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Ask HN: What are some blog posts that you have enjoyed going through?
I am giving individual posts more weightage than a blog. You are free to mention the entire blog if you think everything there is worthwhile.

Mention some blog posts that you still remember for what it served to you.

One example may be this Mechanical Watch description: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
Ada is great, I just want to understand how streams work! I can't find good examples or explanations.
(I'm posting here because it's the most recent comment by your account).

You've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines repeatedly and egregiously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33585475

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33550821

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33547727

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33472366

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33472317

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33468223

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33451816

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33447930

If you keep doing this, we're going to have to ban you. I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN in the intended spirit, we'd really appreciate it.
Lua doesn't have a standardized bytecode either, just so you know. The fact that PUC-Rio Lua uses bytecode at all is almost an implementation detail, besides the fact that you can dump it and reload it later. But the actual bytecode format and instructions are definitely implementation details and not standardized.
Just gotta keep your ham radio go box in an EMP-hardened roll of tin foil and have a good crank generator, and you should be good to go. In a grid outage even tiny transmitter powers will be able to get out. It's most power efficient to use CW (morse code) unless you plant to have a computer up and running to run the even fancier digital modes.
if you don't learn from the best, how do you improve?
Seems short-sighted to jump to conclusions about people's output based on the tools they use.
This sounds extremely unhealthy.
A grounded steel garbage can with aluminum lining can actual work fairly well as a faraday cage. You can put emergency electronics in there (radio, backup batteries, collapsible solar panel, old laptop, lights, etc).
EMP was mostly relevant for the time when there was no digital grid protection.

Powerlines worked as giant antennas picking up the VLF component of the blast, driving voltages in megavolts for a brief while. All tricky analog devicery which was used to control the grid in seventies had no protection.

Now, fast acting digital safeties will certainly be more robust.
You can't think of anything that might've happened between 2015 and 2022 that would have required healthcare spending to go up?

And how does it compare as a percentage of the national budget between then and now? Government spending as a whole went up in the past 2 years.
Are there realistic situations where a customer would realize they need the extra silicon partway into owning the chip? Some of the features I can see this, e.g. a business need could emerge and it would be nice to just activate a module rather than upgrade physical hardware. With others, like the balancing feature for telecoms, I’d think all telecoms would purchase with the feature in mind from the start.
What do you mean?

Small base growth is easier (that’s the example you give), but catch-up growth in large economies is damn near impossible.
At my cabin I have starlink, limited solar power and a generator with propane that comes on (power goes out a lot). Eventually I'll run out of propane and food (everyone has some emergency food supply for a few weeks at their cabin, right?), but I wonder how long I'd last with internet plus short trips in my electric car? I never planned for a post-gas future independent of the grid.

Starlink relies on starlink downlinks of course, I assume they'd degrade quickly, do they have generators, and what internet would there be to connect to. But I am independent of the grid for a week at least. There would be a transition period for society. I kind of regret not spending the bigger money for full house solar with battery backup. Then I'd really be in good shape for the end of the world, except for running out of food. And someone coming in and taking it away from me.
C does have official intrinsics for SIMD on Intel platforms, but the people who are good at writing video codecs don't like to use them because Wintel culture has such bad taste at naming functions (thanks to Hungarian notation) that using them is near-unreadable and it's easier to write everything in asm.
> I'm saying advertisers' opinions about brand safety don't reflect the real world

It reflects their world view which is all that matters when they hold all the cards.

And not sure where you are getting the idea brand safety is a recent concept. According to this [1] aligning content and brand has been an issue for over 70 years.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesagencycouncil/2021/05/19/...
> I just rounded off my most recent expansion to 120kw peak production with 500kwh storage

How are you producing 120kw? That's the equivalent of around 300 solar panels (assuming 400W panels).
Yeah, that's one area where claims of consumer confusion are a bit more legitimate. A lot of platforms let you delete replies to your posts, but Twitter doesn't, so people might see those and think "why hasn't this company deleted these replies?". (In fact, I personally am confused; I thought there were tools for hiding replies or disabling them or something. But I haven't used Twitter for a while, and maybe they don't work on ads.)
Fixing the Y2K Problem
> it's clear the left and media have been using twitter as it's coordination and messaging infrastructure

I don’t tweet/have an account and I browse only in private mode. Why do I see so many right-wing trolls? Kirk, Owens, Boebert, Sorbo, etc, a whole cadre of extremists intent on creating an angry mob, and countless other anti-social, lying, and hateful lunatics… they’re all there, they frequently appear in the “you might like” tweets after the linked tweet’s thread.

If you see twitter as “the left,” I suggest that may well be a result of the personalized engagement algorithm, because the untracked user is seeing a much broader range of tweets.
A distributed grid, including many renewables spread on the whole country territory (or even in many homes), and with a redundant topology (that would tolerate many many wire cuts), would really help, in particular in conditions such as during a war.
If you find this interesting check out Aurora by David Koepp. Fun read about if the power went out for an extended time due to a solar storm.
> until the food runs out

Based upon the TP panics during the pandemic, I'd say that just the thought of potential shortages will make some people desperate.
I agree completely with the point here, but why are you buying drippy nasty stuff?
I obviously do t think the UK should try to rejoin for the same reason I think you shouldn’t reverse a vasectomy (you made a decision you knew was meaningful for a reason).

But that doesn’t mean the original decision has benefits.
> real win for a rust or go server would be a single binary deploy.

So that would mean that everybody could start their own "mastodon" server on their PC or Mac easily, right?
The article talks about phones correctly - at the backbone level it’s mostly VoIP now, which requires power. I bet some places have old mechanical switches that in theory can still be used, but those need some power as well. Landline is great for a localized loss where your central office still have enough power to run.
I think on avg. charities aren't so bad that the world is better off if you buy a yacht and give 20% to the government than to donate it to the average charity.

But do you at least agree the government does less good with 20 cents than a givewell charity like the AMF does with a dollar?
Machine learning models require regular retraining.

And given that there is a code freeze at the moment it's quite likely no updates are going out.
None of those are a factor when implementing an interpreter for Lua 5.1. One example given is stackful coroutines, which has nothing to do with package managers, release dates, or the differences between versions.

IOW, Deegen is a proof-of-concept that is being developed on Lua 5.1. Once it is more mature, it will be able to produce other bytecode VMs, too. Lua 5.1 just has enough language features to exercise a lot of capabilities, or in other words, result in Deegen being quite versatile.
One criticism that immediately springs to my mind is around this equivalence of the trillions yet to come to the billions now.

Ok, let’s say we play in this sandbox and accept that we need to build some level of thinking about future generations into our policy and politics and that we are capable of knowing anything about them. It seems to me we should be applying a heavy discount to each successive generation since we may be able to intelligently guess at our children’s lives and what would be good for their wellbeing, but by the time we get to our great great grandchildren maybe it’s just sheer fucking hubris to think we can know anything about their world, what they need from us and whether they will be living on Earth, have harnessed free-energy or even exist.

So these EA people can make up models of the future all day long, but they are pretty clearly an exercise in using fancy math to support some pet conclusion.
Same here! I started cooking like an adult around age 30, and then really got into it around 35, but didn't feel confident enough to feed large groups until my late 40's. Now I'm in my 50's and love throwing parties and cooking days in advance. My next house needs a dining room that can seat at least 14 or I won't be happy.
Git recently added a --update-refs option to rebase that makes dealing with this scenario a lot easier.
This post does a good job explaining how to use it: https://andrewlock.net/working-with-stacked-branches-in-git-...
"Having read the paper & supplementary materials, watched narrated game & spoken to one of the human players I'm pretty concerned.
The @ScienceMagazine paper centres 'human-AI cooperation' & the bot is not supposed to lie. However, videos clearly show deception/manipulation"

"Screenshots of the stab below.

The human player said: "The bot is supposed to never lie [...] I doubt this was the case here" "I was definitely caught more off guard as a result of this message; I knew the bot doesn't lie, so I thought the stab wouldn't happen." "

"I'd like the researchers involved to say quite a bit more about "A.3 Manipulation"

What are possible prevention, detection & mitigation steps?

What are the possible use cases? What are the benefits/downsides of them? Has Meta considered developing products based on this?" -- Haydn Belfield, a Cambridge University researcher who focuses on the security implications of artificial intelligence (AI).

https://twitter.com/HaydnBelfield/status/1595168102924402688

https://www.cser.ac.uk/team/haydn-belfield/
Most definitely. Just reminded me of it is all... I feel like nearly every life lesson can be learned through various Twilight Zone episodes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGguhrEMR_U
> no documents about how to actually use the resulting software.

Can all your engineers see all your other engineers' code? It's hard enough to get code to do what it says it does; I've very rarely seen documentation that's correct.
I believe in Hacker News circles this is called “the Erlich Bachman maneuver”
There's a lot of money in the space industry. You can't just drop a commercial core into an FPGA that's destined for space and not expect any issues. Even if ARM offered a free perpetual license, there would still need to be significant work done on applying reliability and radiation tolerance features to the design. Plus, NASA would want a wide range of features available for cores. A small FPGA might not have enough resources for things like floating point operations but a large one would. NASA would need access to multiple architectures to ensure they can fit the core to the mission. Also, NASA doesn't do a lot of their work themselves. They buy cores from vendors or buy boxes from vendors that have cores made in-house or from third party vendors. Would all of these vendors have the same open access to the ARM license? Instead, NASA can just say "we want to use RISC-V for everything" thus all of the vendors can now save some money by not having to insert a bunch of license costs into the final price. NASA could even come out with their own RISC-V cores that vendors can easily drop into their FPGAs, giving NASA the piece of mind that every system they get will have common architectures. There is also the benefit of the interconnects having commonality, it's a pain in the ass having add bridges to connect older cores to newer cores. If NASA says we want to use modern AXI4 for everything, vendors may be more inclined to update their cores to be more compatible.

Even though the space industry generates a lot of money, it's nothing compared to the revenue that ARM gets from consumer electronics. NASA can contribute to RISC-V development in a way that far exceeds what kind of influence they would have with ARM.

Overall, NASA benefits from a common architecture for a variety of reasons along with the benefit of not paying the ARM license multiple times for some missions.
Not sure what your medical issues are but there must be something you could get prescribed? If you can't take Adderall there's Ritalin (Methylphenidate), if you can't take Ritalin there are off-label meds which have been known to work.
> is the military hardened against deserters, starving soldiers, starving military families, and so forth caused by civilian infrastructure collapse? I doubt it.

That's where Article 90 of the UCMJ comes into play,

Any person subject to this chapter who willfully disobeys a lawful command of that person’s superior commissioned officer shall be punished—

(1) if the offense is committed in time of war, by death or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct; and
(2) if the offense is committed at any other time, by such punishment, other than death, as a court-martial may direct.
Ask HN: What is your preferred *production* C++ web server framework/library?
It always scares me how easy it is to make assumptions that end up totally backfiring like this.
Feel free to weigh my data point as you see fit or ignore it altogether. It differs from the OP’s (which is why I thought it worth mentioning) and their experience is just as valid. To answer your question, I’ve spent the last three years at a startup building with Rust. Before that I spent 9 years at a startup building on Node.js.
Congratulations, you've rediscovered nihilism.
Japanese have been producing wood for 700 years without cutting down trees
I interpreted the question as "could these work" rather than "do these work today".
I always marvel at gitlabs handbook and would love to introduce it to our company. Are there any tutorials how to set it up? (I don't mean how to set up gitlab, but rather which tools you need and how to set up the render pipeline, server etc to enable a markdown wiki/handbook?
Right… but if a military base loses power, and the soldiers are starving, you may find that you quickly lose the ability to enforce the UCMJ effectively. And the moment you lose even a bit of control in such a situation, it will unravel potentially within hours.

The UCMJ works great when you can shame a soldier, have a Justice system to rely on, can seize assets or pay, have superiors in other states, and so forth. When it’s pandemonium everywhere… not much to keep it enforced especially when it gets really bad. The system works when a solider has something to lose… but when soldiers feel they have nothing to lose, heck, risk starving and actually losing more by staying…
“Pedo guy”: bully, even ignoring the borderline abusive behavior over the last few weeks.

Narcissist? The fact that he’s nominally head of 3 companies, trying to execute a dramatic turnaround on one in real time, but still tweets constantly.

Certainly, he has many positive attributes. But, quoting Steve Rogers, I don’t like bullies.
I get what you’re saying but also larger weapon systems often get referred to by their country of origin. Reason being is threat labeling/studying I think in the face of weapon sales. “Russian vs American artillery” gets eval’d a lot without referring to Russian and American soldiers, for example. “Iranian drones in Ukraine.” And so on. If the person quoted is from that background, easy to see this happening. It’s not a hard and fast rule but I don’t see as much justifiable outrage as you do.
This is not a JIT.
Guoer, accused of that, has posted some long videos. Over an hour of Diesel engine overhaul. Start to finish on a motor rewinding job. With this one, though, there was probably some assistance not shown. Somehow, a lot of concrete got up to the top of the mountain. There's no reason she shouldn't have some unskilled laborers lifting and carrying.

While she appears to have started the series herself, it's been covered by Xhihua and promoted by the Party. So it does have propaganda aspects.

Her work has scary aspects. The electrical wiring is unsafe. An uncovered knife switch for 220V? No fuses or circuit breakers? Ordinary wire out in the open, not nonmetallic armored? Generators with no voltage regulation? That's 1980s China, not 2020s China. Wiring accessories are cheap in China; price them on Alibaba.
I imagine a lot of people would press the button for selfish reasons, a million dollars is a big deal
Two of the groups they surveyed were AI researchers, it break it does by those groups, and the majority of those groups think AGI will happen in 100 years.

1. EETN: Members of the Greek Association for Artificial Intelligence (EETN), a professional organization of Greek published researchers in the field, in April 2013. Ca. 250 members.
2. TOP100: The 100 ‘Top authors in artificial intelligence’ by ‘citation’ in ‘all years’ according to Microsoft Academic Search(http://academic.research.microsoft.com) in May 2013. We reduced the list to living authors, added as many as necessary to get back to 100
It could certainly rack up a big bill.

This is also part of the work that Apple has done (and is likely part of the making Siri cost less for cloud compute).

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/use-siri-offline-ios/

> In iOS 15, Apple moved all Siri speech processing and personalization onto your device, making the virtual assistant more secure and faster at processing requests. This also means Siri can now handle a range of requests entirely offline.

> Once you're using iOS 15, you don't need to enable anything for Siri to work offline. The types of requests that it can handle without phoning home to Apple's servers include the following:

Create and disable timers and alarms.
Launch apps.
Control Apple Music and Podcasts audio playback.
Control system settings including accessibility features, volume, Low Power mode, Airplane mode, and so on.
Headlines like "US bombs dropped on bus full of children" are somewhat common in stories about the war in Yemen.
> Rust still has option types and the cases where an Option could be None still need to be handled

And rust has the `?` operator, as well as combinators like `map`, `and_then`, `unwrap_or_else`, etc. which IMO make the flow much easier to follow than say `if option.is_none() { return None }`.

> Rust's default paradigm for memory management seems more significant of a language feature in my opinion and is what I can imagine most people don't like

I never said it wasn't. My point is that if you use a language enough you get used to things that are difficult for people less experienced with that language.
I've heard this claim repeated, but I've been unable to find a link to causal evidence. Do you happen to have a citation?
That's only like 300 * $100 for the panels if you buy them used. That's less than a Model 3. Installation usually costs far far more than the panels. If you have plenty of room and you can install them on the ground, and you are remote enough you can do it without permits or permits are easy to deal with (so really this means not California or New York) and wind isn't a huge concern (so not the Atlantic or Gulf coast) and your neighbors aren't constantly in your business (so not Texas) then this is easily done by someone who has a strong interest, a moderate income, and is a little handy. It is especially easy if you live somewhere so dry that wildfire is not a huge concern, and of course you need enough sunny days for it to be economical somewhat (although with this many panels you could live off this setup even in an Alaskan winter). My guess is they live in New Mexico or Nevada.
Ukraine shot down a Russian airliner in 2001 during joint exercises because of a crappy S-200. It happens.
Check out Neal Stephenon's novel Termination Shock.
Switched to emacs via doom emacs about three years ago and haven’t looked back!

I was a big vim user back before VSCode, so I’m happy being back in my obscure editor hole.
What’s to stop any of its current competitors from making a Twitter clone, one with moderation? If he can’t keep advertisers, Google or someone else could leverage their already existing network effects to take Twitter refugees.
There's a lot of confusion here. You need to read the GDPR carefully. The GDPR is the only source that explicitly mentions IP, and even they distinguish IP as "personal data", not "personally identifiable data." No other privacy legislation on the planet considers IP to represent any kind of PII.

I will reiterate my point. It is impossible to operate the internet or any other network where a server must distinguish between two or more client without some kind of identifier for session management. Just think about it.
Just moved to klamath falls. 4k feet elevation, in a frozen desert with a massive lake. On the border of California.

This is an odd town in every way. I learned this from an older local today. So grain of salt.

Apparently. Klamath was a huge lumber town, and rivaled San Francisco for who would be the larger city...hahah.

But old boys not only shut down i5 going through, but kept a strangle hold on all activities in town for a century.

The unfunny joke I was told. "Klamath Falls will become a decent town when the last 12 old boys die.".

Grain of salt here. Also the spotted owl was a bunch of Eastern Lumber companies funding hippies to shut down western lumber companies. And if you wore a tye dye shirt in town in the 80's. That was a stabbin.

So much salt there.
Wonder how SK Innovation is doing, and Ford https://cleantechnica.com/2021/02/15/itc-sides-with-lg-chem-...
You can use whatever you want. And that’s the whole point of my comment. Telling others they are wrong by not using (or using) certain tools is frowned upon.
People speak as if twitter isn't going to hire more employees. Obviously they can't sustain themselves on the crew they have now long term. They have to realize this and they'll probably start hiring as needed.
Strep throat isn't influenza...