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Introducing NeuralRad: A Next-Gen Radiotherapy Platform with Rust and WASM
With Rust and Web Assembly, we are introducing the fastest radiotherapy platform experience on the web.
A home server should really be concerned by cats
What does a GC have anything to do with it? You can reference count all the pointers if you want, you can expose JVM pointers in Rust where Rust doesn't manage the heap memory. There are plenty of easy solutions to work with the JVM
"Self correct even once" since the statement is they cannot, period, versus they cannot consistently.
Oh no I might have accidentally stepped on a small land mine. Circadian rhythms aren’t permanent. If they were, international travel would be impossible for humans. Circadian rhythms are defined as entrainable, meaning adjustments to the environment must change the rhythm. I might have to walk this back some day, but right now that site you linked gives me vibes of homeopathy. There’s a non-zero amount of irony in asking if individual humans identify with different animal species, isn’t there? The idea that an animal species as a whole sleeps at a given time undermines the very idea that each human is a unique snowflake, and suggests that the variation in humans that we’re talking about is not fixed, but is a product of environment, habits, behaviors, situational preferences, etc., doesn’t it? I mean we have lots and lots and lots of evidence that humans can change sleep schedule when they have to, and that preferences largely come from what we’re used to, no?
Anthropomorphizing LLMs obscures the issues. There are only tokens being generated.

Planning, factualness, logic - these are coincidences that arise because there exists an observer who can interpret the generated tokens.

Yes. Humans too can end up in a position where they are regurgitating words without understanding it.
The converse, that because humans dont get it, therefore LLMs also understand, doesn't hold.

Edit: I too was deeply enamored and tried to create LLM minions for fun and profit.

However, it is when you move away from general data to production that the magic is stripped away. It’s prediction, not thinking.

The confusion arises because the emergent behaviors are considered human like and we fill in the gaps with human attributes.
Can you talk about your tech stack?

One of the biggest complaints about Jira is how slow it is. While I'm really interested in potential alternatives, I'm curious if you think PHP might be a bottleneck.

If I follow a direct link to either a single existing issue, or a create new issue page, how fast does the page load?

How well does the backend scale to 100k or 1M issues?

How well does the frontend scale if you try to open a view with 1k or 10k issues?
> Rather than enter formulas, users would be able to point and click to get those summary statistics. The Lotus team called this tool “flexible views,” but today similar tools are called “pivot tables” in both Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets.

> The Lotus team showed Jobs an early prototype. “Steve Jobs thought it was the coolest thing ever,” Salas, now a professor at Brandeis University, tells Quartz. Jobs then convinced Lotus to develop the pivot table software exclusively for the NeXT computer. The software came out as Lotus Improv, and though the NeXT computer was a commercial failure, Lotus Improv would be hugely influential.

Joel Spolsky had this to say about Improv though [0]:

> When we were designing Excel 5.0, the first major release to use serious activity-based planning, we only had to watch about five customers using the product before we realized that an enormous number of people just use Excel to keep lists. They are not entering any formulas or doing any calculation at all! We hadn’t even considered this before. Keeping lists turned out to be far more popular than any other activity with Excel. And this led us to invent a whole slew of features that make it easier to keep lists: easier sorting, automatic data entry, the AutoFilter feature which helps you see a slice of your list, and multi-user features which let several people work on the same list at the same time while Excel automatically reconciles everything.

> While Excel 5 was being designed, Lotus had shipped a “new paradigm” spreadsheet called Improv. According to the press releases, Improv was a whole new generation of spreadsheet, which was going to blow away everything that existed before it. For various strange reasons, Improv was first available on the NeXT, which certainly didn’t help its sales, but a lot of smart people believed that Improv would be to NeXT as VisiCalc was to the Apple II: it would be the killer app that made people go out and buy all new hardware just to run one program.

> Of course, Improv is now a footnote in history. Search for it on the web, and the only links you’ll find are from very over-organized storeroom managers who have, for some reason, made a web site with an inventory of all the stuff they have collecting dust.

> Why? Because in Improv, it was almost impossible to just make lists. The Improv designers thought that people were using spreadsheets to create complicated multi-dimensional financial models. Turns out, if they asked people, they would discover that making lists was so much more common than multi-dimensional financial models, and in Improv, making lists was a downright chore, if not impossible.

[0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/09/the-process-of-des...

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I don't know if pivot tables are cool; one big problem that people often overlook is that they have to be recalculated ("refreshed") manually; this can lead to significant errors.

Conditional sums are not "complex formulas", they are often easier to understand and debug than pivot tables -- and they are recomputed with each change, which will eventually save your ass.
I've honestly no idea.

I'll take a stab at guessing (mind you, this is blind guessing, happy to be corrected!): the USMC still issue bayonets because of both tradition, which is important to the military, and also because they are actually useful in close quarters battle, which still occurs on occasion, such as in urban warfare and house-to-house combat clearing, etc. The likelihood of having to use a bayonet/knife in modern CQB is probably significantly higher than the likelihood of medieval defenders recovering from an enemy army that has stormed their castle.
If you have a reversible connector, then you might be entangled in a dilemma of which way is the "better" or "optimal" or "canonical" way, while with a non-reversible one there is only one way and thus no dilemma.

And in fact USB-C is not really physically reversible, because the hardware detects which way it's plugged in and permutes the signals, as opposed to mirroring all the wires, so there is indeed a "right" way of inserting an USB-C plug, except it's impossible to tell which it is without a dedicated hardware tester.
“We are a small company and don’t discuss employee counts as a matter of policy.”
In the late 90's I lived in a house with +/- 10 others (mostly students).

Internet was shared using Windows ICS (ugh!) on someone's PC, which was also used for that guys' regular work. Which included playing Diablo & such.

Obviously a lousy setup. And of course internet (for the rest o/t house) was often down as a result.

At some point people got fed up. And (having some Linux experience at the time) I knew where to look.

Put together and old Pentium PC with 2 network cards, no hdd, and in went a floppy called FreeSCO. After fiddling with the software's power management settings, I put the CPU on passive cooling.

Shoved the box in a corner & never looked back - rock solid. Uptime usually limited by power failures or ISP messing with configuration of their systems.

Indeed: Linux 2.0~2.4 days.
I’ve noticed that in devices that aren’t truly USB-C but seem to be USB-B with a C connector.

They work fine with an A-C cable, even when using that with a C-A dongle. But often only one way up.

They’re clearly noncompliant. Not that that stops anyone.
The constitution and the dozens of dozens of interpretations of the constitution by way of case law rendered by the supreme court.

Reading the full text of the constitution won't do much but put you a toe past the starting line in understanding what is and is not "constitutional" in the US.
Isn't scientific advancement inventing things we can't fully define? Each working atop the other to define more?
Great Questions (and My Attempts to Answer Them)
It is, and like Improv, has its roots in NeXSTSTEP.

http://www.kevra.org/TheBestOfNext/ThirdPartyProducts/ThirdP...

There used to be a version of Quantrix Modeler that was affordable for „home users“, it’s been quite a while though.
Last week searched for to get a refund for a travel ticket (German train company). Several online companies claim the process is complex and offer an express service, for a 30% cut. The refund process is actually pretty straight forward.

Same with a company that ranked high for "cancel $big_company subscription membership". You fill out a form, pay 10 Euro, and they will print a letter and mail it to $big_company on your behalf.
Don't "seize". Build.

That is, there is a network out there. You're not going to seize the existing one. You're not going to take over Facebook, either by government mandate or by force of arms. You're just not.

And that's OK, because "seize" was always a morally bankrupt idea anyway.

You want a network that's the peoples' network? Great. Go build it. Go convince people to use it.

That's not as hopeless as it sounds. As the existing stuff becomes more and more horrible to use, the existing players are doing your marketing for you.
The secularism as class marker bit really ground my gears.
As someone who would love to contribute: AGPL means nothing if I have to sign a CLA that gives you the ability to switch licenses on a whim. You will have much less contributors for this reason alone, while also scaring away customers.
What's the Black Mirror scenario?
3) The most fragile part (the wafer in the center of the receptacle) is on the expensive-to-repair device, while the least fragile part is on the cheap-to-replace cable. HDMI makes this same mistake. With USB-A, at least the plastic part on the device is relatively robust, and with Lightning, both plug and socket were rather robust (albeit prone to debris incursion). With older pin-type connectors like VGA and DVI, the fragile pins are completely on the replaceable cable.
Meaning that it will make life even more expensive for us. Not sure if that's a good thing. Between inflation and rising interest rates we're already in a very bad spot.

I'm already feeling squeezed. I can't imagine how people are that don't have a good job. No wonder populist parties are doing so well.
> the bulk of this earnings difference is now between and women in the same occupation

Ironic/refreshing/funny to see that "men" are literally absent from the narrative here. How do I make a PR to correct a mistake in their copy?
You can feel it with the pad of your thumb.
I have a feeling that if you tried this with a human that has always been deaf/mute that they would also have a very difficult time.

At least to me it's going to be interesting at these AI models become multi-modal and each mode can feed back into each other to formulate an answer. For example in the above questions I will subvocalize to reach an answer.
> these were lifelong craftsmen and I doubt they did it without a lot of thought

There are so many things that could bias this result. Maybe it's easier to craft in one direction. Perhaps, north of the equator, castles tended to be constructed in certain orientations, with the windowless stairwells tending towards one side versus another. Altogether, there is no reason to prefer the myth over any of those hypotheses--they each have no evidence.
Because it's a multi-purpose utility knife that can also optionally be mounted on a rifle?

Having a knife might be useful in various situations even outside combat as far as I know.
> I don't really get why there is a market for this in the first place

Ignorance and salespeople.
That always annoyed me. I get that people had to change cables for the first time since they got their first iPod, but lightning was such a MASSIVE improvement over the 30 pin dock connector… I can’t imagine anyone would want to go back.

I was really expecting something similar with the USB-C switch but it doesn’t seem to have happened.
I had a similar experience, but I joined AWS support, in a pretty challenging role (big data profile).

My first 3 months were training (almost none of it on any big data technologies) taking cases and working with other support engineers.

The role itself was very demanding, very little prep with the transition to the actual role, and I felt lost most of the time. Learning how AWS puts their services together was most of the challenge and to be honest the and my manager (normal IT guy) didn't really understand the basics or complexity of the cases we were dealing with at all from several conversations I had with him. He oversimplified just about everything.

At some point in time 6 months into the role, he decides to move to a different area. My new manager was like "oh I see you are on a performance improvement program". This was the first I had ever heard of it. After explaining myself to the new manager and doing a few kickass cases for very large customers, I was actually sent on training at Amazon HQ and from there I never looked back, and ended up becoming a global big data SME in professional services. So from there point of view I was worth the investment (especially at ~2-3500 a day billable to customers!).

But I'll never forget that my manager wanted me out after only 6 months, working with some of the most difficult customers and most difficult support cases I think AWS support has to deal with..
For example, at Oculus they ran both performance benchmarks in a lab and collected feedback data from field telemetry. Now of course, it’s always possible some performance counter was overlooked / the degradation requires a specific workload to show, but the lack of ability to show any evidence of a difference implies that you probably are unlikely to see it given that the detractors were very vocal and engineering at big corps tends to be more stasis driven.

I saw this also repeated at Apple (not Zswap since not Linux, but similar idea of compressing pages) and Android.
If you already run infra, and you aren't scared to roll your own here, check out mon. It's pretty good, albeit not a full SaaS solution.
Multi-national/Global treaty, they become military target practice if they arm themselves or try to import/export by whoever is available or wants to train their soldiers.
> Eotsfy club

Wassis?
It is many times better than you'd expect from random answers.
Depending on the specialty of the doctor, they will get pulled into more or fewer malpractice cases. Obstetricians vs Dermatologists for instance.

So you might want to examine a doctor's record vs the median for that kind of doctor...
> Kind of fine, but let’s hope there aren’t any new categories that weren’t there last month!

if it does mess up your formulas hopefully it does it in a way that you actually notice!

hyperbole aside, I don't think it's entirely Looker's fault that business users can't seem to get the hang of it, but I think the delta between what users "should use" and "actually use" is large enough that the tool just isn't worth it.
"Undue" national security risk? In contrast to a due national security risk? Who is writing these? ...
Thanks, this is helpful. It seems like (based on your reply) there are people successfully using Regent for scientific computing (I'm assuming); do you think the language is a viable choice for industry, or are there particular milestones you're looking reach?
GPT knows the letters each word is made up of, it can turn small snippets of text to Base64 reliably. The only reason it fails is that it is too stupid to understand the connection, not that it doesn't know what letters those words are made up of.
I own a usb-c male to usb-c female extension cable that I connect to a yubikey. The yubikey only works in one orientation. I don't have any other bits to test hypotheses with, but I believe the cable was made with the symmetry problem described above.
I've seen reversible USB connectors that just have flexible pins that bend up or down depending on how the port is oriented.
> Police the illegality (you probably need a well funded police force for that) and the corruption will reduce significantly.

How do you bootstrap non-corrupt police/prosecutors/judges/legislators to fight corruption, and how do you prevent the corrupt system from corrupting those people as well? If fighting corruption is so straight forward as merely giving money to police and telling them to enforce laws, then why do most countries around the world fail at it? Surely it's not for want of somebody having the idea to simply enforce anti-corruption laws. The idea is easy, but the idea is not the solution itself.

And I do mean most. Look at this map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index#/...

Several of the countries colored green on that map are generally acknowledged to be pretty damn corrupt, yet most are even worse.
I thought the opposite. Watching it scrabble to get its hind legs up on the ledge - exactly as a dog would do, with the benefit of millions of years of evolution behind it - was very impressive to me.
Everyone else by mutual agreement since this dumping ground benefits every country.
> Or would it be better for them to ask the question and then be educated by the answer?

Good UX makes the question "why is linux using my unused RAM for disk caching" (a non pressing question) instead of "why is linux eating up all my RAM" (panic, stressful question)
RAG at scale: Synchronizing and ingesting billions of text embeddings
This comment is not in the spirit of Hacker News.

I was trying to co-learn by discussing with you and you turned it into something very ugly.

Please do that literally anywhere else on the Internet.

We clearly disagree, but I know have no idea how to move the conversation forward, which is a shame, because maybe you do have something to teach me, though I have no way of knowing at this point.
Wait, there already are PD-specific cables, video-specific cables, and the like. If your cable is short enough, it's not an issue, but if you want one longer than 1 meter, you will likely have problems with 4k video on a cable that isn't specifically designed for high data rates.
We got Google Analytics and Clarity on the site. Not sure that is out of the ordinary. The site should still work with pihole though, so I'll take a look at that.
I have a USB-C cable that only charges when oriented one way.
Every day the attackers besiege you is one they have to defend against potential counterattacks from your allies. And even if your castle falls you might buy your empire time to raise a bigger army and rally more allies in order to win the next bigger war. Delaying enemies could be an important function of castles.
For large x64 machine we use for music, maybe not very soon. But I work on embedded devices for medical application (basically fancy iPads with other hardware) and it's already wayland only down to the drivers.

I think XWayland will be the way to go for a long time. For ardour itself, native Wayland is desirable for tooltips and other minor (but very annoying) UI things that break under XWayland, but for plugins, XWayland can be the glue.
It's amazing that it can take you 3 tries to plug in a USB cable which only has 2 correct ways it can be oriented.
Let's say someone asks you a question and you come up with two potential answers. You respond with the one that you think is more likely to be correct. They say you're wrong. You give them the second answer which you thought was less likely to be correct but apparently is more likely.
The cats do it because they enjoy it. Dogs do things to please their owners and because they are told and trained to.
Ask HN: Do you commit feature flags to Git?
If you do:

- What feature flag tool do you use?
- Do you like the experience? (Could the experience be better? How?)

If you don’t:

- Do you want to? (What’s stopping you?)
- or do you not want to? (What puts you off?)
Brown M&Ms. Which is tiny I know but I have a suspicion you did that to test us
And that €15 will not go directly back to the citizens but more likely to corrupt banks or other enterprises.
I should also note that there is Pygion if you want to use Python. Not a lot of great reference material right now, but there's the paper:

https://legion.stanford.edu/pdfs/pygion2019.pdf

And code samples:

https://github.com/StanfordLegion/legion/tree/stable/binding...
You don't, so long as the warlord is not forming an organized military/militia, just gangs with guns.
Why Are Exorcisms on the Rise?
In USA it's about collecting rewards points and travel benefits. Airlines and hotels are addicted to the cards.

https://creditcards.chase.com/travel-credit-cards

The interchange fees in Europe are too low to support these kickback games at scale.
> But only typedef the things themselves, not pointers to the things.

I agree with this. One of the things I dislike about SDL_net, etc, is they do exactly what you're describing. It's a pointer but they typedef it as if it's a value type.

I understand the intent but imo that's very icky.
> Embarrassing.

It's fine. We're social animals, we discuss topics even if we lack perfect expertise, at our present level of understanding. I've certainly had, for example, many opinions on programming that were later superseded by deeper understanding or evolving priorities.

It's just important to remember there's probably a bigger and better expert out there, and stay humble and interested, and let yourself be corrected.
General dystopian outcomes. After world powers harness robotic armies, revolts will no longer be possible and citizens will be permanently enslaved and must succumb to whatever oppressions are put on them.
Yes it does bend rules. Say that a, b and c are small integers (we don't worry about addition overflow). Given an inequality formula like:

a < b + c

we can safely perform this derivation (add -b to both sides):

a - b < c

This is not true if a, b and c are unsigned. Or even if just one of them is, depending on which one.

What I mean by "bend the rules of arithmetic" is that if we decrement from zero, we suddenly get a large value.

This is rarely what you want, except in specific circumstances, when you opt into it.

Unsigned tricks with circular buffer indices will not do the right thing unless the circular buffer is power-of-two sized.

Using masking on a poweer-of-two-sized index will work with signed, due to the way two's complement works. For instance, say we hava have [0] to [15] circular buffer. The mask is 15 / 0xF. A negative index like -2 masks to the correct value 14: -2 & 15 == 14. So if we happen to be decrementing we can do this: index = (index - 1) & MASK even if index is int.
HDMI is better than USB but it's still hard to do plug it in in dark, hard to reach places.
What if it was still about the weapons - but more about them being sheathed? A right hander will usually have a sword sheathed on their left hip sticking out and down. Maybe it was a safety measure to have the tip not hanging over the inner part of the stairwell as someone was going up where someone behind them could get poked versus more along the outer wall?
That's pretty easy to do. We don't know how Tylenol works.
I grew up maybe 300m from the Minus One house mentioned in Clacton On Sea and did a paper in that area for a couple of years and never heard of it so I’m wondering how true some of these really are?