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Ask HN: Anyone else feels weird about the distributed/cloud-first trend?
Even though I have some years of programming experience and CS classes, I feel like I haven't learned how to understand the machine properly. I know that CPUs nowadays are insanely fast, and I know that I/O is usually the bottleneck, but going distributed first is just making things worse by making everything harder to reason about (now we need DNS, service discovery, some nodes that orchestrate other nodes, etc.) and since we go through the network it feels like we're increasing the probabilty of failure even though we don't have any single point of failure (and to solve this issue a lot of redundancy (and therefore complexity) is added).

So, seen from this light, isn't it weird that it has become such a popular approach?

And where do programmers (I'm thinking of low level game developers, graphics programmers and high-frequency trading) learn to write deliberately performant software out of a single machine before distributing horizontally?
Well, all it takes for police to pretend they think parody is illegal to have right to jail you.

It was about right to parody, just that police has to use a stupid excuse to punish it.
I don’t see how qualified immunity allows cops to void a person’s first amendment right to free speech. I will have to read this in more detail to see what the heck is going on.
I don't think those accounts are in anyone's name.
Yes! Every car infotainment system should only cover the basics (bluetooth, radio, critical car controls). Then act as a dumb terminal for CarPlay and Android Auto.

Cars are trying too hard to do things our smartphones already do way better.
Wait until you see all our other wars. America is a war faring country. The economy is dependent on them being at war. It's political fodder. Economic necessity. If there is always a war on drugs at the border, we'll always fund the departments to go fight it.
I don’t know if that is even true. Maybe it’s the better call to give the kids a pack of cigarettes and send them to the kids who smoke secretly behind the gym, who just laugh about the instagram princesses. Or are those kids also a thing of the past?
Modern pinball machines already do this (not RFID, it's an optical reader for a QR code), implemented by the major manufacturer Stern Pinball. They have internet connectivity to log scores and achievements and tournament challenges and leaderboards. It adds a pretty cool dimension to the pinball scene.
While the made up immunity prevents any precedent from ever being set.
You only need a laptop to set up a company in this field. If there are separate networks of different ethnities (or whatever you mean by diversity) their companies should be able to win over the ones who are not hiring based on pure skill and abilities. Does this happen?
My local Middle School sends out what feels like weekly (or more) emails about poor choices with phones at school, using them in the bathroom, etc.

My kid doesn't have a phone. But we get inundated with these emails and new plans on what to do and so on.

I wish they'd just confiscate them and only return them to the parents, or have some sort of phone not allowed without good reason (and revoke it if someone breaks the rules), but they seem averse to that kind of thing. The new rule is that they have to be powered off during school hours. I'm sure that will be complied well by the same students who already don't care.
Reason to suspect, perhaps. Reason to call bullshit... IMO, no. There are way too many alternative factors to jump to a conclusion.
This seems like a solid option. A fair bit of my childhood was like this, actually, and it was great for us. I don't hear about similar things much, but I bet we will eventually.
Mazda. They’re all in on being anti-touchscreen plus they support CarPlay (with a physical control).
The citizens should revolt over a state of affairs like this.
I'm surprised the StreamDeck family of gizmos hasn't caught on as a popular aftermarket car mod. It's just little LEDs inside clear buttons. I'd love about 5 of them right on the center console that I could somehow program to do routines for me.
Yes. Small goverment refers to education and health care. It refers to public defenders or social programs.

Small goverment never meant less power to police.
In school, I learned that writing is like a game of bingo. Later I learned that writing is more like a game of solitaire.
> This is also why he lost at the supreme court

This case isn't about free speech and rights suppression much the same way that he lost at the Supreme Court. The reality is he didn't lose at the Supreme Court... the Supreme Court didn't hear the case, they simply declined to hear the case. So he lost in a lower court and that ruling isn't being revisited.

> the case was NOT about criticizing/parodying the police, it was about police conduct if they think something is illegal.

Actually, this isn't correct either. The rejected case wasn't a free speech case nor even about what the police actually believed about something being legal/illegal. It was about whether or not he could sue the police department for their act. So the question you suggest the case is about hasn't been tested, though presumably it would have done so had he been able to sue. The question here was if your rights have been violated can you pursue a civil case where such questions as if the police acted in good faith (and that mattering) could be raised. Here the courts have said the question itself is out of order because there's no prior precedent of such a reasonably similar case having been pursued.

This is why people that care about the individual rights implications are concerned about this case. If the precedent held by the courts says that you can't even raise the challenge because there's no previous precedent of such a challenge having been raised before, you prematurely answer all the questions without so much as a hearing. If that's true, then an agency that might violate your rights either out of malice or ignorance, will never have to do better. They are immune from challenges presumptively regardless of the legitimacy of the challenge relative to what the law says the rights are. To simplify the "right" becomes endangered of carrying any actual weight.
The concept is called extraterritorial jurisdiction, and it is used to do these types of prosecutions.
Google "linux laptop sleep suspend problem" and have fun reading all the problems people are having with sleep/suspend with a variety of makes and models of laptops. Meanwhile, sleep/suspend has been worked out for MacBooks, for some time actually. Presumably even on the M2's since that's the machine Linus uses for his development.
I agree which the general sentiment. If we want to determine how much worse things got in recent years, though, we would need to compare those numbers to what they were a few years ago. I understand that boys were always more likely to die by their own hand than girls, but I'm not sure by how much.
"Trickle-down" is meaningless. Getting tipped can enter you into the entertainer class, like a musician or an onlyfans owner.

On the high end that means you get paid a lot more, because each of your individual customers is paying you and none of them are looking at your total income and deciding you already made enough.
I enjoyed thinking about this more than I thought I would.

> First of all, the article stated that people using social media moderately (half an hour to one and a half hours a day) had little to no decline in their mental health, compared to a large mental health decline in those using it a lot (3-5+ hours a day)

This is an excellent, solid point.

> Another thing that the article mentioned is that people these days who do not have social media may feel excluded or left out, and may even miss things because they don’t have social media, which can lead to a decline in their mental health as well.

Not convincing unless it can be demonstrated that the expected harm from being isolated from social media is greater than the expected harm caused by being exposed to social media.

> Yet another point was that people will compare themselves to other people on there [...] I don’t usually compare myself to them

This is not well reasoned in my opinion: this is described as a consequence of social media usage. It hasn't been shown to be a preexisting personality trait that, combined with social media usage, causes the mental health issues. That is, you may not compare yourself to others precisely because you do not use social media regularly.

All that said, however, the first point (moderate usage) combined with the last point (excessive usage later in life) is fairly persuasive for a strategy of allowing small doses of social media.
> Then why are exactly the same workers in Poland being paid much less?

Ask for more and if you think you are being undervalued look elsewhere.

> Because no sane person would want to live in San Francisco, Menlo Park, Cupertino, or Mountain View.

This sort of (extreme) caricature strikes me as a form of coping, to be honest, and doesn't really reflect well on your mindset. "no sane person", seriously?
Nobody seemed to be playing the blame game, that just devolves into emotional appeals.

Most important to highlight the systemic structure of these problems.
Maybe the algorithm that controls the newsfeeds are the cause. Social graph networks that were created by connecting billions of people was necessary human evolution but corporate management or dystopian government want to control the social parameters. So there u have it!
The article makes it clear that the miners are mostly illegal immigrants from neighbouring countries.

The country has reasonably strong labour laws, but employers, who never really moved beyond the cheap servile labour model under apartheid hate worker rights (which aren’t really that strong by world standards). So they hire undocumented workers from other African countries. This contributes to the huge unemployment rate amongst South African citizens.

Kidnapping for ransom, which was unheard of ten years ago, has become a thing because of Mozambican and Pakistani crime syndicates.

It’s one of a myriad of problems in the country, but the fact is that any attempts to control the borders have been decried as “xenophobia” by elites. Interestingly, SA white conservative types, who rally for support from anti-immigration people overseas, support illegal immigration in South Africa (along with most upper middle-class people), since it keeps labour costs down, and they hold black South Africans in contempt.

There’s also been a general collapse in state capacity: the recent explosion in Boksburg where the police never bothered pitching up at the scene of a leaking LPG/propane truck to control bystanders led to 40 deaths, is indicative of the sort of don’t-give-a-damn attitude of most state institutions.
A friend just bought a Mustang and showed it off.

The driver's dashboard is a somewhat configurable screen. All I could think of was that a 1970 Mustang, treated moderately well and maintained regularly, is still a useful car fifty years later. In fact, if it's survived, the asking price is within spitting distance of a new Mustang.

Is there any chance that a 2023 Mustang will be a useful vehicle in 2073?

Will any 2026 Mercedes still be running and maintainable in 2076?
Space dust over intergalactic distances seems sufficient to explain Olbers’s Paradox?
> I guess taking into account how demographics skew young

In 2022 the US median age was 38.8, which is not that young by world standards.

E.g., the median age in Afghanistan is < 19 (i.e., most people alive in Afghanistan today were born after the 9/11 attacks).
I've worked for the US government and I can tell you we all are humans.
I'm done with wired magazine. They no longer produce content, they produce drama. That article about how there's no point in identifying evil people because there's no evidence supporting it was massively harmful to people in abusive relationships who are trying to sort out why they are suffering so much and what evil really is. From the comments below this one apparently is clickbait. I'm done.
> Dating apps don’t make their data available to scientists, that would be nice though!

Actually OKCupid did do that at some point, well, it was their own employees but they did extensive and very honest data analysis. After the company was sold those blog posts were erased, of course.
Ever seen that graph of left handedness over time?
If you look hard enough, there is always someone disagreeing/yelling fraud/etc about every topic that is big enough/mainstream enough.

It's only hindsight that shows whether your research showed something was obviously fraud.
That’s not really a mystery. The Latin kings, MS 13, and other large, Hispanic gangs are the key to bringing drugs into the US.
This is the saving grace.

And luckily, the next generation CarPlay will span the entire dashboard, including in front of the driver [1]

I can’t wait to abandon my native “infotainment” cluster**

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2022/12/28/next-generation-carplay...
In the past few years Jolla worked together with MB. In the latest Sailfish release there were a lot of Android updates, and it seems of high importance to Jolla. At the same time, Jolla could use a new investor, but there was no news that MB would be interested in becoming an investor in Jolla.
How does the money factor in here?

Presumably sundar is motivated to remain CEO for as long as possible regardless of the specific motivations, right?

Whether he is motivated by earning a billion dollars over a decade or he’s achieved pure altruism and simply wants to make Google the greatest company in history doesn’t really matter. He can only achieve his goals if he remains CEO. And as a public company, that means keeping shareholders happy. No?
Botswana and Rwanda seems to be countries with lower levels of corruption and reasonably good or improving public services.

Ghana too was doing well in the last decade, but now has taken a turn for the worse since the current government took over. I live in Ghana, and the level of corruption now, and the neglect of a proper development agenda, is unbelievable.

So, I don’t think there is necessarily anything that makes black-majority countries incapable of curbing corruption.
The author discussed suicide in his previous article [1], also discussed here on HN [2]. Boys succeed more often than girls due to choice of method but hospitalizations for self harm in general are far more prevalent among girls. See section four and five as well as his collaborative doc.

[1] https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/the-teen-mental-illness...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34707734
I’m surprised to see so little distinction between what causes this, to help with addressing the issues separately and proactively: the need to curate your personality (which university applications seem to have cornered for a while), body image (which fashion magazines have been leveraging for a while), or pseudo-social relations that break validation circles (which seems new, at least the apparent intimacy of it, unless you count some personality on TV and radio).

I think there are approaches to handle each aspect, many of which are never recommended in debate about this, seemingly because people want single, absolute solution:

* I have no idea if anyone I follow on Twitter, or here too, has perfect teeth, a thigh gap, or whatever is the latest unrealistic goal; teenagers could be asked to use text-only media or one without humans presented as attractive: Reddit has a rule about selfie for instance.

* social media companies can choose to let you see more friends over people with large audiences; I remember that was a big debate at Instagram when I worked there (and a couple of brilliant people left because the decision went for a stickier audience, slowly slipping towards pros over friends). There’s definitely an appetite to revert that decision.
The extra B is for BYOBB.
Half-Life 1 with real-time path tracing
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> You shouldn't let other people's feelings about political figures upset you so much.

I'm not upset at all so you should probably stop misreading people's emotions and telling them they should feel otherwise
I'm a doctor finishing up residency soon. I'm thinking of going into full-time coding rather than practice. I may do a few shifts here and there for money/stay afloat, but otherwise looking to transition. Would be interested in chatting with you/and anyone else also going through something similar, maybe learning together, sharing the journey!
This makes an odd assumption about what drives, and does not drive, sales. Companies don't buy 300 company car because it has the best center console OS.
I can't wait when infotainment will start playing ads.
The problem being that if you can reduce a problem to being well ordered on the naturals it is already in the computable set.

Note how the limits on recursion as given by the original paper apply to the fibonacci sequence, but restricted to the Natural numbers to avoid the -2 -1 1 0 1,1 2 portion that would break total ordering.

Any problem that you can map to von Neumann ordinals will be computable. Same thing with the Cantor diagonalization example below.

Basically if you can reduce your problem to a monoid, you can typically compute it easily.

But as a group has to be a magma with inverse, the recursive example provided couldn't be used in a case that function needed to be applied to algebras, rings, fields etc....

Note that as Cantor diagonalization was used as a counterexample to Laplacian causal determinism, showing that no two computational device can completely predict each other when defined by external behavior, there are further constraints.

For me, an easier lens to see if there is a P solution to a typically NP problem is looking at Schaefer's dichotomy theorem. Total Functional Programing is exactly equivalent to #3,

1) all relations which are not constantly false are true when all its arguments are true;
2) all relations which are not constantly false are true when all its arguments are false;
3) all relations are equivalent to a conjunction of binary clauses;
4) all relations are equivalent to a conjunction of Horn clauses;
5) all relations are equivalent to a conjunction of dual-Horn clauses;
6) all relations are equivalent to a conjunction of affine formulae.

The mapping to the Natural numbers is a leaky abstraction, as the Natural numbers are a non-empty totally ordered set with no upper bound.

Any function that takes finitely many natural numbers as arguments and produce a value which is a single natural number are by definition computable. That restricted problem will always be computable no matter if the more generalized problem is in NP or not.

https://ncatlab.org/ufias2012/files/turner.pdf
They already have, for pinball in particular. Stern Pinball implemented a connectivity system for new machines (it reads your QR code), and there are many arcade locations that use that to track and display scores and achievements and leaderboards. Most mid-sized cities in the US now have at least one brewery or arcade with this running now. It's mostly particular to each location, but some organizers use it for global competitions as well.

https://insider.sternpinball.com/
Not when courts twist themselves to pretzels to overturn or ignore those laws when they occasionally pass.

Also, only one party activists are trying to overturn it. Other part supports it. It is wrong to blame both sides.
The most useful lesson about writing I learned I did actually learn in school (in a mandatory writing-intensive course in college): to re-read and edit.

I think it was specifically that reading what you wrote aloud (or mouthing it silently) is a way to get a fresh look at what you wrote. It helps you realize both 1) more natural sounding and 2) more logical ordering of words than the stream of thought you wrote down.

My initial stream of thought when writing is always a garbled mess. So this technique made a big difference for me.

The most that my favorite books on writing (mentioned in the article as well: Zinsser's On Writing Well) helped with was just cutting out unnecessary crap.

Not to say it doesn't help to read these sorts of books. And I agree with the author that just writing (and continuing to write as practice) is best.
Seems like the biggest limiting factor for Hugo, Jekyll, and other SSGs is the need for a CDN for most images. Are there any free CDN services that are worthwhile?
One with Apple CarPlay and/or Android Auto built-in, so you can avoid the car UI as much as possible.
I agree with most of the points but I will say (as someone who writes for a living) that it is "easy" once you've learned how to do it. Writing is hard as hell if you don't know the rules past high-school level requirements.

Case-in-point: several of my non-work friends are ESL and some of them are taking technical writing courses. I've seen their assignments and have given them copyediting help. They're shocked that I can carve out the assignment in five minutes. Usually their problem is the first rule from Strunk and White: use less words.
I have an EQB and I totally agree. I insisted on getting CarPlay but I used it once and I don’t see any need for it. Much happier with MBUX. However, this new Android based OS isn’t good news and I’m not sure I would want to get a new car with an Android based OS in it.
Here is a recent podcast episode about this incident that I enjoyed, incl. interview with the man: https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-206-novak-v-city-of-parma...
Why do you keep reference material in your browser where it can change, be lost, is hard to find again and use a ton of ressources?

I think the most tab I ever had open at the same times was 10 when cross referencing something through a ton of tickets and a secondary system and that was already a pain.
When i switch back and forth between two channels in Slack, it takes a noticeable amount of time. I’d say 300-400 ms or so. Is it significantly faster for you, or do you consider that to be fast?
Sounds like so many large enterprises in the US, I can't tell which company you're referring to. Unfortunately, workers aren't actually fungible, in tech and non-tech roles, and whether the worker is an American or not isn't actually important, but it acts as a bellwether for how seriously invested in the role company leadership is and how stringent the hiring process is. Nearly every major company and all the core infrastructure of American society is crumbling slowly as the oldest members of society extract any remaining value through financialization. Everyone under 40 is pretty fucked, and foreigners taking your job is the least of the problem, because even after that happens it continues to get worse because the basic services of society you rely on also crumble as they're taken over by uninterested and unaffected third-parties.
Hi from OctoML -- our team just put out some benchmarking results using GPT-J with a few model config/hw combinations that have relatively low latency: https:/octoml.ai/blog/evaluating-gpt-j-deployment-options/
Playground requests are not free, but OpenAI gives everyone (I think) $18.00 free trial quota. Maybe you could bypass this for now using multiple accounts, but ultimately playground is not meant to be free. (Codex is free though as it's currently in beta)