skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A queue can handle transient peaks of load much better than direct synchronous code.

Whether a workload is being managed upon creation using a work queue within the backend, has nothing to do with the semantics of the communications protocol used to talk about the state of said workload. You can arbitrarily combine these — for example, DBMSes have the unusual combination of having a stateful connection-oriented protocol for scheduling blocking workloads, but also having the ability to introspect the state of those ongoing workloads with queries on other connections.

My point is that clients in a distributed system can literally never do "fire and forget" messaging anyway — which is the supposed advantage of an "asynchronous message-oriented communications" protocol over a REST-like one. Any client built to do "fire and forget" messaging, when used at scale, always, always ends up needing some sort of outbox-queue abstraction, where the outbox controller is internally doing synchronous blocking retries of RPC calls to get an acknowledgement that a message got safely pushed into the queue and can be locally forgotten.

And that "outbox" is a leaky abstraction, because in trying to expose "fire and forget" semantics to its caller, it has no way of imposing backpressure on its caller. So the client's outbox overflows. Every time.

This is why Google famously switched every internal protocol they use away from using message queues/busses with asynchronous "fire and forget" messaging, toward synchronous blocking RPC calls between services. With an explicitly-synchronous workload-submission protocol (which may as well just be over a request-oriented protocol like HTTP, as gRPC is), all operational errors and backpressure get bubbled back up from the workload-submission client library to its caller, where the caller can then have logic to decide the business-logic-level response that is most appropriate, for each particular fault, in each particular calling context.

Message queues are the quintessential "smart pipe", trying to make the network handle all problems itself, so that the nodes (clients and backends) connected via such a network can be naive to some operational concerns. But this will never truly solve the problems it sets out to solve, as the policy knowledge to properly drive the decision-making for the mechanism that handles operational exigencies in message-handling, isn't available "within the network"; it lives only at the edges, in the client and backend application code of each service. Those exigencies — those failures and edge-case states — must be pushed out to the client or backend, so that policy can be applied. And if you're doing that, you may as well move the mechanism to enforce the policy there, too. At which point you're back to a dumb pipe, with smart nodes.
> sounds like a very normal day for lots of people

That's the issue with your statement. I didn't survey "lots of people" and neither did you. I can't find any data to back it up, but I do see a plenty of surveys about breakfast consumption.

I find it very hard to believe people are restricting their calories within 8 hours everyday, naturally just based on the conversations I've had with people. Even in this thread people say they've tried it, and found it to be too difficult.

It's simple: People enjoy eating. People eat when they're bored, because of habit, or socially. No reason to believe they abstain from those things 16 hours a day.

It's not like all of that 16 hours is sleep. On average, more people are getting less than 7 hours of sleep.

https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/data-and-statistics/adults.html

Fasting is not an on/off switch, but too many calories (>10-20) in a short amount of time pushes you out of a fasted state. It's very likely people are snacking or drinking calories within those hours after waking, and before lunch.

Also, some people will often over eat one day, and then under eat the next. This could help get through a 16 hour fast a few days every week. I think those times are usually over represented when self-reporting these habits.
Housing is a pretty terrible product. Everything is bespoke, but often durable enough that you can defer maintenance for a decade without paying for the costs.

We've also tied a bunch of financial planning into the mix which amps up the bad ideas.
I don't see the code on webpage to explain things. Simplicity means you can explain complex things with simple code.

Because English is ambigous and subjective. Just use code ?
They’re brought up on every “alternative to the Mac” thread as a brand that’s explicitly not a Clevo reseller but they somehow never get much attention.
Bye then. I can see you're planning on ignoring actual legislation being pushed and in many places passed doing just that.
lol I can't e-file because I claimed software development research credits

that's ironic. can't use software to get the software research credits
>The IRS has my 1098s. They know the mortgage interest, principal, and origination date.

But they don't know what you used the proceeds for. Not all mortgage interest is deductible. Nor do they know what use you make of the property that secures the mortgage (primary residence, rental, other). They also don't know about prior year points you paid to originate a mortgage.
At their size, the balloon would slowly descend (into public airspace) when shot at with even high calibre jet mounted guns, if i understood correctly.
> But who is going to give up their career to be a citizen watcher for just a few years?

A Citizen. Rights and responsibilities, etc.

> Likewise, random selection may not yield a cohort with the correct capacity to properly administer the system.

Of course. That's the downside of random cohorts. But compared to the alternatives (that we actively gripe about), occasional lack of ability is the lesser of two evils.

This would also be lessened if there weren't a way to get out of it. Don't want to serve when your number is called? Feel free to be a citizen of another country.
The system I’m currently on is currently moving a lot of work into queues. Some operations, like “change the criteria of this rank” could be anywhere between 5 seconds (if the number of users of the criteria to evaluate are small) or 10+ hours if we need re-evaluate the rules against 10m+ users.

In this case we write our jobs as generators that can be paused, serialized and picked up again later. We give the job 5 seconds synchronously, then if it passes that time, queue and job and let the client know a job has been registered.

The users account holds the IDs of the jobs as well as some basic information about the the tasks they have queued. There is a rest endpoint to return the current status of the jobs and information about them (what are they doing, what’s their progress, how much work remains).

The client will negotiate a web socket connection with a different service to be notified whenever progress is made on the job and the client can then check the endpoint for the latest status.
I'm not sure I said that I think the US has that right. I referred to what happened in Iran as a "bad thing."

I am criticizing the Iranian government on its own terms for being oppressive. The US's conduct doesn't enter into it, and is used a distraction and a false equivalence.
> I also don't necessarily have any problems with that, unless it's siphoning away funds that could have been used to build up an actual orbital infrastructure

ISS is/was being used as a first step in building “actual” orbital infrastructure. SpaceX was awarded $400M for the developmental of falcon 9 + dragon, phase two was paying for the actual subsequent launches which is ongoing.

“Rescued spacex” would be an odd way of putting it, developing then launching crew and cargo to iss is a huge part of their revenue which enables them to pursue other things like starlink and starship, etc. $2B in 2022 from NASA isn’t a rescue, it’s their business.

ISS isn’t an impressive end, it’s a necessary stepping stone which is enabling next steps like commercial space developing technology and companies, testing things in a relatively safe space relatively cheaply.
Not really, no: https://www.adafruit.com/product/4295

High prices are because they've been getting scalped on the secondary market, so I wouldn't say that means they are "available."
I wonder if these “objects” are being shot down due to political reasons or if something fundamental ha changed..?
My guess is that the point they are trying to make is “introduce complexity when it appears”. The data access patterns that users need aren’t always obvious, at least in my experience.
It CPAs are external they may not even be aware of said documentation.
Before Docker came along though, containers were mostly just a more lightweight partitioning techniques than VMs which they had largely lost out to. See also Virtuozzo, BSD jails, and some of the early container work on Linux. But Docker followed by Kubernetes really made containers into a different cloud-native development and deployment model rather than just a lighter form of VM..
That summary is paywalled, but the paper it supposedly summarizes is open access. Available here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-023-00361-w

Basically, the authors were able to treat progeria (to some extent) by designing a peptide which prevented progerin (the characteristic progeria protein) from binding with the ubiquitous cellular regulator protein BUBR1.

It has been known for about 20 years that BUBR1 irregularities can be associated with early-onset aging phenotypes: https://www.nature.com/articles/ng1382
Here you go. https://ibb.co/NWTv37Y . I have some other searches too where it is the featured result
Partially. Mostly, it's to be able to fold up and relaunch whenever. There's no need to keep or invest in reputation when it's disposable or not positive. OTOH, shill purchases of cheap items, SKU reuse, and nagging customers to leave reviews can inflate an items's rating.

Also, it's too much work for most manufacturers and vendors who are essentially selling low-end "flea market" items that they themselves wouldn't purchase. AliExpress and drop shippers on Amazon, eBay, and Etsy are guilty of pushing low-end items with barely / no concern for regulatory standards. I mean, have you seen the flaws in the USB deathdapters sold in the US and the "shower heaters" and "baby water heater" sold to South America that expose live wires.
They could be cheaper than missiles to shoot them down and it might be easy to send thousands.
I neither think I have this right nor asserted this right. That's why you're being downvoted.
are there any learnings to delay the other indicators of old age?
> "It had multiple antennas to include an array likely capable of collecting and geolocating communications," the official added.

https://www.ft.com/content/96992b83-58f7-4cdb-9900-a2bc59677...
> and has had bipartisan support for a long time

Not really ... Americans for Tax Reform (Grover Norquist) .. a very influential conservative group, opposes this because they want people to associate taxes with pain. If its easier to do, its less pain.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax...
Second us. One of the most amazing things about New York is that it has a functioning school system unlike places on the West Coast.

Stuy, ps101, bx science are some of the best schools in the country
Hilariously informative, thank you!
Not having any studies to ignore is by definition not doing cost benefit analysis.
Many would agree that the middle years between 2015-2020 were not gold standard. It’s laughable to suggest Apple didn’t win the title back with the advent of the M1.
Apache-2.0 has the issue of incompatibility with GPLv2.

Please consider at least adding an exception that allows this combination, like "Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-Exception".
It's not about recipes and tech blogs. It's about how American journalists have been taught to write, ever since the days of Capote and Hemingway. Everything else flew from there.

As an European, this is painfully evident every time I read something from a US journalist: I have to fast-forward through several paragraphs of useless "human angle" before I can get to the actual meat of the article.

Unfortunately the rot is spreading further and further every year.
And that's bad, but what does it have to do with oppression by Iran against its own people?
You're totally off topic.

> too little focus on education

> and they can only be dealt with by the black community itself

In part this is a side effect of how schools (and their extracurriculars) are funded in the US. As well as voluntary segregation following the elimination of legal segregation.

> fatherless/broken homes

And for some subset of these homes this is a result of targeted criminal statutes at the state and federal levels. E.g. crack versus cocaine, marijuana versus opiods.

Sure, communities need to look to their own health. But as I stated here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34760078

"it's a lot easier to cast away bad coping mechanisms when major sources of stress disappear. Asking people to cast away bad coping mechanisms and to develop good habits before removing the stress is basically asking them to be superheroes."

Edit to add: If people think they are going to be chopped down if they succeed, they are much less likely to try at all. There's a long history of the majority population and government allowing, or even encouraging, the chopping down of successful black people and communities.
In the end it is the difference between science and applied engineering.

For a product it in the end has to work in the real world, considering available time, resources and requirements (which often tolerate some failure rate)

Strict science is important for progress, engineering can bring it to application.
Great perspective on a savings account. Yes--why can't there be a lottery app that masquerades as a high-yield savings account?

I mean, there can still be a payout, but it would be from a separate source like ad revenue or something passive.
Controversial climate solution could be key. Critics believe it is catastrophe
Ground speed 110kts?
You seem to be missing the point. The OP said people could save a lot of money by living on base. Thus, living off base is irrelevant with regard to the aforementioned purpose.
CapsLockNoDelay: Eliminates delay when activating caps lock on macOS OS X
My bad! I must have equated your high profile association with Joyent with being a co-founder.

Thanks for swinging by to make the correction!
When I code in C, prototypes are the last thing I write. Until that last moment, most function are defined but not declared. Your "feature" would be terrible for me!
Ah seems like there is some distinction between space and airspace whether an object is in orbit or not.
You’re just wrong and determined, apparently. I just don’t know what to say to someone who doesn’t think it is possible to empirically verify that some people have a homosexual orientation.
18.8M staff set to miss work after Superbowl
144Hz is way more important to me than resolution. I have a 4K TV I can hook my computer up to if I really want.
Honestly, this seems silly - I would rather have a lower quality Star Trek rather than the endless garbage on TV these days, so yes, I will watch it.

Plus, it's not even that bad as a show by it's self - but people have sky high expectations, they can't just sit down and enjoy it casually

As for Discovery, I actually enjoy it and can't wait to see it. I've watched every Star Trek show out there, and while it's different, its still good.
> If you manage not to stay bitter, instead you will see that even though 95% of the human experience is on a generational repeating pattern.

I've seen data that the cycle of war & peace tends to 50 years. This makes sense if the horrors of war make the next generation skip war, but then the generation after that has no direct memory of the horrors and repeats the error of war.
> If the Program as you
received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is
governed by this License along with a term that is a further restriction,
you may remove that term. If a license document contains a further
restriction but permits relicensing or conveying under this License, you
may add to a covered work material governed by the terms of that license
document, provided that the further restriction does not survive such
relicensing or conveying.

From the applicable version of their license[0]. Which appears to be the standard AGPL text, excepting the top and bottom. If it's dual licensed, then AGPL terms apply, which allow removing restrictions that get added.

0: https://github.com/neo4j/neo4j/blob/3.4/enterprise/neo4j-ent...
^^^^ this

Someone on reddit did a power analysis of the 13900K and I reposted it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34404683 https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/10bna5r/13900k_po... and it shows the CPU at 100W has 75% of the performance at 40% of the power consumption...
What Happens When You Go Viral?
It's not even so much as online or off, it's the platforms who have interposed themselves between consumer and producer. Online, one has to actively seek independent retailers or manufacturers because the convenience factor even witb Shopify is still a discovery problem.
This particular paper was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, along with various other Chinese organizations. China's biology/biotech research is top-tier, these days, and the Chinese government actively funds quite a lot of basic research in the life sciences. Interestingly, very little of it seems to translate to in-country pharmaceutical development.
I wonder how ironic the tree landing actually is. Assuming a weather balloon doesn't land vertically, but drifts at low altitude for several miles, it probably acts as a kind of tree-finder.
I’ve eaten horse. Cows taste better and are easier to raise.
There’s an entire subreddit that has people discussing theirs.
Is there an uptick in aviation-related near-incidents lately? Difficult to tell if it’s real, coincidence, or just HN has developed an interest lately.
Look at 5800X vs 5800X3D.
As far as I understand, Kafka is positioning itself to be the leading Event Sourcing solution.

I view event sourcing to be fundamentally different from message passing. For a long time I tried to love event sourcing, but I see way to many problems with it. The primary problem I see is that you then end up with a massive source of events, which any service can subscribe to as they see fit. How is this different from having one gigantic spaghetti database? Also, event migrations over time.

RPC and messaging feels to me to be much clearer separated: I own the Accounts, and you own the Orders. We explicitly communicate when we need to.

I see benefits on both sides, but have firmly landed on not event sourcing.
>$0 for people thanks to automatic payroll deductions

Only perhaps if you have a single job and no other income. How would one employer know what you (or your spouse) earned at other jobs during the year? They can't deduct the correct amount without knowing your full year result, which is obviously impossible to implement with pay period withholding.
Admiral Cloudberg et al. have spoiled me; this info is boring without analysis.
Or someone like Motorola could have done RISC sooner. (They did eventually with the 88K but Sun, IBM, etc. had all gone with their own RISC chips by then.)
The government should send everyone an itemized bill that you can correct. The idea that we have to figure it out ourselves is unnecessary and has created significant emotional/financial pain and an entire cottage industry of nonsense. Of course when this was being piloted, guess who paid to squash it? The cottage industry.
All of these posts have me wondering how commonplace cavities actually are. I stopped getting cavities in my preteen years, about 35 years ago. The only change I made was actually brushing my teeth regularly, which very young me always tried to avoid despite my parents' best efforts.

I'm sure my consumption of things like refined sugars has gone steadily down in that time, but not as part of a conscious effort. Being a kid in the 80s meant you ate a ton of crap :)
Several of the appliances we manage have certificates that are installed using a Web gui and require a reboot with a 15 minute outage for the change to take effect. We've looked at automating some things but there's only so far I want to go down the rabbit hole of headless chrome vs manually installing a cert yearly.
Look at the Michigan county-by-county primary results (better yet: compare 2020 to 2016) and tell me that Democratic Socialism is a viable position in the modern Democratic party. Sanders didn't even take Washtenaw this go-round. I think it's very likely that Sanders overperformance in 2016 was really an artifact for a lot of deep-seated dislike and distrust of Hillary Clinton (something Biden himself was reported sour about in the wake of the 2016 fiasco).

Corporate opposition is a just-so story. Until his campaign fell apart, Sanders stomped Biden in earned media coverage.
They didn't say exact. Exact isn't the concept I'm concerned about.

There is something unique about mathematics in that its answers never change. And that static structure can be tapped into with calculators. A "calculator" outside this domain reeks of potential danger to me. Asking a question to some other field whose answers are open to revision doesn't give one transparent access to timeless knowledge. There is always going to be a caveat that the answers given by GPT are clouded by time and circumstance. You can't just copy the answers GPT gives you and call that knowledge, like calculator results do allow.

I would hope GPT knowledge comes with the understanding that GPT v.XX, exposed to Y circumstances, produced Z results. We don't do that for calculators.
That 5 seconds is going to bite you.

There is going to be some sort of stall in the future that causes all of your jobs to hit that 5 seconds and everything is going to start to back up and cause other problems up the line that are really hard to test for in advance.

You're better off designing a system that doesn't rely on some arbitrary number of seconds (why not 4 or 6 seconds?) to begin with.
Am I the only one who's lately had the sudden urge to take a ride in a zeppelin?

Paradoxically it feels like a relic and thing of the future. Floating across the Atlantic seems like it'd be so much fun.

Maybe this whole thing is an ingenious marketing campaign by big-blimp.
My parent said cost-benefit was ignored, not that it wasn’t considered.
Why was an Internet Archive link posted? https://www.pcgamer.com/john-carmack-goes-off-about-online-o...
I like to use Passmark as a very rough comparison for CPUs. Emphasis on rough, but probably grounded in reality. Whether the user can utilize such performance, or if they have a specific workload that isn't ideally multithreaded, is critical.

i5-13600k is around 38000 points (https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-13600...)

i7-7700k is around 9600 points (https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-7700K...)

So the new i5 is nearly 4x faster than the old i7. New CPUs have come a long way over the last few years.
I've been wondering the same thing. Could it be the FAA really dropping the ball or the airlines are struggling to manage?
> but I really just want to get a document near the beginning of the year where the IRS tells me what they believe my taxes owed/returned should be.

This is what we have in New Zealand, and it's wonderful; most people simply don't need to do anything other than check their assessment and get on with their lives. Even if you've got e.g. investments you can usually do your filing with no more effort than taking the PAYE (income tax) assessment and bolting on your additional sources of income.

Much like the US banking system, it bemuses me how backward the US is in this regard.
Something very similar happened to a Qatar Airways flight a few days ago, coming as low as 800 feet from the ocean. Scary stuff.