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For the US, this is an extremely cheap [1] way to counter Russia. Ukraine is doing 99% of the work. We give them money which they immediately give back to us to buy hardware. Or we give mothballed hardware slated for destruction. Most prefer this to a future with dead Americans and US boots on the ground in Europe when NATO countries are invaded by Russia, emboldened by a world that gave up on Ukraine.

[1] as a percentage of the US$850,000,000,000 _annual_ Pentagon budget

Can verify this works. Use reship.com to get a Canadian mailing address and have it forwarded.

That's 10 points, you have 90 points remaining.

>And they're also a grocery store, for god's sake.

They're also your primary care doctor! Amazon OneMedical!

https://health.amazon.com/onemedical

Scroll down the page a bit.

Sunny, given this investment objective, what would you consider a good (and transparent) benchmark? Thanks for sharing this.

I'm glad to hear there have been big changes. However, there is a more recent accident associated with a Korean operator: Asiana flight 214 crash at SFO in 2013.

The NTSB identified poor crew communication and crew resource management as important factors. Reuters and AFP reported negative repetitional impact to Korean air carriers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214

Birdstrike #2 engine possibly captured on video:

https://x.com/Global_Mil_Info/status/1873181671375421703

Posted here 4 years ago (885 points / 200 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23749821

Well, not any longer. It will take a lot more convincing, won’t it? It’s chilling.

Inspired by the MIT camera discussed here 13 years ago

Trillion-frame-per-second video https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3346609

I think NASA is saying it's already gone well inside the Alfvén surface and so that qualifies as basically "into the suns atmosphere."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfvén_surface

A few notes on Power-Of-Two-Choices (Po2C) which is part of the solution described in the paper.

NGINX appears to have Po2C available as an option on the "random" balancing algorithm. [1] It only considers load (requests in flight), unlike the paper which also considers recent latency (and does many other things).

However NGINX "Plus" (the paid version) appears to have a couple additional settings that use actual traffic as latency probes (not asynchronous synthetic probes as described in the paper). [also 1] It's not fully clear to me but I think if you use these options it's going to only use latency, not load. The paper described in this post actually uses both load (RIF) and latency. Eager to try these out.

Also, I noted that HAProxy author and kernel maintainer Willy Tarreau wrote an article in 2019 about adding Power-of-two-choices to HAProxy. [2] He builds a test bed with a few micro services and compares several balancing algorithms to Po2C, considering response time, throughput, and max load.

One conclusion is that "At the very least, Power of Two is always better than Random. So, we decided to change the default number of draws for the Random algorithm from one to two, matching Power of Two." However, in the response time data, the test appears to consider only average response time. I would love to see the p90 and p99 tail latency of these tests. The main focus of the paper in this post is minimizing p90/99, not average latency.

Tarreau also helpfully provides links to both a 2001 research report by Mitzenmacher, Richa & Sitaraman and also the original 1996 Po2C PhD thesis by Mitzenmacher.

[1] https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/load-balancer/http-...

[2] https://www.haproxy.com/blog/power-of-two-load-balancing

The last sentence of the abstract indicates the goal is to be able to run at higher utilization without sacrificing latency. The outcome of that is you need less hardware for a given load which for Google undoubtedly means massive cost savings and higher profitability.

   > Prequal has dramatically decreased tail latency, error rates, and resource 
   > use, enabling YouTube and other production systems at Google to run at much 
   > higher utilization.

First point lauds rapid approval which it claims was successful and saved millions of lives. Second point criticizes a "rushed" and "dangerous" approval.

[offtopic] From the report, these two findings:

   > OPERATION WARP SPEED: President-elect Trump’s Operation Warp Speed — which 
   > encouraged the rapid development and authorization of the COVID-19 vaccine 
   > — was highly successful and helped save millions of lives.
   > 
   > RUSHED COVID-19 VACCINE APPROVAL: The FDA rushed approval of the COVID-19 
   > vaccine in order to meet the Biden Administration’s arbitrary mandate 
   > timeline. Two leading FDA scientists warned their colleagues about the 
   > dangers of rushing the vaccine approval process and the likelihood of 
   > adverse events. They were ignored, and days later, the Biden 
   > Administration mandated the vaccine.

So, which is it?

    > To highlight the main strength of o1 pro mode (improved reliability), we 
    > use a stricter evaluation setting: a model is only considered to solve a 
    > question if it gets the answer right in four out of four attempts ("4/4 
    > reliability"), not just one.

So, $200/mo. gets you less than 12.5% randomly wrong answers?

And $20/mo. gets you >25% randomly wrong answers?

Retail US$ prices for Lego-branded kits are usually about $0.10 per piece. So I would expect this kit would cost about $85 if Lego were selling it, implying a +170% premium.

    >E-UTRAN Node B, also known as Evolved Node B, is the element in E-UTRA of    
    >LTE that is the evolution of the element Node B in UTRA of UMTS. 

Thanks, wikipedia! [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENodeB

Cool, but do I really feel like buying this game yet again?

Still holding out for HL 3. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The B in BASIC stands for "beginner." AppleSoft BASIC on an Apple ][+ was my first programming experience -- in kindergarten (1979). I was 5, and with help from my brother and my dad, I was able to learn and program independently. When you turn a machine like that on, its default mode is just a blinking cursor and a BASIC REPL. But you could do amazing things right from BASIC with the ]['s colorful low-res graphics (and slightly less colorful hi-res graphics) using the family TV as the monitor. All the motivation I needed. Thank you Dr. Kurtz! (and Woz!)

It's impressive. But to be fair, a totally novel item should be expected to have pent up demand that smooths out over time. The F-150 was introduced 49 years ago so demand has smoothed already.

Our home kitchen has cabinets that are mostly transparent glass. Worst of both worlds? The clutter is easily visible but access is slowed. Really though, I think there is a purpose: doors keep the dust and grease of the kitchen environment away from the items in the cabinets.

Anti-rationality and ignorance aren't new to the scene in the US. In 1980, Isaac Asimov wrote an essay titled "Cult of Ignorance." [1]

    “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and 
    there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism
    has been a constant thread winding its way through our 
    political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion
    that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as
    your knowledge.'”

[1] https://aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ASIMOV_1980_C...

"Lossless" compression is based on information that can be discarded without negative consequences because it cannot be perceived by humans. The data is real and there, you just can't see it or hear it. If you can quantify what information humans can't perceive, you can discard it, leaving less data and possibly more amenable data for a subsequent lossless compression phase. MP3, JPEG, MPEG all benefit from this understanding of the human perceptual system.

M3 Pro (and some lower-core count M3 Max) parts have lower memory bandwidth than their M2 comparable. If your workload is highly dependent on memory bandwidth, then M2->M3 on Pro or Max might not be an improvement.

See tables here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M2#Variants

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M3#Variants

Holy crap, is that modified or do they all sound that loud? And not just in reverse? Not the future we were promised.

I wish. An official act is not one that is motivated by government business. It's defined as the exercise of official powers. In the decision, the motive behind exercise of official powers can't be examined and the exercise itself (let alone the motivation) cannot be introduced into evidence at trial.

You can't and that's the specific reason Justice Barrett concurred only in part.

Sotomayor's dissent [1] is a must-read as well. She's more concerned than you are.

    The President of the United States is the
    most powerful person in the country, and possibly the
    world. When he uses his official powers in any way, under
    the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from
    criminal prosecution. Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to as-
    sassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military
    coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in ex-
    change for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.

[1] Search for "SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting" in this PDF: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf

Does your app have to run in the foreground on the iPad during the flight? Or can the crew user other apps in flight?