skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Modern ag is all no-till and low-till and has been since the 1980s. The old fashioned plow is non-existent anymore. Even when a farmer does till, it is a with a tool that is rarely even called a plow (there are several types of tillage tools in common use with different properties, but none turn the soil over or exchange soil layers)

Modern ag can build topsoil - sometimes at rates as high as 1mm/year!
Like, I don't want to fanboy, but it's _hard_ to find a use case that postgres can't handle at small to medium (i.e. 90% of projects) scale.
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Is there a certain way to encode typical "continuos" information like a certain tilt of a line in an image?

I ran into this over ten years ago in an experiment on temporary plasticity of sensory input and I didn't find a quick answer before I had to leave the topic (ok, it left me)

Thanks for sharing that book link, btw.
The company I work for recently had the beautiful experience of having Windows Defender delete our program from many of our customers computers during the weekend, with the consequent support calls the next day about "your program does not run and I'm losing money!" and the headache of having to find out why the exe is magically gone, since the antivirus going crazy is the last thing you think of.

"Thankfully" it seems they did a progressive rollout of whatever version of Defender that detects our software so we didn't get every customer angry at once, which would come pretty close to a business ending event.

So yeah malware seems an adequate word to me. Especially since there's no way to find out what heuristic we're tripping and no one to ask for help so there's no guarantee that this won't happen again in a few weeks.
I was only addressing the agricultural equipment part.

I suspect that the argument that gaming consoles made was that it is necessary for them to be able to restrict access to repair because failing to do so would make them unable to enforce intellectual property and copy protection on their equipment as required by licenses that they have from publishers.

"This game can only be played in Japan because of {content/licensing}". Enabling full repairs would mean that someone could more easily modify their device to present itself as a Japanese version and now the company and maker is liable for content that is allowed in Japan but illegal elsewhere.

Again, this is an "I suspect" - I don't know for sure what argument they're making - just trying to channel the mind of the corporate lawyers (which isn't an entirely pleasant way to be thinking).
Can you go into more detail on this? I assumed almost everyone using systems like this that tout scalability was doing benchmarks.
This is exactly why I prefer to use the plural forms for table names, despite the debate.
Words change in meaning over time. This isn't your Roman decimated.
Sure, You can compare Cloud SQL vs Cloud Spanner and RDS vs Dynamo, but it makes more sense to just say "Postgres" and assume that the reader can figure out that it means "Whatever managed postgres service you want to use".

The entire point is that every cloud provider has a managed postgres offering, and there's no vendor lock-in. Though, technically, Dynamo does have a docker image you could run in other cloud providers if it came down to that, you'd get no support for it.
UniSim: Learning Interactive Real-World Simulators
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06114
Also, they were dumping a lot of energy into shutting down competition that way instead of making IE not suck.
I mean sure, NoSQL gives you more opportunities to screw stuff up because it's doing less for you. But it can be a reasonable tradeoff in some scenarios anyway
They are presenting a perspective that is designed to not only present the product in the best light, but also to convince you that you should purchase it (whether that is true or not).

I think disinformation probably implies a level in malice that is not present (or rather, present in consumerist systems by default, and not specific to advertisers), but obviously trying to convince someone to purchase something which it might actually not be good for them to buy, is misinforming them.

If a friend told you to buy a product and you did and it sucked, you'd be upset at them. But when a company does it with an ad, no one gets upset, because we understand that ads are lying to us.

We don't expect that they're being honest.

Or put another way, we expect that they are misinforming us about our need for, and appreciation of, the product.
The "cut" you're getting is dwelling in a building where you own near zero liability for its upkeep; you often get to live in a place whose ownership is above your means and credit worthiness to own directly; you have no long-term commitment to the facility. These characteristics of your living situation all have value for which you cannot expect for free.
There was good thread on this subject yesterday, more about LLM and Language.

It comes down to the physical world.

Humans can " assess their own reliability" when they can all point at something in the real world, and come to some agreement on what they are all seeing, what to call it, etc..

When humans get off base, if it is tangible, like an apple, they can all point at the apple, and bring themselves back into alignment, that is an apple.

But, for abstract concepts in philosophy, or morals, etc.. Something that is not tangible. Humans can 'drift' just as much as AI.

Humans can get into echo chambers -> and 'go nutz', absorbing others misinformation.

LLMs Learning from other LLSm' -> the 'models drift' over time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37811610
Please disrupt the personal satellite beacon market. Currently the only options are proprietary devices that cost several hundred dollars AND a subscription plan that will run you $12 a month or more.
Don't forget "server" licensing, which is by CPU core. And who knows if they mean virtual or physical ones.
> If I understand correctly

This always seems to be followed by something that demonstrates that the poster did not understand correctly
It looks like many countries have this resolved as of around 1800UTC
Even high-end cameras that can shoot in Log, like the Sony A7 series, apply some noise reduction on their end. This is important for most compressed formats.

However, most people would be horrified to see how noisy and unsharp the images from top cinema cameras are when most post-processing is disabled.
As far as I can tell, you haven't done a comparison in low light conditions of the iPhone 15 against any other video camera. Of course one would expect a camera with a larger sensor to do better in low light, all else being equal. But all else is not equal. Professional video cameras aren't stacking multiple exposures to construct a single frame, and don't have anything like the computational power of the iPhone 15. So it would be much more interesting to see a real comparison than to hear people repeating abstract theoretical points over and over again.
Not true anymore after AWS’s ipv4 pricing announcement.
Very true, but most people do not yet no about scale-to-zero pay-for-what-you-use sql server clouds with a free tier like CockroachDB and neon. They think that you must pay $5 a month to run a sql server, which has been the case until very recently, so they go with no sql options to get the free tier.

Edit: actualy Spanner looks like another CockroachDB. You use sql to interact with it. In which case I can see many people who would want to use this with a free tier for hobby projects. ie. in between education and production development.
GCP is profitable and growing 27% YoY. It made more money than YouTube ads did in Q2 2023. In what world would it make sense to shut down GCP at this point?

I think the "google shuts things down" trope is justified and something that I wince at every time I see something like this, but GCP isn't a random pet project that loses money and has no users. It's a very successful enterprise business.

(disclaimer: I work at google in cloud, so obviously I have personal bias, but this is just my opinion based on the pure numbers.)
they just need the algorithm, the rest is window dressing
And here I am thinking that's the best time to go for a run!
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A large percentage of the TP shortage was a change in form factor as offices/restaurants generally used a different supply chain than people do. I saw plenty of stores stacking “office” style giant roles of TP in random cardboard packages which made a real impact in aggregate.

I expect people would do similar things in a real food shortage. If your starving buying a 5 gallon bucket of feed corn from the back of some guy’s truck suddenly looks appealing as do dog biscuits etc.
I think the tagline can be a bit misleading, you can run k3s on devices traditionally considered IoT (like the raspberry pi) but it will run on big heavy x86 servers too.
What's the alternative? The government banning AI TV for 30 years until the long term studies are done?

Young kids already have access to the internet at a young age and that's screwing them up royally anyway
it's a bit different because the free tier for dynamodb is not like the other 12 month limited offer, it's marketed as free forever, so it's not just an intro product, it's something you can run a small business off for free.
Not Octopoda!
Right, and not just autocomplete. The same is true of speech to text, language translation, image classification, object detection, etc.
One thing that comes to mind: Compressed instructions enable 2-byte alignment for all instructions, and actually allows for a 4-byte instruction to span two pages.

EDIT: Looks like I'm not alone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667135

He is completely right and I have had those exact problems: Not being able to figure out where you are in the instruction stream annoys me when it comes to RVC. I actually dislike it so much that I intentionally disregard it in my RISC-V emulator and focus on other things, eg. RV64GVB etc. I support C-extension, but it's hard to make it run fast. I wish they solved compression another way. We have very fast compressors/decompressors that can use dedicated dictionaries that could have been used in ELF loading instead.
> > "There's an idea that veterinarians work on the belief that it's right to euthanise a hopeless case," says Volk, "and we are seeing ourselves, emotionally, as hopeless cases."

Fuck me that is dark.
I mean, a common joke among ICs at Google is that the API or service you're calling is deprecated but the replacement system isn't ready yet. They have good tools, but the cavalierness about breaking changes would be more because teams can just say "not supported" anymore for internal APIs and services, a more thorough test suite, & really principled rollout strategies to catch issues before they get too big.
What do modern server admins use for filtered HTTP/S egress from servers? E.g., if the app has a need to fetch HTTP/S sites for the user but needs to do so in a safe way?
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Oof, thanks for reminding me about the Google Maps pricing increase.

It was very difficult to understand their thought process, and we were pretty much forced to find alternative services that had a more reasonable pricing structure. The amount they wanted to charge us for a few million geocode requests per month was bananas.

Was there really no value in keeping a customer like us around at a more reasonable rate?
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Agreed, they have a pretty nice setup for a "big" company. I've been contributing code to Mozilla for the last few years despite not working there and I got started on https://codetribute.mozilla.org/

The most annoying parts would be familiarizing yourself with mercurial/phabricator and getting commit access for certain projects.
It's limited vector painting tools are what keep me in Clip Studio. It's the first thing I look for with each Krita release.
indeed.

even more so, it is already a joke that we have to call it AGI now. back in the day it was just "AI", but then the marketing people came along and called every mediocre machine-learning system or algorithm with more than 10 ifs "AI", like it it already passed the turing test and became self-aware along the way.
> These are graphic designers alleging that someone copied their exact fabric print design.

And why do you think this somehow doesn't apply to the topic under discussion??

Edit: here are two more, https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/versace-fashion-... and https://consumerist.com/2008/01/25/diane-von-furstenberg-sue..., but I'm sure you'll try to argue that the specifics aren't what you had in your head...
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That one caused a week of work for me... (redesigning something slated to go live in a few months)
Do many people have a TV outdoors?
To be fair, its probably true for most social media advertisement if you don't use clickbaity titles that much. I can see Facebook being more usefull (because the reach is superior, and the average lurker 10 to 20 year older), but i'm not sure its worth it.

Sadly, search engine advertising is probably the most effective (i'm aware, but still manage to click shitty ad links in google).
I severely disagree, I think that a "good enough" and "free" and world-wide ISA standard is meant for assembly programming. I meant a lot more, like all system components and very high level language interpreters (javascript/lua/python/insert_your_high_level_language_here).

I did not mean zero preprocessor, I meant a conservative/frugal usage a simple pre-processor to avoid to spawn another insanely complex SDK dependency of the code which will be a pain to create a real life alternative. Basically, RISC-V is meant for multi-instructions per line assemblers (semi-colon...).
If they expect the classical BEVs to run into problems with supply of the metals, that still does not explain the weird choices Toyota makes. Why don't they explore options that don't require consumers directly handling large amounts of dangerous substances like hydrogen or anhydrous ammonia.
https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/ is a great zero-to-hero resource (it's what I used), but to my knowledge it doesn't have an ecosystem review in it. It uses Coq, but the first book has been ported to at least Isabelle, if not others.
That can be said of many systems, does hashicorp document it though? I’m guessing they must, otherwise that would be the first thing you hear on the other side of a support call.
But downward trend right?
Lot of fires, but year over year trend, the number of fires is going down right?
If it was economical to do it they would, but that's still a long ways away I think
I rented an old house for a few years that had lath and plaster walls, but they stapled chicken wire to the lath prior to adding the plaster. It made for a decent faraday cage. I had to stand by a window to get cell service. Wifi would not propagate between rooms, so I had to setup a mesh system with individual ethernet connections. I miss it.
Humans get old -> genetic code accumulates errors -> cancer and heart disease -> death.

You're right. Everything is hopeless and we should do nothing.
WW3 baby, lets fucking goooo! Is boring AF out here and I am depressed as fuck, maybe some bombs next to my house would force me into some survival state where I feel alive and forget about how I wasted my life.

I hear this stories of people who came from war zones and lived in constant fear but when they got out they actually MISSED IT! That shit is real.

I am so black pilled, humanity learns nothing and repeats the same shit over and over and over again. The lifespan of people can be directly linked to when it all goes to shit again. People who could directly warn us what not to do are dead, so its time to repeat.
They used to launch 60 satellites per launch, now they launch 21. I'm guessing this hardware is a big part of the reason why. It needs a folding antenna much larger than the ones used for the broadband service.
By that definition "Baby Rudin"[1] is an accessible introduction to analysis as long as you're willing to look up what you don't understand (ie everything probably the first time) in some other source.

[1] https://maa.org/press/maa-reviews/principles-of-mathematical...
Are Google fonts really free?
There are multiple applications that are in different fields. Some of the web stuff I have started converting to Golang because it's easier to hire devs for that language. Regarding CL options, check out this article to get a feel for it: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/clog-contest/
I'm not hoping to frame you as anything. You posted the multi-paragraph comment calling people who like animals "fucking militants" all on your own before I showed up. Getting that upset/irrationally mad at a group over some downvotes is what I find concerning.

But yeah, apologies about the dig at you refreshing the page frequently. I'm having to do the same to check these messages.
> In my position, would you encourage your child to chase their dream? Or would you be comfortable telling them every few weeks until they gave up that you don’t think they should be a vet?

Can't you do both? Let her know about the serious downsides (perhaps don't "repeat every few weeks until she gives up") and if she chooses it anyway, encourage her. This is her decision to make, not yours. She will be responsible for the consequences, not you.
Stromae's "Carmen" shared that opinion, years before the Musk era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKftOH54iNU

(this song is what taught me that "carmen" and "enchantment" have common semantic roots)
Money is a big factor and again it gets messy. I think the median cost of a house here is north of $800k. Rent is also high. Hard to hack it as a barista, librarian, book clerk, gym trainer, etc.
An argument as old as rocks! ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyu4u3VZYaQ
The gcs change last year was also terrible, such an expensive increase
> Yeah, well if someone can't swing $200 they probably shouldn't own a pet.

I'm not sure poor people not adopting pets would meaningfully change the rate at which pets are born. It just results in fewer pets being adopted.

Particularly true if shelters fix pets before putting them up for adoption.

Most animals that have been bred as pets over 1000s of years are no longer permitted to live without a human caretaker.

If they can't swing $200 for a life-saving procedure for a pet, I'd still advise them to adopt a pet to provide it a home for the window of time when the animal could happily live without any vet services.

A no-cost (or low-cost) adoption is often a life-saving procedure for an owner-less pet.
Two redundant cardiovascular systems that don't work together, presumably in such a way that a heart attack or exsanguination in either is lethal (as opposed to modular redundancy for improved reliability, which mostly isn't relevant at the software level).
>It's not actually that hard to make your own font

But it is hard to actually make a good font
Data processing, booking systems, custom app development, api development, web stuff.
> silly dance, manually downloading drivers and either modifying the installation media or using multiple usb sticks

Or just use USB tethering with your smartphone as the initial network connection
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If you give StableDiffusion a copyrighted work and ask it to generate a slight variation, the output will still be a derivative work.
K3s uses the exact same API as Kubernetes. Nomad does not.

The idea is to more easily get going with Kubernetes, not to provide an alternative. Nomad and K3s serve a completely different use case.
And this will almost certainly be more expensive than plain old cellular. TV manufacturers would be covering a very niche market of people who have a TV in a location with no cellular coverage.
Your mileage may vary, but I think in majority of the cases Fargate is going to be significantly more expensive than Lambda.
why though? it doesn't cost the font makers any more expense when Time serves the font.
one of my favorite tasks the first and last time i worked in a linux shop was using WSL to automate for free a slew of things they were using shady paid software that basically slapped a gui on things like nmap to do via credits or whatever.

we've done it kids -- linux is on the desktop and the microsoft bob lady divorced his ass. time to have a nice cup of tea and listen to "developers, developers, developers" one last time before fading into the sunset or mission or whatever.

(i'm tired)
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Yup thats a great idea and thanks for sharing that list. I do Github sponsor a few there already.
My insurance policy does not have any maximums. Your second sentence is nonsensical.
“ According to the Amazon Prime Day blog post, DynamoDB processes 126 million queries per second at peak. Spanner on the other hand processes 3 billion queries per second at peak, which is more than 20x higher, and has more than 12 exabytes of data under management.”

This comparison seems to be not exactly fair? Amazon’s 126 million queries per second was purely for Amazon-related services serving Prime Day generating this on DynamoDB, and not all of AWS is my read.

What would have perhaps been a more fair comparison is to share the peak load that Google services running Cloud Spanner, and not the sum of all Spanner services across all of GCP and all of Google (Spanner on non-GCP infra).

I will say that it would show a massive of confidence to say that Photos, Gmail and Ads heavily rely on GCP infra: which would be brand new information for me! It would add to confidence to learn more on how they use it, and if Cloud Spanner is on the critical path for those services.

What is confusing, however, is how in this article "Cloud Spanner" is consistently used... except for when talking about Gmail, Ads and Photos, where it's stated that "Spanner" is used by these products, not "Cloud Spanner!". Like if they were not using the Cloud Spanner infra, but their own. It would help to know what is the case, and what the load of Cloud Spanner is: and not Spanner running on internal Google infra that is not GCP.

At Amazon, practically every service is built on top of AWS - a proper vote of confidence! - and my impression was that GCP had historically been far less utilised by Google for their own services. Even in this post, I'm still confused and unable to tell if those Google products listed use Cloud Spanner or their own infra running Spanner.
It sounds like the finder notified the squid team. Why did the squid team not fix the bugs?
Fake work is working on things that seem cool or useful, but don't actually contribute to success.

Examples:

0) On my company's mobile site, the navigation header wasn't centered. I almost spent time fixing it until I realized it literally didn't matter

1) I'm using some open source code in my MVP, I almost went through and cleaned up the code - but it worked without doing so, so why would I take the time to?
Is there any company even remotely close to competing with Starlink in the "global satellite ISP" space?

I remember reading somewhere that literally most of the satellites orbiting earth are Starlink satellites. As in, more than half of all satellites are Starlink.

Obviously that statistic does not mean they have a successful business, that there's enough of a market, etc etc.

But one can imagine the types of services you can supply in just a few years to customers when you have by far the largest satellite constellation in the sky, with global coverage, and the ability to launch dozens of new satellites at low cost.
Yup, there are guides for how to open up your new TV and remove/disable the M2M modem inside. I don't think the cellular connection being in the sky will change too much about that.