skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the proposed solution provides no value over datagrams, while it has plenty of downsides.

Let me rephrase the problem here for a simple FPS game:

The entire world state (or, the subset that the client is supposed to know about) is provided in each packet sent from the server. The last few actions with timestamps are in each packet sent from the client. You always want to have the latest of each, with lowest possible latency. Both sides send one packet per tick.

You do not want retransmission based on the knowledge that a packet was lost (the RTT is way too long for the information that a packet was lost to ever be useful, you just retransmit everything every tick), you do not want congestion control (total bandwidth is negligible, and if there is too much packet loss to maintain what is required, there is no possible solution to maintain sufficient performance and you shouldn't even try), and none of the other features talked about in the post add anything of value, either.

It reads like someone really likes QUIC, it fit well into their problems, and they are a bit too enthusiastic about evangelizing it.
Why would you even use plots at all. You could just show the numbers for the 4 points represented in the box plot and people with proper education would understand. If people need diagrams it's just an education problem with some audiences.

But the real education deficit shown here is psychology education. Humans are bad at doing some calculations inherently. They are not able to properly asses pie charts and easily confused by numbers with a lot of digits. Even before these studies were done people were able to come up with visualizations that were better suited for human understanding.

People chose to use box plots because the visualization was better to understand by people than the numerical representation of the same information. Luckily there are now even better tools to represent the same numerical data in a way that is even better to understand.

So, if you are truly educated properly you don't use visualization.
The biggest problem with these questions is that they in my opinion don’t actually measure anything.

“Imagine a ball falling of the table.”

Asking questions of what was under the table or the color of the ball is useless (imo).
Let me explain: Recall a dream of yours. What is out there in the dream world? Can you tell me what the retail tax is in that dream world? What house number the door of your dream world neighbor has? No? For me the answer is no. Because I only create answers to these questions if they are relevant to the dream or asked.

I forgot the study, but it claimed that people often retrospectively imagine detail based on the question asked. (Citation needed)

I like to believe that dreams and imagination share aspects. And one aspect I see in both of them is that, similarly to video games, any detail is kept to the necessary minimum.

It doesn’t matter what is under the table, it is about a ball falling off the table. Its color doesn’t matter, the color has no effect on the story.

If you retrospectively ask me those questions, you’re just testing if I’m going to make one up in the spot, make one up on the spot and tell myself I didn’t or not make one up on the spot.

I think of my imagination as an abstract realm I can control, that is limited by my ability to comprehend. It’s less vivid than a dream, but a dream gives me no control. Anything I imagine is a feeling, there is no incoming physical aspect.

And the reason why it’s so hard to measure or quantify is because it is best described as a feeling.
Sure. This was wrt "when using bun" - i.e. somebody else might prefer to just whack web-dev-server into place as a lightweight option for them.

mininext is a neat idea and I plan to read through the code (do you have a preferred 'small snippet' for hrm? I'd be interested to read that too) but I was talking more generally in my last comment.
> As a one-time avid Tango dancer, while I believe all the motions/steps can (and have been) be sketched out, named, and notated and put to paper, [...]

This is obviously untrue. For simple math reasons.

If you believe that, I suggest reading an intro to combinatorics.

Or just doing the math in your head for a combination of two steps. Leader does forward step towards follower's forward cross.

Just in one system (cross or parallel) and considering how deep the step is (outside, sacada, deep sacada/behind/in front) and where the leader steps (behind free foot, next to outside, next to inside, in the middle between legs, next to to standing foot inside, next to outside, in front), we can reasonably say we have 21 possibilities. Now multiply by system and that's 42. Now multiply by combinations of systems on one side and that's 84.
This still makes a lot of simplifications but we're talking one step.
Furthermore, if we mirror, we can't just assume the same observations apply, as tango has an open and closed side, etc. etc.

The endeavor is also not about capturing the essence of a dance but about exploring a motion space; structurally and kinesiologically.

Tango, specifically, will elude documenting on so many levels, otherwise, it's not even worth talking about.
ChaCha – Defunct human-guided search engine
Any data block that must be fully received before processing comes to mind (e.g. websites’ html), just request retransmission of parts that didn’t make it in first pass. Funnily enough it’s (realtime) video and audio that already uses UDP due to preferring timely data to complete data.

On the contrary, for me it’s hard to imagine video game with missed packets as the state can get out of sync too easily, you’ll need eventual consistency via retransmission or some clever data structures (I know least about this domain though)
On the new English edition of Karl Polanyi's "The Great Transformation"
New York or London – what's your table talk style?
I think GP meant chips as in something you pick up while on the go, not as a side to a full meal. Notice how they mention a bag.
Apple Delays AI in the EU. Maybe
The problem with the Australian Coalition's nuclear plan is it isn't a nuclear plan. It's a coal plan disguised as a nuclear plan. They're a party that's bought and paid for by coal interests who were in power recently for a decade and did nothing to kickstart nuclear. They got voted out partly due to inaction on climate change so they realised they need to propose something. Their half-hearted proposal will deliver less than 15% of the grid to nuclear by 2040, while stopping renewables, and being more expensive.

Beyond the political, here's some more technical reasons why Australia shouldn't pursue it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40747810
> The LLM didn't create this program on its own.

And wouldn't have finished on its own. Sometimes even other models or chats with more fine tuned context just don't spot the mistakes within n iterations. The human needs to, quite annoyed I must say, take a closer look herself. "What did you LLM do and how does it work?" Then you specify what must be done or do it yourself because you can't remember the term which would make the LLM find the right symbols, and describing the term takes as long as fixing the issue yourself. This applies more to new kids on the block than to experienced devs, depending on the complexity of the subject, of course, but is relevant for both because the creation, the final product, belongs to the human, as does the LLM. My chat, my LLM, my copyright. If it ever became important, I'd raise an army against their lawyers.
Nope, the HOA doesn't control the quality of the internet available. I have pretty poor internet. Waiting to get fibre connection, suggested to come between 2024-2026.
We are still in the first million years of plastics on Earth, give it time. You'll see that after mere million years of producing plastics there won't be a new molecule introduced every decade or even every century.
> Let there always be light in your soul. Good luck in all endeavors, stranger.

Thank you kind stranger
Amazon mulls ~$5 monthly price for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp
There's a reason why the Vision Pro has separate chip that handles the real-time passthrough from cameras (and bunch of other sensor-fusion stuff, AIUI).
I respect that you replied to the comment and owned your math error :) The rest of your comment is an interesting observation. Never thought about it starting out at the cal level.
6/22/2024 update: Software company plans to pay tens of millions in ransom to hackers who crippled car dealerships across North America

https://fortune.com/2024/06/22/cdk-ransomware-attack-payment...

https://archive.ph/TAwVv
Yes it has been amazing seeing the economics change in real time. And I also love the fact that photosynthesizing ecosystems are going full circle now. Earth has evolved sun eating lifeforms and now these lifeforms are at last developing a sun eating civilization. All debate is mooted, the momentum is there and the economics work. We will all be energy rich in a couple of decades! It will surely help mitigate the impacts from all the carbon we've emitted so far.
An interesting thing about these is that they may have started as cancer cells that escaped their original host jellyfish.
> Stallman has done far more to enable corporate surveillance than anyone else.

Do you want to be taken seriously? Starting your comment with such a claim is no means to do it.

> FAANG would literally not exist without "open source" software.

Open-source software has contributed to the technological ecosystem. Attributing the entire existence of major corporations solely to open source is silly, and I find it hard to believe anyone could do so in good faith.

> Open source has also spread more than a few backdoors, some apparently written by state actors.

And closed source hasn't? I honestly can't tell if this is advanced satire.

> As a politician, Stallman is an idiot

Most of us are - that's a good thing. Being a canny political actor without being a shitbird of a human being is about a one in a million skill.

> His pitch - "You can write your own printer driver and customise your OS and this will save the world" is a naive appeal to the tiny minority of the population which enjoys tinkering.

Your strawman sucks - that's not his pitch. Stallman's advocacy focuses on empowering users with the ability to control and modify their software, not expecting everyone to write their own software.

> in practice it's an adolescent, oppositional and tribal view of how computing operates

What's "adolescent, oppositional and tribal" is making weak strawmen like this.

> "Give everyone the source code to everything and poof! - you'll solve all of them" is just such a stupid take.

Another strawman. Stallman's advocacy for free software is not a panacea for all societal and technological challenges, nor did he ever claim it to be. It addresses fundamental issues of user rights and autonomy, complex though they may be.

> So no - he is neither a threat, nor a martyr. He's a distraction, and politically that's all he'll ever be.

Fortunately, Stallman’s significant contributions to the philosophy and practice of free software, with their enduring impacts on technology, privacy rights, and digital freedoms, do not depend on your opinion. For your own sake though, I hope you clear up your thinking; because once you blame open source software for surveillance you've probably lost the run of yourself completely.
Yeah well, I wouldn't get overly excited on the efficiency of animals 'medicine'. Just look at human medicine 200 years ago and all those herbs and crap did little more than placebo, when they weren't actively harming, but I suppose animals aren't stupid enough to ingest calomel.

Real medicine like antibiotics doesn't work in "raw form". Can't eat lots of Danish blue cheese and fight of a pneumonia or throat infection with penicillin. Leaving aside the difficulty of isolating and extracting enough pure substance, antibiotics need a very technically advanced (from a chemistry point of view) agent to make them last enough in the body to be useful.

Again, it's entertaining to see animals "self-medicate" but if this stuff worked reliably, humans would have picked it up looong before modern medicine.
I can ask ChatGPT extremely specific programming questions and get working code solving it. This is not something I can do with a search engine.

Another thing a search engine cannot do that I use ChatGPT for on a daily basis is taking unstructured text and convert it into a specified JSON format.
Google Chrome Web Store still has security work to do
Show HN: I made a web app which determines whether a song is family friendly
Apple, Meta Have Discussed an AI Partnership
So they basically have AC; they just don't allow you to set it below a certain temperature. And so lots of people will bring their own ACs to use besides the other one.

I think this will end up producing more CO2 in the end..
The alternative plots in TFA after

> Design concepts such as the ones below make more ‘visual sense’ than box plots:

present the exact same info in much less visually confusing ways, through the use of brightness (weight) and area. Just better box plots.

And of course you can always draw some lines for the quartiles on any kind of plot with a linear scale for the value.
i hope this motivates all those guys who transitioned from engineering into finance to get back and do some actual work
"Storebought Is Fine" but Handcrafted Is Treasured
Some beautiful old Roman buildings around near Threadneedle. There always seems to be some construction work going on around there though.
Use for AI API services: low bandwidth internet connections
Been stuck in a place where the output of ping looks like this:

--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
1733 packets transmitted, 475 received, +2 errors, 72.5909% packet loss, time 1766297ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 104.784/2642.564/29086.052/4810.901 ms, pipe 29

With such an internet connection, the web is pretty much unusable. Even HN times out 90% of the time. But one thing that does work well is openAI's GPT-4 API. I can ask a question and get a mostly-correct answer within 30 seconds.

Other services that work quite well: Whatsapp, mosh.

Thanks to the devs of those services for testing and making their service work for people with very bad internet.
But running:

ln -sf .env.dev .env

doesn't seem any worse than running:

envelope export dev

?
IMO one of the worst mistakes made in IP development was not having made a standard protocol for the one thing that pretty much everyone seems to want:

A reliable, unlimited-length, message-based protocol.

With TCP there's a million users that throw out the stream aspect and implement messages on top of it. And with UDP people implement reliability and the ability to transmit >1 MTU.

So much time wasted reinventing the wheel.
> It seems like there's a large number of people who experience their thought exclusively as language.

They must listen to a large amount of verbose drivel telling them how to weave their way through a crowd, or how to rotate a suitcase to fit it into a trunk.
Reading this I feel the number of bad installs and the number of bad extensions seems to be confused.

Am I alone in not having any installed?
People have conflicting goals. On the one hand they long to compress many numbers into one or a few summary statistics. On the other hand, the moment such lusted after summaries mislead in some way they regret the data compression. What's really going on is that people want a simplicity (often in the form of definite conclusions) which may just not exist. This is really a common malaise of the human condition.

Similarly, the distribution represented by a box plot itself is often the distribution of "just one sample". When viewed as such, a distro has its own uncertainty[1] and that uncertainty is not represented in a violin plot, for example. As with every "right tool for the job" debate, people will vary based on experience with the tools, including how to simplify/explain them to others.

[1] https://github.com/c-blake/bu/blob/main/doc/edplot.md
Ask HN: Books or Paper which helped you develop reasoning skills
I am trying to improve my reasoning skills because lately I have been making a lot of technical decisions and many are going wrong. Any resource that helped you?
I added an /s tag to my comment.
As noted in the article, the discovery is from 2020: https://english.tau.ac.il/news/no_oxygen

Funny that this article from 21 June 2024 is the one finally gaining traction.
And almost a decade earlier, in the context of private cloud, was implemented in Sun's Niagara line of processors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraSPARC_T1

The UltraSPARC T1 was designed from scratch as a multi-threaded, special-purpose processor, and thus introduced a whole new architecture for obtaining performance. Rather than try to make each core as intelligent and optimized as they can, Sun's goal was to run as many concurrent threads as possible, and maximize utilization of each core's pipeline.
What often gets overlooked in these discussions is how much of the human brain is hardwired as a consequence of millions of years of evolution. Approximately 85% of human genes are used to encode the structure of the brain [0]. I find this particularly impressive when I consider how complex the rest of the body is. To relate this to LLMs, I'm tempted to think this is more like pre-training rather than straightforward model design.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/tp2015153
Yes, Python won the war, which is a pity. Linux distributions started getting bloated at the same time they switched to Python for everything. Yum hanging inexplicably and such things never occurred before.

The BSDs do not have this problem (yet!). I hope they stay sane and keep using Perl/sh.
Perhaps I expressed myself poorly, and left room for misunderstanding, because I cannot possible imagine that we have any real disagreement on how to compute quartiles.

Any set of numbers I give you, you can compute quartiles for it. There is no algorithm for doing that that breaks down if the numbers don't follow a normal distribution.
There are some which argue that "ever increasing complexity" is a law/consequence of physics.

https://www.space.com/scientists-propose-missing-law-evoluti...
> The bytes within each stream are ordered, reliable, and can be any size; it’s nice and convenient. Each stream could be a video frame […] But you can tell the QUIC stack to focus on delivering important streams first. The low priority streams will be starved, and can be closed to avoid wasting bandwidth.

Is the author saying that with QUIC I can send a "score update" for my game (periodic update) on a short-lived stream, and prevent retransmissions? I'll send an updated "score update" in a few seconds, so if the first one got lost, then I don't want it to waste bandwidth retransmitting. Especially I don't want it retransmitted after I've sent a newer update.
Silly clickbait title, which the author even admits up front.

UDP and TCP have different behaviour and different tradeoffs, you have to understand them before choosing one for your use case. That's basically it. No need for "Never do X" gatekeeping.
For retro games especially, nothing can quite beat them.
It's great to see these distributed data gathering projects actually be popular and succeed in their plan.

There's one for tracking lightning strikes globally too: www.blitzortung.org
> Because author of the article likes to be edgy and parrot the deep truth he learned yesterday

I will point out that "author of the article" is one of the core contributors in the IETF Media-over-QUIC working group (which is an effort to standardize how one might build these real-time applications over QUIC) and has been working in the real-time media protocols space for 10+ years.

The author recognizes that the title is clickbait, but the key point of the article is that you probably don't want to use raw UDP in most cases. Not that UDP is inherently bad (otherwise he wouldn't be working on improving QUIC).
You have to customise the mix depending on the local factors.

North Africa should not go nuclear. No existing industry, very sunny, low seasonality, etc.

Germany probably should have nuclear as part of the mix. Not as sunny, existing skilled industry.
Ah, so the other boys started it.
A Study Says Warp Drives Might Be Real–and We'll Find Them with Lasers
> In my experience, whenever this happens, whenever the user goes above and beyond to do such things, the security team should revisit their values rather than the other way around.

It may not be the value of the security team, but the values that are part of a cyber-insurance policy, or regulatory regime, and thus outside of what the security team are able to change.

Perhaps the user, at times, does not understand the larger context, and the risks that he is exposing the organization to.
Thanks! Yes, we love contributors. Just make sure to check first to see if it's a feature that we actually want added before doing all the work (open an issue or a discussion on GitHub).
Yes, the Sinclair TV80 worked on that principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV80
The latter makes its way into products occasionally. Which helps the customer. A lot of the stuff I use comes from research not a product team.
I can't scroll down on this page? Firefox on GNU/Linux.
I think you're looking for RFC 9221, "An Unreliable Datagram Extension to QUIC."
Pretty simple. Replace Profit with Quality of Life metrics.

But the Elite (those who own the most land, spectrum, mining rights, licenses, monopolies, shares, overseas tax avoiding shell companies etc) cant do it cause of their own mental programming since birth.

Making the same mistakes, suffering from the same halucinations the British Elite did as their unsustainable Empire wound down.

That said at the individual level all this doesnt matter. People will move to where ever the opportunities are as they always have.
Surely it can, just slowly and with poor accuracy :)
I’ve just realised you understood and we’re asking present tense I think. The truth is I also do less unit testing, identifying instead where I know confidence is needed and where it’s not.
I‘m genuinely curious, but isn’t a CO2 sensor an unnecessary high tech solution considering you could just open your window once a day for a few minutes and let the air exchange?
I have signed many guestbooks of that kind of websites :)
You mean a very specific command like systemd-tmpfiles that you have to manually execute and feed with the parameter --purge while omitting a config file in order for it to do so? Because of a bug that was quickly fixed in 256.1, not even 2 weeks after the 256(.0) release? [1]

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/20/systemd_2561_data_wip...
Yup. I stopped reading when I got to the bit where they explained that the "secret city" was the City of London. That's tabloid crap.
If the method how the plot boxes are calculated is not clear (this thread references at least two different methods), you'll need to explicitly write it down which methods you did use.
Presumably because it looks like "¬": that sign used to have very long vertical stroke, like "|" does.
Hell yeah! Well deserved. I had a blast with some of his books. Especially _Operating Systems: Design and Implementation_ and _Computer Networks_. Legend
Even on Windows there's a good chance. The Git for Windows project bundles Perl, but not Ruby.
Humans have picked it up a long time ago; see traditional Chinese medicine.