skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. The audio quality of land line phones was dictated primarily by transducers. This was by design. The TIA published specs for USA, Canada had their own as well as most other countries.

The response of a twisted pair was pretty good over 2 to 4 miles as I recall but for a audio grade (50Hz to 5000Hz) various techniques were used that at the simplest involved coils but there were also active equalizers available for long haul circuits and/or "hi-fi" requirements.
Remember DSL lines were/are shipping 1..2Mhz carriers over those same old telco lines. :-)

Of course some old trunk lines used paper insulation. Really. Which meant noise went up ... when it rained.
"real-time" when it comes to kernels doesn't necessarily imply "fast" and Nanos only targets virtualized environments as well. RT is more for situations like "If I hit the brakes I want the car to stop". Nanos' sweet spot is more for cloud workloads.

Having said that with enough interest I think we could look at project such as https://projectacrn.org/ but it's not really a focus at the moment and would probably become a 'flavor'.

As for scheduling itself though, we recently added support for UMCG: https://nanovms.com/dev/tutorials/user-mode-concurrency-grou... .
I thought IBM has its Watson already? ;)
And those are heavily regulated in US -- moreso than just an average bank ATM from what I understand.
I can see this being useful already (assuming context length is not an issue) as some sort of github service trying to solve github issues throughout the day.

Or for example if you commit todo's in your code, the ai will pick up on them and give you some options later on.

If the failure rate is 14%, just let it try a bunch of times. (half joking here)

The way I see it is at least the project issues are getting some attention, which is arguably better than no attention. If it can just fix simple things, at least you can focus on the complex things and not worry about postponing the low hanging fruits.
The thing that interest me about wasm is having ultra lightweight small processes, which happen to tap into very large pools of already resident libraries in a safe sandboxed fashion.

There's been huge huge strides in low-profile elegant serverless platforms built around v8 isolates. We can get all those wins and more - in an way more scaled out more multi-tenant way - with wasm. If it lives up to it's aspirations, which it seems on target to do.

Luke Wagner's WasmCon talk iterated through the core attributes of what makes wasm wasm and what those attributes unlock. The ability to host much much much more with a muchower profile, with extremely short-lived sandboxed runtimes, is incredibly enticing. The app-server model could finally be disrupted.

I have no patience for "bigger than AI" apples to oranges comparisons. Wasm is orthogonal, has it's own features & distinctions. The direct run off comparison shirks both of their value.
Resolume
There's a pretty cool coffee mug based off the idea too

https://joeveo.com/pages/the-temperfect-mug
These were called "leased" lines. You ordered them and the Telco set them up for you and billed you like any other service.
Again, that’s the point of insurance. Most of us will pay more in premiums than we ever get paid in claims. A few of us will avoid bankruptcy because insurance will pay out a claim we can’t otherwise afford either through cash or any line of credit we could get.

The trick is no one can know which side of the ledger we’ll fall on. You can be the world’s safest and best driver and still get t-boned by a driver with no assets and no insurance.
> (Solution complexity grows with length of the string within which we are searching)

No it doesn't. It's something like '([^a]|a[^b]|a$)*'.

In general it scales like '([^a]|a([^b]|$)|ab([^c]|$)|abc([^d]|$)|...)*' (ie, quadratically with the length of the needle, if I haven't overlooked a optimization), but the complement of a regular language is regular, and fixed strings are always regular, so it's always a pure regular expression (including being independent of haystack length).
Cryptocurrency "news" websites are a new breed of awful combination of advertising monetisation and poor auto-generated AI interpretation trash (with awful grammar) shoved into whatever white-space is left over.

(I think) Coindesk is one of the better ones...
The nose has the olfactory epithelium, and the eyes and mouth do not.

The olfactory epithelium allows external substances deeper into the body tissue than other boundaries in order to enable the sense of smell.

You can inhale (or be exposed by a wound in the skin) a single droplet of water containing Acanthamoeba and get sick and die. That would be a rare occurrence, but it does happen.

You can drink 10,000 liters of water full of it and never get sick, it rides down the slip-and-slide of your throat into your stomach where your stomach acid destroys it. It is likely that half of all people in the United States drank some today.

Several types of bacteria are like this, like staph and legionella, you can eat and drink them but the second they get in your nose or lungs (or blood via a cut or scrape): no bueno.

Unless, like the article suggests, you have an immune-compromising condition you have very little to be afraid of.

Just don't go swimming in warm stagnant water no matter how healthy you are.
Seems like a typo. Other pages says GPT-4 Turbo
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/b/copilotpro
> Was extremely helpful to have a vending machine every 10 m

There used to be more vending machines, but the prevalence of convenience stores every 200m (or so it seems) makes them less viable financially.

It is a sad day when a favorite vending machines that sells something unusual just vanishes. Usually this is something like a type of seasonal beer that vending machines will have in stock longer than the stores do.

Whole large banks of vending machines in Shinjuku have gone the way of the dodo. Sadness.
It might predate HN but you are looking at the XY problem, not the YX problem. In this case, they are not commutative.
My house mates’ drug dealer used a vending machine

yes it was brazen, yes it worked
This happens with healthcare data too. Every prescription you fill is tracked and used as input data for many insurance models that make health insurance pricing decisions.
Partly because it's an ecosystem that I'd like to see grow. More people using it means that the other Rust-based projects I use will be better too.

Partly because it is the "carbon fiber" of programming languages. Just its use is something you can use to market to other engineers.

Partly because it's very ergonomic and I enjoy working with it. I'd much rather dive into esoteric Rust code than esoteric C code.

Partly because code written in of Rust will have less errors than code written inside of C. It isn't just memory safety - it's all of the type theory/best practices we figured out in the last 50 years.

I understand why it was written in C. It's an easier language to work with and they probably needed something out quickly. But coding in Rust is a sign (not proof, but a sign) that a program is of quality make.
People don't want actual returns that aren't sacked with fees and conditions. They want get rich quick schemes. Their financial instrument needs to be counter cultural somehow. And with an affinity for conspiracy theories and no financial literacy, low expense ratio index funds are the enemy.

Where to put excess capital for the average person is a solved problem. People just want to be different.
I won't get into a debate about semantics, but even your employer is a prime example -- Xilinx profit margin per device is staggering by semiconductor standards but they won't pay what they could. The market doesn't always make that dictation, the company does.

And that's an example but there are other "high-margin" hardware organizations (besides Apple) who still pay HW/EEs lower than SW/SREs.

And if you've been in engineering long enough you'll meet some pretty brilliant people, but their names might not be household or widely known. Lumping engineering into "RTL people" is pretty dismissive.

Claude Shannon, father of information theory, is less widely known for his MS work on 'Shannon Decomposition' which FPGA companies used for a long time to break combinitorial logic functions to multiplexor (MUX) based implementation. That's not "compiler theory" but that's a building block of a type of logic synthesis which compilers used. Shannon isn't a "compiler guy", just a smart dude who's intelligence wasn't bounded by one domain or discipline.
The language isn't the problem, it's the structure (if you can call it that) of Nixpkgs that makes it so difficult. And no, flakes are not the answer, they may solve composability but they create other problems.
The trick is to sell the vending machines and parts.
> They haven't been staying abreast of current changes, and by that I don't mean jumping on the latest fad but rather knowing that the fads exist.

Thing is if you’ve been around the block and have a decent understanding of fundamentals…it just doesn’t matter what the fad of the week is. It’s just noise. Old principles repackaged with different conventions.

Not sure why that has to be a red flag. It doesn’t mean people can’t learn. Just why bother spending personal investment on another fad?

This expectation is a serious problem in this industry.
True? This is a conspiracy theory.
I'm confused here. That quote clearly says that Flox makes Nix easier for newcomers, not that Nix is easy. What exactly do you take issue with?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylrew7qb8sQ webvoyager (it is terrible performance-wise, but a start)
That's the XY problem. This is about the YX problem.
This is utter bullshit. Cgi forms have always been clunky AF.

The back button used to work? Come on! Websites used to tell you not to click the back button!

“Please do not refresh while we proceed with your payment”. Does that ring a bell?

Oh and do you remember when your credit card was voided every 6 months because some website kept your info in clear text?

You’d always have to update macromedia flash and Java for some reason. And then you’d see “this website is optimized for IE6”.
It's not an advocacy for rust but a fairly introductory level shell script would likely be a very sophisticated JavaScript program.

I've seen such efforts and they tend to be extremely complicated and not really doing much.

I don't assume rational agency but instead that many people make poor decisions.
Likely because the element authors didn't want to overload the existing input semantics. You are talking about <calendar /> not <input type="date" />. Its the same semantic issue that lead to <button /> and <input type="button" />, with different functionality/support in different browser(s), and why we have auto-fill libraries that eventually became javascript component libraries, got rolled into development frameworks and turned into hyper-adware...

Its "hilarious" but an "input" that does nothing but show an input calendar is arguably better. Otherwise, you're not writing (semantic) html, you're writing <insert ui framework>.
"Are you implying that I'm implying you're breaking the law?"
> everyone thinks they're company is special and needs 'rock stars'

Most of these companies are just special needs and don’t realize it.
The internet began on leased lines.
Unofficial Starship Flight 3 Livestream [video]
In this context WASM is more like a slower container than an application runtime. The potential advantages being:

* Far better isolation than a normal Linux container
* If WASM takes off, maybe architecture-independent artifact distribution
* If WASM takes off, maybe improved ability to call from one language into another

As a Kubernetes container runtime WASM today is probably most comparable to gVisor, with the somewhat huge caveat that it prevents you from just running normal Linux software.
On the teaching of programming, i.e. on the teaching of thinking (EWD473)
The odd thing is also that a fair number of people with good nutrition are getting cancer. I'm one of them: https://jakeseliger.com/2023/07/22/i-am-dying-of-squamous-ce.... Long-standing interest in nutrition, have never been overweight, experimented with a blood-glucose monitor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39621339.
I had this thought as well awhile back, and I'm sure we are not alone. I would love to team up with anyone who would like to tackle this problem. my username at g mail
Absolutely agree. I now actively dislike this company and product and I don't even know what it does. And I'm male.

Regardless of the sex, identity, or orientation of the poster, it's crass, sexist, juvenile, and unprofessional.

Frankly as someone who lived for a long time in a place where there is a serious homelessness and drug overdose problem, I wasn't too impressed with the use of homeless people as a repellant either.
Your example about Bjarne says it all -- it was financially more in his interest to leave academia / standards comittee / "hardcore work" for something more financially lucarative.

There's maybe another bigger point here that a lot of "great tools" or "good ideas turned into reality" happened either because the person/people working on it were so motivated and/or they were in the right environment that supported this type of creativity.

Sadly, most hardware-oriented organizations are the exact opposite of creativity or "great ideas" because if they fail the physical cost to fix something is staggering.

In software you can try something, if it doesn't work, call it a learning experience, re-factor, potentially re-use and have another go at it.

In hardware if you do that few people will high five you for a valiant effort.

Historically academia was a place that could "birth" new ideas, help explore them with a pure intent to see how it worked out. These days I think people are dying to finish with school and not live a pauper's life.
That's partly because due to the fulfilling nature of the work (a compensating differential), and partly because we can't price it (how much is it worth?)
Coffee Joulies work off the same concept

https://www.baristamagazine.com/coffee-joulies-engineered-so...
Yes, those are covered entities. Their subcontractors who touch HIPAA data are business associates.

See https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/covered-entities... and https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-45/subtitle-A/subchapter-...

In my experience, covered entities are really serious about signing BAAs with any of their hosting vendors and partners, as afaik the liability falls on the covered entity if they didn't have an agreement in place and data leaked from a vendor/partner.
> which canonically is run by the daughter of Nicolas

Is there a joke I'm missing?
I'd use the $100k for living expenses and take a year off of work and focus on diet and exercise...
https://www.tiktok.com/tag/tiananmensquare
People who do vipassana meditation and apply it to their daily life have an entirely silent inner life. Our awareness isn’t what in Thailands version is referred to as the monkey mind that chatters away distracting us from the present. Our inner mind has no voice, it’s what underlies everything we do and it simply is. The mind with a voice is a tool of the real mind, our awareness, but most people confuse their monkey mind with themselves. In Buddhism a great deal of our suffering stems from confusing ourself with that chattering tool. As such, it’s a useful tool for structuring ideas and analyzing, replaying the past and anticipating the future. But a key to happiness is the recognition it’s neither necessary nor sufficient, but is a tool to be used as needed and no more. Our silent inner mind is necessary, sufficient, and forms the exclusive entirety of our existence.
It occurs to me that over time, reading comprehension will become significantly more important than the ability to write. Anyone will be able to write something smart-sounding with AI's help, but it'll take real skill to make sure the output is correct and appropriate.
This made me laugh. Can't tell if it's a joke or not.

Are you looking to hire robots or something?
Not a fan of the ”I care therefore I get to throw tantrums” rhetoric. But yes, I also care and expect my colleagues to do so as well. But being mad doesn't strike me as a good way of facilitating change.
This kind of argument can be used to censor anything deemed controversial.
Well if you can answer both X and Y, then in the case they really wanted X the answer is helpful, and in the case that they overlooked Y, the answer is still helpful. I'd say that's wrong less than either X or either Y
For anyone looking

https://www.lexisnexis.com/global/privacy/en/privacy-center-...

This looks like the Canadian page, made a request and let’s see where this leads to.
It's also that the infrastructure of the US is very young. In Europe a 100 year old building is shockingly common. And they are still in use. Mostly because even back then (some) housing was already build in a lasting manner. And not being able/willing to tear them down gives you a baselevel of sustainability.

The other thing is that we used up most of "our" fossil energy reserves decades ago and what we want to burn today requires imports, which requires a reasonably stable world economy, a reasonably strong geopolitical position and ... well ... even the last conservative governments have woken up, that those assumptions may not be true any longer
I do not know what this means.

Are you ln favor of taking medical advice from Twitter rather than doctors?
Weren't they doing fine thirty years ago?
> It’s working grueling hours under the heel of some asshole manager or owner jerking you around 12 hours per day while you sweat your ass off in unpleasant conditions.

Sounds about the same as a tech lead or SRE job minus the sweating in a warehouse.

Hey, in this industry we desperately need to replace the lazy boomers who don't hustle anymore and want to spend half their work from home day picking up their kids from soccer practice. Anyone willing to pivot into a tech job is welcome in my book just maybe not in much beyond a junior dev position.

I'd prefer they take those bootcamp skills and apply them to front office work like talking to clients and gathering requirements or sales. A little bit of tech knowledge can go a very long way and we sorely need that in traditionally non-technical roles. I don't get the obsession over coding for a living when the salary isn't that different elsewhere in the office. I've never met a bootcamp person who really wanted to code. Incentives are better aligned with other work and leaning on what they learned in bootcamp.
Funnily enough, we just added a _surprisingly_ similar easter egg to Chrome Devtools: https://x.com/nucliweb/status/1757506389495202000. I just had to comment now to assert that we had the same awesome idea. :)

eieio: your link to Juice it Or Lose It makes me so happy. For a decade I point people to that presentation. It's just perfect. Our easter egg is could afford some more juice though.. I might yoink some of your code. :) great stuff.
@dang can we get the greengrocer's apostrophe taken out of the title please.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Superfluous_apostro...)
Don't forget the dot-com boom and bust of the late 1990s. For three or four years it seemed anyone in academia who even just knew HTML was jumping ship to a dot-com and their insane salaries. A few years later many of them came crawling back to their old institutions, desperate to get a job.
Small nitpick. Everything on Mars will all be scorched and then heat deathed. Enjoy your evening.
> Who will ensure the information is accurate? Why would we trust them (which is also a form of information).

In the most general sense I think we are going to rediscover the value and necessity of honor (or descend into a dystopia not worth thinking about.)

Systems of elements that can trust each other are more efficient than systems of elements that cannot.

> Should all information (false, true, and everything in between) have equal cost in production and distribution? How do we update information?

I don't understand these questions.

> Price as well as cost ...

Are these not the same?

> ... we can prioritize information or decide how it should flow. There are countless examples of information that we as a civilization probably don’t want everyone to have easy access to. Also you as a private individual…

Well there it is, eh? Control. Who's "we"?

Anyway, the original context would suggest that Brand meant something like "information that people can use to improve their lives" so he probably didn't mean like nuclear bomb plans, eh?

If you have information that people can use constructively without disadvantaging you then it's kind of venal not to share it, eh? That's the moral or ethical reason for (some) information to be free.

- - - -

As an aside, you are inverting the logic here:

> overriding people’s freedom to choose what information they make freely available and what they charge

Physically we do not have that freedom, once data has been encoded in digital bits it becomes difficult to prevent dissemination of those bits. (I'm old enough to have seen Napster in action back in the day.)

Copy prevention (DRM) and commercial activity had to be implemented on top of the fundamental ability of the computer network to duplicate and transmit bits.

In other words if you have information you would keep secret don't put it in a computer.
In Japan, crime is both illegal and frowned upon.
sentient spreadsheets, i don't think ill be able to sleep now.
Which one please, allegedly?
https://archive.ph/mpnhd

please if you are going to post a paywalled article, take the time to post an archived link
No, I am, first, being supportive of your repeated edits to uncover important details. No trolling -- thank you to dig into those references. Second, I was offering a sarcastic remark about other pseudo-medical topics that are frequently debated on this board. All kinds of Internet randos come out from the woodwork when "inflamation" or "natural foods" are discussed here. This place is great to discuss tech, but the discussions around legal, medicine, and economics are pathetic. All kinds of people trying to apply their nerd programmer knowledge to fields about which they know little.
GPT 4.5 is coming soon. I've heard they are under pressure to get GPT 5 out this year, given what OpenAI's competitors have released is more powerful than GPT 4 (Gemini Ultra for example). Rumor has it that GPT 5 is some type of AGI, but we will see.
The outdoor machines are built like tanks. I read stories after the March 11 earthquake of people trying to get into them for food and completely failing.
I thought I was going to do is research. There was a consensus at the time in the community and at least one famous white paper that I can’t find now (pike? rashid?) that explained it was dead. I kind of agree and kind of don’t. I think we have more exploring to do on what the right structure is, but I’m not sure I’d call it research. I think we really missed an opportunity to lay down a new foundation with cloud services. Distribution and security are still two pretty massive holes, and people are looking at them.