skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rather than "neomedieval" I'm still with Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia (although it looks like russia is more likely to fall into the Eastasian orbit than be masters of Eurasia). Brexit has restored the rightful position of Airstrip One in Oceania, and even the "disputed territories" are more or less in mid twentieth-century geographical position.

What does seem neomedieval is the resemblance of intra-Oceanian politics to Guelphs and Ghibellines, but we could equally well say Byzantine...

(It may help to realise that the geopolitics of 1984 was informed both by Orwell's own You and the Atom Bomb [but how do drones affect this conclusion?] and a book by a 1920s? author whose name I've currently forgotten)

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
It can be used for a lot more than just timesheets, and the UI gets weirder and weirder in those other features.
Z-Anatomy consists of a 3D modeling project (the anatomical models themselves) made in Blender, and a multi-platform application made in Unity.
Yes, it contains the muscular fasciae.
I agree, it needs scoring based on how much you actually manage to reduce the sinusoid. Currently you aren't punished for a null change.

Also the general game design is broken in a few other ways:

- no clear indication when a loss occurs. I played for a while and didn't realise a loss had occurred half way through my playing

- you quickly reach a single dominant frequency since you instinctively try to match the frequency of the current sinusoid

- you can control every parameter of the incoming wave, which means this isn't much like tetris, where you can't change one of the parameters of the incoming block (its shape). I would suggest locking some aspect of the incoming wave, which would also fix the next issue

- there are too many controls and they are also not easy to change quickly
TBH I'm surprised we aren't forced to use it since it's a Microsoft product and whenever there's a Microsoft version of something we seem to get forced to use it. Weird.
The buttons also need a hover/focus state, easy win for accessibility there
The study is called "Phosphodiesterase Type 5 Inhibitors in Men With
Erectile Dysfunction and the Risk of Alzheimer Disease" and published in "Neurology", for reference. It's open access, link: https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000209131
1. Modify the base font-size to 62.5% so that 1.6rem = 16px.

That is not a given as it depends on browser settings and it generally doesn't mix well with other CSS that might not make the same assumption.
For fresh project, maybe it's better to use a modern tool
> people should pay for playing

I’m sorry, what? There are two ways I can interpret what you wrote. “Should pay” as in the people who play sports should buy their own concussion medicine. Which is okay I guess? But nobody talked about financing.

Which makes me think you mean “should pay” as in people who choose to partake in sports should suffer harm (as in pay the metaphorical “price”). Is that how you mean it? Because that sounds extremely cruel and twisted morality. There is nothing “should” about that. That makes it sound as if these people deserve the harm even if we could prevent it.
I agree FP is great, and free, and it feels instant most of the time…

But it's actually allowed to stall for up to 2 hours if either bank wants to perform additional verification (which it sometimes has to based on who you are, who they are, etc).

So yeah, normally great but not quite Great Enough™ that you can build a payment processing system on top of it. Go Cardless tried with DD and now they're hooking directly into each banks's transfer flow.
Sure, but it’s not like you own the name LLM.

I mean, let’s say you picked say, “ghost pony”; ok, sure, it’s obviously a name.

But LLM? I mean, it’s not like you can get a lot more generic than that. If your tools name is “tool” and some else makes a tool called “tool”, you can’t really complain that much…
Hi! I'm the author of the essay.

Durable execution is meant to complement your application. You will never want to model everything with it. It solves the problem of needing to decide how often to manually make snapshots of some important state, this becomes implicit. Workflows in flawless can still fail, you could call the `panic` function, or divide by zero. In the end it's arbitrary compute.

"External" state is one of the text book examples for using durable execution. If you are interacting with 5 different services and calling 5 different API endpoints, you sometimes want to have transactional behaviour. Leave all 5 systems in a consistent state after your interaction. You can't only call 2 and stop. Durable execution and patterns like saga [1] are one of the most straight forward ways (for me) to solve this.

In flawless specifically, I try to give enough context to the user why things failed. It's very easy to reconstruct the whole computation from the log. And let the user decide if they want to re-run the workflow. If you charge someone's credit card, but the call to extend their subscription fails (service down), you can't safely just re-run this. You have two choices, either you continue progressing and roll back the charge, or you fail and have someone manually look at it. In general, you want to use flawless in scenarios where the "called exactly once" guarantee is important. If you can just throw away the state and it's safe to re-run from the start, then you don't need flawless for this part of the app. The less state you have to care about, the better.

EDIT: The alternative would be to manually construct a state machine with a database. "Check if the credit card was charged. Call Stripe. I finished charging the credit card, save this information. Call the subscription service, it failed, restart everything. Check if the credit card was charged ...". And depending on your workflow, this can be a very complicated process where 90% of your code is just dealing with possible failures. Especially if failures happen on the edge of some calls it can become very tricky.

[1]: https://medium.com/cloud-native-daily/microservices-patterns...
My favorite is when you try to sign in, but it fails because you didn't answer the captcha on the login screen... because the captcha never loaded.
I'd very much say Credit Card as you are insured for the purchase
I am trying to regain access to my email accounts
How do i regain access to my gmail accounts?
Thoughts on Tech Employment
Lisp is syntax which happens to be executed.

Forth is execution that happens to have some syntax.

If you want a dual of lisp you need to look at Joy or Factor.
I can hate both.
> Initially I wrote it using Tauri as I am familiar with web technologies, but quickly got fed up with moving info from rust side to the webview

Could you elaborate on this part? As I recall, communication between webview and the node.js backend was my main gripe with Electron as well. Sounds like it hasn't been solved in Tauri.
Which one would that be? Nothing comes to mind.
Well, unless you lead a non-active life and hope to improve your health by taking viagra without the accompanying extra in activity.
Nah, that was cost.
The cropped stock videos where quite bad in his example video. Blurry closeup plants and half a parrot :S

Otherwise great execution.
Does anyone know the differences between Meta's application of Precision Time Protocol and Google TrueTime? I was hoping to find some discussion in the article but found none.

The 2022 article on the Precision Time Protocol says (https://engineering.fb.com/2022/11/21/production-engineering...):

- Adding precise and reliable timestamps on a back end and replicas allows us to simply wait until the replica catches up with the read timestamp...

- As you may see, the API doesn’t return the current time (aka time.Now()). Instead, it returns a window of time which contains the actual time with a very high degree of probability...

Which sounds similar to TrueTime (https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...):

- A read-only transaction executes in two phases: assign a timestamp sread [8], and then execute the transaction’s reads as snapshot reads at sread. The snapshot reads can execute at any replicas that are sufficiently up-to-date...

- TT.now() returns TTinterval: [earliest, latest]

I tried Googling "Precision Time Protocol TrueTime" but the only reference I could find is a HN comment by someone else from 2022 :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33696752
And AOL's stock had a 500% return in the 2010s... Yahoo had 300%.

Are you saying people like Facebook's new features like the suggested posts and what they've done to Instagram? Was their VR product line secretly a success?

These things eventually catch up.

There's also a number of fairly bad bets they've made, such as the $1 bln kustomer acquisition they spun out at a 75% loss after a year https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/16/kustomer-meta-spin-out/

They have enough capital and trust to stumble around for a while but they sure look like they're yahooing
No, but since there are several people willing to collaborate, I'll surely open a new server soon. I'll send you the link right here!
Why would Kotlin be named after Kotlin Island? What's the connection?
How do you mean they're owned by the CCP?
ok so the answer is no, thanks
Gemini because of the two opposite faces: one looking towards you; the other one, towards the NSA
Yeah omg, I have seen those. TBH I don't know if it is undercover cops or just really the absolute wild west that is FB.
We're screwed aren't we?
> Thinkpad T14 Gen 4

It would still have a garbage-tier (relative to mac) 1080p screen? Of course upgrade to OLED is only ~$250 which isn’t that bad

The E15 is way too plasticky for it to be a fair comparison also the screen is awful.

> But the prices I mentioned is before you even do that!

While it’s on sale sure. Otherwise the price is much, much higher https://www.lenovo.com/fr/fr/configurator/cto/index.html?bun...
> The fundamental problem of self-driving cars in cities is that they are expected to be 100% safe. They could be 10 times as safe as regular cars, but it wouldn't save them from headlines of "robot car kills an innocent person".

Well, yes, because all the proponents of self-driving cars tout the fact that computer driven cars are way safer than human drivers. And they're not. Those 10 times safer than humans have no actual meaning in practice, because if they can brake 100ms faster than a human would, in practice it makes no difference. What would make a difference would be to be fully aware of anything that might happen, have solutions for every possibility and react accordingly in I don't know, say 20-30 milliseconds. So when a self-driving car hits and kills a pedestrian it is a failure on the self-driving system (assuming the pedestrian just doesn't jump in front of the car out of nowhere).

Self-driving cars don't have three things that humans have: instinct, experience and contextual awareness. No matter how many miles they drive, they can't learn as humans do.
One of the humorous tells of a novice is they haven't yet had to deal with all their tool knowledge being obsoleted and haven't had to understand that competent people might not know said novice's favoured tools.

The amount of random trivia in tech is a vast ocean. Nobody knows all of it. Specific cultures swim in specific waters, but out of habit more than anything else.
I borrowed this from Milligram[0] because it seemed like a sane thing to do at the time. Would your recommendation be to not anything to the base font-size and adjust the REM sizes accordingly?

[0] https://github.com/milligram/milligram/blob/d895f179623b56f3...
Samsung purposely knives customer's TV to weasel out of repair [video]
> I don't need it, because I now keep my side mirrors set correctly I know where cars are beside me before the radar knows.

It's not there to replace you looking. It's there as an extra information source in case you make a mistake when looking. Maybe you're lucky with the your car, but even with curved ends of mirrors in mine, there's still a blind spot where I would not see a bike on the passenger's side and the little extra notification is great for that. It blinks for guard rails too, but that doesn't bother me - there's extremely rarely a reason to check the mirror on the side close to the rail.
Or, Congress refuses to go along with boondoggle exploration program that exists solely as a jobs program for JPL’s bloated budget.
Please let's make a downvote free thread for throwing jokes a round on this topic. We need this freedom for such a topic trending on HN.

There is so much low hanging fruit and we're all thinking of several I suspect. My initial thought was in the lane of 'drug is affecting one more head than intended', but it's missing some refinement I'll admit
Problem is that everybody know that nuclear war is a no win option. So they try to avoid it.

You can game that. Simply give your enemy a way out. Don't press them too hard, just take something, not so much that they would feel threatened. Instead of invading them directly, take over their trading partners. Set up rebellions, insurrections. It's still your bullets in their bodies and their country taking damage. But you have plausible deniability, and nobody is going to break out nukes about it.

Soviet union did that very well. Despite taking over bulk of central and eastern Europe, kicking western interest out of China, and thus most of eastern Asia, ending colonial rule in most of Africa, they never "crossed the line".

Iran is doing the same thing now. Russia too. And others will follow. It's a good strategy.
So you can run NodeJS code in the browser, even though both are JS-based, NodeJS has a bunch of APIs that deal with things like file systems that the browser doesn't have.

For example, imagine you have a lib that converts markdown to html, but the lib happens to write the files directly to the disk, hence it can't be used in the browser. If you compile the nodejs runtime to wasm with a WASI that maps the file system to local storage, then you can just read the file from local storage after invoking the lib.

Just saying it is a technical possibility, this kind of approach is really only meant to be used if you _really_ just want to run some lib in the browser, no matter how slow it gets.

Also technically if you could compile JS to wasm (without nodejs, so more like how you run C through wasm right now) then you don't need to care about browser versions and JS api polyfills while still using JS.
The Afterlife of Cambridge Analytica
>Taiwan could do a proof detonation on non-city Chinese soil if things get tense.

Gaodeng is a ROC island just five miles off the mainland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaodeng_Island An atmospheric nuclear test there would be the wildest provocation imaginable that would not actually be on PRC soil.
A friend in biology spent many work days doing little else than putting mice into a guillotine. Chopping off their little heads to get a snapshot of their brain chemistry after a dose of something.

It definitely messed her up, and she was quite aware of the toll it was taking.
> considered subjugated people equal before the law (if they converted)

The Mongols and the ancient Persians didn't even make anyone convert.

> banned slavery

If you don't count all the colonies...

> imposed slavery ban on other nations

It is a very admirable thing to do, but who else could do it? They had the most powerful militaries in that era.
> Why would one want to create more of those abominations?

Because we're regressing as a civilization and soon, content like what's being generated here will be the only thing consumed by the majority (read: the only form of profitable/growth-producing content).

I'm a major proponent of Joseph Juran style "quality thinking," but sadly, that world is dead and gone on a mass consumption scale (what platforms like YouTube are geared towards these days).
Possibly not: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4869851/
Could it be game streaming? Xbox Xcloud uses a PWA.
Semantic HTML exists and is usable, most developers just want to make their site look like they want (nothing wrong with that). Problems arise when sites don't use semantic elements, style with bespoke class systems. And functionality or markup can't be changed with CSS, so when that's related to the theme it's quite hard to change.
'Employers hold the cards now' as power shifts in US jobs market
I wonder why none of the trillion-dollar club members with "infinite" money, e.g., MSFT or AAPL, are building bleeding-edge fabs in locations that are geopolitically more stable than Taiwan. If TSMC tanks, then these companies will also tank by a massive amount, much more than 20 bln.
> the choice to wear a "discreet" hearing aid is increasingly seen as a symptom of internalised stigma.

This tendency seems strange to me. It's a thing in disabled communities, but neurodivergent and LGBT communities as well. Not all of us view our autism as some kind of superpower, or want to "reclaim" words that were used to degrade us for decades. Similarly, some people may just want to avoid being stared at, hence the discrete prosthetics.
That's just called war. People just haven't seen it in long while.
> A big problem with the PTP unicast mode is an almost infinite traffic amplification (useful for DDoS attacks). The server is basically a programmable packet generator. Never expose unicast PTP to internet. In SPTP that seems to be no longer the case (the server is stateless), but there is still the follow up message causing a 2:1 amplification. I think something like the NTP interleaved mode would be better.

Facebook has little concern for traffic amplification that doesn't affect them. I can't find a source article for it now, but there was a time when you could take down a website hosting an image by simply posting <URL>/?<RANDOM>. I believe Facebook's (many) cache servers would individually make requests to the server until they inevitably saturated the image host's connection. I remember people complaining and it falling on deaf ears.
JC Tips and Tricks
Haskell Weekly: Issue 406
I nominate this specific comment thread for this purpose.
Disney invests $1.5B in Epic Games, plans new "games and entertainment universe"
I'm a 'technician' in a company full of 'scientists', and I can say without question, the scientists need help, the technicians need knowledge, and neither of the two realms can really survive without the other.

Sometimes you need the guy who has burned his fingers repairing things, over and over, to review your design - he's going to tell you why you are going to burn your fingers. Other times, the guy doing things in a semi-glib fashion, needs to be pulled off the production line and enlightened as to why things have to be done a certain way.

To consider this relationship hierarchical is to weaponise the subject - instead, these are key relationships. A single great scientist with 2 or 3 good technicians can build amazing products.

3 scientists with no technician, rarely ever do .. but there is of course the odd exception where a technician, by making something really great, becomes a scientist, too - and scientists, without technicians and therefore having to get their fingers toasty, often make amazing technicians. (This is why the hierarchical subjugation of the subject must be resisted.)
> Why did they go for paddle shifting instead of a standard foot shifter??

As far as the rider is concerned, this seems similar to Honda's DCT bikes: automatic dual-clutch transmission, which can be either fully-auto or (mostly) rider-controlled.

I'd argue that it's better for muscle-memory to have a different setup. My regular bike is of the DCT persuasion, so having different controls allows me switch my mind when I ride a regular bike. I once rode a rental with a quickshifter [0], and after longer stretches I'd forget to grab the clutch when stopping or starting.

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[0] A quickshifter isn't an automatic gearbox, but an augmentation of a manual one. Since motorbikes gears are unsynchronized, you can do clutchless gear changes by accelerating or cutting the gas briefly and simply pushing or pressing on the gear control.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quickshifter
Not to mention the police suicides after. At least two I read about, I think more.
No, let's not. We don't "need this freedom". And we're not "all thinking of several". Grow up.
Oh pico looks very nice - and something I am likely to actually use. concrete is a bit too minimal for me.

I like the concept of classess css but most of the solutions I looked at (before pico) were just not very pleasing oob.
>IMO people behind the scenes also sees the writing on the wall for large surface ships.

Considering this and Taiwan, it's funny that Congress isn't pushing for more SSGNs and accelerating the SSN(X) program.
And above that, we talk about Disney which represents almost every bad thing when talking about large corporations.
A Match Made in Heaven – Transactional Systems and Erlang/Elixir
We are there already - we have synthetic voice narration, whose bland perfection I find insufferable and that go perfectly with a smiling animated cartoon talking head to present a self-study webinar. We advise our readers to eschew violence against their corporate laptop monitor.
> ~800 Euros sticker price, no special promotion or sale. That seemed like a good deal to me.

Sure but at that level you usually get poor build quality and/or thick plasticky chasis and a horrible screen
> Israel is unhappy that the US stores of ammo in Israel are being sent to Ukraine

Yes, they have their own ground-leveling to do after all..
What do you mean by `pluck`? Is it like `array.map(i => i[key])`?
I was thinking along similar lines: sildenafil (the active compound in viagra) was originally researched as a hypertension medication. The link between hypertension and dementia is well-established, and hypertension is also extremely common and relatively underdiagnosed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sildenafil
GPUI is looking more and more interesting by the day. I haven't had the chance to dig into it. Can anyone with experience comment some more on how it compares to other UI frameworks? Seems like it's a really compelling alternative to things out there. On the surface, seems almost like a rust variant of Qt, but not having to deal with C++ potentially makes it much more widely applicable.
Don't you know. Russians never mastered the art of written treaties. The Soviets were confused and thought that pinky swear (after all of the deception of cold war) is guarantee of future power sharing :D
It targets the JVM. Java is also an island. Maybe that's it?
Kotlin runs on the Java virtual machine, Java is an island, they picked another island.
That Time I Accidentally Terminated 600 Instances
What options do you use? I know about Zennit but I always wondered if there is something better, as my progresive are very expensive.
I see now that you are making the distinction between single-family homes, which are primarily owner-occupied, and multifamily homes, which are primarily rental, and you are saying that the shift of some single-family homes to rental is a bad thing. First, there’s nothing wrong with a household buying a condo or renting a single-family house, so I don’t see why one should be banned.

But to explain the increasing share of rental housing, the book Kevin Erdmann, Building from the Ground Up explains that the problem is not investors overinvesting in houses, but residents who are locked out of the mortgage market due to post-Great Financial Crisis regulations that killed the homebuilding industry across the country. If residents had the same access to credit that they did before the GFC, then they would be able to outcompete investors. There’s no point in suppressing rental investment just because we mistakenly suppressed mortgages.

But whether you are looking to buy or looking to rent, more supply helps, so that is the underlying problem to address.
Puff piece article. I expected something a lot more comprehensive.