skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our Economic Warfare School (EGE, École de Guerre Économique) recently made a report on the subject:
https://www.ege.fr/sites/ege.fr/files/media_files/German_Int...
A rolling distro like Arch or Void.
The article you link to is using the 'City of London' to refer to London's financial sector, which is primarily located in the City of London (rather like the use of 'Washington' to refer to the US government). It's not talking about anything shady that the institutions of the City of London itself are doing.
> Congestion control is definitely needed but everything else seems questionable.

Even congestion control can be optional for some applications with the right error correcting code. (Though if you have a narrow bottleneck somewhere in your connection, I guess it doesn't make too much sense to produce lots and lots more packages that will just be discarded at the bottleneck.)
This thread started with bdjsiqoocwk, who wrote:

> You don't know where the rest are.

This is wrong, period. And the fact it's wrong is pretty much the entire point of the article.

Are bdjsiqoocwk and lkdfjlkdfjlg the same poster?

Please don't pick a needless fight.
Whenever there is research showing that X thing occurred Y years before we previously thought, the big thing we should update on is our confidence intervals. This research pushes back our estimate of freshwater 500M years. What will the next research show?

It’s analogous to finding evidence that humans were in North America 10,000 years before we previously thought, but there is no way we should treat that as a lower bound: https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/10/05/tests-confirm-humans-tr...
> But don't say what kind?

Which I interpret as "don't go out of your way to get special tea for me."

> Why is your preference for Parrots in here?

Because some people fawn over famous people, and once they hear through the grapevine that Stallman likes parrots, they'll do daft things like buy him a parrot for the visit, without realizing how horrible that is to the parrot.
Exactly. The ones benefitting most in German society from people in the economy are „full-time“ politicians and „Beamte“ enjoying the worlds best healthcare, above average pay with little to no perf review, and a whole separate extremely nice pension system.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamter
So higher density means fewer cars per person and more reason to have a congestion charge
Not everyone has it by the way. Not everyone gets endorphin rushes full stop.
Are you 80% angry and 2% sad? Why 'emotional AI' is fraught with problems
I'm glad people are learning a neat new factoid but it really wasn't a secret.
You might be right.

You might be making a very old mistake. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Machines_Which_Do_Not_F...
Europe stopped believing in it and "interests involved" couldn't do anything about it. As a result their military-industrial complex has atrophied to a point where without US goodwill they would not be able to protect themselves against the belligerent neighbor with much smaller economy.
This sounds like the problem is the term "best-effort" (hand wavy, what's the measure of effort? What's "the best" effort?).

In the end, best-effort is just saying "unreliable" in a fussier way.

>But it does not make UDP inherently unreliable.

Isn't that exactly what it does make it?

If that's not it, then what woud an actual "inherently unreliable" design for such a protocol be? Calling an RNG to randomly decide whether to send the next packet?
I'm saying that I use the built-in password manager in MacOS. I just checked, and it has the password, but Steam apparently isn't capable of auto-filling. So I looked it up, entered it, and then steam decided that wasn't enough and I had to confirm by email, because new computer. This isn't national security, it's a $20 video game that is twenty years old, that you used to be able to play for free through flash in a web browser.

Steam sucks.
In some topics the coalition parties are diametrically opposed to each other. In addition, the smallest party (FDP) is fighting for pure survival (5% barrier). This means, the chances for good compromises are just especially low in this constellation. Also, the coalition treaty was agreed upon before the Ukraine war happened. That makes it useless in some ways, removing any common ground.
It totally depends on the kind of game.
> In contrast, an ARM X4 or Apple M4 can decode 10 instructions under all conditions.

Not if there are fewer than 10 instructions between branches...
> Sony’s part number suggests it has a 45 inch tube inside. But in a rare case of truth in advertising, Sony advertised it as a 43-inch model.

The overall tube size is 45”, the actual screen size is 43”. I believe it was mandatory in the USA to market TVs based on screen size, in most of the rest of the world they were sold based on tube size.

That’s why common sizes of 4:3 CRT TV in the US were 13/20/24/27/32” whereas in the rest of the world the same size TVs were sold as 14/21/25/29/34”. Interestingly the tubes’ internal part numbers are based on the screen size in centimeters: 34/51/59/68/80 cm.
QUIC still runs over UDP. Are you referring to MASQUE?
Not important to you.
BeyondCorp is such a great idea! I wish it were easier to implement from other companies.
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Traffic Coordination System for Space (TraCSS)
That's because TCP evolved as, essentially, abstraction of serial port.

And due to various political & cultural & industrial lobbying, more flexible but complex on their face approaches (OSI) were rejected.

TCP meant you could easily attach a serial terminal to a stream, a text protocol meant you could interact or debug a protocol by throwing together a sandwich, an undergrad, and a serial terminal (coffee too if they do a good job). You could also in theory use something like SMTP from a terminal attached over a TIP (which provided dial-in connection into ARPAnet where you told the TIP what host and what port you wanted).

If you look through some of the old protocol definitions you'll note that a bunch of them actually refer to simplest mode of TELNET as base.

Then in extension of arguably the same behaviour that blocked GOSIP mandate we have pretty much reduced internet to TCP, UDP, and bits of ICMP, because you can't depend on plain IP connectivity in a world of NAT and broken middleboxes.
Becareful with mixing up 'can' and 'does'.

Computers right now do not understand language, but that does not mean that they cannot. We don't know what it takes to bridge the gap from stochastic parrot to understanding in computers, however from the mistakes LLMs make right now, it appears we have not found it yet.

It is possible that silicon based computer architecture cannot support the processing and information storage density/latency to support understanding. It's hard to guage the likelihood this is true given how little we know about how understanding works in the brain.
I started with a Psion 3 and later a Psion 5MX and now 30 years later I still remember how good the user experience was. The agenda, de contact database, the way you could make your own database with data that you wanted to lookup while on the move, it all just worked. At some point in time I even had a mapping tool, I think the precursor to what is now TomTom.

Personally I think that today an only iphone/macbook with just the default software (mail/contacts/calendar/etc) comes somewhat close to the same user experience. A Windows machine, while having a million different programs available at your fingertips, does not feel as a cohesive user experience.
I walked through the City as a tourist one Sunday, and didn't realize I couldn't get any kind of lunch at all until I was past it.

(We were recreating Elizabeth I's procession from the Tower to Westminster, which passes through what is now The City.)
Python ships with venv support. It’s not that difficult to bootstrap a venv before running your script, and that’s only if you actually need tooling other than stdlib, which you probably don’t.
I found an 8 years old bug in Xorg
No “blog”? (6018)
There have been plenty of eukaryotes found earlier, including multicellular metazoans (animals), with anaerobic metabolisms. They have organelles called hydrogenosomes, which are thought to have convergently evolved from mitochondria. So, I call bullshit on the title.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogenosome
The debate about whether to preserve the true history or clean it up is based on the limitations of git log. There is no reason we need to choose. Imagine you could `git summarise` a range of commits. Anyone who wanted a clean, straightforward history could read through the highest level of summarisation. If one wanted to dig deeper, they could peel away the summary and look at the log items below it.
SCTP did both reliable/unreliable and ordered/unordered, with QUIC arguably being at least a bit inspired by it, but going over UDP because internet is broken.

EDIT: Internet being broken is also why there's a grease extension for QUIC
The brain uses heuristics for that
That's basically what the article says if you keep on reading. It states the "common wisdom" at first to disagree with it.
Just use a service like Wise?
If things were so fragile that accidents could be heard from here potentially at millions of light years away, it would be the kind of feature that could uninvent itself destroying the civilizations using it and the ones close enough to them. A good enough alternative explanation of the Fermi paradox or a reason for having a dark forest universe.
Doing enjoyable things isn't "play", it isn't work and you relax but it isn't the same thing as playing.

> Personally I think you might be clasping at straws trying to equate every pleasant experience to some type of reward function.

No, here I just focus on why play is fun, you tried to pivot to other pleasurable experiences. Unlike watching sunsets basically every animal plays around as kids, that play is therefore something that is directly related to survival of the fittest or we wouldn't see that everywhere. You need a really strong argument why for humans play doesn't fill that role when it fills that role for basically every other intelligent animal.

> I'd go as far as saying if we worked this simply and predictably, then our lives would be much easier

So you think humanity would be better off if nobody played around and discovered new things? We would be stuck as monkeys in trees then. Play is pivotal to humanity.
That is certainly true.

In addition the individual worker has been promised "you pay now and get security later" which makes it very hard to argue against. Your stereotypical grandma isn't suited to be framed as a "drain on society" and she isn't typically getting rich of it. It's the sheer amount of grandmas that is bringing the system to it's knees.

Much lying happened back in the day when it became apparent that birth rates would result in a lower standard of living for old people who worked all of their adult live.

Rather than let the system fail gradually or seek to reform it in general, politicians took the easy way out and started supplemanting it from the general budget and have been ever since.
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What is it? Advertising?
That isn’t the premise of the article, that is the “common wisdom” the author corrects as the article goes on. The author goes on to list video games as an example of where UDP makes sense, as well as live video.
And the smooth mollification will look like...?
> Why McDonalds still profitable in Italy and other places famous for great food?

Because McDonalds is cheap, fast, and tastes good. Seems obvious. They haven't sold billions of Big Macs because they taste terrible, no matter how much food snobs would like to pretend otherwise.

Even if you have "great food" sometimes you want a change. Something that might be "great food" to a tourist can be boring to a local.
yea as soon as I read through the post, I ssh'd into one of my many Ubuntu servers, ran `ruby -v` and then noped out. From past experience I want nothing to do with trying to wrangle RVM or rbenv and then making sure the paths work properly.
The request is coming from inside the house!
Yes, evolution makes play fun, but it's really learning, in the same that that evolution has made sweet and fatty things extra tasty, because they are full of energy.
Not even 100 years ago computers could do a few operations per second, today you can put a 100,000,000,000,000 operations per seconds computer in you pocket.

I agree though that Alcubierre drive is probably a dud, no one with serious physics education takes that as a real possibility, there are always some crackpots but seeing the math and looking at the standard model it’s very unlikely such a thing exists. Close to speed of light travel is probably good enough though, people are hung up on the idea humans will take to the stars but that’s just very unlikely. AI on the other hand seems almost plausible with our current technological basis already.
Bicycles are much more efficient than trucks, but try using one to move a sofa…
I realized that the ability to visualize is probably on a spectrum many years ago while discussing science fiction fantasy books with others. And I am probably someone whose ability to visualize is a lot worse than others.
> solely on member fees

No, you can donate: https://docs.codeberg.org/improving-codeberg/donate/

Codeberg e.V. is a non-profit.
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Do it the way Nature journals now require it to be done: show the underlying data points overlaid on the box plot. Best of both worlds.
Heuristics that you practice and finetune via play, for example by throwing and catching balls.
Some more details about Brazil - all imports were banned at the time to deal with the external debt crises. What was special about micro and mini computers was that foreign companies were forbidden from making them locally and selling them (like the did with cars, electronic goods and many other products). So clones dominated the market completely.

The Sinclair and TRS-80 clones arrived in 1981, the Apple II in 1982 and the PC XT in 1983 (at the absurd cost of US$15K for a configuration that would be US$5K in the US. This dropped to around US$3K by late 1984 for a configuration of similar price as the US, so not the "many times more expensive" that most people remember). There were very few TRS Color Computer clones, a single Sinclair Spectrum and the single Macintosh clone was not never authorized (every computer launch had to be approved by the government). The two MSX officially arrived in 1985 but sales actually started in 1986. The PC AT clones only started selling in 1987 and 386 machines in 1989 - these were the longest delays of all. An even longer delay was in PC graphics, which were stuck at CGA from 1983 all the way to 1992 (with imports allowed there was a jump to VGA+Multisync).

With the exception of the Spectrum and Mac clones by companies that had invested heavily in their predecessors, nobody tried to copy machines with custom chips, so no Ataris, Commodore 64s, Amigas, etc. The Commodore Pet would have been easy to clone, but there was no preexisting market of contraband machines due to the awkwardness of lugging the built-in monitor.

After the reserved policy ended in 1991 a company called PCI do Amazonas brought the Amiga to Brazil and was officially still making the A1200 months after Commodore itself had shut down. So we did get one of the three 68000 machines, even if very late.
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And would you not say that this pessimism is a recurring theme in humanity? In 1903 the NYTimes predicted that human flight would be impossible, that it's been a complete waste of resources to pursue - resources that could be put to much better and realistic use elsewhere, and that it was ultimately a childish fantasy. They had typically great timing as it was only 9 weeks later than the Wright Bros completed their inaugural flight. Then once it was completed they insisted it was pointless anyhow, because it would only ever be possible for but a handful of rich elites to actually utilize.

By 1920 they'd be back boldly claiming that human spaceflight would be impossible. This time with even more scorn, mockery, and appeal to expertise: "That [rocket pioneer Robert] Goddard… does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react — to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." [2] Everybody with a basic knowledge of Newtonian laws knows you need something to react against to move, and there's nothing in space to react against. What imbeciles to think otherwise!

The problem we face is that it's impossible to meaningfully predict the future when there may yet remain many revolutionary or otherwise unimaginable discoveries yet to be made. In general I see room for extreme optimism because in terms of basic knowledge of the universe we knew next to nothing but a century ago. And we remain a people stranded on a single planet relying on imprecise limited instrumentation, lots of assumptions, and some math to try to figure out what's happening in the other 99.999999999% (one should add quite a few more nines there) of the universe. To assume we've just figured it all out in this century seems improbable, to put it very mildly.

[1] - https://bigthink.com/pessimists-archive/air-space-flight-imp...

[2] - https://www.vice.com/en/article/kbzd3a/the-new-york-times-19...
I mean I can definitely remember lots of cases for myself, in school especially, when I made the same mistake again repeatedly despite being corrected every time. I'm sure today's language models pale in comparison to your flawless genius, but you seriously underestimate the average person's idiocy.

Agreed that the lack of some mid tier memory is definitely a huge problem, and the current solutions that try to address that are very lacking. I highly doubt we won't find one in the coming years though.
So stop using 3rd party libraries. Seriously, the number of times I’ve seen people importing requests to do a single HTTP GET, or numpy to use a tiny portion of its library is absurd. You can do a hell of a lot with the stdlib if you bother to read the docs.
"Localization" in many countries means local supply chain. How regional "local" is depends on context...can mean support local community as in farmers market or give jobs to locals, or in projects like this in the more strategic sense i.e. all of supply chain is in country i.e. chinese.
Well, LLMs also pressupose humans and evolution, since they needed us to create them, so their tally is even higher by definition...
Just prefix the sentence with “literally literally (not literally literally)”
> Symbian operated as a consultancy where they could take a reference design and adapt it to a customer’s hardware and give it a unique look and feel

If the author is referring to what I think he his, it was only a certain part of Symbian that did this. No other Symbian employees had access to that part of the building. Normal Symbian employees never actually got to see the phones that were being developed. All work their was done on an emulator (x86) and H2/H4 (armv5) reference boards.

This book details the politics that went on until the end
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Smartphones-beyond-Lessons-remarkab...
That's explaining what normally happens -what the subject differs from
That paragraph is referring to mitochondria, which the scientists discovered are not present in the subject of the article.
result = {os.path.getsize(f): f for f in os.listdir() if os.path.isfile(f)}

result = ' '.join(word.capitalize() for word in string.split(' '))
result = ' '.join(map(str.capitalize, string.split(' ')))
result = string.title()
> So the diagram should not be used because of an education problem with some audiences?

A problem like this one that he mentions, "People associate longer shapes with greater quantity", is not something you can fix by teaching. Even if you know intellectually that the association is, in this case, wrong, you can't free yourself from the association. It's hardwired into the brain.

People who work with this sort of diagram a lot will eventually build up context-specific associations that work better, overriding that instinct, to the point where it feels seamless. But even if it feels seamless and easy, the dissonance is still there, and may lower your comprehension speed and slightly impair your judgment.

As a statistics expert, you are never going to notice that, because your baseline comprehension speed and judgment on the subject is so good, that this very minor impairment is lost in the noise. So you may not be a good judge of the usability qualities of the diagram type.
Looks like I've been ninja'ed.
It may or may not be. It's negative like that that holds us back from finding out whether it's possible or not though.
I wonder if this guy thinks video GOPs should all be hundreds of frames long because P frames are so much smaller than I frames and since in his world we NEVER use an unreliable network you might as well.
> 100 thousand requests

Over how long time? Even if it's just over an hour that's just under 30 rps, over a day it's a little over 1 rps.
School student stuns China by besting university competitors in maths test
Ouch, that's a major security issue if configured that way. That's something I'll want to add to my hardening checks.
>Why do we keep acting like we know what the requirements for life are?

Because of our empirical experience and study of hundreds of thousands of organisms from all kinds of species.

>We have a sample size of one - Earth. It's laughable that we're therefore so committed to defining requirements for life.

We also have sample sizes of many other nearby planets and astral bodies with no signs of life.
And yet the social democrats have infamously implemented reforms that drastically cut back on worker's rights and social welfare.

The reason the government can't go below the Existenzminimum is that this would be a violation of the constitution's guarantee of human dignity according to the federal constitutional court of Germany, not because it would annoy the poors.

Also there is documented corruption in almost all political parties in federal politics. Most of that corruption is legal though but the beneficiaries are decidedly not the recipients of the "social security system" but rather of public-private partnerships and subsidies.

If you think the poor are leeching off society then the same goes for the fossil fuel industry, the agricultural industry, car manufacturing and other industries that are heavily subsidised and benefiting for extremely specific tax exemptions and funding programmes. One of the biggest beneficiaries of the COVID relief programs in Germany unlike the US was not ordinary taxpayers but airlines and large manufacturing companies.
Ha. That describes me perfectly. I have heard the distinction between “episodic memory” and “semantic memory” made before, and so I just thought that my semantic memory was a lot stronger than my episodic memory. I hadn’t realised it had a specific name. Thanks for sharing.

FWIW, I’m also very much aphantasic (I’d be a 4.5/5.0 on the test in Guardian article).
Fact checking : the monarch does not have to ask permission to enter the City.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=City_of_London_...
You can make firearms in your garage, and there's nothing at all pedantic about that fact.
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Why 7-Eleven plays classical music outside its stores
Maps are useful, but they don't understand the geography they describe. LLMs are maps of semantic structures and as such, can absolutely be useful without having an understanding of that which they map.

If LLMs were capable of understanding, they wouldn't be so easy to trick on novel problems.
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