skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
California needs 3x more reservoir capacity and 10,000x more desalination capacity including enough to export to neighboring states. I left CA for TX after 30 years for many reasons:

1. Wildfires and related homeowners insurance raises

2. Deteriorating prevailing attitudes and outlook

3. Earthquake risk (grossly underestimated in some areas)

4. Long-term water scarcity

5. Worsening income inequality as evidenced by people living on the sides of the roads and highways. It's not normal and it's a lack of government action to secure affordable housing

Average estimated risk for an area of the US:

https://hazards.fema.gov/nri/map
How would x86-64 be as efficient with the same transistor & power budget when they have to run an extra decoder and ring within that budget? Seems physically impossible.
What is Reverse ETL?

A very generic query I agree.

Response was

Reverse ETL is a process that involves copying data from a data warehouse to operational tools such as SaaS tools used for growth, marketing, sales, and support. Traditional ETL involves replicating data from a data source to a data warehouse. Reverse ETL is a relatively new category in the data space that enables real-time decision-making, increased collaboration between departments, and streamlined workflows. Reverse ETL allows different departments like product, marketing, sales, engineering, and customer support to be more self-sufficient and effective by giving them direct access to the data they need within the tools they use. Here are some key differences between ETL and Reverse ETL:

- ETL is a one-way door, whereas Reverse ETL is a two-way door.
- ETL pipelines are used to read and write data from operational systems to a data warehouse, whereas Reverse ETL is all about syncing the data in your warehouse to your downstream business tools.
- ETL is typically used for batch-oriented data integration, while Reverse ETL is usually used for real-time data activation.
- ETL focuses on integrating data from multiple sources, and Reverse ETL is focused on making data available for consumption.

Reverse ETL requires writing reverse SQL, which can be challenging. Reverse ETL tools provide a visual interface to choose which query output columns are used to populate standard and custom fields in your operational system. Reverse ETL tools are generally more powerful and cost-effective than iPaaS and open-source solutions. Reverse ETL enables any team, from sales to product, to access the data they need within the systems they use. Reverse ETL can help business users get the data they need without relying on engineering resources, making it easier for analysts to focus on high-level tasks. Reverse ETL can also improve the quality of your data by catching errors and inconsistencies in near-real-time and fixing them before they cause problems. Reverse ETL is a compelling process with many benefits, but it does have limitations. It does not provide an interface to activate your data into personalized, cross-channel customer experiences. This gap is where a customer data platform (CDP) comes into play. A CDP unifies all your customer data and consolidates it into a single profile view for each customer. Reverse ETL is a relatively new technology that sets businesses up to do more complex operational analytics than they could with BI tools alone. It has been around since 2018, but it didn’t really start trending until 2021. Reverse ETL is a technology for taking cleaned and processed data from the data warehouse and ingesting it back into business applications such as Salesforce, where it can be used for business operations and forecasting.
There are chains which end in espionage, but the volume pales compared to ransomware, identity theft, and carding. Too much money to be made.
We (US mil) use GPS and INS, with tons of error detection/correction in those weapon systems.

They aren’t going off-course due to jamming. We’ve been aware of jamming since day one because we were the first to experiment with it.
If you had posted this in the first place it would have been better. Better yet would be to drop provocations like "false narrative", which implies something sinister, and just focus on contributing correct, interesting information about balloons (or whatever the topic is that you know about).

It's too easy to underestimate the impact of putdowns in internet comments—impact on the readers, on other commenters, on the site as a whole, and (if they see it) on the author or creator. When you* post putdowns it usually feels innocuous, as if you're just adding a little extra emphasis, but to the reader it often comes across as much larger than the rest of the comment put together—especially when there isn't much other information.

* I don't mean you personally of course—I mean all of us.
Well if it's just programming languages, then they probably wouldn't.

You said "tech stacks" which led me to believe it was everything from databases to SaaS to dependencies.

There is massive competition in the database space to sell people support services.

If a company is using the Timescale community edition, Timescale's enterprise sales might reach out to them. They also might reach out to people using Influx.

Someone selling a UI framework might reach out to people using similar ones. And so on

edit: And Datatog sales can continue reaching out to anyone not using Datadot
You're talking about an internet - in fact, an internet that already exists - and deciding that the infrastructure architecture of users of that internet should mirror the "ethos" of that internet. That's quite a leap!

Infrastructure is very different than "the web," particularly because there are contracts involved - you pay AWS to store bits and it stores them. If they lose your bits, you sue them. They don't like being sued, so they don't lose your bits. If you are concerned about AWS banning you, store a copy in GCP too, or on a backup service.

Because of the customer-provider relationship, infrastructure generally doesn't need to be distributed in the way you suggest, and probably can't be. The infrastructure you use has a contractual relationship with you, which implicitly relies on contract law. You have something better than distributed systems here, you have economic incentives and courts.

Also note that the infrastructure behind the internet also isn't particularly distributed as you describe: most of the physical wires in your local area are usually owned by 2-4 companies total, if they aren't state-controlled. Those companies do not have distributed governance. What they do have is a set of contracts and regulations that ensure that you are free to use them as you want.
Gotcha. Thanks for the feedback!
That sort of thing tends to involve much more individually targeted attacks- emails, fake ads on Facebook targeted to a specific email address, etc. Throwing up a fake weight loss website to infect uncle bob's boob viewing machine isn't going to get very far in the espionage game.
Yeah microsoft is appeasing the public by doing this deal for 10 years to allow the regulators sufficient breathing room to allow them to sign Nintendo’s death warrant without them facing public blowback until they’ve long left the job.

That’s the point. Regulators - Nintendo will turn into a shell of its former self when you aren’t around! No need to worry about optics!
Differential privacy didn’t come out of Google.

> They are the arbiters who can to block a production releases if privacy and security issues are discovered and not remedied.

Every company I’ve worked at outside of tiny startups has had this level of gating by the security team.

> No other company I can think of has invested in such a rigorous Privacy review and support structure in an attempt to reduce risk.

Which companies have you worked at in the last 8 or so years? It sounds like you’ve just watched the industry mature a bit in PII from the perspective of the inside of Google.
Also, will it be possible for phind to store my queries & generated responses if I am a logged in user.

Coz, I am sure the response generated would definitely not be the same if I use same question twice. So, that would help.
It is way more complicated than this because in any heterogeneous network environment you need to be really careful about what happens then you have new protocols like this interacting for shared resources. There are even TCP congestion control algorithms that aren't mutually compatible (e.g. under congestion situations one algorithm will be more aggressive and dominate the available bandwidth).
I'm using Firefox 110, Gnome, Wayland, Pop!_OS 22.04. I only have a scrollbar when I scroll or mouse-over the scroll bar.
"I also encourage readers to remember that generally speaking, you all _want_ extensions."

Exception here. Never asked for them. Never wanted them. Do not and cannot use them.^1 Seems moot anyway as I doubt anyone ever asked for Chrome itself.

When an extension collects data under the radar it's "malware" but when Google does this, it isn't malware. Funny.

There's really no greater "danger" to www users than Google because it's nearly impossible to stop Google from doing what it wants. The company is embedded in every aspect of using the web. Malware authors might be a threat but they hold no such omnipotent control. Google is the largest threat.

1. Occasional Chrome user via Guest mode that does not permit Extensions.
I've never really thought about it, do the fields have a drainage system to get rid of the water? I understand the water's reason is flushing out insects and mice, right?

If they don't pump it out and back into a river, and it just slowly seeps into the ground, that's exactly what the article is proposing, isn't it? Just with the added benefit of keeping the rice plants uneaten.
The trick is to talk to the right groups of people about the things they’re interested in.

For example, I’m building a No Code platform. This could be interesting to many people, but for different reasons, so you have to tailor your approach based on the group you’re talking to. In my case, developers will react positively to approach where I mention the tech I used to build the project. Bloggers on the other hand will be interested if I present my app as something that lets them start a custom blog in seconds rather than days.

In SEO and digital marketing circles, you go and mention how’s your experience with getting customers. Next most important thing is to find these interest groups. For example if you don’t have millions of friends on Facebook, don’t even bother posting on your wall feed. Rather find groups which have users who are interested in certain topics, tailor your approach based on that group’s interest and post there.

Also, make sure to choose as many hashtags as possible and Google which tags are most popular for the topic that you’re writing about. Then just include those in your posts. For example on Instagram, almost all of my traffic is from hashtags.

That pretty much sums it up.
They definitely don't require "much" less energy. Zen 4 is very close to the M series in perf per watt
> Honestly I don't understand why there's not something like a 256 core ARM laptop

The high power ARM cores aren’t that small. If you took the M2 and scaled it up to 256 cores, it would be almost 7 square inches. You can’t just scale a chip like that, though, so the interconnects would consume a huge amount of space as well. It would also consume over 1000W.

The latest ARM chips are great, but some times I think the perception has shifted too far past the reality.
> Instead of keeping the assembly line running no matter what and then fixing things at the end (aka “always expected to be producing and delivering, incentivized to cut corners in order to get it done”), the expectation is instead to stop-the-line when problems are encountered so as not to leak quality issues to the next stage.

What is this supposed to mean in practice? Working outside of sprints?
The article gives a concrete example in the same paragraph: "For example, AI algorithms could get close to a solution quickly and efficiently, and then the gap between the AI answer and the true solution can be filled by high-precision computing."

Interestingly the example is backwards (statistical reasoning first, hard reasoning second) compared to traditional usage of "hybrid" in AI and control contexts.
that's hindsight. crypto had a sell when it was up and coming. and then when the rubber hit the road, all the benefits didn't hold up to scrutiny.

The new AI wave isn't proven quite yet. I wonder if it will have to make a "BTC is a store of value a la gold"-esque marketing pivot too.
Its an example of bad leadership. You see it often. Higher management thinks product x can be ready in a y period. Reality is much different. One of the key reasons why companies and products fail.
one variant of this is sciml approaches where you use an ODE solver wrapped around a NN. the ODE solver guarantees you get the right conversation laws which NNs don't do well and the NN is more accurate than the hand written model since it doesn't ignore the higher order effects.
The problem is winning the RFPs. There are some core features and integrations that they really, really want. If we don’t have them, and won’t give a firm commitment to building them, we lose the RFP.

“We’ll work collaboratively and evolve the product over time in yet-to-be-determined ways” can work when you have an established relationship and 2-way trust, but there’s not much of that during an RFP. If a competitor commits to their biggest asks, and we don’t, we lose the RFP.
It's part of the argument thoigh:

> She knows all the physical facts about us and our environment, in a
wide sense of 'physical' which includes everything in completed physics, chemistry, and neurophysiology (emp. mine), and all there is to know about the causal and relational facts consequent upon all this, including of
course functional roles.

If she knows all there is to know about neurophisiology, she obviously knows exactly how her own brain works. In the original assumption of physicalism (the one the argument ultimately wants to show is false), that also implies she knows everything about the mind.

> And as it happens, I don't generally buy arguments premised on the mind being reducible to the brain.

The whole point of this particular argument is to take that as an assumption, reach a contradiction, and conclude that the assumption is false. The Mary's Room argument is precisely an argument that the mind is separate from the brain. It's a bad argument (per some other comment, even it's creator no longer really thinks it's convincing), but I think you would agree with the conclusion.
>They are deliberately keeping prices high and creating artificial shortages of GPUs

you've seen evidence for this, or it's your opinion?

>AMD had a chance to really pull ahead of Nvidia

with a graphics card line that you just told us is far behind Nvidia's?
One thing is balance. If you draw characters out of the typical stroke order, things will often look lopsided or have weird proportions. When written with the proper order, proportions look nicer.

For example, think about writing a capital A. It’ll look different if you draw the middle bar first or if you draw the outer two lines first. F will also look different depending on whether you draw the vertical line or one of the horizontal lines first. Try a Q with the little bottom dash before drawing the circle. It’s not only weird but more difficult.

The difference in these characters is subtle, but you can notice it with your own writing. Now instead of 3 strokes to write a character, imagine those with 15 or even 28 strokes. The odd balance and proportions have cascading effects.
To each their own, I guess. I can't (or just won't) change my visceral reaction to hearing about how somebody brought a corporate censor into their network. It's not "1984", it just makes me, personally, slightly sad and confused.
I live on the same property as my parents in a separate house with separate internet connections. Their house is less than 30 feet from me. We share the same physical address. Yet according to Netflix, this would not count as family sharing because of our separate internet lines.
Google (and maybe some of the others) does let some employees do a 4-day work week for 80% pay. I’ve met more than one such person, but they are rare.
> Ownership is not that hard. Borrowing is a bit harder but not that much more so.

I guess this is a bit like Typescript then. Especially when it comes to generics, sometimes I need to sit down and think carefully about what datatype exactly is it that this method requires compared to what I have and how do I express it in a generic way.

Sometimes it ends up taking some time but the result is invariably that the code ends up easier to read, understand and modify.
Anecdotal, but I recently had the opportunity to write some relatively greenfield code in each of Rust and C++. Nothing too massive, a few thousand lines. But fairly intricate code with a need for high performance. I consider myself to be fairly advanced in both languages (but not can-write-the-spec level advanced).

I was shocked at how many memory corruption / uninitialized data errors I was hitting in C++, for what (I thought) was fairly nice, modern-ish code. This is for code that builds cleanly with -Wall -Werror, with exclusive use of .at() instead of unchecked vector/map access, etc. There are just far too many ways to end up with uninitialized data, and the ecosystem (think serialization libraries) don't really help you there.

I didn't realize how much of a cognitive burden Rust was relieving me of. Sure, the borrow checker is a pain. But I have confidence that when my code builds, it will be entirely free of certain classes of bugs. And other classes of bugs are well-managed by Rust's compiler warnings and Clippy lints.

There seems to be a sort of sleight of hand in programming communities where when Rust is hard, we blame it on the language, but when C++ is hard, we blame it on the programmer. I didn't see the article do a good job of teasing this out.
But you can't really injection mold this geometry, it'd have to be done in 2 halves, or quarters, and then bonded together, which would make for weird bending performance in the area of the weld and therefore make a ball that bounces unevenly
Not unreasonable, but isn't this largely the same as charging for submission? (Only a fixed monthly fee instead of a per-submission fee.)
Prompt engineering feels similar to how to do a google search. As engineers we have learned to efficiently search with google. Similarly I feel we will soon learn how to write good prompts. Hence, it wont be a job, but most jobs might require the skill to do a good job.
tldr: crypto
They're easy to scale in some sense (just make a bunch of small ones), but small reactors have a high surface area to volume ratio -- i.e., a high expense to algae ratio. Making bigger vats is problematic because the work being done is proportional to surface area (light penetration) and because the chance of infection goes up exponentially.
Answering this earnestly with the assumption that the final paragraph is in good faith. And stating for the record that the below summarizes my attempt to imagine the best we could do with the ingredients we have. If I were building a world out of whole cloth, my ambition would be grander.

To be clear about the whole Amish/uncontacted tribe/et all scenarios -- the point I intended (but perhaps did not make) was that I'm not especially interested in what hypothetical people think about anything. They don't exist. Every single real world example suffers from problems in the vein of those present with the Amish example. Kowtowing to the needs of hypothetical people has, historically, caused far greater harm than good.

To your questions -- my beliefs in this arena largely boil down to this: each member of a community has an inherent responsibility to contribute that which they are able, both in terms of ability and in terms of resources. No more, but also no less.

The reason this responsibility exists is that every member's success is inextricably linked with their community -- because success (beyond sheer survival) is measured by community. One cannot exist without the other -- and a high tide lifts all boats. In our current global system, living outside of any community is, practically, impossible -- so the responsibility is inherent.

Homeless are not exempt, but consideration would be made for the distinction between folks of comfortable means versus those living on a day-by-day basis. One group has resources and ability in excess of their needs. Another group lacks the resources to sustain ability. To lift them up is to lift the community. Sure some folks would refuse to change in accordance with societal standards -- but a lot less than you might expect, once the barriers of social shame, inefficient and needlessly cruel bureaucracy, and infantilization are removed. And yes, were we to implement this tomorrow, the above wouldn't happen overnight. The point is consistency and transparency in service of making everyone understand that they the individual is part of a greater whole.

Which is to say: I believe that the more one contributes to a community, the more the community becomes what it's meant to be: a collection of disparate people making up a symbiotic human ecosystem.

Obviously this system assumes folks acting in good faith, which feels lacking at the moment. But I'm hardly alone in believing that lack is due in large part to the current lack of everyone having skin the game, due to policies pushing problems back and forth, costing everyone money and attention, and accomplishing nothing but creating frustrated factions.

Hope that clarifies my position!
Of course you have that problem inside s company building software.

Engineers low ball partly because they don’t know what’s involved in a new piece of work. Like walking between two points on a map; they don’t know what they’ll run into on the ground.

Managers and stake holders then bully the engineers into lowering the estimates because even that’s not quick enough. Worse, they scale the team without discussion without realising that will make the project harder to deliver.
'The Problem Index' – Which Countries Have the Worst Demographics
Has California done a single thing to curb the vast "water-rights" that were given out so long ago? My understanding is there are still obscenely water-inefficient crops being grown at huge scale & the ever dwindling water supply has impacted almost everyone but the worst offenders, who just so happen to have some very old "right" which overrides seemingly all human need.

This feels like an abomination.
Is it hindsight? I've worked in crypto since 2016 and I knew it was all BS and all scams back then. Seven years later, it hasn't contributed anything to society except more sophisticated scams.
The payback of such stints can be brutal though, and it won't necessarily happen the next day either.
Oh man, I hear this on every such topic. It is in no way virtually impossible to fire someone, you just can't do it willy nilly because you don't like someone's face. You just have to follow well defined procedures (pip is a thing here too)
I think it's hilarious to say bazel focuses on correctness when it doesn't ship with any hermetic toolchains by default. Properly setting up hermetic toolchains is poorly documented and left as an exercise to the reader.

I say this as someone who wants to love bazel... I just can't understand why it picks up impure toolchains from the system at all.
Well if you find such contractors beyond very small jobs please do let me know ;) because I’ve personally never seen one
No, it's an initialism.
I think because general compute is hard to parallelize, so 256 cores doesn't help much in practice. (Compute that does parallelize well already runs on GPU).