skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The membranes require hundreds of feet of head worth of pressure, not 3 ft.

The pressure at the membrane will only ever be the difference. It has nothing to do with the depth the membrane is actually under the water.
Funny you should say that but the former governor (Doug Ducey) who signed this law was actually a pretty old-school, conservative Republican. I was very disappointed he signed this bill considering the rest of his record. I get the feeling he knew it wouldn’t stand legal challenges (but it was still disappointing).

In a saner Republican Party he would have been a good Senator or even Presidential nominee. Unfortunately, that isn’t the age we live in.
The first one with the overlaid halftone squares really works well with these deep black ink pens ! The dictionary of color combinations on the first picture on the page is a real treasure too. Thanks for sharing.
Edit : ooh, all the images did not load at first, it's even better than I thought :o
The cybertruck was largely a marketing exercise, and hype generator, same as the Roadster 2. They were "announced" in a time when Tesla needed all the spare cash it could get, so they opened up pre-orders that they had no intention of fulfilling for 4-5 years.
Didn't see a purchase link. Would love to buy one.
Cleaning Up ChatGPT’s Language Takes Heavy Toll on Human Workers
> The social system we live in cannot tolerate mass unemployment

It already does if you go by the labor participation rate.

The traditional prescription for unemployment caused by technological innovation is to artificially decrease the employee pool by taking away both ends of the workforce (after shorting them by age). The elderly get retirement, and the young go to compulsory school. This was fine for dealing with the introduction of combustion engines, steam engines and early electricity adaptation but eventually even this was insufficient.

Which is why so many young adults 18-25 are put into higher education to artificially drag out the time until they enter their chosen careers. They're not necessarily there to obtain a specific set of skills or education, as if that were the case employers would be more willing to hire talented & skilled but diploma or certification lacking applicants (that are automatically tossed out of the running by mostly automated job applicant filters).

The problem is that this requires piles of money to sustain, and our leadership is already trying to crawl back retirement by upping the retirement age even as US life expectancy has been trending down for years (incl pre-COVID).

Most likely: We'll see people deemed redundant by the marketplace left to "let nature run its course" and die off from poverty (via addiction, avoidable medical problems, malnutrition etc). This has been what was already dragging down life expectancy in the post 2008-crash America.
Here's what he said.

>"Free education" really means education paid for by society at large rather than students. I'm not saying that's a bad idea. It isn't. In fact, it's a really good idea.

Like, he's no longer allowed to be a social democrat if he understands bsaic economics? Why am I not surprised?

> some services are social goods and should be treated as such,

Perhaps. But how is higher education that? It's true that not as many people as you would like have 4 year degrees, but many do, and those people serve me overpriced coffees while whining about unionization.

Where is the social good in their degrees? Like, even if they had gotten those for free and there was no student debt, how did their degrees help either society at large, or them personally?

It is apparently very easy for this to not be a social good.
I laughed, thanks. Do you think the parent also makes use of containers?
Unless we pass an amendment to the constitution guaranteeing the right for private individuals communicate over encrypted channels, which won’t happen.

And we have to win every single time one of these bills come up. They only have to win once.
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We'll figure it out in ten years or so after the eventual leaks happen
I'd also add, photographing slides is not the same as writing things down. (especially if you're photographing every slide, to the degree where you're paying little attention to the speaker)
Optimism, Hubris, and Strategic Misrepresentation
Strength training, particularly lower body strength training will help with balance. Cardio is a must, but needn’t be running (my personal favorite). Rowing and swimming are excellent cardio exercises as well.

Both resistance and cardio training have shown well established health benefits in the scientific literature, stretching less so however:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/well/move/stretching-exer...
> Republican state Sen. John Kavanagh, who sponsored the measure, has said he was unable to find an outside group to defend the legislation.

> Prominent law enforcement officials refused to defend the law, including former Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich and both the prosecutor and sheriff’s office in Maricopa County, home to Phoenix.

Credit where it's due, even the police themselves wanted nothing to do with this awful bill. And studies have shown that video evidence overwhelmingly exonerates police more often than it implicates them. Transparency is a win for everyone.
"It is an investment," hahah. This is also really deft parody of tech press boosterism.
I am mostly a novice to the field of LLMs, but as a layman who has a basic but admittedly very rough understanding of how they work algorithmically, I have a hunch that the same thing that makes these LLMs powerful AIs that have interesting emergent behaviors is also what makes them occasionally get things wildly wrong and claim to know things that they do not know. They are supposed to be AIs, not carefully vetted encyclopedias. Sure, I get that people want to eventually use AI to do life-critical stuff like surgery, and at that point "hallucinations" become a real problem. But we are nowhere close to that point yet, I think, so I feel that the focus on "hallucinations" may be misleading. It is one thing to try to get a 30 year old doctor to not make nonsense up on the fly while at work, that makes sense. But if you try to prevent a 3 year old kid from making up nonsense, that will actually probably hurt his development into a more powerful intelligence. Note: I know that the current popular LLMs do not actually learn past the scope of a single session, but I am sure that they soon will.
This seems like such an old train of thought. There are full lecture series available from a large number of prestigious lecturers at highly accredited universities. There are thousands of creators/hackers/researchers that have spun up every manifestation of creation you can think of and many of them publish the how-to in the process. You can get digital copies of textbooks, there's a whole open source encyclopedia which is competitive with proprietary encyclopedias. All the knowledge has been democratized. Causing a recession of the institutions at this point would be progressive. By all means I think the most progressive thing would be a move back to the apprenticeships of yore, even in STEM. A lot of people are going into specialist fields anyways, you may as well learn to make bespoke rats from somebody that's been doing it their whole career, nobody needs all the tangential shit when there's a straight, well-trodden road to the end product.

We need to loose the grip of these institutions on our economy, they're - very evidently - a trillion dollar sink.
No problem, it happens to us all :)
> That is not what cloud native means.
> utilizing cloud's capabilities such as elastic and automated infrastructure management.

Contradictory perhaps? So it's not what it means but it is what it means?

In order to achieve what you've said in vague terms you definitely do need to try to be stateless, have fast startup and reduce memory. Clear examples are things like lambda and fargate.

How can you be elastic if you have an application server that takes 10 minutes to start?
TIBCO Rednezvous, https://www.tibco.com/products/tibco-rendezvous, is the first thing that came to my mind from previous experience in the financial industry working with real-time market data. Although I'm not sure if it has built-in KV support for dealing with large payloads like NATS does, TIBCO RV and their related software packages are worth checking out to see what an long time established commercial product offers. Which leads me to...

... the protocol is text-based like HTTP with CR LF for field both for the client, https://docs.nats.io/reference/reference-protocols/nats-prot..., and cluster protocols, https://docs.nats.io/reference/reference-protocols/nats-serv... -- which means encoding overhead if your payloads are binary. So depending on your definition of performance, ymmv.

I really do not see how implementing an API across multiple languages is easier by making a new linefeed-based protocol, https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/blob/0421c65c888bf381..., than just using code-generated JSON or gRPC (Protobuf or Flatbuffers). One could then write subscriptions/clustering algorithms in a protocol-neutral library.
Mickey Mouse is not a difficult character to emulate, branding and marketing are what continues makes it a household name. Even with it's original cultural trailblazing, it would have faded away if not for the IP being constantly brought to market by Disney, same for all their IPs.

It is luck when an indie creator strikes on a new IP idea and it happens to get viral traction, otherwise it is deliberate delivery to market by brands that makes an IP succesful.

All to say, if it were possible to out-market Disney it would have happened regardless of AI, producing the creative material isn't Disneys edge at all, it's their brand position and budget.
The stuff you're describing are things GPT-4 is already adept at, much more so than writing code.
https://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2023/05/17/rockwe...

Company seems to be Rockwell Automation
Looks like that plotter is quite pricey. Can anyone recommend something cheaper to experiment with?
https://archive.is/iQDDX

Nitter : https://nitter.net/zaimirii/status/1683177429836210176
You’re missing the point.

Git is optimized for a specific use case. This prohibits other use cases. I think Git could be slightly tweaked to optimize for and enable different use cases. I think far more users would benefit from the new use cases than the old.

I want to use the right tool for the job. I wish Git were changed slightly so that it could be the right tool.

Git is not capable of handling video game assets. It could be. I wish it were. You may may be happy as is. I think you would actually be happier if my use case were supported. Because I think Git is over optimized for an ultra niche case that doesn’t matter to most users. And yes I realize most users are not game developers.

Git is great at what it was built for. Almost all current Git users do have the same requirements as the thing Git was built for. Therefore Git is a sub-optimal tool for almost all users. The world deserves an optimal tool. The hegemony of Git and GitHub makes it difficult for an optimal tool to be made and therefore all users suffer.
I agree with this take. Thanks for your thoughts! Being good at being 11 as measured by other 11 year olds doesn’t seem like it’s a predictor of anything.

I loved being homeschooled for the freedom and lifestyle benefits.

Also your website (from your profile) is legit.
> and so has the tax base and # of teachers. This is a non-issue. Society scales.

The tax base and the number of higher education instructors may indeed have tripled. I'd have to check. But that would only be enough if you were going to teach the same fraction as went to college in 1960. What was that, 10 or 15%?

So we'd need something like a x30 increase in teachers. And even more in tax base (since we're building more campuses or enlarging the existing, not merely funding the existing ones).
The pressure differential the membrane experiences (and needs to function) drops as the water gets closer to the surface. So the more the pipe filled, the less water would flow.

If the membrane requires 231 meters of pressure differential, it would stop moving water when the water was still about 230 meters from the surface.
I’m gonna say you haven’t looked into how that money can be spent. About half goes into the school and rainy day fund, the stimulus checks were required by law for I think 16? So your question is “what did they do with 34B” which again… pretty easy to figure out. There’s a budget.

Looks like it was about 38b https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4432

That link also has the allocations for that 38b. You can get 5Gb fiber in my neighborhood now. Some of that is probably due to this budget for instance.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18542040 talks about registers with a similar purpose.
Well of course voters accept this vernacular, slang usage! It works great! March into the principal's office, slam your fist down on the desk, and demand your free public schools for your kid. Stagger into the E.R., slam your fist down on the triage nurse's desk, and demand your free health care!

It works great at the ballot box too! "Vote now for your free stuff! Everybody gets more free stuff when they vote for me! Support the bill for free stuff!" Because if you called it "using other people's money", then the Ghost of Margaret Thatcher would arise and invade Puerto Rico.

While you're voting, consider whether you're in that hacker demographic that gets a chuckle out of the meme that says "The Cloud Is Just Someone Else's Computer."
This is the most well thought out commentary on this topic I have ever read. Thank you.
Microscopic cracks vanish in experiments, possibility of self-healing machines
Do watch the BSD team's video presentation, they cover everything you've said.

I don't want to re-iterate too much of it, but the gist was: "If Microsoft won't support DOS or Win16, why should the two part-time volunteers support it!?"

The OpenSSL team clearly did not have the time or budget to both maintain that many platforms and maintain the security of supported platforms.

If "some projects" or "some vendors" want to support esoteric platforms they can fork LibreSSL and add support at their own expense instead of at the expense of the larger community using SSL libraries at-scale on modern platforms for production workloads worth trillions of dollars to the economy.

I 100% agree with the BSD team's points and their approach, and whatever contrary argument you make has to also explain away Heartbleed, which was at the time the worst security vulnerability in history.

It's like arguing that: "Sure, the Wuhan Lab of Coronaviruses may have had some biosecurity lapses, but just because the world's biggest pandemic originated form there doesn't automatically mean those practices were a problem!"

(Or if you disagree with the lab-leak hypothesis, substitute unsanitary animal handling practices at the Wuhan Markets.)
Prop 13 drives real estate prices up and rents while they lag also follow. And that drives the price of labor up as well. Even more malign it discourages muni's from approving housing because the property taxes don't cover the services that muni's have to pay for.
This future is not new. AI might make The Holodeck from 1970s Star Trek finally exist. Our iPhones are tricorders. Alexa is the ship's computer. Automated agriculture, automated transport and automated food service machines are the ship's replicator. We ticked off the box from 40yrs ago.

The AI gloomerism is really missing something. AI is the next tool to build off. It has structural weaknesses and humans make better products with AI than AI does alone.

I'm not going to use 2020 AI tech to push out 2010 Disney films. Get to the next technology already, AI is logically incomplete.
Your comment is literally word
salad. Mind taking another pass?
My thought as well. As a Russian I wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole. TG is full of CSAM and others are censored worse than anything in the US.
The one use I see is for drawing. It's a good digital drawing pad which is more expensive than ReMarkable or Wacom, but can also do a lot more.

Also perhaps music, since Logic Pro is now on iPad. But even then I think it would only be good for traveling, I'd rather have a big desktop hooked up to a keyboard at home.
Yeah, I thought about that, but this would kill even directly invoked executables, right?
> but every executable, by design, doesn't get to choose what to use for its loader.

Sure it does: it can load whatever it wants however it wants once main() gets to run.
$700 USD for a AxiDraw V3/A3 doesn't seem too crazy. This is precision, purpose-built equipment.

Are you able to elaborate on what you were expecting or hoping for?
Which one are you referring to? I can’t keep them all straight.
Would you mind shedding light on how you find the republican party "anti-reactionary"? In my mind, they are quite reactionary.
Check out the coding train on youtube.
Well, I give you kudos for at least making a verifiable prediction. I want to look up this comment in 5-10 years time and see how it turns out.

In all honesty, I don't think it will turn out well. Primarily because you seem to be arguing that AI will reduce the value of content owners, e.g. "I fully expect that in 10-15 years time the value of the content owned by companies like Disney will approach zero. Mickey Mouse(ok, not the biggest asset they have now, but an example) will be replaced by Ricky the Raccoon or thousands of other characters generated by AI."

This is sooooo similar to what people expected in the late 90s with the rise of the consumer Internet, and the exact opposite happened. "Modern media companies will have to contend with everyone in the world being a potential competitor when the bar to getting a website up on the Internet and publishing your own content is so low" the story went. But the lesson learned is that when production and distribution become so cheap, this results in more concentration, not less, because it leads to "winner take all" dynamics where people are quick to switch to the best product, even if it's just a teeny bit better.

Sure, there may be Ricky the Raccoon or thousands of other AI generated characters. It's just that 99% of them will suck and nobody will care about them. There were a bajillion Geocities sites back in the day, too, and yet we all ended up spending most of our time on the same top few websites.
That’s a really good question, to go with that I wonder how are you thinking about interfacing with that once it’s been trained?
Additionally, it's a pretty solid prior to assume that, when we find rapidly forming fossils like this, the behaviors they capture were common behaviors. Fossil formation is rare, so a fossil capturing a rare behavior is pretty darn unlikely. A behavior would have to be ellicted many, many times to have a likely chance of being preserved in a fossil.

Surely they exist, and this could be one of them, but until we find evidence to the contrary our best guess should be that this was a common behavior.
https://archive.is/8tytd
BCn and ASTC are the most common formats today.
Same for Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie
Yeah. If done right:

- Outages every week (one as we speak: "this tweet is not available" reported by many).

- Full of scam bots (including "verified" ones) & misinformation.

- Speedrunning to bankruptcy losing billions per annum it doesn't have to spend.

- Can't ship any significant features.

- Over half a billion unpaid severance to former employees alone.

- Dozens of other lawsuits over unpaid rent, bills, licenses, invoices, broken contracts.

- Chairman/CTO with various weird/extremist statements every second day, running on pure impulse.

- CEO the last to learn about anything happening at the company.

Not sure, but I think maybe it's not done right.
All science is based on some kind of trust unless everybody personally replicates every single study and experiment...
Team Headshots: AI vs. Professional Photographer
> We let them do it.

How?
Only in EL1, which means you can only use them in kernel.
And when is that? The docs just say it's right associative[1]. And while it's been a long time since I've written any nontrivial Perl, I don't remember ever having ?: be left associative.

[1] https://perldoc.perl.org/perlop
Seawater has a higher density, about 2,5% according to Wikipedia. So 40m of water column fresh water vs seawater would be equal to 1m water column fresh water. 400m would result in a 1 bar pressure difference.
What bugs me most in these stories is that they are actively destroying what worked before. Barbarians with big frameworks. Their company pays them while they make the product worse and nobody notices. Even with user feedback, because instead of going to a solver, it goes to the problem itself.
I'm on 7.0.10 with various Windows guests and no issues to speak of.
This reminds me of this video, about why cars crash into buildings so much in the USA, but not elsewhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra_0DgnJ1uQ

TLDR It is because in the USA it is blamed on "human error", bad drivers or youngsters going too fast. While in other places, it is seen as a systemic problem, like bad visibility, long stretches of straight roads encouraging speeding, etc.
If I were changing the signature of `do_something` in Rust and wanted to avoid breaking callers when changing the function from accepting `T` to `Option<T>` , I'd do the following:

fn do_something(value: impl Into<Option<T>>) {
let value = value.into();
// remaining function body using `value` as an `Option<T>`
}

Existing calls to `do_something` will continue working because `Option<T>` implements `From<T>` (and `Into` implementations are generated in the opposite direction whenever `From` is implemented). Passing in `None` will also work because every type `T` implements `From<T>`, and therefore `Into<T>` as well.

I'd even argue that in a lot of cases, this is worth doing even when creating new library functions (where there are no existing callers to worry about). In my experience, it's generally better to keep the API clean from a caller's perspective by taking on extra boilerplate internally in the implementation rather than shift the burden to the callers of the API in order to keep the library's implementation clean.
Kelley Deal of The Breeders and R Ring spent many years as a program analyst at a defense contractor: https://www.vice.com/en/article/rm9g3r/the-breeders-kelley-d...
On the theological and philosophical front the DailyWire has presented a riveting seminar series on Exodus
Huh, curious, I don't remember them ever dining with the king in the musketeer books.
Static type checking is way a lot easier, help with your code discovery and learning process .
Less unit testing, better typing ftw.
Last week I downloaded the latest VMware player and installed Windows 11. (I had to run the efi boot file manually) It works well, and it has a sane non-commercial license that doesn't allow the company to send tax collectors to your home.