skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the bottom of the article it states there’s a 15% royalty on oil etc and that there’s 2-3 billion USD of minerals produced from federal land annually. There’s also 11.36 million acres claimed with a $165 annual maintenance fee per acre for a total gov revenue of $1.875 billion not including the higher first-year claim fees. If there were no oil/gas/coal/fuel extraction on claimed lands, the effective royalty garnered by this system would be in excess of 50% (1.875/[2 to 3 billion]). More data — specially on annual fuel extraction from federal lands — is needed, but this article as it stands makes a terribly poor argument that the current state of economic affairs is a failure. The numbers actually imply this sort of gambling system may be better for the government than a royalty system.

This reminds me of how, according to my TikTok feed, Jade miners prefer to sell their extracted rocks to blind buyers for a fixed price per rock (only a few of which will be revealed to contain valuable jade once cut open) rather than cut them open themselves and only profit from the lucky few rocks. (Or maybe that’s just a small part of the business, as most other gemstone mining doesn’t seem to work that way).
You write the check once a year and plan projects no shorter than three months.
USS Recruit (1917): The Wooden Dreadnought in Manhattan's Union Square
You know who understands the Canadian market the least? Recent immigrants.
Tcl, Fossil and SQLite share an interesting history. SQLite started as a Tcl extension and the SQLite maintain Dr Richard Hipp is part of the Tcl Core Team as well. Fossil started out as a version control for SQLite development by Dr Richard Hipp as well, and might have influenced the Tcl development as well.

Source:
https://www.sqlite.org/tclsqlite.html
https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/D.+Richard+Hipp
Sounds like they're also good if you want a garage to tinker in!
Cycle-accurate software emulation is a topic that I've been looking into on and off for years.

The Higan concurrency architecture hit a wall because it needs to sync between modules every single cycle, what gets very expensive as the clock rates go up.

But you don't need to sync every single cycle, especially once CPUs started getting caches, so we just need a new concurrency architecture that's flexible enough to only sync when needed.

I've been experimenting with an actor based concurrency model which seems to be fast enough for a cycle-accurate N64 emulator (though I won't know until I have the RSP and RDP implemented). I'm hoping it might even be fast enough for 6th gen consoles, perhaps when combined with other techniques like a cycle-accurate jit and fine-grained memory locks.

I'll have to post an article if it ever gets to a workable state.

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As for cycle-accurate FPGA emulators, I don't think they are cost-effective even for something like the N64, yet alone a 360. You can get 90% of the way there with a cycle accurate CPU, shared bus, cycle accurate RSP/RDP. But you have to map the RDRAM onto DDR3 memory and the timings don't really line up. The linked UltraFP64 project doesn't even try for accurate RAM timings and will preform better than a real N64. I suspect the WIP n64 core for MiSTer is much the same.

You could build a custom board with memory that actually matches the timings, but that gets expensive.
I wonder what would have happened if 3dfx had survived. It ultimately had its assets acquired by nvidia!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3dfx
In China, Chest-Thumping Nationalistic Films Lose Momentum
formal theory is the full term.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Formal_theory

The first three definitions fit.

Anything that's called "Design" usually means there's no "theory" around it. It's all ad-hoc gut feelings and made up. Things like UI or art typically have a lot of "design" associated with it.

Usually a "theory" is a very concrete thing. You don't "design" the shortest distance between two points. That's more of a calculation. A calculation is available because we have a formal theory called geometry.

We can calculate which algorithm is better because we have a formal theory around algorithm speed and memory.

But program organization? No. No theory. Just rules of thumbs and made up acronyms and big words masquerading as theory. We don't truly even have a formal definition of "good program design" or "technical debt" It's these nebulous terms and the culture shifts and changes with new fads all the time.

OOP used to be big with OOP design patterns as a big thing. Now OOP is on it's way out... Do you see that with geometry? Can the theory of geometry be a fad? You may not know it, but even SOLID is more religion than it is formal theory.

The closest thing to a formal theory of program organization I've seen is within functional programming and category theory. To get a formal theory for program organization we have to come of with formal definitions. What is good design? What is modularity? How do we compare the modularity of one program to another? None of these things have been defined yet but it looks like category theory and functional programming has sort of the primitives to build upon to make these concepts concrete. We're still far away from something formal but if we ever develop something along these lines it will likely arise from Functional programming or category theory.

Check this resource if you're interested: https://www4.di.uminho.pt/~jno/ps/pdbc.pdf

He calls it "program design by calculation" but it's really just program design using algebras. He can't prove why it's better because, again, lack of theory but it looks like this approach is generally the right direction.
There were some really crazy versions of this in the Dolomites. They would load up tunnels they drilled under the enemy's location in the mountain with massive amounts of explosives and boom.
The "ecosystem" would just be, e.g. the suite of ASIC place and route tools, or FPGA synthesis tools, provided by each company. They pretty much all have TCL built in, for to help script them all together.

Each individual script is typically very ad-hoc, to address a specific shortcoming in a tool, or to get a particular mix-and-match of tools from various vendors integrated into a design pipeline.

That being said, it is an ancient and venerable tradition, dating back to the creation of tcl itself, and as long as we're making chip from Silicon it will be the duct tape holding it all together.
You have clearly not programmed in any of those. :)

OpenCL was almost unusable due to how difficult it was to set up, plus limited support.
Vulcan is terribly ugly and verbose and provides no benefits for pure compute workloads. Writing a "hello word" is a few thousands lines of code, debugging impossible.

Working with CUDA is pure pleasure - immediate setup, super easy CPU/GPU interop and code sharing, all the modern (at the time!) C++ features, super pleasant debugging with stepping, profilers, everything. :)

I totally wish others invested as much into tools as NVIDIA did - but they didn't and made the whole experience miserable. :( If your velocity is 1/10 because of terrible tooling, you need to expect some insane benefits to pick it.
I worked with a guy who had spent over a decade working in guest relations at the airport for an airline. Working the check-in desk, the gate, the guest lounge, luggage, etc. He got an opportunity during the pandemic, when air travel went to almost nothing, to move to an office in corporate HQ and work with programmers as a domain expert and guide, and jump at it. He knew stuff that wasn't written down anywhere but was key to the passenger experience.

He told me he'd quit before going to back to work with passengers at the airport. It was that bad.
Why record every meeting? Are you actually going to listen back to it? Waste of time and energy to me.
Scientists Just Came Up with a Wild Idea for Making Oxygen on Mars
I begrudginly respected the imposed scarcity of urbit if only to fund developement but yeah I was in the same boat, "oh good. someone already did it, I can just pay $15/month and relax" but unfortunately the peer discovery for installing apps is fragile AF

Holochain is unfortunately named since its about as much of a blockchain as git is (merkle tree, no proof of work mechanism) but they obscured it willingly by trying to integrate ETH [0] as a way to pay peers for cloud capacity / capitalize on the crypto hype.

[0] https://holo.host/host/

edit: "Liquidity comes from shared values" this is an interesting axiom, I'll have to think about that. I've always held that the neat thing about money is it allows collaboration between groups with opposing values, because at least we have one motive in common
I just think it’s expected that 330 million people would have more variation than 40 million people. The density of Canada is certainly in comparison to dense US areas but the absolute population just puts thing in another order of magnitude - the single US market is insane entrepreneurially speaking. Companies get started and immediately have access to the biggest economy on earth, the biggest pools of investment capital, the richest consumers, the global military superpower, lobbyists who get access to politicians that can change other countries’ laws and regulations, and on and on.

I can’t even remember what we are discussing. In summation, I love the US, but this thread has really given me ammo to counteract the cocktail party liberals who worship Canada.
Yes! Use it daily, and was already approved. I’d say maybe ~20% of people here use some flavour of IntelliJ?

I will say, don’t hype yourself up. It’s actually not ideal. I still have to jump back to the PR pretty often for things like suggested change blocks in comments.

Company size: ~3000 people, multinational, many IT staff that audit these things closely and are alright with it.
Racket made a prolog implementation that is currently used in the compiler, or at least I thought I heard that in one of their talks. Might be worth trying, since its model is a language for making languages

https://docs.racket-lang.org/datalog/

https://docs.racket-lang.org/racklog/
paoen
Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth
Hopefully with taxes based on vehicle weight and miles driven in last year
Some of the commenters to the article state "if it's so bad, why did you not retire 3 years ago and live well"

The commentary is missing the context of the sunken cost problem.

This CEO, like many others, already paid his dues. He's missed many bdays, wrecked his health, and lost relationships. And now he gets to enjoy the benefits of the hard work, with the company is firing in all cylinders.

Walking away now would mean all the sacrifice was for nothing.
Examples, tests and interfacing with C are almost all the instances of unsafe.
Congrats on launching the book!

I'm writing Opinionated Launch (https://opinionatedlaunch.com) to share practical ideas based on my experience as CTO for a small startup and VPoE in a publicly listed company. When I started writing, I realized there are two distinct topics: management/team/people side of things, and tech side. I ended up focusing on the tech side since that's what I'm more passionate about. I'm glad someone did the other part!
Ah, the irony of scale!

As far as I know, Google does not actually use k8s for their public facing services (or anything at all?). I would love to be corrected on this.

Google was able to scale quickly back in the day by keeping things as simple as possible. "1 hard drive per server" level simple. Center everything around one massive job scheduler (Borg).

Of course a lot has changed since that time, but I can't see Google upending a established infrastructure by making k8s plugins for their network requirements, tying k8s into Borg, etc. It would give less visibility and debugability for little gain.

(But again I have zero inside knowledge here)

At scale there is no one size fits all. Kubernetes can fit a lot, but will always fall short of a tailor made solution.

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I was replying to original comment claiming that people commenting out here are hypocritical because they all have benefitted from the mining. My comment implies that not all things that our ancestors do that have made our life what it is today are not ethical/legal today.
I wouldn’t go quite that far. Are 5’ 5” people going to be able to sue the NBA? Height is h immutable characteristic.
my current preference are as follows

postgresql for transactional logs

clickhouse for analytics data

elasticsearch or quickwit for terabytes of data, disk persisted, if i need thorough search on structured jsons

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others i use for different use case

typesense for searching mbs to gbs of data, memory persisted

redis for caching kbs of data, memory persisted
Leave Australia :-)
You are not wrong
Taylor Swift might disagree with you: https://www.vulture.com/2022/11/taylor-swift-ticketmaster-sa...

Of course she might be an extreme end of the market :)
> What else might help?

I'd mention something, but I see you've already invited a giant white elephant, which has its trunk wound around the handle of an "affordable housing" sign.
The freight haulers have also done their part in ripping up their infrastructure or letting it rot (so you have to put your box on a truck to get it to the freight yard), running bigger trains slower and without a hard schedule, and generally being annoying to work with in the pursuit of better operating ratio.

Hell, a lot of truck traffic is moving freight from one rail yard to another.
And the expectation that every business should act like they are facebook.

No, if your system goes off line for 20 hours a year barely anyone will notice, it will have way, way less impact to your business than spending the money to make sure that doesn't happen.
https://benchmark.clickhouse.com/
> Making and selling “Fake” handbags which you make really clear are fakes can result in prison. The concern are twofold, someone buying it may try and resell the items as “real” or someone seeing a poor copy with another brands trademark on it can dilute the brand.

I'm pretty sure the issue there is whether the item itself advertises that it is something it's not, even if you're clear it's not a legitimate copy, and also whether you are doing it in furtherance of a crime.

Making knock off Gucci bags and selling them as fakes when you're sure they're being bought by middlemen to sell as authentic (at least when your main purpose is to sell to this market and they can "prove" it), could possibly make you complicit (depending on what they can show in court). In that specific case, even leaving off any branding (to make it easier for someone to add fake branding later) could possibly be found complicit, if they could prove that it was for the purpose of furthering the crime (as I understand it).

I'm not going to act like companies and prosecute rs don't overstep their bounds/rights/authority, but I think it's pretty clear why some of these cases and laws exist (even if we might think they aren't quite the right response to the problem in some cases).
Water rights are a mess in many places too. Where I live in a fairly dry bit of Oregon, a lot of the senior water rights go to hobby farms that don't produce much, while real agriculture further downstream struggles to get enough water.
no field animals anymore

but house animals though
The dark silicon isn't necessarily application-specific, it's also used by duplicating a particular circuit and then rotating which duplicate does the computing, so that the other areas have time to cool down a bit before they're used again.
Electric cars aren’t really giving them a run for their money. Road damage goes as the 4th power of axle weight [1]

A fully loaded semi is 80,000 lbs and has 5 axles so 16,000 lbs/axle.

A Tesla model S weighs 4500 lbs and has 2 axles, so 2250 lbs/axle.

16000/2250 = 7.1

7.1^4 = 2541

So the truck is doing 2500x the damage of the Tesla. Esentially all road damage is done by heavy trucks which is why semis have to pull over and get weighed periodically to make sure they’re under the limit, but cars never do.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
To me, that choice of words indicates Google is intending to claim the hardware is ready.
I had the privilege of working with the author across two companies, and I can’t tell you how big of a difference it makes when everything he’s written about here gets implemented. The impact is felt across the organization - not just within product or engineering. Like with any system or set of recommendations, eventually you’ll need to make them your own in some way, but I’d definitely recommend utilizing what Zach teaches as much as possible.
"the market" that sells those things is over an hour round trip, so i only go every three weeks or so. There is a distinct (but unchecked) possibility that the solitary butcher shop is closer than a supermarket to my house.

I just realized i have this style conversation every time i bring up anything about food when talking with people specifically in the US, for 15 of the last 20 years of my life. The comment i originally typed mentioned a 50 mile radius around my house is either forest or farmland, with 1 metro area. AFAIK there's no farmer's market; also the most common crops are field corn (not human edible as i understand it) and cotton, then soybeans.

It is very difficult to enjoy eating if there's any dietary restrictions, self-imposed or otherwise, due to living it what i suppose most people would call a food desert. Atkins, vegetarianism, veganism, etc.

I can buy hamburger patties, chicken, bacon, cheese about 15 minutes from my house, though - and an extremely limited selection of seasonal produce, grapes, avocado, banana, apples, iceberg lettuce, sometimes cucumbers and celery and carrots. Everything else would be canned, and i'm on an eternally medically necessary low-sodium diet, so i don't eat much canned vegetables.

Food here is such a pain in the ass that sometimes i buy my friends fresh produce when i go to town so they have something to eat that isn't fried.
Titles don’t have to be a zero sum game. No reason can’t have 2 ‘Senior/Executive” Whatevers
> In a country of nearly 340 million people, some crime takes place every hour, every day.

Conveniently providing this publication (and other news sources) with a steady stream of alarming, attention-grabbing stories and headlines.
Butterstick FPGA Development Board
Then require people to `import flask3` so you can install both major versions together.
Impossible for a teenager. This isn't like your everyday "kid makes a software startup" stories. He had to source all the machines, go through all the obscure documentation, understand how to test his yield, etc. He built his own photolithography machine ffs. I can't imagine the dedication required to go through this and believe in yourself every step of the way.
It can but that's working against the design. How you are "supposed to" do it is write reusable standalone objects in C (think the old CORBA way of doing things) and then write a TCL script as the main skeleton of your program that calls them when needed.
Check out https://github.com/GetPublii/Publii
I did Tcl, but in the Storyserver world and hated it. Ok, we got things done, but it was slow. I believe Tcl wasn't to blame, but that was my only experience with it so I couldn't compare it with and without Storyserver.

I forget about those days until something like this comes up.
Critical SolarWinds RCE Bugs Enable Unauthorized Network Takeover
It settles debates about what was discussed, informs people that did not attend, increases discoverability, and promotes transparency. Especially useful in interactions with customers. It's not for your daily stand-up. To quote the inimitable "Yes, Minister" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85fx0LrSMsE):

It is characteristic of all committee discussions and decisions that every member has a vivid recollection of them and that every member's recollection of them differs violently from every other member's recollection. Consequently we accept the convention that the official decisions are those and only those which have officially recorded in the minutes by the officials, from which it emerges with an elegant inevitability that any decision which has been officially reached will have been officially recorded in the minutes by the officials and any decision which is not recorded in the minutes has not been officially reached even if one or more members believe they can recollect it, so in this particular case if the decision had been officially reached it would have been officially recorded in the minutes by the officials. And it isn't so it wasn't.
> Alternatively, L&S [lights and siren] response increases the chance of an EMS vehicle crash by 50% and almost triples the chance of crash during patient transport

Wow.
I have over 700 Barbie dolls and accessories.

The originals from the 50s have red hair and polka dotted swimsuits.

No blonde hair or pink dresses :)
Sure. That doesn’t invalidate democracy on the basis of technological advancement.
Yeah I don't think college should be abolished, I just think that college should adapt to this trend of online education, instead of just acting like 100 years ago where there is no internet. And they should probably try to make better use of online education materials instead of offering their own courses that are worse...
Sorry, to be clear, O3DE and cryengine have about nothing in common these days.

You might as well also be comparing Godot, Unity and Panda3D at this point.
There is no explanation of need here. Broadcasters want the security feature regardless of effectiveness and consumers will be forced to "upgrade" to devices with hostile features just to receive public airway broadcasts as they do now. No one welcomes more targeted ads with mute disabled. The standard should be shunned on general computing grounds.
Leg Mechanism
SEO is nonsense anyway. It's all shysters and snake oil salesmen.
It’s a nature paper so it’s directed towards scientists not the general public. But also scientists not necessarily doing research in the space.

I’m happy to see a bit of myth busting going on. The space is in its infancy but wow do I ever see university press releases touting “microbiome is connected to disease X” a lot and it’s usually based on pretty flimsy evidence.

The field will mature over time and no doubt find some interesting connections to human health, but it seems like there is a mad rush to “keep a healthy microbiome” when in fact we don’t even know that much about what a healthy microbiome looks like beyond a few obvious diseases like c. difficile.
Unfortunately your “truth” is almost certainly false. Actual research shows the majority of homelessness in CA is a result of unaffordable housing and there is no mass migration of homeless to CA (thst also doesn’t make sense…with not even enough money to afford a house in a city where you may have connections and at least know the lay of the land, why would you move to a significantly more expensive city where you know no one and don’t know anything about it…and even if you think the weather is such a draw, then why are there any homeless in SF? Why haven’t they all moved to LA?).

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2023/06/425646/california-statewid...

> Contrary to myths of homeless migration, most were Californians: 90% of participants lost their last housing in California and 75% of participants live in the same county as where they were last housed.

> The study found that for most of the participants, the cost of housing had simply become unsustainable. Participants reported a median monthly household income of $960 in the six months prior to their homelessness, and most believed that either rental subsidies or one-time financial help would have prevented their homelessness.
Do they harbor bacteria more than wood though? I've been using plastic cutting board for meat just because I always assumed wood being porus would be more bacteria friendly. Using wood board for everything else.

I would love to see some studies on this.