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I'm guessing you're talking about Jeff bezos and Haitian immigration off the boat with the same amount of money (ie starting from zero)? I guess language barrier would be a blocker. Bezos is probably above average intelligence too. But i don't think it's a sure thing and i think your reasoning is dark. It removes the autonomy of immigrants and makes them out to be just helpless hopeless victims, which is de humanizing
That's a completely different argument you are making.
Like upgraded sensors? Thats what happened with the nimitz and others.
carbon nanotubes, the answer is always carbon nanotubes ;)
> what ground do we have to criticize Meta’s business decision here

We are people in the world. The reality that our public square--which includes the ways in which we play--is being controlled by businesses who do not answer to us and do not care about that public square except in the way that value can be extracted from it is well within our rights to criticize. And, frankly, legislate.
>or claimed to already know how to program.

This was the key fact. They knew how to program Pascal from Computer Science AP and got 5's on the AP exams and came into UT Austin with abundant confidence but when presented with hardcore mathematical logic data structures and algorithm analysis in functional programming starting week 1 of college they got the rug pulled out from the under them. Of course, this was real computer science, not "infantile" imperative/OOP programming.

Ham "Haskell" Richardson was a total fanboy of Dijkstra!

I will note that the current 1st UTCS course is a serious joke - CS312 was a remedial course, non-counting for major, before 2014, called CS 305J. It's an embarrassment compared to Berkeley's CS61A.
Has been done before. I don't know what's new about this to make the HN frontpage.
One way to view things is that GR was obvious to a smart person with good enough tools and that if Einstein wouldn't have discovered it someone else would have soon after.
Even the absence of bankruptcy laws wouldn't help to reduce the risk of lending to a private person. A private person is only of limited economic value and can realistically not be expected to ever be able to repay the possibly astronomic debts that corporations can accrue.
The problem with that is it takes a long time to learn CSS well enough to make something that doesn't suck.

That's why CSS frameworks are so popular. I can install bootstrap and make something not terrible pretty quickly. As someone new to programming to do the same in raw HTML and CSS is much much harder.
Boeing software problem?
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The ending of Moore’s law should result in a future where compute devices last a century like furniture does.
I mean arguably hackers are already affected by this. Look at how much less the average software engineer understands the hardware internals of the computers they work with these days, even on a basic level.
>The cheapest 3050 in Canada is $389. It is ~10% slower than a 1070ti.

Fortunately, used 1070s and RX580s are 150CAD (100USD).

The combination of board prices being completely out of whack, and the performance delta of the 3080 over the 3070/2080Ti (made worse by the fact that the 4090 is that leap again over the 3080) being as large as it is, means the value proposition in the middle has disappeared.

It's not that the 3080 isn't worth 700USD or that the current 4000 series cards don't have a similar price/performance ratio- because they very much are priced appropriately; it's that the cheaper new cards (especially the 3070) have a far worse ratio than the expensive ones do. This is also partially why the most popular gaming GPU on Steam is the GTX1650.

And with current-generation console games targeting the equivalent of that 1070/2060, buying anything less than a 3080 is an objectively bad decision, unless you're someone who plays a lot of competitive shooters and thus can benefit from an intermediate for high framerate reasons. (The fact that most of those games aren't particularly fun to play also hurts the hardware industry.)
Bidet usage doesn't actually dramatically reduce toilet paper usage (especially those portable ones). Not unless you were one of those people who spun yards for a wipe (which most poor people aren't doing). So your toilet paper costs are already at around $1/week.

So in this hypothetical, the $7 bidet cost is coming out of nowhere. And no, a magical solution like finding it in your couch is not viable. This idea that poor people have plush cushions that cause them to lose a lot of pocket money in is hilarious - they have no pocket money.
I have experienced a dive like this (EasyJet Geneva-Copenhagen, 2013). It was really scary, to say the least. But apparently this is a relatively common situation, and aircrafts are sturdy enough to handle this without any problems.

(Also, one of the reasons to fit your seat belt correctly).
Two bagels is basically a full breakfast's worth of carbs already anyway.
I think this article is kind of misleading.

You use messaging for asynchronous communication and REST for synchronous communication. The article makes me believe that using REST for synchronous communication is a kind of deprecated alternative in front of message passing.
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Not only are the prices out of whack, but the newest games coming out all seem to have some sort of technical issue on the PC. Shader stutter is nearly a universal thing in most new releases, or the developer doesn't optimize for the platform at all (Callisto Protocol and to a lesser extent, Hogwarts Legacy). So not only are you paying more money than ever, you're experiencing certain issues that just aren't there on consoles.
On many a cramped flight I have fantasised about floating from country to country in comfort with cabins and a bar.
Carmack successfully co-founded one of the most legendary game studios of all time, and then he had a leadership role at Meta. Meta is pivoting to being a game company (in the sense that the "Metaverse" is a shitty game).

Carmack's strong views on politics and certain other topics are indeed silly and uninformed, but his commentary in this case is interesting and valuable. He may be wrong in the end, but he's also not speculating like other business pundits.
I don't think "curiosity to try new things" was anywhere near the top of the list of reasons why US leadership decided to go to war in Vietnam. Even “Join the Army, travel the world, meet interesting people and kill them” was supposed to be an anti-war slogan.
Also, I find it interesting that the intersection of populist views never seems to create cognitive dissonance, where we have given over outsized political influence to entities which can have foreign ownership.
Lovely. Might actually switch to 10Gb network after prices fall.
The problem is the monetization strategies have completely upended the industry to the point that it's basically anti-consumer and pro-gambler/addiction.
Exactly. There’s not a ton of competition.
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what’s the label for open source idealists who view IP/copyright as fundamentally incompatible with the mission?

i’m not talking about the MIT or “permissive license” crowd, but the smaller group which explicitly avoids providing a license because doing so would grant legitimacy to the idea that intellectual property is a thing which should be licensed/controlled.

tends to have an overlap in piracy circles and anarchists, probably because copyright is tied to the state/legal code. anyway i see enough of them now where the acronyms like FOSS, FLOSS, etc definitely don’t apply, but i’m not sure what label to use instead.
Plus the Apple //e (January 1993) had 80 columns and lower case, which coupled with the disk drive made it useful for business. But I guess the IBM PC (August, 1991) already had all that by then (and the Apple ///, November 1990).
If they'd come through on that, before shutting down the nuclear plants, you'd have a point. Without shutting down the nuclear power plants a lot of that money wouldn't have been needed in the first place. But it didn't happen, and so it's perfectly reasonable to blame them for either or both of those decisions. Fact remains that in retaining the coal power they've caused a huge number of unnecessary deaths.
I'm not a domain expert but a perusal of https://avherald.com/ might indicate if there is an uptick or not.
I don't think there is any irony in it. No matter what the underlying themes might have been, Disney nakedly used it to sell crap to people who didn't need it while making those people feel good that they too care about the environment.

It's just straight up hypocrisy.
A useful feature! I have this available to me as part of Refined Hacker News [1], which does a bit more. But if you only want the user popup, a slim extension is nice.

[1] https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news
Makes it even more painful that you HAVE to upgrade nowadays because you just won't get any updates anymore.
Is this aging or damage that looks like aging?
I am really, really not a fan of IDEs being a part of the environment in which you execute the code. Basically I want my virtual environment separate from the IDE code. Both Spyder and Jupyter do this and I don't like it.
That isn't plausible at all considering how easily visible it was to civilians.
The absolute costs of running game servers is so miniscule that for a majority of the most popular games that have less than say 10k concurrent players any given day, a company's interest payments would cover their costs several times over.

I guarantee that you can run them in perpetuity. I worked for a game hosting company in my early career.
I am unconvinced that either one is sufficiently free for end-users. It's been a bit since I've done a close reading, but doesn't GPL consider any linkage to create a derivative work? Dynamic linkage is something the end-user does.

If I'm an end-user and want to replace a GPL .so with a GPL-incompatible .so (maybe it has better performance or fewer bugs or whatever), and an installed GPL program uses that library, isn't it the case that the GPL forbids me from doing so unless I also have the right to re-license the .so as GPL?
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Capability based security is way ahead of the curve. (No, it's not the app permissions on a phone, or windows, etc)

WASM with WASI is a way to run things in a virtual machine that does support it, unless someone breaks it by implementing "faster" "general" file access.
10-15 years ago people were posting their rigs, adding liquid cooling, ridiculous lighting, massive overclocking. It was definitely more than a forum signature.
The text isn’t fuzzy? I have a work-provided 1080p display and it’s really noticeable switching between that and a Retina display unless I’m across the room, even without my glasses.
Unless they eventually get a great job they'll stay poor, they just won't stay paycheck to paycheck.
I read the post as more about the pitfalls of overconfidence than curiosity. Meaning a self-proclaimed fast-learner can’t necessarily make up for lack of experience *, exemplified with the “whiz kids” that defined war strategy in Vietnam.

* at least when short-term consequences tend to be dire
I recall Jonathan Blow talking about how it's basically impossible to eliminate stutter on Windows now due to a number of design decisions in the OS driver system itself.

I'm wondering if this is the moment for Linux gaming. Valve has certainly taken it a long ways from where it was.
One thing that's really sad to me is that older games end up being a lot more durable than newer ones (from say the last 15 years or so). For example, you can still play games like Master of Orion 2 or Total Annihilation in multiplayer, because they rely on players hosting servers, and some people still host servers 25+ years after release (and people have even written fan patches to make that possible today, if necessary).

But modern games that rely on matchmaking through the developer/publisher? Forget it, when they go down, there's no saving them, alas.

So really this is a pretty clear-cut case of functionality deteriorating because the maker of the game has way more power than before to change the game _after_ the customer bought it (the recent brouhaha where BMW or whoever offered a subscription to boost your car's top speed by unlocking a speed lock in software also comes to mind, not to mention "purchased" streaming-only movies disappearing forever once the streaming service dies, etc.).
I mean... do we even know what games people played long long ago? We have a few ideas, but surprisingly few. And that isn't even getting into songs and other stories that have been lost to time.

What about recipes and such?

But, with longevity, what other industries are there? Furniture is one that frustrates me, as everyone is sold on the idea that some furniture is for a lifetime, at least. Which is borderline bullshit. There can be some things that will last with maintenance, but a lot of really pretty things that last are also done using materials that we flat don't allow the harvesting of nowadays. Such that things can only last if they aren't getting used. :(
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Ok so it’s either a massive foreign program or UFOs.
Sorry, I don't mean to imply it's universally supported, but there is support on both sides of the aisle. But the article you linked does indeed say it has had bipartisan support :)

> When Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Dan Coats, R-Ind., introduced a bipartisan tax reform bill in 2011 that included a return-free plan called "Easyfile," Norquist blasted it.

If it were universally supported, this wouldn't have happened

https://www.propublica.org/article/congress-is-about-to-ban-...
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Cadence is a workflow management system. As is Temporal, Apache Beam, Airbnb Airflow, Netflix Conductor, Spotify Luigi, and even things like Github Actions, Google Cloud Workflows, Azure Service Fabric, AWS SWF, Power Automate.

A primary difference is that those are external systems, where you define the flows inside that system - the system then "calling out" to get pieces of the flow done.

Mats is an "internal" system: You code your flows inside the service. It is meant to directly replace synchronously calling out to REST services, instead enabling async messaging but with the added bonus of being as simple as using REST services.

But yes, I see the point.
But that is certainly not what is being claimed here. What TFA says is that they think Leonardo correctly realised that falling things accelerate, as opposed to fall with a constant speed as (the ancient) Aristotelian physics prescribed.

To go all the way to the (Einsteinian) equivalence principle from that is huffing great man hopium in the extreme: Leonardo is certainly not as user of reference frames, and the equivalence principle simply does not exist without them. Another problem is that he didn't know of inertia, what with being of the Aristotelian school.
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It's still pretty bad compared to Ryzen 7000. The non-x models are just the regular guys at 65W, like my good ol 3700x.

That said, Intel sure has magic dust given how far behind their node disadvantage. Serves them right, though. What a horrible company.
I doubt the decline of PC shipments is because of a statistically few people building gaming PCs
> Note that very we use "fire and forget" very seldom (aka "send(..)"). We use the request-replyTo paradigm much more. Which is basically the basic premise of Mats, as an abstraction over pure "forward-only" messaging.

That doesn't help one bit. You're still firing-and-forgetting the request itself. The reply (presumably with a timeout) ensures that the client doesn't sit around forever waiting for a lost message; but it does nothing prevent badly-written request logic from overloading your backend (or overloading the queue, or "bunging up" the queue such that it'll be ~forever before your backend finishes handling the request spike and gets back to processing normal workloads.)

> If you have some parts of your system with absolutely massive traffic, then don't use this there, then.

I'm not talking about massive intended traffic. These problems come from failures in the architecture of the system to inherently bound requests to the current scale of the system (where autoscaling changes the "current scale of the system" before such limits kick in.)

So, for example, there might be an endpoint in your system that allows the caller to trigger logic that does O(MN) work (the controller for that endpoint calls service X O(M) times, and then for each response from X, calls service Y O(N) times); where it's fully expected that this endpoint takes 60+ seconds to return a response. The endpoint was designed to serve the need of some existing internal team, who calls it for reporting once per day, with a batch-size N=2. But, unexpectedly, a new team, building a new component, with a new use-case for the same endpoint, writes logic that begins calling the endpoint once every 20 seconds, with a batch-size of 20. Now the queues for the services X and Y called by this endpoint are filling faster than they're emptying.

No DDoS is happening; the requests are quite small, and in networking terms, quite sparse. Everything is working as intended — and yet it'll all fall over, because you've chosen yourself into a protocol where there's no inherent, by-default mechanism for "the backend is overloaded" to apply backpressure to make new requests from the frontend stop coming (as it would in a synchronous RPC protocol, where 1. you can't submit a request on an open socket when it's in the "waiting for reply" state; and 2. you can't get a new open socket if the backend isn't calling accept(2)); and you didn't think that this endpoint would be one that gets called much, so you didn't bother to think about explicitly implementing such a mechanism.
Too much carbon footprint. Gonna need better battery tech
If it comes to that, I expect manufacturers to design processors in a way that electromigration limits their lifetime.
That's wild, per the article the first officer was flying and simply got disoriented. Aircraft was recovered by the captain. That's the sort of thing you would expect to happen to a newly-minted private pilot in a cesna, not a commercial pilot in a fully-loaded 787!
I wonder if this line of thinking is missing the point on celebrity. It’s not that humans uniformly trust AI uniformly across all classes of decisions. It’s that humans are far more likely to trust an AI that look and sounds like a celebrity.

I think a personality avatar of Elon Musk or former US president Trump would catch on quickly as a backstop to C-level brainstorming. Given the info available to a junior VP, what would Musk do? How would I compete with him? Given todays headlines, what would get me retweeted by Trump?

And maybe the article means more. Personality, so far as we pay attention to it, is a small and simplistic part of individuality.
Not convinced about programmers being worse, but printers, maybe? That's an actively user-hostile industry if ever there was one.
Is it better to build something that is beloved for a month or 10 years?
That's not realistic at all.
Sure, that may be the initial ratio, but if it becomes a regular thing, as in sufficiently regular to strain one of our budgets beyond (substituting a few live target shootings for training exercises), we can rapidly develop an appropriate response.

E.g., when there was a new bunker-buster bomb in the initial Iraq war, one was developed in 28 days. Similarly, the MOAB was developed in about a year. There are plenty of teams of highly skilled and well-equipped engineers who will happily undertake to solve that problem.

Also, weapons systems with higher expected rates of use can benefit from economies of scale-ed up production.

Unless they're sending a million balloons this week, it won't be that kind of problem.
That's ironic of itself: it's signposting the meaning of a very obvious fact / statistical reference (50th percentile)
"Your company suffers more harm when you take away something dear to a user than you gain in benefit by providing something equally valuable to them or others."

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Hmmm, when I studied GR, the consensus was that it came out of nowhere and if it wasn't for Einstein's genius, it would have taken at least a long time until someone else had discovered it. But you make a good point. Ultimately it's an unanswerable question, I guess.
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You are also assuming these are purely linked to environment/society. Some DSM symptoms are likely based on environment and coping mechanisms developed. I do think that current lifestyle makes ADHD worse, but there hasn't been any research which shows it's purely due to society.

ADHD has been observed across the world in different lifestyles and societies - rich and poor, different parenting styles, now and when computers weren't a thing. It doesn't seem to purely be related to environment/society.

We don't understand a lot about brain, yet to definitively say ADHD is not biological. I don't really know how you mimicked chemical imbalances in silico brain, but just because you couldn't simulate them doesn't prove it's not biological.
No reason why it can't be both. The only way to know for sure is to ask the author of the recipe that you're reading. :)
At least they began iterating more quickly on Java, I remember as years went by and Sun's OOP purists were still saying that they were considering anonymous functions but just couldn't decide on the syntax.
Your text can be much sharper and easier on the eyes. Newer displays also can have much better dynamic range which also improves text readability.
I like how "Due to the generality of our model, our findings could help explain empirical observations of how thermodynamic costs of information transmission make inverse multiplexing energetically favorable in many real-world communication systems." makes it sound like biology is not the real world
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34754288
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I took it as an appeal to management to consider the trade offs they're forcing.
Nope, not at all.

Maybe it is one of those things where, once you switch to 4K, you can’t got back.
This is so out of touch with reality it might as well be “do people still watch TV? I haven’t owned a TV in 10 years”
Aging is a set of effects, in one sense of course it’s not aging if the time hasn’t actually passed but it seems that some of the same effects are happening.
MS is almost perfect in this matter. You can still run Win 2k binaries.

Most proper Windows applications do ship many libraries but they are often really special purpose or actually part of the application via plugin interfaces.

On Windows you don't ship the equivalent of libc, libcurl, libssl, libX.. or SDL. You don't have to deal with any of the pains in the article. Those are all in the OS and they have a stable ABI. Moreover this approach makes your binaries more secure by updating more critical points of failure (i.e. web interfaces, crypto) with the OS rather than you as the developer being forced to do so.
I guess you'd say the same about cloud functions and lambdas, then? To which I agree.

Paying per message would require the message cost to be pretty small. Might want to evaluate setting up a broker yourself if the cost starts getting high.
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Fry: "What's that?"

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Your solution for poor people is disgusting to say the least. It works for some, but that some is definitely not the remainder of those with bad limbs and/or a sick grandma.