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Imagine a machine shop that has blueprints of components of the machines they use in the shop, and processes to assemble machines from the components. When a machine shop grows large and splits in two, each inherits a half of shop with the ongoing processes and a copy of the blueprints.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B7PMf7bBczQ&pp=QAFIAQ%3D%3D

DNA is the blueprints.
There are infinite possibilities what to do with them. The advanced civilization would need additional information, like that they are supposed create a cell from the components to begin with, and a lot of detailed information how exactly to do that.

Edit: improved clarity
This proposal applies a temporary cost to DoS and DDoS — which itself is already a big waste of power. This proposal has the ability (if it works as planned) to destroy DoS + DDoS as an effective tool against this kind of server. Likely a net positive in terms of power usage.

Remember that this PoW proposal is a market. If the server has unconsumed cycles (eg. Is not saturated), the POW spot price can remain 0. The server only needs to set a PoW price after the server’s resources near saturation. For the same reason auctions end because nobody is willing to pay infinity dollars, clients can forego PoW and can opt to check back in on the server later when costs subside.
> How can anyone be addicted to alcohol? Its effects are also shit

Alcohol is a high-calorie meal.
Its effect is not that long.
Also it helps to survive a cold such as on polar regions.
tl;dr: no, for most people.
This is a pet project, they already have a job. That is the reason.
Sure, but that doesn't help with making it easier to compete with Taiwan in this field on a global scale.
Runbooks are about eliminating toil incrementally.

If you or your team find there's some process that needs to be done regularly, you're right, it should be automated. But there are often barriers to doing that immediately, and you may not even agree on what all the steps are. Here's how you do it then:

1. Write the runbook.

2. Execute the runbook multiple times.

3. Modify and improve the runbook.

4. Automate parts of the runbook.

5. When the entire thing is automated, hook it up to a metric to run automatically.

6. Delete your manual runbook - keep this new piece of code documented with its history and steps of improvement and eventual automation.

This method means you get consistency of a method almost immediately, don't need to fight product to spend a ton of time on it (you can spend 30 minutes here and there on a single step), the team has better conversations about ad-hoc process, and you eventually automate it.

In my job we have to do code releases to customers. This means we take a repo, do some tidying up like removing internal comments, inline some dependencies, make sure the README is in good shape, then make sure several people are notified and can approve it.

I wrote a scrappy runbook with like 10 bullet points because this was being done really inconsistently. A month later it had been improved a ton by engineers with detailed command lines and roll back steps. Now they're starting to automate parts of it. We don't have explicit time for this, but we got a consistent process straight off the bat, engineer buy-in to the process and improving it, and bit by bit we will get to a point where it becomes a one-liner without us feeling we had to carve out a chunk of time specially for it.

What's not to like?
> I think the bigger reason is simply that backwards compatibility is hard.

Backward compatibility requires some care, but it's not exactly hard. Simply don't change interfaces or exposed behavior. You can always add new APIs, just don't break the current ones.

The only time it is hard is when there is a security vulnerability that is difficult to fix without breaking compatibility. But that's not very often.

I came of age in the culture of never, ever breaking compatibility. You'd get raked over the coals in design meetings for ever voicing such forbidden thoughts. It's a wonderful approach because everything just keeps working. As it should be. The software industry needs to grow up to what it used to be.
You can't use the bsl licensed version if you're at all concerned that Hashicorp might decide at any point in the future that your business "competes" with theirs.

It's not about the source code. It's about the freedom.
They're certainly safe enough that the primary risk is not of them exploding. Hell, the most current iteration of Falcon 9 has only ever had one failure, which was early in its lifetime before it was crew rated.

In general, the vast majority of rocket explosions in the US ever since we got past the phase of having to build two of everything in-case one launch failed have been ones which were either still in active development or weren't anywhere near nuclear rated at the time anyway. The media loves to report on exploding rockets, but by and far that is not the norm and if you're flying on a rocket that is allowed to carry even nuclear material, you're essentially guaranteed to be safe (if not necessarily guaranteed to make it to orbit).
Im usually quite dismissive of these browser based "desktops", but wow. I am amazed just how much detail and functionality you have put in to that.

I'd recommend people have a look at the intro video, as theres a LOT more than meets the eye: https://youtu.be/CkvKPspIPLs
Apple is to blame for that since they are the ones refusing to sell parts. That's going in circles. No, Apple is as Right to repair as they deem necessary to uphold the law and not get too much backlash from customers. If they had their way they would utterly refuse any kind of right to repair, as history has shown.
Did you read the article? The method uses no gasoline, oil or chemicals.
If you build it they will come :)
>Hmm, so what was the problem that Facebook solved?

"A "face book" is a student directory featuring photos and personal information. In 2003, Harvard had only a paper version along with private online directories."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
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In this, it stands beside "Bela Legosi's Dead," which simultaneously invented goth and was the perfect parody of goth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKRJfIPiJGY
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Thank you, I was not aware of Element stepping up in this space. There is also the FSF Jitsi instance that does not push you towards Facebook, Google, or Microsoft in order to use it:

https://jitsi.member.fsf.org
> LLMs aren't all that exists in AI research

Frankly, I'm a bit worried about all the rest now that LLMs proved to be so successful. We might exploit them and arrive to a dead end. In the meantime, other potentially crucial developments in AI might get less attention and funding.
I would highlight the support for directories more. It's a vital feature that none of the others in this space seem to support.
You could use Monitorian for changing screen brightness via ddc.

https://github.com/emoacht/Monitorian
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It seems humanity just can't win. Short of using glass and metal for everything is there any way plastic can be used without harming the environment?
In Poland it's quite common for people to just hand dig their wells, using concrete rings for the reinforcement of walls. It's legal up to 30 meters depth and up to 5 m^3/day water yield.

Article (in Polish but there's pics): https://darmowyporadnik.pl/artykul/36/budownictwo/kopanie-st...

Edit: Or maybe I should say "it was" - most new wells are just a vertical steel pipe with a submerged electric pump rather than big concrete rings. These are obviously much more convenient and safer.
Apple's version isn't interoperable either.

We already have standards for local networks: mDNS + FTP / SMB / WebDAV.
They said nothing about not printing any non-primes.
Nah, you’re wrong too. Tax the rich.

Their actions the last 30 decades and even 40 are easily Googled

They’ve collided with government to expropriate worker wealth, or more accurately, propagated the myth a mathematical minority are the keystone to physical reality itself

They’re only a few mere mortals and their riches are only possible so long as the majority graciously do not kill them
I also got diagnosed late last year. I had a great experience with Shimmer and recommend it to any friends/acquaintances that get diagnosed.

It's fairly normal practice to get an ADHD coach with or without also seeing a therapist. Main factors seem to be money, how severely ADHD is affecting that person's life, and whether they have a mix of anxiety/depression with it.

Having this type of service available is really important imo. You can try out multiple coaches if you need to, and there's a system built around the experience to hopefully encourage consistent positive outcomes. With all the baggage that "medicine" comes with in the US, it seems like a positive to have this type of coaching exist outside of the medical system.

My two cents as someone going through a late in life diagnosis at 39.
make your own! have you heard of watch later?
Why pick straws though? There are plenty of similarly environmentally harmful and even less useful things that we ignore (like all the excessive nested packaging for some preprocessed food products).
True, you also need to cap house and land prices.
Note that cstore_fdw ≈ Citus columnar (modernized using table access method) ≈ Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL (managed Citus service) ≈ Hydra (a Citus columnar fork)

Fwiw, the main use case we had in mind when developing the Citus columnar table access method was compression of old data in a time-partitioned table. Citus is commonly used for real-time analytics on time series data. That involves more materialization than typical OLAP reporting use cases. However, you might still want to keep the source data in the database for ad-hoc queries or future materialization and it's preferable to keep the source data in compressed form.

Redshift is specifically architected for ad-hoc OLAP queries. AlloyDB I'm not sure.
Microsoft gets Sony PlayStation devkits before the release of s new console. I can't see how you could say anything about Sony that would want them to refuse a devkit more than to their competitors. I very much doubt the truth of this.
> Sometimes adversarial comments seem to be motivated by commercial rather than technical reasons.

No kidding.

On most Launch / Show HN posts half of the comments are "CEO of yourdirectcompetitor.com here, cool project, good job, here are some irrelevant questions so that my obvious self-plug doesn't get deleted."
cereal is not pure carbs, there are fibers, iron, and other useful stuff in them. Maybe american cereal is different and not made with wheat?
I agree. There are certain cultures which I expect to abuse “unlimited” anything.
Anyone who has worked a bit with a top LLM thinks that they learn world models. Otherwise, what they are doing would be impossible. I've used them for things that are definitely not on the web, because they are brand new research. They are definitely able to apply what they've learnt in novel ways.
omg and with the new tech around generative AI...

This is shaping up to be a very interesting decade to be in tech.

We might actually be able to generate new sequences and test them against all the diseases to remove them.
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In France it's common for the court to ask to a psychoanalyst or a psychologist (not to a psychic) to tell what the defendant was "really" thinking and feeling, in order to decide to decide whether the defendant was responsible for his actions or not.

“There is no crime or offense when the defendant was in a state of insanity at the time of offense, or when he was constrained by a force he could not resist.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9387428/
Important distinction - the day when Apple is honestly supporting right to repair is not yet here, and given company's history it most probably won't come anytime soon. Which is fine, but let's be honest here. Apple is for-profit corporation just like gazillion others, it will fight tooth and nail against anything imparting their revenue streams, be it massive cut from itunes sales or expensive repairs.

These kind of modern just movements are not what mega corporations like Apple enjoy. But they have to throw bits and pieces around for marketing to show to mostly young that 'they care', 'they understand', 'privacy first' and so on. Well sure they do, about their revenue. Just look at their actions, rest is pure marketing carefully crafted over months and endless meetings and psychological market analysis.

What they did is just marketing move and basically allowing you to pay them fully just like in official repair center. That's not what right to repair means (hacking together my own fixes if I decide to, ie in old John Deere fashion). They should just make sure that things work at the end while not compromising things like security and longevity, ie by open protocols and specification. Nothing like that is happening anytime soon in Apple realm.
A concise implementation of automatic differentiation in Haskell: https://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/haskell/ad.html
Well, for starters you have to fight the urge to get as much compensation as you can. Once you realize that 90% of SWE job offerings will land you in the top 10-20% of earners, and provided you're fine with the lifestyle that allows, most companies need tech.

The two criteria I'm interested in as an IC is how useful the job is in my eyes (this you can know before applying), and whether the company gives me enough independence to be able to make things right. So my interviews focus on a single factor: whether the company culture and organization is conductive to good, productive work I will be proud of down the line.
All the text in the Desktop is in French for me. Is that because I'm in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, and it's somehow geo-locating incorrectly?
Kurt Cobain was one of the most influential and iconic musicians of the 20th century.
> the devastating gun called “reason”

That punchline...

And in the real world there's the Earth model that heavily influenced Google Earth, and the librarian's "intelligence without consciousness" conversational style is looking pretty damn prescient right now.
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Nintendo is not a bigger player. You can't just say X > Y hence Z.

Quick Google search tells me that..

>PlayStation made $11.3 billion more than Xbox, and $14.7 billion more than Nintendo. Xbox made $3.4 billion more than Nintendo.

Nintendo is the smallest. The biggest earner is the PlayStation 5 today and the PlayStation 2 overall.
The bigger problem is that an accurate LLM is such a massive speed up in coding (an order of magnitude, hypothetically at least), that there is zero incentive to share it.

All American programming tech has relied on an time-and-knowledge gap to keep big companies in power.

Using visual studio and c++ to create programs is trivial or speedy if you have a team of programmers and know what pitfalls to avoid. If you're a public pleb/peasant who doesn't know the pitfalls, you're going to waste thousands of hours hitting pointless errors, conceptual problems and scaling issues.

Hallucinating LLMs are marketable to the public. Accurate LLMs are a weapon best kept private.

I am always intriguied by the people who say LLMs provide a massive benefit to their programming and never ever provide examples............
Ask HN: Alternative to Backblaze
I'm looking for cloud back up service to seamlessly backup a 8TB external drive.
Backblaze does this perfectly, but you have to plugin your HD every 30 days (otherwise the backup will void) and the whole experience is a bit dated (pretty much the same experience from 10 years ago).

Some context:
I've been a user of Backblaze for 10 years. It's impressive how very little the product has change. I guess it's a testament of how good the product was back then, and how good it is today at solving this specific pain. I'm sure a lot as been changing behind the scenes, but the user experience is 95% the same. My opinion is that in 2023 the standard for UX/UI is much much higher than 10-15 years ago and Backblaze is falling being, by a lot.

The current experience and price point are OK, OK enough that I don't change to other online backup provider, but also only OK enough that every once in a while I make a quick search for `Backblaze alternative`. Although the product works as intended I feel the experience is very outdated and that there's a LOT to improve on the app and website.

I'm a hobby photographer and every month I have several more GB to back up to the cloud in fear my local HD(s) will break down, as happened before. Backblazed already saved 10% of my catalog once before.
You need good quantitative measures, not just random numbers.

If you sell, say, water bottles, you probably want to know how many of them you can sell at any given moment, in order to not overbook and have to reimburse people. In this case, keeping track of how many water bottles you do have in stock probably helps, keeping track of how many labels with funny jokes you can stick on a shipping box in an hour doesn't. But if you start tracking the latter and handing down bonuses and layoffs based on it, people will max that metrics out - at the expense of your actual stock capacity.

Quantitative measures are dangerous, especially in the hands of people who believe they are better than qualitative ones because they're "objective" or whatever. Because not only they aren't, but they are also better than qualitative ones at hiding their biases and soothing your own.

> Are you implying that management shouldn’t have any quantitative measures and should only be qualitative?

Many managers would do a lot better this way. They'd still make stuff up, but would at least be forced to admit it.
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Xavier Leroy is one of the main developers of OCaml.
I love the attention to the details and correctness of the "The Byte Attic", especially his Talon ES series ;) https://www.youtube.com/@thebyteattic
Yeah, I agree. In fact, even as an atheist, I believe humans in general have an innate drive towards religious thinking. If we suppress classic ways to those things, people will find new ones. And those new ones won't have gone through the test of time.

I believe we are seeing the effects of this in many western countries.
Correct. Lowering prices increases the purchasing power of every worker.

That could be achieved by pursuing production for use, not profit. Municipal collective ownership works quite well for utilities (like ISPs) and housing. Regional collective/co-op food production can work well too. Nationalised transportation and medicine works in many places. And so on.

It only takes the workers to be sufficiently well organised to obtain the means to produce in this way.
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Whenever I see DuckDB, it's the perfect one needed for OLAP queries in terms of performance and efficiency.

One thing I couldn't wrap my head around, why there is no standalone version?

What would be typical data pipeline/architecture to use DuckDB as in process OLAP engine? How would it achieve storage of data (large data volume)
The hacking community takes issue with it because it is overly broad and applies to sites any reasonable person would consider personal and non-commercial. The infamous precedent were early 2000s era personal homepages with banner ads on them to pay for the hosting. The presence of ads made them commercial and thus subject to the Impressumspflicht.

The CCC has a strong anarchist tendency unlike the US tech bubble which has a more libertarian (i.e. free enterprise) streak. They absolutely do not want companies to hide from accountability, which completely abolishing the Impressumspflicht would do.

Also note how I said the GDPR also requires transparency with regard to who processes and stores your data. This doesn't translate to the same requirements that exist for an Impressum but for companies and registered organizations it's enough to make them identifiable and recognizable, especially in combination with the Transparency Register, which is also part of EU law.
I don't consider it a Danish letter. In fact I sometimes make use of it in English for purely æsthetic reasons.
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That's the problem: rock wasn't just blues recombined, nor hip hop just drum solos recombined.

And they didn't hit culturally like mere recombinations.

Blues were an "folk" art form from blacks, expressiving everyday problems, heartbreaks, poverty etc, in a speficic expressive and cultural context.

Rock even from its early days operated in a very different context (teen fun and rebellion initially), and developed into very different aesthetic and social spheres, from student protests and civil rights to anti-war and mind-expansion.

Except from understanding that it had blues as part of its musical (and only musical) heritage, it wasn't perceived as a mere recombination of blues, and it didn't serve the same social role as blues did.

>But there's always subversive, alternative sub cultures out there. A world of 8 billion, where the Internet has been a thing for over 30 years, with literal hundreds of giant cities.

The recentness doesn't really change much about how fast something can spread. For example almost everybody of age in those 8 billions has a mobile phone now (even in the poorest African countries) and yet phones have really been a thing for 25 years.

If your point is "we might not see subversive, alternative sub cultures out there" but surely there must be some in some of those "literal hundreds of giant cities" all over the world, I think it makes my point. Countercultures were major impactful movements in the western world for decades. And your answer basically amounts to "just because you can't see them doesn't mean there's not some still going on in Cairo or Okinawa".

It's like saying "shoe cobbling isn't dead, there's some such shops in New York" or "Addis Ababa has quite a few".
Indentation provides visual structure. Matching braces hardly add value to it.
Nothing stop you from building the index yourself at deploy time
Toyed around with firecracker a bit. Does what it promises on boot times, but still a pretty gnarly experience. e.g. After doing a victory dance for getting it to boot I was rather deflated to find out that getting networking takes another lengthy tutorial
Well articulated, thank you.
A typical parrot repeats after you said something. A parrot that could predict your words before you said them, and could impersonate you in a phone call, would be quite scary (calling Hollywood, sounds like an interesting move idea). A parrot that could listen to you talking for hours, and then provide you a short summary, would probably also be called intelligent.
That's really cool! How does it do the actual P2P connections? WebRTC?
https://meet.fsci.in/

indian free software community jitsi instance.

the more the merrier i guess
I you were a manager there and would approve that metric, no worries, I'd manage to fly it past you.

Any smart manager, having to deal with this kind of policy, would either push back or approve any way to game it and then get the work done. But I doubt that a company which allows this kind of BS can retain smart managers for more than a couple of months.
Even if that was true, most probably but she wouldn't.

But who knows, perhaps she might. I don't claim any privilege to her decisions, just offering probabilities around human endurance.