skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey wheybags, this is not deterministic lockstep.

That is an algorithm for peer-to-peer games, where each peer waits for the input from all other players before advancing the game simulation. The deterministic part is because players share inputs (not simulation results) AND the simulation is deterministic for the same inputs. The lockstep part is because all clients advance at a coordinated pace. The Age of Empires series use this approach, and that’s why units don’t move immediately when you click. Starcraft uses this too, but it has some tricks to smooth the gameplay experience. Both are peer-to-peer with no single “server”.

In the case of Reflect, we have a server-authorative simulation (not peer-to-peer). Clients send their inputs to the server, but they do not wait for the result, they instead predict the result locally without confirmation from the server. The server also rolls back time and then replays inputs to compensate for individual client latency. And the client corrects/reconciles their local simulation once the server sends a simulation result that included one of their inputs.

The keywords for this algorithm are:

- Server-authoritative

- Predicted

- Lag compensated (simulation rollback / server rewind / input replay)

- Prediction reconciliation (local simulation rollback / local input replay / misprediction smoothing)

I’m not sure if Reflect has it, but client-side interpolation is also a common feature in FPS games, where upon receiving a world update, the client will tween entities to their new positions/rotations over a fixed interval (such as 0.1s). This allows you to send updates to clients at only 10Hz but have entities move smoothly (without needing the client to locally simulate the physics of every entity).

There is only one authority, the server, so determinism isn’t super important. However, it is nice to have for client predictions to reduce the occurrences of mispredictions. Mispredictions occur when the server state did not advance the way the client predicted. These can happen when:

(1) Another client’s input changed the world state in an important way,

(2) The simulation is not deterministic (e.g. the random number generation is not synced).

In FPS games, (1) is impossible to eliminate. These mispredictions are often smoothed using interpolation. (2) should be minimised, but may actually be desirable. For example, Counter Strike does not sync the RNG for bullet spread randomness, to prevent “nospread” cheat programs from predicting where each bullet will go and instantly adjusting the player’s aim so the bullet lines up perfectly.

https://www.gabrielgambetta.com/client-side-prediction-live-...

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Latency_Compensatin...

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Source_Multiplayer_...
It’s not there are services they are available to everyone they aren’t even illegal or grey market. Amex and citi offer em
What do you do about the terrible volume of decaying leaves where you live?
Org charts tend to change faster than services can possibly be re-architected in a large scale system that is growing quickly. Honestly you need a critical mass of engineers who can think end-to-end with a product and business-first mentality, they should decide what tradeoffs make the most sense taking into account a broad range of hypothetical future requirements and what makes sense given current domain knowledge. They must do this with real expertise and ownership, not basing it purely on a 3-year roadmap from non-technical PM. Then teams should be organized around the design of these systems (not the other way around). This overall process should be repeated iteratively as the product and business scales.
It sucks, but running a site like YouTube is expensive.

I hope the trade-off is less ads overall since everyone will be forced to watch them (at least in theory), because using YouTube today without an ad-blocker is a terrible experience. I've been paying for Premium for years now, but every now and then I'll go to YouTube when not logged in and my god is it bad.
It's possible, but a lot of noise has been made recently of indicators of a flagging economy in China. Their real estate markets, in particular, are very troubled.

I suspect that the (perhaps unintentional) "message" is that this is another sign.
"You could sum up Alzheimer's as: Diet/Lifestyle + a congenital form of Cushing's syndrome and you have increasing glucocorticoids which imply downregulation of the PVN, less progesterone and low levels of Prolactin reducing oligodendrocyte reducing myelin sheaths. Add in APOE e4 without choline in the diet and you have accumulation of lipids to round it all out."

Can someone translate this into plain English?
No one relishes paying for anything.

It is the benefits that they receive after getting the said product / service.

And some relish is just absence of pain
This looks epic. Definitely going to explore adding it to Autodistill[1] this weekend. Any chance you'll be publicly releasing the internal OCR finetune?

[1] https://github.com/autodistill/autodistill
Thank you, especially for being such an early adopter.

I am glad that VB served you well.

As ChatGPT said to me one day: happy hacking! :-)
Raking is a hell of a lot more work. I'd rather use the electric leaf blower for 5 minutes over using the rake for half an hour.
My go-to line is "I don't like working with geniuses, they're idiots."

Of course I don't actually think that, but there does seem to be a kind of parochial navel-gazing that comes with the high intellect territory, and in tech that manifests itself in absurdly over-engineered solutions.
Those are all really good questions, but at the end of the day they don't really matter and are a matter of semantics. You could similarly ask is there anything that isn't life. Is matter a prerequisite for life? What about voids in the matter of space that shift and change over time? Is empty space alive?

You could Define life broadly to include Stars or mountains, but then you just look for a new subset and name that would include life more similar to our own.

One definition of life that I think resists scrutiny is an object or unit which contains a transferable data and an algorithm to use that data. This would separate a cloud from a tree.
Somehow I'm living day to day without needing to think about being associated with a service I am paying for. I totally get your point about minimizing interference, but there is absolutely no way anyone thinks Monero is a good solution to this problem who isn't involved in some shady business.
Helpful to the host so another type can flourish. Certain classes of antibiotics will wipe out species then similar but harmful types will colonize the space and you end up with autoimmune disorders.
Can this be used to click around in the browser with text prompts? Maybe after some fine-tuning on screen recordings of specific workflows in browsers.
> Many of the changes are just UI reshuffles for no good reason which is annoying

I'm still angry over the MS Office ribbon.
> don’t know how anyone can lead a house GOP with a faction that opposes any compromise

By leading the House, not the House GOP. Perhaps we're seeing seismic activity in our two-party system's alignment.
By all means, create a more perfect union. Until then, I can't get on board.

Seems like every historical instance of individuals ceding their rights to an organization goes rotten. Maybe this time will be different.
Read the article, it covers why they didn't thoroughly
A month ago, Winnie the Pooh banned iPhones (and all other foreign-branded phones) for employees of the central government and some state-backed firms. Apple shares fell 3% instantly from that news.
It's the one stat which makes nuclear look good, so of course it's mentioned as if it has any relevance whatsoever.
https://mywozi.com/
Who was giving the set designer so much money lol
Arguably not a plant :-)
> Seems like a space ripe for disruption.

I think there's plenty of room for a new competitor to make money, but you can bet that any similar service is going to be just as bad for people's piracy and security. Nobody is going to collect and store that kind of data without either selling it or being forced to turn it over.
The article directly addresses this:

>"In the end, they all voted to remove McCarthy. Many people wondered afterwards why McCarthy did not offer the Democrats a bargain in order to sustain him. The answer is that the logic of the procedural coalition wouldn’t allow it. As with the Speakership vote in January, McCarthy didn’t need one vote, one time. He needed an ongoing procedural coalition. Unless the Democrats were going to form a permanent alliance with him, saving him on the vacate vote wouldn’t have done any good. In fact, it would have simply turned more Republicans against him, as whatever concessions he gave the Democrats would have certainly moved policy to the left."

So it either had to be a fully negotiated, lasting alliance for the rest of this Congress, or nothing. McCarthy did not make any moves towards such a thing, completely contrary to your assertion that they'd "have him by the balls". On the contrary right after the vote for the CR he immediately went on TV Sunday to try to backstab Democrats and (preposterously) say they were at fault.
I'm doing the same, and also with the Ego which works well. My wife makes me mulch the leaves and dump them in one spot so she can use the compost in the spring.
I've seen contractors use batteries pretty effectively. They just plug in gang chargers and have batteries charging all the time.

also, california has a bill stopping sales small gas-powered engines after 2024 (such as leaf blowers and lawn mowers)
I find this comment rather baffling. Can you really not see what I'm talking about without having a concrete (and likely completely irrelevant to 23andMe's requirements) example spelled out for you in detail?
Wow, that is super short notice. Notifying my clients of new bank details sometimes takes ages when they are government, universities etc.
> Do the republicans look like a clown show? Sure. Is that a better overall outcome for the country than having a (barely, semi) functioning House? No (even if you're a democrat).

This presupposes that the Democrats prefer "a better overall outcome for the country" over "the Republicans look like a clown show". It seems like the predominating political theory of the day is that any bad thing is actually good, as long as you can convincingly blame the other party for it.
Colorado Supreme Court Upholds Keyword Search Warrant
I've never paid a real estate lawyer anywhere near what an agent demands for a fee.
If diet had an effect on Alzheimer's, then those patients that have altered medical diets / starve at the end would show improvement, no?
The EU seems keen to enforce this. The DMA set to come in will force Apple to allow third party app stores and side loaded apps to iOS, where it's not currently done
I think it comes from very specific, narrow, idiosyncratic understandings of democracy (unconstrained majoritarianism, either direct or representative) and republicanism (government by elected and/or appointed magistrates each and collectively exercising well-defined, limited authority.) Its a view in which democracy, like absolute monarchy, is the rule of men, whereas republicanism is the rule of laws.
not sure if I misunderstood this but do customers use Pier's license as a stand in for their own license? Because that wouldn't work right
The poster of this the 1517 fund has the tagline: "We back dropouts, renegade students, and deep tech scientists at the earliest stages, before anybody else. Want to chat? Reach out:"

There is a great irony in a fund that is against education using a video from a scientist who went to MIT for undergrad and Princeton for a Phd, and then taught at Cornell and Caltech, as marketing for their "drop out and work" VC fund.
Reports of the birth of AGI are greatly exaggerated
Consider the Minnesota Teachers Union:

> Minneapolis Public Schools defends policy to prioritize retaining educators of color when determining layoffs

> Effective in the spring of 2023, the contract provision states that teachers who are members of "populations underrepresented among licensed teachers in the district" may be exempt from district-wide layoffs outside of seniority order, deviating from the traditional "last-in, first-out" system.

> The stipulation is a part of a recent collective bargaining agreement between the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) and MPS, which concluded a weekslong teachers' strike in March.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/minneapolis-public-schools-defends...

I can't wait til I'm targeted as a software engineer for being of the "wrong" group!
Comcast SecurityEdge blacklist strikes again?
Not sure why this is a surprise - they cut margin (by reducing prices) to maintain share.
idk it costs me like 6 dollars to run a docker container on aws's container service with .5 core. one server by hand isn't to bad, once you want to scale horizontally its going to be tedious, the tools start getting annoyingly complex. locking down everything is a headache, and theres always a nagging feeling that you didn't do it right and one well timed script from getting taken over. you also need to deal with code deploys. just dumping the python code in a docker container and uploading it is easy. updating a hand set up server, again is tedious and error prone.
Unfortunately with USB-C, it seems to be impossible to get those really lightweight thin charge only cables. I really miss those for traveling. My lightest A/micro-B examples even do some slow data, which has occasionally been useful as a contingency.
It should load it up as a task below, then you have to click the red wand icon and it will generate the subtasks for it. Can you let me know if that doesn't work?
Fugees rapper Pras Michel's lawyer used AI to draft bungled closing argument
Pretty sure this is a hoax/satire/anti-trans argument.

So, going to just answer the anti trans piece.

There is no trans athletes dominating sport. Even us talking about it is because conservatives want to use it as a wedge issue.

For the mathematically inclined, slightly under 1% of the population are trans. When we see more than 1% of winners of athletic competitions being trans then we can talk about a problem. At the moment there just aren’t any trans athletes as the best in the world in their sport so it just isn’t an issue.

I honestly think unless you are trans yourself you really should not have an opinion about trans people.
GP is correct, you are using the term to mean something different from everyone before you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_%28computing%29

TL;DR: A honeypot is like a bait car in a police sting operation; It's something that looks like a vulnerable system with something of value to attackers, but in reality is a fake meant to catch intruders or collect data on them.
Distractions are not that bad. The idea is you complete work in small bites and then recharge instead of crossing the point of diminishing returns.
Endogamy was also historically common in the Jewish diaspora before the Contemporary Period, so on average they will probably see a lot more distantly related people via 23andMe which creates an exponential increase in the amount of data scraped per user account.
It also is a prominent defense of unequal (by population; equal by states) representation in the Senate as a desirable feature rather than a defect in the US’s Constitutional design.
I never read (or studied in class) the fascist manifesto, your comment inspired me to look it up. The Wikipedia summary is a hoot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascist_Manifesto

Politically, the Manifesto calls for:
* Universal suffrage with a lowered voting age to 18 years, and voting and electoral office eligibility for all ages 25 and up;
* Proportional representation on a regional basis;
* Voting for women;
* Representation at government level of newly created national councils by economic sector;
* The abolition of the Italian Senate (at the time, the Senate, as the upper house of parliament, was by process elected by the wealthier citizens, but were in reality direct appointments by the king. It has been described as a sort of extended council of the crown);
* The formation of a national council of experts for labor, for industry, for transportation, for the public health, for communications, etc. Selections to be made of professionals or of tradesmen with legislative powers, and elected directly to a general commission with ministerial powers.

In labor and social policy, the Manifesto calls for:
* The quick enactment of a law of the state that sanctions an eight-hour workday for all workers;
* A minimum wage;
* The participation of workers' representatives in the functions of industry commissions;
* To show the same confidence in the labor unions (that prove to be technically and morally worthy) as is given to industry executives or public servants;
* Reorganization of the railways and the public transport sector;
* Revision of the draft law on invalidity insurance;
* Reduction of the retirement age from 65 to 55.

In military affairs, the Manifesto advocates:

Creation of a short-service national militia with specifically defensive responsibilities;
Armaments factories are to be nationalized;
A peaceful but competitive foreign policy.

In finance, the Manifesto advocates:

* A strong extraordinary tax on capital of a progressive nature, which takes the form of true partial expropriation of all wealth;
* The seizure of all the possessions of the religious congregations and the abolition of all the bishoprics, which constitute an enormous liability on the Nation and on the privileges of the poor;
* Revision of all contracts for military provisions;
* The revision of all military contracts and the seizure of 85 percent of the profits therein.
I guess this was expected with the price cutting of many of their models over recent months. It was an indication that they weren't selling as quickly as they hoped. The wrinkle here is that the cyber truck starts delivery in November, so that could lead to a resurgence in overall sales volume. Not sure if it's wise to short Tesla just yet. (not financial advice obv)
It's websockets, and yes we do make use of Durable Objects. But we do extensive batching and buffering on top of the raw platform. You can't literally send 120 messages / second to and from 100 concurrent clients. Actually the math tops out at about 8 :).
When I was a kid, the city would send trucks around in the fall to vacuum up piles of leaves left at the curb.

I think it would be cool to vacuum things up.
The EU probably won't mind.
And if their father also did it, 100% would be in there.
70% is the capacity factor of the plants, not the ratio of nuclear-generated electricity in France's grid (though it's also around this value if I record well). Nuclear can do load following: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load-following_power_plant#N...

Capacity factor of 100% is not feasible because you need maintenance of the plants (probable true for every single form of electricity production).

Regarding whether or not stricly 100% of nuclear in the grid is feasible, I don't now enough about grids to say whether only using load-following nuclear power plants (without hydro/gas turbines) could do the job. We have hydro in France, might as well use it rather than have only NPPs, and dams are great for load-following.
Most landscaping trucks are pretty beat on with tools going in and out, heavy equipment dropping bucket loads of stuff into the beds, etc.

But let's assume they are small scale personal beater pickup trucks. If they can't afford a nicer work truck and aren't able to purchase professional grade equipment, do you think they will be able to afford electric alternatives and extra batteries, etc?

Regardless, pro or consumer, they are all the same level of loud you are annoyed with. If you think it's bad as the person hearing your neighbors yard being mowed, think of what the operator is dealing with (ear protection is a must).

Maybe I'm indifferent because I used to do landscaping and spent time around all kinds of loud machines, but imo it's not that big of a deal. It is loud, I'll give you that. But pro mowers are fast, because more lawns is more money. So on a regular city or suburb lawn they are in and out in 5-10 minutes. Walk inside, or close the window, or run an errand. Sometimes people's occupation is an inconvenience to us, but it's a tiny fraction of your day and there are plenty of things you can do to minimize it.
Ah yes, total real life equivalents to goatse
PythonAnywhere founder here: your timing is impeccable! Literally today we started our beta-testing of our initial implementation of ASGI support. Features are limited right now but you can start and run a FastAPI site with a single request to the API -- no UI yet, but we decided to release the backend while we were working on the frontend so that people could give the tires a kick ASAP. If you're interested, drop us a line at the usual support address and I'm sure we can on-board you if it does what you need.
I understand why it could be selection bias. Let's say there are 100 open source projects with openly hostile communication. Only Linux succeeds. You can't point to Linux as proof that hostile communication results in success based on that 1/100 chance.

Similarly you can't just use a single anecdote to prove anything either.

I agree that the argument could be expressed better, but I personally understood the intention.
cough monero cough
It is an exercise in trolling. The president, Aron D’Souza, is a Peter Thiel buddy, and sounds like somebody who would find bullet points like "Inclusive Language" and "How to come out as enhanced" hilarious in this context.
iirc and iiuc, Huaweii did just release the Mate 60 Pro which uses a fully China built chipset, with the exception of the SK Hynix memory.
You can use ApplicationSets which templates Applications based upon "generators" such as the contents of a git repo. You can add allowed destinations and resource whitelists and blacklists.
https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operator-manual/app...
Once something like this is setup then developers do not need access to the argocd name space and can simply deploy to the git repo.
Having followed Vogtle and Summer very very closely, as I was very eager for e a nuclear renaissance to fight climate change, this story does not hold up.

Similarly, the "blame the regulators" game does not work for recent reactors in Finland and France based on the latest design.

What it really comes down to is incompetence on the design side and on the production side. As well as not taking the requirements seriously, at least with some of the contractors.

The design change story was more true back in the early 80s, but even then it was only part of the story. Good projects finished quickly, in any case, back then. A bigger problem was vastly over ordering nuclear too, in a planning failure.

Fundamentally, nuclear construction has to deal with the fact that in advanced economies, labor only gets more expensive and more valuable. And the foundations of big nuclear reactors are massive scale and massive labor coordination. There's so much high skill welding, that needs to be checked so thoroughly, since it needs to last so long.

There are some, like Jigar Shah, who think a nuclear industry can be built if leaders emerge who reject the blame game and take accountability onto themselves for actually making a product that utilities want to buy, and doing it on budget and on time. I'm skeptical, after having Westinghouse and the EPCs dash my hopes, and seeing the same failures in Europe at the same time. But I hope I am wrong. However I don't see a single thing in this a16z article to make me think that they will be able to pick and fund those leaders. Let the VCs be the dumb money to find a model that works, then Shah will bring the capital that can really make it scale, IMHO.