skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To make a long complicated story short, Marxism is the study of how class contradictions resolve themselves. Using Hegelian dialectics, it poses different classes against each other and theorizes what the synthesis would become. It could be said that this (and branching philosophies like critical theory) is the ultimate end result of Western philosophy, hence the leftward tilt of the humanities.

In an ideal sense, Marxist theory should be capable of updating itself to match actual conditions. In a degenerated dogmatic sense, it can be used to force actual conditions to fit within a narrow and false theory.

There is no end to the different interpretations of Marxism and the arguments and debates between them, because there's only so many real world examples that could be tested and examined.

Compared to an engineering problem, Marxist theory ends up touching so many fields and variables on a global scale that the problem space ends up being orders of magnitude greater. There's too much to examine and make sense of, so interpretations end up being strategies on how to navigate through this problem space and how to achieve Marxist theories and goals, either orthodixcally or heterodoxically.

In the example of that anthropologist, it does not go into detail with what the Marxists disagreed with. However, I think a Marxist argument could be made for the wars over women in that their society is of a more primitive stage where stealing women was a part of their socioeconomics. Their system works out so that a population equilbirum is achieved.

In works like Engel's On the Origin of the Family..., there is a Marxist interpretation of how humans orient themselves accordingly to the Marxist theory that the base economics form the superstructure of the culture and society. In more advanced societies, they went through agricultural revolutions that vastly increased the population and reshaped how societies must function to keep order.

Another example of Marxist theory gone wrong could be the USSR, and you have Marxists either defending or condemning it for various reasons. It could then be said that the Chinese Marxists learned from the USSR to create their own branched off lineage to prevent similar collapse and to forge their own path towards the Marxist stages of socialism and communism. (And of course you have Marxists condemning China too. Tl;Dr: the arguments are largely either China must develop before being advanced enough for socialism or China must advance to a socialist stage or else it will gravitate back towards complete capitalist control.)

Edit: That being said, while STEM has rigorous methodologies to verify truths, the fields can also be swept up by orthodoxies and heterodoxies and different interpretations. There's always been the derisive websh*t meme for fads on Hacker News. Or there's the unsolved problems in physics with different interpretations to resolve them. The scientific process did have its roots in philosophical developments after all.
Props for researching the actual stats
Ford has the numbers Tesla did in 2020.
Ergonomic or unhinged? ‘Reverse mode’ for the terminal
I can imagine that could be because you adapt to it over time. People visiting high altitude cities will often get nausea and even sick from the lack of oxygen while locals are perfectly fine.
So giving zero notice is not unprofessional? I have a ton of important things I am doing at work, if I left without doing any work to transition that work to new people, it is going to put all the people at my company in a tough position. They could figure it out eventually, but it would be a lot of extra work for my coworkers that could be avoided if I spent two weeks working with the team to transition the work.
It’s a start. Hopefully they’ll improve the reader experience. Having a single general-purpose forum (a “firehose”) doesn’t really work for me since it’s so random, but with so little content, it’s probably necessary for now.

Subscribing needs improvement. Subscribing to a hashtag might make sense? It seems like subscribing to someone’s notes and their blog should be independent, because maybe someone has a good blog but you don’t care for their notes, or vice-versa. Having them tied together also doesn’t work for people like me who use RSS. I don’t usually want email from blogs I read, so I only subscribe to blogs where I’m interested in the paid content and usually turn the email off.

I think this loses what makes Substack interesting, though, which is keeping the community for each blog separate, so you don’t care what people are saying on other blogs that you don’t read. Putting everyone in one community, or an unclear blob of overlapping communities, seems likely to be bad for the same reasons Twitter can often be bad.

I guess blogs need discovery, though, and maybe external sites aren’t enough?

(I think I’ll repost this as a note, since they need the content.)
A Lakehouse by the sea: Migrating Seafowl storage layer to delta-rs
I don't understand why people are so excited to build this big thing on top of Llama, which is closed source, severely license restricted and we now know for a fact that Meta is going after users with the legal hammer.

I'm sure if we'd pool resources together we could build a truly open alternative worthy of building on top of.
Having it in the recital is way less safe than it being explicitly spelled out in an Article.
> East coast US seems to be going up about 3mm/year, or a foot per century. That's on top of 7 foot tides.

That's the average rise it you average all data going back to the 1950s.

Unfortunately, looking back to the 50s is only really useful if interested in how much sea levels have already risen. Otherwise it presents an unrealistically optimistic view, as the rate has accelerated since.

Per the article, the east coast (North Carolina) is currently experiencing an increase of about a third of an inch per year, which is an increase of one foot per 36 years, or close to a meter per century.

If current trends continue, this will accelerate, not decelerate.
thanks, that's pretty key. I've done plenty of copper, but for some reason (maybe just the cost), I didn't think of it like Al or Cu where you really need to take into account thermal mass and preheat. I suspect that's where the pulse settings really shine - getting really local hot spots in a very short period of time.

if silver starts becoming more decorative and less of a specie I'll probably try in earnest
> As such, whatever forceful mental health treatment you're proposing as a solution to your fear of the homeless, is not going to actually solve your problem.

I have a 70 year old family friend that owns a farm, 4th generation of his family to own the farm. it butts up to the Freeway. His farm is less than 1/4 a mile outside a large (~200k) city limits on the west coast.

He has an encampment of 30 or so homeless people living on his land. (A spot set aside for nature by the county, so its wooded, not actively farmed). this is about 200 yards from his house. In a typical day, 15 or so semis' and old motorhomes pull over along the freeway offramp, to buy/sell meth. They cut down the trees, set fires to warm themselves, wander trough his property, have stolen countless tools, scrap metal, diesel fuel, etc from him. Basically a large tent/tarp city, with human waste, needles, stolen bikes/cars, (well, stolen everything) Its also caused a huge influx of rats, coyotes, and other scavengers.

The County Sheriff has told him they no longer respond to trespassing and vandalism calls, and to just file a report. (they are overwhelmed with them) His 68 year old wife will no longer ride her horse on that half of the farm, she is scared of them, and if their dogs charge at her horses again they might spook them and cause her to get really hurt.

One time, before they said no more trespassing calls, the sheriff did tell them to leave, they moved their camp from the trees, to right alongside the freeway, which is owned by the state dept of transportation. they couldn't do anything then, since it was state land, and they moved back the next week.

once they do clear out, because its private property, he is solely responsible for the cleanup costs, including the human waste, needles, stolen abandoned cars, etc. He could also be fined by the state for cutting down trees, etc, in an area that is supposed to be set aside for nature. (even though he did not do it)

I understand your ideas, And I am all for building them all homes. I am all for compassion, empathy, and helping out those that are less fortunate, and need help. But if it was funded, today, 100%, that would be 12-18 months to build the homes.

There are solutions that need to be done now. And there are solutions that need to be done long term as well. We should be doing all the things, not just waiting for the one perfect thing to be put in place.
I just want to point out that we have several people in this thread talking about the blatant tyranny of being asked to wear a small face covering...

...while simultaneously advocating for the state to imprison and forcibly medicate others.

It's also interesting that you value "a nice downtown" more than "liberty".
Because OpenAI or Google being the gate keepers is a show stopper for most serious people in the space.

They will be able to shutdown your startup on a whim. Even if they didn't politicians and regulators would be a huge risk. Without democratization we get blade runner . Not that democratization has no problems, just that it is the way a lot of us are wanting it to go.
Whose grief? Quantified how? Compared against what benefit provided by the "accommodation to a few"?
At Microsoft, the standard practice is that if you say you're leaving to take a job a company they consider a competitor, they cut off all your access at the end of the day, even if your manager wants you to stick around for knowledge transfer. If it's not a competitor, it's up to you how much notice you want to give. If you say you're leaving but don't say who your next employer is, they assume it's a competitor.

Facebook was classified as a competitor, Amazon was not.
Assume the chance of it becoming valuable is equal to the chance the startup will succeed. About %10 maybe - if you want to be optimistic. Best to not weigh it at all I think. Your time and effort is worth what it is worth and you should be paid for it. You will likely be asked to work more than you might have to work at a more established company.

If I remember correctly Founders and CEOs of startups were being given low interest home loans by Silicon Valley Bank because the startups deposited money there. You will not have access to those types of benefits as an employee. Employers will happily let employees under value their work and make sacrifices for their companies.
AccountabilityGPT: Getting ChatGPT to start conversations with you
Massachusetts (and most of New England) is great. I own a large house with a mortgage that's cheaper than a shared studio in San Francisco and I never worry about locking the door.

Neighbors are all friendly, well behaved kids roam the street unsupervised, it feels the same way it did 30 years ago here. It's deep blue territory. The weather is terrible and the Red Sox have gone off the rails, but you can't have everything.
I didn't ask him, so I don't know. My guess is that he would say that they failed to find the help they were seeking and so they eventually made the decision for real.
We currently block HTML responses on Functions and Storage, but we are considering relaxing that limitation, so that you can host static sites on our Storage. And allowing user-defined functions running on every request to Storage in the edge runtime would get you the reverse proxy logic you are looking for.
No mention of the relocation bonus. Was there one? Did they rescind that as well? Since I'm 90% sure Google would pay for international relocation, and the blog post didn't mention it (which it surely would have if Google had offered then rescinded one), I suspect he did get to keep that.
> I would be very surprised if something based on Blockchain or similar software doesn't offer a solution here.

There is, it's a layer-2 on Ethereum called zkSync. It's not totally satisfactory (the company that makes it can steal your money, centralized sequencer, etc), but it's pretty mature and works quite well. To replace Visa you want high throughput and low latency and zk-rollups like zkSync can provide both. (There are other options too, like Starknet, but AFAIK zkSync is the most mature.)
Our healthcare system is functioning as design,mental or physical. It is a cartel profit extraction system with impossible barriers to entry.
Yep, they have massive energy demand and going full steam ahead in all energy sources.
Just to be clear, I'm not arguing that Dawkins bad = religion true. I'm only giving an indication as to the emotional reaction that prompted me to start pondering certain things.
it will begin modernizing the site in the second quarter of 2024

Ford has said it wants the production capacity to sell 2 million EVs a year globally by the end of 2026

So Ford's stated goal is to produce the same number of EVs in 2027 that Tesla will produce in 2023.
> SF's favorite game is to send ambulances out to a guy sitting on the street, screaming insane things, covered in his own feces and trying to punch people. Ambulance shows, guy says "No!" and so everyone says "Oh, this person is doing just fine, leave them alone." And everyone leaves

The flip side of this is forcibly transporting people to hospitals and slapping them with $10-15k bills for a glorified taxi ride.

Homeless can't pay that, so small wonder they're left there. But you or me? No sir, you're unable to make decisions for yourself; we absolutely need to take you in for evaluation.

Your wallet is biopsied on the way to the hospital, where the real fun starts.

Be very afraid of an America with forced medical "care."
Every and all issues are discussed. Ad nauseam. (Just not in corporate media.)

For instance, here's a recent snapshot from Dec 2022:

"The state of the lithium-ion battery recycling market.
A conversation with battery analyst Yayoi Sekine of BNEF."

https://www.volts.wtf/p/the-state-of-the-lithium-ion-battery...

FYI, "BNEF" = Bloomberg New Energy Fund. Meaning this the POV of financial markets and institutional investors. Not just some random bloggers.
Even so, replacing fission reactors (negligible air pollution) with a mix of wind, solar, and natural gas will still probably increase air pollution. Of course, there are arguments that this is an acceptable tradeoff for cost or safety reasons.
We were comfortably supporting millions of jobs per day as a Postgres queue (using select for update skip locked semantics) at a previous role.

Scaled much, much further than I would’ve guessed at the time when I called it a short-term solution :) — now I have much more confidence in Postgres ;)
That's not even the best one, just the first one I could find off the top of my head.

And most of the accounts have people commenting on them as if it was a real person.
The RabbitMQ stuff seems pretty straightforward:

Channel prefetch:

https://www.rabbitmq.com/confirms.html

"Once the number reaches the configured count, RabbitMQ will stop delivering more messages on the channel unless at least one of the outstanding ones is acknowledged"

consumer prefetch:

https://www.rabbitmq.com/consumer-prefetch.html

So a prefetch count of 1 = 1 un-ACKed message -> what they want
What are the newer models? I am testing them in batteries across complex tasks, so far vicuña is the most flexible but they all choke on reflective instructions (I. E. Knowledge to extract is not in the model but in the user text)
That's obviously ideal. I didn't mention it not because it doesn't exist, but because I was trying to do a "compare and contrast" with the other two, more extreme, cases.
Generative AI for Law, Harvey signs deals with some of the largest law firms
Why?

The entire purpose for a title is that you went to a large central entity with guns - the state - who will enforce your claim to property, with those guns if needed.

There are precisely zero competitors who can issue an alternate title. The state definitely uses those guns to ensure that, because not doing so is an existential threat.

There is one issuer, trusted universally. That problem is solved by a centrally maintained database, not a blockchain.
That's why intensity matters as well. Napoleon was keenly aware of this, writing that the moral factor was equivalent to about 3x the physical. But he also organized his armies to move faster and lighter, using cover and concealment to find ways to flank his enemy or attack in the rear rather than seeking an open plain for a head-on clash. Later in his career, when he developed a taste for pure mass over maneuver and position, he suffered several defeats similar to those he had inflicted on others.

What I meant in my comment above, though, is not that Napoleon didn't care about such topics, but that Clausewitz doesn't always do a good job of writing about them on the tactical level. I absolutely think he's worth reading, but he's the opposite of Sun Tzu - a mass of dense, heavy, and often abstract text. There are multiple poor or incomplete translations of his famous On War which don't help. His smaller works like Principles of War and Tactics are much better starting points.
The RTO Whisperers Have a Plan
They still need to spend at least as much on fixing their continual quality and software problems.
I'm also working on a search engine that only index pages that actual human read.

Currently it only work for a single user in self hosted manner.

In the future it may allow you to integrate the index of your trusted peer (similar to following another user on twitter).

The project is on https://github.com/beenotung/personal-search-engine
I _was_ a lawyer for a decade before going into tech. One of the good habits I acquired in practice was making sure to read all the way through every document, no matter how boring it got. I agree with you completely, except the article isn't just exaggerated: it's borderline FUD. Regulation is necessary because too many humans find self-regulation in the public interest too hard. The problem is that writing effective, targeted, regulations is also hard, and often beyond the capacity of those given the power to do it. Even when they mean well (never a given, as evidenced by a sordid history of self-sealing and favoritism), it often gets mucked up.
Humans exploring space
That doesn't mean that shareholders can't be wiped out. See GM:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Chapter_11_re...
My current employer takes ages to bring people on. More than one of my coworkers has a story like mine, where after already starting another job, we got the call that we'd been hired for current employer. In my case, I just took a day off to sign the new contract and then just never went back. Awful, but it is what it is.
Controversial opinion: Long Covid is mostly hypochondria, another affliction which disproportionately affects compulsive mask wearers.
> If you don't stand for yourself, you are unlikely going to stand for other things, seemingly less important and employer may see this as a bad trait.

I don't think there are many situations in which an employer is positive about a non-executive employee rejecting their contract offer and proposing an alternative with fancy legalese clause awarding themselves a [$amount] bonus up front in a manner which creates the most complications for the company's lawyers and auditors. It's certainly something (and someone) very easy to say no to.
Your company is doing the something that is legal but still a jerk move.
We do just about everything with one or more Postgres databases. We have workers that query the db for tasks, do the work, and update the db. Portals that are the read-only view of the work being performed, and it's pretty amazing how far we've gotten with just Postgres and no real tuning on our end. There's been a couple scenarios where query time was excessive and we solved by learning a bit more about how Postgres worked and how to redefine our data model. It seems to be the swiss army knife that allows you to excel at most general cases, and if you need to do something very specific, well at that point you probably need a different type of database.
On the other hand, I have a quite positive opinion of Substack given the articles I read there, and I know I'm not alone.

I don't like Twitter though, so I don't really care about Notes
Seeing now how y'all talk about homeless & mentally ill people where you think they can't see you, they are right to hate us.
Let's not. GL with whatever.
15 minutes?! You're doing it wrong -- try 3 minutes! :-)
I heartily agree with their fountain pen choices. The Pilot Metropolitan is insanely good for a cheap pen that you can take anywhere and the TWSBI GO is my go-to daily driver. It leads me to believe that the rest of the reviews are likely good.
Reddit Moderators Brace for a ChatGPT Spam Apocalypse
There’s a lot else in it, like the part where they typically own all your output during that period.
> 3. (geology) Of, relating to, or caused by large-scale movements of the Earth's (or a similar planet's) lithosphere

- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tectonic
As much as I detest MongoDB immaturity in many respects, I found a lot of features that are actually making life easier when you design pretty large scale applications (mine was typically doing 2GB/s of data out of the database, I like to think it is pretty large).

One feature I like is change event stream which you can subscribe to. It is pretty fast and reliable and for good reason -- the same mechanism is used to replicate MongoDB nodes.

I found you can use it as a handy notification / queueing mechanism (more like Kafka topics than RabbitMQ). I would not recommend it as any kind of interface between components but within an application, for its internal workings, I think it is pretty viable option.
1. You're working backwards from a desire to buy more RAM to try and find uses for it.

I'm really not

I had no desire at all until a couple of weeks ago. Even now not so much since it wouldn't be very useful to me

But the current LLM business model where there are a small number of API providers, and anything built using this new tech is forced into a subscription model... I don't see it sustainable, and I think the buzz around llama.cpp is a taste of that

I'm saying imagine a future where it is painless to run a ChatGPT-class LLM on your laptop (sounded crazy a year ago, to me now looks inevitable within few years), then have a look at the kind of things that can be done today with Langchain... then extrapolate
Curiously, Anthropic.com was launched in 2021, but a small custom software shop in Arizona around since the mid-late 90s had registered and been using Anthropic.ai in 2020 for a couple projects.

How does that name collision work?
The average ocean surface temperature is about 20°C and the thermal expansion coefficient is 0.000207/°C (https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/water-density-specific-we...). If I have my google-fu and math right, that's about 1cm/° for a 50m deep water column.

Thermal expansion of surface water is not negligible.