skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cloverleafs also suffer a lot more when merging traffic becomes backed up, since there's no guarantee that the traffic merging on/off will be at even close to the same speed as the traffic that isn't merging.

It turns out that engineers select different interchange designs based on the expected traffic patterns, and there is no one-size-fits-all method.

As a sidebar, my dad was part of the (huge) team of engineers that helped implement the first few diverging diamond interchanges, and so its a fun reminder of him, even if I'm not on a road he had any hand in designing.
it takes a long time for companies to die. it took sears decades even though everyone could see that coming from a mile away.
I just played Bad Religion - Incomplete on YT Music through Sonos, app said "That's pretty much perfect". Played the same track on vinyl, app reported 3.5% too fast. Dev answered elsewhere on the post that .01% is required for the perfect message.
No I do not but it is a very interesting question and probably not even answerable in practice because not every instruction takes the same amount of time to execute to completion. An outlier in this regard are for example host function calls which could do arbitrary things on the host side or bulk-memory operations which scale linearly with their inputs etc.
I spent $30 on it a decade ago, got what felt like a couple cool tech demos and minigames for it. Not really worse value for money than getting two movie tickets, and maybe in one or two decades there will even be a completed game I can play
> (the value of being connected to the grid) for nothing

PG&E has a Minimum Delivery Charge of $10.12. If a customer uses 0 KWH for a month, they pay $10.12. Is that not the value of being connected to the grid?
I like how excited Steve is explaining this stuff

kid in a candy store
There were some recent posts (either here or reddit) supporting the claim that different regions activate when reading programs vs when reading text. If we take that to be true; and squint just enough, one could claim that arithmetic and mathematics should be treated differently to language.
jlcpcb's site is often broken in firefox, sadly. i keep chrome around just for it.
Don’t throw away the “this is off the record, player” line. That’s gold.
I think it has less to do with profit and more to do with balancing generation. CA is already capped out at solar usage unless you are storing that solar energy somewhere.
Can they do that? I thought their engine was built around CryEngine. At one point I think there was a Lumberyard[1] (also CryEngine) transition. Would they be able to sell a modified version of someone else's engine?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Lumberyard
Where can one find the breakdown of features on the free vs enterprise versions?
The only double diamond I routinely encounter (and just realized that’s what it was) is around an interstate interchange. With the scale of the interstate traffic, roundabouts would be difficult to use.

Difficult, but not impossible… I’ve also used roundabouts over highway traffic, but not with the same throughput of traffic that interstates have.
Their user activity metric includes WhatsApp. Isn't that a bit desperate?
Yeah, I'm out after my M1 dies or I pass it to my daughter. Next one will be a Framework 13" AMD with PopOS, likely after the new Cosmic DE launches.
Should have been C# with ASP.NET Core and EF Core instead. Hibernate is extremely dreadful to work with and no one in their sane mind should even have the gall to ask users to touch it when better options exist. Spring Boot also performs very poorly against ASP.NET Core.
It may be different on newer MacOS but on mine you will need ping6

> ping6 ff02::1%en1

for example.

I wasn't able to get it to work on Windows (I can get the command to work in WSL but it seems to sit alone in an internal network). Any advice welcome.
Windows 12: Farewell Tour
And control it how?
I wish that transparency and security were a selling point in gaming, but to me it doesn't seem like it. People will install all kinds of stuff and give them administrator permissions without a second thought. Anti-cheat eating itself into the kernel seems to be perfectly normal for most people. It's an entertainment product and people don't want to be inconvenienced for the most part.

Regarding the development costs, I'm not exactly an expert and I have never worked in a game studio (apart from the company my wife and I are running), but let's take StarCraft 2 for example. If you were to have the engine, but not the art, you could likely easily develop a very capable multiplayer RTS game. Heroes of the Storm was developed out of a StarCraft 2 mod[1]. As another example, Stormgate[2], made by ex Blizzard devs, is getting a whole lot of press coverage for their netcode. It stands to reason that a good engine and netcode are very real competitive advantages in the RTS space. Other game types, such as a walking sim or an adventure game will have a lot less "secret sauce" in the code and more in the art, voice acting, etc. (The Invincible[3] is great in this area) so the code/data split would likely heavily depend on the type of game. (Games can also become very messy between art, visual scripting, engine settings and code, which is what makes releasing the code separately tricky.)

My wife and I are (slowly, next to the day job) working on a Python programming/learning game and hopefully we'll manage to make a clean split between the engine and the art because it would be important for modding. However, I wouldn't feel comfortable releasing it under an open source license because it would cut off a potential source of revenue to license it to educators wanting to make their own challenges and courses. Maybe later we'll figure out that the base game makes enough money and it doesn't matter anymore, but it's really hard to predict success. As a game dev I would really like to make it possible, for example, for game archivists to do their work legally, for people to legally backup and rebuild their games for newer operating systems, or for their kids to be able to inherit their games[4], but carving out specific exceptions, especially for unknown future use cases 10-20 years down the line is exceptionally hard and I'm also not a lawyer, so for desktop the Steam Subscriber Agreement is governing our PC releases for now.

[1]: https://starcraft.fandom.com/wiki/Heroes_of_the_Storm

[2]: https://www.pcgamer.com/an-upcoming-rts-will-incorporate-the...

[3]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/731040/The_Invincible/

[4]: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/05/after-you-die-your-st...
Well, one of the group is paid for that time. The other one is paying with their time, on top of what they already paid in money.

With time being the one finite resource for everyone, stalling someone to make them go away feels unethical, when the alternative would be to just tell them to GTFO.
Two separate problems. PG&E is guaranteed a return on capital, so the prices are just going to be what they are until the state unwinds that bad deal. It doesn't have much to do with anything else.
I wonder if there's an issue with exhaust and radiation, like not wanting irradiated gas to escape into the atmosphere more than it already is.
Aw, it's an ad.

As with yesterday's "big data" article, the usual question is whether you have enough transaction volume to need all this stuff. If you can organize your web site so that most traffic is read-only files, and the heavy machinery only turns on when somebody does a "buy" or something important, the whole problem probably fits into a CRUD app.

There's a useful insight in there - fan-in and fan-out are hard. I hit this in a completely different context - asset handing for a game-type client. Events come in ordering the creation of object X using assets A, B, and C. It may take several asset fetches from the network to draw something. An asset may be used for multiple drawable objects. There's caching and concurrent asset fetching. A request to create X has to start fetches for A, B, and C (they might be in cache, though) and wait until those fetches complete. A request for Y might want B, C, and D. Items should be fetched from the network only once, of course. This is a messy coordination problem.

Problems like this, with fan-in, fan-out, and concurrency, map badly to the standard paradigms. Neither threads with blocking nor "async" help much. The problem can be visualized as set operations, but can't easily be implemented that way.
A single thread event driven coordination loop works, but it's kind of clunky.

So I started reading the article hoping for a theoretical breakthrough on fan-in, fan-out problems. No such luck.

The set-theory approach is hard to do, but promising. Each object that wants something has a small set of the things it wants. There's a big pool of such sets. There's also a big pool of the items you have, which changes constantly. It's easy to express what you need to fetch and which objects are now ready to go as set intersection and difference operations.
But you need representations for big sparse sets which can do set operations fast. Probably B-trees, or something in that space.

Microsoft Research fooled around with this concept years ago in a different context. The idea was to have a database which supported pending SQL queries. The query would return new results when the database changed such that the results of the query changed. The goal was to to support that for millions of pending queries. Financial traders would love to have that. It's a very hard scaling problem. Don't know how that came out.
There are niche markets where agencies create websites for luxury goods, indeed. Take the wine industry in France for instance. If you want to create top notch websites, maybe consider a niche and specialized market.
Gary Oldman’s still alive though…
Ah, good, we've finally found Boulder's Ring. Weird that it's not in the middle of the Great Attractor, but maybe this was just the Xeelee's prototype.
We also got Half Life Alyx which IMO lived up to the 3 hype with the exception of concluding the original story.
Someone retire this man.
I am in this situation and I focus on friends, family, hobbies.

I think that most problems in "society" stem from people losing track of these things.
Gary Oldman is still alive.
I bought a book about Redhat. I bought it in a bookstore on a weekend. The book had a CD-ROM in the back. There was a distribution on it. I recall that Redhat Linux was already enough of a thing I had been reading of it for a few years. In printed magazines.

But that's not what Redhat actually was. Redhat was a support company. Corporations buying per seat and per server support contracts is what made Redhat a business. Having a Linux distribution was a way of productizing Linux support. There was a clear value proposition to an enterprise customer base. Redhat wasn't a guerilla operation.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redhat#Business_model
I prefer Facebook because I can do an impromptu background check on someone before trying to meet them with what is sometimes thousands of dollars in goods or cash. Also, at least in my area craigslist is pretty dead, and there are much better deals on FB.
The brains are the issue, not the power source. If you operators can't see what is happening/control it, or the onboard autonomous mode glitches, you're gonna have a bad day.
Even if Star Citizen released tomorrow, exactly as Chris Roberts envisioned, everything was flawless, how many players could they realistically attract? It feels like most people who will ever want to play Star Citizen has played it. I'm worried what's left for Star Citizen is to keep monetizing their existing playerbase, not that their current playerbase is going to run dry of funds anytime soon.
Vacuum tubes are pretty radiation-proof. It depends how primitive you want to get with the electronics.
These effects remind me of some of the first programming I ever did: animated ASCII art for local BBS’s.

I remember dumping an entire day into something resembling Spider-Man. Was very exciting when a sysop put my work into their login sequence.
Has anyone else had this problem with Win 11? Tried to log in this morning, but it rejects my password and opens a warning dialog that says:

> Please verify that you are NoMoreNicksLeft by saying "Doritos™ Dew™ it right!"

I think it must've updated over the long weekend.
They used electrical resistivity tomography to find something L shaped in the ground that is probably "a mixture of sand and gravel", that "may have been an entrance to the deeper structure".

It's ancient, but wtf does this have to do with aliens? ER tomography is super neat science!

edit: The issue appears to be the use of the word "portal" to describe an entrance. I'm not seeing the issue, but maybe because I'm an English speaker. Here's the definition:

Portal: a doorway, gate, or other entrance, especially a large and imposing one.
> any business benefit

Ahh, but does that mean benefit to corporate entity, or does it mean benefits to managers/executives that are seeking promotions/compensation? :p
I don't like the content, but I would NOT support banning it.

To me, there are things that a fun to play what if with for entertainment purposes and hanging out while puff-puff-passing, but only if there's a strong link to reality with the individual reading it. For those without that link and they conspiracy seems tangible that they accept that as their reality it is no longer entertainment.

With the dumbing down of critical thinking in education, things that get pushed on the interwebs become much more accepted as normal instead of being able to say maybe someone is pushing an agenda instead. The ability of someone being a shill and not know it is just a sad state of affairs.
Does Chris Roberts actually have a yacht/an expensive boat?
I was only trying to help you because it appeared that you misread the comment and began ranting about an unrelated matter from that misunderstanding. Not interested in this conversation, sorry.
Vacuum tubes and remote control.
https://diakont.com/nuclear-services/radiation-tolerant-cctv...
The CCP sees the Taiwanese as rebel separatists, so renaming "Republic of China" to "Republic of Taiwan" would increase, not decrease, the odds of invasion by confirming their propaganda. The CCP wants the island of Taiwan itself; it doesn't care about the ROC's claims on the mainland.
> TEPCO plans to remove less than 3 grams (0.1 ounce) of debris in the test at the Fukushima plant.

...

> About 880 tons of highly radioactive melted nuclear fuel remain inside the three damaged reactors

talk about starting small
"Plan B morning after-pill" is the first page of hits on Google for me, and definitely is the first thing that popped into my head. Perhaps its a region-specific thing, though.
Yes, the major benefit of Dev Drive is that the default filter driver stack is minimized from OS drive defaults, including Defender's and other AV's realtime drivers. NTFS itself wasn't the problem. Microsoft seems to acknowledge that the filter drivers in the wild are a part of the problem, and a partition opt-out is useful. (Of course all those warnings about corp group policy also point out that Enterprises are given the ability with group policy to force turn on a lot of those filter drivers for Dev Drive partitions, because Microsoft loves giving Corporations ways to shoot their own feet in Group Policy. What would Group Policy even be if it wasn't just Footgun as a Service?)

It does seem like this is some sort of "trojan horse" (but not in a bad way) play for ReFS. But I'm not sure it is for sinister reasons: Encouraging Developers to use ReFS for their main development partition is a good way to encourage lots of free app compatibility testing on top of ReFS and suss out the minor bugs in applications that assume all Windows runs solely on NTFS. It seems like a play to increase reliance on the VFS layer and its abstractions and further get away from code assuming NTFS specifics.
I wrote it off when a bunch of Freelancer fans were like "hey, is this going to have third-person ship combat and manual flying through asteroids?" and Roberts said "Yeah!" and then after he got their money he was like "Never mind, that will cost me money from the sim addicts, so we're not doing that."
And Valve has released Episode 1, 2, and Alyx since HL2.
Mining lasers still don't line up with crosshairs, and rock charge level doesn't even update while charging up a rock to break, so you can't even do the main grind gameplay loop. Your ship will randomly refuse to take off. The first door to let you out of the hab room you spawn in doesn't even work sometimes. NPCs still stand on top of chairs. The "game" is just as broken as it was years ago, if not more broken. It's nothing short of space-themed masochism to try to "play" the "game".
Thanks for a masterfully written article, with an excellent overview of the problem and the language design choice.

It makes sense to have to opt-in to floats for performance in domains like scientific computing or graphics (where silent precision loss matters less). But in all other cases business logic (money etc.) would give you normal arithmetic as you would expect.

It also makes sense to not allow numbers to overflow to the Heap, but rather have the programmer take special care for exceptionally high numbers.

Having no shenanigans between the compiler output and the runtime output is also a sane choice (staying true to predictability / determinism).

All in all, it sounds like good language design choices for a Web Server and Business Applications focused language such as Roc.
It would be nice if the data could be frozen and archived in some fashion. So much (foolishly) moved onto Facebook, letting it just "die and go away" would be like torching a non-insignificant sampling of historical public records.
> On my bill (ISO-NE region/market) there is a separate generation and transmission fee.

Same here, on the Peninsula of the Bay Area: Generation comes from generation owned or contracted by SVCE [0], which is then delivered via PG&E (both transmission and distribution).

Billing is handled by PG&E: My bill has a section for PG&E charges, and a section for SVCE charges. The PG&E section has a generation credit, that effectively removes any costs of non-SVCE power generation, leaving the costs of transmission & distribution.

[0]: https://svcleanenergy.org
Middle schoolers right? High schoolers should be learning actual languages, no?
I've been saying for years that the military should unionise.
I think when CryTek died they gobbled up most/a lot of their engine engineering team and some crazy licensing. The Amazon Lumberyard "transition" seemed more like corporate partnership marketing to me considering how they've basically rewritten most CryEngine modules multiple times over by now.
> shoddy coverage where I live now (New York)

Do they have any coverage in New York? I thought they were using national roaming on AT&T there?
I laughed, that's good enough for me. I don't care for snobbiness.
> When a company starts playing weird games with how it reports user activity, something is going very, very wrong. In general, when a company starts trying to obfuscate the true numbers about its revenue, growth, or profit, it’s a bad sign.

Citation needed. When companies shift from Monthly to Daily active users for example it's a perfectly valid way to recognize that they want to change the way they think about their north star metrics. At Facebook scale, I think it's rather brave for them to change the most important metrics that they report, showing that they're still open-minded to innovate on that frontier (and they are most certainly on that frontier as few companies operate on that scale). Having worked there in the past I would believe that this isn't just a vanity change, most likely a fundamental change on how their teams will be viewing these metrics and objectives, and may lead to material differences, likely for the better.
Heavenbanning in practice.
> uniformly extremely glum and down. If you had just come back from the moon, you'd be over the moon, so to speak.

it sounds like a pretty tiring trip tbh, and if you saw me after a long hike, you'd think a loved one died, not that I had the time of my life.
Once it reaches Large Town level it’s not so bad.
Maybe throw less crap.
Ryan Salame Sentenced to 7.5 Years in Prison
They're not comparing it to a MacBook, though, they're comparing it to an iPad Pro.

We could go through the whole dance of figuring out which weighs more and what does what with whom and where, but I think it's probably easier to say "different people have different priorities". If what you want is a lightweight Linux laptop, the iPad is never going to give that to you. If what you want is a tablet that you can connect a keyboard to when you want, an X1 Carbon is never going to give you that. And if that is what you want, it's nice that the iPad can run a great ssh/mosh client that's capable of running Visual Studio Code in the cloud.
Literally every article ive ever read, or testimony about altman describes an extremely manipulative person.

At some point if it true its true.
> Windows 11 plummeted to a 25.69% market share after it reached an all-time high of 28.16% back in February 2024. Meanwhile, Windows 10 has risen to over 70% market share during the same period

1980's: we all wanted personal computers

1990's: we all wanted the Internet

2000's: we all wanted social networks

2010's: we all wanted mobile devices

2020's: we just want to get rid of shitty search and AI surveillance
When Win10 support winds down, I am unsure if I will even bother to continue to use it.
MS has shit the bag so to speak with every version since Windows 7.
Vista was Longhorn redone with COM instead of .NET, after the whole internal drama from pro C++ folks, after Sinofsky took over.

Window 8 was .NET redone by the same folks, as the original idea from Ext-VOS, COM getting IInspectable, in addition to IUnknown, while Type Libraries replaced by .NET metadata.

Windows 10 was the reunification of WinRT programming models across devices.
Don’t those incentives make them inherently wrong?
Well, that makes me sort of sad. Now we'll never get to know who G-Man is (wink wink).
Windows 10 is the maximum intrusion people are willing to take. That's all there is. If Microsoft isn't going to stop this, I wonder where we end up. As this is an OS that billions of people rely on.

I can already see a lot of people using outdated versions w/o support just to avoid espionage hell.
You got it completely wrong.

There were massive changes in Vista, new audio stack, new default permissions, new USB stack, new networking stack, new graphics stack, which caused tons of compatibility problems.
Reminds me of the drip.com TSR program that I put on some of the school computers circa 1990.
Shortcuts? Like bookmarks?
This is quite editorialized. A different way of putting this is that the government has reduced solar subsidies (reduced rates for excess) and won't be passing a bunch of new restrictions on the industry. These sound like good things. Let the market work.
"[...] we talk about LMSys's because they agree with our feelings, and we don't talk about other results because they do not."

What other benchmarks do you think are being overlooked?
> stick to that promise that it was the final version

That was never an official promise. It was one developer advocate making an off-hand comment in a breakout session which had a topic of designing Live Tiles.
Ideally Microsoft should just stop forcing bullshit and keep doing Windows the classic way. The value of Windows is in what it is, not in what it "can become".
it's okay, it's just I've had dang on my case a few times already.
> Is there any business benefit to constantly updating major Windows versions that I’m not seeing?

Uhm, yes, they are making people pay for a new copy?
I know BC hydro buys cheap power from other utilities to keep the reservoirs as full as possible. If California has excessive Solar power it could be used to keep the hydro reservoirs in BC, Washington, Oregon, and northern California full for other times.