-to-use, turnkey-ish components that a lot of people ultimately want.
Depending on your editor, this may/should be customisable. The tabnine client for Emacs (company-tabnine) is just another completion backend, and the order of completions presented is a just a variable in company-mode that can be set to any order you prefer[1].

1: https://tychoish.com/post/better-company/
I am curious whethere there is anything wrong with staying with modern Java? I haven't looked at Java ecosystem for a while, just Python and C++ these days, but I remember they were aggressively putting features out that were making Scala less needed. What is the situation right now?
99+ percent of people wouldn't have a use for it. there are a select few of us who are zfs fanatics who really love and use the feature set.

i'm a huge fan of snapshots and having backups on my nas. one might say you could use time machine for that but last time i checked time machine was absolutely terrible for backing up large files as you would get from for example a parallels virtual machine. zfs backups are way better for this since not only is it faster because it only sends the modified blocks, it also takes orders of magnitudes less space because it also only stores modified blocks. zfs also has the added benefit having a plethora open source tools and documentation.

it also allows people to dogfood and familiarize themselves with zfs if they plan to or need to use it for other things.

apfs and time machine are largely a black box and you need to use it in the way that apple expects you to use it. it has the added benefit of being a next gen filesystem that is cross platform unlike apfs.
Depends on capability of attackers. Even medium range hypersonics strikes = minutes of warning. Coordinating a bunch of TEL launchers to pop out of their cave for quick launch = maybe an hour to determine whether movement is training exercise or real deal, likely not enough time to conduct analysis communicated up/down command chain to get units to disperse/bunker in time.
Yea I'm really waiting for the day that we see it get far enough along to push for mainlining it. It'll be a really cool testament to both the work being done by Lina and Alyssa and also the work that was done by the kernel team to even enable Rust to work there in the first place.
The poor masses have voted opposition parties in at municipal level a few times now. It's just a matter of time before the ANC's vote share drops below 50%. The real question is where those votes are going to go instead.

The Democratic Alliance looked like it was going to pick up the votes of disaffected black voters, but instead it seems like its leadership decided to pay more attention to Western culture wars (Helen Zille going on about "wokeness" etc) and to protect its right flank from being eroded by Afrikaner nationalists after the 2019 election, rather than courting the centre.

Cyril Ramaphosa's personal popularity helped the ANC in 2019, but it was also used by the DA as an opportunity to shaft Mmusi Maimane, who could have been a viable potential leader in SA.

Can't blame the voters if the politicians leave them with a dearth of choice.
(Please correct the following if necessary.)

In 2019, MSFT claimed re: Teams that it was keeping all data in country.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190331102643if_/https://techco...

In 2021, Office365 was banned from all ministries.

https://cloud-computing.developpez.com/actu/318885/La-DINUM-...
What’s your battery life like compared to macOS?
Here's an new alternative to Twitter, SkunkSocial. Yeah because we Squeal and sometimes we stink!
SkunkSocial is here to provide a free-speech alternative to Twitter, bonus point: no Elon here :)

Like the DOGE of Social Network, this one may or may not live, as long as we have fun in the process it's all that matter :)
Is there an appreciable practical lower-bound in latency to that? I’ve never understood how-and-why electronic signals can propagate down a wire so gosh-darn quickly: the speed of sound is what I’d have intuitively expected, not 50-99% the speed of light ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_electricity )
Yeah, I have massive respect for those developers. I wonder how they learned to do what they do. Adding Linux support for hardware is some kind of super power.
If it is, are modern CDNs just better?
Is there anyway to create an http stream of your output?

I have a home automation on Hubitat to play a 10-hour brown noise file, hosted on a home Ubuntu server, created in Audition to play for night time on a Sonos speaker.

Would love to get rid of the file and just get a live generated output.
Is there any way to make wireguard behave differently in this scenario?
Okay, but it's still likely uninteresting because of the Sorites paradox. There's an arbitrary definition of when a town becomes a city because there has to be some threshold, and the list of cheapest cities is probably mostly indistinguishable from a list of cities that were the closest to being towns.

What would be interesting (to me anyway) is a list of some cities who are disproportionately cheap related to their density.
I wrote about the space rent issue. The bottom line is you may have to abandon your MH or sell it cheap if an investor jacks up the space rent, but the MH cost split over the time of your residency would be relatively small. Example $100k MH over 8 years is about $1k/month worst case.
If we had a nature preserve filled with human beings that are unaware of the modern world, left to their own devices and hard lives, the difference in ethics is the entertainment factor? Say their lives aren't broadcast for consumption, is that okay? What about 10, 100 or even 1,000 years from now?
This is exactly my sentiment as well. I'm still deeply in the Java ecosystem. It was stagnant for a while, especially between Java 5 and 8 (which spanned multiple years).

But now that it's modern, and it's moving quickly... I see less and less need to use these "better Java" languages.
That first point alone makes me distrust this study. Why go with such a shitty design that you can’t really conclude anything meaningful? It’s not that hard to find marijuana smokers who don’t smoke tobacco, and then you could have told us something interesting.
Not surprisingly (Google's internal code analysis tooling is quite sophisticated), Google has added a post-processing filter to remove results that don't compile, but that's not publicly available: https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/07/ml-enhanced-code-completio...
I used brown noise extensively throughout college, not knowing I had ADHD at the time. It was very effective for focusing.
Pay enough money to politicians and you can make anything legal or be swept under the rug. The Sacklers pushed opiates on millions of Americans, knowing how addictive and deadly they were. Thousands (millions?) died and the Sacklers just paid some hush money in fines and it was all swept under the rug.
All I want to know is when we get prediction markets.
I keep a brown noise generator on my phone for reading. It helps me a great deal, especially in noisy environments when my brain is trying to pay attention to something else in my surroundings. Oddly, however, it doesn't help me at work. I focus much better with music when writing code. I can't read with music because I'll catch myself listening to the music more than paying attention to what I'm supposed to be reading.
My core claim is that telemetry data for a system is always more than the production data for that system. Yes? No?

Assuming yes, everything else I'm claiming is noncontroversial.
I'd also like to know. We recently had an interesting thread about Linux power management and efficiency on laptops.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33644165
GDP growth by percent, For 2021

Botswana - 12
Rwanda - 10
Ethiopia - 8.6
Kenya - 7.2
Burkina Faso - 6.9
Benin - 6.5
Zimbabwe - 6.3
South Sudan - 5.3
Uganda - 5.0
South Africa - 4.9

Compare:
Japan - 1.6
USA - 5.6
Germany - 2.8
Korea - 4.0
Norway - 3.9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_real_GDP_...
https://openzfsonosx.org/wiki/Changelog#OpenZFS_on_OS_X_2.1....

https://openzfsonosx.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=3738

it is in the process of getting pulled into native openzfs along with zfs for windows and it is tracking zfs very closely. the last release was a few days ago if you go to their forums.
I think that’s reasonable if you are on a recent JVM version and expect to upgrade very regularly. Many are in organizations where that’s not the case.
The market has priced in a move from 1 to 2 earners, which is reasonable given societal expectations around household formation. Given a move from 2 to 3 would be highly unexpected, ceteris paribus home prices could plateau.
> non-local context

Is it easier to build AI for pure functional programming languages?
What RPS do you serve, net? Everything works to trivial scale, e.g. O(10k) RPS and below. Do you do more than that per server?