skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the drone example, the actor model works fine because each subsystem is safe. However if you have multiple components on the drone and want them to be managed by an actor model, as ROS would encourage, you introduce a world of uncertainty on an individual subsystem since that subsystem isn't actually autonomous on its own. Having more actors than strictly necessary due to the underlying physics of the problem is a huge issue.

> this light, temporal spacing of messages, rather than being an encumbrance, becomes a necessity.

And this is the crux of where we disagree. This is a messy part of reality which should be, as far as possible, abstracted away from the algorithms which need to operate on the data presented to them. If I'm running a Kalman filter I don't want to have to design in my filter around frequent gyroscope dropouts because image captures are happening, I want my system to have guaranteed behaviour that this won't happen. Actor model makes this harder by not giving me a way to have explicit guarantees, in fact it moves in the opposite direction by embracing flexibility.

While in general I agree that different components should be independently operable, as a system they will more than likely, in the real world, share various resources and you will need to deal with contention.

Any system which drastically increases overheads via serialisation, context changes, possibly network traffic and finally deserialisation in the place of a few instructions function call is a design which should be used very sparingly.

Actor model makes testing harder, and this results (again in the real world) in testing less. It also makes system level tests nondeterministic. Time deterministic protocols in place of function calls is just a nonstarter IMO. It's giving up control margin, increasing system load, and doesn't leave you any better with regard to system stability in case of failure.

Yes the actor model has its place, but at a very large granularity. Overuse, as in ROS, leads to horrible design constraints, opaque dependencies, difficult or impossible testing, and frankly impossible debugging.

Since you seem to be an actor model evangelist, how would you go about, just as an example, tracing execution flow in a debugger, for example? The data that gets passed into the actor interface is basically runtime-defined GOTOs. Similarly, how would you prove (in a certification perspective) that in certain scenarios the system as a whole behaves in a certain way, and fails in a safe way? Each subsystem can be proved to be safe, but the moment it goes through an async interface all bets are off.
Well what the heck, I've been working on handstands and my GERD went away. I also lost weight so I attributed it to that, but this might be part of it. "after beginning daily LES exercises, I noticed that I could bend over at the hip and pull weeds in my garden without acid running into the back of my throat" - At the start of training headstands I'd have reflux so I had to do them at the right time of day to not make it terrible. Over time this went away and I'd have to eat a full meal right before to feel the same now. I wonder if I trained this muscle similarly.
the bathroom fitter's problem may be imbalanced exertion, emphasizing the same movements over time without complementary moves can cause injury as well
> Google makes more money on a typical Windows laptop than Microsoft does

I hadn't thought about it, but that's absolutely true! When you think of the Adsense network and the amount of money Google is making by typical consumer browser behavior, Google is making a lot more money than Microsoft on a typical Windows laptop.

The OS is now a commodity. Microsoft needs a new strategy.
I suffered from this in my teens and early 20s. It was pretty terrible, and I'd often vomit. Turns out not eating like shit fixed it.
The man himself
That analogy doesn’t make a lot of sense unless you have some people choosing to live ankle deep in gasoline. If that were the case then, yes, they should foot the bill to put out their perpetual fires.
Thanos was right ;)

[Sorry, couldn't resist, please downvote]
1 tbsp of apple cider vinegar in a glass of water during meals works for me
That sounds pretty neat. I wonder why they didn't pivot away from hardware to a service?
The role of censorship that the government used to have has shifted to companies like Visa, Mastercard, Amazon, etc. If you try and sell a spicy enough book, they will make sure nobody reads it, and the government can be completely "hands-off".

They can fail to process the customer's payment, remove your book from the marketplace, and ban your account. If you try to build your own marketplace, you won't be able to use any major payment processors.

Modern dissidents are building alternatives, but still there are roadblocks. All this to say, books are still very much being suppressed.
It's not really a function because it doesn't take the entire input and generate the whole output. It's more of a stream of inputs and a stream of outputs, and the outputs go back in as inputs. It's basically an app, with app layers doing different things like transforming words into tokens, and processing them with an attention algorithm, and then feeding it through a relatively simple neural net (compared to previous architectures before GPT).
I didn’t learn Unix by reading all the manpages (2022)
What I recommend, and plan on doing unless I just retire early outright, is to downshift to a less stressful software job. I've worked at quite a few places where I was bored and the pay was low. This was a problem early in my career when I was trying to advance and earn more for my family+retirement, but sounds pretty good now honestly!

I think us software engineers don't realize how good we have it. I've worked factory jobs, manual restaurant jobs, and other ad-hoc outdoor work for neighbors and family growing up and trust me, software engineering is a job most other people dream about having. Try to find a job where you can maintain your fitness in your own time, downshift to an easier job or just scale back your workload at your current company if you're not trying for a promotion.
I'm sorry this comment doesn't add much to the discussion, but all I can think of is the South Park episode where Eric eats with his butt.
Of course you can. I have about a hundred options for hourly pricing here in Sweden.

One company a few friends are using is Tibber.

https://tibber.com/
I remember being a kid and thinking that animals that bend down to drink from a pond must be forcing the water to travel up their esophagus. Hmm, I wonder if humans can do that. So I filled my mouth with water, did a head stand, then swallowed. Yes, no problem. Newfound respect for my body that day.
That's nice, because my WinRAR 40-day trial is about to expire.
I actually pulled the reverse of this at my last job.

Surprisingly, a lot of aerospace engineers are not super computer-literate. We used a clunky maneuver planning software for the geostationary sats that spit out our plans in an ASCII printout, which we then had to copy/paste out and manipulate using several consecutive shell scripts. I got annoyed doing it and so I rewrote the whole deal in Python, and just had it locate the file that had the printout.

When I first ran it, it had turned a 3-4 hour affair into about 10 minutes (depending on network connectivity). I showed it to my boss, and he was asking why it said "working...done" instantly. He said it looked like it wasn't doing anything.

So I added an aesthetic wait variable to the config and made it 1.25 seconds. So the user got to see "Working..." and then "done" would pop out, making it seem more like it was actually doing things to the layperson.

Last I heard they were still using that script for maneuver planning to this day.
In my opinion, a terrible article. If you are so much better at knowing what is profitable and what is not, why don't you invest and make a quick billion?
A part of me wishes the "Bonus: RESTful UI" section at the bottom opened a "Coming soon" modal
In fairness this statement can also be true if you die from climate-induced causes....
Windows 11 is getting the ability to run Win32 apps in isolation
Engineering onboarding: a major (and overlooked) way to improve dev productivity
Imagine yourself giving someone else constructive criticism. Now how you would feel if that person got upset/defensive/snarky. Keep that in mind next time you receive a constructive criticism and ask yourself "Is this something I would have done exactly the way this person did and is it fair" ? If the answer is Yes, then don't be snarky.
>pulling in the proper things, and giving them the correct amount of attention.

This is likely one of the harder problems to solve. One of the strengths humans seem to have is the power of analogy. These analogies quite often can lead us into new paths of thought, or at least in the correct direction.

How do you do this in a machine system without wasting tons of power chasing dead ends, not sure?
Or the headgear.
You've never lived in a place with endemic corruption. I grew up in India where corruption was a way of life.

Every interaction with a government official of any sort came with the expectation of some sort of bribe being paid. We're not just talking about paying inspectors off to ignore violations, we're talking routine matters. For example, a passport application requires a police verification where the local police visit you to verify your home address and other details. You can get that without paying a bribe but it might take months. Or you can pay a few hundred rupees to "expedite" it. Get pulled over by the cops or caught on the train without a ticket? You can pay the official fine or pay a fraction of that as a bribe. There's a whole coded language around this. They ask if you "want a receipt". Want to get admitted to a good college? You need to make a "donation".

The corruption goes up the chain. Civil servants want to be posted in positions with more bribes to be had. Of course the people making those decisions expect a substantial payoff for the most lucrative postings. Officials who've paid that don't want to disrupt the system they've paid into. You can't prosecute someone because you probably won't find an honest official. Every so often someone does manage to gain some notoriety trying to clean things up only to get torn down by people with a vested interest in things staying the way they are.

To me, that's the scariest part of the brazen corruption at the supreme court, and members of congress who won't do a thing about it because they happen to play for the right team. I don't think we're far from the tipping point where the system can no longer root out corrupt officials the way the city did after this report exposed it.
> create a Kubernetes YAML from a "docker run" command

https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-generate.1....

> kubernetes YAML explainer playground

GPT4 can probably do this just in the way you describe. The other thing that came to mind is yaml-language-server

> Diagram generation from Kubernetes namespace(s)

https://github.com/mkimuram/k8sviz
De-risk your marketing: Playbooks for early-stage B2B SaaS founders and leaders
I am testing out a new service where I believe there is an underserved need and I have the perfect background to help.

Any feedback is welcome.
Back then Android USB was a thing, you can plug it on a TV and you will have the whole Android OS on your TV. This was 2012, Ice Cream Sandwich OS.

My task was to create a launcher, and widget, and no clue how. There were no widgets back then if I remember correctly. But managed to pull it off.

https://law.gmnz.xyz/uploads/2023/169e32e731.png
We eat a lot of processed foods which are softer compared to chewing tough meat for example. This is known to affect jaw and palate development (which in turn affects teeth alignment, tongue position, and even breathing). [1] Seems like it could also affect the esophagus.

[1] https://news.stanford.edu/2020/07/21/toll-shrinking-jaws-hum...
Germany is such a bafflingly inconsistent country. Freiburg prides itself on reusable cups but they're very quick to replace nuclear with coal for no clear reason.
You still basically need only the performance of the original devices perhaps plus a little more. This also holds for the antenna application.
I've seen similar situations too. It seems that people see minor social transgressions like littering as a percentage of guilt.

Already 20 pieces of junk on the ground, whatever, one more is 5% of the total.

Nothing there, My thing would be 100% of the junk on the ground, can't do that.
Uh, there's likely more than a few confounders here, which are, at a minimum, undocumented in the report. Intuitively, one would expect lower caloric consumption with altered eating habits, which would lead to decreased fat and decreased intra-abdominal pressure. There's also no test of LES function prior to initiation of the experiment, so no delta was actually measured.

There's also a bit of misunderstanding, I suspect, in the pathology report: 0.2 x 0.5 x 0.3 cm is a perfectly reasonable size for an esophageal biopsy, and it was almost certainly measured with a ruler like (1) or (2).

I've passed this to a GI friend to get their thoughts, but suffice to say, more study is required before making this any sort of recommendation.

(1) https://www.neobits.com/thermo_fisher_scientific_nc9759439_r...

(2) https://www.aaawholesalecompany.com/fis-s40641-pk.html
I can tell you that prior to working in the professional industry I took some lower paid manual jobs.

There is a big quality of life difference by being able to "buy whatever you want" - whether that be the latest watch, or fixing your boiler that just broke - without worrying about if you can afford your rent that month.

I think there is also a big mental difference between - I don't have a choice with my job and this is what I'm stuck doing at this pay grade "forever" - vs - I'm doing this by choice and if I really need to I can go do something better.

Whenever I think I have it tough in software I look back and think - well, at least I'm not in those other jobs. Those other jobs did have upsides, but a lot of downsides.
Corporations are gosplan. There’s so much centralisation that they basically control the economy and society. Venture capital is great but large entities are not.
> They’re getting arrested because they promised Putin an unstoppable weapon and now he looks like a dumbass.

You are jumping to wildly unsupported conclusions.

Any of my guesses is more likely.
1946 the book was published, 1947 the CIA was created. Complaining that is an “inaccuracy” is pedantic.
> The author of the article could have said US Intelligence Assets, and forgone the clickbait of CIA.

The author makes specific claims about the exact ways that the CIA tried to suppress the novel and author. Do you dispute any of them?

It's pretty rich to talk about "easily fact checked" when you don't engage at all with the factual basis for the claims your are disputing.
This seems neat, but is taking a lot of control away from the user and is a privacy nightmare.

I would love to see open source and offline alternatives with the same purpose, as well as perhaps a Mac OS counterpart to this.
I don't know what counts as "genius", but coming up with that on your own, with little development experience, is at least brilliant.
256 colors ought to be enough for anybody.
If kubernetes won't, there's always a CRD that will
It's interesting looking at all the new PC products which were obviously designed ~2 years ago and are not really suited to the current market conditions. E.g. the new AMD CPUs are too expensive, the new AMD + Nvidia GPUs are too expensive, etc. Of course pricing isn't set until just before release but the broad strokes of die size and memory bus width were set long ago. AMD + Nvidia seem to be trying to cling to ~60% gross margin but I don't think they'll succeed.
>The Private Equity world however, THAT needs some real regulatory handcuffs, ASAP.

What is the difference between VC and PE, outside of ambiguous "rules" about what stage in a company's life the investment occurs?
It may or may not. I've often wondered how much sliding demand for PC's is due to an increase in sales of Apple products. Unfortunately, the entire decades long infatuation with these sales figures relies on Gartner, which I believe was bought off in the early 90's by Microsoft. The critical piece of information that would make these figures useful is what percentage are corporate purchases, and that's the part that's never been reported in all the 30 years I've been watching. Every time I bring it up here, my question is ignored, and I can't figure out why no one else is curious about this.
Many of the calls are coming in from overseas, using US VOIP numbers that cost a dollar a month (or less.) We need a "know your customer" type provision for telecom companies. An overseas scammer should not be able to buy 100's of US numbers with a credit card.
This explains a lot. I’ve done nothing but sit for months and I can’t eat anything even remotely acidic anymore.
Some of the most significant progress we made as a species was because some relatively smart and lazy person got really annoyed with some kind of problem.
Also, astronauts can eat and drink in zero gravity.
Apple didn’t get the memo it seems. Terminal.app has been unchanged in many, many years.

I still stubbornly use it as my daily driver for some probably terrible reason.
The article said ICBMs were hypersonic, and those certainly spend a lot of time outside of the atmosphere.

The gliders seem to spend the entirety of their trip in the upper atmosphere, though.
This is only half the story. Government share of GDP and real dollar Revenue has also vastly increased since the 1970s. Redistributive policies and spending have had a massive increase.
> IATA codes are your friend and you will love them because someone else already decided what they should be and wrote them down.

UN/LOCODE may be more appropriate:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN/LOCODE

* https://unece.org/trade/cefact/unlocode-code-list-country-an...

Has both country code and location with-in that.
> Debian's requirements for packaging of Go software is unreasonable. They expect every single dependency to be individually packaged.

Based on the sibling comment that points out a volunteer has packaged caddy for Debian 12 - that work has been done?
I have seen that, and it was helpful. But at least in machine learning and AI, if you want an admit into any top 10 US PhD program, you need a publication or 2 in a top tier venue, preferably first author.

In other fields and lower ranked programs, again I wish profs would be explicit (since publications might not be expected).

Like this guy:http://math.stanford.edu/~vakil/potentialstudents.html

"So before I take you on as a new student, you should be comfortable with the foundations of the subject, which means having done the majority of the exercises in Hartshorne or my course notes, and being able to explain them on demand."

That is very explicit and sets clear expectations.
https://www.sncf-reseau.com/fr/carte/carte-interactive-resea...

They have a good alternative, another case of "portfolio diversification to be future proof"

TGVs are pretty good!
Coffee engineers (at the entry level end) basically install, service and repair commercial espresso machines. It's probably less manual than a plumber or electrician and more manual a desk job.

You work for a roaster to start with and I have some background with repair coffee machines as a hobby. Once you're good at what you do, people tend to become independent but my goal would be to open a shop where we repair and sell machines.

You're right that from any reasonable standpoint I'm absolutely living the dream. I'm debt free, have a good income in a country where incomes are a bit fucker and I do a pretty cushy work from home job. But, I hate it 90% of the time.

There's been a lot of good advice here but the overwhelming thing all day at work is just how excited I am at the idea of not having to do this bs anymore.

I like being on the road - it's a bit like going on an adventure.
In the 80's my dad went to school in Iowa with a fellow from the Chicagoland area. The guy got pulled over for speeding and, per standard procedure, gave the cop his license, registration, proof of insurance, and some cash.

He had a court date and had to explain that's simply how things are handled where he grew up.
Borrowers with government owned loans had those loans paused during the pandemic, and took on more debt. Borrowers with loans that were not government owned did not have those loans paused during the pandemic, and did not take on more debt.
> What do you do if there's no airport?

UN/LOCODE may be more appropriate:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN/LOCODE

* https://unece.org/trade/cefact/unlocode-code-list-country-an...

Has both country code and location with-in that.
Not even close - sweet onions (like Texas 1015s, Vidalias, or Mauis) may be whitish, but they have noticeably more sugar embedded into the structure/tissues of the onion itself. Sweet onions are not white (or yellow) onions, or vice versa. FWIW, Vidalias are a bit less crisp than the others, which helps if you're really after carmelizing, but I find 1015s are the "sweet spot", so to speak, of softenability and enough fiber to hold up so they don't turn to mush.

Red onions are a different flavor profile altogether, and best for some (not all!) Mediterranean or Mexican dishes, or smoked salmon (NOT lox - yuck!) on a bagel with cream cheese and capers.
When have we ever gotten 8bn people to agree to painful, expensive changes simultaneously over a long term?
Switching from pc to mac is more than a hardware upgrade. If this is your first mac you are in for a different experience.
But climate change measures are all hypocritical and unscientific

1) The Carbon credits system

2) Forcing developing countries to reduce their energy usage, while still maintaining the Petrodollar. Sucking up to oil states and keeping the dollar strong at all costs

3) Controlling nuclear tech and restricting it from those who need it most

4) Blaming India and China for overall energy use while using 2x to 10x per capita energy

5) Pushing the foolish adoption of wind and solar which are just going to help oil companies always sell you base load

6) Shutting down existing nuclear reactors, not building new ones (looking at Germany here especially and the US)

7) Making stupid laws like rationing power

8) Blaming cryptocurrency as a bogeyman

So IMHO - if you're worried about climate change, it's legit, but whatever the US and EUs reactions to this has been a complete farce. So if you want to be heard as a scientist, maybe some criticism of the way in which its being handled is due
My personal laptops, workstations, and servers (all pets of course) have the following names, in no particular order:

tron, finch, wintermute, sparrowhawk, axolotl, rook, moneta, mengpo, odessa, ithaca, turing, lovelace
I think it is impressive he figured this out as a layman. This article is from one year ago, it would be interesting to see a response from some researchers. For example, have there been any studies to see if this method is valid?
I don't know how anyone can support student loan forgiveness. it's simply a fact that college graduates and people who even partially completed college make more money than those who never attended. there's really no argument that would justify forgiving peoples' loans vs giving the same amount of money to the poorest people in reverse order (poorest getting richer). if for some odd reason the poorest people also happened to be college participants (though to be clear, this is not true) then fine; still no broad student loan forgiveness required. I've asked people who support student loan forgiveness for their response and I get blank stares.

and yes, we shouldn't give the rich tax breaks either.
"Closest the mostest" makes it feel like less of a gotcha