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The ISW is so blatantly biased in their coverage they are indeed best though of as an classy looking info-warrior than something like to a neutral observer.

For a long while I only distrusted their political commentary, as it was so obviously shit, at just rolled my eyes when they pretended the Ukrainians didn't send troops on raids toward Belogorod, but otherwise trusted that they at least covered military movements accurately.

Lately I have however seen accusations that they are also uselessly slow at reporting Ukrainian withdrawals, so at this point I wouldn't trust their milblogger coverage to deliver more than selected defeatist posts.

All that said, I think your point that (some of) the state of the art in drone tech is being desperately pushed in Ukraine is a good one. Though I'd add the qualifier that they have very specific concerns and constraints on their drone use (the one-way trips being a prominent one).
We’re probably way too early for it, but I expect there to be offline resorts in the future, or even entire living centers. The resort changes the connection you have to the networked world into a manageable one, by for example having a limited-use Internet cafe instead of personal cell phones. It’ll probably be a luxury too expensive for most people at first though.
What a wild and heartbreaking story.

Who pays for all this anti-doping bureaucracy? It sounds very expensive for both the agency and the athletes.
If your already so far behind on email to declare bankruptcy, they're already a week late. This applies to both personal and business.

And I cannot think of a personal scenario where missing a single email about payment would be a catastrophic issue. The only types of payments I deal with through email would just be resolved by receiving a follow up email.
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We once had a rather angry Irish customer calling our support complaining that we called him a pikey (slur for gypsy). After some back and forth it turns out we just gave him an apikey.

We never had a similar issue with our random numbers/letters/reset passwords or anything like that which don't have any kind of "dont return profanity" protections. Though I agree, someone getting a randomly generated customer portal url or something containing fuck or similar would look bad. Our cloudfront or something (or was it main public facing s3 bucket? can't remember) starts with "gay" and was never picked up on.
So far I don't see that many talent in software engineering to be honest. The moment it has become a profitable job, it started to suffer from the same syndromes as other jobs - there are more people, but more incompetent people too.
And here (both from 2 months ago):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40027182
I hear Scunthorpe is lovely this time of year.
There's no reason to say that any war with Russia or China will have nukes.

Russia has been bluffing with this all the time, drawing "red lines" which will cause nuclear war - giving anything to Ukraine will have a nuclear response; giving artillery weapons to Ukraine will start nuclear war; giving HIMARS launcers to Ukraine; giving F-16 to Ukraine; giving ATACMS to Ukraine; saying Ukraine can shoot at all legal targets and not just those within its own borders will start a nuclear war... and yet there is no nuclear war.

In reality, a nuclear war cannot be won, but Russia is preparing for a big war or aggression against Western countries using conventional weapons, and is using nukes as a psychological weapon to extort and have its way and allow territorial expansion through wars of conquest using conventional weapons.
One of the quirks of HN (and a good one IMO most of the time) is that people tend to reply to the title and not the source. I didn’t even realize the source of the article before you mentioned it.
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But the decision to make server chips entirely of E cores must come from some customers demanding core count density above all else. I'm suggesting where that demand comes from.
That might be true, but has basically no bearing on the ban vs tax debate at all.

I don't think anyone made an argument one way or another _how_ lead is bad: all the arguments so far works just as well whether lead is 'poisonous' or bad for the brain in some special way.

You are right that private planes are mostly used by rich people. But that's not true of all products that contain lead, or processes that emit lead into the environment. (For example, there's lead in some batteries and there's lead in some solders. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead#Applications for more.)

The harm of lead is finite, and thus a finite tax would be a reasonable way to deal with it.
Training takes a few months, but I bet that they'll do some testing first before releasing it to the public.

I also believe that they will delay the release of GPT-5 as much as possible, the reason being that it will be underwhelming (at least in comparison to GPT3.5 hype). Possibly release close to some Google new release timeline (their main competitor).

They are the main driver of a bubble that has benefited a lot both Microsoft and NVidia and other hyperscalers, and if they release the model and display that we're at the "diminished returns" phase, this will crash a big part of the industry, not to mention NVidia.

Companies are buying H100s and investing in expensive AI talent because they believe they progress quickly, if the progress stalls for LLMs, there'll be a huge drop in sales and CAPEX in this industry.

There are still many up-and-coming projects that rely on NVidia hardware for training, like Tesla's autopilot and others, but the bulk of the investment in H100 in recent years has been mostly because of LLMs.

Also all the new AI talent will move on to do something new and hopefully we will have more discoveries and potential uses, but we're definitely peak LLMs.

(ps: just my opinion)
That's on the customer's part, or, more properly said, on the Ubuntu installer's part. Defaults matter.
> If the cost to charge it went up by 10x I would still be displeased though.

Sure anyone would be, but... maybe don't choose .furniture[0] as the TLD for your own small private LAN DNS and don't have the unpleasant surprises?

The prices for the registrations (and renew) are going up steadily (just like everything else? inflation is a thing), but there is always an option to get the information about the renewal price upfront and maybe even use the multi-year sale.

Just looked in Dynadot's CSV, there are ~100 TLDs with sub $10 renewals and additional ~100 with < $15.

Also dug my records[1], privacy is baked in now, so the total effective rise is $1 for `.one` and... -$2 for `.com`.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40571805

[1]

date created: 2015/08/20
<placeholder>.com - domain renewal
1 year ($10.99)
<placeholder>.com - domain privacy
1 year ($3.00)
PAYMENT
final cost: $13.99

date created: 2016/07/21
<placeholder>.one - domain renewal
1 year ($10.99)
<placeholder>.one - domain privacy
1 year ($3.00)
PAYMENT
final cost: $13.99

Date created: 2023/09/08
<placeholder>.com - Domain Renewal
1 year ($11.99) $11.99

Date created: 2023/10/16
<placeholder>.one - Domain Renewal
1 year ($14.99) $14.99
In the Netherlands we have something similar: the BSN (translated: citizen service number). This used to be the social security number, but because it was used by an increasing number or government agencies unrelated to social security it was changed to BSN.

One of the major problems with this number is that it has a special status under the law. There are very strict rules as to who can process and/or store this number and for which purpose. For example: a bank can process this when opening a bank account, under anti money laundering regulations, but they cannot use it to identify an existing customer.

If you originally set up your database to use SSNs you now have a problem. This actually happened with our chamber of commerce: if you registered a one-man business they used the SSN as the business id and you’re required as a business to publish this. Now it’s suddenly a number that is subject to strict privacy rules and they have to renumber all one-man businesses.

So that’s another problem with data you don’t control: the legal status of this data can change.
Digital Ocean are going to be dead last in the transition to ARM.
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I don't think there's any interesting difference with different bases. Usually the base you represent stuff in is a relatively small number (because using very large bases is already wildly inefficient). I think it only usually makes sense to consider constant or logarithmic bases. If your base is scaling linearly with your number then things are going to be weird.

The problem of finding factors is only complex when you're asking about relatively big factors. If you're looking for constant or log sized factors you can just do trial division and find them.
I have Google One VPN which comes with the storage, I don't use it. If I were going to use a VPN I'd probably use a different provider even though I have the free access of one.

I think it's because of trust - I'm nervous about the fact it's linked to my Google account. Using a separate provider with a virtual credit card and an Apple email relay would be my choice.
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>The White House kept close tabs on some of The Wall Street Journal’s interviews with Democratic lawmakers. After the offices of several Democrats shared with the White House either a recording of an interview or details about what was asked, some of those lawmakers spoke to the Journal a second time and once again emphasized Biden’s strengths.

That’s a touch Orwellian.
Hilariously, this works even if the patient is aware of the placebo effect. I'm on antidepressants (first time in my life) since two weeks ago. I feel MUCH better already. But the drug I'm taking starts working at least 4 weeks after therapy starts. There was not a single trial where it performed better than placebo during a shorter timeframe.

And yet I feel better.
Well, the article says the "ganj" root in "Ganjifa" is Persian. I didn't know the etymology of the word "ganja" before so I had to look it up:

"Ganja" seems to originate in Vedic Sanskrit but its exact etymology seems to be unclear. It might be related to Sumerian "ganzigunnu" or it might be related to "Ganga", the Sanskrit name for the Ganges river. It might also share an origin with the word "cannabis" via Indo-Germanic.

In other words: it's unsurprising you wouldn't find related words in Hindi given that neither of the two words originates in Hindi, although Hindi is generally believed to be a modern descendent of Sanskrit (via Hindustani). The more relevant language to look at would be Farsi (i.e. Persian). With regard to Hindi they're two unrelated loanwords, one of which is even a proper noun.
I won’t be surprised if there are websites that load more than that already.
The Kolmogorov complexity of an arbitrary string is uncomputable.
> when you actually need good performance for something that doesn't scale so well horizontally

Truth is, you don't have the right to need fast cores any more. Those times are over, when you could write poor code and buy a more expensive CPU. Now, if you want your software to scale, it's up to you to make it scale horizontally. Either this, or suck it up!
Correct. A node that crashed quickly (or where earlyoom killed something - I am looking at you, https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/48673) is visible only as a monitoring alert that goes away by itself, because all Ceph daemons are configured to be restarted after a crash by default. A slow/swapping node, on the other hand, leads to customer or end user complaints.
I thought the point was to construct a password that's secure enough _and_ easy to remember for humans.

Adding random punctuation helps with the former, but might interfere with the latter. (In the extreme case, you just generate completely random strings character for character. That's the most secure, but the least memorable.)
You may be right in general about my take being too cynical, but I have to counter this in particular:

> and typically they stay idle while waiting for IO

That's just not how you size servers. If most of your cores are idle you will add more work to the server, or you will have bough one with fewer cores to begin with.
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“ For one thing, the experts, along with the FDA, found that the double-blind trials were essentially unblinded—both therapists and participants knew whether participants received MDMA, given the potent effects of the drug”

How was this not known or discussed before hand when evaluating the trial setup. And how could this ever be avoided?
These programs take years and a significant amount of money to conduct. Yet it seems like this was DOA due to its psycho active effects.
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I am rather excited for the all e-core chips.

Web workloads:
I just care about threads per core. Without hyper threading I can
-- regain all the perf lost to heart bleed.
-- Get near ARM like power performance.

The servers with this chip will be able to put ram in the PCIe slots. You will be able to build for some interesting workloads (redid/valkey memory as cache/disk/table)

Candidly with cloud costs being what they are, running your own hardware is having more appeal by the day.
I think it is the same as with cars. Introducing cars improves the access times of a lot of things, but as a result, supermarkets, hospitals etc. are now more sparsely distributed than ever. Everyone has a car anyways, so it makes sense to increase the actual distance.

Same goes for internet access. Every bank used to have offices with customer service in every small village. Now only some of the larger cities have an office if you're lucky. We make things as accessible as we need it to be, so reducing time to access does not necessarily improve the situation in all perspectives.
My traditional schema was always to have id in every table and to make it an integer, then for pretty much anything it'd be two tables, nouns for the thing and a one-to-many relationship with noun_names for the names, where noun_names was comprised of id/noun/language/name, keyed on noun and language, with the language column FK'd to languages.id. I'd also have a languages.code column for ISO or IANA code (sometimes both columns or aliases), and a language_names table with language_used/language_named. So you could name English in Frisian, and Chinese in Tibetan. Haven't needed to build SQL in ages, though that schema works great. Certainly never had an issue with it once UTF-8 became standard. If you build schemas without i18n, you're asking for trouble.

One good thing about using a standard integer key is the cost of indexes is low (low memory use). One good thing about using id everywhere is that it's short and self-explanatory to programmers from any culture.

Lots of casual queries built of subqueries like...

select * from noun_names where noun=(select id from nouns where ...) and language=(select id from language where code='en');

Always felt this was the most readable. Always felt that LEFT/RIGHT JOIN stuff was bonkers. Onboarded a lot of serious junior devs, never had an issue.
Brokerage? You are making assumptions again.

I am divesting of a business that has many kinds of transactions. Counterparties often suggest a cash discount so that one or both parties can hide the income.
I feel like there's a huge market for this, especially as it can be used so well by consumers a fun (non) disposable camera.

Lots of my friends have started buying disposables or point and shoot cameras as an excuse to solely take pictures and not worry about how they look until after they been developed. This is perfect for that, will start recommending it!
> if I can automate a runbook can I not just make the system heal itself automatically

The runbooks are still codified by a human in the current scenario. We are experimenting with some data to see if we can generate accurate runbooks for different scenarios but haven't found much luck with it yet. I do think that some % of issues will be abstracted in near future with machines doing the healing automatically.

> you should invest in toil reduction to stop having those repeated problems.

Most teams I speak to say that they try their best to avoid repeating the same issue again. Users typically use PlayBooks for:

(a) A generic scenario where you have an issue reported / alerted and you are testing 3-4 hypotheses / potential failure reasons at once.

(b) You want to run some definitive sequence of steps.
I personally wouldn't call a 0.13 portion a large part of a 1.43 cake.

FWiW this repackaging of climate data was submitted 10 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40580119
For me, it's not so much the shutdown as it is the extremely short notice of the shutdown. At a BigCo I worked at, this would have missed the regular project funding cycle for 2024 and so would have to be done as an unplanned emergency project. Senior execs don't like emergencies ... and remember who caused them. Shutdowns should be given 2+ years notice!
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This take is completely ridiculous, Google is absolutely not to be trusted in many of this fickle experiments it does and it will hurt them, but putting GCP, a paid system with a track record that powers so many important businesses is just bending the metaphor to a point where it makes no sense.

That said, that's what they get for doing this kind of thing I guess.
Thanks for all the improvement suggestions! Taking them into account, the `makeSlug` function becomes:

function makeSlug(length: number): string {
const alphabet = "0123456789abcdefghjkmnpqrstvwxyz";
let result = "";
for (let i = 0; i < length; i++) {
result += alphabet[crypto.randomInt(alphabet.length)];
}
return result;
}
That’s not a quirk of HN. It’s a quirk of lazy humans, and I don’t understand how replying to titles would ever be a good thing.
Well, fixed pagefile size are (were) fine if you def. knew for what tasks / applications you use.

But for a lot of people (esp. in gaming but not limited to) fixed pagefile sizes caused problems when applications overallocated memory beyond the pagefile size (not necessarily used it, just allocating it was already enough to trip out of memory situation, I think).
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Not enough, apparently. She still got robbed of her iPhone and had to buy another one.
google selling their entire domain stuff to squarespace and the elimination of data transfer when you migrate from GCP to another provider doesn't shine a bright light on them imo.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/eliminatin...
The likelihood of Google killing BigQuery or any of their other main cloud products anytime soon without a migration plan is low enough I assume.
> Incorrect.

Entirely correct. Karma was already visible on a user's profile, and therefore worth something for that reason alone. Nothing has changed, and your fallacious attempts to argue otherwise are irrelevant.

> just got green flagged here right now as an acceptable seeking

Categorically incorrect. Dang is the HN mod. Him doing a thing obviously does not imply that it's ok for a normal user to do it too.

> I'm not quite sure why you wrote so many sentences as a response

Because I strive to use logic, as a contrast to comments like yours, which use emotional manipulation ("pretty weird way", "I'm not quite so sure", "it sounds like") to try to manipulate readers into a feeling without using an actual argument, and meaningless buzzwords ("funneling") to make productive conversation impossible in the first place, and are inappropriate for HN.
The thing is, most cloud systems sit at idle-ish loads, sans a few select components (file inegestion, file conversion, AI inference, high load databases). These idle microservices needs bursts, not long strips of straight road.

Hence having a lot of low power cores which can be quickly scheduled and have ample bandwidth to the rest of the system is what makes them feel snappy on the cloud.

Another fact is, currently processors are really way more powerful and have more capacity demanded by the tasks. I have a new N100 NUC system. It has 32GB single channel memory, a paltry 500MB/sec SATA and another paltry 800MB/sec NVMe disk, and it's way snappier than my old desktop, which is more than enough for me (It's running Debian & KDE).

So having tons of E cores on a bog standard server won't hurt people who are trying to serve CRUD apps, but they may need a couple of P-core filled servers for DB, etc.

It's not very different from what Sun did with Niagara processors which moped the floor (and moped again just for the giggles) with Intel in web serving and small file processing tasks (500% difference, c'mon now).

The only downside is, we're going deeper on specialization cycle. Now, processors are the new accelerators, which are task specialized, and your server may not be just repurposed for something else on the other rack.

P.S.: I'm not a big Oracle fan, but the ARM servers they offer at OCI are way more snappier than the Premium Intel server I have at DigitalOcean. Result may change if I test their "long-straight performance", but ARM one works like local machine response wise.
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Modern CPUs are mostly limited by their energy budget/heat and smaller cores are more efficient. Also, if you have a workload scaling to, say, 8 cores chances are good that it also scales to 20+, allowing the usage of many small cores. Hence, having a few fast and then several smaller, more efficient cores should be also useful for workstations and servers.
> Some people are mentioning that if Apple is given the phone, Apple will also help

No, they will not. It is just a wish. And it makes little sense for Apple to be doing that.

If you bring a found iPhone to Apple, Apple will not tell you any information about the associated customer. They don't have any infrastructure to return it. The only thing they can and will do is take the device and recycle it.
If the system went wonky because the disk was full, then clearing this on boot might help me get to a working system.
Not in AWS. 1 VCPU = 1 thread (so half a core in architectures with 2-way SMT, which is most of them).
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