skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sense in which they are defects is that on the shell, the density function is a distribution and takes no real value. Distributions are singularities/non-functions that we get when we take certain limits of ordinary functions, or solve certain differential equations with generalized functions.

The distribution used works roughly as if we overlapped two equal positive and negative mass shells. But there are some extra details that ensure there is a net inward force for matter situated on the final shell. We'd have to actually work the math to really understand why that force appears, without hand waving.
Insurance—decrease variance. Gambling—increase variance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Express_Data_Path is a feature of recent Linux kernels allowing you to bypass/replace most of the normal Linux networking code, allowing for higher performance. Some network cards will even run your network code directly on their hardware.

(not sure what GP meant, just providing the reference)
Yet another lobsters repost, but a good one. At what point do they just merge with HN?

> I think what’s going on here is if your device pretends to be an FTDI chip, but it doesn’t perfectly emulate it, weird stuff happens when the official FTDI driver doesn’t see something it’s expecting. I’ll leave it to you as the reader to decide whether that’s accidental or intentional on FTDI’s part. Whether it’s accidental or not, I think it’s pretty bad that the driver can crash the system if the device doesn’t respond correctly.

This particularly was a good comment. I guess this is what happens when vendors like FTDI have to fend of an army of chinese clones underselling their IP, introduce a BSOD in windoze driver when the chip isn't perfectly theirs.
I have to disagree that I'm perpetuating any falsehood here. Mozilla literally needs to approve an addon for it to behave normally. That you are satisfied with the process they have for approving doesn't change that.

To me it seems absurd for a company that claims to be so pro-privacy to not allow any genuinely private extensions to exist. Anyone who wants to make a 'real' addon has to share their code with mozilla.
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It sounds like your idea of "open" is "closed"
ad.2 defer in go is function-scoped, but in zig block-scoped, so you can create block in zig to defer earlier?
Very cool (literally) stuff.
I drew a straight line and it keeps spinning :D
No. It’s a trope. Most people can’t tell the difference. It’s highly context and application specific.
If it can route incorrectly, that seems like a strong signal not to rely on your maps. It doesn't matter if you know what the correct latency is, if the users only experience the incorrect one.
I noticed the post was tagged with 'gamedev' which might be relevant, STL used to be hard to optimize due to it doing lots of heap allocations.

It has been a while since I was in gamedev so perhaps not true anymore but sometimes these things change slowly with people/culture.
My understanding is that they may not exactly be baseload, but will run only some of the time. Not ideal, but better than the worst case.
It’s cropped from a Playboy photoshoot.

I didn’t think it was sexual to that degree. Surely knowing it’s a cropped nude was part of the allure of reusing it.

Lena Forsén explicitly prefers to retire the picture, so this should be reason enough.
I chose my phone primarily because of its price tag. I would like to run a de-googled Android, but I couldn't find one that supports my device model. So far I haven't noticed any backdoors ;)
Maybe, but it’s also remarkable Canada hasn’t had a bank failure in >100 years. It’s a safe, peaceful and prosperous developed country. Hard to argue that Canada hasn’t done fairly well. I still agree it’s perhaps too risk averse, but I disagree it’s the worst performing of all developed countries in that regard.
On an early version of the MacBook Air the headphone jack was next to a USB port. In the dark I tried to plugin a pair of headphones and managed to put the headphone connector into the USB port. I didn’t push hard, just so some electrical connection happened. The kernel immediately crashed. I talked about it with a friend who is a tech consultant and he confirmed that he had managed that too.
Aren’t pizza boxes lines with PFAS or some other kind of forever chemicals which is why they can’t be recycled?
That is true, maximized is the wrong word. But you’ve increased the odds in a way that might not be available otherwise. Actually maximizing could have a major cost.
oh don't worry, I already have :)

I hope they implement some other situation soon. A one-time fee to register, maybe monthly subscriptions for perks, or something. They may need it sooner rather than later and at least this is a nice stopgap
So in exchange for their principles, they got to keep 3 whole percent of the market? That's a victory?

I think that's a poor argument. However, I think the stronger argument is that in this case it's actually relatively okay. Like, it'd be a better world if DRM didn't exist, but given that they lack the market power to do anything about that, EME actually seems like the least bad option:

* It's sandboxed.

* It's optional and doesn't run by default.

* Firefox prompts the user and asks if they want to run the DRM.

In fairness, I understand that there are different views on this; I stop one tiny half-step shy of the GNU/FSF position, in that I would argue that people should have complete control of their machines, but that that includes the right to run software that doesn't respect their right to control the machine.
Is this true for well educated immigrants too? It seems like this might be affecting a limited population, if the educated immigrant goes to Canada, they are aware of what immigration means and might be open integrating instead of living in an immigrants community
It'll be jquery.
agreed. lots of good options to monetize without the tired story of vc and ads. indie apps rise!
I learned enough Angular 17 in a few weeks to get a job done.

Awhile back on another HN discussion about htmx someone commented it seems easier to learn a framework than to learn htmx.

Having already built a prototype in htmx I tried Angular and found it much quicker to learn and be productive.
That’s a pretty good proxy for support unless there’s any reason why democrats would be more likely to donate than republicans.
2^32 is 2 months of 1000 random requests per second, so every 2 months you'd have a random chance that your service breaks for someone if you're relying on there not being any collisions.
Hmm, that's not why I am seeing

├─kopano-server.service
│ └─2685 n/a
├─systemd-logind.service
│ └─1037 n/a
└─kopano-gateway.service
├─ 959 n/a
├─ 1413 n/a
├─ 52489 n/a
Title could have read "Schema-driven web server framework for Rust, Node & Python". Idea has merit -- much of the implementation is in the schema and therefore language agnostic. And you can choose from three languages. Using "next generation" or "modern" is now a signal (at least to people like myself), that something is just a reimplementation of an old idea with new syntax.
Good luck “searching” for anything on YouTube in 2024..
When you take the BasicMed class, you also have to report when your last physical was. Your physical date is public record is transmitted to the FAA and is part of your Airman Registry record.

Yes, you could lie... but the documentation for the physical is part of your logbook and subject to audit. If I were a CFI, I would be checking that before signing off anyone's BFR. You can't really get away with this for long.
> It elides the possibility that it is inherently better to learn from a real person, who has invested time and effort into teaching you.

I did elude it, for the sake of the argument. If it turns out that in fact human tutoring is fundamentally better, then there's of course no point in using an inferior system (sweeping accesibility and other concerns under the rug). Go humans, if we're better!

> What is the point of higher education in particular if you are not learning, at some point, from people who are directly adjacent to cutting edge thinking?

For the subset that do research, this matters a lot. But for most everyone else looking for a better job, it's not really relevant.

> Well then. I can't argue with this, if you think it's OK to take humanity out of teaching. I think — perhaps feel — you are so wrong that I can barely even string the words together to explain. And that is an unbridgeable divide

I appreciate your candidness, and perhaps it's true that we may just not be able to agree. For what it's worth, my bet is tutors' quality will improve, rather than them getting displaced. My point however is: I want my kid to learn as best as possible. If that turns out to be with a robot, I'm not making my kid worse off to save some guy's job.
For a settings-only frontend, I would personally just run a web server and leave it to the user to open it, so you don't have a webview using up memory. Ehh, works either way.
And people still arguing that having a server process every request is a good idea
I would describe every single one of these as active risk management - and the difference between one sort of active risk management and another is vibes, not reality. There’s an implied moral judgment here that gambling is inherently bad.

I don’t think gambling is inherently immoral; I think mismanaging risk (in either direction) is one of the ways people mess themselves up and therefore encouraging people to take bad risks is immoral. This is not quite the same thing, though it’s close - but the difference between these two positions is what led to prohibition.

Don’t get me wrong, bookies are awful in many ways, but so are bars and crypto exchanges and E*Trade. The right approach in all cases is harm reduction.
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>>Whether or not intentially, the client is almost always lying to you

There's a TV drama called House. It's ostensibly a medical drama with the titular Dr House having to diagnose people who provide incomplete information.

It took me 3 episodes to realise its actually a show about IT support (but who would watch that right?)

His catch phrase was "everyone lies" - and the first rule of IT support is that you should never believe a word they say.

These days remote desktoping almost takes the fun out of it. I now last about 2 minutes before demanding TeamViewer (or whatever.) The days of spending 45 mins on the phone listening to someone not tell me about the big prominent error message on their screen are over.

So next time you're watching House remember, this is an IT support allegory.
I understand maybe just 1 to 3 of every 30 articles I see here, but they're usually the most educational and thought provoking content I've found all day. Seeing so much interesting subject matter that I don't know keeps me humble as well.
Then again these days there are only a few big POS providers that merchants use, you'd have to get the POS providers to accept your payment method and that would be a huge win.
> Deliberately restricting a human being's sense experience throughout their lives should be considered child abuse

I've got relatives that teach deaf children. most deaf kids who grow up in societies with mostly hearing kids, want to be normal more than anything. At the same time, for many who are eligible for cochlear implants, getting that early before speech development begins in earnest is very important, ideally when they're just a toddler or younger. Early enough and you'll barely notice any difference in their speech, understanding, etc. However, their parents often decline it and say they want to let their child be the one to choose when they're old enough to- which is far, far outside the best window for developing that area of the brain, as well as speech. They might be behind in those ways for the rest of their lives if they're not given therapy to help catch up.

I understand both sides I guess, but if consent is the issue, why not give them the implant and let them choose to disconnect the receiver then when they're older? Obviously, because they won't want to, and rarely ever do.
Easy to distract people with ranting about all powerful hidden enemies. Plus the peasants tend to be suspicious of science-types.
> printed and re-digitized

It was never digital to begin with

It is a picture of the Swedish model Lena Forsén, shot by photographer Dwight Hooker, cropped from the centerfold of the November 1972 issue of Playboy magazine.

Wet film photography -> magazine centrefold reproduction was entirely sans digital in 1972.

The first digitization came later

The engineers tore away the top third of the centerfold so they could wrap it around the drum of their Muirhead wirephoto scanner, which they had outfitted with analog-to-digital converters (one each for the red, green, and blue channels) and a Hewlett Packard 2100 minicomputer.

at 100 dpi

The Muirhead had a fixed resolution of 100 lines per inch and the engineers wanted a 512×512 image, so they limited the scan to the top 5.12 inches of the picture, effectively cropping it at the subject's shoulders.

Which highlighs why it's been such a poor reference for more than three decades now.
The good guys dropped nuclear bombs on 200k+ civilian men, women, and children. There was literally no other option. USA #1.
Isn't the fact that you cand use gambling as insurance and insurance as gambling support the idea that they are the same? If it all depends on the context, then it's not the activity that is different, but the context.

To me it sounds like you're saying whenever you like it, you will call it insurance, and whenever you don't like it, you will call it gambling. "It" is not apriori anything, until you have decided what you want to call it. That makes it all the same thing, pretty much.
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If you say the optimal amount of is zero, it means you pretty much can't eat any fermented food like kimchi, kombucha, etc. Obviously there's a huge difference between that and an alcoholic beverage, I would agree the optimal amount of alcoholic beverages is likely zero or very close to it.
I agree, my connotation of "web framework" is that it competes with Next.js or Remix or something. This seems like a schema-driven ORM a la Prisma, plus API layer. In other words, you could conceivably use it alongside a "web framework".

I would lean in on the unified schema aspect, I think that distinguishes it from a lot of web-focused ORMs. It actually feels like it could be compared against GraphQL given the schema and API features.

Of course, that leads me to wonder about the hairy stuff: permissions, rate limiting, schema evolution, etc.
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You’re using a tool and choosing to give the tool different names based on how you feel about it.

If I’m the landlord of a pub in Glasgow, and Scotland get to the finals of Euro 2024 (we won’t, but work with me here), betting on Scotland losing the final is a reasonable hedge against the profits you’ll lose when everyone goes home depressed after the final rather than buying another round. Is that a contrived example? A little bit, but it’s structurally reasonable. (If you’re a sponsor of the Scotland team, gambling on the result could be hedging media risk).

Can you leverage yourself up? Yes, but you can do that in the stock exchange or futures market too. They’re all the same thing.
> I wouldn’t have insurance but it’s required in my state.

As long as you have a few million set aside in case you cause one of the 45,000 deaths, or even more injuries, that happen on US roads every year, I agree with you.

But then you say exactly my point in your last paragraph… you’re all over the place here.

Insurance isn’t about pot hole damage. If you use it all the time, it’s a membership fee, not insurance.
I don't think this is possible. It's certainly not desirable.

The closest you might be able to come is working to disable as much of the l1/l2/l3 caches, but I don't know if youncan do that in userland.

You might be able to do OS settings to run your cpu at a very low clock rate and pretend that's similar.

Even ancient chips like the 8088 and 6502 had some pipelining.
One point not covered in the SE post is that aviation engines are designed for a different and more demanding regime than auto engines. Aviation piston engines are used at or near 100% power for minutes, and 60% or more power for periods of hours.
As far as the book, there is a Nature review https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00902-2 and a Polish review https://e-psycholog.eu/clanek/498 that say his book has no basis in science and is just cherry-picked studies and graphs. It seems Haidt has doubled down and is like "I reviewed all the studies myself" - but he didn't publish a systematic review, only these non-peer-reviewed "collaborative reviews" https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/research/collaborative-rev.... Whereas his detractors have done peer-reviewed SR's: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4053961. I have seen this pattern before, in other areas of science, and pretty uniformly if it is one man (or woman) vs. the literature then the literature is right and the "lone genius" is a crackpot. But that's just scientifically, in society you can be popular even if your theories are as nutty as they come.

Now there are patterns in the studies, I am sure there are interesting conclusions to be drawn, I just don't trust Haidt to do that kind of analysis.
But who? Who specifically in Canada is making these cries?
> Insurance is primarily for major events. The things at the extreme upper end of the bell curve

That's how it should be, but isn't because all insurance contracts cap the maximum insured amount. So that's absolutely NOT the "extreme upper end of the bell", not at all.
I would also never pay for DRMed media, so LibreWolf is a good fit for my use case. I don’t decide any one else’s use case.
There are multiple comments in this thread doing exactly that.
that crazy pro-natalist fascist couple that's been all over the news lately do this. They pick and choose which of their embryos are the most fit overall, and/or which have blond hair I'm sure, and plan to have as many of them as possible. Seems a shame to go through all that, only to beat your kids in front of a newspaper reporter and give them neuroses that'll likely make them rebel against you, but I'm sure if they can invest in crypto stocks they must be very good at predicting the future right?
I think the trick is that assuming everything holds up, it's just cheaper to run. Therefore, if it really works in the general case then the industry will move to these out of sheer naked self-interest unless there are major caveats (I dunno, maintenance issues? Seems unlikely but this is hardly my area of expertise).
The primary author is not a native English speaker; he resides in China. It's more charitable to assume a literal translation that doesn't work well in English than presumptousness.
You define the density function of the shell using a direct Delta function and the derivative of a direct Delta function. That means that on the shelf the density doesn't take any real value.

But we can formally integrate Delta functions and their derivatives. When we perform the mass integral we end up with the result m = 0.

It's an artifact caused by allowing generalized functions as our density functions

A problem is that we don't know how to physically interpret a distribution as a density function. Mass distributions caused by matter all have positive real valued functions as density functions. So if we have these structures in the universe, their cause is probably not physical matter!

It would be as if god put his thumb on the scale, and his finger print indented a concentric series of shells where the mass density goes completely nonphysical.
I think I may have been unclear.

>... I would still see that this kind of linguistic framing is insensitive and self-defeating if not wholly inappropriate and demeaning if you want to see any co-operation from educators

I think this was spot on, and I agree with you. I meant to ask: have you thought about a way to frame it, in which educators don't feel threatened but instead excited ? Given that, from my perspective, there's a great chance to enhance both the teaching and learning experience, as well as results
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Is this why Copper shut down? Damn, there goes my 70 bucks I had in there. And they keep sending me emails telling me to link a bank account. Yeah, good one guys. I’m just gonna give all my bank details to the company that has just now proven to be totally incompetent and untrustworthy. You can mail me a check.
Viagra has also been shown to reduce period cramps.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23925396/
The goal becomes "dope the athlete the exact amount to win the final and drop dead immediately afterwards".
But, Feynman also tells this interviewer that he can't really explain how magnetic attraction and repulsion work. "I can't explain that attraction in terms of anything else that's familiar to you."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8
engineering wise I can't see why it wouldn't be possible to selectively genetic-engineer some kind of plant or algae or something that sucks up tons and tons of carbon that you can then sequester manually by compressing it into, I don't know, artificial peat or something.

I have no idea why massive factory growing operations for produce aren't everywhere. Every city should have one by now, growing produce locally and shaving down the price of transport and waste to almost nothing.
For a good overview of the likely cause of the crash, see Juan Browne's review: https://youtu.be/o0aDSMUh9N8

TLDW: the likely cause of the crash was low-level aerobatic maneuvering at an altitude of 700 to 1,000 ft, which is too low for such maneuvers. The pilot may have attempted a split S maneuver (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_S - aileron roll followed by a half loop) without getting the nose up high enough, ending up too low. It appears that the pilot had control of the airplane on the video, it wasn't stalled.
I expect this is true depending on where you are, and the quality of roads you drive on.

I've been driving for 36 years now and have never had a tired damaged more than the very occasional puncture.

I could go out tomorrow and damage one, but by this point I can consider myself "self insured".
I believe they wrote that 30MB/s was too slow for them.
>not unlike queer people and the attempts to “fix” them.

To be fair, LGBTQ community isn't 'broken.' Some people are inherently gay, lesbian, etc.

Deafness _is_ an actual defect. The weird thing that we should not strive to fix human defects when they are truly defects is astounding.
Not many understand but they should try. It is very fulfilling to build an engine (start with an electric motor; it’s trivial but still fulfilling). It is very fulfilling to build a computer out of basic logic gates. Or a radio out of some crap that’s definitely laying around in your house.

You are missing out not doing that; things seem like magic until you do them. Sure building a processor yourself won’t have all the branch prediction and etc as your intel/m* has, but at least you understand how it could work. Same for gpus ; you won’t be making anything close to what the state of the art is, but you’ll understand how it gets there.
No, it wasn't about the pedantry, it was about the fact that they don't really sharpen anything. Honing rods are just used to keep the edge, generally. They won't sharpen a dull knife.