skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This finding keeps coming up in social science research: being connected to people seems to increase longevity.

Has a causal relationship in that direction actually been shown in research, or just correlation?

Because it seems very likely (well, certain for at least some people based on anecdotal experience) it goes in the other direction as well, i.e. someone who has serious health issues which cause them pain or low energy levels or whatever, would likely have less of a social life than if they were completely healthy even if they were the most social person imaginable before their health issues.

If for example I were diagnosed with cancer tomorrow and died of it in ten years time, I suspect it would significantly reduce the energy I have for social activity in the next ten years, but a study done just before I die finding correlation between my not having a good social life and my impending death wouldn't change the cause of death from cancer to lack of social contact.

(FYI I'm not arguing that social activity doesn't have any positive impact on physical health / length of life, in fact I'm sure that it can - I just don't know to what extent research has or hasn't shown how much it's one way or the other.)
I warmly recommend to go see the TV documentary about this guy they made some time ago, when I saw the videogame I immediately recognised him.
> the ‘latest and greatest’ crap like nextjs

> Dissing on decade old stuff which is stable and robust

wondering what was that? GWT or JQuery?
Processing a stream of chunks of JSON with ijson
The use case is for dedicated game servers controlled by the developer running in data centers, not clients running on player's home computers.
As an enterprise Microsoft customer, you are treated to the same group policies as everyone else, with one difference that you can reduce OS telemetry collection to “Basic”.

There is no way to go radio silent without ring-fencing the OS within the network.
He says games didn't require patches "back then" (when he was in college, which I don't know when it was).

But let's take for example Doom. As much as a technological marvel it was, it was created by a handful of people. How many people are involved in creating an AAA game these days?

Or cars. Yeah the seat heater never broke in my old, first-gen Mazda 3. Because it didn't have one.
> fake engineers

> The value that these people bring is close to zero

This was a much more hostile direction than I thought the article would take and doesn't match my experience.
You can trade off against other forms of fairness.

For example, if you remove the power of precedent suddenly knowing and being able to search case law becomes unimportant, giving laymen a huge step up in defending themselves. However it also makes the legal system far more inconsistent across judgements.
> I actually live in the EU. We (the citizens) have zero control over that regulatory body. ZERO. None of those represent me and I have no way of influencing them in any way.

Wrong. You can vote for your local representatives who control the EU executive. You can vote for your EU member who control the EU parliament.

What you have zero of is knowledge of how the EU works, apparently.
and yet there was a dotcom bubble.
First, you said that EVs don’t have enough charging infrastructure for road trips, and you complained about charging apps, so I explained how that wasn’t a problem with Teslas (which is what this article is about). Then you said that it was different for rented Teslas in other countries, so I explained how that wasn't the case. Now you claim I’m trying to get you to use a Tesla. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I’ve never driven a Jeep. I don’t particularly care for Jeeps. But if someone says to me that they own a Jeep and it can do X, I’ll give that some credence. Sure they may be a Jeep fan, but they also have lots of experience with Jeeps. I definitely wouldn’t say, “That's cool, but I'm not a Jeep owner and I don't live in your country. I hope you understand that I'm going to base my expectations on past experiences, and not the best-case story of a Jeep owner in a country I actively avoid traveling to.” That would be rude and unproductive.

If the Jeep owner ignored the insult and said, “Actually Jeeps in other countries are quite similar and can also do X.”, I definitely would not reply by talking about how Jeep fans always try to convince me that Jeeps are great, yet they refuse to acknowledge Jeep’s poor reliability, lack of curtain airbags, rollover propensity, etcetera. To a neutral reader, that might come off like someone who is incapable of changing their mind.
Nah. The software bloat will have caught up by then, and things will be just as slow..
No, but it's the one most relevant to the conversation
There was some design blog post several years ago, maybe not even surfaced on HN:

Creating beautiful tables both UI and UX wise, with some features being e.g dropping separator between columns (row?), doing some visual accents, etc.

And yes, the most distinguished feature was that the tables weren't looking like your busy PowerPoint non-tech organisation stuff, they were very modern yet simple.

I don't remember the specifics, but I was really impressed and regret not bookmarking the article.

Does anyone know of the article in question, and maybe could share the link?
Android, the platform where you're free to be victim of a different USA company.
All it takes is for other things to overpower this feeling. There are some days when I have a hard time leaving the house. What I feel then is that there are people outside, and their presence and stare and their perfectly friendly greetings feel like a performance in front of a huge audience. I also have a burning feeling inside, like what I have in my eyes when staring into the summer sun. I can bare it for some seconds, but it's really unpleasant, and while it's happening, I can't think about much else than to just flee from it. These strong, acute feelings make it hard to appreciate the subtle joys of the outside world, so I stay inside.

I have a good therapist so these are not huge issues anymore, but I wanted to share the experience. That it really is just a question of incentives.
I'm busy moving from Plex to Jellyfin.

The Plex UI is better but only a little bit better. On the other hand they are really REALLY irritating with re-enabling their online adverts. Every time you upgrade its comes back again. Or your actual content ends up deep in a menu but the online nonsense is always there. Also you end up having to create a plex account to access your stuff and I don't know how much information they are tracking.

I just got tired of having to re-set it up all the time. Jellyfin seems much better so far, but its still early days for me.
This is a hot take. But an interesting one. I applaud the author for publishing.

Passionate product people (designers, PMs, but engineers as well) are hard to find, hard to train, hard to empower in this day and age, in the sea of tech workers they have to collaborate with, who joined purely for money.

Edit: To illustrate the difference, there are teammates who curiously ask “but what if the user does this… or that?” And then there are people who never even care.
Take a glance at US news today. US politics would be far more likely to punish judges for a Type II error—for failing to convict or institutionalize a person who goes on to commit a crime—than for the Type I error of violating the rights of an innocent person. The system you've proposed, if you step back from the heated emotions for a moment, would the exact opposite effect of the righteous justice you seek.

Any system you'd build in this mold, the criminal justice mold, would be the same or a clone of the current one, inheriting the same flaws. The prosecuting agency would be lenient towards Type I errors, because few people care; and I think in the net it'd increase their occurrence, by severely penalizing Type II errors.

edit: (And to the point out the obvious in plain sight—look at the very newspaper story we're discussing. The "criminal that got away with it" is in the headline/title. The "innocent person horribly abused by indifferent criminal justice" is mentioned in passing about 21 paragraphs down).
>I don't see much downside in having it open.

The downside is that unlike in a society where that isn't an option people aren't forced to socialize and then they adapt. Having everything catered to shut-ins normalizes pathologies, something common across a lot of modern internet subcultures.

It enables a sort of Peter Pan like existence in which people stay perpetual kids without ever having to take on the obligations of adulthood. And it's becoming so common that in countries like SK who are at the front of this people have replaced starting families and having sex with adopting dogs and cats. In an entire society like this who takes care of them and delivers their packages when they're all 60 years old is a frightening question. (and a very real one in the near future)

If it was an odd-ball thing it wouldn't matter, but social isolation and delaying or ignoring responsibilities of adult social life are now mainstream issues.
Jellyfish is just nowhere near Plex’s UX. All the clients crash seemingly at random, and the server side is no better.
I disagree. Reading lecture (! not literature or study books) I read 15 books each weekend in my teens, reading all science fiction and fantasy books in the town's library. And no, not all where 1000 pages long. But they weren't all shorter then 300.
And yes, I regurarly went back during the week to catch an extra book or two.

I realize I might be a relatively fast reader, and this fast reading I only did in English (while my mother tongue is Dutch), but do not underestimate how quick some people can read?

I suppose I can concur in your 'low complexity' argument: I did not read Tolkien in my teens, and probably would have skipped all the poetry while reading.

Edit: Clarification: 15 books each weekend should be read as ==>> I traded my 15 books for 15 new books each weekend, reading them during the weekend and when not in school
In this specific use case I think we should avoid any creative aspect in the behavior of the LLM. Compiling might look like a "word-for-word" translation in a certain manner. Isn't it ?
> less reliable than it used to be a decade ago.

Software _never_ has been more reliable as it is now. Or, to rephrase less euphemistically: it has _always_ been that bad (except for some areas where higher quality is necessary).

The problem is "just" that more and more "software" is used.
The following paragraph is a good representation of the whole article:

> Now that I have defined what quality is, I am going to give my personal opinion on what’s broken with software nowadays. I must warn you that you will see many direct references to either people or groups of people in this section. Needless to say that I do not intend to blame anyone, any group or profession for the mess that we’re in. I just want to provide my view, shaped by more than 10 years of experience working in this industry. It’s just a personal opinion based on anecdotes, so don’t get defensive or take this personally in any way.

It’s a big nothing burger
McDonald's is buying back all of its franchises in Israel
> I suspect it is still hard for LLMs

I just gave it to Claude: https://imgur.com/a/fQQOy1d
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If you want to use kernel bypass on the server, not the client, then XDP is even more useless. Because on the server world, you have access to professional NICs that you cannot expect clients to have.

It's been decades now that people routinely do kernel bypass on servers using e. g. Solarflare NICs with OnLoad. You just write your networking code normally using BSD sockets API, and LD_PRELOAD the OnLoad SDK which will intercept the socket API and perform a bypass. You get 90% of the latency benefits of kernel bypass without modifying your code, which still runs everywhere.
For anyone else who is geographically challenged, the map apparently has 64 states instead of 50. Here is an article with the extra states highlighted.

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2868:_Label_the_S...
I think you're correct. Looking at the simplest form of this:

In traffic jams on motorways google often directs me to come off at a slip road only to immediately rejoin the motorway. These slip roads are fairly empty and thus my journey time improves.

The overall implication to the traffic jam is negative though. Everyone rejoining slows down traffic more than leaving it speeds traffic up.
Fairly first-world-problems kind of article but I get how the author's occupation might have easily led to that kind of stress, and I sympathize with them.

It spent too long just describing the FOMO and how it can creep up on your mental health though, for my taste at least.

It's true that the first step of fixing a problem is to identify it but I believe they could have just said "Even if it's your job to keep up, put limits in place because it will stress you to the point of ruining other aspects of your life".

So that article is kind of at the "beginner level in the area of how modern-day tech can stress you out", I suppose. Valuable for people who are stressed but haven't understood why just yet.
> networks really don't scale past about 8-16 nodes. 8 is a hypercube, that's easy. You can do 16 with ringbus or xy-grid arrangements (although I don't think xy-grid has proven satisfactory for anything except systolic arrays imo). But as you increase the number of nodes past 8, link count blows out tremendously, bisection bandwidth stagnates, worst-case distance blows out tremendously, etc.

I don't think cube/hypercube is optimal, the opposite corner is too many hops away.

For 8 nodes, 3 links each, you're better of crossing some of the links to bring the max distance down to 2. Even better is a Petersen graph that can do 10 nodes at max distance 2.

If a proper 16-node hypercube is acceptable, 4 links per node and most distances 2-3 hops, then better arrangement lets you fit up to 41 nodes at max distance 3.

If you allow for 5 links or max distance 4 you can roughly double that node count, and if you allow both you can have over 200 nodes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_the_largest_known_gra...

If you let the max distance climb, then it will seriously bloat your bandwidth requirements. But you can fit quite a lot of nodes at small max distances.

> anyway, to your point: pcie/cxl will never be as fast as ethernet because the signal integrity requirements are orders of magnitude tighter, pcie is a very short-range link etc and requires comparatively larger PHY to drive it than ethernet does for the same bandwidth.

Why does the short range link have much tighter requirements, and what would it take to sloppen them up?
Perhaps; I don't know.

My only data point is anecdotal: my dad had bowel cancer, didn't change his water consumption after the surgery, insisted he was drinking plenty even while the nurse was putting a drip in one arm to rehydrate him and the other arm to give meds because he'd almost destroyed his kidneys.

Habits can be hard to change, and self-awareness slow.

But an anecdote isn't data.
I don’t remember them doing much about fckgw - I’m pretty sure piracy was part of their adoption strategy. Now they just give it away, which if anything underscores that.
I know a woman who had married a dutch and went to live in a farm there.

Apparently it was frowned upon for women to wear pants in the village where they lived, and finally she divorced and left (also for other issues I presume, but she cited closed mindedness as a major one).

She's in her 40s, not in her 80s.
> Poor health or limited social life causes both abstinence and mortality.

Your theory doesn't explain the observed positive correlation to lifespan when partners shared the same drinking habit.
This is one of those edge cases where DNA databases are invaluable, as they do not lie (retests can be done if an error is suspected) and the data (genetic provenance) cannot be destroyed (such that a vital record or entire archive could be). You can “walk” the vital record web/matrix from known good identity to unknown identity.

Vital records should probably have DNA attached. Maybe eventually they will.
I do hope we converge on a standardized API and schema for this. Testing and integrating multiple LLMs is tiresome with all the silly little variations in API and prompt formatting.
PHP would be my guess
I liked The Left Hand of Darkness and loved The Dispossessed.

I didn't like the first Earthsea novel and haven't read any others. I suspect it's a book that tends to work better for young readers, or older readers nostalgic for things they read in their youth.
https://mannotfounddog.ytmnd.com/
I do agree that work is much better if you are friends with your colleagues. That being said, one always need to be wary of bad actors that take advantage of people's openness.

There is a reason why the advice to not date or get too close to colleagues resonate with many people. There are just some workplaces that are toxic.

Sometimes, it is just better to delineate work from your personal life and interests.
I've restricted my phone to only using 4G because I've had a lot of problems with 5G feeling a lot slower than 4G. I've not done any quantitative testing on it but it just generally feels a lot slower, even when I'm looking right at the 5G mast, and the 4G mast is behind a few buildings. If whatever problem it's having can be fixed, and it can be priced similarly to broadband, then maybe
As a rule it’s “comply first, ask questions later” - you can end up culpable for damages if you don’t immediately take down.
> The U.S. government is losing trust in Microsoft

ie... there is no honor among thieves
If we're talking server tech then why does the article claim that 10gbps is becoming retail commodity? 10,40 and 100gbps is already the baseline for servers since a decade, I have not seen a server with 1gbps NICs for anything else than remote management or off band communication in a decade.

If it's for servers then the article still doesn't make any sense. See my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39939876
The guitar maker I know knocks on the raw soundboard and listens very close to the response. He can tell how it will sound in a guitar and how the guitar has to be built to support this particular soundboard and wanted characteristics of the guitar. (There are a lot of variables)
He explained the difference in the knock response, and as musicians we could hear the difference too.
A lot of truth to this. (Speaking as one of the creators of Xr0).
Thanks. I tend to avoid WD so didn't know they were different. :)
There is no possible way to construe abuse. None. Zilch.

Credit cards, from nearly their inception, have been widely promoted to be used when travelling. The cards could charge for foreign transactions but they choose not to, obviously to promote use overseas.

They could simply specify that the rewards only apply to US purchases, yet they don't.

They could notice that I've been committing this "abuse" for TEN YEARS and cut me off, yet they don't. They keep on upgrading me instead.
It's mostly just the US judicial system. The US has about 3x the amount of lawyers per capita compared to other Western nations. The glorification of lawyers in US media is sometimes a bit sickening as a non-US citizen.
i venture a guess that there are still no online games that use more than one mbps for interactive traffic and seeing fully remote gaming using tens of mbps, i don't see any justification for complexities like asset streaming.
Even Doom received lots of patches over its lifetime.
Laggy, complex and unintuitive UI’s, I get frustrated all the time when I have to use them.

Everyone does, but very few people get frustrated enough to stop using the software or to change bank. People will leave if the software isn't available, but they won't leave if it's bad, even if someone else tells them their bank's app is far better.

From a business perspective this means the company is investing exactly the right amount of effort in it. That sucks if you're the end user obviously, but if the user won't leave when their experience is horrible that's on them.
You created an account on HN just to say that?
> "A really bad example for not fulfilling the functional aspect when it comes to consumer software is Facebook. You need one app to use the platform that serves the news feed, and another one to use the chat function, even though the web app offers both functions at the same url."

This isn't a very compelling example because the division between the Messenger and Facebook mobile apps is an intentional UX choice.

It makes Messenger feel like other messaging apps on phones, e.g. by allowing instant access from the home screen to the conversation list and by reducing the app's memory footprint so it launches faster.

It may not be the UX trade-off you want, but presumably Meta has data that shows mobile Messenger users prefer this. (Personally I do — it would be annoying to launch all of Facebook to reply to someone's message.)
That seems anything but “neat”
His actions caused the real person to go to jail for 2 years.
Reading a book a week in a vacuum is easy.

Reading a book a week that competes with your responsibilities and other hobbies is a challenge.
intellectual honesty is a concept the opposite of which i did not refer to with any intent to insult. what i mean is that, on their faces, video game consoles and smartphones are inherently different things. that you can play video games on a smartphone but you can't smartphone on a video game console is relevant. and that nearly everyone in the modern world has one (smartphones), but a relatively small number the other (video game consoles) is too.

it may just be that i genuinely don't understand your analogy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_honesty
i think it's a a pretty straightforward culture problem: modern developers think they're more important than they actually are. everybody solely prioritizes "developer experience" but nobody even pretends to care at all about the actual end user, in fact most software is now actively and deliberately hostile towards the end user, as well as running like shit.
Rewrite it. Ok, easier said than done, but how difficult can it really be, today with the tools, namely debuggers, emulators and macro-assemblers, available to us? It's just 8 or 16KiB machine code, right?