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I think every bill that doesn't get passed is like that, because most of the deliberation goes on in committees. If you look at the history of how the constitution came to exist you'd find out that it has worked like that since before Congress in its present form existed.

I wouldn't be cynical about it though, because advertising a bill to an audience of legislators (and to the public through things like posting a link to it on HN) puts the ideas in people's heads and has an unquantifiable effect on making it happen in the future.
American logic. Thing exists, something has to be done about it!
Kevin McCarthy 'agreed to cut aid to Ukraine' to secure US speaker role
Show HN: HyperLogLog in Zig
I was somewhat in that boat too, until the first time I had to make several modules in the code log in a special way (that required some custom code), determined at runtime.

Mostly I just wish more languages had Lisp-style dynamic binding / "special variables". Logging is one of the perfect use cases for dynamic scope - you'd have your normal logger object/configuration as the top-level value of a global, and then let-bind it whenever you need to alter its value for all code executed within that specific scope.

Alas, about the only widely-used form of dynamic binding today is environment variables.
Japan, US to step up cooperation in developing next-generation nuclear reactors
number of founders of top Y Combinator companies per school
Sounds just like INFO to me. There's a difference between logging to users, logging to system administrators, and logging to developers.
Ask HN: What common UI issues or glitches annoy you the most?
This one just happened to me, but it’s as old as they come. You click something, the interface registers the click (via an animation or sound or whatever), but then nothing happens. I hate that so much.
> Worldwide, 15–20 percent of men with lung cancer are non-smokers while over 50 percent of women with lung cancer are non-smokers

50% seems like a big number but it's a pretty meaningless statistic if women overall smoke less than men. It just means that when you have few smoking-related cancer cases, the other cases make up a larger percentage. Using that ratio to justify "you might as well smoke, 50% of women with lung cancer were non-smokers" is... not a good use of the statistics.

As a thought exercise with made up numbers, suppose that you have 10 people, 1 will naturally get lung cancer, and everyone who smokes will get lung cancer.

If 4 men smoke and get cancer, that's 5 with cancer and 1 of them was a non-smoker. 20% are non-smokers.

If 1 woman smokes and gets cancer, that's 2 with cancer and 1 of them was a non-smoker. 50% are non-smokers.

In this scenario you can say the exact same statistic about "50% of women with lung cancer are non-smokers" and brush it off as not a big deal even though 100% of smokers are getting cancer.

That's not a useful number to be looking at to judge the risk of smoking vs not smoking.
So if you get a call from a number you do not know, maybe we should NOT talk and give them our voice which they will record and use to make new speech to scam our loved ones.
Thanks for the kind words, the frontend and design is by my brother Daniel Tapia. https://www.linkedin.com/in/tapiadaniel/
For simple command-based automations, I've found just [0] to be a good replacement for makefiles with .PHONY targets. It has a cleaner syntax and fewer pitfalls compared to makefiles.

[0] https://github.com/casey/just
Unless I am mistaken, that reddit poster is accusing the artist of plagiarizing, but the evidence is only from some preproduction reference images and spotlighting elements that are not in the actual final work.

This piece is a commissioned book cover so it would be expected that he slapped together a 'demo' for the author to approve before making the final work.
I went to a lot of movies in college, at the university film center. They put out a quarterly calendar, with a little blurb for each film. Most were pretty pedestrian, but I still recall that they somehow got me to the theater for _The Usual Suspects (1995)_ without giving away any details.

Obilgatory reference here to Rick Polito's summary of _Wizard of Oz_: "Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again."
Agreed, it's just something we humans do: we search for information that confirms our worldview.
I'm interested in the statement 'teaching is an optimization problem'. I enjoy teaching (did it professionally for a brief and happy time in my life) but this is the first time I've encountered the idea it's an optimization problem. Could you speak a bit more on that?

Regarding making money, I've found at least one way that I think aligns the different needs - some of the videos on my youtube channel are book reviews and summaries of books I've genuinely enjoyed and find worth recommending. Easy way to put an affiliate link in front of people who'd appreciate it, and it's not enough of a concern for me that I'd ever be tempted to recommend a book I didn't personally love just to create content.
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We are looking for a DevOps engineer to operate our core cloud infrastructure (including AWS Lambda, Kubernetes/EKS, PostgreSQL RDS, ElasticSearch); to improve reliability, harden security and reduce operational risks (SRE); to improve/review developers CI/CD code; and to develop and maintain our internal CI framework.

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I haven't checked the bedroom temp itself, but I do change the thermostat for the whole house from 71 degrees down to 68.
https://drewdevault.com/2022/05/25/Google-has-been-DDoSing-s...

> I was banned from the Go issue tracker for mysterious reasons [ In violation of Go’s own Code of Conduct, by the way, which requires that participants are notified moderator actions against them and given the opportunity to appeal. I happen to be well versed in Go’s CoC given that I was banned once before without notice — a ban which was later overturned on the grounds that the moderator was wrong in the first place. Great community, guys. ]

When a story has two sides and one party chooses to keep silent when accused, I tend to favor the accuser.
2d cloth physics simulation in Go
>It only takes 80ma across your heart to stop it

In a lab, sure. In reality you need a lot of amps going into the body to get enough amps across the heart to screw with it. Defibrillators wouldn't be chock full of capacitors if that wasn't the case.

Constantly repeating these sorts of misleading DARE-esque talking points is why nobody takes what the safety preachers have to say seriously.

People find out through life experience that smoking while filling gas, a couple amps from arm to arm, working under suspended loads, side rolling big cylinders long distances, using ladders on less than perfect surfaces and other little stuff like that isn't the instant death and dismemberment that they were told it was supposed to be and that throws doubt at everything else.

You can't lie to people 50% of the time even if it's "for their own good" and expect them to believe the other 50% of stuff you say. Electricity and many other things are sufficiently dangerous that you shouldn't need to lie.
I never liked Top Gun, but when others spoke fondly about it, a Maverick-like movie was what I always wanted. Reasonable character arc, lots of practical effects, good story. It is a script that would have worked in the 80s and fits in that style of concise, well paced action movie, but it’s far superior to the original, imho.
Will probably have to give my mom a secret word that only I know that I need to say to her so she knows its me and not a scammer using my voice.
Exactly what I've felt. I have started a new project for tennis, and that keeps me going. Reading a book about topics that I need for project, exploring different ideas, etc. What I found most interesting is that reading a book opens up a totally different world of thinking. More ideas, enrichment of creative thinking, clear thinking, focus... I was sitting in front of computer and try to think what to do next, while ending in endless worthless SM scrolling... I can feel you :)
I prefer this post which is more detailed: https://talktotheduck.dev/logging-best-practices-mdc-ingesti...
The terms are not very consistently applied, but I would call that ASI rather than AGI.

Personally I think the General in AGI is real-valued (or possibly vector-valued) and definitely not a mere Boolean yes-or-no, and therefore it's fine to say ChatGPT is an AGI because it has the generality of "text on most subjects in most languages".

Well… sort of. I'm not sure about the Intelligence part of the label though, because it's making up for being very inefficient with the training set by running on hardware that outpaces synapses to the degree to which marathon runners outpace continental drift. But this leads to the question "Does a submarine swim?" (I.e. does it matter?)
Do you see any problems with that? Like, the fact that it is trivial to exploit?
I have seen more 429, almost all from large cloud providers, a fair amount in the last 5 years. Never before then, I was used to making rate limiting an in-band part of the API explicitly. AWS S3 will give you 429s before giving you 503s when you hit it with a go program touching every object or every version in a giant bucket from a 56 core machine and a few hundred Go routine workers. It is a good signal: if you do exponential back off per worker on the 429s, you won’t see the 503s.
Let me describe the ways bills die:

1. They don't get voted out of committee. That's the case with this bill.

2. All bills die at the end of each session. This bill was from 2021 so had it been voted out of committee it would've died anyway;

3. After getting out of committee it has to be tabled for a vote for the full body (House or Senate). In the House the Speaker sets the agenda. In the Senate, it needs to be brought to the floor but ther ehas to be a vote to end debate and vote on the bill. Current Senate rules require 60 (of 100) votes to end debate. The filibuster allows pretty much any Senator to say they'll filibuster and that's that (unless you can get 60 votes). Note: these rules aren't laid out by the Constintution or anything. They're all just completely made up;

4. If a bill is somehow sponsored, assigned to committee, voted out of committee, brought to the floor, debate is ended and the bill is voted on and passed then it must pass the other chamber. That other chamber gets to amend it however they like. A chamber can spike a bill by adding amendments that those who otherwise might vote for the bill can't politically support;

5. If the bill miraculously passes the other chamber it'll probably be different than the original. A conference from both chambers come together to resolve the differences. They'll agree on a bill that'll go to a straight up or down vote in both chambers (ie no amendments).

6. Should that happen and it passes both chambers it goes to the president. The president can veto it directly. Alternatively, the president can "pocket veto", meaning they just let it expire (in 10 days). Or they can sign it;

7. If it is vetoed including a pocket veto it goes back to Congress who can override that veto with a two-thirds vote. Generally this never happens because if it's obvious it will happen a president would rather sign it.

I poin tthis out to say that a lot of times bills will get introduced that have no chance of ever becoming law. Years ago, whichever party was in the minority would always put forward campaign finance reform bills so they could campaign on the issue but they'd almost never be seen again when that same party got into the majority.

You're going to see a lot of this in the current Congress. The narrowly-controlled House is going to vote on a lot of bills for political reasons that they know are going to die on the Senate floor (ie never come to a vote). And that's why people will vote for it: because it has no chance of becoming law.

You also see this in votes. Any vote will largely be (almost) unanimous for, (almost) unanimous against (these rarely come to a vote but it applies to amendments too), narrowly for or narrowly against. Part of this is the propensity for voting on party lines but that's not all of it.

If a given Senator or Congressmen is vulnerable in a coming election, they may get the silent nod from leadership to vote for or against it when it doesn't change the outcome. So instead of a 58-42 Senator vote, you'll see 51-49 as certain Senators will get political cover to "defect" but it's not really defecting at all.

Introducing a bill is almost never news of consequence.
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This is not at all what I expected. Before cigarette smoking was common, I was under the impression lung cancer was extremely rare. Is there something else that gives people lung cancer these days?
If your infra is not on-prem, yes it will cost you more money as you are generating more and more and bigger logs.
User interface elements that move around. Dear FSM, I can't tell you how many times I've started to click/tap some element on the screen only to find that by the time I completed the movement of my mouse/finger, the "thing" I was trying to click was in a different place and I wound up clicking something else. F%#@ng Youtube gets me with this all the time when watching videos in a playlist. The next video starts, and go to click the pause button, and by the time I click, where the pause button was, is now the back button.
Don’t think anybody doubts that the current achievements are intellectually impressive. The issue for VCs is how valuable are they from a business perspective. Creating photos of people in places they’ve never been is really cool, but realistically how much money will people actually pay for that?

For AI to be as valuable as current rounds are implying it has to actually be capable of replacing your lawyer, your accountant, your software engineer. ChatGPT is nowhere near accurate enough to do that. It’s the same issue we ran into with super cruise control versus fully autonomous driving. Or speech recognition. Early progress was fast. Last mile in AI is always brutal.

Maybe there’s some argument to say ChatGPT won’t replace your lawyer or software engineer but will make them 20% more efficient. Possible. Though I’m still skeptical. ChatGPT’s unparalleled ability to create really convincing sounding errors is a big hidden negative productivity drag.
Is ChatGPT useful for folks getting into Arduino and electronics?
Closely related period fail: /receipt/<sequential-receipt-number-here>.pdf = all customers full booking history and personal data for all time.
yeah I was thinking the same thing as I wrote it actually, but went with that example anyway as it's a typical example for a job that pays more because of a lower supply of people willing to do it. Could've used those ice-road truckers or deep sea fisherman or some other risky job as a more clear-cut example, but I think any example works to demonstrate the point
what do you mean? I doubt this law in Germany is broken very much. Entities care a lot about it.
> I stopped reading non-fiction books. Most of them have about a blog post worth of ideas

Totally agree with you on this. Best example of this is much hyped "Atomic Habits". I appreciate this book's ideas, and have huge respect for the author.
> But would you go to see Giant Rocks 2?

If the graphics were better and the explosions were bigger, yes!
Funny, my first dial-up ISP was halcyon.com (later Northwest Nexus/WinStar) in the Seattle area around 1999/2000. Halcyon days indeed!
I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Having lived in Michigan most my life, I can attest that climate change has only made winter weather worse; it's now more violent and less predictable than ever. It's been 5 or 6 years since I've gone a winter without losing power.

IMO, it seems like you're jumping a lot of conclusions to get to a semi-interesting question. Can you indirectly enjoy the benefits of climate change? Maybe, but the problems far outweigh whatever benefits there might be (in my experience).
Update 2: I have been informed that the API keys are not for image generation.
The go proxy won't save modules that don't have a permissive license.
Both your Filecoin and Golem examples might be inexpensive but they have no sort of SLA for end users. They can also evaporate tomorrow taking your data and compute resources down with them. Both systems are only viable if the cost to run the systems is below the money made from running it. If the whole reason users pick Filecoin is the price, they'll abandon the platform if the price ever increases (to make running nodes profitable) which creates a feedback loop that will collapse the network.

While Amazon might cost more, they're unlikely to go out of business tomorrow or in ten years. They also have an SLA and predictable prices and predictable capacity. if you build something on AWS that works today it'll likely work tomorrow.
What percentage of your time is spent on the sales/marketing side of pitching your consultancy services? RFPs/proposals/pitches/inbound/outbound? Where have you found the sweet spot with respect to the length of an engagement?

The reason I ask - most of what you hear out there are stories of people being "freelancers" where the work is somewhat of a commodity (wordpress, webapps, etc) and they have to differentiate themselves by quality of work/communication. But it sounds like you are more on the specialized/niche side, with retainers and being a "consultant".

So far I've been tackling the "builder vs manager" problem with: joining small startups or starting my own. The good news is that the last 2 startups I've joined have hit rapid growth, but the (bad) news it that I keep getting pulled into management. I know that I can/should hold a stronger line and say "No, I want to be an IC", but it's hard when my boss pushes back that it'd be better for the company if I manage. None of this is complaining/whining per-se, but your solution is potentially a win-win where I can avoid the mis-aligned incentives (ie: holding the line on IC vs management).
I still don’t think that should be a problem. The electric fields will still be picked up by such a wide surface area.
I was expecting something about sustainable forestry
How Stupid Is ASICs’s Menstrual-Tuning Shoe? (2011)
Meanwhile, UK Gov project One Login will use cloud services architectured by Experian:

https://www.publictechnology.net/articles/news/government-pl...
It truly belongs in a museum.
> I dunno, aren't people a bunch of morons when you really get down to it? Like, isn't that a legitimate complaint too?

It's still unproductive to say that in a community support space.

Who's the bigger moron, the moron or the guy holding a public grudge for over a year about how unfair it is they're not letting him in the channel full of morons?
> It would have much less fear of missing out, much less hoarding and speculation, and demand would mostly be from people actually wanting to transact.

I wouldn't be so sure about this. I'd assume FOMO is rather induced by people observing steep price surges which show them that they could have earned X % in a short time, had they bought a little earlier, than the mere supply function over time.

Had the price remained mostly flat in the way it did until September 2020, there'd have been little FOMO.

I read your text. While I agree that in the long term the difference in inflation rate is almost negligible (after 200 years Grin would have 0.5 % inflation whereas Bitcoin's inflation would be practically zero) it appears pretty obvious to me that in the early years, the difference is huge.

A huge difference in the beginning is crucial for systems that are subjected to the network effect. If early on a system doesn't gain enough traction and users, there's a big probability it will just fade away. So any p2p digital currency system should attract enough users in the beginning or it will be too slow to catch on and be outrun by its competitors.

Sure, Grin would work as store of value practically the same way as Bitcoin would in 200 years. But people don't live that long, so their time horizon for a system to work as store of value will rather be like 30-40 years. If you look at Grin's inflation over the first 30-40 years, it is no store of value, it looses value quicker than regular currencies did in the last couple of decades.

Grin vs Bitcoin Inflation, had they both started in 2009:

2013 - 25.0 % - 12.5 %

2017 - 12.5 % - 4.2 %

2021 - 8.3 % - 1.8 %

2025 - 6.3 % - 0.8 %

Sure, many people became interested in Bitcoin (second wave) because of price spikes. But I still assume the early adopters were only early adopters because of rapidly decreasing and eventually fixed supply.

Unlike a top down governmental currency which is just issued and everybody uses it, a bottom up currency (that has to grow via the network effect) needs a sufficient level of early adopter reward, or it will never become wide spread.

Also, the pure blockchain doesn't really appear to scale well enough to enable everyday payments for billions of people, which might indicate that its purpose might be more in the store of value (as foundation of currency systems) domain rather than in being used for day to day payments.
> Und bist du nicht willig, so brauch ich Gewalt.

That had me laughing.

Funny story: I once, long ago in the corridor stopped to help a bunch of people in a Trabant, the engine had seized and it really wasn't going to go anywhere so I offered to tow them behind my 230E, which could easily do that. They agreed happily and we hooked them up, and one of their party switched to my car to show me where to go (illegal to go off the corridor, but screw it, this had massive consequences later on but at the time I was still totally oblivious). So we're back on the highway and doing 50 or so and the guy asks 'can't you go any faster?'. I say sure, but what about the tow? 'They will have to follow ;)'. Ok, so doing a 110 or so (where you could legally go maybe 90 at the time) for an hour took us to Frankfurt a/d Oder where they lived, I dropped them off at home and the guy that drove the Trabbi came to me and said that they'd never gone that fast with it before...

Good times. Obviously, for East Germans before the wende there was a lot of misery (same in Poland, my destination) but there was also a strong camaraderie, 'us against the system'.