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It does seem like some really great options are emerging in the Go community, and a lot of newer execution frameworks are supporting Go as one of the first languages. Another great addition is https://github.com/riverqueue/river.
I don't really understand the problem. First, I think it's risky to even begin to evaluate whether the people you interact with are more or less intelligent than you. Intelligence is context-dependent. Most of the people you think of as less intelligent probably have a context where they're smarter than you.

"Don't compare yourself to others, for it will make you both vain and bitter; there will always be someone worse, and always be someone better."

Second, what does it matter? When people say things to me that I consider dumb (that can happen both from people less intelligent than me and more intelligent than me), it's rare that I actually need to correct them. Get a sense of when it matters and when it doesn't, and if it doesn't then just let it go.
That's a good effort, but unfortunately every second desktop app now bundles a browser (Electron), and most people now access the internet through phone apps, an environment which offers no such control. Furthermore, if your VPN provider is seized, hacked, issued with a warrant, or is a honeypot operation you're going straight to the top of the interesting critters list, and you've probably given them your identity with your payment information, or it's trivially available to multiple state or corporate actors through the crypto gateway you used to purchase the intermediary token. Either that or your IP will also provide your home address by extension, as well as your tax information, income level, telephone numbers, historic personal/family/financial network, employers current and past, registered vehicles, upcoming transport reservations, current physical location through either network activity or cellular network operator ping, etc. Just sayin'.

Echelon was known by the late 1990s and has now been running for at least a third of a century. The European Parliament report came out in '01. Snowden and co, which this IETF document was presumably issued in response to, was a decade and a half later, a time in which offensive population-scale surveillance and targeted penetration as a service became open market products, secret global state-sanctioned kidnappings and assassinations became nominally normalized, literal constellations of surveillance satellites have been launched at ever-decreasing cost with ever-increasing capabilities, US 'instant global strike' capability is declared, drone warfare has not only been realized but is constant and in the popular consciousness, and every state actor worth its stazi-salt started playing.

IMHO this document is therefore primarily of historical interest in demonstrating the apparent, unfortunate, well-meaning near-irrelevance of the IETF in the face of global internet commercialization and the ongoing shift toward normalized state surveillance. It could be seen as the conscience of the internet coming to terms with its failure. In Assange's words of 2012 (some 3 years prior): "The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a threat to human civilization." This is all the more significant in mid 2024 as Assange has just escaped torture, China and Russia tighten their grasp after abandoning any open market pretense, Europe, at war, stands on the cusp of a popular authoritarian transition and the US election looms.

What's a regular citizen to do? A shell script certainly won't save you, but it's something. It seems humanity has some organizational problems - its political systems no longer seem fit for purpose, and all of this while biodiversity tanks and global warming accelerates. Post industrial revolution we've built a machine, and it's no longer under our control. To Mars then? Perhaps not.
I love my Clara Color so much. It's light, fast, and it has buttons. And it's just about exactly the right size.

My one complaint so far is that the battery seems to need a charge every few days. Definitely less than a week, I think. I can live with that.
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That might not be the official reason, in Europe you can argue you sometimes discuss customer info and thus it needs to be deleted once no longer relevant.

Of course stating you're doing it for the purpose of destroying evidence is stupid.
Deep fried instant noodles are extremely bad for you. It’s possible to buy baked (non-fried) varieties and the only difference I’ve noticed is that the cooking time goes up by a few minutes.
I was using the economist's definition of affordable housing, which is that only 1/3 of your income is consumed by housing. If a term isn't quantifiable, then it's useless for making plans.

You are right that if there is a market where the scarcity is caused by insufficient supply, building more slow costs increases. But there is a point where the costs of the product cannot be cut anymore. The more you produce it will not be cheaper.

Let's take another extreme example. Start with the city of 10,000 people. A developer razes the city center and rebuilds with very dense housing capable of housing 10,500 people. Is the cost of housing cheaper because of those extra 500 units? The answer is no; they would increase the cost of all the other units. Why? Someone has to pay for the materials, labor, and profit. If someone is not renting those units, the cost of creating those units is now spread among all the other units.

The core question is how to lower the cost of the unit. Building more once you satisfy demand is not the answer. Building more expensive units frees up cheaper units if and only if enough people can afford them and move into them. But the cheaper units are not going to drop in cost. They will rent for at least the same price.

It's important to acknowledge a couple of truisms. Demand for urban space will grow, and landlords will do everything to minimize expenses and maximize profits. There will never be enough housing to meet the demand. The question is how far behind demand is the housing production rate
> A loop can always be expressed with tail recursion.

If I were writing the code in assembly, I would just use a loop, because that's what the machine is optimized to perform.

> But this is also a symptom of standard c's problem of not allowing one to define functions inside of functions.

There are extensions that do this; however, they cannot create a scoped closure for you so nobody cares to use them for anything.

> and these have to be coalesced into a single flag for the loop.

Or just use 'goto'.
Is that a joke? Because this is the most hackernews article ever
Listen, we can't spend like we did going after Julian Assange on this. It's just business people doing business.
> The $6bn ruling was significant and not an amazing outcome for either side (so, a compromise).

I find this framing extremely bizarre. A $6bn ruling means the family profits $5 BILLION. In no universe is that not an amazing outcome for them.
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Oh the article is thoroughly on topic! I mean the comments related to Valve the company. The thread was filling up with those before we changed the title. (Submitted title was "Valve.computer".)

Sometimes when there are too many offtopic comments like this I make a stub comment, move all the offtopic subthreads underneath it, and then collapse it.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I've grown up in various neighborhoods. In no context would calling someone a slur like that when you don't even know them be acceptable .

That said, it's obviously a technical glitch. Let's say it was something really important like medication, would you rather wait two or three days to find out when it gets here, or would you rather have a glitchy AI say some gibberish but then add it's coming tomorrow
The settlement was not at all about Purdue operating as is. Purdue was going to be turned into a legal fund and treatment provider as part of the settlement agreement.
Relevant: this video with some info about dangers/safety especially related to non-pressure-rated PVC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqstP9ics2A
It has nothing to do with fatigue. It has to do with being able to see rather obvious patterns when they're repeated 100 times a day, day after day, in courtrooms across the country.

As an attorney, I will always fight zealously for my clients, that doesn't mean I can't form opinions about the system as a whole.
> folks who practice the craft so in that sense it is not research

I "practice the craft" (and I'm fully, gainfully, highly employed to practice the craft), I have a PhD in the "craft", I have published papers about the "craft", and I'm here to tell you IDGAF about what's terminologically research and what's not. I only care about well-written, detailed articles that explain a complex technical issue, problem, or solution.
Who else is mfro supposed to ask if not the guy who said they had an issue with it?
awesome, looks great, thanks so much!
Netflix.com "We are having technical difficulties and are actively working on"
In fact it'll be great for everyone if HR is not present at every watercooler conversation. At most companies we got work done despite company leadership and policy, not because :)
since you sound like you know what you're talking about, could I please ask a dumb question as a layman in the area. what is it that's special about this compound that would make it useful in all those seemingly disparate areas? what's the connection? to my untrained mind, it's as if somebody picked up a random rock and made those same claims.
Yep...

And that might be why they're doing it.

They also have the option to make the data available but in an inconvenient form - like for example 'sure, you can access your data vault, but it'll be CSV files of chats that you have to download one by one'.

Google Takeout is basically that, since nearly all the data isn't readily usable by most users.
Isn't that what all the Silicon Valley companies are doing by default, until caught?
If you fragment the larger bits now you have a bunch of small bits that cross your orbit, are harder to track, and are still going very fast
We just need to convince people they leaked a couple videos of the war state doing bad stuff
Bros jealous
How do you know it’s easier?
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I have a pair of Sony WH-1000XM4 and a Dell XPS with Ubuntu 22 that won't pair together. If I boot windows instead of Ubuntu it works.
> What do I think about? Why the hell did he volunteer his post work hours trying to do this menial job hardware thing. Did he not have a family or something?

I wondered the same, imagining some 40-something FTE frustrated with bureaucratic work projects and with a couple young kids. Guess what, this guy passed at 84! Which means the driver work happened in his 60+ years. I will be lucky if I can remember my name at that age. :-)
i'd get out. if you're fed up with your cofounder at this point and doubting the product, it's over
Folks are using us for long-lived tasks traditionally considered background jobs, as well as near-real-time background jobs. Our latency is acceptable for requests where users may still be waiting, such as LLM/GPU inference. Some concrete examples:

1. Repository/document ingestion and indexing fanout for applications like code generation or legal tech LLM agents

2. Orchestrating cloud deployment pipelines

3. Web scraping and post-processing

4. GPU inference jobs requiring multiple steps, compute classes, or batches
Much more than room temperature is required. The exterior of the ISS gets up to 120 degrees C:

https://www.scienceabc.com/nature/universe/is-it-hot-or-cold...
And honestly, while we like to lump them into "conservative" and "liberal" camps for simplicity, it's easy to get the correlation wrong. Like anyone else, their moral and legal philosophies might make them lean one way or another politically, not the other way around. Even for the most extremely political justices, to hear them expound on the legal principles of federalism or human rights is very fascinating.

It's easy to forget that, while they are political appointees, they have to have fairly long careers as acting judges to even qualify for the appointments.
I understand there's fraud and bribes and such, but it seems to me that in the end it is doctors and the medical system, with a bit of help from government regulators, that decide prescriptions, dosages, limitations and such. Purdue could have been making pure poison, but they don't prescribe anything.
why are you releasing new versions of a product without any customers or revenue.
> [server-side history] That's a feature, not a bug.

Whatever your personal feelings on message history are, people and businesses need functionality like usable mobile clients they can receive messages in without keeping the client open continuously, or the ability for administrators to delete messages which have been sent by other users. IRC doesn't, and cannot, provide those features.

> [no attachments] Good, no silly gifs cluttering up the chat.

Also means it's difficult to discuss inherently audiovisual content like graphical designs, or to transfer files -- all things that come up in business contexts.

> [permissions] How fine grained do you need it to be?

It's not that the permissions aren't fine-grained so much as that the entire system is crudely designed. Users' permissions in a channel are mostly tied to their presence in the channel; if you leave and rejoin (or disconnect and reconnect to IRC), any permissions are lost and have to be regranted by another user in the channel. Bans are tied to nicknames (which are volatile) or connection hostnames (which are differently volatile). Invite-only channels use passwords. And so on. It's a mess.

Yes, you can add bots to handle some of that for you -- but having to rely on bolt-on components for basic functionality is a sign of a badly designed service.
Your moving goalpost is a pretty specific. What makes architects that important to be the defining demographic for success? Surely not their numbers. Not even sure macOS could meet this requirement.
Sure, but if we're inventing things from science fiction we might as well avoid debris by phasing into the 4th dimension.
Not sure what you mean but it seems you agree that drug use doesn't actually say much about a person.
Just a few examples:

1. Sugarless Protein Bars: just last week I found one they claimed 30 grams of protein on the front of the package, but hidden in the nutrition facts is that it has four-times the daily recommended saturated fats. These will give you heart disease and are found in the health food section of convenience stores.

2. Pretty much all advertised "health food" snacks will make you exceed your daily saturated fats and sugar limits. If it's not a food in its purest form, it will have added sugar and fat. How many products slap a "high in fiber" sticker on their package, when in reality they have very little fiber or are selling you that fiber with a huge dose of sugar and fat?

3. "lean" meats: This one shocked me. Advertised as high in protein, health youtubers promoted it to me all the time, but actually very rich in unhealthy fats and getting more fatty every decade as cows and chickens are bred for more fat.

4. Rice, Pasta, and other simple carbs: I started monitoring my glucose and these had to go after watching incredible spikes in blood sugar after eating them.

What do I eat now? Whole grains and Legumes daily, leafy greens daily, fresh and frozen fruits, and fish three times a week. My blood sugars are stable, my lipid profile is great, and I'm getting the best sleep of my life as tracked by my fitbit. I look around me at the epidemic of metabolic disease and then I look at how 95% of every grocery store contributes to that and I want to see public policy change on this issue.
You're right about Disney not being original, I was wrong about that. But they became a partner two years into its existence. I don't know if I'd call that late to the game.
More people want to leave SAP than severance payments are planned
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Found a small typo, but it's too late to edit the original. I meant early 2010s (not early 00s)
The priority field in Nickel seems a lot like CSS weighting, though more explicit, I suspect it will cause headaches at scale.
What a fascinating project. So cool

Thank you for making it happen and sharing it here

Super interesting read and very inspiring too
I am just guessing here, not having studied the issue in depth, but someone whose ancestors lived in South East Asia (or East Asia), where rice has provided the majority of the calories for thousands of years, can probably remain healthy on a diet high in refined carbohydrates, a diet that is clearly unhealthy for me, whose ancestors come from Northern Europe where keeping cows and later pigs was a large part of the agricultural economy for the last 6,000 years or so (and before then there was a large supply of large animals available for hunting -- large animals that specialize in eating grass and therefore are not loaded with parasites the way that animals that sometimes eat meat are). I do much better when most of my calories come from fat and protein.

But I do not partake in the ketosis fad: I eat a small amount of carbs with almost every meal, and if I don't, I get heart palpitations. (And I've seen studies showing the ketosis is a strain on the heart.)
Yes, amen

There's not having to exaggerate and moreover there's value in rehashing known but tricky stuff
Except if all you have is restitution, there's no punishment.

"Hey, I stole this money from you but since I gave it back - after a court ordered me to - we're all square, right?"
The EPA values one human life at $10M. A conservative estimate of the number of people killed by the Sackler family's companies (testified in court) was ~~245,000~~ Edit: probably at least 100,000, see below. So if opiates were environmental pollutants, the Sacklers would be on the hook for $1T in damages. Their immediate settlement was $6B.

Roughly three orders of magnitude too small.
> I'm pretty sure we're done here.

Sorry to hear.
Here is a good resource on it [1]. My understanding is that Purdue pushed hard for marketing, including paying doctors to market for them. This paragraph sums up most of it.

> “Purdue admitted that it marketed and sold its dangerous opioid products to healthcare providers, even though it had reason to believe those providers were diverting them to abusers,” said Rachael A. Honig, First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey. “The company lied to the Drug Enforcement Administration about steps it had taken to prevent such diversion, fraudulently increasing the amount of its products it was permitted to sell. Purdue also paid kickbacks to providers to encourage them to prescribe even more of its products.”

Is purdue solely at fault here? Absolutely not. Does it seem that Purdue likely knew what was happening, but put profits above public health? In my opinion, yes.

[1] - https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/opioid-manufacturer-purdue-ph...
Interesting but when I tried it, I couldn't figure out the billing model because it's all connected to Google projects, and there can be different billing things for each of them.

Each thing seems to have a bunch of clicks to setup that startup LLM providers don't hassle people with. They're more likely to just let you sign in with some generic third party oAuth, slap on Stripe billing, let you generate keys, show you some usage stats, getting started docs, with example queries and a prompt playground etc.

What about the Vertex models though? Are they all actually available via Google AI Studio?
Enhanced electron delocalization and mobility. Metals often have partially filled d-orbitals that can interact with the π-orbitals of the aromatic system. Aromatic systems already possess delocalized electrons in their π-orbitals. This delocalization allows for easier electron movement within the molecule. This helps with electron transfer in reactions when using catalysts and it is also useful for applications which benefit from improved conductivity.

https://fastercapital.com/content/Electron-Mobility--Unleash...
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Seems like a great setup, thanks for sharing.
Obligatory JAMPAD!
no. like the proposal in the article above. a sandwich of thin light layers that fragment, plus much thicker layers of aerogel behind it to catch the tiny bits. All in one piece, so no bits flying off anywhere. Similar strategy to bullet proof vests actually (deform, then catch), but with a lot lighter of materials.
Slightly off topic, but since the GenAI push google has started investing heavily into its devtools again, namely Sheets and Colab. Either that or these teams are just that good! If you haven't checked out the recent "Tables" update to Sheets, I highly recommend it -- probably the most meaningful improvement in years.
What's it called when someone asks you a question with certain parameters, then makes fun of you for trying to keep your answer within certain parameters because you didn't think outside the box?
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Sure. But I doubt the tech sites which are mostly open use significantly different ad networks.
This is neither 4chan nor Reddit, if you don’t have anything to add to the conversation other than cheap quips, this is not the place for you to post.

I agree I would prefer if OrbStack were open source, but there’s a place and value in high quality closed source apps within the ecosystem. They do also open-source parts of the application, which is more than a lot of closed source developers do.
If nothing else, maybe someone can find a way to utilize the advancements that OrbStack provides and can make an open source alternative.
That's not the settlement. The settlement is that purdue pays 8+ bn and shuts down, but the sacklers are immune personally. The supreme court threw out that deal saying that the sacklers can't be given immunity as a part of the deal.
"In the summer of 1979, while attending a philosophy meeting in Pittsburgh…"

Too many people in the tech industry get tunnel vision and think that they should only focus on learning one thing. One discipline. One science. It becomes one truth. One religion.

The true "smartest people in the room" are the ones who are well-rounded in a lot of disciplines and able to apply knowledge from one to another.

The smartest people I know – whether they work at NASA, USC, or BNY Mellon – all started out in fields other than the one they ended up in, and bring a diversity of knowledge to what they do every day.
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That would be a STRONG magnetic field. Not a safe environment for people (think about living in the same room as an MRI magnet).

Also, not all satellite debris is metallic. Any ceramic / glass / plastic would zip right through.
> Even just keeping the driver compilable with each kernel release often took some non-trivial refactoring,

I realise that the kernel contributors themselves are mostly volunteers and as such can just do what they want, and writers of non-upstreamed drivers will need to get used to chasing trunk, but to me this sort of thing seems like a waste of human talent. once something works, it should never not work again. it seems to me that despite all the layers of cruft that we've accumulated over the decades haven't really helped much with this, in fact they probably mean more work just to stay still.