skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess Network States span the range between 3 and 4 for now.

https://thenetworkstate.com/

https://cocohub.io/manifesto

https://www.protocol.com/policy/srinivasan-network-state
Is this still true? It seems like most IoT stuff has chips that easily eclipse the capabilities of my Amiga1000 and are 32bitbwith hardware floats. Looking around, I'm having trouble finding something that isn't a 32bitHF in my house. Possibly my Keurig machine? Even using digital instead of an RLC implementation in a coffee machine seems like a waste, but I'm old.
That isn't a "swipe", that is an opinion earnestly stated - the only way it could be considered a swipe is if you take for granted people being well versed in the goings on of the early cipherpunk mailing list. I make no such assumption. I also strongly disagree with the other guy getting flagged, such hypersensitive moderation is far more poisonous to the discussion than anything yet said.
You can make an argument in the other direction too - prove that WFH is better than RTO, or else we should return to the default that modern society has worked in for the massive majority of our history. There is not reliable data on either side - some of the most important things are also incredibly hard to measure. Will company X do better choosing C++ or Rust? Static or dynamic typing? These questions aren't easily answerable with a study.

I'm certain CEOs of FAANG are looking at stats to make these decisions. And what many WFH diehards miss is that your (or my) individual productivity is irrelevant, because all that matters is the output of the company as a whole. I can work really efficiently on the wrong thing and/or not spend time helping others in a way that my overall output for the company, not myself, is worse vs. in-office.
Open Air Schools of the 1900s
This is from August 3, 2023, so 1.5 months old: has it caused a bigger stir in astrophysics since then? I'd have expected it to be all over the popsci web (Quanta, Aeon, etc). So I gotta wonder whether it caught on.

I think this is the preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.11069

Added: per Ethan Siegel's mMdium post (clickbait link to incomplete article): https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/ask-ethan-do-binary-st...

"The quick answer is that this result is a confluence of three things: good science, bad science, and the ugly state of science news. Let’s look at what’s truly going on here."

Archived snapshot of full article: https://archive.ph/Vxudc
Same for me, not an audiophile, I have no clue how but I hear differences, I use different combinations of phones and in-ears. It's noticeable whatever those things are doing, it isn't bad but noticeable.
We used postgres for some of our queues back when we were at ~10 msg/s. It scaled quite a bit, but, honestly, setting up SQS or some other queue stack in AWS, GCP, or Azure is so simple and purpose built for the task (with DL queues and the like built in), I don’t know why you wouldn’t just go that route and not have to worry about that system shitting the bed and affecting the rest of the DB’s health.

It seems foolish. I am a big fan of “use the dumbest tool”, but sometimes engineers take it too far and you’re left with the dumbest tool with caveats that don’t seem worth it given the mainstream alternative is relatively cheap and simple.
Well, if you have multiple writers then you need to decide who’s responsible for rotating the queues, and you need to serialise writes; or if each writer has its own queue then the reader has to do more work. And then you need to worry about fsync, and backup. And of course you need to be careful to flush to the queue after each write to avoid partial writes.

Basically I’m saying that there are just a number of potential footguns when using files as queues - I speak from experience! - which are trivially taken care of by a database, especially if you have one already.

I’m not saying that it’s not possible, just that for non trivial applications, it’s certainly more complex than just an atomic file move.
1) impressive, 2) try without looking
Having been fortunate enough to ride in Cruise vehicles multiple times in the Austin area, my impression is that they behave better than the average Austin driver.

For trickier situations, though, there’s a lot to be said for having a human driver to make decisions, and with whom you can communicate.

There are plenty of tricky driving situations in Austin.
Drat. I'm only interested in things I can self host. Back to the drawing board. Thanks for the clarification!
Those EV mandates have no chance of holding up on the scale of a few years. The supply chain and infrastructure just isn't there to get us to pure EV anywhere near that timeline
Any allegation of wrongdoing could conceivably trigger a violent response from a crazy person. Even accusing someone of "stochastic terrorism".

Should you be held responsible if someone attacks "a prominent US politician" after reading your comment?
You're not going to win this battle. The best you can do is to accept it as the canonical Rust project layout, and reimplement Cargo's build steps in the build system of your choice.
It doesn't seem like the "Liberland" people have any claim to the territory, but I don't think that makes my point misleading.

If Croatia says the territory belongs to Serbia, then Croatia has no business sending police there outside of very narrow circumstances such as people there launching attacks into territory Croatia does claim. On the other hand, Croatia would probably be within its rights to enforce a border with this territory, as would Serbia. That would rapidly become unpleasant for anyone trying to live there.
Blackmail, lying, misinformation, manipulation, and gaslighting: the tools of an undercover FBI agent.
They've done well with the reading -voices-, and enunciations. But the readings themselves are, well, hilariously revealing in many ways. Odd pauses like 'Winnie. The poo...', or word-bunchings, mispronouncings, sudden unexpected volume changes, etc. become a constant distraction. All parties in fictional conversation sound much alike ... who's talking now?

In short, voice-animation pros should not be too worried. Yet.
I wonder what the training and transition would look like to go from working in the auto industry, or specifically manufacturing, to the nuclear power industry.
The difficult thing for me was understanding how to think about and then configure agents. I never could reason about getting the central server up and then connecting nodes to it, whether those nodes were applications or entire servers. The terminology didn't make sense to me and it made me question whether I had the right framing for the purpose of grafana.
I see threads like this one from time to time and wonder where OPs do find it. There may be some outbreaks, but nothing systemic to worry about, afaic. Are you sure you’re not overreacting on that specific thread? E.g. there’s a chance that most negative commenters just happened to be there in their active hours.
The most exciting thing about LLMs is how they become easier for intermediate programmers every day. It really makes your imagination run wild when you can grasp the concepts.
this bugs the crap out of me as well... though I pay 99.95 a month for 100/40 plus a static IP.
The scientific method is about performing experiments, not about making YouTube videos.

If a scientist who is an expert in one field decides to make videos on other fields, they are not applying the scientific method, they are doing the same thing any YouTuber does.
The corporate news is the same story, over and over: Cut 5-15% of workforce because of the 'economy'. Meanwhile the economy keeps doing well, so people are making money.

I suspect there's another reason for the cuts, but the following is just BS. I'm hoping someone knows something substantive - a paper, a book, a term for it, etc.:

I often see a new management philosophy of hyper-aggression and disdain for all but money, treating labor (and nursing home patients, healthcare patients, journalism, students, etc.) as commodities to squeeze rather than contributors (and human beings and social goods) to value; treating profit as an outcome of squeezing every dollar/euro possible from everything rather than innovating productivity for society. No, it hasn't always been that way; remember Silicon Valley leaders treating their employees with respect, with flat hierarchies, 20% time dedicated to personal projects, etc etc.
> I gave you one.

No you didn't, you gave me a simulation study that discussed what kind of sample size might be necessary to find statistically significant effects in all-cause mortality. There's not a single mention of QALY in there. Please stop misrepresenting things.

> You're making the claim there's more than a negligible negative effect not me.

The cost itself is a nonnegligible negative effect.

> Did I say there is a sizable positive effect on overall survival? I said it's irrelevant.

You're wrong.

It's borderline fraud, in my humble opinion, to go around suggesting that massive interventions should be evaluated based on their effects only on the people who benefit most, ignoring the negative effects on the other 98% of the population. Which is exactly what you did in your first reply to me:

> What you want to do is look at stage at presentation, treatment costs by stage, and screening costs. These were done for nearly every recommended screening program.

> The available evidence behind currently recommended screening programs unequivocally shows improved cancer-specific survival and earlier stage at diagnosis.

This approach to evaluating an intervention is intellectually dishonest and emotionally manipulative. Any evaluation that does not take into account the other 98% of the population--through overall survival or QALY or some other metric--is giving an extremely biased picture of what the intervention is actually doing to the population as a whole.
I wish that this paper was somehow even more apolitical. It is so valuable.

I posted this to reflect my fear of my own greatest failings.

"It's a trap!"

Dammit.
I have a heuristic that guidance that amounts to "assertion of rights is a sign of guilt" is presumptively invalid.
Species? Surely they would diverge over the timescales involved...
Nobody is sure, but my guess is that perhaps DNA and RNA are inevitable, because perhaps they are the best/easiest solution for the problem. Even proteins and amino acids are probably inevitable, but there are more variants here.

The interesting part to detect a second abiogenesis event is the translation table from DNA to amino acids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_code It's almost blocked, but as far as we know, the blocks are random. And there are even a few small variants here on Earth, that suggest in a second abiogenesis event it would work with a different randomization.

I wrote a comment with more details a long time ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34229988

Self nitpicking: The DNA could be twisted in the oposite direction. As far as we know it should work if you have the "mirrored" version of all the helper proteins and stuff. This could be a strong evidence of a second abiogenesis event.
The used car market has gotten expensive, you’re not saving much for a similar vehicle. And a 10 year old vehicle at that price point is, in the average case, absolutely not going to cost the same in maintenance.

The pendulum for new versus used has swung far in the direction of new cars, compared to a decade ago. The caveat is that it might take 6 months to get a new car due to inventory issues. I think used is much more expensive because it’s nearly the only option, regardless of cost, for folks who need a car this week.
if you find it let me know
> Lots of people used to love to LARP about taking a bomb on a plane

Really?
I couldnt tie anything up with the server logs, no refers or matching IP address landing on the webpage, thats why I pulled the plug and stopped spending money on it.

However someone I know professionally, another coder, did spot I was using their bsuiness name in my adwords campaign so they did have a go at me telling me to stop using their business name in my adwords program.

Thats the problem in this business, its hard to know who to trust.

You are aware of this?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_farm#Advertising_provide...
> She also states clearly in her video that she doesn't have the proper knowledge of economics to be able to make a commentary

She states that she doesn't have the proper knowledge of economics to comment on other parts, but then comments on the errors in the subject matter she does know enough to comment on.
You understand the difference between correlations and causations, right? Because that’s what this boils down to.
I'm the author of the paper. That first one though you called out is VERY interesting (the others seem quite close to what is already done today)

We tried pause-to-select and it user tested very poorly as users were thrown into selection far too easily. It was very irritating. However, I can't really criticize it until I've tried it. I'll upgrade my iPad and check it out. Thanks.
At least it's a democratic march.
Mass in General Relativity
> All new cars spy on you (well most do)

All of them per Mozilla's recent report:

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categor...
Oh yes, I remember that white paper. The conclusion was that if Linus became a Force ghost, he would be able to code 24/7, which would affect the market share of Windows Server 2008.
What a bad take. You'd rather have a monopoly than a duopoly?

Epic hasn't done anything particularly bad for PC gaming, and while I love Valve's contributions to Linux gaming, I don't think Steam is nearly as great as most people seem to think it is. Their client is slow, always updates at inconvenient times, and it's got gimmicks I don't want like card packs.

I like Steam, because they were the first to really push digital downloads in the PC market. They made it relatively easy to purchase games compared to everyone else, and their client is way better than Origin or whatever garbage Ubisoft uses now. But let's not act like Steam is perfect here; if every games store is taking 30%, then YOU the consumer is paying higher prices in the end.
> If everyone played nice, the exponential backoff timers would work as expected,

Yes. As I wrote in 1985, in [1], under "Game Theoretic Aspects of Network Congestion" and
"Fairness in Packet Switching Systems", about fair queuing,

We would like to protect the network from hosts that are not
well-behaved. More specifically, we would like, in the presence of
both well-behaved and badly-behaved hosts, to insure that
well-behaved hosts receive better service than badly-behaved hosts.
We have devised a means of achieving this.

The goal of fair queuing is not to improve network performance overall. The goal of fair queuing is to reward well-behaved hosts over badly-behaved hosts. If everyone is well-behaved, the queue lengths are the same, usually 1 or 0, and fair queuing does little.

There is an inherent conflict between this goal and achieving maximum data transfer rates. If you try for near 100% utilization, the problems become much worse. You can run comfortably at maybe 70%.
This was an accepted tradeoff for DoD systems. DoD wants things to keep working in a crisis, even if normal operation is a bit slower.

This is why I'm not a big fan of HTTP/3. It's a attempt to get about 10% more performance in the good case, at the cost of considerable extra complexity and less immunity to gaming the system.

I never wrote about that much at the time, because if I had, people would have realized earlier that traffic shaping is possible, which implies that you can sell and bill for bandwidth and quality of service. We might have ended up with pay per packet.

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/pdfrfc/rfc970.txt.pdf
Maybe what I want is nachos?

https://www.nagios.org/
Transactions, data consistency. This is the answer that you will not find in SQS.
I'm glad LEGO became so expensive; I mostly stopped buying sets when I started buying Magic: the Gathering cards in high school (wonderful game, but a passing fad for me; chess and pinochle, among others, will outlast these highly thematic, extremely engaging luxuries), and I realize now that I have more than enough LEGOs as it is. My daughter barely cares about them yet, and I was ready to sell the lot but opted to keep them for now, for her. It's okay if she doesn't enjoy them the way I did, mind; she's her own person.

I have this itch, this feeling that LEGO bricks are part of our climate change problem in terms of shaping how we spend our time and resources; too far removed from the shapes I see in the woods and in the garden. We've build our game world and want to play in it, nevermind the consequences.
It's just 3 months. Before cellphones went mainstream, most people used to travel and simply disappear from their families for years. This need to be in constant communication with everyone back home is a phenomenon that just started in the 2000s
There are fringe groups in Germany that distribute "passports", "ID cards" and give themselves fancy titles under the hilariously wrong assumption that the current German State (aka the FDR) is not identical with/a successor of the former German State (aka the Reich).

Consequently they like to style themselves as royalty. The most well known even had a crowning ceremony, later bought an abandoned hospital (with accompanying scam), tried to declare independence and got swiftly removed by the very real German Police.
Potatoes are also nightshades, and they're also capable of producing toxins. Any green patches will likely contain chaconine and solanine.
tldr the sun is not a point
Could be, it could also be that they tanked morale with massive layoffs and now they want to make it look like everything is good and they’re back on the growth train.

When a company has to cut a specific percentage, it’s impossible not to cut good people alongside low performers. The other problem with the “low performers” theory is that it assumes a competent management layer and ELT. How often has upper management made it harder for you to do your job because of poor communication, resource management, etc.?
I'd say paintball is like fencing. The actions are real, but the consequences are minimized by the equipment.

I don't know much about LARPing but I have the impression that the actions there aren't real, just people saying things like "I strike at thee", "I parry and riposte" while pantomiming in slow motion.

Wouldn't it be easy to tell a fencing duel from a LARP swordfight?
When I was in my early 20s, I flew into Providence, RI. I was too young to rent a car, and too poor to take a taxi all the way to my final destination, so I had to take it to the place downtown where the busses all crossed paths. I only learned later that where the taxi dropped me off was about a 5-to-10-minute walk from the Amtrak station. If I'd taken the train, I could have eschewed a leg of my trip (and embarked from a station closer than my local airport).

This was, in fact, one of the experiences which informed my previous statement.

I've made the same trip by car and train. Train is by far the most convenient and relaxed. I would drive about the same distance from home to the local station (those exist) as I would in order to get to the airport, park for free 10 minutes before boarding, and do it at an hour that was not ungodly (which was a necessity for flights for pricing reasons). Every minute dealing with TSA and arcane terminal navigation is worth 10 sitting in a large, seatbelt-free Amtrak seat. I am happy to judge: your characterization sounds like someone who doesn't actually have much experience riding trains - and, specifically, walking out of a train station and navigating to their destination. This is frustrating because you seem rather assured.
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I'm pretty sure the radiation would kill you rather quickly...
Yeah, anything with Rust in the title makes it to the front page, so expect anyone writing on icy weather conditions to post it to HN for the extra clicks.
For trucks on highways you might not need continuous attention.

For example I've driven between Los Angeles and the Bay Area late at night, and between central California and Seattle late at night, and for much of that time there were no other cars near me. Just the occasional faster car that comes from over the horizon behind me, passes me, and disappears over the forward horizon, or the occasional situation where I'm the faster car doing that to someone else.

With an AI driver I could have read or slept most of the trip with the AI only asking me to pay attention when we are encountering other vehicles or there is anything unexpected near the road, and probably covered 99% of the cases where something happens that needs an attentive human driver to take over for.
I didn't interpret it that way at all. I interpreted it as having familiarity with cases of actual terrorists using a defense of claimed LARPing suggests you researched this to make up a cover story.
My guess is you'd see more company housing and stupid restrictions on where you have to live if you work somewhere
He’s making fun of the absurdity of the parent comment
We process around 1 million events a day using a queue like this in Postgres, and have processed over 400 million events since the system this is used in went live. Only issue we've had was slow queries due to the table size, as we keep an archive of all the events processed, but some scheduled vacuums every so often kept that under control.
But what if they were really jealous? What makes you think the crowd here and yourself are above that universal and highly ubiquitous human emotion? Now, did you fix that Jira?
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taken from this great guide https://pirg.org/edfund/resources/mastercard-data-tips-guide...
It wasn't obvious TCP/IP would win for a surprisingly long time[0]. IIUC it was MPLS that addressed the latency issues at the backbone layer for TCP/IP. That, at least IIUC, obviated the major latency advantage ATM had over pure IP backbones.

[0] https://www.cs.columbia.edu/sip/articles/tdc0598cover1_side1...
The scale of operation is the crux here. For a modest number of cores, RDS is a congenial choice. However, when you're going to hundreds or, as in our scenario, tens of thousands of cores with PostgreSQL, clinging to RDS is sheer lunacy.

I was the designated gardener to tackle this: architecting and managing a PostgreSQL deployment with 25K cores and 3M TPS. We've been shelling out a cool $1M annually, covering the whole thing - hardware, software, and DBAs. Meanwhile, the toll for RDS is an astronomical tenfold of our current expenditure, yet it comes with a lesser degree of availability and a starkly crippled observability and other stuff.
> The 80s weren't so great for safety in school.

They weren't (in ways that are different than now), but virtually all of us survived, and none of us were permanently mentally scarred by perpetual surveillance.
Considered as a naieve problem, inescapably you want to perform a series of multiply and addition phases. For short strings, "just do it" might be slower than "look it up in a table". For longer strings, divide-and-conquer would be to chop it into short strings and do the table lookup.

I don't know this is faster than simply doing the "mutiply by ten and add" sequence. I'd have to understand modern ALU behaviour, parallelism, shortcuts, chip cache dynamics you-name-it.

It would all have been so much simpler if we'd made decimal be hex instead. Octal doesn't work as well for me, no idea why. That said, it's much easier to ignore thumbs and count on 4 fingers of each hand than grow another 6

(I read the article. It descended into arcanum of instruction sets and assumptions which post date my DEC-10 ISA lessons, although I recall Digital had BCD instruction handling and a 6 bit byte model in a 36 bit word accordingly. DEC-10 instructions could take many, many clock cycles and have 5 components of from, to, via, because, maybe attached to them)