skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"To solve the slow cold starts, AWS announced SnapStart for Java functions. In short, it initializes the Lambda function and saves the state in the memory, and restores it instead of doing the initialization again. This feature makes use of the Firecracker snapshot feature, and it has been promising for many users so far that it can drive down the slow start to 200 milliseconds from 6 seconds!"

SnapStart for Java lambda functions is the best announcement I heard about this year. It's a great feature and it was presented very well in the keynote, which showed their progress in eventually bringing startup time down to (basically) zero over several steps.
It's tough in the UK, especially London, especially especially central London.

I moved from NZ where we'd done probably one of the best fiber rollouts of any country; I had 1Gbps into an apartment from about 2016 or so. Before that I'd had 200ish mbps into a house in the suburbs in about 2014 thanks to the previous tenants having run a business from the place and paid for a line in.

Now I live in the UK I can see why it's hard - too much history/housing here is just built up far too much/not built up in a modern way either. Also I think when obtaining permissions from property owners in the case of flats, Kiwis are generally more likely to approve of something like that than people here.
I use to frequent a grad student bar that regularly held an open-mic night for people to practice their defense. It was brutal. A room full of drunk grad and post-grads would try and pick apart your presentation. Targeted academic heckling. It was great. The goal was to get over your fear of the whole process -no matter what, your actual defense would be a better experience.
> popularized by Fight Club

And Lawrence of Arabia in the Seven Pillars of Wisdom. In which the young men piss on wounds.

"The other wounded men were seen to at the same time. Mifleh brought up the youngest lads of the party, and had them spray the wounds with their piss, as a rude antiseptic."

Last paragraph of chapter 78: https://www.globalgreyebooks.com/seven-pillars-of-wisdom-ebo...
Spoiler: It’s about reskinning his website. I was hoping for AI translation of PG’s text into societally useful (or at least interesting) content.

Someone should send Graham’s output through an AI filter, informed by Dabblers and Blowhards.
https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm
Yes. What the performatively cynical crowd is missing is that SBF, like Elizabeth Holmes, stole from the rich.

Even for people who believe that everything is 100% corrupt 100% of the time in the American justice system, SBF going to jail should be seen as confirmation of that bias.
If it was even half of what the smoke and mirrors make it out to be, a major amount of people would be using web3 technologies every day. (Besides retail crypto currency speculation, which appears to be dead now)

There are no mainstream applications and there never will be any.
Nice story, except the TLDR.
Dammit, emacs!
A man sails his smoking yacht into a repair shop. The head mechanic goes over with a hammer and slams it against the side of the engine. The engine roars back to life, and the smoke subsides.

He submits a bill for $200,000. It is itemized as such:

- $1 - Fifteen seconds of labor; striking with hammer

- $199,999 - Knowing where to strike
If systemd were just a declarative sysvinit alternative I don't think there'd be near the pushback.
FTX/Alameda Research Political Contributions [OpenSecrets Public Spreadsheet]
> Ultimately the hygiene benefits of closing the lid when flushing are negligible in most situations.

I wasn't commenting on any supposed benefits for flushing, purely aesthetics and manners.

> [studies fail to show they] have higher rates of disease, or that the pathogen exposure

Nor did I claim anything of the sort.

> it's a bit weird referring to them as "these people"

Are they not people? They are certainly not all people. What would you have me say?

> I don't think this habit is constrained to those who publicly joke about it.

Nor do I, I said you can 'often' tell. The public joking happens often (enough for it to come to mind, evidently) and you can tell that about those people. I made no claim about the others - though if they're laughing at the joke that's probably a good indicator too.
That’s not necessarily a mistake.

Claiming that a reference cannot be null means that if you later realize it has to be, you’ve got a potentially compat-breaking refactoring to make.

So, nullable-by-default is either a good idea or a bad idea depending on lots of complex reasons.
Convert JSON to convert JSON to new Datatyp C++ at runtime
i become data json, i have no idea about datatype, not from compiler time
i must to convert to typedef struct or union , maybe nested structure

{
"type":"struct"
"name:"MyStruct"
"struct": {
"var1":"int",
"var2":float;
"var3":"double"
}
}

convert AT RUNTIME to

typedef struct {
var1:int;
var2:float;
var3:double }MyStruct`
So Amazon with its 3-fold ratio is in fact giving a better argument for ipv6 than the average, nice. Generally a factor of two doesn't say much about ipv6 creating less allocations at all, given how ipv6 is roughly within a factor of two in terms of adoption in general.
I work in this industry and it's interesting to see all of the different perspectives here: chat bots are ok if passive and not proactively engaging, chat bots should support authentication, chat bots are evil and shouldn't access cookies at all.

People (and customers) do hold all of these different opinions and it's sometimes hard to please them all. As a business, should we try to cater to everyone, or just a certain group? In Europe it's different from America.

Personally I do think there's a weird inflection point where once your chat bot gets so fully featured it becomes a website within a website which seems... Unnecessarily small.
They have prediction markets for exactly this:

https://manifold.markets/mr22222222/sbf-convicted-of-a-felon...

(On Manifold, you can only donate winnings to charity rather than withdraw, which allows them to legally operate.)
> I'm surprised that SBF hasn't played a card like "while I didn't know it at the time, I have now investigated and concluded that..."

unless that's true, it's another way for the prosecution to hang him, because they might be able to prove he _did_ know.
The twitter app itself could probably run fine with much less than that, I've seen skeleton engineering crews support hundreds of millions of MAUs pushing terabytes of data. What musk has sacrificed is everything besides the twitter app, which is probably not enough to maintain twitter the corporation in the long term.
She actually does. Check your facts.
Not here; I live in Oxford, UK - one of this country's "cycling cities". The great majority of cyclists are not motorized. Cycle theft is barely policed, and an electric bike worth £2,000 is worth pinching (the cops don't treat electric bikes differently from cheap rusty crap bikes). Most people here ride throwaway bikes costing under £300 new.
How would you evaluate your priors if he is prosecuted, convicted and then given a presidential pardon?
Their benchmarks are not to be trusted (after reading the source).

- They cheat, they rewrite code to use coden specific features to "win" (ie, parallelization and GPU optimizations)

- They don't warm up. They are simply running their competition directly rather than allowing any sort of warmup. (In other words, they are measuring cold boot and startup time)

Now, if they want to argue about startup time or whatever mattering for performance then fine. However, the representation of "20x faster!" is simply deception.

TBF, they are upfront about cheating

> Further, some of the benchmarks are identical in both Python and Codon, some are changed slightly to work with Codon's type system, and some use Codon-specific features like parallelism or GPU.
Why are do the C++ implementations perform so poorly?
“Not very difficult” is not the same thing as “close to no cost”
But companies can still experiment with it without paying. IE, you can integrate it and run benchmarks to see if it would actually help your pain points.
Great article!

You know, I would love to see an "Alpnix" in the future -- all of Alpine's speed and lightness, all of NixOS's hermetic and reproducible build capabilities...
Politicians Are Giving Back Their Donations from FTX Founder
> but so did Epstein, and he... definitely did not get away scot free

Not a big conspiracy fan, but in the case of Epstein, he very obviously made a mistake in compiling files of incriminating evidence on the rich and powerful who'd used his 'services'.

I'd say he was expected to disappear in case of problems, in one way or another. And it's at least possible that when he didn't do it himself, he was 'helped' on his way.
> Zero dollars were spent solving problems uniquely created by not having the benefits of null?

This one doesn't make any sense in the context of the languages being discussed. What unique problems does it create in Swift/Kotlin/Rust?
Agreed, I tried using an iPhone as my primary device for 3 years and it was so bad compared to a Pixel.
It’s time to stop using Python 3.7
The more you know.
It's no secret that many people like to use Moxly. People love being creative, solving problems, and feeling a sense of accomplishment when they see their project come to life right in front of their eyes
From the article: "People depicted in the portraits were upper-class, say curators."

They are literally pointing out that these are portraits of aristocrats, whom it is very well-known would likely be of non-Egyptian, if not mixed, origin at the time they were buried. No one is making a claim that this is what the average Egyptian looked like in the article.

Now if you still think its appropriate to argue that modern Egyptians represent a population replacement demographic, well, you're free to I guess, but I'd wager there weren't enough conquerors to replace the entire or even the majority of the population.

Also, Copts and Amazighe are also African, so "African shaped noses" is sorta weird to say, never mind the prominence of similarly shaped noses to Copts and Amazighe in Ethiopians and adjacent populations in the Horn of Africa. I know "what you mean" but what I mean is that we sorta eliminate a whole lotta physical and cultural differences when we talk about some essential unity of Africa lying in looking some particular way.
I did a small benchmark and found for high concurrency write-only loads, the results of each goroutine writing directly vs using a mutex were basically the same. But things were more interesting when I added a bunch of read goroutines to the mix too (which would be more realistic for e.g. web traffic). In that case, the mutex-protected writes were drastically reduced in favor of reads. And while I have no idea how SQlite is actually handling its locking, it makes intuitive sense that if it doesn't even know about more write load it isn't going to schedule it.

I'm going to clean up the code and post some results in gist, but here is a sample:

Write-only (SQL statements/s):

direct: 45314
w/mutex: 45304

Read/Write mix:

direct: read: 85229 write: 22664
w/mutex: read: 139053 write: 1382
No, my argument is that for those encouraging revolution, they may want to check which side they'll actually be on.
I think you're being too hard on him here. It looks to me like both sides fucked up in a number of ways.
"no using 'using'"...
Yeah, I agree with the GP comment, but QM is a bad example. It is not an approachable subject by any means. I don't say that as somebody who knows it, I know people with physics PhDs than confirm that a layperson is just not going to be able to learn anything useful about it without doing the equivalent work of a degree/masters etc.
The Ontario teachers pension fund invested $95 million into FTX that they have to write off. They have $295 billion under management, so 0.03% of their assets were lost. In the last week the Canadian dollar fluctuated between from 75 down to 73 cents on the US dollar, or 4% of its value. I don't think the teachers pensions are affected by the fluctuations of the USD based portfolio of the fund, and they certainly aren't going be affected by the FTX investment.
I am indifferent to this specific phenomenon because it is a drop in the bucket. Frankly, a child would be better off hearing a story from a robot than watching many examples of children's TV or online video programming. I'll start caring about Alexa storytime once kids aren't spending almost half their waking hours looking at a screen, maybe.
Bullshit. Women apply and get into male dominated hostile jobs despite men. You don't want money that's on you. You can only work in a place filled with men that look like you? Tough shit, immigrate to europe and do your nazi shit there. Welcome to america, where people from literally every other nation immigrate, live and have built busienesses and careers. Take that segregation bullshit elsewhere. Leave your politics at home, liberal or conservative and earn an honest living and treat people fairly or leave.
Once you found the article you want to read, you can also just hit the "Reader mode" button in your browser, boom automatic dark mode and readable font size.
I could see that being really bad... A 'social engineer' could talk support people into helping them hijack an account.
I think this person created something they love, and then completely overestimated its importance. I remember first encountering the ending poem and thinking "Well that seems like a totally random thing to put here, but I suppose it's nice." The game was made & sold millions of copies without it, and I think it's possible that only a single digit # of copies, or maybe a few dozen, were sold as a result of it-- friends & family and a few fans of the author who would not have otherwise been exposed to the game.

This seems consistent with the level of egotism on display in the post. The author repeatedly includes himself as a core member of "we" for the group that created the game, but what this author calls the ending appears to have very much been an afterthought.

Nuggets of egotism are spread throughout in a variety of ways:

>perhaps the largest copyright offence of all time

I'd take that as hyperbole except the tone of the rest of the article supports an interpretation where the author believes this.

>If I had trouble paying for my kid’s clothes and shoes, that was on me

This in the context of his marriage breaking down, so, really? None of the responsibility was on his wife? All of the importance in that situation is on him? I wouldn't think so.

>Friendship

This seems a very Facebook-era definition of friendship. He met Persson once and then a little time later they wrote some emails back and forth. This is inflated into a friendship wherein the Gough feels he was an integral part of that creative team behind the game.

>1,700 MS Legal Affairs people

I'm sure this thing will catch the attention of someone in MS legal, but I suspect it's barely a blip on their radar, much less something that will garner the focus of the entirety of Microsoft's legal juggernaut.

At least Gough's egotism isn't large enough that he doesn't, on some level, realize that he's blowing things out of proportion. Throughout the piece there's a bit of a conflicting tone where he seems to understand that his contribution really wasn't of the magnitude he makes it out to be. Reading this though, that just introduced a bit of cognitive dissonance with a strange mixture of self-aggrandizement and self-aware/self-deprecation, e.g., "A lot of people didn’t want to read nine minutes of narrative scrolling up the screen, no matter how good it was; they didn’t give a shit. They just wanted to go and play the game again."*
>so long as it's connected me to a human rather than a menu of chatbot options

Key point here. Chatbots are a universal "please despise my company" tool.

If you don't have a live human available - don't show me the chat button.
After using languages with the Option type [0] and exhaustive pattern matching [1] (OCaml was my first exposure), I can definitely say that bare null pointers, without using the prior two things I mentioned, are a mistake.

It's not that null as a concept is a mistake, since a Option type has both Some and None, it's that in most mainstream languages, people have to implicitly deal with them rather than having the compiler checking it for them explicitly. And if the computer can check our work for us, why do we have to do it ourselves?

That's why it leads to mistakes and is why it's called a billion dollar mistake, because I'm sure at least 1 billion (possibly even 1 trillion) dollars worth of manpower, lost revenue and time have been spent dealing with nulls.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option_type

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_ML#Pattern_matching
Your theory is that the people are so very corrupt that they are taking money to betray their country, but so loyal that they'll defend a guy who won't be able to do anything for them ever again?

It just doesn't make sense. SBF is already notorious and will be for a long time. Whether or not he's convicted in the US, that's already guaranteed, especially since other countries may go after him. The best thing Democrats (or Republicans if they took his money) can do for themselves is to very publicly get him to face justice. Which is why you see the chair of the House Financial Services Committee inviting him to come talk in front of Congress. Corrupt or not, their best line of action is to demonstrate independence and grease his slide to a long prison sentence.
He also funneled almost an equal amount of dark money to Republicans. Plenty of sources for this -
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/30/ftx-billi...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/sam-bankma...
I actually never delete comments when I have replies, edits are my got to solution. I like my stupidity on display for everyone to learn from!
SBF can easily escape the first world and probably even the arm of the law.

But what is life like for someone living outside the law who stole billions from angry people including likely many criminals? His life expectancy would not be long.
I think if the system were as corrupt as you guys say, Holmes would have committed suicide or suffered some debilitating accident or something. Going to jail for just a few years doesn't feel like much of a dose of vengeance
What's the alternative? It's 300k people doing mostly low-medium intensity agriculture spread out over a large area in the middle of an ocean. I'm dumbfounded that anyone knowingly moving there would be dumbfounded that things move at a much slower pace. I'm reminded of my friend who moved to nome and was incensed that he couldn't get 2 day shipping on his Amazon orders any more.
IMO, pagination only makes sense when you want to save bandwidth and computation. Like, if each item has images, that need to be fetched. If there is pagination, I'd prefer the option to choose the number of items in the list.
I mean you could say the same for SV engineers. They could completely fuck up their job, eventually get fired and live fat on their equity.

Sure it's not the same amount of money, but you seem to be suggesting we should claw back compensation if someone doesn't do their job.

You really want to open that can of worms?
While I love null safety, It's hardly a given. For Dart in particular, it sounds like there was a serious discussion about the choice, and it could have gone the other way.

(edit: removed incorrect statement about Python's type safety)
Oops! I'll fix that typo.
Having used twitter, I don't know what I don't know, but it's hard to imagine how the company could possibly have 7K employees. Maybe 500 to 1K seems more reasonable given what's there.
I've been reading and playing a lot with ChatGPT for coding and I had a thought about where all this leads that to me felt new and fresh.

It's a very simple idea that as soon as I had it, felt so obvious and certain.
Dwarf Fortress in the MoMA
Imagine if the poem were written on demand to you specifically and referred to things you had done in the game. I prompted asking for it to "make reference to Tim drowning in a well he had just built and the time he built a house out of diamond bricks":

To Tim, the brave and bold,

Who built a well so deep and cold,

And filled it with water clear and bright,

But then, in an instant, lost his sight.

You drowned in the depths, so deep and dark,

But in your life, you left your mark.

You built a house of diamond bricks,

A shining beacon, a sight to fix.

But now you're gone, your time has passed,

Your legacy will forever last.

Farewell, Tim, may you rest in peace,

Your memory will never cease.
This can be done in a natural way though. Take the movie Million Dollar Baby. The movie portrays a woman with strong physical characteristics but does so within the context of a good story that tackles a complex social issue. At no point in the movie does the main character’s physical abilities seem un-natural or forced. There are many other examples where socially desirable characteristics are portrayed by minority groups within the context of a good story without being forced or out of place.
His parents are both big shot lawyers who were fairly involved in the whole thing, right? I would be seriously and pleasantly surprised if dude does a day behind bars.
That's what they did in the case of the recent Bayonetta controversy. They actually paid less for the replacement than they were expecting to pay the original actor who wanted more.
Is it possible to lay out some struct-like thing into that memory segment and just read the whole thing for convenience?

Appreciate the example. Thank you.
Actually, you're right, that's a concerning amount of data. Access and edit dates seem reasonable, but filenames and checksums feel like they go too far. In any case, there are just too many fingerprints here, even under the guise of "deduplication and optimization".
It ought to be possible to closely integrate a chat bot with a human so that people don't even notice the transition... It is always fair for a human to say "let me talk to my supervisor" and it is the same for a bot.
There are those wishing it to fail, those wishing it to succeed. Wishing won't help. It will find its own level. We can only stand and watch.
I like this part the most. Liability is a counteraction against people you can't trust doing things they shouldn't. It does protect you when things go wrong, but generally, things don't go wrong and if people do the right thing, they go wrong even less often.

Seems like half the US legal system is basically built on a lack of trust between people. I do acknowledge many legal remedies try to address the situations where trust exists but no one knows how to proceed so its not all bad
> Zero dollars were spent solving problems uniquely created by not having the benefits of null? Also false.

Do tell what those problems are? Whenever I hear people complain about this, they suffer from some fundamental misunderstanding of how null-safe languages work in practice
Obviously a device doesn't become useless once it stops receiving OS patches. For one, it'll keep receiving security patches for other components (eg the browser, which is in many ways more important than the OS) for many years past end of life.
I'm not really sure I buy it. It seems to me more likely that he's just still incompetent and sort of addicted to the spotlight. He was one of the most popular and well-respected people in the world in a certain sub-community and he did that all while playing league of legends every day.

It might be some master plan, but it really also might just be him not wanting to accept that it's over.

I have a hard time imagining any remotely rational person wouldn't realize to just not say anything to anyone without a lawyer present.