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Th power of biology is vast and amazing.

Biology gives us the existence proof for most of our big technological aspirations. Solar energy, energy storage, dealing with waste, "artificial" intelligence, nano bots.... obviously every medical problem.

Biology is already doing all these things in clever, scalable ways. It's one of the great technology wildcards, long term.

It's not surprising that something eats petroleum waste products. It's organic and energy rich.
There is another aspect: Game engine developers tend to use high-end hardware during development, because they anticipate that next years hardware will be stronger. While there is certainly some truth to it, mostly the effect is not as strong as the developers hope it is.
Forgiving Student Debt Wouldn't Be a Major Economic Stimulus
"Stay away from employee monitoring tools" This practice really struck me since as an employee currently working from home, I also sometimes think that they might having trust issues with us or they think since we are working from home we do not work properly.
Using the Homeless to Guard Empty Houses
This doesn't feel like an accurate representation of organic farming. My family has 2 organic farms and neither of them do what you're saying.

Not difficult to rotate crops.
Decompose wouldn't, by itself, be a completely a accurate word either since fungi does consume some of the decomposed matter. I think digest can be appropriate since they are breaking down the food for consumption. I believe the enzymes they use are called digestive enzymes, even though they excrete them and reabsorb it (some microorganisms do this too as they are animals and lack a true digestive tract).
No this is a special hack in bash itself, not one of the dumbed-down-plan-9 style abstractions in the linux filesystem.
That's an interesting way to make selection bias sound like "pretty good"; I disagree on the face of it, even if I am open to considering the idea of completely doing away with academia.
I don't know and am skeptical, but intuitively, the day that would happen is the day that Nobel prizes are routinely awarded to FAANG companies and not to academics.

Further, since your original position was strongly that academia is useless, it is your onus to back up the implication that PhDs are not (generally) needed/useful, and using "well hmm, not sure if absolutely necessary" logic is fallacious and clouds the issue.
The Lisps core appeal is that it's an extremely flexible and dynamic language family. They got an unparalleled macro system that lets you effectively design your own DSLs trivially for any scenario you may encounter.

It's also the reason I could never really enjoy CL (or lisps in general): everybody basically ends up using their own dialect of Lisp with their own idiosyncrasies. Some people love the "loop" macro and use it everywhere, some others thing it's ugly and use the equally powerful but syntactically very different "do" construct instead. You can look at some lisp code and have no idea of what it does if you don't expand a few layers of macros first.

That can be true of any language of course, you can abuse overloading, references and macros in C++ if you want, but Lisp really pushes it to the limit in my experience.

Beyond that there's also the problem that the ecosystem is not quite as developed as other more mainstream scripting languages. It doesn't help that the community is split across half a dozen lisp/scheme implementations with often incompatible packages. Do you want to use SBCL? Chicken Scheme? Racket? Guile? Emacs lisp? CLISP? ECL?
mod_h2 use nghttp2, and so does h2o I believe.
This website http://www.prechacthis.org/ is driven by Prolog https://github.com/prechac/prechacthis/tree/master/src/pl

I believe this juggle-dance routine https://vimeo.com/23958929 was put together using this tool. Neat use of prolog.
Ask HN: On average what do you accomplish in a day / week / month / year?
I know my plan doesn't cover everything and there are a lot of exceptions.

But if we don't want to destroy the planet, we have to do something like it. Everyone thinks they're special. Why does Coca Cola have a different bottle shape compared to Pepsi or to Fanta? That makes no sense.

We should turn the approach on its head with what is a dangerous material: you should have to prove that what you're doing deserves being made. Have you thought about the consequences of your actions when this product is mass produced, 30 years from now? I doubt many have.

The standard catalog could have more axes, such as different material types, mine was just an example.

Get 10 world famous materials engineers and have them come out with a catalog that covers the most widespread uses.

This doesn't need to be a 100% solution, it needs to cover, say, 95%. The rest of the 5% could be treated as exceptions and you'd have to get a license. Yes, some creativity would be lost. But you could for example, exempt some smaller producers (if your factory makes fewer than 10k units per year, in total, no need for approval, just show us the proof that you're only going to produce that much).

But again, plastics have proven to be dangerous materials, in an insidious way. They're not explosives but they do a lot of damage.
Yeah, this was pretty much the norm. But these past 4 years, this kind of "using public money for private events" are much less common. There is much much tight curb on "dinners" "using government owned cars" "red pockets gifts". And there is a lot of auditing, approvals, and documentation for doing anything. Source: my cousin works in a governmental department. His co-worker was fired for hosting a expensive dinner for potential collaboration partner. Before, people wanted to get a government position for the "nice Perks". Nowadays, government position is no longer that "you can do whatever you want job". There are actually tons of rules for government jobs. Ex: My brother is not allowed to purchase a drink more than 8% alcohol content if the meal is sponsored by government money and there is amount cap per meal. He is mid ranked. And people can report evidence of corruption rules breaking so he is very careful with the rules.
So how will the second wave of Covid-19 impact the economy?
Your comment is completely valid. I am just reacting to the usual flow of hate toward any frontend library that do not follow the initial ways of the early days of html/js/css.
Add Panelbear analytics to a Gatsby site
And upgrade to HTTP3 is going to be even bigger improvement!

Except when you don't need it, but are stuck with obsolete ecosystem otherwise.
In a recent webinar for capital markets, AWS didn't even try to advertise Timestream, they talked about the three most popular tsdb in finance and that's it.

Source: https://pages.awscloud.com/awsmp-h2-fin-time-series-database...
You are right, I'm simplifying a lot. I'm ignoring all kinds of issues like how all one million cores would communicate with memory or each other.

I hope it at least illustrates that Perfomance / per watt is nice, but unless the perfomance is good enough to be ballpark where you need it, it doesnt matter too much.

If there was a dual core CPU where each core ran twice as fast as the fastest Intel/AMD core at the same Watt as an 8 Core Intel/AMD CPU, It would sell like hot cakes, even if it was half the Performance per Watt.
Here's the problem with EU regulations: they really do bar small projects and hobbyists and assume that even the smallest website is backed by a corporation with resources to comply with pretty complex rules.
How come these each have

too many syllables on

one line? Six, not five.
> Even if with investment returns as low as 4%

That line of reasoning always make me smile.

That's like assuming that once you get a certain threshold of wealth, you can automatically assume you'll be fine forever.

And by the way, that "as low as 4%"... Most people throw percentages all around the table, easy like that... Seems funny.

Call me stupid, but the idea of a whole country being able to piggyback off all other countries seems unlikely to say the least.
I think, the difference is that AWS already has a bunch of core services that scale and uses them as a base for new services. (MongoDB->DocumentDB)

Also, they hear about the problems some customers have with an existing product and try to (re)invent a better solution. (MySQL->Aurora)
Wait, what’s the reasoning for scolding over a glass of water?
Surely a contract can't be valid if one of the parties hasn't had a chance to read it.

It's like if you bought a car, signed and paid, and discovered there is an extra agreement to actually use it, and that one says any ideas you have while driving belong to BMW.
I can't get over the fact that they first say:

"Amazon has a history of offering services that take advantage of the R&D efforts of others: for example, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka,[...]"

And at the end of the article they promote how they themselves rely on other people hard work:

"TimescaleDB uses a dramatically different design principle: build on PostgreSQL. As noted previously, this allows TimescaleDB to inherit over 25 years of dedicated engineering effort that the entire PostgreSQL community has done to build a rock-solid database that supports millions of applications worldwide."

In the end, it sounds like they are doing exactly what Amazon is doing with open-source.
This seems to imagine that the only thing being taught/worth teaching on the mathematics curriculum is number sense.

Firstly, that's not the case. If you want students to answer a problem with any practical application (e.g. money/finance, statistics), or more complex problems where the point is to follow the logic, being able to use the calculator in your pocket is great.

A perfectly reasonable assigned problem might be: add the 7.1% sales tax to this ticket price, do you have enough cash?

And secondly, number sense is easier to teach without depending on particular algorithms.

This is the same complaint as people grumbling about "common core" math, or saying we should go back to the basics of just rote learning times tables and long division.

Students are learning about number sense by different routes now - routes that don't end up with most students blindly trying to follow a particular algorithm with no sense of what is actually happening.
https://nitter.net/martingund/status/1334465877153095680
There's also math-inclined partner juggling. See the "social siteswaps" DVD, and https://passist.org/ for example. Oh, and of course: https://www.juggle.me.uk/passing/ (RIP Aidan Burns)
These equations are very useful in circular hydraulics. It’s unfortunate I never learned this stuff.
They even name their annual event this way[1]

[1] https://reinvent.awsevents.com
Delta has had it for years though, way before the Max issue came up. When you book a flight it's right there and tells you what model you're getting, which is needed since you can select seats ahead of time.

Admittedly, there are times it gets changed at the last minute for whatever reason, but when you book you see what you're getting, and have for years.
> is now in your karma

is now your karma.

5-7-5 haiku fixed.
But you can just run timescaleDB inside your amazon VPC. No need to use their services at all.
It's too much in developed nations. Went to Tokyo and almost every thing is wrapped in plastic over plastic without guilt. They say its burned/recycled but not sure how much is true and how much impact it is bringing to the surroundings.

The volume of packaged foods in developing nations are comparatively lower but can't imagine the footprint it could cause when those nations also develop into heavily packaged FMCG consuming behemoths.
I’m not confident it has. It hadn’t as of 2000. Population growth in Africa has been break neck for decades. It’s looking like there might finally be some major success stories there this century, like Ethiopia and Nigeria.
I think the complaint is meant to be "organic doesn't mean anything".

I read GP as saying that while an organic product might be produced responsibly, as your family's farms do, it could also be factory-farmed using pesticides worse than Roundup.

If that is true, then the word "organic" is not meaningful for consumers who want to support sustainable, low-impact farming.
They get rich because they can exploit slavery, they are forward in a different direction than most people refer to when saying "forward".
I'm very towards Postgres and resultingly Timescale for being one of it's biggest shining stars. Combine that with a cynical view that this is essentially S-tier content marketing (in the tech world), and the numbers are still bonkers.

Might as well add on a bit here -- if you're into this sort of thing you might enjoy Timescale thrashing other purpose-built databases (which have since also improved so YMMV):

- Timescale vs Influx[0]

- Timescale vs Mongo[1]

- Timescale vs Cassandra[2]

These blog posts are all from the timescale side, but the numbers are undeniable and their methodology is open source -- not sure there's more you can ask. Cassandra probably scales better at FB/Twitter scale, but with the recent work done to improve Timescale's scaling features[3] and the permissive license (unless you're an Amazon) I'm not sure even that is a real benefit.

I'd love to see a response from Amazon -- if HN is so lucky to have a dev who worked on AWS Timestream that would be awesome.

[0]: https://blog.timescale.com/blog/timescaledb-vs-influxdb-for-...

[1]: https://blog.timescale.com/blog/how-to-store-time-series-dat...

[2]: https://blog.timescale.com/blog/time-series-data-cassandra-v...

[3]: https://blog.timescale.com/blog/timescaledb-2-0-a-multi-node...
> It is striking how moronic and ill informed it is.

I didn't get that at all. Maybe it's discourteous and flippant. The humour is broad rather than refined but I still chuckled.

Hard to evaluate "ill informed" due to distance in time and the fact that I lack insight into the context. It wasn't aiming to be comprehensive and insightful. It was a tongue in cheek crib sheet between people that appeared to know and get where each other was coming from.
there is a microprocessor design that attemps to do just that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCST

it's a russian company, heavily backed by russian government/army/3letteragencies

it's hard to tell how successful they are, but there are some benchmarks https://github.com/EntityFX/anybench/blob/master/results/e2k...
The man page for bash says that /dev/tcp and /dev/udp actually can be real files that any program can use, but that if they're absent, it emulates the behavior on its own.
You’re massively underestimating the infrastructure needed to take oil and put it in the consumers’ hands.

Biomass puts CO2 back in the atmosphere, but at least it’s not increasing the total CO2 in the biosphere.
Actually, that's not really true. If you don't store any user information, you're compliant.

It's only if you start storing those that you have some rules to follow. Nowadays, it's the same if you are in California with the recent data protection laws.

Also, Right Dao is under New York law, so it has to follow US law I guess.
The french did this and ended up with nuclear costing more than current renewable. That said, it has served them well for the last decades and will probably still serve well for a decade or two.
How to Prevent Code Injection Vulnerabilities in Serverless Applications
Except timescaledb is open source: https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb
Ten years ago, bcrypt was a fine suggestion. Today, I'd suggest Argon2.
Surely HN doesn't do that... Pardon me if I missed your joke. More likely explanation is that CA isn't awake yet!
Min and max work using a hierarchical reduction tree, the dataflow equivalent of a priority queue. They will update, under arbitrary changes to the input relation, in time proportional to the number of those changes.

> [...] it's hard for me to believe that your list of constraints is "there are none" especially when there are explicit-but-vague performance warnings in the docs.

I think we're done here. There's plenty to read if you are sincerely interested, it's all public to both try and read, but you'll need to find someone new to ask, ideally with a less adversarial communication style.
I look at the videogame market and see the future of ownership: you don't get to have any.

What happens when most of what we use isn't made by humans or ever really owned by any consumer?
I think the somewhat confusing thing here is that Japanese can pronounce the same kanji in different ways, from 'purely local Japanese' to variants of old Chinese pronunciation.

米国 "beikoku" sounds like a strange choice for "America". But then in 亜米利加 it's pronounced "mei", which does indeed explain the choice better.

Chinese use 美 'mei' for America and so 美国 'meiguo' is the US.
> Is it really a better world if all the tasks are performed perfectly, but if almost everyone's reduced to a deskilled, mind-numbed, burger-flipper?

In your metaphor you're assuming that the captain becomes a low skill automoton. Is he that, or has automation allowed him to set aside drudge and concentrate on the interesting parts of his job?

Do you think calculators make us dumb, or do they help us with the arithmetic while our minds can turn to the important, interesting parts of the problem at hand?
Trivial models can be rather common, in some application. For example Anomaly Detection per user or per sensor. The simplest models might basically be computing the number of standard deviations* away the new datapoint is from a typical distribution, and then having a well-chosen threshold on this. Since these models are per entity, if one has 100'000 sensors deployed, then one gets 100'000 such trivial models.
Inference might run every 1 hour or so, and consume last 48 hours of data for example. Training might run once per week on the last 4 week.

This is to me a good candidate for an ML workload to run directly in a database:

- Low compute vs storage ratio for the models.

- High number of models.

- Often only want a small subset of data as input to model (a few numbers typically).

- Relational data highly relevant, for contextual data around the entity.

- Simple models with few parameters to store.

- Frequent updates to models.

- Historical models interesting. To implement checking new models against old, running in parallel

Other examples with similar characteristics would be Timeseries Forecasting on many different time-series. Could be sensor data, stock tickers or whatever.

* Better to use a robust analog such as Median Absolute Distance.
we will either realize and act on the fact that we are now for the most part a skilled labor like any other, or we will see our precious privileges erode and our incomes and work conditions deteriorate

HN is largely blind to this but outside of a few hotspots like SV programming is just another white collar office job, with pay and conditions not really any better than any other white collar office job. And it will go the same way in SV too eventually. The time to act is when the ball is in your court, not when it’s too late.
I did some research, and it also seems that there is a way for containerd to manage Firecracker microvms.
My point is more related to kanji learners than it is kanji etymology. I understand that some things have etymological meaning, but it's much more useful to me as a learner to just see it as a pictograph. It's pretty common for learners to make a mnemonic out of the kanji and tie it to the kanji's meaning.

木 is a great intro kanji because it simply means "tree" and if you let yourself believe it looks like a tree it's easier to remember. You can start playing with combos like 林 meaning "woods" and 森 meaning "forest".

相 is a combination of 木 and 目, tree and eye. The article pinpoints its meaning as "physiognomy". 相 is an extremely common kanji. My translations may be a little awkward, but these words are more frequent in Japanese than my translations might suggest:

相手 Tree-eye, hand: "the person you're talking to"

相談 Tree-eye, conversation: "consultation, getting advice from someone"

首相 Neck, tree-eye: "Prime Minister"

相撲 Tree-eye, slap: "Sumo wrestling"

It's really hard to pin down the meaning of this particular kanji. Eventually I realized I was missing the 森 for the 木. "Physiognomy" is basically meaningless to me as an English speaker/Japanese learner because now I have to work to remember the English meaning as well. I decided to stop thinking of this kanji "physiognomy" and start thinking of it as "tree-eye". Tackling large problems systematically is exciting for me but I have to remind myself "making mnemonics for each kanji" is not the goal, "being able to enjoy myself while immersing in Japanese text" is.
I read that as a real benefit, I read it as:

You search something which we hope is useful for you as the cosumer. We wont the overly smart and show you information we think might be more fitting or relevant because we tracked you down to live near a super-potent adwords custimer and therefore rank his results higher in your search results.
Autist here. I see this with so much human behaviour. Often the purpose seems not to be actual measurable progress but rather social signalling. I suppose it serves a social purpose, perhaps it is a precursor to material change. I feel it is important to remember that humans are tribal apes. If we deny our nature, it is much harder to overcome.
The problem with communism is that for (what communists call) real communism you need individual to give up private ownership and share everything, including their labor.
In practice, the chance of every individual complying is extremely low, which forces a strong central government to actually enforce "communism".
You end up with the mass massacres and poor living conditions of last century.

We never attempted a pure libertarian system in which all services (including health care, personal protection, justice, lawmaking) are provided by companies you can choose to buy from or not, voluntarily. Until we make that experiment is hard to speculate on what's going to happen.

I don't think it would be much different from what we have today, we just would have less bureaucracy, we won't have a central government taking a fee for everything that happens, people would be free to live how they want and we would have a dynamic consumer based set of laws.

That said, even moving the current system in the libertarian or communist direction cause the system to perform better and worse.
Look at China and how they used capitalism to drastically improve their economy and improve living conditions for people (albeit I doubt they were aiming for that).
While you are certainly able to discuss few ideas or sing a song multiple times, life is one and only and your are limited in the ways you can experiment with it.
The thread also mentions https://nrkbeta.no/2020/12/03/my-phone-was-spying-on-me-so-i... which would be a better link than twitter.
In addition to that, Chinese does not like single characters as the pronunciation is not unique enough so words are usually made up of 2 characters.

So for 'forest' you get 森林, just to be clear that this is a place of many trees...
Back when I coded as part of a team, we'd produce some 40K lines of professional code a year. Some days, nothing. Some days - lots of progress.

Progress for a Software Engineer isn't just code. For every month coding, there are 11 spent debugging, documenting, testing, integrating, shipping, supporting.

Further there are stages of code: program, project, product. It matures thru these stages as documentation and support develop.
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