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No but I forgot about that one. It's a good one too. Thank you.

The one I remember was about a "technician" in this world where nobody remembers the underpinnings of technology. There is a big competition to solve a known problem using the existing tech toys that are available. (something like a tech olympics) The technician wins the competition by using the equipment in non-standard ways and re-engineering their functions in ways nobody had ever done.

The judges are at a loss as to how he could have done this since it is not in any instruction manual. :-)
Cool. Hows it work?
Had a 48G+, was dog slow. There were 3rd party replacements for the main screen (stack) written that were way faster. But yeah it was a delight to use otherwise esp compared to TI-xx
If we decided on an eternal user interface in 1999 then what would we do? Forbid capacitive touch screen? If we decide on one now, are we forbidding any development into VR/AR?
> we now have such concentration of wealth thatthe big PE firms can buy alot of what used to be small businesses and roll them up.

If only those small businesses could just refuse and continue operating on their own... alas.
It was a typo. What i meant is among digital payments, UPI is most popular and card payments are not all!
Which Apache Kafka horror movie would you remake?
Backup of the Living Dead: Data loss without backup or corrupted data from a producer. AKA a zombie apocalypse.
The Haunting of Microservice Hill: The mysteries of mapping flows across countless services.
Kafka Psycho: Kafka controller gets cabin fever and goes crazy.
The Compliance Chainsaw Massacre: Classic high-stakes slasher film –developers request Kafka access whilst you’re handling urgent audits.
The Walking Dead Letter Queue: Messages lose their way and encounter errors too grave to overcome.
Dracula’s Data Lair: Navigate the perilous chambers of the undead. Encounter the mysterious challenges of data replication.
The Zombie Zookeeper: Unexpected anomaly in the Zookeeper triggers a catastrophic Kafka failure.
The Silence of the Consumer: Eerily, the consumers assigned to process a topic’s messages have stopped screaming, creating an ominous and growing backlog. Brilliant yet unorthodox developer, Clarice investigates.
Susperia Streams: Isabella steps into the hallowed halls of the Kafka academy, unaware of the chilling secrets that lie within.
Show HN: BotFleet – Python bots with storage, transaction and locking support
In my previous job, I had to deploy a lot of Python automation scripts and although AWS Lambda was useful, I needed something simpler. So the idea for BotFleet was born.

Here's how it works: create your Python script as you normally would. The only requirement is that the script includes a `def main` function, which will be executed. For data persistence, a dict-like `store` object can be imported from the botfleet package. Store supports transactions and locking.

A bot can either be scheduled for execution at specific times or executed manually by making a GET/POST request to its URL. The main function can optionally include a `request` parameter that will hold the HTTP request data. You can access this data via request.GET and request.POST.

Docs: https://botfleet.ai/documentation/
Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1UklZauyYs
Nietzsche was onto this impressively early in modernity with the Death of God.

> The last man is the archetypal passive nihilist. He is tired of life, takes no risks, and seeks only comfort and security.

I don't really see any alternative myself.
Doubtful. In my experience this happens when companies are not in tremendous shape. The most likely sequences of events is:

1. Revenues are not as high as needed. If the current trajectory continues they will run out of money.

2. Therefore they need to change the plan. Changing the plan involves firing a load of people.

3. Everyone assumes (correctly) that that is because they are not doing so well.

4. Post a reassuring blog post that everything is fine. SiFive depends on customer confidence.

They probably are well funded for years (2?) to come. And they may be in "tremendous shape" *assuming that their new plan goes as they hope. It does seem a little desperate though. No information on how their new plan is different at all.
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> Sounded totally credible. For me it evoked the situation of GM plants that show up on plots of land of anti-GM farmers, rendering their crops commercially void (and theoretically infringing on the GM licence).

Except this almost never happens. But if it does, Monsanto (now Bayer) will reimburse you the cost of contaminated crops.
>> It’s indeed odd that current dnn’s require massive amount of energy to retrain and lack any kind of practical continuous adaptation and learning.

To me that just means nobody has figured out how to do that effectively. The majority will simply make use of what's been done and proven, so we got a plateau at object recognition, and again at generative AI (with applications in several domains). One problem with continuous adaptation and learning is providing an "entity" and "environment" for it to "live" in which doing the adaptive learning. There are some researchers doing that either with robots, or simulations. That's much harder to set up than a lot of cloud compute resources. I do agree with you that these aspects are missing and things will be much more interesting when they get addressed.
Delete this before you give them any fresh new ideas for how to be as evil as possible.
I am teasing people for their blind adherence to 2023 normative epistemology.
I think their meaning was something closer to your last paragraph - there was nothing interesting there before so it didn't matter that there was no public right of way.

But now there are things on private land that they are interested in. If you're thrown off a private road on your way to a pizza restaurant that's on it, you wouldn't have the same rights you're talking about for owners (or leaseholders) of properties on the private estate.
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What you describe is exactly how it looks in Hollywood movies, while in real life we still yet to see any strategic achievements anywhere caused merely by cyberattack in spite of all sci-fi propheting. E.g. Ukrainian, and Russian hackers have been attacking each other relentlessly since RF started the war, and most successful operations include Ukrainians transmitting anti-Putin images on advertisement screens somewhere, and some e-services downed for a few hours on both sides. It looked cool in news, but didn't move a needle on the ground. Or during massive protests in Belarus in 2020, pro-opposition hackers penetrated almost everywhere, leaked tons of info, but when it all eventually boiled down to armed gov't loyalist forces vs unarmed crowds in streets, guess who won? Organized power is not that dependent on internets, and really important electronic systems are not that fragile anymore. Meanwhile infantry changes power on the ground in a very tangible, inescapeable way.
This is a bit off-topic, but how do you actually browse a Wikipedia snapshot? I tried turning a dump [1] into a browseable website hosted locally a few years back, and it seemed anything but trivial. Has any progress been made here?

[1] https://dumps.wikimedia.org/
Now they have started an option for UPI for tourists!
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I remember the period where Encarta allowed user contributions to their website but more moderated than Wikipedia. It's a shame that Microsoft gave up on Encarta too soon, it could have been a perfect integration with Bing AI and not subject to the vandalism and notability wars that Wikipedia suffers from.
I like this a lot - simple and straightforward. Thanks for sharing!
If my smartphone had good physical buttons I would agree with you.
No it is private in that it is owned by something not the Crown.
Classic HN, the top comment in a Nix post is about Guix.

Nix has more packages and advocacy (even if the vast majority of people exposed to nix/guix will never actually use it), but Guix is a lot more interesting to me with the expressive power of scheme on offer.

That said, there are some sharp edges[0] that seem a bit harder to figure out (is this just as inscrutable/difficult as nix?).

Does anyone have some good links with people hacking/working with guix? Maybe some blogs to follow?

I care more about the server use-case and I'm a bit worried about the choice of shepherd over something more widely used like systemd and some of the other libre choices which make Guix what it is. Guix is fine doing what it does, but it seems rather hard to run a Guix-managed system with just a few non-libre parts, which is a non-starter.

Also, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, the lack-of-package-signing-releases is kind of a problem for me. Being source and binary compatible is awesome, but I just don't have time to follow the source of every single dependency... At some point you have to trust people (and honestly organizations) -- the infrastructure for that is signatures.

Would love to hear of people using Guix in a production environment, but until then it seems like stuff like Fedora CoreOS/Flatcar Linux + going for reproducible containers & binaries is what makes the most sense for the average devops practitioner.

CoreOS/Flatcar are already "cutting edge" as far as I'm concerned for most ops teams (and arguably YAGNI), and it seems like Nix/Guix are just even farther afield.

[EDIT] Nevermind, Guix has a fix for the signature problem, called authorizations![1]

[0]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/698811/in-guix-how-...

[1]: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Specifying-Ch...
Also it is a way to evade taxes as per my observation!
You have not asked me once about what types of dogs they were or how the dogs were behaving. so I would say it’s you. That’s operating without any data and it’s just acting out of your imagination.

But it’s irrelevant. Because you’re just thinking about people being in danger and not the dog being in danger or not if it is disturb the other animals that also have at the park like the squirrels in the birds.

You’re only seeing the dog owner as the victim in the circumstance.

And all that doesn’t matter either, because we as a community created this rule, this law, that your dog needs to be on a leash went in this park. If you don’t like the law, you could push to overturn the law. Or if you don’t like the law, you can move to a place that doesn’t have these laws.

We have decided that the risk of even a slight chance of a dog hurting someone is more important than the slight inconvenience of someone having a dog on a leash. Of all people you in data science should understand risk benefit. What is the harm of a dog being on a leash?
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I once tried my own L-system generator on lisp! Take a look

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Tao's notes seem to be based on the book Linear Algebra by Friedberg, Insel and Spence. I found it to be one of the best books on Linear Algebra, better than even Hoffman/Kunze. The proofs are extremely clear, it has examples like PageRank, Markov Chains, PCA and the solutions to just about every exercise is available on Quizlet.
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It's one thing when there's no infrastructure or easily accessible source of water. It's another when you're in Arizona next to the Colorado River. The thought of people in the first world having to get their potable water from a treated pot for purely political reasons is why it's absurd.
Doesn't really worry me. Drone warfare gives the cost-advantage to the party that doesn't rely as much on heavy equipment, expensive air-defence and massed artillery. And Russian military doctrine doesn't change very quickly; they're fighting the war in Ukraine in much the same way they fought WWII (smash up everything with artillery, and then try to roll in with tanks).
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My experience has been the opposite. The idiomatic patterns is to have errors handled at the callsite, rather than bubble up. In java codebases I've worked on, you tend to have catch-everything parts of the code that are unable to address the specific problem, and mitigate it by restarting work, or just logging largely because they don't know what went wrong. Not that can't address the issue with exceptions more specifically (it happens all the time) but that often it is easier not to, and just to group all exceptions by their class and move on. In go codebases, In production go-codebases I've tended to see if/else logic for every case. This makes the code horrible to read IMHO, to get a general sense of what is happening, but make much more of specific logic explicit and directly handled.
Exactly. No one forces these businesses to sell. It’s the owners easiest retirement plan instead of passing them down to their kids who may not want to or have the skill set to run the family business.
I can't hit the link --- getting a 503 -- but I'd add a few.

Rebecca Solnit (Men Explain Things To Me, widely awarded)

Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me, MacArthur Fellow)

Ibrahim X. Kendi (How to Be an Antiracist, MacArthur Fellow)
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For starters they don't suffer from C and C++ related exploits, given the systems languages that were used to write them like PL/S and NEWP, or the business languages being mainly COBOL, RPG and nowadays Java.
I think you may have misinterpreted my point.

Or I'm misunderstanding yours - where did I say anything about men discussing sexual prowess?

If you read the linked research paper, I think you'll understand the point I was making better.
> It used to be a safe assumption that "the military is always 30 years ahead".

IDK if that isn't still true about the US military. The most high-tech equipment sent to Ukraine is still decades old. Israel receives more up-to-date equipment but we haven't seen them deal with $400 drones yet -- it's likely they'd fare much better.

We actually don't know how far US military tech is ahead because we haven't seen that tech being actively used in the battlefield. I think the greater issue is that if the US were to enter a conflict where that tech would be necessary, it would likely face an opponent that also has access to nuclear weapons and then that tech is unlikely to remain relevant for long unless it can prevent every single nuclear weapon from launching and arming.
> Any rational company would have standardized the parts inside a phone like IBM did with the IBM PC.

Any company that is run by people who're capable of reading and understanding history books would probably not do that.

IBM released the PC in 1981 and effectively left the "standardized component" PC market in 2001, when they shut down the Aptiva line. That's a 20 year run, which saw IBM try to move away from Intel and into their own RISC processors for the last 5 years.

And its height, IBM was shipping 750,000 computers a year. In 2022, Apple sold that many iPhones every day.

IBM created a market by allowing other companies to make PC clones, but that pushed margins to unworkable levels and effectively forced them out of the market.
Most of this goes away when you have positive real interest rates.

It makes sense to take on massive amounts of debt to buy things when you get paid to be in debt.

Companies that do leveraged buyouts are going to have a good time.

When money isn't free - companies that do leveraged buyouts aren't going to have as good of a time.
> There is also some evidence that, in adults at least, rather than making users lazy spellers, autocorrect features can reduce exposure to misspellings and so avoid the disruptive impact this can have on our memory for how a word should be spelt.

I guess the author never used autocorrect. This is one of the first "feature" that gets disabled in Word either on the first run or at the first hit ( and it hits usually in the first run).

The article looks like a paid piece. Word did not help learn English. Programming languages and shells did (the way you interact with computers) because they were written in English.

I used computers since 1988 and the first time i encoutered word was around 1996.

Word is just another program and the cause of many lost nights (disk is full at 4 am) and hours of frustration ( who made this piece of €#&*, may he burn in hell).
I was feeling old when this was not the top comment :-)
> Meaning, the information on these slides may not apply anymore. The value-proposition for Chrome may have changed since then, especially with Chromebooks being in the mix.

The prevalence of ad blocking has grown significantly since 2015. If anything, these slides apply even more than they did when first created. The specifics might have changed but the situations they’re trying to address to preserve and maximize the revenue model for search have only expanded.
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So now you wouldn’t call the place if you saw someone breaking into someone else’s house? Would you even call your neighbor? Would you do anything yourself? Gather gang of people together and go over there? But then you would be the police wouldn’t you?
Chuck Norris is a misogynistic homophobe who seems to think that the bad-ass TV version of him is him irl. https://www.advocate.com/news/daily-news/2011/03/07/chuck-no... etc.
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I am afraid that this will just lead down the path to what https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1718654143110512741 was mocking. We're dictating solutions to today's threats, leaving tomorrow to its own devices.

But what will tomorrow bring? As Sam Altman warns in https://twitter.com/sama/status/1716972815960961174, superhuman persuasion is likely to be next. What does that mean? We've already had the problem of social media echo chambers leading to extremism, and online influencers creating cult-like followings. https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/mental-health-liberal-g... is a sober warning about the dangers to mental health from this.

These are connected humans accidentally persuading each other. Now imagine AI being able to drive that intentionally to a particular political end. Then remember that China controls TikTok.

Will Biden's order keep China from developing that capability? Will we develop tools to identify how that might be being actively used against us? I doubt both.

Instead, we'll almost certainly get security theater leading to a regulatory moat. Which is almost certain to help profit margins at established AI companies. But is unlikely to address the likely future problems that haven't materialized yet.
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I don't think this is right at all. Digital computers express non-continuous functions, and they sometimes use those to approximate continuous functions.

For example, for a function f(x) defined on R with f(x) = -x if x < 0 and f(x) = 7+x if x >= 0, how would you approximate it by a continuous function g(x) with precision lower than, say, 1 (i.e. |f(x) - g(x)| < 1 for any x in R)?

And of course, there are functions with much worse discontinuities than this.
Thanks, that's helpful. I've had a number of NVME enclosures and have thermal issues with most of them. As a one-off hack, it can be helpful to lightly spray with rubbing alcohol if you need to cool one off during a large transfer.
Why do you care if a private company has to follow financial reporting regulations? The reason that public companies have to is because the public buys shares in the company.
Which also runs Python https://www.numworks.com/calculator/apps/python/
I do not know what the previous poster has meant to say, but polynomials can be defined in a more abstract way as just elements of certain vector spaces on which an additional operation of multiplication between polynomials is defined, which obeys special rules (the "carry-less multiplication", which is implemented in hardware by most modern CPUs, is an example of polynomial multiplication).

In computers there are many applications of such abstract polynomials, e.g. for error detecting or correcting codes, pseudo-random number generation, authenticated encryption and others, which depend only on the rules for addition, internal multiplication and multiplication with scalars, and which have nothing to do with the polynomial functions associated with the polynomials.
Half joking here but I wonder if what you posted is close to what Patrick originally scribbled down then ran through an AI prompt to blow it out. So like encryption, when you put the encrypted text through the cipher you get the original text back.
I did the math a couple of years ago, and it came out to roughly $100k per podcaster. This has obviously dropped off significantly the last year with ad sales in general tanking.
I think you aren't following the defintion of 'computer' or 'computable', you seem to have a mixed physical notion of what a 'computer' is.

A computer, from a formal pov, is just an abstract mathematical object (like a shape) which has abstract properties (eg., like being a circle) that are computable, ie., are functions from integers to integers.

The physical devices we call 'computers', in many ways, arent. They exist in space and time and hence have non-computable properties, like their (continuous) extension in space and time.

See Turing's own paper where he makes this point himself, ie., that physical machines arent computers in his sense because they're continuous in time.

Insofar as you appeal to any causal aspects of a physical system you arent talking about a computer in turing's sense, and nothing like a turing equivalence would apply.

We already know that all computable functions can be implemented by 'arbitary substrates' -- this is just the same as saying that you can 'make a circle out of any material'.

In exactly the same sense as gears can be networked, sand dunes already are. You can just go around labelling particles of sand with 0s and 1s, and for a subset, there you have it: the computable aspects of the TCP/IP protocol.

But this is irrelevant. TCP/IP isnt useful because of its computable aspects. It's useful as a design sheet for humans to rig systems of electrical devices with highly specific causal properties.

The system we call 'the internet' is useful because it connects keyboards, screens, mice, microphones, webcams, SSDs, RAM, etc. together -- and because these devices are provide for human interaction.

The sand dune is likewise already implementing arbitary computable functions, so is the sun, so is the air, and any arbitary part of the universe you care to choose.

But the sand dune lacks all the properties the internet has: there's no webcam, no keybaord, no screen, etc.

What we actually use are physical properties. Talk of algorithms is just a design tool for people to build stuff
If only each individual bond could try a little bit harder to resist the acid.
This is correct -- in fact, the article I posted goes over exactly that (though it is somewhat buried).

> There’s one caveat everyone is missing this is only a problem if you planned on modifying the software and not contributing back!. If you either do not modify the software or contribute back your changes you’re free to host and offer services built on AGPL.

I'm a bit worried about what all these companies will do once smaller/larger players change their stances appropriately and start hosting their software as a service. Will people run to BSL/Elastic/SSPL?