skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
256kbps (yes I was pissed and miss-typed B for b and a few other transgressions) or whatever is sod all these days for throughput, as you well know, so worrying your codecs down to 40kbps means nothing if your jitter buffer is going mad!

Modern home/office internet connections are mostly optimised for throughput but rarely for latency - that's the province of HFT.

You see tales from the kiddies who fixate over "ping" times when trying to optimize their gaming experience. Well that's nice but when on earth do you shoot someone with ICMP?

I can remember calling relos in Australia in the 1970s/80s over old school satellite links from the UK or Germany and it nearly needed radio style conventions.

I've been doing VoIP for quite a while and it is so crap watching people put up with shit sound quality and latency on a Teams/Zoom/etc call as the "new" normal. I wheel out Wireshark and pretend to watch it and then fix up the wifi link or the routing (Teams outside VPN - split tunnelling) or whatever.
I really hope this is an outlier and the median smart guy like you has a bit more of a moral compass and doesn't seem to willing to sell their own country for a cool line on a CV.
I lost a dog at 3 and a half years almost to the day to a congenital defect, that we didn’t know about until he was already very sick. I’m a guy who will cross a street to meet someone’s dog. For over a year afterward I would cross the street to avoid walking past the same breed and color of dog. The way people avoid pitbulls.

And that was just a dog. I can’t even imagine what happens when your child dies, especially if your job or social circle involves them.

The author said he has a therapist, but I wonder if he’s had one the whole time or if he failed to process at the time and is now paying for letting it sink into his bones.
The Internet's Time Is Flawed–Why No One Is Talking About It
I’ve been researching how online time services sync over HTTPS, and the results are surprising.

Due to network latency & asymmetry, even widely trusted time sources can drift by ±50ms or more.
HTTPS-based synchronization has inherent protocol limitations that prevent true atomic accuracy.
Engineers on NTP forums have confirmed that half of RTT (Round Trip Time) is the firm limit—meaning most public clocks are way less accurate than we assume.
This raises some serious questions:
1⃣ How bad is the drift in real-world applications?
2⃣ Is there a way to make HTTPS time synchronization truly accurate?
3⃣ Are industries (finance, security, cryptography) unknowingly relying on bad time data?

I’m curious if others have tested this or if this is an even bigger problem than we think.

Some engineers are experimenting with ways to push accuracy below 10ms, but there’s no widespread solution yet. Thoughts?
> transportation infrastructure, education, fire departments,

Didn't recent events like LA fires demonstrate just how neglected those services are.

Having a better military in a war is great, but having overtly fat military industrial complex isn't that great.
Would subtracting standing/activity time from 24 hours not work? I think apple health tracks standing time.
I know ya crapped on Linux but Pop! OS is pretty great. It's the only distro to play nice with my Nvidia graphics out of the box. Multi monitor support is great. I even use a weird docking station and it works just fine. Steam works great for like 70% of games.

Win11 gave me tons of sound and Bluetooth issues to the point it felt like Linux alsa issues from 2010 or something.

I still have my win11 install on another partition but I rarely use it now. Just for niche stuff.
They couldn't even build VR avatars with legs. I wouldn't worry about it.
> Just two days ago the DOGE committee stated that they discovered 2.7T of improper payments in Medicare and Medicaid to people overseas. 2.7T is a nontrivial amount of money.

I don't know how true this is, and if there really is 2.7T of "improper" payments, then yeah that needs to be stop.

The issue is that Musk just makes shit up. All the time, I genuinely think it might be a pathological problem. He lies about everything. He said "full self driving" would be available in Tesla "next year" in 2018, he claimed he'd have stuff on the moon by 2022, he faked a press release about robots, he publicly posted about taking Tesla private to drive up the stock price. I could go on, but I don't want to spend three hours typing this out.

So if DOGE is claiming 2.7T of Medicare fraud, it's tough for me to take it seriously because Musk is known for constantly lying. He also has shown a complete lack of understanding of very basic US civics. So even if he isn't "lying", it's entirely possible that he just doesn't understand what the fuck he's talking about, and declaring all this stuff as superfluous.
Every statistical model makes assumptions. As a general rule, the more mathematically complex the model, the fewer (or weaker) assumptions are made. That's what the complexity is for. So the criticism 'it looks complex, so the assumptions are probably weird' doesn't make sense.

If as a reader you don't understand a paper (that's been reviewed by experts), then the best thing to conclude is that you're not the target audience, not that the findings can be dismissed.
Some of his supporters have their own “TDS”.
Previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42965989
Premier League club structures carry money laundering risks, study finds
Scenario: Something forces a reboot. I've got 4 bash shells open. I've been doing some compilation & linking of libraries with a crazy long gcc command. After I reboot, that's not in my history because only the first-opened bash shell's history seems to get saved and I've gotta recreate the commandline again. Is there any shell that would let me see all the history from all of the different shells I might have had open?
You mention the 2D broadcast. Maybe my expectations are too low, but as a step in the direction of a more immersive experience, I'd love to be able to watch an NBA game, even in 2D, where the perspective is courtside and the players are "life size" based on where I'm "seated" (so obviously adjusting size based on the perspective of the camera as players come closer and move farther away just like if you were there in person). And in case I'm not being clear I mean just a stream of the game itself, not using some derivative of the game as I understand this tabletop view (which seems really dumb actually, but not sure I get it).

You sound like you know a lot about the NBA in particular so you probably know this, but the NBA has been giving that courtside perspective periodically during games on the broadcast. Being able to watch a full game that way or at least toggle between that and the broadcast at will would be great. The very few times I've sat up close at an NBA game have been mind-bogglingly better, particularly when you can feel the size and speed of the players. Maybe this VR-light 2D view I'm talking about wouldn't simulate that very well, but I think it would do a pretty good job and could be done with one extra view (still hear you that even one view courtside would require multiple cameras and is not worth the investment, but I feel like it would be sensible to offer that as a step to something even more immersive).
I'm always trying to figure out why OpenSCAD has such a following when, at least to my manufacturer-brain says "whoa it's inconvenient to use to make real stuff" and "there are more expressive 3D modeling DSLs".

Is this like hobby only like writing an app in brainfuck? Or am I missing something?
Users? Yes. Owner? No.
The actual truth is that you don’t need any of these frameworks at all. Vanilla JS & HTML has come a long way, and LLMs like Claude can build Vanilla JS with no trouble.
Wyden Releases Draft Bill to Secure Americans' Communications
I’ve been in similar situations, but details matter. If your scale up button is heavily abstracted services, your choice starts to become very different as the cost of reimplementing what the service does might be high enough that you end up with a no win situation of your own making.

The closer your “Scale up” button is referencing actual hardware, the less of a problem it is.
Yes there is a big difference.

But if you look at all the options --

1) paying hundred of dollars or more, potentially having to travel to a different city to watch the actual event, where you enjoy it with friends/family and the rest of the crowd

2) watch a filmed version in the theater or Blu-ray for $10, with your family/friends and other fans

3) purchase a $3500 headset that is heavy and uncomfortable, watch a filmed version for $10-20, with yourself

The movie theater experience seems like a pretty good deal. If I am not watch the real thing, I might as well just spend $10 and get a great experience.
I was just thinking today of my friend Donny Miceli, who died of childhood leukemia at the age of 7. I wondered what it would be like to be Donny's mom or dad. There would be sadness of course, and the devastating feeling that something was missing that should be there. Would there be guilt? How could they carry on, knowing that there was a high school graduation, wedding, etc. that they should have attended but weren't? I don't recall if Donny had siblings but if he did, how would they have felt growing up without him?
Sorry if this comes across the wrong way; I'm just trying to stay in the loop: Is that referring to the DOGE boys who were caught between months and years ago, or is there a confirmed leak of the new information?
> There's an (increasingly small) group of software developers who don't like "magic" and want to understand where their code is running and what it's doing. These developers gravitate toward open source solutions like Kubernetes

Kubernetes is not the first thing that comes to mind when I think of "understanding where their code is running and what it's doing"...
There are extreme ideological distinctions between Facebook and Tumblr that you're ignoring. Suggesting ideology only came into it with Trump and that the Threads pushback was about the spectre of a competitor's popularity is very strange. As is the "Fedi admins are petty, but not me, a Fedi admin" commentary. People had well-founded and widely varied concerns about Meta joining the fediverse. It had nothing to do with wanting to remain in obscurity; just about every fedi user I've ever encountered is absolutely begging everyone on social media to join.

> The Fediverse's structure is already a lot more centralized than anyone would like to admit

Hi, I'm "anyone", and: no it isn't? Technically and philosophically, no it isn't. Large instances are not a failure of decentralisation, because as you evidently know, their existence does not preclude you or anyone else setting up a server and federating. There's no universe in which "scaling the network" reduces decentralisation, in fact it's the solution to the "fuck Matt Mullenweg" situation you speculate about. The less homogenous fedi admins become, the more the network is sustained by people who don't even know who he is. Your comment is rife with generalisations about the motivations of people on the fediverse, but it's far less monolithic than you think.
99.99% of source code is not Kolmogorov optimal.

This is a good thing.
It feels to me that instead of quitting on it, you should double down.

The reason we don't want GPU, it's that renting is not priced well enough and the technology isn't quite there yet either for us to make consistently good use of it.

Removing the offer is just exacerbating the current situation. It feels both curves are about to meet.

In either case you'll have the experience to bring back the offer if you feel it's needed.
no. You aren't even on topic. Aren't coders supposed to be smart? You can't even correctly model me, god forbid you try to understand your political opponents.

Am I betting on a red 2028? If people like you keep at it, I will.

Be better.
Most of my meetings are customer/market discovery interviews, and having a database of transcriptions I can query and discuss with an LLM has increased my ability to extract value from these interviews 10x while reducing the time I have to take and organize notes by 90%.

I didn't read the article, I am just reacting to the headline.
That's great for you but I have TV+ and Arcade free trials and both end instantly if I cancel. And I'm not alone, lots of people across the internet experience this too. It's written in Apple's terms.
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I am told that an interesting alternative is the Structured State Space for Sequence Modeling (S4). I don't personally know much about this technique, but didn't see anybody else mention this in this thread.

https://srush.github.io/annotated-s4/
I’m the “runt” of the litter. I’m maybe 5% taller and my uncles and cousins got the rest.

But it’s the depth as much as the length. I get that a table has to be a couple inches wider so people don’t bump knees but your thigh bone only grows at a quarter to a third of your overall height increase, right?

Couches are just oversized. They’re uncomfortable to get out of if you’re not careful when shopping.
I have customers that are OK with telling me all kinds of internal business stuff, but to have a RECORDING of our meeting so they don't have to ask me the same damn question 5 times because they weren't paying attention? SOMEONE COULD MISUSE THAT INFORMATION!
I will not receive social security or medicare/medicaid, as they are actively being gutted today. Our military goes on adventures I have never supported (Iraq? Afghanistan?). I am not entitled to VA benefits.

My education was trash. I’ll grant you fire depts & transportation, though the transport stuff isn’t at all properly invested in. I don’t care to make car companies more money.

These are all the same as nothing to me. You can split hairs and say I am getting something not nothing, but that doesn’t change the lived experience of being poor, sick, and badly educated in the wealthiest nation.

This world doesn’t exist for people like me— it exists for all you folks.

And boy, lemme tell ya… I would be super happy to burn your world to the ground, and I say that with horror in my eyes as I look at the fires that Elon is starting.
Mastodon suffers from the same problem Reddit does. Moderators have too much power.

A truly P2P system where the end user has 100% control over what is blocked, and furthermore where they can't be shut out in the cold by capricious mods, would be the ideal social media vehicle.
Am I being pedantic for pointing out that that is 3x the normal two generations separating grand parents and grand kids and a height difference of only 6 percent? The only major difference since our grandparents is average weight and expectations of comfort. Correlated but not synonymous.
From forum threads in the last year or two it sounds like they have gotten quite far and only need investment to progress further.

https://millcomputing.com/topic/any-plans-for-2024/
https://millcomputing.com/topic/yearly-ping-and-see-how-thin...

Edit: posted a HN thread about getting investors for Mill:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43054697
I just don’t feel it is right to call everything that not socialism “libertarian”.
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Upgrading to Tailwind v4 was horribly frustrating as every AI insisted on using v3 even though it technically knew the v4 api.
There is a more general principle, which is that you are in a 3D space and twisting a couch (or whatever) in it will help you find the way through. Sometimes you only need a little space above you to achieve the twist you need.

Also due to the biases humans have with respect to orientation in space, turning the item upside down, back to front or both can also make things much easier.
There is no tension. ActivityPub and its creator are well-aligned with the community. What you you are looking for is nostr, and if you find it more appealing you are free to choose it, that’s the beauty of open source.
I expect that the high spending on ineffective care is a wealth effect rather than something more indirect. The money is there, so people use it. Veterinary care is sort of similar (spending has skyrocketed as disposable income has increased).

There's also probably technology/knowledge effects, new things that are worth paying a lot for, people staying relatively healthy but getting fragile in the process, etc.
Discussion (25 points, 15 hours ago, 15 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43046342
Yes, I am very safe in my little cage where I take my antibiotics and still kiss with saliva. A cage is still a cage.
I'm on your side, but that's not a good argument. Nancy Pelosi openly stated she has a right to be financially entangled with the companies she regulates. At least 60% of the democratic party is firmly pro-oligarch, too. Just like 2 or 3 republicans get to performatively dissent on unpopular votes, Democrat resistance is largely performative, too. Those economic winners and losers are also campaign donors. Citizen's United, the ruling that made America structurally a plutocracy, happened under Obama.
The author has identified the issue to be memcg reparenting causing a spike in CPU usage. Reparenting mostly solves a problem with zombie memcg, where the memcg lingers because some resource is still charged to it. In the extreme case you can end up with tens if thousands of zombies. The zombie memcg problem is not unique to cgroup v2, but reparenting is fairly recent.

The article solves the cpu spike by disabling the io or memory controller, but if one would like to use those controllers, a better way to charge memory would be nice.

It is unfortunate that it's clear where the memory should be charged, but the kernel does not provide reliable way to deterministically charge that memory. If anyone has any design ideas, please feel free to chime in!
Some people became software developers because they like learning and knowing what they're doing, and why and how it works.

Some people became software developers because they wanted to make easy money back when the industry was still advertising bootcamps (in order to drive down the cost of developers).

Some people simply drifted into this profession by inertia.

And everything in-between.

From my experience there are a lot of developers who don't take pride in their work, and just do it because it pays the bills. I wouldn't want to be them but I get it. The thing is that by delegating all their knowledge to the tools they use, they are making themselves easy to replace, when the time comes. And if they have to fix something on their own, they can't. Because they don't understand why and how it works, and how and why it became what it is instead of something else.

So they call me and ask me how that thing works...
A strategy games like baldurs gate would be amazingly immersive if selected characters were fixed to the table and the full world was rendered to the horizon
GPT usually writes code that eventually (often immediately) breaks. When given the failure mode, it usually fixes the issue (and often creates a new one, GOTO 10)
I think maybe 1 in 20 people I know have any clue about government waste, but they all have a "feeling" it's happening and it's the worst it's ever been. It takes very little these days for people to catch these vibes, and even littler to associate it with Democrats who are for social security.

This despite the fact that Musk is mostly firing investigators who were seeing if his company's were a budget waste. I guess we just have to assume agencies that say "black" are bad and what we really need to spend money on is luxury EV vehicles that can play angry birds. Surely not a conflict of interest.

There is no arguing with people who don't know what they want. This is all propaganda fueled hysteria.
Architecture, and any other physical design work?

But if it really is good for watching sports, that's a big market already.
It is actually not a social media at least not mainly.

The only real value for most people is when you need a job, and sometimes it works.

I do agree the social media part of LinkedIn is among the worst.
Many of my friends voted for the current administration because they believed Trump was the "peace candidate". Perhaps this is him fulfilling the campaign promise by attempting to denuclearize the USA military.
The details matter because someone has to understand the details, and it's quicker and more cost-effective if it's the developer.

At my job, a decade ago our developers understood how things worked, what was running on each server, where to look if there were problems, etc. Now the developers just put magic incantations given to them by the "DevOps team" into their config files. Most of them don't understand where the code is running, or even what much of it is doing. They're unable or unwilling to investigate problems on their own, even if they were the cause of the issue. Even getting them to find the error message in the logs can be like pulling teeth. They rely on this support team to do the investigation for them, but continually swiveling back-and-forth is never going to be as efficient as when the developer could do it all themselves. Not to mention it requires maintaining said support team, all those additional salaries, etc.

(I'm part of said support team, but I really wish we didn't exist. We started to take over Ops responsibilities from a different team, but we ended up taking on Dev ones too and we never should've done that.)
The elephant in the room is that this is about as excoriating a jab as Terence Tao can dole out against the brute and unconsidered actions of Ol' Musky on our (federal) government.

For our sake, I hope Tao is also correct in that damage to the federal system may not necessarily destabilize structures at other (state, county, municipal) scales as regards socioeconomic organization in the USA.
The one thing the Typst could do to eclipse TeX is market itself to authors outside of STEM disciplines who still possess a willingness to get their hands techy.

I view Typst on the high-end of software that can encourage more people who are into the "arts" or "humanities" into coding.

I used it once to typeset a booklet and had a lot of fun. One of the benefits of it being new and having an engaged community and being just fun to use is that I got to explore different workarounds to achieve certain layouts, learning more about how it works along the way.

Troff is lots of fun too.
Did Semgrep Just Get a Lot More Interesting?
Probably depends on how much it costs to convert it to 3d in real time. NBA is desperate for new viewers, it's been declining (often due to their own rules).

It might end up being only for watching already aired games so they can backlog it and reduce costs.
The phrase comes from analog clocks where, depending on the internal design, winding them backwards could break them.
Great write up. Looking forward to a day when a Typst doc framework is a reality.
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