skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the conclusion of the paper [1] that this article is based upon: "We suggest that any real declines are generally most easily explained by changes in cultivated varieties between 1950 and 1999, in which there may be trade-offs between yield and nutrient content."

What National Geographic says scientists say, "Scientists say that the root of the problem lies in modern agricultural processes that increase crop yields but disturb soil health. These include irrigation, fertilization, and harvesting methods that also disrupt essential interactions between plants and soil fungi, which reduces absorption of nutrients from the soil. These issues are occurring against the backdrop of climate change and rising levels of carbon dioxide, which are also lowering the nutrient contents of fruits, vegetables, and grains."

Modern media in a nutshell.

[1] - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15637215/
> was intel really "disrupted"?

Yes, Intel was disrupted. It was just disrupted by ARM. Originally the chips are too slow for normal use, but find a niche in low power devices. Over time the rough edges are smoothed out, and the underdog can make inroads in the high end marked while the incumbent isn't structured to compete in the low end very well, and their attempts fail.

> M1 designs aren't available as general CPUs for alternative uses other than on a mac.

M1 is just the capstone of that long process. This is sort of a wrinkle, but Apple's strategy means they can build a high margin product ("We don't strive to make the most popular product, we strive to make the best.") and not have to hand them over to by suppliers. Given the high margins M1 chip command when placed in Macs, it doesn't seem likely to pressure Intel

But make no mistake, Intel's margins are strongest on servers. Prices on Xeons are like 10x that for Cores. This is where the disruption is happening. Running macOS on M1 in AWS is neat but is probably for running build and test farms; Graviton is presumably the ARM chipset AWS customers might ditch Intel for. I've met teams that saved substantial money by switching, and that has to feed into demand for Xeons at some point.

The typical way a firm might survive an "attack from the bottom" is to chase after the high value compute. In 2022 that's AI / Tensorflow, where Nvidia rules and frankly, Intel underperforms. Hopefully Nvidia pays Mark Harris well because they probably owe him a few billion.
If this was gpt-generated, this is what you'd get - same first line but altered to focus on the programming language and not the sports equipment.

"""

I was first introduced to Racket in college. It was the language of choice for a class on functional programming. I was immediately taken aback by the strange syntax and even stranger function names. But, I was also intrigued by the possibilities of functional programming and the expressiveness of the language.

I spent the next few years dabbling in Racket, picking up new tricks and learning more about functional programming. I even wrote a few small programs in Racket, but nothing too serious.

And then I got a job as a software engineer.

At my job, I use Racket every day. It is the language we use for all of our backend services. And, over the past year, I have come to appreciate Racket in a whole new way.

Racket is a strange language, but it is also a powerful language. It has a unique syntax that can take some getting used to, but once you get the hang of it, it is actually quite expressive. And, the functional programming paradigm is incredibly powerful for writing robust and correct code.

I am still learning new things about Racket every day, and I am sure I will continue to do so for years to come. Racket is a language that is worth learning, and I am glad I made the effort to do so.

"""
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The point being made is that a single almond requires more water than a human. Not that modern humans don't use much water in their day-to-day lives.
You know, all it takes to recover a hosed system on x86 is a flash drive. Because the bootloader on those machines doesn’t have to be a specially made macOS partition with a slimmed down macOS on it (hah! Those people are calling Grub2 bloated!) which must live on the internal storage.

Moreover, on x86, even if the internal storage is hosed completely, I can boot the machine off USB/Thunderbolt and have it live for years more. Try that with dead SSD in your new macbook. Talk anout e-waste problem and how „heroically” Apple is fighting it, too.
Something definitely seems off here, from the fact that RDS chose to scale to the response you got from support (who've always been... mostly ok in my experience).

First of all I think I'd like to find out a little more context before I jump to any conclusions;

- Does Cloudwatch confirm that RDS "needed" to scale? And if it does, do any other metrics increase simultaneously with an increase in the storage being used?

- Other than the (presumably) one change made to that RDS instance at ~4.30AM, were there any other changes made to it, specifically to its storage, prior to the autoscaling event?

- Had this service been tested on RDS prior to the migration being performed?

- Were any other changes made, that may potentially effect your DB? For example a query being changed or something of that nature.

To me, it sounds like support found something that suggested whatever was happening to RDS at the time was "someone else's problem" under their shared responsibility model. Whether or not that's true - who knows but from how you've described it they definitely seem to be trying to palm you off, worth mentioning to your TAM/rep if you have one because this is pretty poor service.
@tus666 thanks for the tip. "Collapsing Under it's Own Weight" is more accurate.
Funny, I noticed that too, it's a bit strange to me TBH, also with e.g. Itch becoming this neo-idea-topia just chock full of PDFs. (The charity bundles are an absolute travesty of making really cool stuff look like shovel-ware in some ways, too.)

It makes less sense to me as someone with a lot of TTRPG baggage, like back when I was a kid there was going to be a campaign to justify the character one wanted to become. But I do love to see the energy that goes into the newer games.

Socially I guess I can also see why it may help to switch things up for a lot of reasons. Maybe treating TTRPG night more like a mutable board game night allows some groups to keep on going. Or maybe we're really on the verge of some new industry discoveries that could explode into gaming we couldn't imagine before, without this new world of different gaming perspectives.
It's not a real question as it based on a false assumption and a straw-man analogy. I never claimed my opinion was based on a specific case so I have nothing to defend against.
That logic is a bit circular, though, and not very convincing. Apple is known for being opinionated and stubborn about their long-term goals. If they really wanted to lock down MacOS, they’d just have done it, developers be damned.
Noto Emoji and Noto Color Emoji are two different fonts. Do you somehow already have Noto Emoji (the new one) installed on your system?
The poster really underrates being first and biggest, and IME overrates the value of Office to the CIO, especially for a drastically unrelated product like Azure.

The real keys for AWS are time in market and mindshare. They were pretty well the sole active player for what, half a decade? While it's not a guarantee of success if you spot any business five years of active growth and selling they're going to be hard to displace.
I use Geogebra to draw, and then export as PGF/TikZ. You can then edit the code to fine-tune or make any modifications. Works very well. The advantage is that you can also include plots in the figures along with SVG. Not sure if Inkscape allows that.
What is it about design and designers that makes people think they would want to or be willing to work for free for a portfolio? It seems unique to that role, yet good design is rare and valuable as the top end in any field.
This is a bit disingenuous. A 4-day work week usually means that a work week is reduced from 40 to 32 hours without a loss of compensation. Like previous reductions in work time, the theory is that while someone puts in fewer hours, it’s worth it because people can’t be fully productive for 40 hours.

Your linked offer is a part-time position. It even states that you only get a cut of FTE and that there is the possibility to change to a full-time employment.
The solution is actually straight forward. Recognise that property rights didn't just start with the Europeans coming to the americas, so all current land ownership is illegal. Now this obviously would open a whole different can of worms, but I always find it amazing that people argue you can't do things because of property rights while all land ownership in the US is essentially based on illegally taking the rights of previous occupiers.
I had been combining in rnrs/mutable-pairs-6 when I needed mutable cons, I didn't realize they were available in the base language. Dangit.
I would agree: first attempt I scored 74 and analyzing their distance matrix it looks like their measure is broken. e.g. hammer and time are relatively close because "hammer time" is a phrase so their proximity frequency is high, not because the words are semantically related. Second attempt was 89 after a trivial change to account for the broken measure. Nice idea for an experiment but the execution is lacking.
Well, being pedantic, sure almost every modern CPU uses OOE. But they must do so with the huge caveat that from the outside it should be equivalent to executing it in serial (notwithstanding CPU vulnerabilities). But this is an implementation detail only, we could just as well use an older CPU design.
At croit.io you can decide how much time you wanna work and change that whenever you need. It's therefore more of a free time schedule system and not a fixed 4 days.
This needs distributed training...

Years ago I made a shared tensor library[1] which should allow people to do training in a distributed fashion around the world. Even with relatively slow internet connections, training should still make good use of all the compute available because the whole lot runs asynchronously with highly compressed and approximate updates to shared weights.

The end result is that every bit of computation added has some benefits.

Obviously for a real large scale effort, anti-cheat and anti-spam mechanisms would be needed to ensure nodes aren't deliberately sending bad data to hurt the group effort.

[1]: https://github.com/Hello1024/shared-tensor
I’d be curious to hear what kind of issues you’ve been having, as I’ve quite recently opted for Stripe over Paddle for the SaaS I’m working on (instorier.com). This Twitter thread [0] from some months ago finally tipped me over to Stripe, but considering we haven’t fully launched yet, I’m eager to know more.

[0] https://twitter.com/thekitze/status/1481579421031092233
A friend of mine has run a continuous D&D game since 1993: <http://www.dragonslayers-society.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php>.
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This was a good video, a new variation of what I knew about slip card/note system.

Just like the video, my notebook is like the staging card for me. I jot down stuff in all orientations of the page if required and eventually transfer it to OneNote as my Knowledge card. I do not add information like numbers or page numbers or links or timestamps, the only thing I use is date and topic name.

Furthermore, I will look into that channel more as this video still did not help me much as this also has the same issue as I always had with zettelkasten, it is highly resourceful for research and only research who are zoned into one major topic because I read in various topics and categorizing the cards numerically based on how they link each other is very difficult to be done in analog form as I am not sure if I find the link easily for a topic that I have 50 pages of notes, which I have read few months ago to which I just want to add this new note to. I have to re-read some of it again to file this new note properly. Which is why it gets easy to do it in OneNote for me.

Or maybe this is the point of an analog system which I up until now failed to understand, to help retain/refresh notes far too often and retain information better, is that it?

I have read about Ryan Holiday's system and I think mine is very close to his, but just very digital. Which is quite unfortunate because just like most people, I can easily recollect which page which note is on in a book which I have read or written.

Thanks again for the video, and feel free to enlighten me with the shortcomings you see in my thought or process, even your opinions about this topic or how you see it differently than me.
I stopped drinking coffee for good.

Now I only drink it for evil.
Relative to compensation for the developers and researchers working on projects like these this looks a small component.

GPT was rumored to cost in the millions, perhaps the hours estimate is conservative?
Yes! I have this exact recurring memory when I'm playing around in DALLE2. Specifically the part where they're trying to make the table.
I've worked with lawyers who all shared that same "it's probably fine" attitude, which genuinely surprised me until I went out drinking with them one night...
+1. I love Amos' extensive writings.
In Australia, maybe I hung out with the peasants but parties and pre-drinks was the normal thing as most of us were budget limited.

Pre-drinks being drinks at a friends house. Sit around having cheap drinks bought at the bottle shop. Then head out to the bar/club and either dont drink or nurse a beer or 2 over the rest of the night. Pre-drinks were usually the most fun part of the evening anyway.
If a state did it, it would be a straightforward violation of the Contracts Clause. With regard to Treasury bonds and gold certificates it was the government rewriting its own contracts. It was a violation of the contract on every Federal Reserve Note and bank deposit as well. Redemption in gold had been suspended before, but the value had not been, and in the late nineteenth century the government started redeeming gold certificates again at full face value after an interruption during and after the Civil War.

So if you start out by issuing an executive order requiring everyone to turn in their gold in exchange for certificates denominated in dollars and then a few months later you decide that those certificates and all other deposits are worth 70% less in gold then they were before it amounts to a systematic taking that looks like the worst violation of the Takings Clause ever. i.e. "Nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation" (from the Fifth Amendment).

In theory states could do something similar under the taxing power, but Congress doesn't have the power under the Constitution to enact property taxes in any way that is practical. We have the 16th Amendment so they could do that in a practical way on incomes.

Congress just decided to jointly repossess 70% of the financial wealth of the country, and ignore every solemn representation they or anyone else had ever made to the contrary. It that is not unconstitutional it should be.

There were alternatives, they could for example have recapitalized the Federal Reserve system, with a debt for equity swap at the cost of wiping out the original shareholders, of course. The banks held title to a worthless enterprise and Congress sanctioned a massive levy of their depositors to keep them afloat.
My first loss in years. Been 'playing' ~20 years, last time I lost was maybe 5 years ago. Oh well, restart the counter! Playing for life I guess, there's no way out.
I think for a good percentage of people, it's the routine of going to get coffee to break up the day that's more important than coffee itself. It was for me, I drank a cup or two every weekday, until I started WFH. I now drink a couple times a month at most with breakfast sometimes. No side effects, no cravings, no change in mental side (for good or bad)
Not specifically but I’ve managed to find my way onto two teams at different companies where I’m allowed to do so. The first company had unlimited PTO, the second company has 21 PTO days that roll over so I saved up last year to use them this year!

Today is the first day of my month long vacation in Italy on my new team
Maybe 99.9935 percent survival from infected unvaccinated people, with no long term consequence rate, or whatever it is today, is finally clicking and we can stop panicking? No? Not yet? Alright.
Totally forgot about this. No one was at home over weekend

Anyways checked my Kindle after reading these replies. Turns out it was all drained out of charge. After waking it up, I put it in Airplane mode and checked the version to find out it is stuck at Oct 2021. I'm going to jailbreak it:)
I personally believe that loading spinners have permeated to so many apps and websites, and with the rise of using phones more and more (hence slower internet from a tower, rather than from a router) and we end up with a world-wide psychological trick. When I saw the spinners I felt kind of angry because I thought they would never load. I think that if we move on from spinners to skeletons, the same thing will happen - every time someone sees a skeleton, if that is often enough, they might not even bother with the website and might perceive it to be slower.
The competition has even more broken software (AMD). At least Nvidia's works when you need it to.
That attitude doesn't reflect well on the project IMO. Very short-sighted and unprofessional.
This is a rather shallow article about a serious problem. I haven't felt safe enough to surf around the affected coastal area for almost a year.

Here is a much more informative article: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-12-15-outrage-o... - regardless of the cause of the problem, dumping chemicals including heavy metals and arsenic into busy tourist swimming areas is not the answer.

Unfortunately due to the recent floods a lot of the spill has already been washed into the rivers and ocean.
That's a fair criticism! I didn't consider that 4-day usually implies the same compensation as a full workweek.
@synicalx thanks for your feedback.

I will see if there is anything visible in Cloud Watch.

> - Other than the (presumably) one change made to that RDS instance at ~4.30AM, were there any other changes made to it, specifically to its storage, prior to the autoscaling event?

At 4.30 the following has been logged: "Storage size 999 GB is approaching the maximum storage threshold 1000 GB. Increase the maximum storage threshold."

However the auto scaling event started at 10.17.

> - Had this service been tested on RDS prior to the migration being performed?

We have performed a dozen migration simulations in our Sandbox Account in multiple weeks. We developed scripts and automation to make the actual migration. The only difference in the Sandbox Account is that the RDS database was smaller in CPU and RAM.

> - Were any other changes made, that may potentially effect your DB? For example a query being changed or something of that nature.

I will double check with the team, but all the migration was fully automated with scripts. I have not been reported any action required outside executing the automation scripts and performing the plan.
Further to this, there is partner selection either directly, or establishing social networks that lead to partner selection.

Getting a bunch of young people together who pass some threshold for (generally) favourable behavioural and cognitive traits sounds like Huxley's A Brave New World, but this is essentially what University is. Maybe it is net negative for the progress of human civillisation (eg unhappy children of high stress/achieving/spoiling parents, echo chamber conformism, capture of high potential individuals into high status low potential jobs). But it is also plausible that this kind of partner selection leads to outlier intelligence in offspring, compared to selecting partners randomly or from geographic/social pools unenriched for achievement.
The overlap between the hardware requirements for model training and web3 mining has me thinking could there be a coin where the proof of work could be training a model ?
It's a rabbit hole.
a) https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle_Touch_Hacking
b) https://github.com/zaoqi/kual-linuxdeploy-armhf/
In some ways, a land-value tax is kind of like that. A LVT of x% is equivalent to the government taking x% of your land and making you buy it back from them at market value.

Perhaps that indicates that the more palatable solution would be a tax on the exercise of water rights.
I did forget to specify.
It's what I've seen in DKK and SEK. Not USD.
I apologize if my tone came off as rude. I try to match the tenor of the person I am responding to. My question was also asked in good faith. If you understand what an open compound is, but don't consider chow mein to be an open compound and have earlier compared it to being the equivalent of 'brown pants', then how do you in your understanding reconcile chow mein being in a standard English dictionary, but not brown pants?
> Because your framework eventually becomes a badly written, not as widely tested version of a known framework. When you leave, it will be a lot easier to hire someone who knows React than someone who knows jseban.js.

Why are you assuming that everything a software engineer creates will always be bad? That's an unbelievably deprecating attitude. Do you ever see any other professions do this? UX? Product? Writers? "everything we always try to do will always be bad" and we have to try to safe us from ourselves? What?

And this "framework" would be custom made to solve exactly the use cases at hand, and nothing else by definition would be better at those specific use cases.

And why would you optimise so much for onboarding and hiring anyway, at the expense of so much continuous wasted time and less output?

When my product owner quit, the new guy was working in parallel for three months, because "of course, they have to learn the ropes". That's normal for every single job basically, except software engineering.

Why not just spend a couple of days, or a week, to give an introduction to your new hires, so that they understand and learn how you have structured your program?

The only "problem" with that, is that you have to stop acting out this farce of the computer genius with the superior intelligence, in your hiring and onboarding process.