skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wooden chopping boards are susceptible to deep groves where bacteria can get stuck, leading to increased risk of cross contamination.

Wooden chopping boards are bonded, so your still cutting in to whatever that bonding agent is.

You can't put a wooden chopping board in the dish washer.

Wooden chopping boards tend not to be distinctly colour coded.

Wooden chopping boards the size of the commercial plastic boards I use are much more expensive, invariably get left in the sink by someone, which invariably ends up splitting them, and their weight is unweildly.

The only time I thought wooden end grain boards were better, was when I was hanging out with people who'd spent too much on their second or third one because the cheaper first one or two they'd bought had already failed.

That and several commercial chefs have since told me the kitchens they work in don't permit the use of wooden chopping boards, other than as serving platters for some dishes.
No, why would I put any cutting board in the dish washer? Some things are much easier to clean by hand.
Can’t this be somewhat alleviated by running a job native on Postgres or some external one to refresh the views on a schedule? It’s not ideal or realtime but better than having it done as-hoc.
Code Polymorphism and Encryption for Confidentiality and Side-Channel Protection
> It's a pattern I see a lot. On the flipside, when clients have devs who mostly grok the entirety of their system, then we can focus on the questions that really matter: purpose, market fit, empirical evidence from users, _etc._

So uh, not questioning everything eh...

Sounds like you agree with me. That questions should be reserved for the meaningful and insightful.
Have they announced a potential release date for Cosmic?

On a completely unrelated note, I am not a GUI/frontend guy, so that interactive Figma blew my mind. No idea it worked like that, I thought it was just for sketching out layouts.
This kind of thing is similar to fortune telling... There are some vague tales that occasionally coincidentally align with geological record, (or can be massaged to resemble another yarn). However there is nothing beyond wishful thinking to show that the tales remained consistent for any length of time, or were based on reality in the first place.

Aboriginal studies is a joke, there is no ability for a critical interpretation to be published, so the entire field has descended into drivel.
> Thats how coalition-building, budgeting, and reporting works in business. Not saying it should dominate your schedule, but it's just how organizations work.

Nah. Internal competition is a negative for the business. Selfish individuals do it so that they can get better results for themselves. Refusing to take part is the right thing for the business.
My understanding is that you are allowed to sell copies of a car, as long as you don't advertise it as the thing you're copying, except for anything that is patented, for which you need to get a license. That's the point (or one of them) of a patent, to prevent people from making legal copies for a time period as a reward to the inventor and promote invention of novel things.

Isnt that what this was about? The very bad Ferrari stickers instead of emblems worked in favor of the person sued, but if there was something indicating it absolutely wasn't a Ferrari there wouldn't have been any question at all.
Commenter Dobbin in the comments of your link said:

> The seventh sister is observable even in modern times. Among the Greeks, Arabs and Romans, the ability to see the seventh star was used as an eye test to determine ones suitability for certain tasks as a warrior. Stories of the seventh daughter being taken captive no doubt stem from how elusive seeing that seventh star was though some could see ten or more if viewing conditions are good enough. The conjecture about this being a hundred thousand year old story is probably hogwash in order to publish something.
If that’s true then willingly open source it. Within a short time you’ll either be blackmailed, your identity stolen, or have your insurance premiums go up.
Ah you went there eh. Yeah an alternative form on my reply would have been to point out that kids are the ones who question everything. Adults learn to identify the questions which will expand knowledge, and ask those.
"Going through a formal CS program will give you an intimate understanding of CPUs

and 101 other hilarious jokes you can tell yourself!"
If they make 1 'logic mistake' on fizzbuzz then it's likely they'll make 10x, or more, 'logic mistakes' on their actual work. Even with a laptop and all the tooling that makes them 10x better, because the real work will be at least 100x more complex.
I've been on Reddit since it started and never heard of Moons, so I had to look them up:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/wiki/moons_wiki/
This is entirely the kind of discussion that they should avoid by keeping the blog about the tech. The choice to use religious language and topics just invites all of this and takes away from the tech.
API monkeys, not by choice.

Software devs have zero control over the tooling, languages, networking and hardware.

It looks like they have a choice because the map of available options constantly shifts... but they're metaphysically locked to near-identical options in the universe of potential ways.

As long as computing is largely US based, it will always be this way. It's treason to go off-piste, in a large way.
> guess it didn't fit the IPO plans

From what I heard, this is exactly it. Going public as a crypto-tainted company would have reduced the pool of buyers and lowered the stock price.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all about new DEs. But:

Cosmic has been so hyped, at this point if it delivers on a tenth of the hype it'll be incredible.

What other "in progress" foss project has had anywhere near this level of hn coverage?
Night Science Podcast
The question was not "why is the sky blue", but "why is the sky a different shade of blue".

Every day the sky will be slightly different. There exists a reason why, and given effort you could identify the differences and relations.

Or you could go to work.

> It's a pattern I see a lot. On the flipside, when clients have devs who mostly grok the entirety of their system, then we can focus on the questions that really matter: purpose, market fit, empirical evidence from users, _etc._

So... stopping. Not questioning everything eh.
I thought it was pretty clear actually. One of the better visualisations you see - they didn't make any major mistakes.

If you want to see some truly grotesque visualisations go to /r/dataisbeautiful.
The progress is looking great so far.

And good timing, I was just digging through some of the older/current-release cosmic code to hack the light/dark theming settings panel to have a toggle for “change at sunset”.

I don’t suppose that’s been added to the new Rust Cosmic DE yet, but one can hope.
I think you are talking about my ex wife and her lawyers :)
My reasoning is based on the opposite of solipsism. I assume that I am not the only conscious being that can suffer. I also assume based on evidence that I am a physical entity and my capacity for intelligence, consciousness, joy, and suffering is based on the makeup and complexity of my nervous system. This could be wrong, but there is a mountain of scientific evidence to support this view. Looking at other species, I assume that their capacity for and quality of experience is similar. Cows are mammals, sexual, social, emotional, relatively intelligence animals. I assume their capacity for suffering is somewhat proportional based on those traits. I have no proof of this and no one ever will unless we figure out how to communicate with cows directly (probably impossible).

Plants don't seem to be conscious, at least on the same timescale, as humans. I think it's fairly obvious to anyone that they don't have the same capacity to suffer as a human. What would be your reasoning for supporting that view?

Note that I grew up on a farm raising sheep, cows, turkeys, ducks, dogs, and cats, and have experienced first hand the domination and torture of individuals of all these species by myself, my parents, and our neighbors. Have you seen how industrial farming works?

I think part of your comment might be based on the idea that vegans are playing a social virtue game rather than being compassionate for its own sake and you feel challenged and offended by that. I encourage you to break out of that mentality, although I admit many diets are based around that virtue game.
At this point the massive investment in software is what drives this, hardware differences may no longer be dominant but the only way to unseat NV at this point is drop in replacements and/or drop in replacement libraries. And that's getting there. Which is good because GPUs are too expensive and have too little memory, some competition might help move things along rather than to give NV more time to milk their precious digital cows.
> What about making it (almost) impossible to write UB code, wouldn't that be better for all?

Congratulations, you have invented Rust.
For me it was a tossup between the Herman Miller Aeron ($450 refurb) and Steelcase Leap 2 ($250 refurb).

I picked the Leap 2 and never looked back. Fabric seats, more adjustability, very sturdy and cheaper refurb prices (I think at full price it's similar to the Aeron).

The Aeron has that coolness factor which the Leap 2 doesn't (Leap 2 looks very conventional) but it has been a sturdy chair throughout the pandemic to now.
I'm quite possibly missing something, but this is baffling to me (Text S1 from the paper) [1]:

> All the chopped carrots were carefully transferred to the glass wash tray. As shown in Figure 2,

> 500 mL of ultrapure water was used to wash the blade and the chopping board further to transfer all the particles in the same glass wash tray.

Who would expect contaminants left on the blade and the board to be counted alongside those in the chopped food itself? I suppose it's difficult to rigorously separate the chopped and the chopped-upon, but the distinction seems essential to support, or not, the hypothesis about human consumption.

[1]: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.3c00924?ref=PDF
Not a drop of sarcasm. Perhaps you should question why you mistook wisdom for comedy?
I personally moralize intelligence, it's why I ask this question.

For me, I don't care if you hurt someone on purpose or out of stupidity, I will treat you the same.
Also 500 cuts a day, I doubt I am near a tenth of that. 500 cuts is a lot.
Or, presumably, linked a library that did that same thing...

...like, uh, libc or something...
Exactly, I’m glad you’re on my side with this. It’s great to have your support.
From what I understand google's hardware doesn't measure up to apple even when just comparing ML cores.
During the heyday of feature phones, I always enjoyed that these existed. I could text people from my blackberry without worrying about exceeding my sms plan allowance.
Software Architecture Canvas
As a person who generally identifies as being on the US left, I took it as a factual use of the term, not a personal gripe or ideological battle. To the extent I can even think of people on the "right" doing the equivalent with indigenous cultures, it's in a completely different manner.
> Why not a licensing fee with retroactive pricing?

I doubt the supermarket wants to be affiliated with a crypto exchange.
That entirely depends on whether or not the team is making something that is going to fulfill an unmet market need.

If they are in the majority of developers being mismanaged to crank out software that nobody wants, then have them code in an open office space with bullhorn wielding circa 1890s speed bosses yelling at them to type faster. It really makes no difference as most legacy business teams shirk their responsibility to get out of the building and figure out the real needs anyway, so might as well let the devs work on their craft until a real opportunity to make a difference comes along.
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We have IKEA chairs. But everyone has different chair needs. One of the best things about IKEA is that you can go to one of their stores and try them all out to see which one(s) suit you most.
By the time you're looking at using GPUs my assumption would be that you've left that particular mental model behind long ago.
Most people with normal morality think expanding health care access to the poor is a good thing to do, which is probably why they don't feel compelled to defend the "extortion".
I (and MANY others) argue they are the same because most "evil" people think they are doing the right thing, so are all evil people just stupid, and since they are stupid they can not be evil?
> "hey I added two numbers and got back a smaller number" is almost always not actually the function that you were trying to implement.

As a bit of an aside, when is this actually useful? The only example I know of is bytebeats[1], and it's unlikely this is what Ritchie had in mind when he created C. Wikipedia says "for some applications, such as timers and clocks, wrapping on overflow can be desirable", but even there wrapping an int usually seems wrong (e.g. you want to wrap minutes on 60, hours on 24, etc – not 255 or 65k or whatever the size is).

[1]: e.g. stuff like: main(t){for(;;t++) putchar(t*((t>>12|t>>8)&63&t>>4));} – pipe to aplay or /dev/dsp or whatever.
This is probably a negotiating tactic. Ask for the world, compromise down to what you're actually looking for.
Welcome to Capitalism.
"It's easier to clean by hand" is almost always a fallacy (especially "much easier") motivated by some kind of mild form of hobbyist elitism. It's common sense that placing something in a dishwasher and taking it back out is easier than essentially any form of hand cleaning by most reasonable definitions of ease.

Edit:

You could make other pragmatic arguments (e.g. I'm sure some people generate enough dirty kitchenware that you need to pick some big things to do by hand), but "easiness" by itself clearly isn't viable.
Accelerating waves shed light on major problems in physics
Have you considered whether you and your two colleagues are actually the top performers you think you are?
> aren't all currencies, by definition, assets / stores of value?

Yes and no. Modern currencies separate the medium of exchange and unit of account functions, on one hand, from the store of value and standard of deferred payment functions, on the other hand. Paper and deposit dollars are the former, Treasuries are the latter. Someone complaining about inflation eroding their cash under a mattress's value is literally using their dollars wrong.
Rapid growth of ‘news’ sites using AI tools like ChatGPT is driving the spread of misinformation

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/05/02/rapid-growth-of-new...
> (To be clear, this is nothing like skinning beavers — it's tilapia after all, one of the most heavily consumed fish on the planet, skin and all. But the thought tickled the brain for a moment)
Regulation just moves where the corruption happens. I’m being a bit sarcastic but not completely.
What was Reddit's angle, anyway? It feels like they saw crypto was hot in 2020, and organizational inertia made it impossible to launch a coin until 2022. By then, crypto's unbridled enthusiasm phase was over. I don't think Reddit even needed to be involved in crypto (they're an ad company), but if you want to get something launched while there's hype, you have to move a lot faster.
He doesn’t have to wait for the typical holders of moons. Only for those very dedicated. And 3 minutes should be plenty fof those.
There’s absolutely nothing to this article except the author’s vague impressions based on the number of blue checks and ads he sees in his feed and a heavy dose of wishful thinking.
I guess they also had the benefit of there being very few players to compete with, and the competition space being too large and too confusing to fully dominate, making it sadly a win for consumers. Its a damn shame that all players are fully visible in a modern marketplace
What impression of the fediverse you get is highly dependent on who you federate and interact with. If you're on one of the nodes that block everything the admins disagree with, you're going to see the sterilized content you're describing. If you go with a node that doesn't block anything (except illegal content), you're likely to see more of the raw, unfiltered"old internet" style content where it was ok to be offensive or disagreeable.
This is going into alt history territory TBH. Keju was an improvement over the previous system which largely consisted of staffing the civil service based on ancestry from large aristocratic families who nominated each other to strengthen their political power.

Imperial China's hegemony over its surrounding regions was not thoroughly challenged until the 19th century, and once it began to be challenged by nations with more advanced ideas and technologies, Keju did enter terminal decline along with the rest of the imperial system. Even without Keju, Early Modern China didn't have the recipes for scientific or industrial revolution to start there.
Developers for which the above argument is clever and persuasive are essentially equating themselves as the equivalent of cab drivers. Their libraries, frameworks, and hardware are black boxes to them that they manipulate in pre-prescribed ways (and sometimes just plain cargo-culting) to achieve a desired result. When their abstractions break down, they have to call in specialists to diagnose and repair them. Of course, they get very agitated and defensive when people point this out and, very much unlike what a hacker would do, try to diminish the value of expertise and skill and call it unnecessary. And, okay, for them, it is.

Yes, a cab driver does not need to understand automotive engineering because a cab driver is, in the non-pejorative, technical sense of the word, unskilled labor. Is that really the analogy you want to make though?
Oh gosh darn you kids. During peak Covid I got calls about COBOL code I wrote in 1981 for Ranger Insurance company because it's still used for some reason at Igloo for ice buckets after the companies merged 40 years ago.

And don't get me started on the Cold Fusion code I wrote in 1997 that probably still is buried somewhere in the Epic software that generates mycharts for HIPAA compliant doctor/patient reporting. Last year I was almost arrested for hacking when my real name triggered a security flag that I might be doing something evil when I really just needed a colonoscopy.

Think the internet is forever? Try being scowled at for innocent code you wrote as a kid.

And stay off my lawn...
It’s also a mod of cryptocurrency, I imagine that makes a difference.
Two girls, one up!
Zig? Rust and Go when they were in progress.

As far as something of this scope, I'm not sure. I think many of us are excited because among full featured DE's we've been stuck with Gnome and KDE so long, it's nice to see something new.
> I like barinstorming: - Spearphishing and the consequences of such - Persistent robocalls - Wide net identity theft - Targeted scam calls to family members

Actual, not hypothetical. Again, I believe this happens. But why is it so difficult to document?
One thing I’ll highlight is that public sector growth has outpaced private sector during that whole time, and entrepreneurs indirectly have to pay to prop up public services only to get from a business perspective to get a worse business ecosystem than America in pretty much every way except not having to pay for employee health insurance and lower labour costs. If the idea is that the public sector’s wonderful services are supposed to help the private sector flourish, well, that whole idea doesn’t seem to be working.

The other is rents have increased that whole time, who can afford to be an entrepreneur when your lease will eat you alive before you ever get off the ground. If the argument is “aha - but Canadians could start an innovative company that relies on remote work and thus avoid such expensive leases” what is the appeal of starting such a business in Canada compared to starting one in the United States where success is far more likely due to a larger market and more pro-business environment?

Finally inequality and monopolization is just much worse than 20 years ago internationally. Why be David fighting Goliath when the deck is stacked against you? I’d be kind of surprised if the trend in the article isn’t happening internationally.

The articles suggestion that Canadians just don’t have good enough soft skills to be entrepreneurs is just insulting blaming of non-existent individual deficits that ignores systemic issues.
This is a group effect quite often seen in other places.

Tornado chasing is a good example. Take an experienced tornado chaser near a storm, and they will commonly back off at a safe distance when things are looking sketchy.

But if you take that same chaser and put them in a group of people of varying skill levels they can get complacent and stay in a dangerous area much too long. Because the low skilled people are commonly worse at identifying dangerous situations, they don't begin to worry/panic in situations they should. The higher skilled people will commonly ignore their own feelings in that case, probably because of some kind of innate human group dynamics, where we see those people being call and think they are misjudging the situation.
I want a language/runtime that abstracts this away from me. I'll implement and debug functions the regular way, with the runtime in charge of deploying them whichever way fits. Bonus points for deducing infrastructure from statically analyzing code dependency paths.

I believe there is very early stage work [0] in this direction, but obviously nothing going mainstream yet. Would love to find more examples in the wild if anyone knows any!

[0]: https://egghead.io/blog/how-to-quickly-build-a-backend-with-...
Big things are difficult to fit in. The time it takes to rearrange them could just be spent cleaning them.

Complex shapes are also not worth putting in.

I don’t see how my laziness is elitism.
That's the only layer where it makes sense because that's where you know what it is that you are trying to achieve. The overhead in GPU programming is such that if you make one small assumption that doesn't hold true in practice you may end up sinking your performance in a terrible way. So you need a lot of control over where and how things are laid out. For more generic stuff there are libraries, but those too run at the behest of your application. As this technology matures you'll see more and more abstraction and automation of the parts that squeeze out the most performance. But for now that's where you can make the biggest gains, just like any other kind of special purpose co-processor.
Many of today's elites and top earners are very much still born to previous generations of elites and top earners.
Crypto was probably the latest in a long list of ways he squandered money.
This line

“new businesses are responsible for 'almost all net new job creation in this country’”

Is simply bullshit, the public sector is driving a huge slice of job creation in Canada and has for the last 20 years. Now you can argue that’s a bad thing but it is a thing and this “chief economist” is simply wrong on basic facts.
Agreed, the memory bottle-neck is the biggest restriction. But even there there is quite a bit of progress. NV in particular is milking that for as much and as long as they can though. I'd be happy with a slower GPU able to address far more memory.
Sort of.

Apple is super stingy about RAM capacity on their devices, which is a problem for GenAI

Also, the M1 NPU (the equivalent to Google's offloading) is not very fast in Apple's own Stable Diffusion port, and I'm not aware of any community LLM frameworks that even use the NPU. They all run Metal implementations on the M1's GPU.
I guess it just shows how few of us can actually be trusted with power then :(
Canada (in particular Vancouver), fix your absurd housing problem and we'll come back.