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I know that 98% of the documentation I've written over my career never got read after it was committed.
That’s a nice general principle but you didn’t provide evidence of specific harm. I think arguing past each other from first principles is exactly why the US is in this mess in the first place.

The fact is that all these government agencies are preventing specific harms. Throwing them out because of some vague “big government is bad because it might turn into a tyrrany later” isn’t an argument that the harms being prevented don’t exist. It’s a non-sequitor, like saying the sky is blue when someone complains about airplane noise.
I think you are trying too hard to fit those comments to your narrative.

Even if starship fails to fully achieve the very optimistic estimates on every one of those fronts, the starship program can be very successful.

HN has in my experience been fairly supportive of Starship's chance of success while pushing back on some of the wildly optimistic claims made about the program.
One thing I could think of spontaniously is this: Ukraine is exporting less (they seemed to recover, but markets and the bullwhip effect don't care rigjt away), so shortfall of Ukrainian grain has to be compensated and rice is one such alternative. As a result some of the grain shortages are causing rice shortages. Throw in problems in China and the situation gets really confusing and complex.
This seemed like it might be an interesting article to read, but it turns out that clicking on this link initiated a huge many megabyte download of some kind of media experience that totally locked up my machine. I had a bunch of apps going and was hoping for a smooth start to the day. Had this been an actual article to read then it could have loaded and been put in the background. If you are going to link to some hypermedia experience that requires a high end machine, good net connection, and well configured ad blockers then there should be a warning. This is not some taste issue about me not liking the custom font or whatever. Much of the population does their work on lower end machines with modest net connections and this site is not compatible with that. Do you really want HN to be a site only for the ascended? If you can't communicate without an avalanche of crud coming along then maybe you need to consider what you are saying and maybe consult an editor or something.
It's been a year, where is this collapse of the Russian economy? It looks like they're doing just fine and can continue to wage war near indefinitely. What are the sanctions even doing at this point??
I used to feel sad that I wouldn't be able to see what our society will be like in a few hundred years. The past few years that feeling has instead shifted to feeling glad that I won't have to endure most of it.
Little known fact! "Whataboutism" is an expression in English which means "I realize your example undercuts my argument, for it reveals it is not based on consistent, defensible principles, so I will just slap a label on it and declare it irrelevant to the discussion."
> However that doesn't stop teens from comparing their looks to their peers, adults they know, and obviously global media (magazines, billboards, films, music, etc; what 'successful' women look like on cable news). How are the underlying cause for these negative feelings going to be addressed?

Is it such a bad thing that they compare themselves to their peers?

In 2018 "obesity prevalence was [...] 21.2% among 12- to 19-year-olds." [1] according to the CDC. That's one out of 5 being obese, not just overweight. And it has more than tripled since the 70's [2]. I have to wonder if it's related. A lot of teenagers are bombarded with images of their peers' perfectly healthy bodies that, quite simply, won't match what they see in the mirror. The solution? Ban mirrors.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/childhood.html

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/obesity_child_15_16/obe...
Fox News settlement turns Dominion into private equity gold
I came to say the same thing, but that was me looking at it's practicality as a clock.

If you zone out a bit and watch, you can see each tick form the time and quickly collapse, drawing a parallel to the nervous ephemeral nature of life. Being able to get that feeling from a clock is pretty neat.
I thought you could run IPv4 and IPv6 at the same time, or am I missing something?
The positive here is you are going to learn to hustle. Anyone who entered the market in 2020 probably lazily sent out a few applications via job boards and had a position in a month.

You will have it way harder, but stay positive and keep at it. Keep iterating on your resume and personal website. Apply to large numbers of jobs and if you find a position you really like then hunt down someone you can email or figure out how to get a referral. You will embarrass yourself, look foolish and have to feel needy.

This sucks but it is also an opportunity to get super desperate. That desperation will result in some skills that we wouldn't normally gain.
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Tell it to the coffee shops you visit for the first time that send you an email receipt.
I think you could technically refer to them as journalists too but I meant the traditional non-independent kind. Honestly the rise of bloggers + youtubers providing higher quality well sourced content than the mainstream is partially why I think this might become a de-facto requirement to compete in the future.
I don't know if this would work well for a lot of technical documentation I work with, it's written in a format similar to a software program, where you constantly have to flip back and forth between many pages to clearly decode what is being said.

For a simple example, a car manual where you want to change the brakes, it probably won't tell you in the brake section how to remove the wheels. You have to look at the wheel section. And in the wheel section it won't tell you about the nuts, you have to look in the spec sheets. And the spec sheet won't have the torque, you have to look in the chapter reference.

Often times they are not nice enough to point you to the relevant sections, you just have to stumble around the manual for a long time.
The future of code reviews in an AI world
I thought this was a good write up on why to make a small game and how to conceptualize your process, and some technical advice. I was sorta hoping it would be more “I’ve accepted I want to make a small game. How do I make a good game?” As someone who likes the idea of making small games, I don’t know the discipline and I know there must be. Writing excellent software has a variety of specific ways of thinking about software and it’s implementation, how to organize ideas, what parts to not forget to plan our carefully up front and what to discover in the doing, etc.
Sanctions are not designed to change the regime. Look at the French president complaining how it’s “not fair” the the US seize the moment to lure European manufacturers to the USA.
If that's the case, who's to fault here? Linux or buggy ACPI states implemented in the motherboards?
Sorry, I can't edit my earlier comment but I re-read our conversation and I realise I misread your quote. In particular:

>> read a product description and generate the appropriate codebase

Chollet here is talking about creating an entire application, not short code snippets or larger functions. Producing short programs from specifications was already possible when Chollet wrote the above-linked article. It is still not possible to genera the entire codebase for an application by reading a product description. Not anywhere near that.
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> “In times of the ChatGPT, we cannot say that the tools that we are using are not accurate enough,” Zarzalejos.

But ChatGPT is known for being horribly inaccurate, and more importantly, it doesn't know when it is inaccurate.
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Moved to Arc which already supports this.
This is extremely wrong. The pipes are not flowing. There is oil being transferred via ships, but this is a much smaller volume and is much more expensive. It is not possible to sell the same amount without the pipelines to Europe.

Russian exports and revenues have fallen drastically.
Your comment reminded me of the five general narratives we regularly tell ourselves about technology.

1) Technology is bad

2) Technology is good

3) Technology causes social change (tech determinism)

4) Social forces shape technology (social constructivism)

5) Technology is an accelerant

Essentially all stories of technology and society fall into one of these narratives. The most rare is #5, yet as you argue in this case, it is probably the most realistic. Haidt should be aware of these and I also don't understand why he is going with #3.
Not an either-or situation at all. There is no one “more interesting track”. Always tradeoffs as I am sure you know.

The key advances in this paper are four-fold:

1: Much higher spatial resolution and contrast that is essential to define boundaries of brain regions

2. Much faster scan time using multiple angle acquisitions

3. Accurate segmentation of brain regions of interest even for highly diverse genomes of mice.

4. Accurate alignment and multimodal merging of MRI with 3D lightsheet microscopy from the same animal with fluorescent labelling of multiple CNS cell types.

fMRI in mice is limited in its resolution. To generate time series data we use large sets of isogenic (identical twin) mice. See figure 5 in the paper for a comparison of young and old mice that are identical twins—one a young adult and one quite old adult.
The prompt likely is tuned to avoid making statements not supported by the PDF content.
Well, if you ask how to design “large” systems then the answer is already “don’t”. And besides that’s not a technical issue, our issues are organizational and political.

Also, yes there is an universal pattern and that is called a competent and experienced software engineer. We lack those. We have a lot of kids with fancy degrees.
The SNKRX guy is a champ. Great posts, great game, opensourced the code. Real class act and top tier game designer.

I started building something from his code - https://github.com/sdwr/underlod
I'm also in the suburbs. A couple of thoughts there:

HOA's are far more common than they were in the 80's/90's (Google says they went from ~20% of homes in 1990ish to ~50% now). It really changes the risk/reward of friendship when your neighbors can arbitrarily force you to spend a whole weekend doing something dumb to please the HOA. It has happened, and I'd rather not repeat it.

The explosion of culture the internet brought on has also fragmented us. Shared interests are fairly uncommon because everyone is watching something different on Netflix, doing different hobbies because they can, etc. That's not totally a bad thing, but it does tend to make smalltalk bland.

Income inequality has also changed demographics. My neighbors are substantially older than me. There aren't even that many children in the neighborhood, a lot of them are retirees that presumably bought when the neighborhood was cheaper. Again, not totally a bad thing, but it means we don't even share nostalgia.
And yet wheat futures (ZW) have been falling steadily for the past six months and are now below the pre-invasion levels.
Isn't this all referring to the "R&D tax credit"? My understanding of the word 'tax credit" is that any labor that could be classified as R&D would essentially be funded by the government. When this came out I thought "what a scam" because companies were going to develop their next-gen products anyway, but now some of our work could qualify as "R&D" and basically be free to the company. If my interpretation was correct, that would explain why big tech companies pay so many people so well - they weren't actually paying them at all, the government was. Even though I may benefit from that, that's not how I think it should be.

OTOH, I'm not a biz guy but I was under the impression that paying employees was an expense anyway and would be deducted from revenue and not taxed. How is R&D different?
>It's fair enough if you don't want to make evangelism your life mission but if you don't point bad things out to people at all then you are limiting your impact

What makes you think I don't? Check my comment history, that should disabuse you of that notion.

>Sometimes people are receptive to being nudged towards responsible behavior.

That's often true. But I've banged my head against that particular wall too many times already. You did catch the part where I said "family" right?
Microsoft and Windows laptop vendors.

A laptop with arm and x86 cores might allow Microsoft to speed up its transition from x86 to ARM in the laptop/mobile world.

No idea on viability but sounds fun :D
I mean, 1/4 of the world's grain and fertilizer sources are now in a war zone. It would take some hubris to assume we weren't going to feel that in some way.
> But to be clear, the US was funding Ukrainian rebel groups (right-wing paramilitary organizations) 2014-2022 but through clandestine means.

You're still being UN-clear. And this far down the thread it's becoming harder and harder to believe that it is unintentional.

"Ukrainian right-wing paramilitary pro-Russian 'rebel' organizations", or "Ukrainian right-wing paramilitary pro-Ukraine 'rebel' organizations"?
It might actually get better over hundreds of years, the current problems are decline over a couple of decades, which will likely result in a backlash eventually.

We abolished slavery, torture, blasphemy, heresy, witch hunting, etc. over the centuries. And made huge roads into tackling racism and the persecution of homosexuals, etc. So no reason to think it will get worse over the very long term, I think?

Unrelatedly one pressing issue we haven't yet fixed is the systematic cruelty and mistreatment of children by parents, which probably has religious origins in prior generations. And instead the government focuses on sexual abuse, which is a drop in the ocean by comparison.

We are also in the midst of a revolution - AI might shift power back to the individual - because it can be run locally, and the government has a much harder time monitoring that. And it can reduce our dependence on online services which are the primary means for state control over our lives?
We ended up building a Time-Series Cross-Validation library from scratch
Hi everyone,

We have been dealing for a while with the underperformance of Time-Series Machine Learning models (mostly due to regime changes), and haven't found the right library to complete Time Series Cross Validation before the heat-death of the universe.

We ended up writing a library from scratch, that comes with an order of magnitude speed-up, called Fold.

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There's large systems that do useful things though that don't decompose into smaller systems. Shouldn't we have those?

Compilers. VMs. Operating systems. Search engines. LLMs...?
Actually I have already replaced Telnet with systemd
Not according to this:

Social media, gen z wins: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1314973/global-daily-tim...

Phones in general, millennials win: https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/which-generation-....
>People who commit these crimes ARE sick

The Ancient Greeks were very famous for pederasty, and yet their culture is universally renowned. Homosexuality was also a very common practice in Greece, which was considered until somewhat recently a vile act performed by the mentally ill. What is to you "vile," is to another perfectly socially acceptable. Except, apparently, fucking your mother, which was considered horrifying to both the ancient Greeks and our contemporary culture, and every culture in the entire world.

You can call Freud a moral relativist if you want, but he certainly discovered universal moral qualities, they just made people very uncomfortable, because it wasn't biases against murder, or stealing, or pedophilia, but something so (relatively) common in society, but which nobody would speak of. According to Freud, then, everybody is sick, because everybody has desires which they can't fulfill without coming to significant social harm--especially of the sexual order; and breaking sexual codes always results in some of the most severe punishments: It's legal for a police officer to kill someone under the right circumstances, never to rape them. The purpose of treatment, then, is not to stop people from having violent and/or sexual fantasies, but to convince and train them to divert those urges to a socially useful purpose. It is better to live in an organized society--according to Freud--than total anarchy.
That's (seriously) where blockchains can help.
I was contesting OP's point of view which was implying that everyone is on board with the climate doomerism, I hadn't read the article.
Thanks! Interesting that MovieLens is a university research project (University of Minnesota).
You can but the issue is that if the caller _thinks_ it can reach it over IPv6 it'll never send the IPv4 unicast packet which means the server won't wake.
First I heard of "optimistic UI" was with GraphQL and Apollo, but I had seen the behavior that they someone, perhaps them, gave this name for a lot before.

I don't find the concept "optimistic UI" to be more useful for talking about it or the implementation by Apollo to be more elegant. It's fine but it doesn't solve any problem except one that was created by Apollo's binding of server data to the client, React-style.
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It gets worse when you call it 14.4 (arc) minutes per hour.

Ignoring the ‘arc’, that’s dimensionless. You could just call it “0.24” ;-)
Not sure how the paperclip-maximiser is relevant here. This still happens with friendly ai.

If you accept the premise (all jobs replaced with ai, except for the boss, with no difference in productive output), then you can not solve the problem of all the lost jobs by rehiring them all as "operators". You said yourself that in this hypothetical scenario the bottleneck is human-ai communication (which is why you want to hire operators to increase productivity).

But if human-ai communication speed is the bottleneck (and not ai capabilities, or compute, etc.) then you solve the bottleneck by replacing humans with ai, not by adding more humans.

I don't think the original scenario is plausible (all jobs replaced except for the boss), so don't misunderstand my argument as defending that. I'm just saying that your conclusion (just hire operators) doesn't follow from the premise.

It's not worth arguing this a lot further since I don't think the premise is plausible and we're talking about something that's only relevant if it were, unless I fatally misunderstood something you were saying?
A lot of this is more or less "how to develop critical taste and apply it thoughtfully" which is no small thing and not easy to write about well for any medium.

It's extra relevant in gaming too I think. Big games are very very expensive to make, and so are conservatively modeled on what works in other mediums like movies, tv, novels. Small games are where the real exploration of the dynamics and limits of the medium happens, but is held back because gamers overall have underdeveloped taste.
Proxy ARP would have the raspberry pi provide its own MAC address as the MAC for the server IP. All the traffic from the clients to the backup server would have to pass through the Pi's network interface for the duration of the session.

With this ARP stand-in, it provides the server's MAC to the client so subsequent traffic to the server doesn't need to pass through the Pi.
IMO folks are better off deploying their own version where they can adjust a few knobs (e.g. split chunk size) to get better results, given that PDF Q&A is such a commodity application.

Wrote a <50 lines version with LangChain to run on your terminal with any folder full of PDF documents - https://github.com/angad/dharamshala/blob/main/docs.py

return_source_documents is particularly helpful to get a sense of what is being sent in the prompt.
One of cited objections is absurd:

> I don't trust any area of research where the odds ratios are below 3.

Then what’s the point of researching even slightly more subtle effects? This person might as well start smoking: they wouldn’t trust any amount of evidence that smoking causes cardiovascular disease — the odds ratio seems to be 2.
> The geocentric model does not assume “we” are in a special position. The center of the universe would be the center of the earth, not the point of the observer or any human.

I don't think anybody was laboring under this miscomprehension, no need to "clarify" for the OP just to introduce your Dante anecdote.
Naively, I'd expect a lot more enforcement action if so many sites were non-compliant. Did the EU create a policy it couldn't enforce, and that's the larger issue here?
> Firefox doesn’t have nearly as much of a problem with this despite also using webstuff for UI

Oh, so that's the reason firefox UI also feels much slower than chrome? It must have been when they switched to button like tabs. I use firefox rarely, don't like new tabs and they feel slower too.
Wouldn't it make sense to combine Ukraine with Russia given the sanctions?
It's really a combination of drought in some regions and monsoon in others, both being pushed to extremes by fossil-fueled global warming:

https://www.gro-intelligence.com/insights/china-drought-thre...

> "(Aug 22) China has issued a nationwide drought warning as the country copes with scant rainfall and one of the most severe heat waves in six decades. The harsh weather is stressing rice and wheat crops and could force China to increase imports of these important grains....In addition, soil moisture levels are at a 12-year low, and Gro’s Drought Index reading is elevated. "

https://www.gro-intelligence.com/insights/extreme-weather-me...

> "(Jun 2022) Typically, China's rainy season occurs from May to September, and this year’s season is already off to an extreme start. The accumulated rainfall in Guangxi, Guangdong, and Fujian is the second highest in at least 20 years, and some regions, such as Guangdong and Guangxi, have experienced double the average daily precipitation for the May to June period..."

These extreme fluctuations in drought and flood are not going away, of course, and will continue to get worse over the next 100 years.
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If I sued you for running such a service, it's likely that you would be looking to convince a judge that you got me to agree to something like this: https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/
Sorry, can you elaborate on your point a little bit - I'm not sure where you're going but genuinely want to understand.
There has always been enough food to feed the hungry, and there will continue to be enough with this rice shortage. That's not the reason people starve.
You are not up to date on the reality of the situation, Russian oil exports are back to prewar levels: https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/14/energy/russia-oil-exports-iea...

They sell oil to a lot more places than Europe!
This is petty argument -- there are more writers than programmers and then there is context of the situation where we are talking about a writing.

I grew up in a culture and with an idea that there is no bad book -- trust me, I wasted years chasing some bad ideas from shallow content. So, the Bullshit vendors earned my vitriol.
Didn't it cause revolutions and riots? I'm sure people who were barely or not at all affected don't remember and think it was irrelevant, but why would you think that was universal?