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First, one can't explain all fine details in a post or it'd be too long and wouldn't be read so I'll expand the post here.

It may surprise you but from my limited experience I agree with you that currawongs are about the meanest most mercenary omnivore I've seen. I suppose I've had a casual interest in them from early on, when as child of about five one attacked me whilst I was walking with my mother in a park. It dive-bombed me and its beak left my head bleeding.

I never feed them regularly but only when it suits me such as when I'm eating or have scraps immediately to hand and it's only when I've time. The reason is that the birds and one in particular will come very close to me where I can study their behavior in response to things I do such as moving around, staring at them and so on. From this it's clear to me that currawongs are significantly more intelligent than say pidgins or seagulls (having observed them in similar situations) and on a spectrum I'd put the ibis somewhere between them and currawongs but closer to the latter. It's their intelligence that holds my interest.

Feeding currawongs means that I can be within a meter or so of them for quite some minutes. What I found intriguing is how quickly they learn and remember and they do so for a long time. As I said, they know me and others in the neighborhood, they have no difficulty in distinguishing between people and they show this by responding very differently to each person they've become aware of. I can be away for weeks and sometimes several months can pass between my interactions with them yet they still specifically remember me from others.

Outside domesticated pets, they are essentially the only animal I've had regular interaction with that has sufficient cognition and intelligence to single me out from others and remember the fact. That alone makes them fascinating from an observational perspective (essentially it's curiosity that drives my interaction with them).

Note: I'm not an expert in animal behavior nor do I have anything other than a general interest in the subject (I've a technology-based background).
Trust is built over time. Specially on the trenches when dealing with difficult situations. The initial parts of a coop, need a little bit of trust but mostly people that can align their self interest with a collective interest.
While you may(or not) be right about rise in antisemitism, there also seems to be a lot more videos surfacing of stuff that doesn't reflect well on Israel. I consider myself pretty unbiased in this, I have absolutely no opinions about ethnicity etc and have often come to defense of Israel in some discussions but I can honestly say that my own view has soured a little bit. The killing(and denial) of that journalist, and that video of a funeral procession spring to mind.
Starting to remind me of Northern Irish loyalists(who happen to revere Israel), which imo is a pretty ugly movement.
Nothing about this is inherent to the people or country but (I think) like loyalism, comes from a degree of insecurity that can manifest as truculence
Some companies do it intentionally. Some do it out of sheer incompetence in the procurement and accounts payable departments / processes. Personally, I almost prefer the first option, it is somewhat easier to recover from.
This looks awesome! Was looking at learning rust via projects and this will do nicely.
There is a strong "thought leadership" vibe.
Explain? This isn't super helpful tot the discussion if you disagree without supporting your claim. Feels kinda Reddity.
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Perhaps conways law is now more about cloud pricing tiers tham teams!
The US Navy protects international shipping, the disruption of which would be an existential economic threat to the US and its allies.
I know it’s getting boring to talk about Musk, but the ongoing Twitter experiment is just so fascinating because it’s the first time in history that someone has tried to autocratically reboot a $40 billion tech company with massive regulatory liabilities.

So I’m wondering about this part:

> Elon is currently applying the playbook to Twitter:

> Scale back drastically, ideally the closest to your Series A size and cost base;

> Protect your core: engineering and science

What exactly is he doing to protect the core? It seems like it’s been all stick, no carrot. What are the incentives for Twitter’s best to stay, other than second-hand exposure to the Musk aura?
Turing machines are part of the prediction-generating framework of CS, like how the mathematical models in the Standard Model are part of the prediction-generating framework of modern physics: They're both an idealized representation of something which we think models something useful in the physical world in a way that allows us to think more clearly about some aspects of that thing without getting caught up in distractions. As alex_smart says, the Church-Turing thesis connects the idealized Turing machine to modern computers in a way somewhat similar to how the Standard Model connects the U(1) group to the study of electromagnetism.
How does the "imports" feature supposed to work and how does it help modelling more complex workflows?

Also, would you be able to take a look at Step CI and tell me what you think about it, especially in comparison to Hurl?

https://github.com/stepci/stepci

It could be that Step CI already has the feature you're looking for!
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before ships ?
Suggest you go homeless for a year and see if you end up a drug addict or alcoholic. How else can you empirically verify your claim?
They are also the reason why you have a job. Without sales you have nothing. Without marketing you don't know what to build. Building stuff that no one wants is useless.
This isn't an official Google project, the contributions seem mostly from one person, so probably someone doing this as a 20% project. Carbon OTOH has a team working on it AFAIK.
Perhaps a side note - but I know a case where someone whose code had a lot of bugs and design problems but when they were with the company they worked very hard and would address problems - often with band-aid solutions but at least they took care of their own messes so it didn't fall onto others. All of this hard work and long hours and diligence made them seem to management as if they were amazing. However after they have left, they are obviously no longer supporting their terrible code and the ones who had to take it over will certainly demonize the departed - it's a bit unfair but someone who isn't helping fix their own mess (even if they have a good reason - they moved on) is still a huge negative. You are right though, this is somewhat a biased perception and scapegoating is real.
> Plenty of companies offer product samples or free services upfront

Sure, but a startup using VC money to offer you something for free is very different from "I will personally volunteer to help you".

Also the entire point of sharing articles is that they're being read, so there isn't any way to avoid implying they're doing "self-promotion" – should people just stop writing and sharing articles?

Sometimes people aren't after some self-serving goal, and I think it's a little dangerous to think everyone is – charities exist. Cooperatives are more ethical businesses because they build democracy into their structure unlike traditional businesses, why would I assume whoever is talking about them isn't just hoping to see more of that in the world? Or do we reduce that to "that's just the author being selfish again"?
"But from a scientific perspective, if you want to make progress in our understanding of natural law, I’d say it’s a waste of time exactly for that reason, because you can’t test it."

Science is doing what works, and you can't tell what works if you rely on theories that aren't testable. (What does it even mean for an untestable theory to work?)

But...

What if some theories that aren't testable eventually lead to theories that are testable and useful? How do we know when to abandon a chain of inquiry? What about theories that are technically possible to test, but currently impractical? Do we stop developing them until the technology to test them exists, or might further work reveal easier tests?

For a long time, physicists were fairly ruthless about abandoning work that didn't quickly lead to something that could be tested experimentally, but not always (e.g. Bohmian mechanics was pursued quite ardently even though it's predictions do not differ from standard quantum mechanics.) In the last few decades, as we've increasingly searched for things like grand unifying theories that might bridge the chasms between fields, we've begun to tolerate an increasing amount of work that is not founded in anything testable. The key developments that will tie a field back into reality often seem just around the corner but never appear.

It boils down to a question of how we allocate resources. Work done on untestable theories that never become testable is wasted, so where do we draw the line?
That's an odd critique considering coops exist to solve the friction between unions and businesses by building the democratic control into the business itself, avoiding the need for a union.

Especially when you consider all the union busting tactics used by leadership at traditional businesses – how are you even supposed to form a union when they won't let you? Coops come at that from a different angle: you get democratic control, straight up. Don't like your leadership if you choose to structure the business that way? You can actually vote them out of their role.
Is it really not the case that without the DOD, Europe would simply just have to spend more collectively on it's on defense than it does now? We're outspending them 3:1, and as excellent as our logistics and force projection are, I think another $250 billion Euro would help close that gap pretty quickly.

And DOD has more than just technical flaws.. the history of it's conflicts over the past 20 years leaves _much_ to be desired and the development of the world in that time has not significantly been towards peace. I'm starting to wonder if continuously projecting force for 70 years after the last major war was a wise strategy at all.

The audits are frankly the least of it.
adhesion contracts? basically a sign that says "by entering you accept all liability"
It's not like this is some document that's going to be downloaded a billion times, so whether it's distributed via bittorrent or some government document site isn't going to matter.

That is, the cost comes from somebody having to dig up the original document in paper or microfilm, scan it, and then put it up on the document site. And then all the kinds of overhead costs associated with having an physical and electronic archive like that (facilities, salaries etc.).

If everybody on the planet suddenly develops an acute interest in WWII era cowl flap indicators, sure, the above costs amortized over billions of downloads would be very close to zero. But presumably the government guesses that this document might be downloaded maybe a hundred times over the following decades and prices accordingly.
What country on earth has a full bike lane network?

Even the Netherlands doesn't. So what are you advocating? That bikes be banned until that infra is on place, or forcing all bikes to have the same safety standards as new cars (because old cars don't have all this stuff)?
Every repair requires "all access". The vast majority of customers to repair shops do not have the knowledge to describe their problems accurately, and something as simple as "its slow" could turn out to be malware or a hardware issue.

I'd like to know the shops, too. Backing up personal data has been an open and opt-out policy of almost every shop I've worked at. If the 'simple' problem turns out to be a failing hard drive, customers are not often tech-aware enough to understand that you did not personally break anything, especially if they lose years of family photos.
I know coops that hire the CEO as An external guy. I saw that in many restaurants owned by their staff.
There is no need to debate unlikely risks such as... The exchange might limit withdrawals between that period.

Buy your coins and then move them to your hardware wallet. It will be fine.
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The world of pipe fittings
Having just completed a small project involving plumbing, this post on my blog comes from the heart.
Related Guardian Article:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/nov/02/experie...
The signal I’ve started looking for is an above the fold “minutes to read” stat. Sites, like Medium, that have it are practically all worth ignoring because it’s either astroturfing or just navel gazing.
Several of its documentation links are pointing at web.archive.org copies instead of itself. Bit weird.

https://www.sshguard.net/docs.html

The setting up link points at https://web.archive.org/web/20180901061425/https://www.sshgu... and the original is 404: https://www.sshguard.net/docs/setup/
More accurately, but for the judge's judgment. Unconstitutional laws get passed every day; something has only gone wrong if they are upheld.
Sitcoms are not real life and never were. They are made up situations designed to make writing funny scenes easy. Sitcoms are not how people actually ever socialized or behaved.
> the developer has explicitly stated, yes I want to comply to interface XYZ, instead of doing it by accident

To be honest, it's pretty hard to implement an interface by accident. You'd have to specifically implement methods with specific names and type signatures.

If method names + type signatures don't intuitively specify how should implementation behave, then it's either a bad interface or a trivial one.
Political instability / war / mass migrations, and associated interruption to food and energy supplies - how are these not national security threats?
Sounds like an awful work environment then.
> Consider Soufflé, designed for large scale program analysis. Or LogiQL, designed for efficient incremental evaluation.

I have now looked up these systems: They are far removed from standard Prolog syntax, much farther than the system outlined in the posted article, which uses almost Prolog syntax to such an extreme extent that one of the given examples is already valid Prolog syntax and even a valid Prolog program without any changes. Therefore, the question I posted above ("If you are that close to using Prolog syntax, ...") does not apply to the same extent to these systems.

> You also failed to disclose that you are not exactly unbiased individual here.

Personally, I believe I have a solid grasp on the benefits of using standard Prolog syntax and the disadvantages of so slightly deviating from it, and I also believe that the question I asked is justified and what I stated in this thread is true.

If you see a need for any disclosure beyond what I stated above, please add it and what you believe to be the nature of my bias as your reply to this post for everyone to see. Thank you a lot!
> Europe would be getting steamrolled if not for the DOD and NATO and it wouldn’t end there.

How? Can you please elaborate a bit?
> until that source talks about a subject you're an expert in and you realize they have no idea what they're talking about?

She is (was) a physics researcher, perhaps a mediocre one, most are. But saying she has no idea what she's talking about requires some justification.

Specifically, what do you disagree with her about?
I think these are all good points, but they don't really apply to people categorically; but rather to some people in some situations.

For example, if half of the group wants pizza, and the other half wants BBQ, a compromise might make everyone happier if they value eating together over eating their preferred meal apart.
Here in HN someone posted a GitHub repo with thousands of coops. Search for it, maybe they are some as your model.
You're not wrong in some ways. In my industry they gave like $50M to a small group of university researchers to come up with some truly useless research. Very smart people, but a huge waste and some of the projects cost millions to essentially do what someone in industry could do in a week, but wouldn't because there's no point. I imagine if you multiply that by 1000, you could get an accurate depiction of the university jobs program.
There’s a certain attraction to counter-mainstream views of course—the idea of being part of a secret smart club—but it’s a massive red flag when someone starts to define themselves and their views substantially in terms of that opposition.

Interesting counter-mainstream ideas are important and valuable - but I don’t hear about any of them from Hossenfelder’s writing, and it’s all about how broken “the system” is. Everything I watch or read from her leaves me deeply suspicious.
2000 requests per second implies your system was badly designed. If you’re saying it was mostly database bottlenecks why would that not affect the Go version in the same way?
Sometimes it must be a personality trait. I have one dev I know that is extremely productive when he is working within his cocoon. But the minute you ask him to use a new tool or deploy to a new system - he needs major hand holding even though he's senior. I don't really understand it, but it is what it is.
My father used to have these curves that were segmented rulers. You could bend them, and they would retain the shape. They were made from rubber, with metal, inside. The segments forced the curves to be smooth (you couldn’t kink the rulers).

He also had a couple of slide rules.
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> but probably reasonably frequently the case that war is the only viable choice for one side

I think this is untrue... unless your invaders are the assyrians, surrender and losing the war isn't really that bad. Even the Mongols would just collect some extra taxes.
Agree. So does the Kindle.
Size of a lib ? nobody cares about it unless going into small devices.
Nothing good to show, plenty of evil planted in those poor regions (Afghanistan, Iraq) which will be fucked for many generations to come. And if having a better trained military makes it justifiable for somebody I dare to ask what kind of human being is he/she.

Ukraine is so far another story but nobody has clue how it will evolve. And none of that military experience is getting to any actual use and is slowly evaporating, its so far just about minor logistics, some satellite espionage and some troops training (which are not negligible skills but they alone don't win wars).
mmm I use ubuntu and ufw... so I guess this won't work(?)

why not ufw ? Isn't it widely used?
Mind sharing the details? I'm based in Porto and I've been trying to learn a bit more about working in a co-op.

My contact details are in the profile, alternatively feel free to come and say hi: https://sonnet.io/posts/hi/
Since they did not have water toilets, it would not be viscous like sewage. It would have consistency similar to a barnyard manure pile.

To fill a floor to a depth enough to "drown" would require several years of collecting, which means it would be well decayed and much closer to soil than sewage.

But it sounds too improbable to have happened.
Here is the original version of the song, https://youtu.be/WmP3OJLJbB0, though not sure why there needed to be a remix. My goodness, strange on so many levels. Kind of looks like she is having fun, but hard to tell.
I'm completely unqualified to hold an opinion, but it seems so intuitive to me that quantum computing is theoretically sound but impossible in practice because error correction will scale exponentially in difficulty.

Experts are clearly more optimistic, especially Scott Aaronson who is often mentioned on HN, but I can't get past a couple of simplistic, non-mathematical objections.

One is that it seems already like quantum computing is on a different trajectory than classical computing. If it was an analogous engineering problem, why haven't we already gotten much farther?

The other is that it just seems like a matter of symmetry. Quantum computing, even if it's not all powerful, seems like a "cheat code" for reality, and an inability to practically exploit it seems to me like balancing it out. I believe in a vague heuristic that reality has no "thread" that can be pulled to unravel everything.

I guess the counter to these vague feelings are that you could've said the same stuff about nuclear fission/fusion and any technology based on quantum theory.

So I'm not that confident in my opinion, but I'm still seeking an understandable reason why one should be optimistic. Nothing I've read by experts translates their feelings to my understanding.

The sort of situation that seems intuitive to me, I don't see why it would result in any earthshattering violation of theory either, as we'd just approach an asymptote forever.

P.S. I have a similar attitude towards practical fusion power for somewhat similar reasons, so that's evidence it's an attitude problem more than anything.
That's strange. I wonder why debian is lagging behind on packaging it? Alacritty is packaged by my package manager, so I never really thought about it much.

In addition, at some point I had a look, and the former terminal I used to use (termite[0]) deprecated itself in favour of alacritty as well so I can't even switch back (I mean I could, but it's now unmaintained.)

[0] https://github.com/thestinger/termite
The US banning higher end devices also possibly means they are harder for the US to surveil. This may make them more valuable to people that are not Chinese and wont ever spend time in China.
Interestingly the parser is generated using flex and bison, which I thought was rare these days.
Is there a good rundown of current Covid science? I want to understand “what we should have done, if we had known.”
I've seen you recommending 'bowtiedsalesguy' and now 'bowtiedbull'. Are these all you?
> CPU experiment is a little famous exercise held in the winter of the junior year in my department, the Department of Information Science at the University of Tokyo. In the experiment, students are divided into groups of four or five students. Each group designs an own CPU architecture, implements it on an FPGA, builds an OCaml subset compiler for that CPU, and then runs a given ray-tracing program on the CPU. Typically, one or two people are responsible for each of the CPU, FPU, CPU simulator and compiler.

I have seen professional programmers fail projects much easier than this. How does the University of Tokyo manage to teach their students so well, or do they show up to it better trained/motivated than the average Western student?
It was a conscious choice to stick the prolog-like syntax because there are numerous teaching resources (e.g. "foundations of databases") and also academic research papers available that all discuss datalog in this syntax.

Like tmptmpgo I consider datalog something different entirely and worthy of study in its own right; a small kernel (or toy) language that by itself is not sufficient for many day-to-day tasks.

It is enough to cover relational algebra with recursion fixpoints. This gives us a handle on SQL queries. What we want is a well-behaved, predicable mix of programming and those relational operations. We have to end this SQL madness.

IMHO, it is undeniably true that Prolog is one particular way of achieving such a mix (and standardized etc), but it is not the predictable, easy-to-use and well-behaved mix we want. We should be able to isolate syntactic fragments where it is easy to ensure safety properties, at the minimum the datalog fragment. That is why having a fragment correspond as close as possible to textbook Datalog was a design constraint for me.

That said, when we talk implementation, there are of course a lot of optimizations that apply equally to Datalog and Prolog, say the magic set transformation.
Many static site generators add that stat. I find it useful.
How does replication in the EU work with right to be forgotten laws?
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