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> This isn't my experience in the UK (I design warehouses and have worked with lots of primary contractors).

I've heard about the New Engineering Contract (NEC) system that is supposedly used a lot in the UK:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Engineering_Contract

* https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/NEC4

This is where (AFAICT), contracts are standardized templates, and it is only 'amendments' that are custom for the project: blueprints, bill of materials, timetables (for staging payments), etc, are custom on each job. This (supposedly) allows for fewer lawyers to be involved, and only the 'technical' stuff needs to be looked at.

How pervasive is NEC? Useful at all?
> I guess that confirmation bias is just an efficient way of learning about the world, do not waste time if things seem to fit your current understanding of the world.

Interesting observation - in this light, confirmation bias could almost be considered a variant of Occam's razor.
It was 115 (though our car said it was 119) two weekends ago in Oregon. Of course, that was the weekend we had arranged to move houses. All day outside lugging boxes and furniture was no bueno.
Indeed - which is why claiming that the movement is only saying only one thing is misleading.
I think you are conflating "Transformers" and "autoregressive models". Transformers are a general purpose architecture for transforming sequences into other sequences with self-attention. AR models / GANs are frameworks for generative modeling. The model architecture is almost entirely orthogonal to the generative framework.

You can use transformers as part of GANs [1], and you can even use them as discriminative models for images [2].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07074
[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11929
I don't want to create an account to view documentation. No major APIs require that, why do you?
Same here. Captain Zilog is new to me and I haven’t seen that Microsoft logo in 35 years.
Another "fun" interaction pattern: User reports a bug (or a feature request), several others subscribe to and/or vote for this to be solved, and then a service rep closes the issue because there wasn't any recent activity.

I've observed with with Atlassian where I wanted to report a Jira bug, but found that it had already been opened some years before, more than a hundred people had subscribed, bug was still closed as "no activity, must not be relevant". I just found the exact same bug reported for Jira Cloud (I had observed it in the on-prem version): https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JSWCLOUD-8865 and it was closed there for the very same reason.

I didn't leave a comment because the original report described the issue perfectly, and adding a "me too" comment is just noise in the bug tracker. Guess I'll be noise in future :-(
Have we considered sending in the bitcoin mining P/E firms? An opportunity for vertical integration.
When I lived in south Florida we would pretty much went from our air conditioned houses to our air conditioned cars to our air conditioned schools/stores/work. I’d usually wait until after midnight to go for a run since it was “cooler”.
> I still don't get it.

Clearly not. Why does someone always have to assume they know better?

> they chose the most difficult transport

What are you even basing this statement on?
Musk had no diving experience, and no knowledge of these caves. He was working from incomplete knowledge and intuition.

Almost all of Musk's critics in the matter were working from no knowledge of the caves and little to no diving experience. Some of Musk's critics were working from the best available knowledge in both areas.

But this diver points out exactly what Musk intuited. There was a much easier route for all those boys to have hiked into the cave. Musk's submarine would probably have worked over that route. But nobody had knowledge of that route at the time.

One solution would have been for Musk or somebody to build little robots that could explore the caves in zero light with sonar mapping equipment. The robots would need to navigate and operate underwater and abovewater in very difficult terrain. It seems like an impractical pursuit under the circumstances. Why even mention such a ridiculous idea? Well, why not? Why not put all options on the table. You can dismiss the "Have Scotty beam them out" stuff immediately. But they were talking about establishing supply lines for months to keep them alive until the water went down. They were talking about drilling holes 1km+ to hopefully tap the chamber where those kids were. They were talking all sorts of stuff.

And yes, somebody was talking body-sized submarines. And somebody might have been talking about dive robots. And sonar mapping.

I was glued to my news feed with a bag of potato chips and so were almost all of you. I don't know diving and I don't know those caves.

I think the divers who rescued them are mental. I mean really crazy. I mean, seriously, who in their right mind would do stuff like that? I think the effort just to find the kids was risk-taking at a scale that terrifies me. Their brains do not work like mine. Thank goodness.

Musk's brain doesn't work like mine, either. I'm not going to criticize the divers. They are clearly heroes. Musk doesn't come off as a hero in this story. But I'm not going to criticize him either. His intuition was right. He did more than click reload on his browser for two weeks. Nobody else liked his idea. Isn't that the story of his life?

In the end, his idea was one of many that were rejected. Instead they went with the crazy idea to tie everybody up, knock them out, and hope they don't accidentally knock their masks off. Who's bright idea was that? Well, it worked.

Let's not bag on the people who made tremendous efforts to rescue the kids. And let's not bag on the people who made some efforts that didn't produce results. And please don't bag on me, who did nothing.
> We're not considering the buying upfront part because we really believe that the subscription models makes our offering much more affordable (think $20k of furniture upfront vs. $400 of monthly payments which all go towards ownership).

How is this different (functionally, or financially) from financing that is pretty standard fare at most furniture shops?
We don't need perfect immunity. Canada has shown that focusing on first doses over "full" immunity can work quite well at a population level.

The flu vaccine is around 10-40% effective. Bu suddenly we pretend like if a vaccine doesn't give us 98% immunity, it's useless? Seriously?
Community, IASIP, and 30 rock had shows that were removed by their rights holders from streaming or digital purchasing options last year, and still remain unavailable.
How the gas mantle made lamps 10x brighter
Title is misleading, it's a PSD renderer for web browser, not a web browser's renderer.
I feel the pain. I pay $80/mo for 200Mb/s down.

But, still, installing fiber is just expensive.

Much more expensive than almost anything else, and requires skill and experience to terminate the connections, and that's even overlooking any regulatory hurdles of digging along the right-of-way, private and public land ownership issues, the costs of the equipment, and the fragility of the fiber itself once installed.

None of those costs really scale. In fact, they increase linearly as the pool of available installers decreases, and that's not even talking about the cost of connecting that fiber to anything on the other end.
What do you think the ‘F’ in FSD stands for?

I’ll give you a hint, it rhymes with ‘pools’.
Not 'f** Tesla'?
Yeah, this is something I've consistently noticed + also been very weirded out by, with "What a neural network sees"/"Neural network image synthesis" pictures.

Many of them are eerily similar to the visual phenomena I've experienced on various psychedelics. To the point where you don't really have a choice but to recognize that there's some mathematic/scientific explanation of consciousness and the way psychedelics interact with it that relate to how neural networks function.

I'm far too dumb to put those pieces together but I'd believe whatever someone more intelligent put in front of me.

Wish it were possible to show other people what these kinds of experiences look/feel like, our language and vocabulary obviously don't have terms for most of it.

Seeing impossible colors or shapes, or being/existing in multiple points in space + time simultaneously, as different creatures or people, in different places. It can shake you to your core by challenging what you always assumed were fundamental givens of the universe and "the way things work" (TM).
So I think you might be misunderstanding my point a bit.

Scientists and Doctors should be talking about it in scientific forums and communities. Politicians should be reiterating the 'current consensus'.

People shouldn't be talking about it in public / tabloid forums because the information is vague, misrepresented and will be taken entirely out of context.

I totally support people taking contrarian positions.

I think we should probably assign people towards being 'The Devil's Advocate'.

The issue is not 'freedom of expression and open dialogue' - it's one of 'crude populism and misinformation'.

It's about how information is propagated, and how people react to it.
I mean we are digging a tangential hypothetical but still that’s not true. The other people are not changing, the grounding through which they are perceiving you
is not changing. Whereas due to the recursive nature of self-reflection, your own change of the way through which you observe change itself is liable to be in your blind spot. This is how self deception works.
As weird as it may seem, you should not forget that free software licenses are built upon the fabric of copyright. Without copyright, free software could not exist in its current form.
For GPL-like "copyleft" licenses, there would be no way to enforce that binary distributions of derived works are accompanied by their source code. Similarly, in the context of permissive BSD/MIT-style licenses, there would be no way to enforce attribution.

So, given that FOSS---which a large portion of the HN crowd depends on---cannot work without copyright (at least not in its current form), the recent discussions may be less of a surprise.
I think it's also wrongheaded to look at online communications in 2021 through the lens of "rights", see

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Rights-Talk/Mary-Ann-...

Today people are overwhelmed with spam, disingenuous and wasteful communication.

On my floor there is a bullpen full of graduate students with a sign that warns about the danger of a "Halon 1301 Fire Control System", but talking to the building manager they never got around to installing Halon in that room. In the kitchen there is a sign advertising NSF grants for graduate students that was there when I was a graduate student (20+ years ago!), when I called the phone number it was disconnected so I took it down.

Exposed to thoughtless and irrelevant messages people learn to tune out real dangers and opportunity.

On Hacker News every day I see people who seem to be fascinated with the idea of taking pet medicines to cure deadly diseases and they valorize anything "controversial". I wonder if, like the some cults, the point is not for the followers to convert anybody, but instead to face ridicule, rejection and marginalization, convince them that the world is hopelessly corrupt, and radicalize them so they'll attempt more violent attacks.

Then there was the article that got posted about "How to pick the right handheld GPS... For You" that rambles on but never mentions specific models, that there is one Garmin model that is at least 10db more sensitive than all the others. It looks like legitimate communication but it's empty and meaningless.

Those GDPR cookie popups train people to click "yes" to anything and someday somebody will click on something they shouldn't have and the power will go down to the US East Coast for two weeks.

Gangs of people with the MO "we have to have the last word" stalk hacker news and try to draw people out and provoke them to anger. The first ones I noticed were "gender activists" (e.g. the kind of people who will get in the way of police when they are doing their work and get arrested after an hour of arguing and claim they can't understand why they got arrested) but soon the tactic was adopted by "alt right" people. I remember feeling so helpless when a certain rotter from a broken home would do this in person to my (then) six year old son who didn't understand that he couldn't win by arguing with this person at a "content" level.

Criminals like the latter will talk about their "rights" but it's like saying that acid rain has rights or that leaded gas has rights.
We probably shouldn't be surprised that a navigation app that tells you to make left turns during rush hour in San Francisco doesn't behave any more rationally in rural areas that aren't a stone's throw away from the company's own headquarters.

Being able to express your preference isn't what Google is all about. Their attitude is that they know best.
I think they should have done this with an incentive. Basically, don't ask "If I want to make the music box play, which figurine should I use?" But tell the children before the sorting task that if they make the music box play you'll give them a marshmallow. Without an incentive the kids may just not care enough to investigate.
No, of course not. A good starting point for real world performance benchmarking could be e.g. IMIX [1].

The example above represents the solely theroretical worst case as a means to establish a baseline for performance benchmarking.

Anyway, if you are referring to HW offloading capabilities of "modern" NIC's, using techniques like LRO would break the "end-to-end"-principle of a router.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Mix
If you actually want a paid service, there are plagiarism detectors like Fossa and Codequiry. Although in my opinion, code review should be enough to catch any "accidental" incidents of plagiarism, the differences in writing style should make it very obvious when the employee has copied something. That of course probably won't apply if you suspect the employee is intentionally changing it around to obfuscate the origin of the code, but it seems that wouldn't be the case if they were just committing the output straight from a neural net. But automated scanners probably won't be able to catch those well either -- the way to catch that would be to make them do pair programming a lot.
What was your role? That's an interesting detour.
Excellent article, thank you. It’s OK and even rational to be ambitious.
Well, houses are literally built by cnc increasingly often. There's a whole industry in the Baltics of building houses in a factory and shipping them around Europe.
This guy is a reckless idiot who is going to get someone killed. The video he posted about digging an underground cave at the beach, in sand, was the sketchiest thing I've ever seen. If one of the sand walls collapsed, he would have buried alive, and no one could have helped him.

One of his millions of followers is bound to try something similar with tragic results, guaranteed.
It's like the most depressing 4-minute mile.
Stakes are 100% the reason most tech is crap. You can't get away with shipping buggy hardware, people would ask for their money back. You can't get away with shipping a medical device that hurts people, you'd get sued. You can't get away with building a car that randomly turns on the brakes while you're going 70MPH, nobody would buy your cars (and you'd get sued).

With consumer software, there are no stakes. The business knows it can make money with buggy software. The developers know the business doesn't care. In fact, most people in the business don't seem to care if it works at all. The only time they care is if there is a legal consequence, or if they will get fired. They are not always stupid, but they are always lazy.

And that is never going to change. There are parts of this world that are perfectly acceptable as just being shitty, and at least 95% of software in the world fits into that. Things don't get better without a motivation.
Typical house has between 0.5 (quite tight) and 2 air changes per hour. It’s true that the HVAC return air is coming from conditioned space, but it’s also true that that air is frequently exchanged to outside air, meaning it’s going to need to be continually dehumidified.

I’ll assume you were kidding about a dew point of 87°F being lethal to unprotected humans.

Make the assumptions such that you take 1 pound of water out of 200 pounds of air and (0.5% reduction in water content) and the latent and sensible heat are about equal. Dehumidifying is expensive energy-wise is the point.
Wasn't vfork designed to solve this issue? Does it not work in practice?
One thing I have always wondered:

Is it possible for everyone to be perfectly rich? Could everyone become a billionaire?

The conventional wisdom on both sides of the political spectrum seem to disagree completely. The Left believes wealth comes at the expense of the poor. The Right believes wealth is a positive sum game (to this point notice that billionaires almost exclusively exist in countries where the average income is relatively high).

But surely our understanding of economics breaks down at the limits. Imagine all of the economy was automated. We have autonomous machines for all of the supply chain from raw material to doorstep, and we have superintelligent AI in our networks and perhaps even in our own brains. Do our bank accounts then all explode into the infinite? Or does the absolute abundance of economic miracle mean it has no premium; we're all dollar poor living in mansions?
Even when you start directions on Google Maps, you get a mostly pointless, long-winded direction. "Head east on Pratt Avenue Northeast."

Argh, don't you just love that. Hey, dumbasses: if I knew which way was east, I wouldn't have needed to ask you!
Me too. Can’t see anything good come out of that.
My solar panels on my roof generate about 10KW/h more than I use. I can bank credits with the grid, but can never cash them out, so electricity is basically free for me.
2.5M BTC is 83 billion dollars
No, that's the point he's trying to make. He's commenting on the label being used by a certain group of people as an explanation/justification for their lack of social skills and contact.

If you go on the r/introvert subreddit there's a load of people talking about their crippling loneliness and social anxiety. These people crave social contact, they don't seem like introverts to me, but they seem to have convinced themselves they have some personality trait that makes social connection impossible.
There are problems with disabling overcommit.

Consider this scenario: a process runs a fork(), and shortly after it runs an exec(). Normally, the extra fork only uses a tiny amount of extra memory, because the memory is shared between the parent and the child, until one of them writes to it (copy-on-write).

With overcommit disabled, the kernel must reserve enough space to copy the whole writable RAM of a process when it forks.

So you have a 16GB machine, and an 8.1GB process cannot spawn any other program through the usual fork + exec routine (workarounds exist, like forking before allocating lots of memory and using IPC to instruct the low-memory fork to fork again and launch, but that's way more complicated than a simple fork + exec).

So if you have a dedicated DB host and you know that your DB engine is very carefully engineered to work with disabled overcommit, you can disable it. On a general-purpose machine a disabled overcommit will waste lots of RAM that's sitting unused.
If I remember correctly, PSD files have an optional header (when files are saved in "Compatibility Mode", which I think is the default) in which is encoded the rasterized image. It's then "easy" to display the image, but very difficult to edit it, as you then need to implement the whole renderer.
Github did an analysis and found that it does do it, though very rarely, and usually when it has little context (e.g. at the start of a file). They're working on detecting those cases though so it doesn't happen accidentally, so it is unlikely to be a realistic problem.
I wish there were good resources on identifying if products are still safe to eat. Not just guidelines on how long they are likely to last, but also what indicators to look for to know that you should definitely throw the food away. And also things that are known to happen to the appearance of food over time that doesn't actually affect its safety.
Since they need two bids to proceed, does anyone else want to go in with me, bid a dollar, and immediately abandon the mines?
so the British Broadcasting Company wrote an article about some trivia regarding Japan, so you feel the compulsion to remind everyone that the United States 'is wacky too'.

Problem is that TFA never called anyone wacky; they didn't try to pass judgment at all -- and the United States wasn't ever involved in either side until you injected them into it , unless you blame the country for KFC all together? I don't follow.

Surely there must be some behavior you find strange from Britain ; you know -- the originator of the article -- without trying to loop around the world to drag another country through the mud?

> “Those whacky Japanese” is a perennial category of bus-plunge journalism.

'bus-plunge journalism' isn't only about needlessly expanding nothing stories into pages, it also includes a level of exaggeration. I guess you could say the headline is exaggerated because it's not the entirety of Japan that celebrates with KFC? Feels like yak-shaving, most assume that headlines don't apply universally to entire countries full of people.

> Americans don’t think Honey Baked Ham or Boston Market on a holiday is weird

(as an American I do.. but who cares, let's look at the numbers)

The Honey Baked Ham Company says that it services about 2.5 million customers between Thanksgiving to New Years, meaning that the KFC phenomenon in Japan is significantly stronger, given that TFA states that 3.5 million families purchase KFC for Christmas in Japan.

Smaller time frames, smaller country, more sales; seemingly stronger trend.
When I moved into a new neighbourhood, the street name was on neither map. I've updated both. OSM update was fast. Google took several months to update, even though I had provided official documents as requested. The frustrating thing was that most delivery companies had issues during this time. Also, some online shops didn't consider my address valid.
Not that interesting honestly.

It was a family business and I helped out by the managing operations (this was more as a supplier of building material to contractors) and doing business development (which involved bidding for construction projects).
The slander case was dropped because the diver was indeed a pedophile
Yeah that's awful. "Value pricing" I suppose. I wouldn't mind it if there was an easy-enough way to DIY so as to "route around the problem" but with the licensing requirements you can't really.
I'm not sure that's a useful distinction, it's not a chartered profession. Someone who writes a weekly column for money is a journalist in the way that someone who writes software for money is a programmer.
Windows 11 will allow reverting to 10, but for only 10 days
Then drink from the glass itself. Or with a pasta.
How do you go to this much effort to make a point without even reading about how copyright and fair use works? There have been multiple comments on HN and Reddit explaining how it doesn't work like this.