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Silicosis is a type of fibrosis lung disease. My Dad had IPF a type of lung fibrosis disease.

Dad worked for the federal government in the Canadian Coast Guard for 35 years. He worked in ship engine rooms or on barges but also had odd jobs like painting. One job was to make boiler filters. He had to use a fluffy powder to make big "patties" flat filters. The powder had asbestos in it.

The I in IPF is idiopathic as in "don't know" but I'd say it was the filter powder. So even federal level there are terrible PPE policies or lack of enforcement. I'm sure Dad was under peer pressure or pressured into not caring or toughing it out type of attitude among his co-workers.
I'm a huge NFL fan, and Threads has already replaced X for NFL (and MLS) news for me. My team's beat writers have all already moved over to Threads.
I feel like being in the middle of two black holes would be more like being ripped apart than zero gravity/accel.
Many modern emulators need a BIOS-like ROM/flash image to even boot up; the situation is much less clear there, since these usually contain software and can accordingly be copyrighted.

Some emulators solve this by providing their own (re)implementation, but that’s not always easy.

And even when it’s “just” iOS: That is copyrighted too! So it’s the same problem – either there needs to be an iOS ABI-compatible OS, or it’s probably not possible to emulate any application legally, unfortunately.
Be honest. Are you worried e.g. that some future post Armageddon creatures are going to bring disaster to themselves because of mucking around with some remnants of wind turbines out in the sea? The risks of nuclear fission by products are open ended. The effects you are mentioning are all bounded, and well understood.

“Substantial” aspects mean nuclear fission by products. This matter is just that: matter. It exists regardless of any other consideration. It comes into being because of the fission process. This coming into being creates the “burden” I was talking about.

Until we can safely send them to orbit and then to deep space it will not be “clean”. Of course then we’re polluting deep space.
You need to turn off the default conda environment.

Try: conda config --set auto_activate_base false
What is the 'that' you are referring to as far as being the more plausible plotline?

I don't think it's weird for a kid with some computing knowledge to use a filebrowser to look for where a program might be.
Ah I see thanks, but still for this generation of Threadripper, I would avoid overclocking it if it means having no warranty.

Also shit move from AMD because even if you overclock with their software, the warranty still becomes void
No worries! We're largely a self moderated community. You are no where near the bad end of the spectrum, in fact, your reply to this is atypical and appreciated!
I think folks should go easier on this developer... The revert commit is always available, and sometimes products do gain unnecessary baggage that just slows down future product development. Kudos for trying.
I wish there were more facts in modern novels as well. Fiction’s alleged communicative purpose is to entertain the reader but I gather it’s too simplistic. Dostoyevsky’s Crime & Punishment seems to be to be an analysis on the soul. It entertains because it captivates.

For example, “Where the wild things are” has captivated both my child and I since we first read it sitting on the floor of a bookstore. It’s the kind of book I had been dreaming of writing myself.

It is an illustrated album explaining children’s psychology to children of all ages.

We can read it over and over again for the next few years.

I wish there were more illustrated albums explaining very complicated or abstract concepts using beautiful drawings and simple, rhyming verses per page.

Most educational books are too informative, they explain lots of concepts on a page. And most children’s books are puerile or too patronising.
Feeling like "the centre cannot hold" in my birth country makes me feel much more cosmopolitan (if not exactly «bezrodny»), actually.
Electricity makes significant differences to quality of life and you’re talking about having 100 pictures of your kids instead of 10,000 being “a huge loss and emotional shock”.
That’s frankly pathetic.

There are many people I know alive today (including myself) that don’t obsess over a day by day photo chronology of their children that you will probably never look at 90% of. Yet we all use electricity significantly every day.

Describe how 10,000 photos of your child is on par with access to electricity?

That’s some addict logic right there.
The issue is that we don't have too few people willing to work at Tesco or be landscapers; we have far too many of them relatively, and way too few doctors, computer coders or other high-skilled jobs. One additional unit of landscaping or Tesco work contributes very little to society, and ultimately that's what sets the reward for work in a market economy.

(You can of course have some subsidies on top of that for low-income folks, to help them make rent and whatnot - and there's nothing wrong with that if they're carefully designed. The U.S. EITC and the German "Minijob" arrangements are pretty decent all things considered.)
You made it weird by mentioning a Spock haircut.
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>Eventually individual morality will kick in and there will be a revolt against dismantling of the Earth.

This does not seem to be a given. Indeed one can look at the fossil fuel industry for what looks like counterexamples.
I think you give people way too much credit for what they understand. Most people understand "app open, do things". Beyond that, the actual technical implementation, even to the slightest degree, is completely lost. People don't care about the how, which is lost on most people in this space.
Even if they don't distribute binaries for your target?
Thanks for that, had no idea.

I've used IO Completion ports on Windows before, and found it to be pretty useful API but I guess this is also a useful addition.

Basically no good idea goes uncopied by Microsoft :)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/ioringap...

>Minimum supported client Windows Build 22000

Alas I have no idea from that what the lowest version of Windows that supports this API is though.
Technically speaking there can be "disproof" but there is never "proof".

We have theories and experiments.

An experiment giving a result not in accord with the theory is an immediate disproof.

An experiment giving a result in accord with the theory is a confirmation possibly waiting for another experiment resulting in a disproof.

Proof exist only in mathematics.
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It's not weird or wrong in any way though. Plenty of people were running compiz for a while, and a kid into Linux would recognize it.
This is the line that I came to the comments looking for.

It's possible that the author did take this into consideration and glossed over the details, but it's not something that I as a reader take for granted. And it's not something that I as a coworker would take someone's word for, especially if they didn't list at least some examples of the things being removed.

Not trying to pile on the author. Trimming the fat on a codebase is great, and for sure a worthwhile exercise that not enough organizations pay mind to.
Speaking as someone whose fiancee buys most of her clothes from Shein, here's what actually happens: She spends $200 on a huge load of clothing, then returns 70% of it because it either fits poorly (Shein's sizing is, as far as I can tell, completely random), looks nothing like the images on the website, or the garment is made of such awful materials that it looks terrible.

So, what you have is enormous quantities of clothing, most of which nobody wants, manufactured using slave labor and coal power, getting shipped back and forth across continents twice as many times as they would have if you had just bought from a better store.

Don't get me wrong, she's found some gems on Shein at remarkably low prices, but the majority of what she gets from Shein was destined for a landfill the moment it left the factory.
Not really, hydro does a lot of damage to ecosystems, blocks fish migration and can be weaponized (like it was in Ukraine during WW2 and earlier this year). And when it comes to greenhouse emissions it takes many years to offset carbon from decaying matter when a new reservoir is built.
OsmAnd lets you download offline maps. Not sure atm if it can overlay realtime traffic data on top though.
And they focused on fancy notebooks and pens instead of what had been an amazing and market leading piece of software.

It still hurts a little every time I think about it. I really liked that product.
This is more a note to self

There are two kinds of "tickets" - forward looking ones that basically say "we have a problem, please analyse and solve it using software" and a second closely related type that is "we have found the solution to the problem, please apply the solution to our environment"

this is basically the dividing line between dev and ops. and the confusion is what causes so many problems - there is development in support of R&D then there is development in support of ops

one cannot be predicted or sensibly estimated. One can.

Our plain comes frommmixing the two
Old fart here... when I got into computers it was with Commodore PETs at school. Hard disk? Ha. We shared a single CBM 8050 among a roomful of computers. It could be hotplugged, no biggie, if you needed to save your program you got a turn on the disk drive, put your personal floppy in...

What was considered cheap in those days was printer paper. No problem at all to print out your entire program for going through and editing - with a pencil! - on the long school bus ride. Sounds awful now, but it wasn't, it was just different. Besides, at 40x25 character screen resolution, you couldn't keep that much code "in view" anyway.
Yes, I agree, it should be required reading -- as part of an introduction to 20th century European history, of which a lot people today seem to be utterly ignorant.

The parallels you allude to are... unsettling, at the very least.

Alas, I have a nagging feeling that the problem in Silicon Valley today is not so much that its very smart, highly educated people are ignorant of history, but that being blind to it is currently in their best interest.
First: Don't define yourself by what you know or what you can do. That way, if what you do gets rendered obsolete, you aren't threatened. Your income may be, but who you are isn't.

Second: There has always been this threat; you're just more aware of it. Many farmers became obsolete due to mechanized agriculture. Many factory workers became obsolete due to automation and/or offshoring. Elevator operators. Telephone operators. Typists. And on and on; there's a long history of jobs disappearing. Try to be able to do more than one thing; it gives you more options.

One strategy might be to try to get better at relating to people. In the future, an AI may be able to give you an answer, but it can't give you a believable smile. Humans still want human contact; there's some value in being able to give it to them.

The future belongs to those who believe there will be one. Or, put the other way around: Those who give up in despair because they think that there will be no future will find that there isn't much of one, at least for them. Don't quit in despair. Keep trying to learn new things and new skills.
What specific demonstrations of capability by AI would convince you that your proposed timeline for reaching AGI isn't correct, and that it will happen significantly sooner? If it helps to think about it, there's a good DeepMind paper on a relatively concrete scaling system on the path to AGI: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02462
Just to be clear, you are asking how all this evidence refutes your totally unsupported assertion that 3DES is “perfectly secure” against the NSA? When even the NSA, who co-designed DES in the first place, forbid its continued use?
They list things like "Fast" and "Regular Expressions", but what about correct results? I often use GitHub web search and it never finds terms which I know for a fact exist. After it fails to return results, I have to instead manually navigate to the file containing the search term and yes it's there.
I like to keep my science fiction and real world concerns firewalled off from each other. I sleep bad enough as it is.
Ask HN: Favorite Microservices
If you're using micro-services, what are you favorite micro-services that are really on the "micro" end of the scale?

I'm thinking about the self-contained services that have a couple endpoints. The things that do something really well and make developing across your code much easier.

Two that come to mind for me are:

- A progress-bar API that was delightful when you wanted to give users a sense of where they were in a long running process on a distributed system.

- A rate limit service that was amazingly flexible and let me have tens of millions of individual token buckets.
Of course they weren't gonna export their crown jewels outside of Taiwan, the same way how the west didn't export their crown jewels to Asia when they did the technology transfers for semiconductor manufacturing in the '70s, making sure to keep their Asian partners at least a node behind.

Well well, how the turn-tables.
Your chronology is screwed up, we didn’t hit mass market until the model 3.

The litmus test is what cars you see on the roads of Wyoming. There are plenty of model 3s, and a leaf was an extremely rare site because the car was nearly useless outside of a city commute.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/technology/mistral-ai-fun...
If an employee did this without authorization, the company should still be liable because I do not think safety regulations exempt manufacture from responsibility of employee actions. I believe the opposite is true, that they must ensure safety despite rogue employees, with reviews, audits and such.
A farm that uses artificial light (vertical, greenhouse, or otherwise) could actually be a perfect electrical load shedding mechanism. Keep the lights at nominal levels during normal grid operation, and turn them up to absorb grid load. Preferably you're colocating this near the source of excess solar / wind energy. The farm would be providing the grid a valuable service, while also dumping that excess energy into usable calories.
Isn't the standard corollary to that "80% of features not being used" statement that it's a different 80% for every user?
The previous DVINO was a 5-stage in-order, this Sargantana core is a 7-stage out-of-order write-back with register renaming and a non-blocking memory pipeline.

So it is not a full in-order or a full out-of-order design.
Looks cool but I don't like to push to paid managed services like dbt. Rather use something like Airflow but its not as easy to use for most teams.
I don't know how much is just wishful thinking, but if there is one thing that it would be very interesting to see is a world where major orgs end up using Threads as a stepping stone out of the walled gardens.

I mean, why can't an organization like the NBA establish their own social media presence? Especially if they do end up federating out completely? Why do they need to keep relying on Facebook and playing the game according to Facebook rules, when they could just set up their own server and quickly get their audience in the Fediverse?
Beyond features: crafting apps users love
Mistral is the one that made it really click for me that OpenAI may not be the winner at all.
OK. But you do say what Israel shouldn't do, and at the same time, you can't provide any alternative solution. That's a really convenient position. I don't think doing nothing is an option here, so Israel does what the electorate expects it to do, that's what I meant in my comment about overreaction.

Also, I'm not sure who you mean by "they". Let's talk about specific people: past governments are mostly dead, current generation was born into this situation the same as Palestinians were born into theirs. "They" (current Israeli population) can't end the occupation; there are no feasible options. So what "they" should do in case a neighboring nation kills a thousand of "them"? Again, these people have nothing to do with occupation. The kids at that rave party most likely considered themselves as far left (just given the demographics). I myself am far left; I'm a part of "them", and I'm against the occupation, but no one is able to come up with a solution that would satisfy both sides.

So when you talk about "them", whom do you mean? Who'd you expect would find a solution if you can't even solve this smaller moral dilemma of what your country's response should be in case of Oct. 7?

edit: like, how can you overreact if no one can say what "non-over" reaction should be?
Motivation, historical context, landmark results, open problems.

> Wikipedia can be edited by anyone

Tried once; never again.
Nope, cruise and Waymo suffer the exact same biases. They are just savvy enough to not pretend they can operate outside of their focus/training markets.
Incorrect. The literal capital owners used the fucking market to push the sale of these drugs. So much so they caused a problem they now profit off the fix for…
There's also HN apps FWIW, never tried one though.
As much as I don't want to see the Zuckerverse succeed, Meta has a "we're the lesser evil" position at the moment, at least their Not-CEO hasn't told advertisers to go fuck themselves. If I worked for Meta, I would make getting companies and celebrities into Threads a priority.
I’ve always found this notion strange:

> overturning previous assumptions that competition and conflict were absent in hunter–gatherer societies

Chimps have competition, conflict, some even call it ‘warfare’ between neighbouring troops. Groups of human teenagers in modern societies have conflict. But somehow Stone Age humans must’ve lived in some pre-historic la-la-land until some form of modernity spoiled us.
I found this essay to be quite impressive.

I can personally relate to the impact of utilizing LLMs in order to overcome the Intermediate Material Problem discussed in the essay. Whenever I inquire LLMs about my current situation, I often discover the key concepts I may be missing. Admittedly, the quality of the responses depend upon the quality of the prompts provided, but this holds true for any other platform that one may use for seeking answers to their questions.
You're talking about the e/acc people like Beff Jezos who want humanity to be eradicated by the AI god they want to summon? It's only a contradiction if you assume they want themselves and humanity in general to stay alive or have any significant decision making power going forward. That assumption is not correct, they want the AI to have power and are either indifferent or actively hostile to humans surviving the experience.
There's a balance here. To paraphrase the parent: Don't spend much effort solving problems that you don't have yet, and may never have.

On the other hand, try not to paint yourself into a corner, where you can't grow (if you do) without a major restructuring of the architecture. This takes having some idea of what the problems can be, and what people do to handle them. You don't have to implement those things yet, but try to build what you build in a way that will be friendly to those changes if they happen.
Tiny models can already learn language (as in grammar and syntax) from very little very quickly.

It's the semantics that separates LLMs from CharRNN.
Why not just their own website.
Looked in the source of a random Shopify store, there are 200+ occurrences of "shopify", that's a clue :)
I believe Shopify built their own app / website where you can search for products exclusively from Shopify merchants. https://shop.app/
> Oh, that seems pretty damning. I wonder if this was a lone developer or ordered from above.

Guess. (Did I miss the sarcasm again? I always miss the sarcasm.)
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They ended Peep Show, that's the reason.
From a developer standpoint, I enjoy being able to look at the JWT and reason about its meaning without having direct access to the underlying session database, e.g. what user is this and when was it issued.

I understand that it's not inherently more secure or performant, but it is convenient.
Cruise and Waymo suffer the same issues and don’t have Musk at the top. The only difference is they don’t try to operate there.

A valid criticism would be that they shouldn’t operate out of the envs they are optimized for, but that has nothing to do with engineers pleasing the boss.

>Teslas will continue to be over hyped garbage.

Why do you suppose people keep buying them so much and seem to like them? Is it possible you just don’t like Elon Musk and are projecting that onto the car?
To beat information overload, we need to learn 'critical ignoring'
Come on, these are server chips. No sensible organization is going to be moving chips between vendor boards, at least until they are written off.
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> It's also gaslighting

You mean it's an abusive relationship between the developer and the users?
I'm torn; lots of angst about 'but somebody might one-day need that feature!'

Isn't this exactly why, feature creep? It's not a fair argument, no more fair than 'it's only used by 0.1% of pageviews'. Neither is the full story.

If there's another way to accomplish the same thing, remove the more complex one. If the feature is part of a process that can be done another way, remove it. If the feature is used by an actual 0.1% of users, the impact of removing it is small.

Anyway, I had a friend in the bad old days, had a bulletin board (a bank of phones connected to modems that connected to a bank of computers) that hosted around 300 games. Folks would log in, play a game or two, log out.

He checked; only 10 games ever got played, pretty much. So he started removing most of the rest.

Callers declined 80% in the first week. Disaster; they paid by the minute.

See, folks were browsing his games, the most on any bulletin board! That's why they came to him, to see all that.

Then, sure, they'd play the same popular games nearly every time. But they had to see the other ones there to feel like it was the right place to go.

Sometimes, it's not about the feature being used. It's about the user's confidence they won't get stuck (I can always back out this change! Oh! The backout button is gone?! Panic), or feel the product is supported adequately, or even, it's a checkbox on a purchase requirements list.

Remove features at your peril!
A lot of EU semi research goes on at IMEC in Belgium, but EU still lacks the actual means of put any of it into production on their own soil. EU fabs have given up going beyond 12nm as it was deemed too capital intensive.
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I think that's naive, or let's say oversimplified. There are too many cases where systems pass these tests and then fail in real-world scenarios, sometimes quickly. There's simply no way that a specific set of software routines can guarantee that a processor behaves in spec.
Seems like this is an author of the product. They are likely very familiar. I’m pretty sure I can delete whole modules of my code base and know what is going to be affected.
Also, 0.1% of users seems small, but looking at the actual number of users this represents is more important.

> web application that serves hundreds of thousands of requests every day

So in this case, that's at least hundreds of requests per day. I mean, it's not small.

I agree completely with this comment, and another comment saying that "which percent contains the value of the product", because that might be the most important 0.1%.