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> Software Design Intent document

That's great. But having written it doesn't mean that everyone has read it. And not everyone who has read it will agree with it. Or maybe the person who you thought would champion it has left the company. Or maybe the world has changed since you wrote it. You've probably heard the expression "no business plan survives first contact with customers." A corollary, in anything but an extremely top-down organization, is that version 1 of your planning doc is unlikely to perfectly describe the final product.

> a) the question asker knows better, and b) that no one bothered to think of any of this to begin with

Eh, that's assuming a fair amount of antagonism on both sides. Most people are reasonable and rational, and after the initial "WTF? Are you crazy?" handshaking, everyone can get on the same page. But that process takes time. If your first contact with a downstream person/team/group is right before your 1.0 is supposed to ship, then you're more likely to treat them as a roadblock. If you instead involve them early, get the WTF moments out of the way, and take the time to develop a relationship, then you've turned a potential roadblock into a stakeholder and advocate, and your SDI becomes a true representation of consensus, rather than a bludgeon.
What do you suppose the odds are that there's a Tin-based compound instead of lead based?

(Which would effectively make a bizarre form of brass a superconductor)
Your point is an incredibly aggressive intentional misrepresentation of what actually happened.

Nobody actually believes that other than right wing fundie culture warriors. Elon Musk thinks it’s complete bullshit, as does every other person who is willing to put objective facts above their personal feelings.
I’m genuinely curious to know: why do some folks browse the web without using an ad blocker? That’s not a rhetorical question. I understand grandma may not be technically savvy enough. But for anyone reading HN, why aren’t you using an ad blocker?
Escher lived a large part of his life a kilometer from here. It's interesting to walk by there and to think back to the days when he lived there and quietly made most fantastic artwork (I was mesmerized by it as a young child and still am today). He made his work in wood, perfectly registered in multiple 'planks' for the various phases of the printing. I wonder what happened to the originals, they must be around somewhere.

Reading his letters about how much work it was and how physical it was really puts into perspective why this was a life well spent, each and every one of his works brings something unique into the mix as his style evolved over the years. And to make all these transformations without the aid of a computer makes it even more impressive.
Explaining EYG a portable functional programming language with no syntax [video]
Separate and related question: what can a single person making less than 55k in CA afford if they are renting their own 1 bd?
I would word your statement a little differently. What you said sounds very confusing to me, as if you are conflating intelligence with a lot of other things.

Intelligence is discernment, heuristics and pattern recognition.

Agency is achieving goals.

Wisdom is the process of discovering which goals are worth achieving.
I'd love to see an OS with a Unix API but plan9 like kernel! I will never get around to writing one myself though!
Just started testing them out last week. Amazing how much better it is than GA4.
I don't think biometrics are used as usernames or passwords in the Worldcoin system.

I don't think any such data leaves the Orbs, as far as the Worldcoin system in concerned.
Ineffective ads wouldn't drive higher revenue. It would be the opposite.
It's a bit suspicious to type an essay linearly from start to finish, though.
Stone age

Bronze age

Iron age

LK-99 (®) age
Oh, yes indeed. I mean, I like the sound, myself!

Gods help me, I even listened to a record of mechanical keyboard sounds. More than once.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/03/mechanical_keyboard_a...
I drive a Ford F350 and type on Model M.
‘Ultra-rare’ pair of Apple trainers on sale for $50k
There are a lot of things wrong with plain standard POSIX:

- it's hopelessly out of date and incomplete w.r.t. modern expectations

- fork() is very problematic for multiple reasons, especially in a modern environment (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/0...)

- process management functions take PIDs and not capabilities, which can cause race conditions

- POSIX hasn't standardized anything better than poll(), yes it works fine in a hobby context but it's not 1987 anymore (and don't get me started on select(): https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/11229)

- signals are a mess

- Unix processes have a huge amount of ambient authority, which is problematic when trying to isolate them (chroot(), https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/filesystems/dotdot, ...)

- the C POSIX library has a lot of cruft while also missing stuff what programmers actually need (for example, POSIX took nearly 6 years to standardize strlcat()/strlcpy(), the process itself starting 17 years after OpenBSD introduced those functions: https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=986)

- ...

Granted, modern production-grade Unix-like operating systems have extensions to deal with most of these issues (posix_spawn, kqueue, pidfd_open...), but they are often non-standard and can be quite janky at times (dnotify, SIGIO...). It also doesn't fix the huge amount of code out there using the legacy facilities like it's still the 1980s.

There are other models out there (Plan 9, Windows, Fuchsia...), but what we really need is to stop putting Unix/POSIX on a pedestal like some holy scripture that shall not be questioned. It's the pinnacle of 1970s operating system designs and it has fossilized so much it's actively turning into oil.

Or at the very least, please stop teaching the next generation that fork() is the greatest thing ever. It's a 50 year old hack kept alive through gratuitous amounts of copy-on-write that should've been scrapped the day Unix was ported to computers with virtual memory and paging.
> Sure, the analog loophole (or analog input loophole) will remain. But it's times more difficult than what is possible at this point in time.

I disagree, I don't think whether or not you can root your phone has any real impact on how hard it is to automate a request. I don't think this is the same as the analog loophole, I think it's going after a different area entirely from where most attacks are coming from.

> Noone has stopped there, SafetyNet already does that.

What I mean is that SafetyNet blocks custom ROMs, rooting, etc... and I'm seeing comments saying that's all that the spec is interested in, it's not going to target extensions or code inspection. I don't think there's any reason to be confident of that, I think it's very likely that this spec evolves to target browser extensions. Because I don't think blocking people from rooting their phones will make an observable difference in the amount of LLM spam that websites get.
The problem is people mix up the overturning part of the AMOC and other overlapping streams.

And while the AMOC is powered quite a bit by water cooling down in the Arctic etc. the other streams are also to a huge degree powered by earth rotation AFIK.

In other words they won't stop, and likely won't slow down that much either. And that is if the AMOC stops instead of just slowing down quite a bit.

E.g. the rotation consisting of Gulf, Canary, N. Equatorial stream and N. Atlantic drift won't stop, but it will reach less far north and potentially colder. Similar for the other "rotations" like that (e.g. Brazil<->Africa) which the overturning stream overlaps with, through some parts might somewhat change their forms and water temperatures.

Or in other word while the absence of the AMOC can cool down GB/Ireland it won't remove all effects.

Expecting similar climate to other (coast) areas on the same latitude is ... not that useful. There are many different ocean current not affected by a stopping overturning current affecting the weather, additional even on coastal areas the wetter isn't always dominated by the ocean climate but can sometimes be largely affected by a constant strong weather front from the country side (both hotter and colder) and in some places that is a common occurrence due to the geography.

It still will likely be ... unpleasant in various ways.
Ah, I see, they decided to start leaking some of the alien stuff they recovered from UFO crash sites in the 50s.
>I don't like the normal mechanical keeb market, because they're loud.

Then install dampeners and use silent/non-clicky switches? This seems a very bad reason not to use a mechanical keyboard.

There are also other options, e.g. for modern rubber dome keyboard (like the HHKB).
In the video, it's when they stop moving the magnet, it maintains its position, neither repelling nor attracting.

Several physicists have spoken up and said this, and a few other tells distinguishes it from any conventional materials, which is why they made the video to begin with I'm sure.

That said I'm just parroting back the things I've picked up from this discussion.
I can only assume it's the same people who are opening "ImportantDocument.doc.exe" in their email.
This is what happens when free speech is not valued and defended throughout our culture. Politics is downstream from culture. When we are OK with, and often encouraging of, private censorship, we shift the Overton window and provide moral cover for politicians and government entities to further consolidate power. This story is a prime example.

People who peddle the argument that the 1st amendment only protects you from government censorship as a basis to invalidate the vigorous defense of free speech ideals in society, are either disingenuous or wildly narrow sighted.
From what I can tell this material can't provide higher than 0.3T. We've had permanent magnet MRI at 0.3T but the drawbacks vs superconducting magnets are weight and lack of active shielding.
Maybe it has some risks but probably not greater than risks we accept every day.

Maybe slapping a mandatory warning or something should be enough for most people to make an informed decision.
What are the failure modes for a superconductor MRI? Could it cause a resonance cascade?
This seems to be the corresponding video (linked in the associated media tab on arXiv): https://sciencecast.org/casts/suc384jly50n
You are not reading that right. We are not executing them in the literal sense but people's lives are being ruined.

One of the bits that made it into the guidelines is that if there are multiple explanations for a comment that you're supposed to go with the stronger one. You seem to have picked the wrong interpretation on purpose. Please don't do that.
I'd say at this point the most important part is "correctness" (rendering etc) and security
THe low cost of a single song vs. an entire episode I suspect also plays a factor. A lot of artists are one or two song wonders, so once you take out a Taylor Swift, there's no incentive for artists to limit their songs to a single platform, no platform will pay enough for the exclusivity to make the artist think it is worth it.
still true it doesn't make news I suppose
I don't think noise-cancelling will work. Clicking noises are difficult to cancel.

You need good passive protection, shooting range earmuffs may be a solution. I don't recommend the active ones though as they are designed to let voice pass though, which mean you will still hear your coworkers yelling at you and your <censored> keyboard.
Context: I've been programming with a Model M for 10+ years now.

If you don't want a loud keyboard, then you do not want a Model M. They're probably the loudest keyboard you can buy today (excepting something bespoke that's intentionally louder than a Model M).

That being said, any of the 1980/90s PS/2 models will probably be perfectly fine, as long as you find a reputable seller. I bought mine (early 1990s) from eBay for about $50 in 2012, and haven't had any problems since.
> if you get a new ISP

Get an v6 PI space, with v6 it’s cheap and easy. In v4 it should have worked exactly the same, if it weren't for the limited address space.
Oh yes. I am an official Grumpy Olde Pharte and I remember working in the 1980s, in an office full of the things... and a computer room full of people hammering away at DEC VT200s and the like. Noisy as hell but we filtered it out.
This stuff drives me up the wall for a few reasons.

The main one is that I’ve never heard anyone describe in any detail how the technology will work. I’ve worked in big shops running big online ML systems and oh boy, do they need a lot of diaper-changing to even stay running. If all the ops folks went on vacation it’s a “hours vs days” not “weeks vs months” question of how soon it would fall over. Some log rotate thing gets stuck, and away we go with cascading failures.

So how, in some detail, do we get from big-ass mixture model of transformers to even self-operation? That’s got to be a pre-requisite for self-improvement right? inb4 “The risk is so great the details don’t matter because not impossible”, hmmm, no. Extreme tail risk isn’t interesting when addressing it comes at the cost of driving immediate, overwhelmingly likely risk of nightmare outcomes through the roof. Consolidating the alignment and steering of big models into the hands of a few CEOs, governments captured by them, or both is a clear and present danger of horrifying proportions. I take mitigate that over extreme tail risk sure as Tuesday and taxes.

Then there’s the reality of AI development thus far, which is that it comes in stops and starts. Clearly the past is no guarantee of the future, but it seems a damned sight better as a prior than the log scale and a ruler methodology employed by Yud or whoever.

Smart people talk like this is serious. There are even some elite practitioners who talk kinda like this (Hinton, Karpathy on Lex, some others). And I don’t want to be walking around with my head up my ass on it, so I’ll be grateful to anyone who wants to set me straight.

But if there’s an explanation somewhere, by a credible practitioner, of how this could actually happen in some actual technical detail, I haven’t found it.

I think that needs to be in the footnotes the next time the mainstream press starts publishing blog posts off LessWrong as consensus.
I'm not sure what gave you the impression that I was proposing something in my comments.
Censorship doesn’t inspire chilling effects without merit less punishments, so it was very necessary.
Flashbots Raises $60M to develop the SUAVE platform for maximal MEV
I actually was the sole developer who wrote all the software that “networked” the custom hardware together. This project was so ahead of its time and yet required some rather arcane programming knowledge. So much fun though. AMA!
> Their electrical resistance vanishes

To put this in further context, RTP superconductors mean compact, low-power MRIs and a massive shrinking, simplification and superpowering of magnetic-confinement fusion and ion propulsion designs. It blows apart chip designers' thermal constraints and opens up entire classes of energy-storage chemistries.

If this is real, it will be the defining discovery of our lifetimes.
Well, a prior project we worked on was named Alan[1]. The choice was somewhat arbitrary: https://marsha.ai was available and we thought it was a fine name so here we are.

[1]: https://alan-lang.org
I believe I saw a video of a hoverboard that worked over a carefully constructed magnetic skatepark...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KtzyZKSuls
> Postgres has a different issue in that replication slots can grow really fast, esp on AWS! [2]. We ended up writing our own custom snapshotter for Postgres that is Debezium compatible to onboard customers that have a massive dataset and cannot afford to have a read lock on their WAL.

Does Debezium's DDD-3 watermark (DBLog) implementation for Postgres not process the WAL quickly enough? We don't use it ourselves either, but architecturally it appears it would reasonably bound how long the WAL can remain un-read?

Agreed that many production DBs people care about have pretty severe limitations here! Managed Supabase is another good example.
I am friends of a long time, Fortune 50 CFO. Well, he was about 16 years ago before one large company went public and he made about $40M in a single day and decided he wanted to do something new (can't blame him).

He told me repeatedly that companies that lay off the moment a bad quarter appears - or if they lay off employees if they even think the market will slow down - are always terribly run companies.

He said it was a clear indicator of poor internal planning and forecasting, that any company who suddenly needed to shed 5,000 or 10,000 employees on one bad quarter was was one to avoid.
or open a newspaper
I've been migrating to nixos. I think it makes news in that everyone is obligated to hate it publicly for at least 6 months before resigning themselves to it.
That's another aspect to it for sure. Those who chose to eat crap suffer the same fate as those who can't afford the alternative. Either way, eat poison = face health consequences.
How can you be reasonably sure that that work sufficiently addresses the bias?

What metric(s) are you using to measure bias in general, and what do those metric(s) look like before and after your tuning?
The difference can probably be explained by nobody having any idea that Apple already implemented a version of this.

And on top of that, Google's reputation of brutal power grabs on the web may make a difference in tone.

Importantly though, we shouldn't frame this as Apple vs Google. I can ensure you that both companies absolutely hate the open web and open computing in general.
The only two things I've read about my alma mater recently were this, and the thing about the president being overthrown by what resembles a military coup, for the crime of trying to reestablish the school of journalism.
If you think Trump's team only ever asked for one single tweet to come down, I don't know what to tell you.

Again, censorship requests aren't a First Amendment violation. Joe Biden can request you go fuck yourself. He cannot order you to go fuck yourself. The Twitter Files make it quite clear Twitter etc. understood this distinction.

For example, here's a Twitter Files post of them saying "go get a court order" to a data request. https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1604888013422485505...
That's one tell. There are several tells that, in combination, mark it as a super conductor.

But I'm just parroting back what the physicists in the thread have shared, so I might have some details wrong.
Indeed this is what happened according to the chats. Check for example the posts on April 3rd.

This whole conspiracy theory relies on selective omission of context from the messages (I refuse to believe that Silver, Chan and co. are doing it out of incompetence). And of course nobody actually checks a 140 page source document. This also explains why no serious journalist has picked up the story. They do actually read sources.
Average global inflation was 8.7% last year, and in the US it peaked at 9.1% in June 2022. The calculation is obviously a lot more complex considering all the different jurisdictions Google makes revenue from and all the different kinds of measures, but adding it all up it won't be too far from the 7% number.
The problem is that anything you build on top of Unix will always be a second class citizen in the Unix world.

For example, suppose you want a database-like filesystem. Either you implement it in the kernel, and now your special apps barely work on anyone’s computers. Or you implement it in userspace - preferably as a library. And now your apps can run anywhere without special kernel features but the terminal, and all the other applications on the computer can’t / won’t understand your new abstraction. And you’ll be fighting an uphill battle to get anyone to care about your new thing, let alone integrate it.

It’s like saying - why rust? Why not just add a borrow checker to C? Why didn’t C# just add a garbage collector to C++? Sometimes starting fresh and establishing a clear, clean environment with different norms is the most effective way to make something new. You don’t have to fight as many battles. You can remove obsolete things. You don’t have to fight with the platform conventions, or fight the old guard who like things as they are.

It’s a shame with operating systems that modern device drivers are so complicated. Hobbyist operating systems seem inordinately difficult to make these days as a result, and that’s a pity. There’s all sorts of good ideas out there that I’d love to see explored.
> After skimming the paper, it reads like a legitimate paper even though I have zero expertise in the area.

Ummm am I the only one who finds this line hilarious?
The reason I consider an employer saying "we are a family here" problematic is because it's obviously untrue.

My family will support me no matter what. My family will never fire me. My family actually loves me.

None of those things are true with an employer.
I agree with your further example cases (they were added after my comment).

I was thinking more of the original post where someone was complaining about readability when you have joins and subqueries - which is the usecase for CTEs.
Customer service isn't wildly different between GCP and AWS. I think it's the finish of the product. AWS has far more finished product and even for smaller services it mostly works as intended. While GCP it is very hit or miss. I have seen so many edge cases in smaller GCP services like composer, old ML platform, dataflow etc.

While GCP is definitely more intuitive. You don't need to create 2 different IAM profile for anything you want to solve. So GCP feels more like Digital Ocean + bunch of services with varying quality.
I was tempted to bet against them since every Google product seems to be getting worse- felt like getting blood from a stone.
This isn't even wrong. A voltage can be present without a current flowing. Touch any live wire to get an instant demonstration that there indeed was a voltage present even if no current was flowing. Not because the wire is an insulator but because it wasn't at that point in time conducting any current. Your finger (also not an insulator) closing the circuit however and then allowed current to flow.