skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You two are talking past each other.

They are saying that a real time application requires a transitive closure analysis of all cooperating partners to verify if service can be guaranteed.

A cooperative scheduler requires you to extend the transitive closure to all code in the system.

For a critical appliance where the appliance as a whole needs to guarantee service, this means your transitive closure already encompasses all code in the system, so you are not losing too much.

The advantage of preemptive scheduling is that it allows you to subdivide your applications so that you do not need to analyze everything in the system. You can restrict yourself to only considering direct and intentional interaction. This provides modularity advantages and allows you to provide guarantees to sub-components even in the presence of errors or malicious behavior in other components.

However, if you are doing whole system analysis anyways and the systems are simple enough to be tractable to analyze without decomposition, then a cooperative scheduler is adequate to ensure real time performance.
> Bitcoin could be used in a similar manner, handling a relatively small number of larger settlements; leaving other systems to handle smaller, individual transactions.

That’s what Lightning does but it also removes most of the sales pitch for the system since you’re giving up the global ledger. Once you’re relying on a bank in all but name for your transactions, it’s unclear what you’re getting for the extra cost and lower usability.
Ok just so you know you're coming across really difficult. Like you'll find objections about anything.

I think that if I'm considering any kind of business arrangement with someone, asking to see their face is a extremely minimal ask.
I vividly remember our teacher at university explaining "currying" in Lambda calculus and afterwards consistenly calling it "Schönfinkeln", which I think only works in German but sounds much more beautiful than "currying" :-D
> And nobody said that.

That is precisely what's being said. Re-read the thread from the beginning.

> People are lamenting that having 9 shares gives you less say in anything

That's not what "lamenting" means.
I was expecting at least an advancement in rice crispy superpositioning technology.
“Looks silly” is putting it lightly. That would only increase the already ridiculous level of dysfunction that your government suffers from, and would require vast procedural changes to even get back to those levels.
> I have my "office" shoes

Well I won’t claim that I haven’t worn shoes at all in the last 4 years, I can safely make the claim that I haven’t worn shoes within the 4 years in my home office to both my wife and pedicurist’s chagrin
Ahh, that would explain it. Showdead is off on my account and I guess I didn't find every result on my end. That's a shame. But thank you!

> could go on! because there's endless detail one can go into about these calls. But you "didn't necessarily want to dissect every little story" :)

Yeah, i imagine if I went down every tiny rabbit hole it'd be a full time job. I'll leave that to the professionals haha.
There is actually a report on the frontpage today about Russian SVR attacking pretty random vulnerable installations of JetBrains TeamCity. Even very "real" folks do these kind of opportunistic attacks.
> I don't have flagging privilege

Looks like you should? Is https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented?tab=re... wrong? You need to be on a comment's page; click its timestamp to get there.
I've built a real time updating app using react and I'm struggling to see the benefit here. For the very core parts I'm already avoiding the react overhead by using useref to maintain the same object. This reduces "hydration " and traversing to nil cost with no new concepts to learn. Why would I use million?
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The meme that the market system is democratic is strange to me. It's not a dictatorship, but it's odd to claim that something is democratic when I (as a moderately well off American) have as many votes as ten less well-off people in my own country. More, if you adjust for the number of votes each person need to use to not die. The difference grows further when you consider that there are people with well over 1,000x my assets, and when you consider the global nature of the modern economy.
This is an interesting material science result as it shows the power of an interaction that could be exploited in the future.

Rice University is also where a lot of graphene research occurs.

With some of the current clever innovations in crystallography combining the three dimensional and two dimensional materials, I expect a progression to logic gates and Single Instruction Multiple Data Paths to be a new way to leverage older approaches.

I don’t see that quantum computing will be an easy future direction currently but Rice scientists have surprised me in the past.
Yeah, it's a Google Search Appliance: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance

Commodity Dell server painted yellow.

e: oops, didn't refresh
I like to cook a lot so my counter is already clean, but I've got a silicone mat that goes in the dishwasher I use for pie crusts and pasta. Everything else goes in the dishwasher. I do the mixing in a bowl. I sweep after every time I cook anyway, but I rarely end up with much flour on the floor.

I've worked in food service off and on for 30 years now (got my first job when I was in 13, was a meat cutter at 20, now own catering and packaged food companies) so my kitchen habits are probably not that of the average person.
You just ignored the second part of my message?

If your company is not willing to pay someone (another company ) for making sure the open source software used is actually working properly (and for assuming liability if it doesn't), then it can't use open source software. But then, what does open source lose when losing for profit users that are not willing to contribute back?
As a parent of a 6 month old, I really worry about this stuff. I fear that once she is even a little older, this technology will be so good that it will make the real world seem intolerable.
> significantly increase over the next couple of decades

Great, that gives us time to build out wind and solar
Came here for this quote, Carl was so funny in this part. RIP
The chefs at French Laundry would probably tell you they'd rather eat at the Italian Nonna's.
Yeah. That makes me respect him more. He's signing himself up for pain and disappointment, but will make supremely useful tools regardless.
...which was based on CWEB/WEB and so on... ;-)

Though I guess we can stop there in this particular case, unless someone knows of an example of literate programming that precedes Knuth. I'd be interested if there are such examples...
Yes, users flagged it. We eventually reduced the penalty, though not enough for that thread to get back on the front page.

The current thread, however, ended up spending 8 hours on the front page, far more than we'd ever normally allow for this class of story.

Here are the explanations I've posted about this so far:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39231365

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39224560

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39210947

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39172045

If anyone reads those and still has a question which isn't answered there, I'd be happy to take a crack at it.
The first couple weeks there was definitely some friction, especially because having the working copy be a commit itself takes some real getting used to. Once I got over that and learned that I did not need to name every branch and could just work away and name branches only for pushing to Git remotes, the switch flipped very hard the other way. Git feels awful now.
I assume there's a better modern source (assuming for some reason you don't want to reference libbfd &c, but really, you at least want to cross-check with it) but BITD there was an AT&T System V book - I think it was https://books.google.com/books?id=mrImAAAAMAAJ but only at about 70% confidence, it's part of a series and might have been one of the others - that was "arcane but true" for ELF on existing platforms (at the time, which was the mid 1990s, which is why I hope there's a better starting point now...)
No, every computer program is not a Markov chain, because computer programs aren't random processes.

Look up the concepts of "higher-order Markov chains" or "Markov chains with memory".

Obviously, there are reasons that people don't directly implement LLMs as very high-order Markov chains. But it doesn't mean that the equivalence isn't mathematically or intuitively useful.

I'm just a non expert, but as far as I can tell, if there's an upper bound to the lookback in the context window, I don't see how that transformer isn't strictly less powerful than a Markov chain of that order. It's just a computationally tractable way to closely approximate it.

If the potential lookback distance is unbounded, then I think you could say that it's different from a finite-order Markov chain.
browsers already know our p*rn preferences, i doubt itll be different with meta quest
No it isn't, there's no 'network' and the order is different, and that's not what's discussed anyway. Though I suppose if the URL really was mozilla.developer.network it would make it less interesting whether the pages ever spelled it or not.
As parent of a 7 year old…you’ll figure it out. We try to avoid an “abstinence only” approach to tech (which doesn’t work once the kid goes to school or a friends house), and be very deliberate about what is allowed and not allowed.

You’ll figure it out, but take the time you have now to discuss with your spouse what your approach is going to be.

Good luck!
Reminds me of Feynman saying that when he learnt a new mathematical technique, he'd try it to see if it helped on his unsolved problems.
Comparing Bitcoin mining to pouring oil on the beach is intellectually lazy. Bitcoin incentivizes the search for the cheapest energy, which increasingly means renewable. Unlike oil spills, Bitcoin’s ‘harm’ is driving a real search for energy innovation, not just cleanup. Moreover, it’s serving a crucial economic function, providing a decentralized financial system that aligns incentives with human progress. Trivializing such a groundbreaking innovation overlooks the broader benefits it offers in terms of both economic freedom and the push towards sustainable energy solutions.
IPDB is run by an odd dude that refuses to modernize. God bless him, tho, his internet 1.0 website is invaluable.
If the interest rate is zero, what is the incentive for lending money?
Some benefits and challenges of having an AI as the president of a major country
Let's see..

"In 1907 there was a financial crisis. We learned our lessons and created an institution to prevent the next crisis. So, the next time things went south in finance, in 1929 there was no crisis. There was a catastrophe instead."
Admittedly, I find myself wondering if these developments are a phenomenon in a world where Pax Americana is collapsing - but perhaps salvageable, or if it's the logical outcome of an already post-Pax Americana world.
I’m not sure why but that was the first game of Minesweeper I’ve ever finished, other than the ones I try to finish on huge maps with a single click.
If you’re running it on AWS? Probably not.

Otherwise: egress costs.
Labyrinth is a turd.
> Unemployment has never been lower

That doesn't measure underemployment, nor does it measure people who've given up on finding work. That's why it needs to be considered alongside things like the labor force participation rate - which has been on a downward trend since 2000 - and alongside wage growth, which has lagged below inflation since the 70's.

> January 2024 saw the most growth followed closely by December 2023.

Which jobs, specifically? At what pay? Destroying a $50k/year job to create two $25k/year jobs ain't progress.
All of my knick-knacks and collectibles are off camera. You're making me rethink my office layout.
As a thought-experiment, suppose you have a society in year X in which a substantial majority of people are opposed to putting resources into some project.

Time passes, it is now year Y and an individual has managed to amass control over sufficient resources to at least begin this project.

More time passes, it is now year Z and the project requires further investment. The individual who initiated it seeks public funding to continue the work?

1. is it appropriate in a democratic society that an individual can direct resources on a large scale into projects rejected by most people in that society?

2. should the society consider funding the continuation of the project?

If the answer to (1) seems immediately clear to you, consider your answer in the case that the project is "Invade our largest neighboring country" or "Develop new bioweapons that will only affect people of a certain genetic makeup" or even, somewhat realistically, "Develop ways to burn fossil fuels on sufficient scale to alter the composition of the atmosphere".

What is the qualification possessed by the very rich, other than "well, they're rich", that should entitle them to make such decisions?
Monetary policy could probably be implemented through some other means than real estate, which is what I interpreted the suggestion to mean. QE as it has existed was a real example of Friedman's "nothing so permanent as a temporary government program": a reaction to the housing bubble becoming a default tool of monetary policy.
I think this is what's really going to happen in AWS. People will audit their IP usage, discover that 90% doesn't need public addresses, and clean up their network. VPC more or less forces a combination of private addresses and NAT anyway and a clean VPC only needs a handful of public addresses. They don't need to deploy IPv6 and they're not going to.
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With the added benefit of neck strain!
"Port Git to Ruby."

Oh, you want me to "port Git to Ruby"? That's rich. Let me just rewrite thousands of lines of highly optimized C code into slow, bloated Ruby because you think it would be a fun experiment. I must have missed the part where YOU became a kernel developer or mastered the art of writing efficient software. Pathetic. Go ahead and waste your time if you want, but don't expect any sympathy from me when you realize what a monumental mistake you made.

Someone please ask Linus this so that we can compare.
My feeling is that it's just like IMAX 3D movie. it will continue to exist, but will not be accepted by mainstream. This is because of our physical limits.
ah, that share url is indeed a bug, thank you for finding it, I'll work on it.

For the tile not having bevels when it should, would you be able to take a screenshot? That will help me understand when this happens. I haven't seen this yet, so I'm not entirely sure what could cause this.
I've used these flashbulbs but was never a fan of them because they were expensive, however they were the line of last resort back then as electronic flash units were very expensive.

The video shows that inside the flashbulbs you'll see a small blue dot. This was not discussed in the video nor was it mentioned in the comments—at least the ones I had time to read.

This dot is an important indicator in that it should always be blue, if it had turned pink then the bulb may not fire because the bulb's hermetic seal had been broken and air had gotten in (glass cracked, bad metal/glass seal on the firing electrodes). The ingress of air would dilute the oxygen atmosphere and likely oxidize the metal zirconium thread due to the presence of water vapor and the bulb wouldn't ignite or its light output would be suboptimal.

The blue dot would turn pink in the presence of air due to traces of water vapor in the air. It consisted of cobalt chloride which is blue in its dry state but turns pink when damp.

Some may recall cobalt chloride was used on ornamental weather indicators. As well as little figures of a man and woman popping in and out of a house to indicate dry and wet weather a large round dot of blotting paper soaked in cobalt chloride was used to do the same. In dry weather the dot would turn blue and wet it would turn pink.

Incidentally, when I was a naïve kid I asked my local pharmacist if he had any cobalt chloride so I could make my own indicators and [surprisingly] he actually had some and he put about 20gms in a small glass bottle and sold it to me for a few pence. He went to considerable effort to tell me that cobalt chloride was poisonous and he labeled the bottle with its contents and a big red poison label.

Oh how times have changed.

Edit: cobalt chloride also used to be widely used to indicate moisture in desiccants such as silica gel. Small amounts of blue cobalt chloride crystals would be added to dry gel. If they turned pink then the gel had become hydrated and needed to be replaced. Recently, it's been removed due to health concerns.
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that about 60% of the country is white? [Source: 1, 57.84% white in 2020]

Well, look at me at Friday night researching suicide numbers, thanks in part because you didn't cite your sources.

The graph after the map of the country in this article[2] shows absolute rates and per race rate, yeah white people have the tallest absolute rate, but damn, 28% suicide rate for American Indian or Alaska Native, vs. 17% for White.

But gotta love white people seeing the march of equality/everyone facing a shitty situation with a pandemic, and thinking they're the ones being targetted. Perception vs reality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...

[2] https://usafacts.org/articles/how-is-the-suicide-rate-changi...
Recordings of a one-year-old's life train an AI system to learn words
Water prices reflecting scarcity are not a solution for water scarcity.

The problem is not enough water. You can't make water by taxing it.

All you're doing is making it less accessible for people lower down the hierarchy - which makes it even scarcer, because people at the top of the hierarchy end up hoarding it and/or profiteering.

Which is why price signals are one of the dumbest of all possible ways of managing resources. They're a political non-solution to a physical problem.

You may try to argue that "incentizing efficiency" means more water is produced. But that is empirically false.

The only real competition is capitalism is for shareholder cash. Customers are thrown overboard if their interests conflict with that goal.

None of this solves the physical, tangible problem of providing a stable water supply.

If you're having trouble understanding this, ask the people in Flint MI how making imaginary money game tokens more important than providing a usable utility has worked out for them.

You might also want to look into why the UK's water companies are currently dumping raw sewage into rivers. Hint: because they can, and because it's more profitable than filtering it first.
Why is this the case about the worth of a dollar?
> I'm not sure what you mean by drawing the distinction between internet use and social media use.

They're two different terms that mean different things. Just because something is true for squares doesn't mean that it's true for rectangles even though squares are rectangles. Using the correct words matter because otherwise you are spreading misinformation and confusion.
Unfortunately unemployment numbers don't mean shit if you still can't even pay your rent with your salary.

This focus on unemployment is absurd. It has nothing to do with the wealth gap.

More people working, but always with less wealth, while companies keep getting richer.

We could as a society literally end unemployment at any time by redistributing some of the wealth. We don't because it's more profitable to have people worrying if they will be able to eat every month.
Interestingly, it was also pointed out to me that the `a` and `p` elements have exactly the same 97.34% support. Both of these elements have data coming from MDN like the `html` element. See: https://caniuse.com/mdn-html_elements_a and https://caniuse.com/mdn-html_elements_p

I've updated the article to note this.
Now you link it, I vaguely remember it being a big deal around the time they dropped Servo and load of Rust people left (/were made redundant?), both as part of a broader shakeup/refocusing.
Please make your substantive points without swipes ("What are you talking about?") as the site guidelines ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Your comment would be just fine without that bit.
Serious question - why not just use python?
It's ironic that AMP was basically an effort by Google to force everybody to pull every web page from Google's servers, and now Google says "hey caching everything is too expensive."
I wouldn't agree that it is moving reliability issues to the message bus. This is more a scaling/availability problem than a reliability problem, but the message bus is definitely helping to solve scaling/availability problems.

While Kafka can indeed be pretty complex, streaming architectures aren't necessarily complex at all. For example, having a AWS Kinesis stream sitting in front of an AWS Lambda is pretty simple, and provides efficiency benefits even at comparatively small scale.
I think this is really important, because pushing through on one project that's not working makes you neglect other projects that are more deserving of your time, attention, effort, love, blood, sweat and tears. Opportunity cost.

I had a really compelling but unproven idea once, for a gap in the market for a library. I made an absurdly ruthlessly minimal prototype in 2 hours; then spent 1 long day (9 hours) making a website. My rule was if no one appreciated it in 10 days, I'd forget it. Someone did, and it ended up making me ramen-FU-money.
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> I think that is a wrong perspective.

It's the only perspective that matters.

> In fact, you can make the problem mich bigger mid-term by killing incentives and making people into poverty...

Being limited to $15 million is a far cry from "killing incentives and making people into poverty".
How is this a false attribution? The court was authorized by an executive order from Joe Biden.
A bit late but it's worth a shot :)

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