These e/acc types are insufferable and if anything "SF" has been ruined by them. I know I'll get downvoted or flagged given this is HN, but there's more to life than startups and private equity[0]. Let's leave Europe alone, huh?
When you're rich you can have untouchable bombers and precision artillery destroy your genocidal enemies from hundreds of miles away. When you're poor you end up suffering from bombings and cruise missile attacks.
When you're rich you have AC. When poor you die in heat waves. When rich you get to integrate immigrants to the point. When poor neo-Nazi politicians stir up trouble as they languish in poverty and squalor.
When rich you get to crush pandemics. When poor you have to pretend they aren't happening.
Europe was not poorer in the 2000's. This is just cope about the failure to handle the financial crisis and COVID properly.
CRTs are still unmatched for gaming. Aside from input lag, they don't degrade low resolutions the same way that LCDs do. For the longest time I stuck with a 19" flatscreen 4:3 CRT that did 170Hz at 800x600, an absolute beast. As a kid I'd lug it around to QuakeWorld and Counter-Strike LAN tournaments.
I've gone through a bunch of high refresh rate LCDs since, but nothing has matched the perfect hand-eye sync of a CRT running at high FPS and high refresh rate with a 1000 Hz mouse, zooming around dm3 in a complete state of flow.
You kinda forget how low latency feels like until you relive it and thinks 'oh ye this is how it should feel like'. Like the reaponsiveness of a PS/2 keyboard.
Can someone ELI5 why I should feel bad about Redis charging massive companies like AWS and Google to use/sell/profit from their software? Am I really supposed to feel like Amazon is the good guy in this situation? As far as I can tell this change doesn't affect 99.999% of Redis users, but I understand I could be missing something?
For a lot of people, myself included, it’s ideological. It’s not about “feeling bad” for gigantic corporations, it’s about what FLOSS stands for. Something either is or isn’t free software, and for a lot of people that doesn’t matter, but it matters to me.
It affects users who were using hosted redis - there is no longer any competition. If you liked to use redis hosted by someone else (for example for lower price, or better integration, or something like this), it is no longer possible. It's Redis Lab way or highway, and they can jack up prices as high as they want.
> If you liked to use redis hosted by someone else [...] it is no longer possible
That's not true though. Cloud vendors can choose to pay Redis Ltd to continue to offer "official" Redis as a managed product. Azure is doing this. AWS and GCP just chose not to.
Can't imagine Redis Ltd will be allowing cloud vendors to undercut their offering long-term.
Even if Azure Redis is cheap now, just wait until the next low-performing quarter at Redis Ltd, and they'll raise Azure's fees to make their offering more attractive.
They are the monopolist now, no one can force them to have fair prices.
I completely disagree with that prediction. When comparing the operating costs of a first-party vs third-party managed Redis service, cloud vendors have substantially lower operating costs for their underlying infrastructure (servers / data centers) than Redis Ltd. This means the cloud vendors can still offer a competitively-priced product, despite having to pay Redis Ltd for licensing fees.
Cloud vendors can also offer better inter-op between their managed Redis product and their other managed services, availability of managed Redis in every single region the cloud vendor offers, lower latency, etc. The managed offering directly from Redis Ltd can't compete on those qualities.
Additionally, Redis Ltd is motivated to not massively jack up fees on Azure, because in that situation Azure could switch to ValKey (or any other fork, or an in-house compatible re-write -- which they already have one of) and tell Redis Ltd to pound sand, like what AWS and GCP did.
Market forces are what makes Redis Ltd have fair prices, and this inherently means there's no monopoly.
This is only throughput. The latency is given by the speed of light in the fibre (~c/1.5). That said Microsoft bought a company that develops hollow core fibre which yields a factor 1.5 improvement in latency. They just presented their latest results which is a 0.11 dB/km loss. This is actually the biggest result from the conference, because it is a massive improvement over regular fibre which has been hovering at about 0.15 dB/km loss for the last 40 years, with improvements below 1% over that time.
I’m not so sure it will matter much. The earth is 42ms across at light speed, 66ms if traversing a great circle.
Network hops are notoriously slow. In the datacenter the best I have ever seen is 200ns or so per packet which is very rare, most in DC hops are closer to 3-9 usec (especially modular chassis); then you hit the routers. With moderate congestion your routing hops are going to be twice that or more ignoring queuing, and you are likely six hops at least between two points in each direction.
The hollow core stuff mostly will jot help since it gains with distance, but distance means more hops on average, so we are talking about an application where low latency is required but distances are high (where the improvement applies) but the minimum latency achievable is still tens of ms.
It is interesting technology but I think it’s more interesting for hypothetical materials savings than for latency improvement.
The speed of light in fiber (or electrical signal in copper) is less than the speed of light in vacuum.
There are delays (very small) converting a signal from electrical on one end of the fiber to light and back to fiber on the other end. For this reason, DAC tends to have measurably lower latency compared to fiber for in-rack networking.
The length of an undersea cable is greater than both the straight line and the great circle distance between two points on the earth's surface.
These things do not explain all (probably not even most) of the difference between the latency you suggested and that in the real world, but I hope they help to suggest why the naïve calculation is not achievable.
LSD was recently granted "breakthrough-therapy status" by the FDA after clinical trials show a single dose provides "immediate and lasting relief" from generalized anxiety [0]. I know you're asking about a slightly different effect, but IMHO they are related. I myself have experienced personal revelations through psychedelics that have had lasting effects and positive consequences in my life.
My gut feeling is that any revelations or breakthroughs people have from psychedelics could also eventually occur through other means (therapy, meditation, etc.), but not as quick. It's like a shortcut to the sort of deep introspection needed to unwind the stories we have ingrained into ourselves.
Are any of those things impossible without sideloading or the DMA? Those things will only be riskier on your phone with all the malware that will undoubtedly spread throughout fully open marketplaces. I really do not want my mom accidentally installing her "Chase Bank" app from www.chazebank.cc.
The post I responded to was asking why Nintendo (and similar) shouldn't face the same regulation. Despite you point being mostly off topic I'll humour you.
Since what's possible or impossible is the only options you've given me, Is it "impossible" for your mom to just do all her banking in person or over the phone? The phone works perfectly fine.
See how that sounds?
Anyways, having a central gatekeeper to all those essential services is not optimal from an economic or technical perspective. (Again, notice I said "not optimal" even though you created the false alternative of "not impossible").
Your concerns about malware are valid. Or at least as much as they are valid on MacOS. Which is to say - somewhat, but not enough in the balance of things.
And yes, I have elderly parents too. I plan to continue educating them.
those things are all made prohibitively difficult without a smartphone. there are people in the US getting kicked off their insurance plans for not having a required smartphone. this isn't some goddamn game here, peoples lives and livelihoods are on the line and you're wondering if it might not be such a big deal clearly never having put more than a moment's thought into it.
And your malware claims are total BS There's been alternative stores on Android for years and the malware situation remains stable to slightly improving thanks to hardening of the OS that Google did resulting from the goal of supporting multiple stores. Far more people in the world use Android and bank on it than iOS so the idea that the sky will fall if Apple opens up is pure ridiculousness, utter silliness.
You are trying to start fights all over this post and I'm not sure why, but please don't put words in my mouth. At no point did I even remotely suggest that people shouldn't have access to smartphones.
I copy pasted the text from the PDF mentioned in GP comment for those as lazy as myself
I cleaned it up a bit but didn't notice that bug of 2 letters. I used Preview for macOS, for what it's worth. I also wonder why it swapped two letter words
The original had a `<!-|if IsupportLists]->[NUM]) <-[endif]>` for each bullet point which I found interesting, haven't seen that before in emails
From a technical perspective they are impressive. The depth of field in the classroom photo and the macro shot. The detail in the chameleon. The perfect writing in very different styles and fonts. The dust kicked up by the donut.
The artistic value is something you have to add with a good prompt with artistic vision. These images are probably the AI equivalent of "programmer art". It fulfills its function, but lacks aesthetic considerations. I wouldn't attribute that to the model just yet.
[0]: https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2023/world-happiness-trust-...