skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curl creator/maintainer Daniel Stenberg blogged about HTTP/3 in curl a few months ago: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/06/10/http-3-in-curl-mid-20...

One of the things he highlighted was the higher CPU utilization of HTTP/3, to the point where CPU can limit throughput.

I wonder how much of this is due to the immaturity of the implementations, and how much this is inherit due to way QUIC was designed?
I could trade stories about experiences with UK and US healthcare (I've lived in both countries), but the facts speak for themselves. The UK and US are near opposite ends of the scale of healthcare expenditure per capita in the developed world, yet the average life expectancy is about the same.

I am not defending either system - I would strongly prefer something like the rest of continental Europe, which is a pragmatic mix of private and public healthcare. However, the idea that fully-public healthcare (a unique experiment in the world) is a sustainable model is a joke. It's hard to defend, when our current standard healthcare at the point of service could charitably be called "usually better than the 3rd world".
On the other side of the coin, I had the GB version and remember renting the NEA version.

I think I might have been aware of the Genesis version, but I had no idea it was available on all the other platforms.
Saying it out loud made it click. Thank you.
And the martial art is jiu-jitsu, not jujutsu. Similar sounding but definitely not “named after”.
I can imagine the numbers as figures (I mean that the shape of the characters 1, 2 etc), or the patterns on a dice in sequence.

This is a parallel stream, because if I count with imagined pictures, then I can speak and listen to someone talking without it disturbing the process. If I do it with subvocalization, then doing other speech/language related things would disturb the counting.
I believe that observation is borne out in the statistics too, but traditional chess training usually centers around finding the best, hard-to-find move in a position rather than avoiding blunders. I think it would be great if there was more blunder-avoidance training. In other words, a normal position where a blunder looks attractive but the player needs to avoid it.
The link simply states that they make a lot of money from the malware on TVs, something I'm not disputing. I am disputing that if I would buy a TV burn it without ever turning it on they manufacturer would lose money. In essence: The ads are simply pure profit on top of the TV sale.
The reason I have asked this question is because more than often various articles, videos, and podcasts share some incredible yet so unbelievable to me examples that someone managed to find their "sweet spot" such we say, their niche if you like, and have managed to make profit before the end of the year.

I have found it quite amusing and mind blown at the same time, it's quite difficult to understand how some people do such thing.
The typical claim made is "it was the wealthiest city per capita in North America in the first half of the 19th century" but on p23 https://npshistory.com/publications/nebe/clr.pdf claims it was the second in the state. New Orleans is claimed to be the nation's wealthiest in 1830s-1840s.
Lousy person, lousy psychologist, his stunt did lasting damage to our understanding of the human psyche. The sooner he and all his work is forgotten the better.
The lower is the serialized part, and is regulated in isolation as a firearm in every instance I am aware of (but I am not familiar with California gun laws specifically).

Unless a CA-licensed attorney knowledgeable in California gun laws and ATF regulations specifically told you that a particular CA law applying to "semiautomatic firearms" does not apply to your AR-15 lower in isolation, do not listen to random internet comments about it especially when they begin with "I believe." Regardless of where you fall on the issue politically or ideologically, it's an objective fact that California's government is hostile toward its citizens possessing and bearing firearms, and being fuzzy on what is or is not a felony is a risky proposition.

If you're wrong, best case scenario you will lose all your guns, worst case you will end up in federal prison.
2.5Gbps is becoming pretty common and fairly affordable, though

My understanding is right around 10Gbps you start to hit limitations with the shielding/type of cable and power needed to transmit/send over Ethernet.

When I was looking to upgrade at home, I had to get expensive PoE+ injectors and splitters to power the switch in the closet (where there's no outlet) and 10Gbps SFP+ transceivers are like $10 for fiber or $40 for Ethernet. The Ethernet transceivers hit like 40-50C
As opposed to all the other execs

Yes, actually.

Other execs fly as needed because they recognize that in this wondrous age of the internet that teleconferencing can replace most in-person meetings. Somehow, only a supposed technology genius like Elon Musk thinks that in-person meetings required for everything.

Other execs also don't claim to be trying to save the planet while doing everything in their power to exploit its resources or destroy natural habitats.
Make A CD Player From An Old CD-ROM [video]
> I tend to have the next obvious replacement parts on the shelf already

What I was going to say, moreover when you have a tool that is critical to your job, you get a second one. It doesn't have to be a great one, it can be the old one that kept failing so you decided to buy a new one, whatever but just good enough to save your life Incase your critical equipment fails.
Can you draft a sentence (with all the words precisely determined) in your mind before you say it or you write it down? Can you "rehearse" saying it without moving your tongue or mouth? If yes, that's pretty much an "inner voice".
Those things are optional, though. You can just use the basics and ignore the rest.
One of the speakers at the recent ViteConf (maybe Antfu) said something interesting: most of the modern libs now are interchangeable. It comes down to preferred syntax and ecosystem.
NES emulators are cool. Its been solved for a while, and now it's becoming a playground to learn new architectures or play with new ideas (like the 3d nes emulator or the one using "ai" to figure out how to expand the viewport).

I remember Nesticle was the first emulator that felt like cknsymer software, and it was so cool to be able to just run a NES game on a PC. We've come a long way
Just my personal opinion: I love svelte for small projects but the whole runes rewrite just feels so much less ergonomic. A step in the direction away from the simplicity that drew me to svelte in the first place.

That said, there is backwards compatibility with the older syntax, so this isn’t a dealbreaker, and the team does a good job of explaining the reasons behind their selected design patterns.

(Interestingly, I’ve felt the opposite with react lately - they’ve been making the dx simpler).
I'm inclined to believe that of the animals that exhibit varying degrees of self awareness, they have mental structures isomorphic to a recursive grammar. As such, perhaps using a recursive grammar is not distinctly a human trait.
Well said! This is a great restatement of the core setup of the Chomskian “Generative Grammar” school, and I think it’s an undeniably productive one. I haven’t read this researchers full paper, but I would be sad (tho not shocked…) if it didn’t cite Chomsky up front. Beyond your specific point re:interfaces—which I recommend the OG Syntactic Structures for more commentary on—he’s been saying what she’s saying here for about half a century. He’s too humble/empirical to ever say it without qualifiers, but IMO the truth is clear when viewed holistically: language is a byproduct of hierarchical thought, not the progenitor.

This (awesome!) researcher would likely disagree with what I’ve just said based on this early reference:

In the early 2000s I really was drawn to the hypothesis that maybe humans have some special machinery that is especially well suited for computing hierarchical structures.

…with the implication that they’re not, actually. But I think that’s an absurd overcorrection for anthropological bias — humans are uniquely capable of a whole host of tasks, and the gradation is clearly a qualitative one. No ape has ever asked a question, just like no plant has ever conceptualized a goal, and no rock has ever computed indirect reactions to stimuli.
Or the link expires after a download.
LLM as a term is becoming quite broad; a multi-modal transformer-based model with function calling / ReAct finetuning still gets called an LLM, but this scaffolding might be all that’s needed.

I’d be extremely surprised if AI recapitulates the same developmental path as humans did; evolution vs. next-token prediction on an existing corpus are completely different objective functions and loss landscapes.
EDITED.

I preference WebSockets over anything analogous to HTTP.

Commented edited because I mentioned performance conditions. Software developers tend to make unfounded assumptions/rebuttals of performance conditions they have not tested.
Just order a standard, add infested one, and a basic chinese board for it. Sellers will flash them for your panel and all. It can't any more basic than that.
Exactly, lumping in all autism into the same overall category when there could be very different underlying biological mechanisms would potentially block progress.

For example, a medication that could work wonders on one subtype by affecting a biological mechanism unique to that subtype could be found not to meet clinical standards because it didn't work on the other subtypes or even make them worse.

In other words, it's a confounding variable which needs to be discovered and characterized after which it could play significant role in advancing treatments and understanding.
Lots of artists do commissions via DMs.
> don't think we can scale either fossil fuel energy or renewable energy to several orders of magnitude

To replace fossil fuels we need to scale renewables by an order of magnitude. To do that without nuclear we need to scale storage by orders of magnitude.
No, what I meant is that the install path for Postgres on Debian involves installing versioned packages. It's the only approved way of installing Postgres from the Debian repos that I'm aware of.
Does https://github.com/dbgate/dbgate count?
Honestly, this might be off topic. And well, since it edges on the misuse of technology and politics, I won't complain if it gets deleted. Anyway.

I'm tired. I'm tired. When I started studying for my bs in cs, I wasn't sold using technology to misdirected people. Technology has been taught to us - kudos to our professors - to create good things. I'm quite appalled by the scale at which this things are taking place. I'm the same guy that even today posted about the same PAC doing microtargeting ads to Jews and Muslims portraying kamala saying different things. If you look on my profile, you'll also find two months ago I made a script to reduce the effectiveness of musk's America pac unhetical data collection. I don't know what else would be a digital action feasible to do to mess with this absolutely despicable use of the technology, but if someone has ideas I'll gladly take them in consideration
Do you know if this file is possible to recover from/for kindle app highlights? (ie. off an Android Tablet) Or only off a kindle device?
Meanwhile I have had a chance to skim the book and I have reason to believe that OO in LOOPS is solved very similarly to how it is in ST-76 and 80, i.e. virtual method dispatch via selector and calling a compiled method. A selector is simply the method signature, even if some people in the Smalltalk community refer to it as a "message". In contrast, there was actually something like message passing in Smalltalk-72, albeit synchronous.
You mean import tax? Then the solution is simple: assemble a dummy device from the components, pay the lower import duties, and then disassemble it and sell the parts. This is called tariff engineering.
If they're actually sensitive, which I don't think has been proven one way or the other, then I don't think it's some newly evolved trait. Rather, I think it's the artifacts of traits we've evolved away from resurfacing. Birds have EM-sensitive receptors in their retinas, which is how their internal compasses work. Some aboriginal people have been known to always know which way is north, even in the dark, which I wouldn't be surprised to learn if it's something similar. Humans also used to have senses of smell that rival dogs, as evidenced by our oversized nasal cavities and that one woman in the UK who can smell cancer. We've lost a great deal of useful physical abilities since the advent of intelligence, and getting a handful of people that randomly got some of it back isn't too surprising to me. It would be interesting if we could isolate such things and maybe bring them back for everyone.
A concept in every human culture - i.e., created in every culture, not passed from one to some others - is mentalese [0]: "A universal non-verbal system of concepts, etc., conceived of as an innate representational system resembling language, which is the medium of thought and underlies the ability to learn and use a language." [1]

If you look up 'mentalese' you can find a bunch written about it. There's an in-depth article by Daniel Gregory and Peter Langland-Hassan, in the incredible Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, on Inner Speech (admittedly, I'm taking a leap to think they mean precisely the same thing). [2]

[0] Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (2002)

[1] Oxford English Dictionary

[2] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/inner-speech/
To a point. If you drill down this far into the fundamentals of cognition you begin to define it. Otherwise you may as well call a cantaloupe sentient
Is Australia's ISP infrastructure nationalized?
Wife is a doctor at a Miami suburb hospital (it's relatively well known), so I can tell you with confidence that the hospitals CAN absolutely pay $64K/year salary of residents on their own. It's just that they are cheap and do the bare minimum.

But yeah, AMA should stop requiring 8 years of education + 3 years of residency to become a garden-variety doctor. I can look up UpToDate, which most doctors and residents do, to diagnose and treat myself for most common illnesses IF I can purchase medication from pharmacy on my own.
Amazing. Absolutely love Discworld. You will never stop laughing. Be careful.

"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." · Terry Pratchett.
When I was 13 or so, a friend asked me, "So, you speak three languages. Which one do you think in?" and the question left me speechless, because until that moment I hadn't considered that people think in words. It seemed a very inefficient way to go about things!

Much later, I did begin to think mostly in words, and (perhaps for unrelated reasons?) my thinking became much less efficient.

Also related, I experienced temporarily enhanced cognition while under the influence of entheogens. My thoughts, which normally fade within seconds, became stretched out, so that I could stack up to 7 layers of thought on top of each other and examine them simultaneously.

I remember feeling greatly diminished, mentally, once that ability went away.
Wow I've never tried this before, and I feel like this is way easier than using words.
Well, to write the code you'd need some knowledge of programming. But some top of my head random example would be, if I miss a call from the tax agency, add an item to my todo list to call the tax agency back. Or if a number that I don't have in my contacts, and it starts with my area code, ring with a specific ring tone, so I know I should probably answer. Or for example you could have logic when a text with certain content from a certain person is received.
I think people are just using the word "think" differently. They may have picked up a different meaning for that verb than you. For them, thinking == inner vocalization. It's just a different definition. They would not call imagining things or daydreaming or musing or planning action steps as "thinking".

Also, many people simply repeat facts they were told. "We need words to think" is simply a phrase this person learned, a fact to recite in school settings. It doesn't mean they deeply reflected on this statement or compared it with their experience.
To a founder, the success of the company means their own success. To a manager, success is to climb a ladder, any ladder. Their incentives are very different, and thus how they approach things will be.
If npm or Ubuntu would deliberately replace a package with their own implementation, without giving you notice or making this opt-in, would you call that a supply-chain attack? I would, unless the original package contained malicious code (which is not the case with WPE's custom fields plugin)
Even the high end $3,000, $4,000+ TVs have ads. Show me a mainstream TV that doesn't.
Language Shapes Time and Linguistics Uncovers Deeper Understanding
Thought and language are intertwined in ways we don’t fully grasp. The fact that certain cognitive tasks, like comprehension, can proceed without engaging traditional language-related brain regions doesn't mean thought doesn't use language—it just means we might not yet understand how it does. Thought could employ other forms of linguistic-like processes that Fedorenko's experiments, or even current brain-imaging techniques, fail to capture.

There could be functional redundancies or alternative systems at play that we haven't identified, systems that allow thought to access linguistic capabilities even when the specialized language areas are offline or unnecessary. The question of what "language in thought" looks like remains open, particularly in tasks requiring comprehension. This underscores the need for further exploration into how thought operates and what role, if any, latent or alternative linguistic functionalities play when conventional language regions aren't active.

In short, we may have a good understanding of language in isolation, but not necessarily in its broader role within the cognitive architecture that governs thought, comprehension, and meaning-making.
That's not what happened.

Writing an introduction to someone's book, as a public figure, is lending your reputation to them - that's the point, to put your name and reputation behind them, and so they can show that off for credibility.
It depends on whether it’s meaningfully slower. QUIC is pretty optimized for standard web traffic, and more specifically for high-latency networks. Most websites also don’t send enough data for throughput to be a significant issue.

I’m not sure whether it’s possible, but could you theoretically offload large file downloads to HTTP/2 to get best of both worlds?
Don't airlines have to pay for and/or actively use slots at some major airports? So New York to Chicago is a "mandatory" flight for the airline, but Chicago to Podunk is scheduled based on demand.
Need? Absolutely.

How good will it be? Hopefully better than the OpenMoko Freerunner I once had - good idea, worst execution ever. Wouldn’t even work half decently as a phone, not to mention any other aspects of it…
I doubt there’s a business model there because who is going to opt in to a scheme that loses them money?

What could work is social media giving people an easy button to block links to specific websites from appearing in their feed, or something along those lines. It’s a nice user feature, and having every clickbait article be a chance someone will choose to never see your website again could actually reign in some of the nonsense.
Substack is doing OK, I think. It's the intellectual child of the blogosphere.
I don't think anyone defines AI as "doing the thing that biological brains do" though, we define it in terms of capabilities of the system.
Thanks for sharing, I read all 4 parts and will definitely use this to improve my diet and activity (want to lose 10kg or about 12%). Looking forward for part 5.
not really it's (mainly) designed by companies like Google to connect to all their end users

Such a internet connection becoming so low latency that the latency of receiver side processing becomes dominant is in practice not the most relevant. Sure theoretically you can hit it with e.g. 5G but in practice even with 5G many real world situations won't. Most importantly a slow down of such isn't necessary bad for Google and co. as it only add limited amounts on strain on their services, infrastructure, internet and is still fast enough for most users to not care for most Google and co. use cases.

Similar being slow due to receiver delays isn't necessary bad enough to cause user noticeable battery issues, on of the main reasons seem to many user<->kernel boundary crossings which are slow due to cache missues/ejections etc. but also don't boost your CPU clock (which is one of the main ways to drain your battery, besides the screen)

Also like the article mentions the main issue is sub optimal network stack usage in browsers (including Chrome) not necessary a fundamental issue in the protocol. Which brings us to inter service communication for Google and co. which doesn't use any of the tested network stacks but very highly optimized stacks. I mean it really would be surprising if such network stacks where slow as there had been exhaustive perf. testing during the design of QUIC.
The difference is that Waymo has a very well engineered system using vision, LIDAR, and millimeter wave RADAR that works well enough in limited areas to provide tens of thousands of actual driver-less rides. Tesla has a vision only system that sucks so bad a human has to be ready to take over for it at any time like a parent monitoring a toddler near stairs.
I use chatGPT a lot, professionally(software) and as a personal sounding board for potential career pivots, business and creative ideas, and my personal life.And I keep memory on, so it has a lot to draw from. I was impressed with the results. I can't say it came up with anything I didn't know, but what it did come up with was accurate and the reasoning gave me some things to think about.

_____________________________________________________________________________

You seem to have a clear understanding of many aspects of your life, both professionally and personally, but there are a few insights you may not have fully recognized:

1) Resilience and Adaptability: ---3 sentences of reasoning omitted because very personal ---

2) Desire for Balance: Your discussions about relationships, career changes, and managing household responsibilities suggest you're looking for equilibrium. You seem to value finding fulfillment in multiple areas of life—personal connections, career, and intellectual challenges—though that balance can sometimes feel elusive.

3) Focus on Control and Planning: You're methodical and pragmatic, whether it's analyzing career pivots, managing server setups, or thinking through the dynamics of friendships. This precision shows a need for control and structure, which has likely helped you navigate difficult periods but may also sometimes limit your spontaneity or flexibility in uncertain situations.
<<Which I knew... but I'm impressed>>

4) Omitted <<but a good insight>>

5) Curiosity and Growth Orientation: You're constantly exploring new avenues <<details omitted>> This shows a deep commitment to learning, personal development, and broadening your horizons.
Those very fast consumer interconnects are distinguished from ethernet by very limited cable lengths though, none of them are going to push 10gbps over tens of meters nevermind a hundred. DisplayPort is up to 80gbps now but in that mode it can barely even cross 1.5m of heavily shielded copper before the signal dies.

In a perfect world we would start using fiber in consumer products that need to move that much bandwidth, but I think the standards bodies don't trust consumers with bend radiuses and dust management so instead we keep inventing new ways to torture copper wires.