skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its definitely neat, but not sure how practical it is against traditional pressure/vacuum?

The Oil Industry has a big lead in this tech, but maybe this would be useful in domestic applications like drainage?
Are you equating abject neglect of society's responsibilities of caring for our fellow humans with freedom?
Inbuilt Python Scripting Support in Mpv
If you believe Dunning-Kruger is fictitious, you can't use it as an appellation on those who don't.
Tracking physical assets with NFTs will not end well, no way (that I have seen) to ensure the ownership is in sync. I've attempted to find out more in the past, see this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29271460, but the answers were not confidence inspiring and missed the point. There are services that claim to do this, however there is no guarantee that the person selling an asset needs to mention there's an NFT associated with the ownership of it.
The article unintentionally communicated more about the engineering team than the subject.

btw, publisher confirms used in conjunction with prefetch setting can allow for flow control within a very well behaved band.

People run into issues with Rabbit for two reasons. You noted one (they are documentation averse), and number is two is mistaking a message queue for a distributed log. Rabbit does -not- like holding on to messages. Performance will crater if you treat it as a lake. It is a river
For a few years I had a random number that would text me on major holidays to wish me a happy whatever. I'd return the sentiment and sometimes we'd talk more, a few times we ended up in long back and forth text threads that lasted a couple days. At some point I admitted that I didn't know who they were and asked their name, it turned out they thought I was someone else and they had the wrong number. After that I stopped hearing from them. I tried reaching out on a couple more holidays but they just ghosted me.
I didn't realise this, but apparently it is also possible to do good algebra on this kind of structure by adding an element 0/0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_theory (which someone pointed to in one of the discussions -- I forget which one).
Postgres can handle 10k batch inserts in seconds on even commodity hardware. Not done batch, you should still get >100 inserts/second with a few indexes thrown in there.
There is some theoretical and practical limits though.

The bigger problem is socioeconomic though, there is simply not enough useful work for that many people — and with advancements fewer and fewer actual jobs will meed to exist. So we are left with a change, for example something like UBI, which would majorly shift our entire economic system.
Seems like pretty straightforward exploitation akin to deepfakes.

A repository of his work that you can search and work with would be perfectly reasonable though (similar to https://huberman.rile.yt/).

EDIT: Apparently it already exists.
Like many other religions, OOP has split into several competing factions, each with a slightly different interpretation. To complicate the situation even more, in many areas of the world OOP has been mixed thoroughly with the local pre-OOP beliefs from the dark ages.
MongoDB's change stream is accidentally very simple to use. You just call the database and get continuous stream of documents that you are interested in from the database. If you need to restart, you can restart processing from the chosen point. It is not a global WAL or anything like that, it is just a stream of documents with some metadata.
The problem with a queue on SQLite is that every successful read implies a write. SQLite is fast enough that it may not matter, though.
If Octopuses could evolve human intelligence and society in just a few generations, then why wouldn’t they have done so in the hundreds of millions of years before?

Hint: they must have
Didn't nuclear physics also help fuel the future of open source and the web in general, e.g. CERN.
> Sub stack dot com / notes

Elon's regexp for matching Substack links just got defeated.
This is, literally, propaganda from the petroleum industry,

constructed entirely by someone paid to dress up their tooth-and-nail fight-to-the-death commitment to sunk cost investment and Teh Way of Life in the "sober, just asking questions" tone of a old rich white guy.
Okay.

That sounds nice, now tell automakers to stop making cars and just become companies that convert cars and pay pensions.
Right, termination is usually done immediately, nobody wants to keep a jilted employee on hand to cause damage on their way out the door. But unless the termination was for some kind of misbehavior, severance pay is most common, even among fairly small companies in my experience. (Maybe not a startup in immediate danger of insolvency, of course.)
An old favorite that might find new relevance with the growth of OpenAI. Substance of the article begins after the quote from John Stuart Mill. Some of my favorite passages:

"One reason for my own skepticism is the fact that in recent years the AI landscape has come to be progressively more dominated by AI of the newfangled 'deep learning' variety [...] But if it’s really AI-as-cognitive science that you are interested in, it’s important not to lose sight of the fact that it may take a bit more than our cool new deep learning hammer to build a humanlike mind.

[...]

If I am right that there are many mysteries about the human mind that currently dominant approaches to AI are ill-equipped to help us solve, then to the extent that such approaches continue to dominate AI into the future, we are very unlikely to be inundated anytime soon with a race of thinking robots—at least not if we mean by “thinking” that peculiar thing that we humans do, done in precisely the way that we humans do it."
Apple tech was not advanced. Back in the day Mac OS 9 was inferior to NT and years behind Linux 2.4 in stability and security.

What you know today from Apple was stolen from NeXTStep and BSD's.

You are basically using a rehashed NeXT environment with the Mac GUI on top.
even with already published laws you need a lawyer to understand how a judge will be more likely to interpret them; even then, it's just an informed guess, you never know what the end ruling will be until it comes.
A relevant quote here seems to be: "if a measure becomes a target, it ceases to become a good measure". Also true of academia in general because of the obsession with citations.
Maybe the idea is that from the first person perspective, neither pursuit (EDIT) felt like doing anything useful... and yet...
> He’s clearly a smart guy… but also has some hot takes.

I'm good with that as Penrose is very clear where the uncontroversial science ends and the hot takes begin; he doesn't try to "peddle" anything. "Here is my hot take and this is the TRUTH" is something I have problems with, "here's my hot take a lot of people will disagree with, but I think it may be true because [...]" isn't; and is often even valuable even if the hot take turns out to be wrong, because it exposes shortcomings, omissions, or other things that are not yet entirely clear.
This intrigued me so much that I decided to make an interactive version:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35528155
Advisory locks are purely in-memory locks, while row locks might ultimately hit disk.

The memory space reserved for locks is finite, so if you were to have workers claim too many queue items simultaneously, you might get "out of memory for locks" errors all over the place.

> Both advisory locks and regular locks are stored in a shared memory pool whose size is defined by the configuration variables max_locks_per_transaction and max_connections. Care must be taken not to exhaust this memory or the server will be unable to grant any locks at all. This imposes an upper limit on the number of advisory locks grantable by the server, typically in the tens to hundreds of thousands depending on how the server is configured.

– https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/explicit-locking.htm...
Yeah, lets take 4 random things and yell around it sux.
I've just checked it out and it's much closer to a Twitter clone than I anticipated. Now it's clear why Elon made the drastic decision to mess with substack links on Twitter. The site is clean and simple.

I'm very disappointed in Musk for essentially ruining one of the world's great information platforms. Mastodon was just not the thing people were looking for. I hope this takes off.
I processed ~3m messages a day on Sqlite using a pair of ca 2006 era Xeon on spinning rust (for redundancy; each could easily handle the load by itself). The queue processor was written in Ruby and ran on the (very slow) 1.8.x series (even then it used about 10% of a single core.

On modern hardware you should be able to trivially handle more than that.
I’ve got some of their smaller Raven models running locally on my M1 (only 16GB of RAM).

I’m also in the middle of making it user friendly to run these models on all platforms (built with Flutter). First MacOS release will be out before this weekend: https://github.com/BrutalCoding/shady.ai
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Also you can benefit from being able to use all of SQL to manage the queue.

I built a system ages ago that had modest queue needs.. maybe 100 jobs a day. It involved syncing changes in the local database with external devices. Many changes would ultimately update the same device, and making the fewest number of updates was important.

The system used an extremely simple schema: A table with something like [job_id, device, start_after, time_started, time_finished]

When queueing a job for $device, do an upsert to either insert a new record, or bump up the start_after of a not yet started job to now+5 minutes. When looking for a job to run, ignore anything with a start_after in the future.

As edits were made, it would create a single job for each device that would run 5 minutes after the last change was made.

I know a lot of queueing systems have the concept of a delayed job, but I haven't come across any that had the concept of delayed jobs+dedup/coalescence.
Cool visuals. Would love to see it expanded to cover React 18 concepts.
Which is a great start, but cobalt is hardly the only problematic ingredient.
That's the spirit! Thanks for the kind words.

Indeed, ease of use is incredibly important. After all this is a tool that needs to be used non-developer IT admins as well.
Other symmetric unimodal distributions are (ignoring normalization constants) the generalized error distribution exp(-|x|^c) (Normal for c=2, Laplace for c=1) and the hyperbolic secant distribution 1/(exp(x) + exp(-x)). They decay as exp(-x) in the tails, more slowly than exp(-x^2) for the normal. The Student's t distribution have even fatter tails, decaying as x^(-p) in the tails, where the the value of p depends on the number of degrees of freedom.
The difference is simple, a 3d printer starts with nothing on the 'table' or platform and adds. It has 100% of the information of what is added, so in theory it's possible to know where any potential collisions are (this is not done in practice, and also doesn't account for adhesion print failures, etc, but it's possible).

A CNC starts with an unknown block on the table, held by an unknown workholding fixture, made of an unknown material. There just is not enough information to not crash into something unless programmed around it. Or just run way too fast and destroy tools.

In theory you could design sets of rules, but now you're having to add so much specificity to a design it's a big time waste. There's not really any meaningful entry level CNC machines, so if you can pay for the big machine... you kind of can pay for the expertise to not destroy the machine.
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> Assuming 10k/jobs a day, that's roughly 7 jobs per minute.

I've seen systems at that scale where that's roughly true. But I've also seen systems where those jobs come in a daily batch, at a point in time of day, and then nothing until the next day's batch.
> Steve Jobs and Elon Musk are enigmas

Elon is listening to the music inside his own head. He has the right people working for him, and he's often mistakenly seen as the person who takes all the credit, but he's sitting on the work of countless engineers who work painstakingly to create his product range. As for Jobs, again, sitting on the work of countless designers and product people who make Apple what it is. Jobs & Musk are only genius tier people insofar as they piggyback on others hard work.
That’s a real shame. Sometimes people need a reason, other than friendship, to be friends.
Jobs would certainly still be something without Woz, he just wouldn't be the Steve we know from Apple.
On the one hand, we have a perfectly functioning member of society being forced to wear a mask, when they don't even have a disease, for the sake of overly-anxious individuals.

On the other, we have someone who might decide to live in a random place in a tent, shit in the street, swing bricks in socks around on the trains etc.

I'm far more worried about the degenerates on my route from the train station than I ever was about coronavirus.
You say land use, but your explanation of the need is economic -- that use case is already conceded. It's bad on other grounds.

You haven't explained why a land registry is appropriately modelled by a peer-2-peer adversarial database system.

There is an authority here: the state. Land is /registered/ with the state.

If there are multiple parties with a claim to land, that dispute requires a non-technical consensus model called 'the law' and its resolution is not final. The state retains the privilege, as it must, to revise its decisions.

Trying to replace courts with blockchains is a dumb idea, so silly that its proposal immediately signals a profound ignorance of the problem domain.

Which is: People.
Previously impossible (they claim) for plant-based egg substitutes.

I read the headline as some kind of comically-positive spin on "we can't get it to feel like real eggs" but it's not that.

Headline could use a "this" (or, better yet, the product name) at the beginning to make that clearer.
People have trusted search engines with their most intimate questions for nearly 30 years and there has been what ... one? ... leak of query data during this time, and that was from AOL back when people didn't realize that you could sometimes de-anonymize anonymized datasets. It hasn't happened since.

LLMs will require more than privacy to move locally. Latency, flexibility and cost seem more likely drivers.
Sanctions prohibit transactions with specific companies, banks, and a few other entities. They actually make a lot of economic sense, as they are designed to weaken the parts of the economy used to fund the Russian warfare.

Sanctions against private citizens in Russia would tangentially contribute by reducing the cash flow inside the country.

Targeting random people that are actually trying to leave the country is like what? You expect them to instead go take pitchforks and storm Putin's bunker? Or kill themselves out of shame? More likely, they'll find whatever employment there is inside the country and pays well, and chances are, it will be closely related to the Russian government.
Tax credits are not bailouts.
Yeah, I'd do the opposite of what they ended up doing. Start with Postgres, which will handle their thousands-per-day no sweat. If they scaled to > 100 millions/day, then start investigating a dedicated message bus / queue system if an optimized PG solution starts to hit its limits.
So again we go to preferences.

You call it barbaric, but I call your "15 min walkable cities" open air prisons...

So how about we ton down the hyperbolic rhetoric.

>Clearly there's latent demand for sidewalks, that is going unmet. Far more people would walk if the city cared about making it safer and more pleasant.

I guess that is a chicken vs egg statement. I dont think they actually would, and I believe the "demand" for sidewalks is a very small minority of the taxpaying base. If it was not there would be more puch for it in Local Politics which is far easier to get things like that through.

Chances are though to it would require a tax bond initiative on the ballot, which I suspect would have a VERY VERY VERY poor chance of succeeding, thus no funding to do it. People often claim they want sidewalks right up until they have to vote to increase their property, sales, or income taxes to pay for them.

Also for the record, I find "Strong Towns" to be propaganda not serious research or journalism or what ever...

>>Everything is pushed further apart for no reason.

it is not for no reason, it just reasons you disagree with.

You desire greater population density, more closely packed cities, and everything to be walkable so a person a work, live and shop in a small area.

I, and many other Americans, find population density to be a BAD thing, we do not want to live all stacked on each either. I own a 3/4 acre (about 3000 sq meters) of land where my home sits. That is the absolute minimum I would accept, and I am actively looking for a homestead that is 4+ acres (16000 sq meters)...

>So, if where you live is anywhere like Peoria,

Very similar, but more population. The city i live in is about 2x the population, but also about 2x the land area so we have about the same population density.

>> so you have first hand experience of what you're choosing to make your fellow citizens endure

This is a problem with your conceptualization you believe that I am in the minority of my citizens / neighbors, you can not comprehend that people in the US may not want to live like you live in Cardiff.

You believe that because I oppose something in my small neighborhood, of which the sidewalks on my street would have zero impact of the walkablity of my street, means I am some how keeping the poor down...

In reality all of my neighbors, agree with me..
No, it's a 2001ish web page. Absent canvas and most dom manipulation, larger changes are delegated to serverside. A periodic `window.location.replace` gets a new page capable of handling the next n seconds.

Fwiw, present-day spec[1] says with location.replace "the current page will not be saved in session History". A puzzle.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Location/re...
Probably "swim, swim, hungry"
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It's about a quarter of their typical yearly R&D spend.
Yes but I'm not making a general argument about all AI, just LLMs. The L stands for Large after all. Smartphones are small.
You see I feel like I'm some bizarre moderate where I can understand both the people who want Echo park cleared and also the people who are protesting the clearing of Echo park. It's not safe for the rest of the community for them to be there, but neither has the community provided any reasonable other option for them! I've heard of stories where people have tried to get housing only to be told they wouldn't be allowed unless they got rid of their PTSD-specific service animal or some other nonsense that is most definitely illegal but they're fucking homeless dude, where are they going to get any legal rep or otherwise to fight it? But at the same time they literally shouldn't be allowed to collectively endanger the community by accosting others or anything like that. It's a bad situation all around and I think I'm living some kind of crazy town where I sympathize with everyone and think there should be a solution that benefits all parties.
Shortcuts are actually very underrated since they can run JS on webpages. A lot of things are possible that wouldn’t otherwise be possible on iOS.
Lithium has to go for practical reasons. There isn't enough of the stuff to replace all gas-burners with electrics.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a real supporter of LLM's but it's fair to say that not all text which is generated by an AI is spam. Depending on the effort put into prompting and preparation it is quite possible that it is valuable , useful and original content but that the author has used an AI to polish the language.

The problem is of course how to distinguish the one from the other. Just using the "AI detection" tools is however not going to get the answer we need. Most probably the usual upvoting schemes will continue to be the best way.

I'm going to be quite happy if the quality of the grammar, and in some cases the language, improves. Better quality text makes it easier to concentrate on the real thing I'm interested in: the content and ideas!
There's not one issuer. In the US there are 51 issuers of car titles alone (50 states + DC) not counting the territories. Plus while the title is signed but not registered with the new owner it's a bearer instrument. People wash titles by taking them out of state because there's no effective way of binding both title histories together.
It's weird to see an OS developed from a place pretty close to home...
The more I read about Steve Jobs, the most I'm convinced he was potent mixture of persuasive and picky. I'm sure there was business sense, making some good bets, and the usual. But I think the key was him always saying we can do better. Makes him a real pain to work with, but you get good stuff as a result.
> I think the reason is just inertia.

It is not just inertia; it is government malice. The government loves that there are effectively only two payment processors, because this lets them exercise policy pressure without the inconvenience of a democratic mandate.
Stolen? Do you mean purchased?
So... Why not have a judge whose job is to come in and rule on potential new laws? You're pointing at this like it's some knockdown argument when it just shows lawmakers are lazy.
Great to see that we were not alone with the struggles! Let me know if you are up for a quick chat. Would love to learn more about your situation and how OpenOwl could help fix it. If you are up for it, my contact is in the bio
There are some languages that can be formally verified, and have themselves been formally verified.

Formal verification is a complete pain in the ass to do and there's a reason it's mostly done only in the most critical of systems, but if a program passes 100% formal validation, you're as close to crash free as you can possibly be.

I believe Ada and some other lesser used language sport well supported formal verification methods. You won't be able to use C/C++/Java/Rust it you're going for 100% formal verification though. There are attempts to bring the concepts to more commonly used languages (Frama-C, for example) but in my experience they're stuck in PhD-ware hell, great for writing papers but terrible for writing actual software.
The last time I saw this happen regularly was in Spring 2002. Tech had a big wave of layoffs after 9/11, and a lot of college hires got their offers and then had them rescinded before starting. Some of them even got their sign on bonuses.

But the best story was the guy who got both his sign on bonus and full severance, and never showed up for a day of work.

Between the bonus and severance, he ended up with almost a full year's salary, all up front. He decided to fly to the southern hemisphere to extend the ski season through August.
> I do wonder if maybe streaming large data chunks over Erlang distribution might be a problem and a secondary data channel (e.g. over udp or sctp) might be worth playing with.

You may want to take a look at the partisan[0] library written in Erlang. It is basically that, a reimagination of distributed Erlang, except that it can be multiplexed over multiple connections.

[0] - https://github.com/lasp-lang/partisan/