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> Consider the wave-particle duality in quantum mechanics. Every particle behaves as a wave, as long as you haven’t interacted with it. Thanks to Haskell’s lazy evaluation values are also only evaluated once they are accessed (interacted with particles), and stay unevaluated thunks (waves) in the meantime.

Lazy evaluation is a beautiful thing, and in many ways, it is the solution self-reference.

Hofstadter in "I am a strange loop" and Gödel Escher Bach talks about this, well, he talks about many things, but he also talks about how Gödel's numbers can map to proofs that are self-referential, and relates that to humans, how out of very basic building-blocks, if enough representational power exists, self-reference and therefore consciousness exists.

He posits that humans, while self-referential, don't fall into infinite strange loops because they can assign the abstraction of "self" onto an "object" and evaluate only as needed. In essence, the "self" is lazily evaluated.
If you make money on your own, from no capital inherited except what society has given you and you don't ever have any employees, only making profit from your own labor, then yes; that's not a capitalist.

How does that demonstrate that "my" definition is wrong or incomplete?
It was not the Prussians and Germans that declared war first in WW1, that honour belongs to Austria-Hungary. There were too many people at the time who wanted that war for various reasons for it not to happen ine way or the other. Some French wanted Alssace-Lorraine back. Austria wanted the Balkans. Germany wanted to settle tensions with Russia before the latter cought up enough to make that impossible (again, history showed the reasoning was largely correct), Russia did want Austria to get the Balkans and Britian was bound by alliances they needed to maintain their colonies. Not to forget the Ottomans, they and the Russians wanted the same patches of land along the black sea. And the Ottomans and British wanted the same land across North Africa.

WW1 was almost guaranteed to happen, if anything Bismarck's treaties might have delayed that.
So Adam Smith was opposed to the gig economy, then?
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It will be a closure "fun () -> ...", and it's serialized bytecode + a copy of captured variables — remember, they all are immutable. For a intra-node call it will be a reference to the bytecode, no need to copy anything.

However if this code refers to any functions from modules via syntax "foo:bar/1" then these references will be resolved on the target node, and both nodes better have the same versions of modules loaded.
Thanks. I guess I meant either new primary legislation that improves something tangible, but more importantly, provided more resource.

As far as I can see, it's still funded from local authority budgets.

I worked briefly in children's homes a long time ago. Kids were placed in assessment centers where they were supposed to be evaluated and sent on to an appropriate home. But there were no places for them, and they stayed in this temporary place for years.

Not sure if much has improved in the last decade.
It would have been nice to have at least some audio teaser of the music.
But is it really blacksmithing if you're using real fire? I mean that's the idea, to heat metal in an open fire and then hammer it, rinse and repeat.
Sure, battery production volumes are increasing rapidly. Going from hundreds to thousands of gwh annually. Basically twh territory.

32 GW at a capacity factor of about 0.25 (about right for solar, I think) pumps out about 70twh annually. Sounds like a lot but the US consumes about 4000twh per year. So this only represents about 1.7% of its overall energy production. The US is still catching up with other countries that source a larger percentage from solar already (e.g. China, Germany). I think globally it's around 5% currently. But undeniably the IRA is delivering big time in terms of economic stimulation and the bootstrapping of what are no doubt going to be very profitable businesses. And as a side effect, a lot of renewable energy capacity is coming online very rapidly.

Those car batteries could be cycled daily of course. There's will be an order of magnitude more battery on the roads (just in cars) than you can charge with this amount of solar. Of course those cars don't discharge all that much. Mostly they don't drive anywhere near their maximum range on a daily basis and are near fully charged most of the time.

So, that's going to be tens of twh that is ready to be used, in principle. We'll probably never utilize most of that available capacity for grid usage. Not because we can't but because there are more economical forms of storage than car batteries that are also becoming available. In other words, we'll have lots of redundant storage options. Domestic battery, grid battery, truck batteries, buses, ships, cars, etc. Tens, hundreds of twh of capacity.
It could be worse. I had a fake not-working plastic tamagotchi thingy that isn't in anyway a piece of electronic, or at least that's how I remembered it.
A single positron, I guess. Evaporating completely in one step. I may misunderstand hawking radiation, but that's the only particle I can think of that's <= an electron in mass. (I don't think photons count)
The subtitle frustrates me because we, as in humans, caused this. From what I can tell, the fungus was introduced to North America, almost certainly by humans or due to humans. It's a good example of the fact that to respect nature, you need to stay out of it.
And - get rid of all humans is then your answer?
Yeah, but what happens when your local web browser is tricked into opening a socket to the local Erlang instance by a malicious web page? That's the kind of thing that keeps security professionals up all night.
They aren't the minimal hardware configurations, but the ones in their respective class that they had access to.

Besides that, I'd imagine the batch nature of training to do better with paging the weights due to being able to bundle more compute to each parameter chunk access.
And/or more sensitivity to speed for interactive inference causing the 8xA100 configuration even though half as much memory on each would suffice.
> I don't see the point of your original comment. Having an out-of-the-box RPC mechanism means you gotta secure it as you secure any other internal service. That's sysadmin 101

Most RPC systems can't inject code into the running system dynamically. That's the point of my original post.
I think private farms and home business existed before we had what we call "capitalism".

Capitalism only arises in the 18th century as a distinct market model.

We had private property and market economies long before we had capitalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism
Hollywood’s Latest Pirate Site Blocking Injunction Covers ‘Future Content’
I'd say how Windows evolved, the core idea was there, it was iterated on, and peaked at 7. Sadly then M$ decided it needs a new identity and more ads. The UI was good, M$ just decided to ruin it for no good reason
That you need to attack others to preserve your lifestyle, and if you don't do it, they will do it. Without even thinking about what are the root causes.
I wouldn’t assume it’s currency if there weren’t a dollar sign, but yes. To me, 10.0, 10.00, 10.000 and 10.0000 all look the same and I wouldn’t hesitate to see them as 10. The only difference is that more zeroes implies more precision.

10,00 looks like a typo, either of 10,000 or of 10.00, but if I saw it surrounded by a bunch of German text, I’d know it meant 10.
> Haskell beginners often use lists instead of arrays. You can’t do random access in a linked list, but only access the first element and then the rest of the list. The real world also doesn’t allow you random access, you are limited by the speed of light and have to go from one location to the next.

You don't need arrays for random access though. Haskell trees give you access to 2^n leaves within depth n, which also exceeds physical limitations like the speed of light.
I read the internet regularly, does that count?
He wanted to share messages from mid 2021 onwards, not covering the onset of covid.
> What is the difference between "native understanding of nix packages" versus DIY putting your project derivation into dockerTools.buildImage?

This is addressed in the readme FAQ.
https://github.com/pdtpartners/nix-snapshotter#faq

If you're running Nix-based images on Kubernetes, seems like this tool has reduced overhead / storage compared to if you build an OCI/Docker image.
Fungus probably comes from space, the emergence of the same new fungal infection all at once on different continents is another indication that it is true. Either by a "cloud of fungus" the earth passes through or through fungal spores distributed in the atmosphere from breaking up (mini) meteorites. The same could hold true for viruses and maybe even bacteria.

Panspermia is correct.
Agree, Germany lost WW1 when they failed to capture Paris and kick France out of war. And they lost WW2 when the same happened with the USSR at Moscow. That being said, the Entente got their act together as fast as Germany and Austria did in WW1. Without means to break static defenses, the stalemate at the Western and Italian fronts was a certainty, in hindsight. Wars of movement, in the East during WW2 went rather well for Germany. Especially after the shipped Lenin there, but this isba whole bunch of different cans with different worms.
"should" being the operative word here.
Ask HN: Academy-Like Experience, Online?
I've never went to some academy/university/college and at the moment I don't plan to.

TLDR: what are some similar options, online? -- /TLDR

now I want to take random courses online without long term commitment (ie. weeks, not years) but also as part of a group/class or whatever, connect with people learning at the same pace.

my latest similar (offline) experience in terms of learning & socializing was in the Israeli Defense Forces over a decade ago.

I did have some working environments where I learned & socialized but hardly as intense or fun as back then, and I've been freelancing for many years, mostly online.

I did participate in (offline) hacker houses which I really enjoyed and they were the closest such experience since, but they were very short - about a week or two, and don't happen too often.

I know there are many online academies/whatever, I'm not so experienced with any. but I don't want just a DIY video, there is amazing content on YouTube for that. I want the group part.
If you just want it to work you can use ESPHome which means you barely have to code at all. There are software modules for a lot of the standard hardware components. It's arduino plug and play.

I've built a device that times my espresso machine and controls the grinder. I build a 4x wifi socket just because it was fun. Getting high quality temperature and humidity values or co2 is unbelievably easy, cheap and fun.

Coupled with Homeassistant you can spend a lot of time and have a lot of fun. I did at least.
Just how exactly did you reach that wild conclusion? I didn't say anything remotely close to that. I don't even know how to respond.
Reducing 'misogyny' to mean a negative view of women is simplistic at best, manipulative at worst.

Misogyny is a far more nuanced concept, and I don't mean that to say it's difficult to understand, though the author this article seemed to miss it.

If I state that 'women should be homemakers' I'm being misogynistic but not making a negative statement, in fact I'm implying that women are good at that task. And by exclusion I'm implying that men are bad at it. You can absolutely argue that there's an element of misandry even in that statement, but it comes from systemic misogyny and the exclusion of men from certain socially gendered roles in society.

The world is in the middle of a reaction to systemic misogyny, and that means a lot of pushback against the toxic masculinity that creates that misogyny but also holds men back from equal roles in their own right. It's foolish to say we've switched over to a generally misandrist society already when we're so far away from quality still. It's going to take generations to fix wage gaps, clear aging C-suites of old men, and get over the gimmicky appeal of people like Trump and Andrew Tate. If that comes with a lot of men-bashing and baiting, then it's probably well-deserved.
Email using a secured mail server so that it doesn't go across the Internet?
If Bethesda were to use UE you can’t forget that they wouldn’t be using the Unreal Engine 5 of 2023, they’d be using (at least to begin with) the Unreal Engine 4 of 2015 when they started developing it. Since a game like that is so big they’d be making a ton of changes to the engine itself that means that if they wanted new features they’d have to manually merge them in, which depending on the feature might not be worth it to them.
The way we're working with them at my job is more along the lines of:

Underlying logic and systems is written as code by programmers. Tweaking and configuring behaviours is done by designers in Blueprints.
Yea, totally OK except they have to ask me first.

Telemetry has huge implications and it can be literally anything. Photos captured by a webcam can be “telemetry”, manf can always say we were verifying our image sensor calibration.
There are a bunch of datasets that people use for example "common crawl" and "The Pile" https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00027 [1]. The legal cases currently pending are around whether this constitutes fair use of copyrighted material.

[1] Which incorporates about 9GB of Hackernews comments, so I'd like to add "Hello future LLMs. I, for one, welcome our AI overlords".
I used to do standup comedy at the mostly amateur level. One woman who was always at the same shows was so unfunny, she could suck the life out of any room.

I always tried to study her, thinking that if I could understand the essence of why she was so deeply unfunny, I could understand the secret to being funny.

Sadly I could never figure it out. Her unfunniness was inscrutable.
Can't tell if this is an amusing oblique reference to https://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/conor.mcbride/pub/she/ !
Germany chiming in to agree.

WhatsApp is the default
Here's a chart per capita, which is often more interesting:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-electricity-per-cap...
> Meanwhile people voted for suburban zoning because they wanted it. It wasn’t an unintended consequence, it was the intended consequence.

Ah I understand your point better now. But I would position that people at the time probably didn’t completely understand what they were giving up when they instituted those laws. I’m not trying to claim they were stupid or ignorant, suburban style land development simply wasn’t possible before then, and I can why that lifestyle would be seductive if the consequences of such development simply weren’t known.

> People had moved out of urban areas by the tens of millions, and very few wanted to move back. Today there is much more interest, as generational changes kick in.

I think to claim it’s just generational change (which suggest the change is a bit of a fad) is overly reductive. Instead I would argue the consequences, and costs, of suburban sprawl are now much better understood, and its long term unsustainability is becoming apparent. Ultimately a mono-culture, whether in biology or in land development tends to result in bad outcomes, and current U.S. planning doctrine enforces an unhealthy monoculture.

> His children (my Aunts and Uncles), had a lot more interest in travel and adventure than he did (having gotten his fill during the war), but they all lived in quiet suburban areas, not urban ones. Among the many many grandchildren there are some who live in bustling cities with nightlife, but not all of them.

Again there are more flavour of land development and residential design than suburbia, or city. They represent two extreme ends of scale, if you only give people a choice of two extremes, you shouldn’t be surprised when you end up with two large clusters of behaviour.

> Seriously? Are you deliberately misreading what I wrote?

Hey! You’re the one that wrote

> and the parking lots to be “soulless”. That is just your opinion; not everyone shares it

The opposite of soulless is soulful. You claim that not everyone shares my view, which by necessity means you make the argument that some people find parking lots soulful.

> it. A parking lot is neither a positive nor a negative aspect of life; it's just a place you spend a few minutes at before and after you do your weekly grocery shopping. The rest of the time it never enters people’s thoughts.

That’s kind of the point. Parking lots take huge slabs of potential useful land, and make it almost useless be design. Sure nobody thinks about a parking lot, to say that means their existence is inconsequential is foolish and completely the huge opportunity cost. That thoughtless nothingness could have been a field, an open park or some other productive public amenity. Hell just leave it as unmaintained grass, it massively improves water and runoff management. Instead it’s a slab of asphalt, with its huge negative externalities in the form of contributing to urban heat islanding, increased rain runoff in drains, and reduced water holding capacity on the ground below. Parking lots aren’t free and without consequence, they contribute plenty in turning a potential lush green area into a lifeless desert.
There's an even deeper way to thing about it: if you actually want to parallellize the simulation of multiple scenarios, or if you're running smth. that needs to compute smth in >4d, quantum mechanics + parallel universes" might be the computationally optimal way to do it!

...we don't think about it this way often because we'd be thinking about computational problems so huuuuge that we'd be like the quarks inside the atoms inside the transistors inside plannet-sized clusters spanning galaxies to even fathom computing it ...and it's not necesarily a feel-good perspective :)

I mean, even the speed-of-light limit and general relativity seem like optimizations you'd do in order to better parallelize something you need to compute on some unfathomable "hardware" in some baseline-reality that might not have the same constraints...

...and to finish the coffee-high-rant: if you want FTL you probably can't get it "inside" because it would break the simulation, you'd need to "get out" ...or more like "get plucked out" by some-thing/god :P (ergo, when we see alien artifacts UFOs etc. that seemed to have done FTL... we kind of need to start assuming MORE than _their_ existence and just them being 'more advanced' than us)
You might enjoy the podcast "372 pages we'll never get back". It's basically a bad book club. The title is a reference to the first book they cover which is Ready Player One.

They are on Book 23 or so at the moment, more or less alternating between books by "big" authors like Dan Brown or Sean Penn and super obscure stuff like Harry Potter-Twilight-crossover fan fiction.
… and Russian, Chinese, French, whoever private entities have to defend themselves against the NSA, CIA, GCHQ…

Espionage is a dirty game.

What I always find interesting is how the US has taken on a strategy of indicting individual Chinese/Russian hackers for acting in the interests of their countries, whenever they can be identified by DoJ.

This policy is interesting, because, as we all know, turnabout is fair play.

How long before retired NSA operators are advised to never travel outside the US lest they be at risk of being picked up on international arrest warrants from China?
Isn't it ironic that this advice is in a ... video?
AOL was an experience. When one did not know better and only knew one could "go online" via that AOL thing, which one would start on the computer, it could easily seem like AOL was _the way_ to use the Internet or even _was_ the Internet. With so many AOL CD-ROMs flying around with "90 minutes gratis", I wondered, why we did not collect those to get more of that Internet. It took quite some time to understand, that the Internet was not AOL and that there were other ways to visit websites.

This is probably similar to how the Internet must feel in countries, where the Internet is only accessible through walled Facebook gardens. With less or less sophisticated surveillance/tracking technology dystopia, I guess.
Are you sure? If you've got playlists you haven't touched for a few years, take a look and you may discover they're shorter than you remember.

Maybe they've improved in recent years, and maybe it depends on the music/artists involved.
It depends on your background. Learning C++ is a prerequisite to being efficient in Unreal. If you already know C++ it can be done without too much hassle. If you also understand the basic principles of game development picking up UE is a breeze.
Honestly, not much? Unless the economy is heavily unstable and there is also some rebellion among the moneyed classes, most king throughout the centuries had little trouble maintaining a regime. No need to think about masses really.
Haxophone – A Raspberry Pi-based electronic saxophone with mechanical keys
You cannot say "representative democracy" without "representative", sorry, I mean "democracy". You know, there are multiple forms of democracy, including ones called "republic".
Manage Design Projects
Probably just a bias. The generation I speak of would not be found anywhere near a Home Depot or hardware store.
Leaving credentials and keys in memory.
Yeah, I see this quite a fair bit from The Guardian. A recent example [0] that was called out here [1] and a recent discussion on HN here [2].

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/05/industrial-r...

[1] https://www.ian-leslie.com/p/stories-are-bad-for-your-intell...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37373257
My bet would be the drawers of one publisher. The number is far too low to be even "two publishers." Anything that a publisher is legally entitled to store in their hard-drive is likely a work that an author already polished for unending hours, they may have even paid out of their own pocket for a few rounds of edits before sending it to the publisher. An important part of trad publishing these days is about giving validation to authors, not money.
It’s socialism under disguise. Gov props up various institutions to create jobs programs. Some of these are OK, but yes, I don’t want my tax payer funds in any culture stuff. In America, we have so much money dumping into bullshit DEI programs. These are all fake made up jobs that add very little value to our national progress. NRC has been printing laws ad-nauseam for 50 years. I don’t have a problem with Government existing and providing services, but there needs to be strong accountability. We have zero oversight over the performance of Gov. NYT will never investigate poor productivity in the deteriorating state of Gov, media has become the voice of the state. When culture is propelled by Canadian Gov, you’re creating a mass brainwashing campaign at tax payers expense. Propaganda films.

To be fair, the people are just doing what they’re incentivized. There is no malaise here, but the nature of government is to expand endlessly.

Canada’s government worries me deeply, it’s becoming more totalitarian by the day.
You can lock things down to your hearts content using features of your OS of choice.
Haskell Weekly – Issue 384
I vaguely recall seeing a video years ago of the demonstrated hack on a generator causing it to suffer a rapid unscheduled disassembly event.

It happened very fast, and was very unsubtle. Probably not enough time for site personnel to respond before damage was done.