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I'd be impressed if this was the reasoning GPT provided, e.g. "I don't think this vegan wolf likes cabbage". But when asked to explain itself (see above, the "debugging" comment) it states nothing of the sort.

Also, a reasoning person would understand that in the context of a riddle like this, "vegan wolf" means "a wolf that eats cabbages" even if this isn't spelled out.

GPT could be a contrarian, trying to subvert the terms of the riddle and fight over every word ("it depends of what the definition of 'is' is") but we know it's not set up to behave like that, so we can rule it out.
I know blocking deploys sucks, I'm sorry. We disabled them to prevent otherwise healthy apps from going down. When Consul fails, we can't boot new app processes. The ones that are already running continue running. A restart is roughly the same as a deploy, in this respect.
This is interesting. I live in Baltimore where people have been smoking it in the streets illegally for decades. And I have never once smelled it in my house or my office. I smell more piss in DC than marijuana smoke.

I'm pretty glad that Germany has decided to stop locking people in cages for a flower. It's due time we focus on other crimes against humanity.
What are you talking about? Do you mean send out games on DVD?
Seems like it passed the trial: https://roadsafety.transport.nsw.gov.au/stayingsafe/mobileph....
There are similarities in the implementation as well, specifically around content addressable storage and layers.

Nix needs reproducible builds as well, which is a limiting factor. What’s nice about Docker is that it’s flexible enough to actually get stuff done.
Yes, relatively speaking.

First likely hit I found:

"Meteors enter the atmosphere at speeds ranging from 11 km/sec...to 72 km/sec
...
The wide range in meteoroid speeds is caused partly by the fact that the Earth itself is traveling at about 30 km/sec (67,000 mph) as it revolves around the sun. On the evening side, or trailing edge of the Earth, meteoroids must catch up to the earth’s atmosphere to cause a meteor, and tend to be slow. On the morning side, or leading edge of the earth, meteoroids can collide head-on with the atmosphere and tend to be fast."

https://www.amsmeteors.org/meteor-showers/meteor-faq/
This has been a rough week, and I'm sorry we broke peoples' apps. We had a big Nomad outage on Monday, and then a suspiciously similar Consul outage today. Both tipped over faster than we could detect and mitigate, and we ended up having to do serious surgery to build entirely new Consul/Nomad clusters.

There's nothing to brag about here, I just wanted to let y'all know we're listening (even when things aren't on the HN front page).
Employee options have a 10 year limit, and given the age of the company some employees were going to lose their options if they don't exercise. But to exercise you need to pay, in cash, the strike price plus taxes. I believe this founding round is to cover this.
Well presumably meteors travel at different speeds in outer space, and some meteors could be regarded as high speeds and others at low speeds. I don't think you necessarily have to be in synchronization with Earth's orbit to be considered low speed relative to some reasonable perspective.
Journalists should be looking for undocumented APIs
I think the failsafe is to not allow anything beside voice calls if it detects movement. Phones while on motion are a convenience, not a need. Before the 90s very few people had mobile phones and they got places fine.
Earth's Economy Slowed in February 2023
FedNow is just banks offloading their costs onto the public sector.
> But my argument regarding -Weverything comes down to something more practical--your code may compile today, but it will stop compiling tomorrow when the suite of diagnostics and their implementation change

Yes, but I always use the latest Clang. And I am a one-man show. Totally not a problem for me.
The only comment I have is about the first footnote. The 6809 had a MUL instruction, which was 8b unsigned only (register A * register B, high byte of result in A, low byte result in B). There is no DIV instruction.
Soft disagree.

Agency is limited, sure, but futility is not a foregone conclusion.

Especially at the scale I'm thinking and working. Like, I'm interested in resources for my loved ones, protecting what I can.

There is stuff like trad prepping, sure, but we could also begin to talk about flexible governance structures, recruits, that sort of thing. Organizing.

Survival will require oodles of trust.
Sorry to be that guy, but cantons and states are very different.

Cantons have vastly more autonomy than any us state, on any matter. The US system does not even come close.
I am not sure which one has more pros/cons, though.
> We are working to build a new Consul cluster with 10x the RAM.

Oh boy. I wouldn’t wanna be the people doing this. Working with infrastructure is hard. Doing it under tight SLAs? Ugh. I really hope the people working on this are being well supported.
Indeed. What if the object was traveling at the same speed as Earth as it revolves around the Sun, and their paths intersect at a very acute angle? That is to say, they met at a traffic 'zipper' ... Could an object collide with earth at a lower speed?
I do not want to discount your personal experience, but could it be that you are/were just depressed?
I know my depression got severely worse during COVID. Depression can make you feel sluggish, especially when you give up physical activity entirely for a while due to illness and then try to start again.
And then it also makes sense that with progressive physical therapy you realize you can afford more and more physical effort.
People are starting to counter and be annoyed by a revolution, it just means that it starts working.
U.S. Copyright Office says some AI-assisted works may be copyrighted
Why not just make your tool apply the indenting style? Then it's automatically baked into the team and project, no need for debates or merge issues.
thats not a good price. Where is the innovation? Price, range, features, looks?
You haven't accounted for the massive gravity well that is the sun. The difference in potential energy from infinity to the radius of Earths orbit is GMm/r. Set that equal to momentum (.5mv^2) and you get sqrt(2GM/r). Plug in the numbers and you'll see you can't really have a meteor that stumbled in from outside the solar system with a similar velocity to Earths orbit by the time it came down to Earths orbit. Put another way, if it was moving slow enough for the speeds to basically match, it would also be in an orbit around the sun similar to our own, and you'd have to account for the missing potential energy it had before entering our stars gravity well. If you want to argue it came from within the solar system, it would have to have already been in an Earth like orbit this whole time, so why don't we see it?
"This impacts queries to our API, including creating and modifying apps, as well as incoming network requests for recently deployed apps."

Would be really interested to understand why it affects recently deployed apps but not apps that are already established - something to do with how the Fly Router works?
Whether a human made it is pretty arbitrary. Someone came up with a strategy and multiple levels of Stripe decision making thought it was doable and a good idea. Executives, more often than not, will put share holders and company interest first.
We've scaled infra ops from 3 to 7 people in the past few weeks. Our very first VP was a VP Infra Ops, because that's the thing we have to get best at to succeed as a business.

Note that we grew the whole company from 25 to 60 over the last six months.
Yes, probably.

One thing is really different though : I had the flu (the real one) once in my life. I had covid at least twice (the third time I didn't bother getting checked) I as many years.
How to implement an algorithm from a scientific paper (2012)
The OS being shipped for lots of firewalls and the base of OpenSSH still ships today games in base such as a near 50 year old text adventure inside a cave, tetris, an air trafic controller sim, an RPG and a crude MMORPG, among others such as monopoly, mille or boggle.

Not so weird.

Nerds have been playing with computers and making games for them since early ages.
Selective enforcement of broad regulations like this is one of the hallmarks of a corrupt regime.

The great thing about everybody being guilty is that they can use nudges and winks to force people to toe the line about anything at all, far in excess of the power and authority granted to them by laws on paper. Get uppity and they'll send some goons around to smash up the place.

This not a case of the hapless simpletons in government having a good heart and the right intentions, and yet again bungling the legislation spectacularly, and now they're dutifully serving the people by doing their gosh darndest to keep the financial system from collapsing due to their prior incompetence. These laws and regulations are constructed and implemented by and for the ruling class, for the purpose of increasing their wealth and power.
“I am not interested in a forest of time-wasting links to mainstream sources”

“Nothing but what I say has provoked this war. Period.”

“There is only one side that has unilaterally done everything bad. End of story.”

“Only one party can end this. Stop talking about what we can do. This is completely up to Putin.”

“If you disagree with me then you are spewing Putin propaganda. How much are they paying you?”

“Russia is 100% at fault, and it must be 100% defeated to show the world that no one can arm rebels or invade countries or occupy them or bomb people”

“Ok well we may have done that but that was a really long time ago.. and anyway we didn’t try to ANNEX those countries! Look, no one is perfect and we make slight mistakes. But two wrongs don’t make a right”.

“Stop talking about what our country did. NATO had no role in this. Stop using historical facts. What you say has no relevance”

“Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine is completely unjustified and unprovoked! I mean.. unprovoked and unjustified. That’s what I independently personally think and you should agree — end of story!”

“That is the only thing to talk about.”

“And nothing whatsoever to say on it except what I said. Period.”

“End of story.“

“Did I mention period?”

I think it is clear this style of arguing is a bit different than most intellectually honest discourse on HN. Can’t quite put my finger on what the differences are … maybe someone can help me out here?
Certainly the FDIC-insured accounts to that level ($250k) should be guarded, as that is part of the calculus. That does cover most ordinary individual accounts, and most certainly all of the 'little people'.

If we want to talk about changing rules for FDIC on what's covered, then fine.

What I have a hard time with is this panicked rule change to create a temporary (at least for now, as devs we all know how temporary fixes often go...) system for banks to sell treasuries at par instead of at market. Do the 'little people' get such a deal with what treasuries they may have?

And remember that this is happening because interest rates were hiked very quickly recently, causing treasury market prices to dip, and that happened because of the need to combat high inflation, and that happened due to the excessive bailout spending in the pandemic (more money chasing same/fewer goods), and that happened because of gov heavy-handily shutting down a LOT of the economy (it's okay, it was just the non-essential 'little people' work though...).

I could go on, but it's clearly one blunder fix after another. Maybe this recent FDIC action and halting interest rate hikes will be enough to soften the blow, and won't cause enough side effects to notice much. Who knows? I'm just skeptical.

I guess we'll see in 15 years or so...
OpenAI I knows they’re just a few cycles behind open source models - probably why they stuck a deal early with Microsoft.
Honestly, I've found that conda has made operationalizing code very difficult. We've found it much easier to simply switch back to using pip, poetry, docker, and the standard OS package management tools rather than conda. Conda's dependency resolution is also quite slow and causes our builds & CI to timeout unless we drop in mamba.
I would say this article is a far cry from "nonsense" - it's quite informative, even if there are a few small inaccuracies or naming issues.
Amiga Emulator in JavaScript and HTML5
I just bought one second-hand for little to try it out. Because I'm very big on AR/VR and for as little as I paid for it it was nice to have.

It's great for the "you see what I see" remote hands support usecase that Vuzix and RealWear already cover (with apps like PointR, Ubimax etc) but in a slightly more stylish manner. But it lacks a continuation of real out of the box thinking and strategy like the original glass had.

This was just dumped on the market as hardware for businesses to figure out how it fit into their workflow and find a killer application. Besides the above which is a bit of a niche for field service / remote hands tech support, this didn't have seemed to happen. Not surprised it got cancelled. Google isn't the kind of company that's good at selling niche hardware without any bundled services which was basically what this was (the latest image even had the only 2 example apps removed so all you can do with it out of the box is fiddle with the settings!).

If they're not going to use it to innovate and drive new services it's better left to the smaller industry.

The hardware itself is nice and well-designed though it drains the battery even when off which really hurts its longevity (lipo batteries age really quickly with no charge). And while it's much more stylish than it's competitors, it lacks the ruggedness they offer, which is really required in the field support niche market where this usecase really shines.

For example RealWear and vuzix have stuff like hard hat adaptors and safety glasses add-ons. These things are needed to make it a success in most markets that benefit from this tech. So it was a bit of a weird combo, a product that shines in the field but is only designed for an office environment.

At work we have hundreds of Vuzix and RealWear glasses for this reason (and a bunch from a Chinese competitor that's only big in their own region, I forgot the name). But nobody on the business side was ever interested in Google's. Despite it being cheaper than RealWear no less.
Haha, indeed!
Tech entrepreneurship and shifting sentiment
'The People's Hospital' treats uninsured and undocumented
I have seen some issues around Consul these days.

As a person with no background in distributed systems, I am wondering why people choose Consul over alternatives. Are there features that etcd doesn't offer?
One simple answer to this is they could disable all new purchases without disabling the entire account. If you can no longer spend money there's nothing to charge back.
>> Careful prompt work can evade those poles and tics, but most people won’t have the skill or drive to bother with that.

I absolutely agree with this.

Furthermore, I've come to believe that "careful prompt work" doesn't really save much time relative to just writing/coding the output I want.

Especially after QA/edits
> Mostly industrialization and export of machinery and (later) pharmaceuticals.

Pharmaceuticals exports are highlight of Swiss exports, but as only 25% of the GDP is attributed to industry[0], this can't be a significant part of the economy.

Now how much of the 74% of the service revenue is banking is up for grabs, as tourism for instance is also a potentially big part. But even if it was only half of that, it would still be bigger that the pharma I guess ? (except if patents and/or IP was also counted as "services" ? but would it be that big either way ?)

[0] https://www.eda.admin.ch/aboutswitzerland/en/home/wirtschaft...
E-Paper Wall Paper
For this to happen, it must have a low-enough potential energy to begin with. Otherwise, it will just shoot out the other side of the orbit.

In that case, most likely a meteor was already in orbit, and we just didn't know about it.
The design of Consul is wrong for what we need to do. Consul has been pretty good when it's running, but it's a huge pain in the ass to recover when it falls over. And when it does fall over, it's usually with no notice.
> If you're building open source, maybe stick to open source solutions in your tech stack and if it's not there build it. This is what Apache does for the Java ecosystem.

You mean this Apache: https://github.com/apache ?
If you think about it... people has been emulating the GBA and Pokémon itself on book sized machines faster than a Cray back in the day.
Oops! Sorry for the confusion.
Oil tumbles to lowest level since December 2021
Spoilers: it's a Golf.
> I think the jury is still out on SamA.

He’s the originator of the Worldcoin scam: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-...
There would be parameters to evade the obvious picks.

temperature can actually go up to 2 in the API and you can also go use top_p < 1.
but for the more out of this world stuff, this is where fine tuning will come in.
The main model will always come in as vanilla anyway.
I assume the stat is actually that the UK gets more per unit of area than any other country except the Netherlands.
> Otherwise the button needs to read "acquire revokable license" or something.

Somebody get the EU on that, stat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_National_Bank#World_War_...

During world war II the swiss national bank took all of the gold looted by the nazis - these were astronomical sums, it's really a shameful chapter of their history which is not widely known.

In addition to turning back Jewish refugees at the border. Also the swiss government even requested the nazis to mark the passports of Jews, so that they could be better turned down at the border.

https://www.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/microsoft%20word%20-%2060...

Also there was a big court case during the nineties, because credit suisse withheld the money of holocaust victims, while at the same time former nazi officials had no problems with their accounts - all at the same bank.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Jewish_Congress_lawsuit_...

https://www.ft.com/content/f80088e4-5f0d-11ea-8033-fa40a0d65...
AWS support is in the queue, but we only have GCP services at the moment. What services on AWS do you need access to? We can move them to the front of the queue to help out.

Feel free to reach out even if this doesn’t work with your timeline. I might be able to help you come up with another solution, and I’m always interested to hear new use cases!
First Republic Bank weighing options including sale
GPT-4 writes a working game
Thank you! I'm both sorry it didn't work out (because $$$$) and also glad we didn't create any agony for you. Someday, we hope to create mild irritation for you, though, if we can.
I don't see any indication that Codon makes any claim to generated code. It's just that the license prohibits production/commercial use of the compiler--not much different than other proprietary compilers like, say, Visual Studio.
You can already time travel and do worm holes with astral projection. I'm no good at it though.
not getting into wars helped a shitload
Orbital mechanics is considerably more complex than this because there are several over massive planets orbiting the Sun. Granted, the odds are very low of getting kicked into a trajectory that will just barely kiss Earth's orbit (at the right time), but it can happen. Not everything orbits in a conic. Also, extrasolar meteors are probably a lot more rare than the above comment would suggest.
I think we might have crossed paths at some point - happy to take it offline and explain.
Authors of Loom seems to disagree with you.

> An alternative solution to that of fibers to concurrency's simplicity vs. performance issue is known as async/await, and has been adopted by C# and Node.js, and will likely be adopted by standard JavaScript. Continuations and fibers dominate async/await in the sense that async/await is easily implemented with continuations (in fact, it can be implemented with a weak form of delimited continuations known as stackless continuations, that don't capture an entire call-stack but only the local context of a single subroutine), but not vice-versa.

> While implementing async/await is easier than full-blown continuations and fibers, that solution falls far too short of addressing the problem. While async/await makes code simpler and gives it the appearance of normal, sequential code, like asynchronous code it still requires significant changes to existing code, explicit support in libraries, and does not interoperate well with synchronous code. In other words, it does not solve what's known as the "colored function" problem.

This is under the section called "Other Approaches" in https://cr.openjdk.org/~rpressler/loom/Loom-Proposal.html

That seems to indicate to me that async/await would be an alternative to virtual threads.
I would actually agree with you.

Although this is almost trivially true: any single gov spend inflation effect is 'pretty much zero'. That's not the same as 'free' though. All spend together adds up to at least 2-3% in good times.

... and it just went up by 0.4% last month: https://reason.com/2023/03/14/inflation-isnt-going-away/

yikes
Are they really building everything in hard mode or do they just have a bad architecture?
Salesforce Launches “Web3” Services
It has happened. Such orbits are not stable, due to the moon and sun's influence.

https://earthsky.org/space/2020-so-mini-moon-asteroid-or-spa...
You don’t want a VC involved in this idea. Their job is to chase extreme growth and burn down any investment that doesn’t grow enough along the way. They’d ruin what you want this to be.

But you’ll 100% see this starting to mature as homespun Discord bots in the next year or so, and eventually showing up as either Steam games or web apps from bootstrapped or privately-funded companies soon enough to.

It’s not a hard thing to get going, and so it’ll just come down to sorting out a business model and then iterating on features. No VC required. Just time, passion, and some supportive fans/users.
We are talking about Stripe. It’s not exactly a small startup.

The “chance” of a startup making it big is infinitesimal.

First only 1 in 10 startups “succeed”. And “success” means that the VCs didn’t lose money. By the time you join a late stage startup where some of the risk of completely failure are derisked, the chance of outsized gains are also lower.

Besides, then we get back a private company, every year I work without the company going public, I’m even less diversified because I am more dependent on the company succeeding.

In a public company, I can derisk every six months.

And then there is the issue that Stripe employees have to pay taxes but they couldn’t sell their equity to pay for it. In a public company, you can choose to sell shares to cover taxes.
Or haiti paying reparations to france until like 1950.
I think the difference is that most people have a difficult time imagining what disruption to supply chain logistics looks like. But thanks to ChatGPT and Midjouney it’s very clear what AI writing a poem or generating an image from a description looks like.