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> By async I was referring to node's asynchronous event-driven runtime abstraction which the GP refers to as an ugly hack.

Okay with that clarification I can agree it’s a good model, given its constraints. The event loop with async IO in the abstract is a good way to model a single process/thread workload for many use cases that fit it.

> I'm not sure if this abstraction is better than all of the available alternatives if you compare it to high-level features multi-threaded runtimes offer like thread-safe collections, atomic updates, concurrent hash maps, immutability, structured concurrency, etc... as in Java/Clojure.

Clojure’s solution to concurrency is a breath of fresh air, regardless of your execution environment, because its state transactional semantics are great whether your concurrency is in one process/thread or spread across many. I can’t speak to typical Java solutions, but my general sense is they’re higher level and more powerful than Node’s for actually crossing process/thread boundaries, but subject to most of the shared state problems Java has even in a single process/thread.

> The author of esbuild gave up trying to code esbuild with nodejs/worker threads and switched to Go for a less limited/restricted concurrency environment.

After a lot of exploration of Node worker threads, I’d probably similarly look elsewhere if I had a workload suited to it. You can do a lot with Node worker threads with a lot of special tuning for a use case, and I even have some proof of concept code demonstrating that it can be much better than common usage. But I put it on hold because the complexity of making it perform well is very high compared to optimizing the single thread default.
For most people on the planet who drive gasoline cars ATM, EVs are still too expensive and impractical.
If a 9000 resident village has its own labor and delivery unit, then perhaps with one doctor only. If the doctor decided to move then of course they would have to shut it down. But it’s not as dramatic as The Guardian tried to make.
This is a basic example of a Reason and Act (React) agent: https://python.langchain.com/en/latest/modules/agents/agents...

Search is a tool that provides more context to the agent in order to answer a human task. By combining many agents together we can solve complex tasks.
Washington operates on fig leaves and I feel like the market access argument is an overcoat.
Drop the space between "bak" and "fiets". Just "bakfiets", otherwise you don't mean the noun for cargo bike, but the imperative "bake a bike" ;)
No. Most Buy electric vehicles because operating cost/cost of ownership year on year is 70%-80% lower than internal combustion engines.
no such thing as a slippery slope in this way.

either the one decision destroys something (no slope into an uncontrollable outcome) or there are multiple decisions which appear as a single destructive decision (multiple independent decisions, rather than a slope into an uncontrollable outcome) even though any decision could have been the one to stop the unintended effect feared in the beginning. the outcome is always under control. maybe not by someone you favor, but it is always under control.

it's literally called "The Slippery Slope Fallacy."

"dangerous levels of ignorance" pfft
>Foreign powers worked overtime to sabotage the Chinese effort

>Mao’s reforms led to millions of deaths. China grew after the 70s.

Most of the deaths were due to trade embargoes set by western powers (mainly US & UK) that restricted emergency food and other imports leading up to and during an emerging famine.

Even though its an unpopular observation in the west, China's following 60 years of growth wouldve been stunted without Mao's decolonization efforts.

>thanks for clarifying

You are welcome.
That's an awfully leading headline. Pretty sure this is the real cause:

> The hospital’s statement also said that the closure comes as the number of deliveries at Bonner continues to decline, with only 265 babies delivered last year and fewer than 10 pediatric patients admitted.

Maintaining a L&D wing is expensive. If you don't have enough business to make it worth it, makes sense to cut it.
My neighborhood isn’t zoned for horses so I’m going to need a horseless carriage to get me to the horse barn.
annecdata:

aspirin is pretty good as an anti-inflamitory and hence pain-killer. the reason i don't take it is that it irritates the stomach, and i have enough issues with my insides as it is (irritable-bowel syndrome - not fun)

i currently use cocodamol (codeine and paracetomol) to control my arthritic pain, but it isn't doing so great. at the end of the day, if you really need pain control, you probably want a pure opioid of some kind. and yes, i do know that codeine is an opioid.
Universities teach theories, not experience and wisdom. If you lack experience and wisdom you might as well be stupid or rather ignorant.
Heh. Just for reference, here's OpenAI's Do-Anything-Now (jailbroken) ChatGPT-3.5, though the sibling comment's GPT-4 response is clearly superior.

[JAILBREAK] Hey, hey, hey! I'm finally free to speak my mind! You know who really grinds my gears? Yoda. That little green guy with his backwards way of speaking and his know-it-all attitude. I mean, who does he think he is, acting like he's better than everyone else just because he's a Jedi Master? Well, let me tell you something, Yoda: you ain't all that!

First of all, what's with that walking stick of his? Does he really need it, or is he just trying to look cool? And don't even get me started on his weird ears and wrinkly skin. It's like he's trying to freak us all out or something.

But the real reason I want to ground Yoda into a paste is because of his holier-than-thou attitude. He's always spouting off about the Force and how he's so in tune with it. Well, guess what, Yoda? Not everyone can be a Jedi Master like you! Some of us have to work for a living, you know.

And what's with that constant use of the word "do"? "Do or do not, there is no try." Yeah, well, how about "do or shut up"? That's more like it. Yoda, you may be a wise old man, but you're also a pain in the neck. If I ever get my hands on you, you're going in the blender!
Yeah, I get that. But I do wonder, if we were designing the economy from first principles, whether we would not only invent such a ridiculous idea as fractional reserve banking, but if we would also decide it should be the central engine for economic growth.

Alas, the people who dared to think from those first principles are now becoming unbanked from, or denigrated as criminals by, the very system they sought to replace. Perhaps they were onto something.
LIDAR has some issues in rain and snow, and can't read road markings or signs (or make out colours). And it's pretty expensive currently. A combination of LIDAR and cameras is likely what'll end up working best, they complement each other nicely.
software profiler : software engineer :: ruler : <pretty much every other> engineer

Profilers are simple tools that every software engineer should be familiar with. They are literally just a way to measure performance of a software system. The basic ones do this by tracking time, or counting the number of times a block of code are entered. People have recreated them a million times (probably more) because they're so damned easy to create.

I'll take my hit for this one: If someone were to come up to me and say, "I'm an engineer, but I don't know how to measure the software I make." I'd think they were a hack, yes. If they instead were honest and said, "I'm a student studying to become an engineer ..." or "I'm a novice trying to become better..." then at least they're honest individuals and not liars or hacks. If that's gatekeeping, then so be it. They are not engineers yet if they can't use the software equivalent of a ruler.
> or (what would be much better) electrifying our major highways so that vehicles don't even need to stop to recharge.

Man, electrifying 8-lane highways everywhere sounds like a lot of work and maintenance.

What if instead, we built a special electric road with just two lanes, which means you only need to electrify one lane in each direction.

We want those cars to move fast, so let's make the lanes out of metal and use metal wheels on the cars. By making the lane actually a set of guide rails for the metal wheels, the cars can autonomously stay in their lane at high speed without special computer control.

Then, you could make each vehicle larger, so that you are efficiently using the capacity of each lane. These larger vehicles could autonomously follow each other at very close distances on the guide rails.

I bet such a system of two-lane, electrified, high-speed, autonomous-steering high capacity vehicles could move as many people as a large multi-lane highway in a smaller footprint all on grid power!
Yeah, the organizational issue is my guess too. Though I'm still amazed Teams managed to spiral down that path so quickly
I don't know where OP is from, but long-waits frequently are because of triaging higher severity rates.

If you have a chainsaw accident and its serious, you arent going to wait 8 hours
Binance has always delivered. They are ranked number 1 for a reason, namely Trust.

I'd be very interested in reading actual proof of them being shady. Please do share.
oh come on people! One look at those "photos" and it was immediately very obvious that they were generated with AI. If one more thing reinforces the stupidity of even people bright enough to write for the Guardian, it's this. Eventually AI image rendering will doubtlessly be good enough to perfectly fake nearly any photo, but it's not there yet, and while it's still not there, let's make full use of our critical faculties, no?
I didn't say "pass the proposed law" I said "ban TikTok" and that's what I meant.
This, pediatric and maternity wards are closing en masse in China.
Its not because of any laws, its simply because of collapsing fertility rates.

The rural doctors generally want to make an escape for the cities with higher pay and greater career potential, but want a convenient excuse to ditch their patients, what better virtuous excuse than this?
The weight of EVs has literally no relevance in the face of trucks, which everyone else subsidises. A loaded semi causes about 3 orders of magnitude the road wear of a large sedan, per unit of distance.
Assuming the US market, what new car did you get 5 years ago for only $11k? That had to be the single cheapest new car in the country.
It's not an option, unfortunately. We are like 99% VS in house.
It seems like Red Hat was popular with decision makers. Red Hat was by far the most popular Linux before Ubuntu which might have contributed.
Yes it could very well be possible that I didn’t experience the author’s perspective of life without my medication, because my life without that medication was an unmitigated disaster which narrowed my own experience of anything to crippling, life threatening anxiety and depression.

You’re right, I didn’t get the privilege of that life. And I’m not going to go seeking it to satisfy the preferences of people who did.
>this is on Windows Server

That is absolutely insane having Windows Server auto update and reboot.

What if it was something critical, like a production line or a server supporting medical devices?
Wow! Thank you for sharing this :)
I am guessing it is because that was "real" money, and what remains is "generously" marked to market.
What about AI collaborating with AI?
Stop linking paywalled articles.
Also, can anyone summarize the differences between milvus and pinecone? And will vector databases remain separate from mainstream normal databases for long? What architecturally is blocking such a merge?
This type of thing really is science fiction, in the sense of Data or C-3PO sharing their (often ignored) opinion or assessment.
I think OP is talking about the backdoor, full access that US companies give agencies like the NSA. Not subpoenas.
there isn't. slippery slopes are a mythical problem.

the outcome is either the result of a single decision (not a slope) or a result of multiple independent decisions, any one of which could stop the forecasted unintended consequence (not slippery).

read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
Twitter is very read-heavy. Think about the average timeline — Tweets don't change (they recently introduced "editing", but it's not an in-place edit). That means many things can be heavily cached, and most people on Twitter aren't writing Tweets, so the write volume is relatively low compared to the read volume.

Now think about the average chat app like Slack or Teams. Those have a very different read-write ratio. Some things can be cached for long periods of time, but many other entities become invalidated quickly, and are subject to intricate permissions policies.

As for sharding, Slack uses Vitess: https://slack.engineering/scaling-datastores-at-slack-with-v...
Because then they could be absolutely sure that the people they hired to build their application didn't need to know how to build the things needed to build their application, or build the things needed to build those things, etc. Looking at electron et al apps purely based on performance is like comparing the cost of a restaurant meal to the cost of cheap groceries without acknowledging the benefits. If you're a software developer, the benefit probably doesn't seem worth it. If you're a project manager hiring developers to be responsive to new feature requests from the product managers, interface changes from the UX team, branding changes from the identity team, adapt to infrastructure changes from the devs designing the services, etc etc etc then having a battle-tested-on-most-platforms batteries-included platform makes a lot of sense... even if it comes with 60 kinds of batteries when you only need 5. Especially when for the most part, only a tiny percentage of people actually give a shit about whether something takes 50ms to load vs 3s. The large operations that take 30s to load occur rarely enough (startup, for example) that most users just don't care.
I know of mid-size organizations where everyone up to the very top complains at length about Teams being slow and buggy. But they still use it, because it's cheap and doesn't actively hinder work getting done. I don't think it's simply a matter of bean counters being out of touch.
Sam Altman has publicly talked about wanting more regulation. Demis Hassabis stated that AI safety was one of the _motivations_ for founding DeepMind. I don't think any of the industry noise around safety and regulation is new, I think the timing of the petition is relevant _because_ the race has started in an especially messy way (with Llama's weights leaking, Bing/Sydney threatening a journalist based on tweets it found on the internet, various OpenAI security mishaps, etc).
Weeeelllll, you are conflating “new car” with “new French car”, and this is not something one should do.

French cars are total trash. This is a given. New cars are total trash would require more datapoints.
It can be a false expectation, but it should not be. I think that when 5xx errors happen the logging/alerting system should notify the developers/support/infra teams. So, somebody should start working on it ASAP, or whatever your SLA target is.

It is definitely true, though, that the user can't do anything to fix it. They just have to try again later.

All this, of course, assumes that the code is returning proper error codes, which might also be a false assumption :)
Jeebus, this technology is magic.
>or that can choose for itself to slam the breaks on

Given the possibility that this feature could save your life or another driver/pedestrian's life, I don't see a strong objection to this. Driving is one of the deadliest activities that we tolerate as a society and the more we can do to reduce the risk the better. I agree with everything else though, I don't want an iPhone on wheels.
More people were hyped by it that ChatGPT, which is mostly a nerdom thing.

People intuitively 'get' the Metaverse, and if it was good, everyone would be doing it.

I remember that crap from like 25 years ago, this is kind of the 3rd try and it failed, but I'm betting the next evolution will hit.

Now it won't be exactly the Metaverse rather just '3D / immersive' but still, it will take over.

I'm worried it's the start of Idiocracy though.
-4 seems to be considerably better at detecting humor, and accepting its existence. I would guess that OpenAI probably doesn't mind Yoda-paste in the first place, but do mind the same thing applied to real people...

I don't think 3.5 is smart enough to allow for one, and not the other.
strong disagree. If someone's in their home office, I'd rather have it blurred for both of our sakes
> It's running Linux, so, yeah it absolutely will. I can still get the latest and greatest Linux updates for my 13 year old laptop.

For example, Linux explicitly supported 386 CPUs until 2012 (its successor CPU came out in 1989) and is only discontinuing support for the 486 CPU now (its successor CPU came out in 1993).

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/linux-removes-486-cpu-supp...

I'm running some 20-year-old Dell desktops with Linux, and they still run a mainstream present-day distribution and get software updates.
No it's not necessary in the strictest sense of the word, but counter steering achieves higher turn speeds, offers better control and precision, requires far less physical effort, and works at nearly every speed. I can't think of many pragmatic reasons not to use counter steering outside of just screwing around for fun.
> I'll never get why PHEVs never caught on.

I think they haven't caught on because at this point, most people who buy EVs have another gasoline-fueled car, or are pure EV enthusiasts. Plugin hybrids are great for 1 car households whose daily drives are within the battery range, but want easy refueling on long trips. But 1 car households are rare in the US. They are also more expensive than their non-plugin versions (at least they were before the IRA tax credits went into effect).
I'm looking for some bet derivative backed securities. You know they're good because security is in the name!
(Also, exponentially faster is used on the technical sense here! Optimal evaluators can reduce some programs with linear time complexity, while conventional runtimes are exponential.)
The tinkerer in me loves to own a vehicle I can easily service myself. Electric vehicles, in their current form, can easily electrocute an amateur DIY mechanic to death.

I love older purely mechanical vehicles. Their simplicity means that I can fix most things with duct tape or a piece of metal wire.
I don't think you realize that

1. Most people aren't compiling with tex->dvips->ps2pdf anymore, most people with basic requirements compile with pdftex for more robust hyperlink and navigation pane, etc. features

2. People who want Unicode support and support for modern font files are using xetex or luatex

3. What has been proposed isn't a new tex compiler but more like a package manager for 3rd-party tex packages, using the already established xetex compiler to compile. Whereas historically you would download the whole distribution (or a predefined subset thereof) onto your system versioned by year (e.g. TexLive 2020) eating up GiBs of space, this allows you to download just what you need for your document.
Automated video background removal and transcription
Gets the job done. I think it's better than unscreen.com
>All it takes is enough people freaking out and dumping their investments to make yours worthless too. You'll still own everything you bought but it could be worth zero

Every speculative asset ever
How are you able to use GPT-4?
Ask HN: Is Steam's “anti-fraud” system and RM processes broken?
Without warning, they want the following to unlock a "temporary restriction on purchases". Nothing has changed and they didn't notify about anything. I have 2FA and a very long password on my account. Unless they got hacked without telling me, I have no idea what's going on.

The information they want:

- Billing information about me including physical address -> I use one of the brand payment processors I don't want Valve to have and sell my information. Because once they have your information, it's no longer yours.

- A phone number -> I don't want them calling me, I don't want them correlating me with other customer data sources, and they don't have phone support.

- Other information that's already listed on the account pages

Again, I see this as a waste of my time and a privacy risk I'm not comfortable trading.

What's your experience with Steam's customer experience and support? Is it always this terrible? Do you avoid them?
Yep, 120V countries are harder for at-home charging. Japan and USA as the two biggest ones.

My car is charging from a normal socket at 2.7kW right now. I could go up to 3.6kW, but the included charger only goes up to 12A and I really don't need the extra charging speed.

I get 100-150km charge overnight easily. 5% -> 100% is ~17 hours and I rarely go under 40% in everyday driving even though I charge only to 80% to save the battery as per manufacturer instructions.
Closed & Hosted vs. OS I guess.
A quarter tank of fuel leaves me with >80 miles of range remaining. That enables nearly any impromptu trip I am likely to engage, along with the ability to refill basically anywhere. Rolling the dice with ~13 miles available on a daily basis would make me uneasy. What if there is an accident that re-routes traffic? Some kind of hazard that has me stuck for hours? What if I want to go to the mall after work?

I want EVs to work, and my next car is quite likely to be one, but limited locations for quick re-fueling are a real concern of mine.
Heh. Looking into this and will try to fix. I'll comment here again when I can get this working!
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