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New Vector Podcast Episode: Search Embeddings and Mighty
Brian armstrong: Buys $133M LA property and pockets $1.3B in share sales with co-founders.

Brian armstrong: We need to lay-off 18% of our workforce to stay healthy as a company.

Brian armstrong: Doesn't slash his $60M compensation to help retain some staff who've contributed to building the company.

Also, Brian armstrong: I take accountability.

Clearly not.

It seems to me that it's not the company's health he's worried about.
Average SWE doesn't need one either.

Most of the people I once worked with in the service industry had degrees though. Sure, not compsci, but something.

Also most construction workers I've know made way more than that average, often close to 6 figures if not above it. Of course I'm in a big city, may skew things.
You're arguing my point! Which is that people knew about this invasion, US intelligence knew, Ukrainians were preparing as well despite the rosy rhetoric of Zelensky.
Has Linux gained syscalls equivalent to those Windows API calls yet? Or is linux too different from the windows kernel to make that happen? (In that case, what does WINE do?)
Strugatsky brothers have some decent science fiction.

Dostoevsky has some exciting and thought provoking books (if you put aside his antisemitism and religious fanatism).

Pushkin has some great prose and poetry.

Some people find Nabokov a great writer.

Pelevin - is the only modern Russian writer worth reading and enjoying. His fiction among other themes is also a great and precise satirical reflection of a modern Russian society.
Code: https://github.com/bshoshany/thread-pool/blob/master/BS_thre...

https://github.com/bshoshany/thread-pool/blob/master/BS_thre...

I don't see how this is built for particularly good performance, or with many-core machines in mind.
> What if the worker could have sold the pie directly for $900

I'd be the first one to suppor that! Absolutely. Go for it. Workers should bypass middlemen if they don't add any value. They have the moral right to act in their self interest. Not only is this important, but it is necessary. Tesla going direct sales by bypassing Dealerships? Best thing ever. Everyone benefits. We see that all the time and it is a feature of a healthy capitalist society.

However, if the middlemen actually add value and there is a moat through IP, capital, assets or salesmanship, etc; they absolutely deserve the wealth they generate. Interfering in anyway here is asking for a bleak society where productivity plummets, enterprise is lost and there is no innovation. We're seeing this in certain industries with heavy regulation.

Undeserved middlemen that clog up the economy should be overthrown and eliminated through means of enterprise. Not through regulation.

Sometimes I wonder if we're on a startup forum. I hope we have some overlap in agreement. I would encourage you to study examples of how economic freedom benefits all and how it has led to unparalleled progress and lifting people out of poverty. And also how collectivist, use of force and coercion, regulations, marxist ideas, lead to increase in poverty. (Cambodia, NK vs. SK, Hong Kong and Taiwan, 19th century and mid 20th century USA, West vs East Germany, the fall of USSR, stagnancy of Cuban economy, etc).
From PDF, page 10, note "Assumed 100% packing efficiency for pouch or prismatic vs 90.7% packing efficiency for cylindrical form factor". Some of the improved energy density seems to come from rectangular cells packed with no space for coolant flow.

The one picture of an actual battery shows it sitting on a huge heat sink.
The average car in Europe drives 30km a day and is parked more than 23h. So a charged battery will have a moving 10 day window to be charged again. This is a great use case for renewable energy. 10 days of Dunkelflaute does not happen a lot. Smart charging for cars will stabilize the grid.
I don't think that's really a viable strategy in practice in an ecosystem as complex as python's. There's too many libraries and too many little corner cases and interactions around what the behavior should be.

For example, suppose I am using library A and I initialized the random number generator with a fixed seed. Clearly when I fork it's not appropriate for A to reseed, because I wanted fixed behavior. Something is very wrong so probably there should be an exception. But now suppose I was using library B which was using A and B handles getting system entropy to seed A. Now it is clear that when I fork I probably want B to reseed A, but alas A has already raised an exception because it was given a (from its perspective) fixed seed. So now A needs to be redesigned to be given a seed and like some sort of intent on what should happen when forking, and oh my god wow this is creating a lot of work for everyone everywhere this is not actually going to be done consistently and cannot be trusted.
This is a dangerous view. Might have worked for the past when we didn't have nuclear weapons.
Intel 24, a second a/c out of Sacramento, was active during the Vacaville and Napa fires last month.

https://www.csfa.net/CSFA/CalFF/articles/Guest_Columns/FIRIS...
You appear to not understand how banks work.

Yes, USDC is fully backed at the moment. Mostly by deposits in SBNY. However SBNY has most of its money lent out. Therefore the size of a run that USDC can survive is set by how much investments its banks, mostly SBNY has, which https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/sbny/financials/... says is somewhat over $9 billion.

There is over $50 billion of USDC outstanding. So trying to redeem about 1/5 of it will result in a run on SBNY that SBNY can't handle.

Our financial system knows what to do with that situation. It is outlined in https://www.fdic.gov/consumers/banking/facts/payment.html. SBNY gets shut down, a new bank buys them, and depositors with accounts over $250,000 see their bank accounts reduced TO $250,000. USDC, as the largest of those depositors, would then no longer be backed.

So in the event of a crypto panic, about 80% of the money backing USDC is likely to go poof. Not because USDC did anything wrong, but because that is how banks work. It is not for nothing that banking has been described as "picking up pennies in front of a steamroller".
Well, there should be some objective parameters to determine such things.

We can't vote/sex/drink/gamble because it is assumed that young people sucks. Maybe looking at the statistics government decided 18 years is good? I think if 12 year old can pass driving test then they should be allowed to drive. If 30 years can't pass, they must not be allowed to drive.

So, how about we find objective paramters to determine what should be the best border to determine the elites? May be it is 100x minimum_salary? There are plenty of option I guess.
Sure, but it doesn't even matter if you aren't having sex.
They withdraw now and a year later theres a NATO base in Mariupol.

Donbas is the location from which the Nazis launched the attack on the USSR which almost lost them WW2. Its strategic significance cant be understated. Finland and Sweden are not as important.
Even a very well insulated home can use quite a bit of electricity.

The most rigorous standard for home efficiency, the Passive House standard, stipulates that no more that 15kWh/m^2/yr is used for space heating. For a 200m^2 house, that's 3000kWh/yr.

Given a 120 day (4 month) heating season, that's 25kWh/day average just for space heating. Obviously it varies quite a bit, with some days much higher and others much lower. Add in other electricity uses, like refrigeration, laundry, and you're easily at 40+ kWh/day even in an efficient Passive House.
The original Macintosh keyboard didn't have cursor keys either. You were expected to use the mouse.

Star at least had the NEXT key to select the next item/field, rather than the horrible conflation with TAB that the Macintosh HIG and IBM CUA jointly saddled us with.
Our local small-town youth soccer league hosted a tournament over Memorial Day weekend. The nearest MLS team sent a big box truck with their logo painted on it, and set up a bunch of activities and a merchandise tent.

They are definitely working on improving engagement - but perhaps each team is at a different level ;)
MariaDB 10.8: A Review
Idk. Lose 32 bit support forever, get a dog cow? No wonder the Mac platform is such a dumpster fire.
also maybe install nets around the joint building, you know for safety.
There is no limit to the spend 10-30% on your home rule of thumb of portfolio allocations I guess. Your home has some features of self custody that bitcoin enthusiasts would appreciate. some people even buy islands in Hawaii as homes.
Can someone explain this to a non-crypto expert? I understand the concept that information can leak via timing measurements. However I don’t understand how this can extract the exact bits of a signing key from this?
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You're making a big assumption that billionaires are or will remain "progressive," whatever that word means to you.
Ha, weeks and months of thinking, "Please just work" and then it does and it's always a shock.
> Yeah and Russia could have ended the war by now too by simply launching their nukes.

The only thing they can end with nukes are themselves.
What was even the point of attacking Ukraine, if you want to make it a nuclear wasteland?
" Harrison Bergeron " by Kurt Vonnegut.
29 by my count.

It's a rural area and the border follows some rivers that have a limited number of bridges.

No roads at all connect England with France, but Brexit still caused a lot of disruption.
> It hurts the Russian, but the Russian lived in the Soviet Union and survived the Crazy 90s. They can suffer way more than Westerns spoiled by prosperity.

From the Mongol invasions to WWII to the Soviet Union, Russians have a lot of experience with collective suffering and deprivation.
There are lots of them and many are built into the OS(e.g. GCD on mac's, Windows has a thread pool api) plus TBB on all of them...)

It would be neat if the github site https://github.com/bshoshany/thread-pool or the paper did some comparisons to the existing body out there.
What source are you basing that on?
You can find countless sources that show the 0.1% owning an ever greater share:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/13/us-wealth-i...
"Over the past three decades, the share of household wealth owned by the top 0.1% has increased from 7% to 22%."
Often, these side channel attacks work using an oracle or by forcing the system into a vulnerable state. Forcing a cpu to scale frequencies would do that here.
Using fork() also means you end up with shared ownership of resources like file descriptors, which can have some pretty weird consequences.
I think Apple still exhibits lots of personality and playfulness, maybe just not as much in their desktop lineup.

I don't really use them much, but I think the Memojis are pretty charming and thoughtful.
> the attacker does in fact need to be able to get the targeted system to run something somehow

Unfortunately that includes Javascript, and now that affects virtually everybody. Speculation: if you can find a Javascript call that uses protected keys, you might be able to extract secrets from that route.
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> sufficiently bizarre local sources of energy

What's this bizarre local source of energy that Greenland has that apparently nobody else does?

There's water and fossil fuels in the rest of the world too ...

https://www.worldometers.info/electricity/greenland-electric...
A definition need not meet the legal bar for us to consider what kind of things a formally specified law might include; there are doubtless many possible definitions of 'hate speech', and debating those and reaching an agreement among various interested parties is part of the legal process that involves the whole of society. Someone is going to disagree with any definition given, but that doesn't mean that the sovreign lawmakers can't come to some agreement when put to debate.

In other words, unless the person you're replying to is a lawmaker with supreme authority, there is no need for them to speak for what you might have 'hate speech' defined as in law. Most people aren't lawmakers, but they are involved in the process of creating laws.
I think it's worth making the distinction between Maven as a build tool and Maven as a package manager, because the latter I think does work quite well.

I've had enough maven for a lifetime. Too much time spent fiddling with settings.xml files and m2 folders, debugging builds in enterprise environments with dozen module projects and a mix of internal and public dependencies.
Literally everything is wrapped in plastic in the UK
What is Netflix doing differently? I know they had some internal struggles between different media faces (prestige content versus chasing the masses), are you referring to them paying high salaries but having a smaller workforce?
I've not tried out Ventura myself yet, but from the footage I've seen, the new settings app seems like an upgrade to me. I've never really found my way around the icon grid, none of the iterations since Leopard worked well for me (and I've probably used all of them), so good riddance, happy to see them they try something new. Those lists may break some people's muscle memory, but I'm way faster skimming through a list than finding things in a more or less arbitrary 2d layout. And besides, it's looks pretty similar to iOS, and if that's executed well, then I should be able to share muscle memory between iOS and macOS, like with Control Center (which is neat).
> Maybe some HR managers believe that empathy and "EQ" are more important than IQ?

Have you ever interacted with HR? I'm pretty sure they are trained to be cold and uncaring, and to apply business rules without exception. Never heard an ounce of empathy from any of them, it always feels like interacting with an automaton that was somehow annoyed with you.
I don't expect a billionaire tax to have any impact on Amazon's business practices, that doesn't make any sense. Amazon's treatment of employees is a separate issue from a wealth tax.

I just don't think that any one person should have the kind of power that comes from amassing a $100B+ fortune.
Hey Brian! Long time no see old friend!

Love the broad direction, and I'm interested in digging into this area myself (decentralized social networks and applications). Recently been studying Lens Protocol a bit (https://lens.xyz/) which has a social graph system that records to the blockchain (Polygon in this case). Check that out and let me know what you think of it.

I like the idea of hosting logseq graphs on IPFS. It does seem that with other decentralized networks I've looked at, that scaling up to Facebook level would not be practical as the size of the graph grows. It almost seems like you have to sacrifice decentralization for a centralized database. Do you think logseq would perform on that scale or would it be limited to niche social networks?

Either way, signed up for the newsletter, looking forward to following your progress on this! And always down for a chat with an old friend!
Sean Parent's Better Concurrency video(s) go over some of it too. Also, good series of video's
> If you think so, then please tell me the name of one efficiently-run government organization?

Please let this trope die. The US government is generally, and especially when it comes to welfare programs, efficient.
>Yeah, what it shows is the exact opposite to your claim.

Not according to my calcs - are you using gun homicides or total homicides? Most people mistake the former and ignore the latter. Across all countries, [1] and [2] result in a correlation between avg guns per 100 people and total homicides of -0.13. This means across all countries increased guns correlates with less homicides, which is what I stated. It also gives negative for OECD countries.

What data sets did you compare and what correlation did you get? I get similar answers to the above on many different places to find data.

>No, it would only work like that if it was the only variable.

Ah, but it works like that from your claims above. That seems a bit dishonest.

> Please read the methodology.

I did. I've also read most of the 19 surveys I could find. The sentence I quoted is exactly the conclusion on the matter from the report authors.

Of the 19, there is a range from 108k (with the problem listed - the report didn't even ask about the issue) to several with tens of millions. The majority landed around a few million.

Now, if there's a topic that you're not already decided on, and 19 different reports from over a dozen research groups report on some social topic, with a few extreme outliers and a significant number clustered around the same result, using multiple methodologies for the 19 reports, what would a be a reasonable conclusion?

The one the study reaches in this report: the middle of the road is the main claim directly stated, which I quoted above.

Or do you want to tell me that there is a different conclusion to the opposite effect in the report?

Also no comment on their finding that using a gun defensively results in less injury to the defender? Does that not seem a useful thing to know?

I get the feeling you picked a side and read evidence from that slant, instead of reading what is presented to make an opinion.

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

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/jul/22/gun-ho...
Coinbase grapples with internal crisis as 1,100 employees laid off
Consumer choice is binary, but it's not always tied to quality. There are factors like information asymmetry. Superior competitors may not be able to get a word in edgewise when the dominant player is able to blanket the airwaves with its brand. A disproportionately dominant position becomes a kind of monopoly of its own when its reach and resources are so much greater than the next set of competitors.

The competitors you list also aren't head-on in competition with Amazon. Aliexpress predominantly serves non-American markets. eBay, like it, is an auction site. Shopify does not have one central market, it's completely decentralized. Walmart is the most similar to Amazon, and perhaps with its acquisition of Jet.com and its growing investments in ecommerce, it may yet prove to be a lasting competitor. Stay tuned.
A MySQL database cluster, and a local copy of a SQL database on a single file on a single filesystem, are not close to the same thing. Except they both have "SQL" in the name.

One of them allows a thousand different nodes on different networks to share a single dataset with high availability. The other can't share data with any other application, doesn't have high availability, is constrained by the resources of the executing application node, has obvious performance limits, limited functionality, no commercial support, etc etc.

And we're talking about a product that's intended for dealing with on-call alerts. The entire point is to alert when things are crashing, so you would want it to be highly available. As in, running on more than one node.

I know the HN hipsters are all gung-ho for SQLite, but let's try to reign in the hype train.
>What’s also ironic was how, at that time, Apple gave Microsoft flack for having so many different versions of Windows, while Apple only had one version of OSX. Now it seems best that Apple makes a consumer and professional version of MacOS, the consumer version with all the pay services and toy stuff, and a minimal professional version that provides a commercially supported version of a UNIX system without all the cruft.
Well that’s a new one, is there an interpretation of red riding hood where the wolf is good?
Short answer: No

Long answer:

Ignoring the cost ...

Each amino acid has two mirrored versions. We use only one of them, so one half will be wasted.

Of the half we use, we don't use all of them, we use like 20+something. Some of the others may be transformed into one of the amino acids we use, but it looks like the found many weird amino acids, so a big chunk will be wasted.

Also, some amino acids are more useful and we can't produce some of them, so any mix is not equivalent. A mix produced by blending a cow is more similar to our preferred mix than a mix produced blending plants. The mix in the asteroid is even worse.

Bacteria can feed from more strange amino acids, so the bacteria in your guts will be happy and you will produce farts no man has smelt before. [Actually the smell depends on how much sulfur the amino acids have. I'm not sure in this case Anyway, expect diarrhea and other nasty stuff.]

Some of the weird amino acids may even be toxic, but let's be optimistic.

So, it looks like a bad idea.
People do not need to starve to death. We use a ton of land to grow a ton of plants that we then feed to a ton of animals which we then feed to humans. Or we could, you know, just eat the plants. Calculations vary (a lot), but doing that could reduce global agricultural land use from 4 billion hectares to just 1.†. On top of that we're completely wasting 30-40% of the food we do produce.††

This is not to say that all meat consumption is 'inefficient'. Cattle can graze on land that is not suitable for farming, and animals generally eat more of the physical plants than we do (animals on a feedlot are often eating fibrous parts of the plant like stalks and stubble and not just the parts we humans like to eat). But there's no way around it, industrialized meat in its current form is an extraordinarily inefficient use of land and has terrible environmental consequences.

Also relevant to any discussion on fertilizer is that excessive usage basically destroys the soil. We've moved away from time-tested methods of managing crops through things like crop rotation, cover crops, promoting natural vegetation in key areas... to over-tilling, over-fertilizing, mono-cropping, and this is taking its toil on the ground we use to farm. Fertilizer is also responsible for eutrophication (nutrient pollution) which destroys local ecosystems and poisons the water. Not to mention nutrition != calories.

Fertilizer is absolutely a modern technological wonder which has allowed humanity to produce food at tremendous scale, and I would not argue that it does not have its place in farming. But the current singular focus on "more yield per hectare" is a very modern, naive approach to farming that throws out a ton of considerations, and is absolutely unecessary.

† https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets
†† https://www.usda.gov/foodwaste/faqs
No, we bet that creating closer ties economically would disincentivize aggressive behavior. It is still to be seen if that pans out, this is the greatest test of the liberal world order, but the repercussions are not seen overnight.
I'm old enough to remember when Amazon had an "advantage" over bricks and mortar operations because it was much less capital intensive. However, under ZIRP, having a capital intensive business (warehouses, data centers, etc) is a vast moat. Will this change as interest rates continue to increase?
I shouldn’t (and won’t) have to do that.
Thats completely true, tho a peasent was working for his master a lot less than we currently do for our masters.

When we get 3days work week and 4 days of „time for my stuff” we can go back to discussing that.
on edge they still work
> Hertzbleed is a real, and practical, threat to the security of cryptographic software. We have demonstrated how a clever attacker can use a novel chosen-ciphertext attack against SIKE to perform full key extraction via remote timing, despite SIKE being implemented as “constant time”.
The thing is not if I can sue you because I can, the thing is what a judge will do, will he laugh at me or he will punish you if you said something harmful that caused damage.

My point is why a judge should give different verdicts depending on the medium?
Some accusation you made on Facebook with some photos hoped image could make more damage then same accusation made drunk at a bar, the judge should consider the damages not if you used FB, a phone or your mouth.