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Thanks for this. I have yet to read Blood Meridian. I have read The Road and NCFOM. Both were great and absorbing reads. But I have one major gripe with CM (if I am allowed to do so). It's not his style - in fact it's his unique and great style of writing that would make anyone forget about what I'm going to say.

My problem with CM: his themes of post-apocalyptic, desperate humanity at war with itself and the singular savagery of ONE man against all - takes the assumed position that humans by nature (generally, of course) will almost always reduce to selfish savagery even to the point of normalising cannibalism. Of course, he needed to create this assumed backdrop for many of his stories (eg The Road needed this literally visceral danger for a father to demonstrate his instinctive protection for his only son) but CM's imagined scenario of a society that's eating itself is far from real evidence we have seen of humans. Real evidence shows that during catastrophic moments like earthquakes and prolonged famine and even war, human societies have shown remarkable strength to save and to protect and to help one another, sometimes at great individual sacrifice.

I know you can't criticise a work of fiction this way, an author is entitled his artistic philosophy and outlook. But when the writing is so masterful, when the rest of the philosophies of the stories are so elevated and cerebrally engaging, one can't help but find the story of humans cultivating others for food jarring and out of place.

(This is my first "criticism" of any work of literature.)
Injecting mRNA into human cells is exactly the kind of brilliant hack you’d expect software engineers to come up with (and those same engineers would of course brush aside any concerns about unintended consequences in complex systems.)
> I think the argument is less related to hacking, as that would be like making something tamper proof which is a much higher bar.

I meant hacking as-in messing around, poor choice of word.

> But more like if software can cause hardware damage, that means software bugs can cause hardware damage and potentially pose a safety risk, which should be seen as a critical hardware bug

Hardware bugs can cause hardware damage.

> For example the safety critical systems you mention should absolutely fail-safe at the bare minimum, all kinds of things can adversely affect running software like equipment generating EM noise nearby or someone tripping over the wrong cable

They're just not. The ABS, stability, and collision avoidance systems in your car can't fail safe if the software fails because the software is required to control the dynamic situation. It can't just say stop everything. Same as control software in airliners. Or industrial control and monitoring systems (although they can have mechanical interlocks in more cases, not all).

And very little that can be _absolutely_ fail-safe, not even purely mechanical devices. How do you make a fail safe bridge?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BBJr8LkM-4I&feature=share&utm_so...

I mean damn that looks legit. I'd like to see how it performs at night when you're trying to park in some unlit parking lot, but otherwise that's a pretty amazing projection right there. The dream of driving in 3rd person view is finally here.
> With these parking sensors it's different. They have no current alternative and it will cause a pretty significant loss of functionality. Disappointing move.

I'm especially worried by dark garages / parkings. Tesla cams have already enough problems when outside is too dark.
This sounds mind-blowing and if it is transformative as you state, then why did it take so long to award it the prize, have all the most recent previous winners been more worthy?
Look, I don't want to badger you. I'd say at the end of the day the important point is to band together to try to limit the influence of adtech and traditional ad companies. Most of this effort will have to take the form of collective engagement because there's only so much personal sacrifice can do. I'll fully admit I am a hypocrite myself. I simply don't have the resources or energy to do much more than fix the emergencies in front of me. But that's why it's so important that even inconsistent people be allowed to voice their opinion and do something about these things, because it's not their personal consistency that matters but the power of the ad oligopolies and the vileness of modern advertising.
There's a lot to dislike about cryptocurrency but in that department it does represent a newer generation of protocol that is designed for the modern "dark forest" Internet.

All protocols should be designed with the assumption that you will face a well financed adversary at least as smart as you are who wants to destroy what you are building. All protocol work is security protocol work. "The Internet is a dark forest."
Rich Hickey has a great joke about sprints, paraphrasing:

So how do we run a marathon? That's right, we run a 200m wind sprint! Then another sprint, and another, and pretty soon...

Of course no one does this, you'd die! We don't do this in software either, for the same reason. But when we talk about 'sprints' this is what we tell ourselves we're doing.
The one thing agile helped here is to take that process and make it fast.

The problem with "Requirements, prototype, feedback, iterate, qa, qa, qa, release" is that most large shops turn that into a 3 year process. As in, a group sits in a room for 6 months and writes some insane "Requirements Doc". Then six months of prototyping against it before any customer has seen anything. Etc etc down the line until you're a programmer looking at a 3 year old requirements doc with a thousand questions that arise during implementation but the designers who wrote the doc left the company two years ago, etc etc

Waterfall was to me inarguably worse than agile.

At least with agile people try to do requirements, prototyping and iterating in a very short period of time, so the feedback loop with customers actually works, and you actually release something on a regular basis.
Interestingly I have a similar experience of flashing displays, though my issue reflected the backlight and not the panel poweron sequence. After chip-level-flashing an Ivy Bridge Dell laptop with a corrupted BIOS chip, I was disappointed to find that the backlight was dimmed using PWM at 100 Hz (10ms periods) (CORRECTION: 200 Hz), where 50% brightness in Linux sets the light to turn on for 5ms, then off, and repeat every 10ms. This causes noticeable flicker when I move my hand in front of the screen.

Reading through the i915 driver and Sandy/Ivy Bridge GPU datasheets, I found that the backlight was controlled by two GPU registers at 0x48250 and 0x48254 (CPU-written?), with mirrors-ish at 0xC8250 and 0xC8254 (PCH-written?). There's actually a script to decrease the backlight period register at https://github.com/edio/intelpwm-udev, but the problem is that Linux still scales the pulse width register based on the original period (10ms) at time of bootup and doesn't see the userspace tool writing a shorter period (higher frequency). If you halve the backlight period to 5ms, 50% brightness suddenly configures the GPU to turn the screen on for 5 of 5 ms, setting the screen to full brightness instead (all lower brightness values are doubled, and all higher ones are technically illegal chip configurations). As an added gotcha, if you write to the wrong register mirror (0xCxxxx vs 0x4xxxx), you get seizure-inducing screen backlight flicker comparable to the issue report at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/7013.

I tried recompiling the i915 driver to increase the PWM frequency at boot time, but was unable to compile and replace that driver alone due to symbol version mismatches (and I didn't want to rebuild the whole kernel on an obsolete dual-core Ivy Bridge). So I tried changing the backlight frequency in the BIOS itself, which was OS-agnostic and didn't require editing Linux drivers. I began decompiling the UEFI firmware in Ghidra and tracing control flow across multiple undocumented labyrinthine EFI executables, finding that I had to modify a VBT file's backlight PWM frequency field to change the refresh rate. Sadly this only affected pure UEFI boot and not CSM mode, but disabling CSM causes Windows 7 (the OS I used when the laptop was new, and which I keep this laptop just to run) to show a black screen. And I got burnt out from reversing EFI, and broke a flash chip leg and two motherboard pads reflashing my BIOS (and barely managed to patch the BIOS chip circuit back together with bodge wire soldered to the chip's stub)... so I'm still stuck with 100Hz flickering...
Sprints and planning are useful for organizations that attach a lot of value to planning and deadlines. It creates a lot of additional work and pressure, as you say, but I can also imagine that for certain types of organizations that may be worth it (eg when doing client work on a fixed budget with strict deadlines).

Other than that, I fully agree that Kanban is a great middle ground, as it’s low overhead and focuses on prioritization and flexibility rather than planning and burndown charts and whatnot.
If the bottom 3rd always fail, then they literally cannot all pass, even if they all score 97+% on the test. Someone will always be the 'worst' performer.
I think this is a continuation of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33081159

This is a fork of sqlite that was created 5 days ago.

A new license, code of conduct, readme, and github action was added so far.

I think the name is confusing, libsql sounds like a library for parsing sql which this is not.
Eternity is a long time, but they have it been doing it for 5 years already.
He's been teaching there since 2007. Has he been a bad teacher all that time or is it simply that the students this year are especially poor at organic chemistry (or academic work of any kind)?
exactly and those are the same software engineers naysaying the voting system.
> decent type system

I'd call it a bare minimum type system, not "decent"
Shouldn't that lead to a team discussion about why the estimates differ so drastically? In most circumstances, the reasons would be inaccurate assessment of scope or complexity. Clearing up misconceptions like that can be a great boost for productivity.

"Oh, you can do it like THAT?! I was not aware. I'll take a shot at implementing the feature using that approach."
I am familiar with that part but the actual sentence is ambiguous to me. Oh well. You win some you lose some.
Tracking window focus change is not a good deterrent.
That would be a valid analogy if it wasn't self-reenforcing to the point where it destroys whatever mechanism of regulation you have, and if any limitations on it weren't attacked by comparing them to failed state capitalist or fascist states and attributing everything good that happend under or in spite of it to capitalism.

The broken part is assigning power to power. This has an identical outcome whether you call the nexus of power money or favour of the people's party.

Sufficiently regulated capitalism is less like a modern neoliberal system than the USSR or a totalitarian regime.

There's no evidence it has done any good that doesn't follow from any other type of industrialisation or access to the fruits of science (it may), but there are a great number of problems it does cause and a number of problems it is fundamentally unsuited for. So more like ethanol -- might do some good, but definitely does a lot of harm if you have too much.
Flashlight's have come a long way. I much prefer that to using my phone, especially on Android where opening the camera can be finicky and turning on the lamp requires a ridiculous amount of steps compared to the iPhones. Especially handy if out in the cold with gloves. Armytek prime c2 pro is pretty great.
It won't be ruined by mistake just by putting a slider to the maximum possible value unless you first bypass the firmware on purpose and install your own one that allows voltage limits to be disregarded.
Agreed. The differences of opinion during estimating are another form of pressure. Programmers work differently. I might estimate a task longer than a colleague, but I might be the type of programmer who tidies up and refactors along the way, or who spends more time communicating with the team on strategy and architecture. These are hard to quantify behaviors that Jira can't effectively track, unless you're going to spend half your day _in_ Jira writing down every action every day. Don't event get me started on the effect of context switching.

Managers are pushed to produce reports to prove they're managing. Reports require metrics, and that's a lot of where all this rubbish starts. The solution in my experience is to keep teams small enough that you don't need those sorts of layers of management (though the opposite is inevitable in larger companies).
If you're not practicing defense in depth, especially for safety critical systems, that is a big problem.
This is a great topic. I really like that many approachable and accessible (read: non-textbooks) have come out in recent years. Examples like Thorsten Ball’s Writing a Compiler/Interpreter in Go books and Bob Nystrom’s Crafting Interpreters. NoStarch Press has one coming up too.
Disagree. I think calling this exchange “pretty insightful” is self-congratulatory, and the supposed insight speculative and conclusory.

Generational reductionism aside, one has only to browse a few online forums dedicated to pre-med studies to note that organic chemistry continues to maintain its reputation as a “weed-out course” in practice and in reputation.

It doesn’t strike me, based on their own words, that the current generation of students have any misapprehensions about the difficulty of the subject matter.

The link between feelings of entitlement to basic social decency (which isn’t particular to any generation) and entitlement to academic success also wasn’t substantiated beyond the nominal misapplication of the words “explosion effect,” which isn’t a rigorous term appropriately derived from any science or art with which I’m familiar.

Care to explain? I followed the benefit of the doubt through a few biological, psychological, sociological, and historical searches and found nothing that would apply to your conversation; unless you meant to reference quite literal chemical and physical explosions, which doesn’t follow in that context either.
You'd be correct if every house fire totaled the property and the average house price was a million. It seems house fires cause $1.5billion in property damage per year in the US and there are 360k of them. Assuming electrical fires are twice as damaging as the average fire we end up with a cost of $10k per fire. That works out to around 15 cents per electronic device in your example. Even that is a high estimate since I believe only a minority of electrical fires are due to consumer electronics (versus things like faulty or old wiring).
Pessimism can be quite useful. In particular, it helps prune off unhelpful branches of search trees, so you can focus on more promising ones.

A very important part of solving problems is choosing the right problems. It doesn't help to be optimistic about something that's not going to work.
The thing is if it's not the college decision it'll be something equally as random and trivial. 99% of what we do is just bumping atoms against atoms in a soup of probability.
> eyes have really high resolution

That's not actually the case, from what I heard. Most of our peripheral vision is smudged 720p at best, and we can only see a tiny focused area at slightly beyond 4K density. We also can't look at two things at once.

The dynamic range part is definitely true though.
Put a very small/hidden backup camera somewhere, so they take out the main one and think they're all good.
Evolution of the Casio G-Shock Origin (2021)
There’s no glucose in black coffee though. I’m not sure how that’s possible.

Wouldn’t the glucose have to come from somewhere?
When writing for a general audience we should all avoid local or subject related slang.
Apple was reported to have let go of a senior executive in charge of procurement in followup to his quote from an 80s movie expressed on tiktok; that, could've undone the ealier refusal.
Multiple governing bodies. For instance boxing has four major governing bodies and dozens of small organizations. Other than that every area has its own athletic commission that is allowed to freely interpret some rules.
I thought it said "Spirits" and I was like I don't either.
> Organic Chemistry 1, 2 and 3 at NYU have always been considered challenging and “weed out”.

It seems this "weed out" culture around orgo is very much an established thing in the world of the sciences/pre-med which is a little strange to someone like me that is not in that world. How come one particular subject is used so universally to weed people out as opposed to just weeding out the bottom x% of people with lowest overall GPA's? Is orgo so much more important to scientists and medical professional compared to other subjects such as biology, anatomy, etc?
Is it only me, or those graphs are resembling S curve which is slowly getting to its plateau, because rich people bought their BEVs and poor can't afford them?
Speaking of phone addiction: I'm tempted to ditch the phone entirely and go with and apple watch with the "Family setup" feature. It's meant for children, but you can get a separate # for the watch and have it mostly standalone. (my wife has a iphone which she'd need to keep to do the setup of the watch.) Anyway I'd be reachable in emergencies.
You have my sword.

And you have my bow!

And my CASH! - NIH
The price of labor isn't the problem, and anyway it has a floor. No one will work for 1 dollar a day, even if it's theoretically still better than 0 (not if bread costs 2 dollars at least - of course there are countries with such low wages).
In the same vein, the crossness pumping station also has a beautiful interior.
https://secretldn.com/crossness-pumping-station/
I don’t know if either of your stated functions are true or just a cynical view of them, but regardless, if the explicit objective is to take in students and teach them certain things so out the other end they can perform certain tasks to certain standards, then my statements above are accurate.
I think people are buying Amazon there.

I wish you guys luck but you’ll probably be used by customers mainly to negotiate with Clickhouse on better rates. And they’ll undercut competition when needed since they have so much cash and investor mindshare.
Can you expand on this a bit? I googled "ntlm proxy" and "sonatype nexus" and still have no idea what it is you've done but I'd like to understand.
I'd very much believe that person could literally write pages on the topic.
I don't think people get mad at RatM for being political so much as they mock Tom Morello for essentially trying to sell revolution as a lifestyle brand, and generally engaging in performative politics that don't seem particularly congruent with how he lives his life.

Zack de la Rocha and the others don't typically receive the same criticisms unless their actions are lumped in with Morello's under the banner of "RatM did X".
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Per science, there is no way to provide a definitive answer.

But the evidence suggests the odds of extinction will definitely increase.

But this is OK as long as rich investors earn more money.
to that point: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-economy-credit-idUSKB...
Any state, democratic or totalitarian, gives itself the monopoly on violence or there won't be a state, only factions vs factions, large and small ones down to single persons.
Choose the right primary key to save a large amount of disk I/O
Multiple people are having the reaction you are. Is this considered undeserved in the chemistry world?
7ms is enough. But that is one in a chain of latencies. 150ms is way too long if you want your trigger to be effective. In 150ms the enemy has moved out of your crosshair. Humans deal with that with dynamic adjustment but the AI will just click the mouse. I'd think you'd need to hit less then 25ms end to end and even that might not be enough for far away targets.
what should it be doing?
Yes, I agree with the proposed regulation…?

I'd be interested to see an actual proposed improvement that isn't just "we changed the plug so you have to buy new cables (from us)!" or "we made charging 80% less efficient!".

But so far there has been no meaningful improvement in the last… 20 years or so, and an awful lot of new incompatible standards.
Teaching Robots About Tools with Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF)
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Partitioning InnoDB tables by time-based pseudo-sequential UUIDs
> To "beat" the Russian military at this stage would require full NATO mobilization and World War III.

Why? The Vietnamese can beat the US then so can the Ukrainian. I'd argue the Ukrainian got much better weapon (and most importantly, intel) support.
1. Start with writing.

1a. Fewer words are more powerful than many. Attempt to reduce your word count as much as possible.

1b. Expand your vocabulary.

1c. Make your statements active, not passive (reduce or eliminate 'be' verbs).

1d. Plan your thoughts well and orderly.

1e. As much as possible write in a narrative style.

1f. Speak from facts. Clearly state when your opinions are your opinions. Leave nothing to chance. Nobody will assume your expertise and generally nobody cares.

1g. In all things execute with precise.

2. Speak like slow, clear, deliberation like your mastery of writing.

2a. Speaking is plumbing. The words that escape your mouth are sewage. You don't them back and you don't want to. Keep a solid rhythm so the plumbing does not back up.

2b. Speak from empathy.

2c. 90% of communication is non-verbal comprising tone, facial expression, and body language. Embrace this.

2d. Make all communications flow from logic, but remember all communications are emotional all the time.
Thank you, Fedora maintainers. I think I didn't even see 5.19.12. I think I got skipped directly to 13.

> Linux fedora 5.19.13-200.fc36.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Oct 4 15:42:43 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
7ms is enough. But that is one in a chain of latencies. 110ms is way too long if you want your trigger to be effective. In 110ms the enemy has moved out of your crosshair. Humans deal with that with dynamic adjustment but the AI will just click the mouse. I'd think you'd need to hit less then 25ms end to end and even that might not be enough for far away targets.
I actually deployed several "FireWall ToolKit" firewalls in the '90s for various organizations.

I still maintain one on an internal QA network.

It allows whitelists.

https://www.fwtk.org/

https://avolio.com/fwtk-history/

https://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/...
Thanks, have you got a link to that because I'd like to read it?

I assume the primary counterargument would be that hydrogen production can be either onsite or local so in practice that wouldn't be the result.
The reason is the news, period.

Nothing positive ever gets covered.

What you hear is:
- the planet is getting worse
- US centered News about how they banning something means the end of the world.
- education is getting worse

And everything negative, because negativety gets you clicks, its an endless cycle because of algorithmic timelines.

While in reality education has massively improved and people are getting out of poverty faster.

A huge exception is the current news.
Because of the Ukraine War, its obviously why is everyone is negative now, you hear about nuclear war risk, millions facing risk of famine because of wheat and food shortage, and many other things happening currently.

So I would say its understandable why everyone is so negative currently, but the negativity that existed before Covid is for sure, caused by News, which caused the divide in America which is unfortunately now spreading to other countries.