skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love this to be the case, but ring, which the author of the post created, is unfortunately not really maintained. It doesn't build on Windows ARM, which in turn inhibits rustls. It's a shame because I'd prefer to not depend on OpenSSL. Not that it's the author's fault. We shouldn't be reliant on a single person's contributions to have a working Rust cryptography toolchain.
Woe is us if they actually did.
This is in every encyclopedia ever... I'm amazed when people don't know this (!)

Next we will hear about Ptolemy... then Galileo :)
> Cathie Wood’s Ark ETF seems to find the payments margin opportunity, and the gang to get it there. In its Big Ideas 2023 paper, Ark points out that there are 9 steps between Buyer and Seller in a consumer payment transaction, sucking intermediary fees of roughly 2.8% of the value of the purchase. Ark believes enormous money is to be made if the steps between Buyer and Seller would be reduced from 9 to 3 (removing card networks, issuers, and acquirers, for the most part), thereby reducing the expense from 1.64% to 0.21% of the value of the transaction (leaving a massive 2.60% ‘take rate’ for its horse). If you’re looking for crazy, Cathie Wood’s group is a hot mess full of them.

Most of that "take rate" goes to the issuing bank, which returns it to the customer in the form of rewards, which can often be redeemed for cash, and a number of issuers now offer generic 2% cashback cards. There's also the added benefit of fraud protection (and the ability to charge-back, as a last resort). Anyone using Cash App or similar in lieu of a credit card, I just assume is financially illiterate.
Macintosh Folklore disagrees. That's literally as close to "people who were there" as one can get.

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Swedish_Campgrou...
isnt constant time orthogonal to whether there are branches?
Always adored tools like this, Isoflow for isometric flowcharts is another one that was closed sources but is being opened up one feature at a time.
Rust is just a nice general purpose language. It's good more or less everywhere.

There are a few places where I wouldn't recommend it - for beginners, when compile time is really important (e.g. as a scripting engine in games), or where you need a repl (science).

But otherwise it's a better choice than most languages for most tasks.
We might have megapixel images that we can easily get with phone cameras, but virtually all vision models in common use take 224x224 resolution images as input, or maybe 384x384. Anything higher resolution than that just gets resampled down. It seems that you are better off using your compute budget on a bigger “brain” than on better “eyes” for now.
I had a similar experience earlier in my education. "Learning" sine and cosine was nothing compared to understanding it well enough to use in a 2d game. I went from struggling with standard algebra classes to getting 5s on AP Calculus BC and Physics.
You don’t think that’s a bit naive? We don’t have any “countering” of views today. There’s no back and forth or debate. It’s one man amplifying the xenophobia of the most ignorant sector of our populace and as far as they’re concerned, everyone who doesn’t agree with them are the “enemy”.
Classroom instruction has to be at a pace that the slowest member of the class can follow. This inevitably leaves the brighter children frustrated, to say the least.
In leaked recording, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy wouldn't share RTO data
Kroll’s Security Incident Involving Claimant Data
I am incredibly pro-car. I work on them constantly and enjoy it. I drive probably twice as far your average American does in a year. The deluge of heavier vehicles with poor handling designed to fit increasingly fat Americans is heartbreaking for any car enthusiast.
Sounds cool! Did you publish code or a writeup somewhere?
I think eInk price labels are now getting to be quite a common thing in some stores - while it's probably not fair/legal to change prices while the store is open, it means prices can be updated very easily overnight.
Goodbye seafood. Hello fish farming?
Show HN: Stable Diffusion Bayesian Merger
The population density of the UK (particularly England) feels staggering to this Swede.

Some examples (people/km^2):

England: 434
UK: 280
Germany: 239
France: 118
EU: 109
California: 98
Texas: 43
US: 37
Sweden: 26
All land: 16
>It's a shame that this technology is kept artifically out of reach to hobbyists.

This is a myth. They're not artificially expensive, they just have low economy of scale because they're a niche product. As you yourself said, you're tempted to just buy a large LCD display instead.
Everything You Thought You Knew About Protein Is Wrong
Annnnnd why is it that cities aren't building denser housing?

(it's because it's illegal. Because of parking minimums, density maximums, and level of service rules. Which exist because of cars. Which you need to go 10 miles because everything is so far apart. Because of those rules. Because of cars.)

https://youtu.be/bnKIVX968PQ?si=BdOqmdqkVj5oN7I6
Telecoms Regulator Gives Google a Week to Join IPTV Piracy Fight
I can never understand why there is a general cheer around large and powerful corporations (e.g. Apple) becoming even more large and powerful by acquiring other companies.
No, they pay for a stock footage service and find something vaguely resembling whatever they're talking about to insert into the video.
It depends on the business. Many places have no idea wtf they want, and presented with something interesting they’ll ditch what they are doing to do it, because they don’t know why they are doing whatever they planned anyway.

The existence of this thread belies this. Running everything like a product is the fad today. It’s a fad because running a “product” means understanding its lifecycle and resourcing it as appropriate. But the mandate in BigCorp is to run printer ink fulfillment with the same methodology as an actual product, so lots of leadership time is spent thinking about toner or whatever.

It’s inefficiency created in the pursuit of efficiency via control.
Hi, thanks for the comment! I agree with you that the sections are very useful. In the end of the blog, we did mention that "In practice, an improved chunking strategy should also consider the boundaries of sentences or paragraphs. We'll discuss how to integrate this consideration into this method in our upcoming blog post. " Stay tuned!
You can't get important work into the roadmap while also complaining that people are trying to blow up the roadmap when they try to get important work into the roadmap.

Kind of a big problem here, as you're defining the right way as also the way that frustrates you (and assumingly others) the most.
Infrastructure is not expensive. Massive over-regulation, bureaucracy an over-taxation is expensive.
Half the complaints on here on architecture posts are 'you don't need this kind of stuff unless you're at FAANG scale'. Now we have a write up of something that's accessible to businesses at non-FAAANG scale, and we have the new complaint, that this kind of stuff isn't worthy of FAANG-scale architecture.
Interesting, before delving into the article I thought maybe that's a malfunction of a system in which static is played to induce acoustic reflex if a crash is imminent, to protect passengers' hearing. Alas, it's just an amplifier issue.
>They aren't looking to unsettle the dollar, but be less reliant on it.

The prominence of the dollar, aside from US productivity and scale, and the reasons why it is the most exchanged currency in the world, is due to its stability, or in other words, how well it holds value over time. That's pretty much it.

However, "that's pretty much it" rather understates the difficulty of achieving the same thing in currencies of countries that lack fiscal transparency, political stability and have higher levels of corruption and volatility in banking sectors.

It's not a secret formula. If the BRICs countries succeed in the political reforms needed to establish currency confidence in their alternate reserve to which investments can be pegged, the world might be a better place. So here's hoping.
It's a common pattern in tech. Everything old will be new again.
> saddled you with various software license fees or whatever in perpetuity

Are they necessarily forced into it for perpetuity? Once they transition to 80% employee ownership (or 51%), don't the employee-owners decide whether to continue? Unless there's some kind of non-voting ownership stake or contract that never expires or something.

Plus, 20 years is the timeline to transition to employee ownership. So for the first 10 years, if the acquired business pays software license fees, the parent company is mostly paying itself, which isn't revenue. More importantly, that means whatever tech stuff they supply to the acquired companies needs to actually pull its weight.

It seems more likely they just want to keep proven businesses going so they can tap into that established revenue year after year. Giving ownership to the employees probably helps with retention and continuity so that the company doesn't fail after being sold. The corner pizza shop's customers still see familiar faces, the plumbing company's customers still recommend them to neighbors, etc. People don't say, "It used to be good, but it's not the same since it was bought." The point of handing over 80% is keeping the goose healthy to keep laying golden eggs.

Yes, being a supplier to these companies you own 20% of is some nice gravy. But you also want the revenue (and expansion), so you really can't bleed them dry.
Historic algorithms help unlock shortest-path problem breakthrough
No. Constant wall clock time involves not using branches. Maybe you're thinking of "asymptotic constant time" or "runtime bounded above by a constant." These are not what is needed, because what is needed is to not expose any information via timing.
The Netherlands also had a lot of pissed off moms who were furious that drivers kept slaughtering their children. It didn't come easy, there were fistfights over it.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/may/05/amsterdam-bic...

But a lot of kids are alive who would be dead without their efforts.
fun fact, I was typing "imaginary" but got auto-corrected
"First" is awfully confident assertion about an event thousands of years ago. "Earliest known" is more accurate.
A castle.

> Susan Kare states that she has since been told that the symbol was picked for its Scandinavian usage due to its resembling the shape of a square castle with round corner towers as seen from above looking down, notably Borgholm Castle.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_key#Origin_of_the_sy...
Would it be possible to add more Richard Spencer getting punched? Never enough of that.
> Test 1: 103 µWh (0.000103 kwh)

For those who like SI base units: 100 µWh is 360 mJ.
Because branch prediction exists: sometimes yes, often no. Among other reasons.
Sustainable Use License

https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/blob/master/LICENSE.md
Or "My pay is so lousy I have to work multiple jobs to survive"
I also agree with this sentiment. Someone type approved them as cars only requiring a basic B class licence, when they don't even fit in a lot of our parking spaces. That shouldn't be a thing.
Ireland's not too great at getting anything built either.
Their siloing strategy, which I'll roughly refer as resolving a request from a single AZ, is a good way to keep operations and monitoring simple.

A past team of mine managed services in a similar fashion. We had a couple (usually 2-4) single AZ clusters with a thin (Envoy) layer to balance traffic between clusters.

We could detect incidents in a single cluster by comparing metrics across clusters. Mitigation was easy, we could drain a cluster in under a minute, redirecting traffic to the other ones. Most traffic was intra AZ, so it was fast and there was no cross-AZ networking fees.

The downside is that most services were running in several clusters, so there was redundancy in compute, caches, etc.

When we talked to people outside the company, e.g. solution architects from our cloud provider, they would be surprised at our architecture and immediately suggest multi-region clusters. I would joke that our single AZ clusters were a feature, not a bug.

Nice to see other folks having success with a similar architecture!
Where did the author use wall clock as a proxy for power consumption? The only time based thing I saw was power usage over time and that is still measuring power usage directly just explaining when in the process the most power was used.
> Does anyone else use Rust outside the blockchain/cryptography space? What are you working on?

I work at Materialize which is building database software in Rust. One of my coworkers blogged about our experience with the language here: https://materialize.com/blog/our-experience-with-rust/
Why use C++ for the front-end though?
Denmark plans jail term for burning Quran in public
The free speech situation in Denmark is worse than the title implies, and not limited to Islam or religion - "The ban is expected to be added to a section of the criminal code that bans public insult of a foreign state, its flag or other symbol." The existing punishment is up to 2 tears jail time, if Breitbart can be trusted - https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/08/25/blasphemy-laws-a...

And if the Daily Mail is to be believed, the upcoming ban is much broader and vaguer than just Quran burnings: "Justice Minister Peter Hummelgaard told reporters that the government will present a bill that will 'prohibit the inappropriate treatment of objects of significant religious importance to a religious community'" - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12445021/Denmark-ba...
Rust has simd support, so maybe the latter is the issue.
Tailored enzymes could improve the odor of fish protein powder
What if there are branches but both paths result in the same number of cycles being required to execute the instructions?

Is it correct to say: "all branchless code runs in constant time, but not all constant time code is branchless"?
Defect language in the blockchain space is still JS/TS. Not sure you should be relying on their signals for security assurances.
It's certainly a much more robust AI than LLMs!
Do you have a source that they outnumber the people who newly signed up?
I never trust censored forums (such as HN) on political or polemic debates.

I remember when the first cases of COVID started in Wuhan. 4chan was full of videos of people being arrested en masse in China and mountains of bodies being dragged. Doctors who alerted people of the virus on WeChat were arrested. It was months before any official information of this came out.

As much as uncensored spaces are full of stupid memes such as Qanon it's still a valuable source for suppressed news.

I wish there was a place for good faith high quality evidence-based discussions that didn't fall prey to excessive ideological moderation but this may be mutually exclusive.
> far better protected ATM machines.

Unless the ATM machine (sic) in question is 2350m up in a technical climb, I’d say that’s up for debate!
Looks like I'll have to ban Japanese products (Tea/Fish) and potentially anything from the pacific..

Japanese government is irresponsible
This is especially true if you want to be seen as a person that takes things (like for example a felony conviction) serious.
You're putting a lot of words in the parents mouth.

>> I used to be but now I see it as a doubling down of car-dependence

> Ok, so you just don't like taxis in general then.

That was not the point. One of the general arguments for AVs is that it will reduce car-dependence, that we're all going to be able to live car-free and AVs will shuttle us around in hyper efficient transport systems.

If the way we get there is by having a taxi service that is 70% cheaper, I don't see how that follows. I agree with the parent, the claim that AVs are a ticket out of car dependence seems like a bill of goods.
I appreciate the clear explanation of the problem and the solution, which (as is so often the case) seems fairly simple or obvious in retrospect.

Semi-related tangent: sometime around mid-2016, I came across a tool that helped visualize requests in near real-time, and showed what it "looks" like (ie, flow slows to trickle in service A during draining, while it ramps up in service B)... there was a really compelling demo, but I never bookmarked it and can't seem to find it. IIRC its name was a single word. Maybe someone reading this will know what I'm talking about... ?
Not even GitHub? I believe that's the only MSFT service we have at my <40 people fintech dayjob
ST's RMs are a bit of a pain, but the info is there, and reasonably consistent. The SVDs have many errors, and inconsistent between variants, but there are some open source patch systems available. (Like SVD2Rust).

It's nice ST is getting into this space, even though I don't have a use case for this type of device now. As you mention, Nordic's docs are great too.

I noticed for a certain ST part (rangefinder), instead of a documented register API, there was a C library for it. I posted on their forum because I was confused (and not using C). An engineer explained that they did it that way because at the hardware level, the device was very complicated, and they weren't sure the best ways to configure it; they wanted to leave open the option to change it later. So, not obfuscation like you're describing with the *COMs, but a technical decision to use a library.
"was estimated to cost about £56.7bn in 2023 prices. But this proved to be a massive underestimate. The 134 miles of track between London and Birmingham alone is now forecast to cost £53bn,"

How is -£3.7bn a massive underestimate. Usually coming in under estimate is a good thing (outside of govt and consulting, of course)
This post feels like an April fools joke. Like somehow 100 year mortgages and 100 year websites go hand in hand.

Very few blogs or posts feel relevant a year or two later, let alone a decade. The only people buying this are those with Balenciaga trainers who drink wine shilled by influencers
yorwba covered the basics, but I'll add that users who flagged this also flagged "A girl who turns into bone while her identical twin remains healthy", "The world is watching in disbelief as France tears itself apart", "Why work on crypto", "Telling your inner critic to chill", "Why is the Javascript ecosystem like this?", and "The deep weirdness of beavers" (links below) - so I think the bulk of the reason is that people thought it was off topic for HN.

I did see 2 or 3 users who appeared to be flagging stories for political reasons. When we see that, we remove flagging privileges from the account.

"The Deep Weirdness of Beavers" is certainly on topic for HN and we also remove flagging privileges when we see accounts flagging too many submissions like that. Unpredictable-but-interesting submissions are the best things here, not the worst.

By contrast, sensational/indignant posts on politically charged topics are all too predictable, leading to repetitive and eventually nasty discussion. That's mostly why users flag them, and they're mostly right to do so, although there are sometimes exceptions and we sometimes turn off flags on those.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36769469

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36566507

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36487742

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34439883

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34250969

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33913113
Wow, TIL the reason Aristarchus' contemporaries didn't accept his heliocentric model...
I noticed Dunkin' has the just in time feature. It asks if you want your order to wait until you get closer to the location.
Talking about EU I'm patiently waiting for official app side loading and alternative app stores that should come before the 6th of March 2024 [0]

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/13/23507766/apple-app-store...
So they run everything in AWS USE1? That doesn't seem very redundant, but then I guess if the whole of USE1 goes down Slack won't be the only service that will be affected.
I agree with this sentiment. A good (software) engineer needs to have the discernment to know when to ask for permission, and when to ask for forgiveness.
For example:

I previously worked in the public schools, and in a museum education program that worked 90% with public school classes. My mom was a public school teacher before I was born. My sister, who I'm quite close to, still works in the public schools. We all went to public schools in my neighborhood. My middle child goes to a public school that I can see from my living room. There's no opposition to public school in my family.

When my oldest finished his public Montessori elementary school and went to the district's Highly Gifted school at age 12, it was a major step back for him. 40 minutes each way on the bus just to be at a school that was cookie-cutter and wasn't able to support his needs, particularly advanced math -- I don't think there's a single teacher in the building who even knows how to assess the gaps in his knowledge; they were trying to teach him what an exponent is when what he actually needed was to fill in gaps in calculus about techniques like Lagrange Multipliers. So he's home with me, because it's better for him. Public school was fine for him as a younger kid, and it's still good for other kids, but it's not a good fit for him now.
This open access model makes a lot of sense.
I’d rather not be picked up by Uber at the middle of whichever area shares my postal code, and I’d rather not get my food delivered there.

On the other hand, postal codes can sometimes apply to a handful of buildings, and sometimes can apply to entire cities, depending on the country and local area, so they can either be very unhelpful or almost as invasive as sharing your precise location.
Because of speculative execution, branchy code with equal-runtime branches will still take different amounts of time if it is called repeatedly, usually in ways that reveal information about the input.
That's not really the point I am making and I think you know it. BNPL options which let someone split a 500 dollar payment over 2 years are there to encourage people to spend money who otherwise wouldn't feel OK about dropping 500 dollars right then. I.e. if you have to use the BNPL option, you can't afford it in the first place. In fact, if you have to even stop and think about whether it's worth splitting it or not it means it's not a good idea.
> I think they might have stopped doing it around the time they released the wireless versions with the Lightning port.

According to some unattributed blurbs on Wikipedia, the "alt" sublegend would have disappeared in 2017, when the first-generation "Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad" replaced the full-sized "Apple Keyboard" in the image you linked to.
The first compact "Magic Keyboard" had "alt" when it was introduced in 2015, as can be seen in reviews on the web from that year.

But ... Those are the US-English variants. There are also many keyboards with other regional layouts and those have sometimes had slightly different legends on modifier keys.
This tracks.

I live very close to several HS2 construction sites in London and frequently see dozens of people just stood around doing nothing.
> The objective of public school is to break down the regional identities of old and assimilate the youth into the “new” national identity.

No thanks.

If it was sold as "the best education you're likely to be able to receive"... that'd be one thing. I might think that you were exaggerating and that the quality was lower than what's being sold, but I at least want that for my kids.

But I have zero interest for or against breaking down "regional identities". If it is just some social experiment, the government's attempt at engineering a culture, they can keep it.
So you're saying there's a chance...
not in stable yet
I reckon https://github.com/RustCrypto is an effort in this space.
https://archive.is/0AUHm