skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two questions:

1. Does Unit + PHP doing the typical “initialize & teardown” that PHP is know for?

Or is Unit persisting the initialization/setup, hence why it’s achieving the way faster results?

2. How is Unit/PHP architecturally different than NGX-PHP (an event loop)?

https://github.com/rryqszq4/ngx-php
How does this book account for the magic bullet, an exit wound to the back of the head, gun smoke seem from another location, eyewitness reports of Oswald that make it impossible for him to make the shots in those timeframes, or the eyewitness reports of a "police officer" near the grassy knoll that was never accounted for or found?

The magic bullet and exit wound - as seen on film kept from Americans for years - were enough to convince me the lone gunman theory was nonsense, but the rest of it also needs some accounting for.
I’ve always felt any mention of reducers is a big distraction. They’re not really key to the idea of transducers which are almost entirely about pure sequence to sequence transforms.
I never really understood the logic because it is deeply oxymoronic. People that generally wanted him dead (ultra right) think that he was killed by the secret service (presumably left) and Yigal Amir (ultra right) was framed.

But it is something about putting blank bullets in order to gather support with a fake assassination and then he was really killed by the Shabak on order of Shimon Peres (but can’t say that’s verbatim)

It always seemed even less internally consistent than most JFK theories
Apple should have established long press for the purpose of context menus in iOS, from the start. When I got my first iPhone around 2009, I was rather surprised that this wasn’t a standard convention, like right-click on the desktop. It seemed so obvious that that’s how things should work. Instead we now have long press for random purposes.
when exactly was it al gore predicted the extreme sea rise? :)
Wow, I ask and a blog post just appears!

My initial reaction is: I should probably get around to learning about Flakes. I’m not sure I’d want each blog post to pin its templates, but it’s nice to have that choice.
> It seems with Macs you can learn to invoke that easily in the OS but it's probably not "discoverable" at all.

Apple menu -> Lock Screen, and the display will shut off after a few minutes of inactivity on the lock screen or by pressing the Escape key.
The 35C value is suggested as an upper limit. Lower WBTs have already been shown to be deadly amongst the more vulnerable.

I agree about tree planting being a sensible precaution to take - preventing sun from reflecting off tarmac and concrete is going to help at least a bit as well as the other benefits.
I'm a Spotless Giraffe
How is high speed trading any more dubious than long term holding, or shorting, etc?
Also, I guess similarly, is this one more concern for folks in the ISS in orbit (rapidly changing field) or beyond earth's field.
If you can afford to build a data center and know you have that fixed amount of capacity for 10y then you’re not talking about 99.99% of businesses. For everyone else the cloud is cheaper. In fact, to your customers, you are the cloud, so I’m not sure what you are arguing.
I like the idea that “giving people vegetables” puts undue stress on the state of California.

Can you elaborate on how kitchens work in prison and jails?
Gotta imagine the sinking feeling that guy felt.
> Price should be the maximum the market can afford while still beating ones competition.

This is such a frustrating perspective. I have so much respect for people who build projects and companies with a profit margin that lets them earn a comfortable living, without trying to extract as much as they possibly can from everyone around them.
> They’re even more locked into cloud now than it seems because not only have they shut down their in house ops but they’ve lost the skills and the work force.

On the other hand now they are free to concentrate their labor on their core business and competencies. Why on earth would they want to tie up payroll and benefits on people running the company email?
I should have specified: in the mid-1990s, on SCO OpenServer 5.
Implementing a protocol-based Fennel REPL and Emacs client
I don't understand why regular people care about this. If it was a conspiracy then some elite was killed by other elites.

Conspiracies to kill relatively powerless people seems more interesting to me because it's The Man vs. the everyman.
IMO it should behave like right-click (context menu) on the desktop, which generally doesn’t require an indication.
It borrows very little from Android - I think it mostly draws some parts from stagefright.
Honestly seems like the market itself should have safeguards against this kind of thing.
This mine is owned by a company controlled by a Chinese company. The US should be cautious about subsidizing foreign companies who are under control of competing powers.
There is a saying:

”The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”

- Anatole France
Everyone -- thanks for your constructive comments. I think that we'll start off by releasing the libraries under permissive licenses, and see how that goes. Releasing the code of the user-facing products publicly would probably provide little value for others (as the code would not be open source), and there are indeed risks.
As a co-founder of a SaaS company, I look at my (much much) larger competitors as a competitive advantage rather than a disadvantage. Most of our competitors in our space have much higher pricing because they have 1000+ person headcounts to maintain. We will certainly make less money than our competitors but the general idea is there is a sweet spot where we can charge less for our service and still walk away rich because there's less things to burn cash on.
I like driving cars or being a passenger in them.
I also acknowledge their importance for society as a whole.

But since you ask:

Cars are not a subject but an object, a tool to me.

"Suspecting" that I "dislike" this tool does not sound like a coherent argument to me.

Yes, I hate cars when being outside them, because they are a major obstruction and source of pollution, noise and overshooting environmental damage.

I hate their artifical abundance, for which I am forced to pay.

I'm not sure what you are talking about with the hypothetical banana car and why you care about my feelings.

Seems like an ideological argument to me.

Do EVs grow on trees?

I agree that global warming is only the tip of the iceberg of the damage we do.

And yes, EVs are marginally better for the nearby environment compared to CEVs.
They don't solve the larger problem though and they still impose huge resource costs.

Subsidizing EVs (again) is putting more fuel into the fire.

In my country, there are and were already so many subsidies and benefits for buying a new car, it isn't funny anymore.

It's always being justified by the newer cars ostensively being better for the environment.

Even before there were affordable EVs, the government paid people bonuses to buy a new car and trash/sell the previous one with this justification.

As a person with a license, but without a car: this is disgusting and reminds me of 1984. One of the many subsidies for buying cars in Germany was called "Umweltprämie" (environment bonus). As early as 2009.

It was basically a tax-funded bonus for trashing and buying cars to fund the industry.

That being said, cars of course are only one particularly obvious example of insane policies.
And tape costs same as ssd/spindles in your calculations?
I found reference to this on a public page on YC which mentions it as a resource for founders. It's some kind of coordination for business owners.
Ah, Knight Capital. The warning story for every quant trader / engineer.

This is what people don't realize when they say HFT (high frequency trading) is risk-free, leeching off people, etc.

You make a million every day with very little volatility (the traditional way of quantifying "risk" in finance) but one little mistake, and you're gone. The technical term is "picking up pennies in front of a steamroller (train)". Selling options is also like that.
Thanks this was helpful, somewhat in line with the numbers we've been throwing around.
I set up NAT, I move on.

If you can solve a problem technically, without involving people, that is best.
Yes, the deployment practices were bad, but they still would have had an issue even with proper practices.

The real issue was re-using an old flag. That should have never been thought of or approved.
Completely agree.

I'd even go further and say that those still living should be tried for high treason.
To your point... an unbiased write up on the Trump effect that avoids demonizing a single individual.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/culture-mind-and-bra...
>At this point the effects of the JFK assassination are so far back in history that new knowledge of possibly real and alternative sequences of events should have little impact on society as it is now. Let’s say it was orchestrated by political enemies—what effect would this have on things today? The state of US government is so dramatically different from back then.

Is it? If it happened before it could happen again. And if a presidental assasination happened and was covered up, what other things happened and got covered up in the between decades, and what things still happen and are being covered up now?

History tends to have repercursions, even after centuries.
You have pay more for that
Nah, when you've spent ten thousand hours doing something, you get a feel for it. It's not a sentient being, but it gains a feeling and a significance beyond what's printed on the window sticker. (I would argue that sentient beings don't have souls either. It's just a shorthand for a poorly-defined set of attributes and behaviors.)

A lot of people anthropomorphize machines, as it helps engage our built-in anticipation instincts to track when the machine will be "hungry" or "tired" without expending conscious thought. If the machine starts to sound or feel different, even in ways we can't put into words, that may surface as a sense of "attitude" or "unhappiness", and it may do so long before the difference would be dramatic enough to merit other mention. On-board diagnostics are great at identifying certain malfunctions in the engine and a few other systems, but driveline and suspension are still largely unmonitored except by ear, by feel, and by intuition. And there are still plenty of engine conditions that manifest as a gut feeling long before they set a DTC. Getting something checked out when it feels "off", versus waiting until it fails more obviously, may avert an unscheduled mishap in the middle of a cross-country roadtrip.

There are certainly lots of people who haven't spent that much time behind the wheel, or whose coming-of-age wasn't inextricably linked to the jingle of keys as a symbol of freedom and independence, or whose appreciation of rock and roll doesn't equate the growl of an electric guitar with the growl of an engine. Those people are to be forgiven for not seeing cars as having souls, but that lack of imagination on their part should not limit the imaginations, or the useful instincts, of the rest of us.

EVs have their own quirks and feelings, but there's not such a complicated web of air and temperature and chemistry and hydraulics and cable-stretch and dozens of individual bearings and mounts and linkages behind their behaviors. And they don't have a century of hot-rodding culture built up around them yet, no flames painted on the side, nor any combustion to inspire same. No exhaust notes to tune; if an EV's noises show up in music, it'll be more like Aphex Twin than Van Halen. Which is all well and good, but all of these things move EVs farther from any of the behaviors that we refer to with the shorthand of "soul".
ISAs aren't stable. Can you guarantee me that programs will be compiled for x86 in 20y? What instructions will they output to access the environment? Linux, Windows, MacOS? Will any of these even remain in 20y?

No standard last forever, your bytecode will ultimately deprecate and this is not a "developers should stop being lazy" situation.

Why do projects dump compatibility? Because this is extra work. And no project can receive indefinite support. Simple formats do not depend on maintenance.
Yes there is! You should check out Tiller Money. They offer a Google Sheet addon that let's you import transactions from different bank accounts (I assume using Plaid).

This is something I'm interested in building too, but I worry the API keys are quite expensive and thus requiring a bit of investment / risk prior to building the solution.
good to know that you don’t consent to what other people do with their money.
Cities are made of houses.
Houses are made of rooms.
If rooms are hot, aren't cities hot?
If room heat is pumped outside, did the city temperature really change?
What is the heat-island effect?
That's an interesting question: which would have a greater impact on the world; that a God doesn't exist, or that it does and it's an eldric sort of beyond the stars horror?
The US police, justice, and carceral systems are over-zealous and punitive. The US has among the highest incarceration rates on the planet (including a large pre-trial detention population) and their conditions are often inhumane.

To be fair, juries are an approximate averaging system of guesswork by people who weren't there, listening to other people who weren't there arguing for the interests of 2 sides who present different stories.
Thanks!

Yeah, somewhere between the homepages and webrings of the nineties and the added social functionality of the early social media platforms. Ideally without the platforms and their incentives. The web itself is already a social platform, a social medium. No need for more layers, especially if they ultimately are against my interests. I think RSS still holds the potential to connect individual websites/people, albeit in a slightly (or maybe even fundamental?) different way than the social media platforms do.

Question: what would be your number one topic/subject to blog about, other than anything tech related?
A big thing in boat design is the energy usage per mile at different speeds.

A typical rowing boat (human powered) will have a displacement hull. It is a streamlined curved shape which can move very efficiently through the water at slow speeds. It has a maximum speed, and if you try to push it beyond that, efficiency drops a lot and you put in a lot more energy for small speed increases.

A 'planing' hull is normally used on speedboats and the like. It has two efficient modes - either displacement, or planing (where the boat rises most of the way out of the water and only has a small contact area). Typically there is a region in between - a speed the boat cannot travel at a fixed throttle - it can go faster or slower though.

There are lots of other possible hull designs - but in general you need to pick your ideal speed or range of speeds (and loads, and wave conditions), and optimize for minimum energy consumption at those speeds.

In the modern world, you normally combine this with a cost optimization - trading off the salary and depreciation and opportunity cost of travelling slower, with the saved fuel of travelling slower.

In an electric boat, where energy storage is really expensive, it is even more important to do a really good job of this optimization - and I forsee we'll see more people attempt esoteric yet theoretically very efficient hulls, like hydrofoils, to try to have a big edge in a market where energy efficiency is suddenly a big driving factor.
Here's a paper from July https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GB00...

Key Points

>The rapid growth in the atmospheric methane burden that began in late 2006 is very different from methane's past observational record

>Recent studies point to strongly increased emissions from wetlands, especially in the tropics

>This increase is comparable in scale and speed to glacial/interglacial terminations when the global climate system suddenly reorganized

Overall, there is a growing research output although much is still unknown. See for example:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00616-x

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01629-0#Sec1

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/201...

> Rising methane could be a sign that Earth’s climate is part-way through a ‘termination-level transition’

https://theconversation.com/rising-methane-could-be-a-sign-t...

>‘Exceptional’ surge in methane emissions from wetlands worries scientists

https://www.carbonbrief.org/exceptional-surge-in-methane-emi...

Dr Peter Carter has a good run down of the rapid rise in methane emissions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oQNrO0fqOA
One of the cable networks had a guy make the shot from the exact same height and distance. After I watch that episode I'm convinced it happened that way. What really makes it a conspiracy is how RFK covered up the political on goings in the White House. JFK was doing thing politically not popular in America, in an effort to cover this up RFK rushed the funeral, medical exam and burial to put those things to rest.
What is your real question?

CCD is a technology, a strategy or approach to a specific problem if you wish.

diodes are semiconductors, with a positive and negatively doped region (optionally an intrinsic region in between).

A CCD also relies on a diode semiconductor bandgap to liberate charge carriers when a photon exceeding the bandgap energy strikes.

What is your actual question?

Is it "Why don't we use SPAD's in our cell phones and web cams?" ?
Thats like "I don't know what it is, but I want it too".

You can't use these in brightly lit scenes, the lighting needs to dim enough in order to register electrical pulses due to individual photons. Instead of a single electron-hole pair, SPAD's are reverse biased beyond "breakdown voltage" such that the released charge carrier will in turn release others (the "A"valanche in SPAD). The breakdown voltage and reverse bias (together with a dark current) means the sensor will heat up. So it would need significant cooling and energy consumption (higher currents per photon at higher breakdown voltage) at normal daytime light intensities. The sheer rate of photons would not allow individual photon pulses to be discriminated as their pulses would overlap... The reason it's not in your phone is because it would be expensive, power hungry (decreasing battery life) and require cooling.
The article discusses this in detail.
You wonder why people care if the president of our country was assassinated by some other group?
VR games almost all use Unity and Unreal. They drop frames left and right. VR platforms use extremely complex time warp algorithms to hide the jank.

So you're not wrong. VR games are much more susceptible to dropped frames causing problems. But it both happens and is hidden remarkably well.
Years ago, on Discovery or History channel, I watched a show where they replicated the “magic bullet” shot. The magic bullet was the one that hit the President and the Governor, that apparently went all zig zag, and left a pristine bullet.

For the experiment they had all the measurements and distances, detailed ballistic dummies (with bones and whatnot), positioned properly (the Governor was on a smaller, lower jump seat, and sitting below the President), and they shot from a tower.

They had the same rifle, though not the actual rifle, and they had period ammunition from the same lot that Oswald used. Who knows where they dug that up. I also can’t speak to the atmospheric conditions but those would affect accuracy, not impact.

Only thing hey didn’t mimic was the actual motion. It was a stationary shot.

Sorry to be graphic here, but as I recall this was the shot that hit The President in the throat, passed through him and continued on to hit the Governor, twice, I believe. Through his arm and into his leg.

And you know what?

They did it. They replicated the shot. Was it 100%? No. But I’d call it 90+%.

The damage to the dummies was very similar, including deflection off the bones. They recovered the bullet and it was not perfect, but it was in very good shape. It was simple ball ammunition and did not expand like modern bullets can.

It was, to me, a very convincing demonstration about how little magic was in the original bullet.
Yes, tracking the state of connections (e.g. TCP) is needed enforce rules on OSI layers 4 - 7. That's kinda the typically scenario when we think of connection tracking and stateful enforcement of rules.

I was just pointing out when NAT also requires connection tracking (i.e. when the NAT table needs to be built dynamically, as opposed to statically mapped).
And if they feel like it, with testilying.
Heh there's also a crepe stand in Harajuku called Santa Monica Crepes, if I'm remembering correctly.

I think I've had that Emerald Mountain one too.
Apparently this is a Samsung project. Why does Samsung invest resources in a project like this? They don't sell any storage systems.
I'm not sure how automated deployments would have solved this problem. In fact, if anything, it would have magnified the impact and fallout of the problem.

Substitute "a developer forgot to upload the code to one of the servers" for "the deployment agent errored while downloading the new binary/code onto the server and a bug in the agent prevented the error from being surfaced." Now you have the same failure mode, and the impact happens even faster.

The blame here lies squarely with the developers--the code was written in a non-backwards-compatible way.
The distance was like 75 yards. I visited the book depository as a child and even then thought I could make that shot.
It's because many people saw him as fighting for the everyman.
Seconded! Here's the channel link

https://youtube.com/@Ididathing
Thank you. Do they mainly use spreadsheets? What sort of structure is the data in?
"white" and "mirror" are equally good at bouncing light, and the exact effectiveness is based on the specific design.
Right, and a lot of the cloud naive make lofty positive assumptions that aren't true.

For example, you can't lose data in the cloud.
There are very much operational mistakes you can make with combinations of S3 settings around versioning and deletes, that result in permanent irretrievable dataloss.

My last shop managed to do this and then was implementing some sort of cloud data backup scheme.. in the cloud, lol.

The other assumption is that sure compute is costly, but since you can spin it up&down you'll save so much. As it turns out, most apps, most of the time, do not have bursty use cases that merit paying 2-3x for compute in hopes of spinning it down when idle. The funny thing is the same people selling this line are also the ones telling you to negotiate savings with some of those annual agreements that require a minimum amount of compute/spend.

The last one is assumptions about hockey stick compute growth needs, and that of course choosing AWS will make this easier than having to constantly procure servers. Maybe! But few have hockey stick compute growth needs for long. And it's not that impossible to trade your servers out every 18 months to get your compute density growth. And you aren't always guaranteed AWS compute at prices you want, as we've seen shortages of certain classes compute and needs to reserve up front, etc.
I know someone who was able to send his children to medical school in a foreign country, when they weren't accepted into schools in our country. He was able to pay ~$500,000 in tuition, plus all the living expenses, etc.

Now they have graduated and are (by all accounts very fine, even superb) doctors. My kids will always earn a fraction of what they do. Hard to argue that wealth doesn't create opportunities.

Oh and by the way, my father is a doctor, so you could argue that his wealth enabled my brother to make it into medical school (7 years of undergrad, multiple years of applying before being successful) in the first place.