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It's not as if legacy automakers worry about production efficiency and quality...

/s
Guess all we need to do now is build a spore drive, and go anywhere in the multiverse in an instant.
If I notice that it's getting easier with time, I take that as a sign that I'm not doing challenging enough work.
Christianity is life-denying, world-denying. Nietzsche concluded that christian ethics lead to life-denying societies.

Foundational to christianity is the belief that this world in which we find ourselves is a temporary punishment, and that this life only has meaning to the extent that we use our time to endure suffering and restrict ourselves. If we do this, we will then be rewarded with an actual life, an eternity of having the pleasure to watch our enemies suffer.

Another foundational belief is that all humans are born defective, and as a consequence the ideal is to never procreate. The most devout christians live in gender segregated communes and (officially) never engage in sexual activity. What could be more life-denying and nihilistic?

Personally I also find the solution to this original debt, this ever-present defect, highly suspicious. That is, that it needs to be repayed through human sacrifice, and then we all need to partake in this sacrifice through symbolic or actual cannibalism.

So, yes, Nietzsche saw in this a 'will to nothingness', a categorical denial of the possibility of a meaningful life and even a denial of life itself. He found it interesting, however. Compared to the ancient greeks he as a philologist knew quite a bit about he found the christians and the power dynamics they introduce devious and in some regards more sophisticated. 'You might be dominating me now, but you just wait, when Christ returns he will put you to eternal torment and I'll be watching, wallowing in the pleasure I derive from your suffering' is rather devious, both as a psychological power play and as an ethos for society at large.

From how you're describing MacIntyre he seems to have been mostly preoccupied with defending a dying academic epistemology and not really have engaged with the text of Nietzsche.
Sorry, 100 times out of 100, "rapid prototyping" means "we built this with the wrong database, now we're stuck with it". If it isn't obvious how to store your data up front, then you either aren't planning your software well, or you don't actually know what you're building.
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I was surprised he'd never been to a chain restaurant. They're not exactly lacking in the UK or Western Europe in general...
It's the same idea, but instead of calcium carbonate leaking out of quicklime in Roman concrete, it's done by bacteria.

The questions are if the bacteria will survive 50-100 years or more in the real world, and if this can be done economically at scale. My guess is no, it's more of a science experiment or something to be used in niche applications.
News and talk radio is a lot better about packaging topics in short coherent stories. Podcasts have different incentives. They could tell you the whole story in a tidy 5 minutes, but by rambling with another voice for 15 or so you now have three times as much time to potentially monetize with your own product placement pieces in the segment.
> We knew that before.

There was an amazing paper on this published on HN a year or three ago that explained at certain discrete points in the future, entire percentages of the known universe will be beyond our reach. It was profoundly beautiful and sad at the same time.

I'll try to dig it up.

Edit: found the post (three years ago) and some of the quotes and figures I pulled from it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26734913

Edit 2: another commenter had made a note about the Big Rip. I was writing a response, but they unfortunately deleted their (good) comment. I'll include my response below:

> wait until you find out about the Big Rip (paraphrasing)

That one's even wilder. To think every atom of every place and loved one you ever touched would vanish infinitely far away. Every atom and then subatomic particle of your own once corporal body, regardless of its final resting place, torn and scattered.

Last Contact is a great short story if you're in the mood [1].

Then there's vacuum collapse and all the other theories.

I wonder what humans or human descendents 500 years from now will figure out about the universe's ultimate fate.

[1] https://zestfullyblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/last-contact-by-s...
Relatively common for bacteria to turn itself into an spore form when it's unhappy with the environment. Can last that way for a very long time.
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A personal experience when running a startup in Japan, several years back.
Jax is so complex though! Autograd using bytecode reflection to inspect CPython’s interpreter state to emit Jax’s own front end ILR (jaxpr), the Jax-specific compiler (XLA) that lowers HLO down to at least three different implementation backends (cpu, TPU, GPU for CUDA, maybe more…) Then there’s the JIT that Jax also brings to the table. All of that to make something that seems simple on the surface.

You could say that Jax is simultaneously trying to be numpy, Theano/sympy, PyPy/numba, and pyCUDA all at the same time.

Both systems are trying to be so much. Perhaps the difference is Jax’s focus on a narrower developer interface.
On top of all this you can't access your account without accepting new ToS. After login web page show full window modal form with one button "confirm" so you can't reject it. I'm sure most of HN readers can handle this minor obstacle ;-)
After I asked vultr for access to my account without acceptance of new ToS they wrote me back legal slur suggesting I may host questionable content:

>(...) you take the necessary measures to protect minors from accessing harmful material on your website.

>(...) requirements apply to you, including removing any infringing content and safeguarding minors.

and threaten me with "law enforcement agencies"

Bravo, bravo...
Former journalist here.

Undercover investigative journalism is an absolute minefield, legally and ethically, and in school we went over historical cases and the potential legal liabilities that were present.

Undercover reporters do not enjoy ANY of the protections afforded to undercover police officers, and indeed there have been recent high-profile cases of undercover sting operations by media organizations resulting in criminal charges.

For instance, in 2015 an anti-abortion organization called the Center for Medical Progress conducted an undercover investigation at Planned Parenthood facilities, and two members of that organization were later charged with 15 felonies in the state of California related to presenting fake IDs and "criminal conspiracy to invade privacy."

Edit: To clarify, I am not defending the actions of this group. I agree that they engaged in deceptive, grossly unethical behavior. I am merely pointing out that just because they claimed to be undercover journalists doesn't give them any legal protections. They were still able to be prosecuted and convicted.
Nonsense. Choosing the correct database isn't "premature optimization", it's the bare minimum of being a competent programmer. Why do we never have time to do it right, but we always have time to do it over?
I do wonder if Microsoft kicked this all off by telling Redis Ltd that they were willing to pay beforehand.
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The act limits the liability of the ship's owner during an accident to the post-crash value of the ship. So, if you crash a ship you only have to pay, essentially, "the rest of the ship."

It seems like the materials with which a ship is made is irrelevant to this law, and perhaps even to its intent. The law was passed as a diuretic for the maritime shipping industry, lowering the risk in order to spur economic activity. That remains true, even for steel ships.
I do it all the time, mainly to keep for the dog. I was asked this week at a pizza place if I wanted to take the rest home too. I don't think it's as uncommon as you think.
See, I read this and take it the exact opposite direction.

Here's my 2c, as someone who got generous paternity leave with 2 of my kids and 0 paternity leave with one of them, now watching many peers have their kids too. Here's 1 neat trick to help the whole situation a LOT:MANDATORY 1 year parental leave for the mother and father. it must be mandatory for both genders, or women will be pressured to take less and men will be pressured (or tempted) to take less or none (whereas women are of course physically forced to take at least some).

Employers will whinge and cry about this because of productivity or something like that. I regret to inform them that whether they like it or not, any parent of a less-than-one-year-old is going to be pretty un-useful at work during that first year. I know I was. Waking up 2-3 times per night, every single night, for a year is a real great way to get very little done that isn't programmed into your lizard brain's firmware.

Childless adults will complain it's unfair. They should not - these children are who is going to pay for their social security and who will generate the capital gains to fund their IRA/401k retirement. They're just getting to skip out on the work of raising them.

We also need a lot of work in society to encourage fathers to be present and actually share the weight of child-rearing. Too much still falls to women all too often. But that's of course a lot harder to fix with policy. Mandatory parental leave is comparatively easy.
No, there were no scientific experiments to prove it. However, in absence of concrete proofs of either theory, both are equally probable to be true. The theory that consciousness arises from brain activity alone is just an assumption based on other research. It has never been properly proven or disproven either.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

It's an accusation of abuse. Those go to hn@ycombinator.com, not in the threads where they are meta noise.
PAC learning is compression.

PAC learnable, Finite VC dimensionality, and the following form of compression are fully equivalent.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03592

Basically each individual neuron/perceptron just splits a space into two subspaces.
paying 3x less for 2x more compute and 5x more bandwidth allowance and with the EU protections
That is a truly terrifying reality. Scammers are already having a field day doing cold calls on senior people. Just imagine how confusing it will be when they think it's a relative
The Clintons don't spend the money on themselves, so no, it's not like the Clinton Foundation.

https://www.charitywatch.org/charities/clinton-foundation

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/nyregion/ny-ag-underwood-...
If it is above the S/N ratio, it won’t look like noise. If it is below, it’s hard to make useful.
Formal Methods Meet Machine Learning [pdf]
For further details/papers see this GitHub repository Formal Methods and Machine Learning : https://github.com/jdnklau/fm-ml
This was about deliberate injection of CO2 into the deep ocean.
While the law was originally written 173 years ago, it is well known and has been amended many times since then to keep it up to date as per the current intents of the current legislature. While one can argue that the law should be abolished or amended further, it is clearly not some outdated, forgotten law.
Engineers find a new way to convert carbon dioxide into useful products
The sincerest form of flattery is when AWS decides to come up with a big consortium to displace you with some open source.

Incidentally the most effectively way to stall a project according to the CIA is to have a huge guiding committee with clearly diverging interests.

Redis will win because it's focused on its users. It's competitors will lose. Like OpenSearch, like OpenCL etc.
CivitAI has one
https://civitai.com/builds
According to dipshits like Jeff Bezos they want trillions of us living in space on stations like house cats.
I quipped about etymology as an invite for you to make it clearer what difference you were refering to.

If you find that so insensitive that you can't continue the conversation that's fine with me.
THIS!

Why did missing school under Covid have such bad outcomes?

I don't know what happens in school (in person), but it must have been something or you wouldn't have seen such a dramatic change.

To be specific: there was a big decrease in resilience in the face of difficulties (in addition to knowledge).
In that case I’d say it’s far more likely he suffered tremendously from the position he found himself in and wanted to end his life to stop his suffering.

But my money is on Boeing having leaned on him to such a degree that he saw no way out.
Hang on - preparing a great post where I explain the totality of the economy, society, and ecology to you. watch this space.
I buy this for Yosemite but let's be real, if I'm going to Yellowstone I'm taking my toddlers to see the geysers, not on a 20 mile in-and-out hike up a mountain.
You or I, the HN readers, may use Redis to power our personal instance of Firefly III or whatever, running in our home lab, but the average _person_ has no need of Redis so for the purposes of this discourse this is a negligible factor.

Typical contributor to the large scale OSS project is not just an individual either, but most likely acting as an employee of a corporation that uses an open source component and needs certain things in it.
I think that became Google Photos.
https://www.postgresql.org/about/featurematrix/#json

You're right, 9.4/9.5 were when JSONB was introduced and expanded (release 2013/2014).

That said, it's a big decision to go with two very very different technologies (relational vs Document store) just for a column type, storing JSON must have been a pretty major product feature?
Just because you think something (“others are better than me”), doesn’t mean it’s real. It’s only an idea that exists in your head.

This is an error of thought.

We all live in our own heads all day long, but can’t see inside other people’s, we only see what others project.

We all have our own challenges and we’d probably look at you as someone that has it all together =)

your value as a person is unrelated to tech, money or accomplishments
No, DocumentDB is Mongo. What I understand the OP parent referred to is the NoSQL hype era, not just Mongo which was probably the most popular one at that time.
This is what happens when you hire 20-somethings who don't know how computers actually work to build your entire business. You either learn about relational databases in school, or through experience. Relational algebra has been around for half a century, at least. If someone doesn't know about its utility, it's a failure of the education system, or a failure of corporate incentives.
Here One earbuds, by the defunct Doppler Labs. Their precursor, Here Active Listening, didn't even stream audio -- they were focused on just augmenting your auditory environment. IMO way ahead of its time, they unfortunately came out before newer, more seamless wireless Bluetooth software stacks and lower energy chipsets that conserved precious battery life. Ultimately, a product with too niche of a demand to survive. Some of their innovations, like audio-passthrough, are common now.

The saddest thing to me is the really innovative stuff, the preset and customizable audio filters -- which would work even better now that earbuds have even more microphones and processing power than they used to -- have yet to be replicated on any newer hardware because no one seems to be interested.
>Our founding credo is that everyone belongs here.

This is an absurd falsehood. It is an indefensible assertion based on nothing but modern moralism.

>We are the wealthiest country in the world

This wealth can be squandered by catering to the desires of outsiders that want to come here. We should stand behind maintaining that wealth, power, and quality of life for our dependents and pass along that prosperity to them.

Turning the country from 96% literate to 79%, and all the associated degradation that comes along with that, is not the morally honorable position. The demographics in 1980, let alone 1776 were very specific and narrow.

I'll note that no one supporting this seems to be claiming the country will be better or stronger or this will benefit the citizens already here. Only that it is good for the people coming in. This is not how politics is done well or national interest is defended. Leaders that pursue this are abdicating their responsibility towards the people they are supposed to serve.
As I'm reading this, I'm also streaming the regional First Robotics regional championship in Georgia: https://www.twitch.tv/gafirst2

I note without comment that those kids aren't in school right now.
Do you have a paper for that?
Saying something is evil would seem to suggest that you think it should be forbidden. Maybe you should choose a different word if that’s not your intention.
Ah, a Chevaline.
I’ve tried some that are supposed to be very good. Still can’t follow along unless I’m doing nothing but listening. In a handful of cases I’ve listened to and enjoyed specific episodes of one podcast or another for some topic I wanted to hear enough that I was willing to just sit and listen and watch the progress bar and not do anything else, but the value that others find in podcasts seems to be that they can listen to them in time that’d otherwise be lost to mundane activities—I can’t do that, I’ll constant be moving the podcast back a few minutes because I realize I’ve not processed a word they’ve said for quite a while, pretty soon I’ve doubled the time taken to do whatever else I’m doing and have taken 90 minutes to get 20 minutes into a half-hour podcast.

[edit] probably-relatedly, I also can’t take notes and also follow what someone’s saying. If I take notes I’ll end up having written a bunch of stuff that I then have to read to figure out what was said. If someone asks me a question in the middle of note-taking I’ll typically have no clue what the context is.
Congress is well aware of this law, and always has been. They have amended it many times. They have chosen not to abolish it. That has been very deliberate.
you can have rows between the columns is the key difference
Sounds like pretty shallow Holy Blood, Holy Grail stuff to me.

It is fairly firmly established that roman mystery religion shaped some of early christianity, in particular the Mithras mysteries.
Their release approach was probably the key issue, besides the technical issues (primarily performance as I recall), that killed that project. I had access within a couple months of its release and had some number of invitations (single digit, 4 or 5?). I sent them all out, but the invitations were a lie. Invitations added your invitee to a pool of people who would one day, maybe, get an invitation if they won the lottery.

The result was that I was using a collaboration tool with no collaborators. By the time they announced they were killing it (about 15 months after launch, perhaps a year after I sent out my invitations), no one I invited had received access to the system. This crippled adoption for everyone who was interested in it, and reduced Google's interest in trying to salvage the system by dumping money into the engineering side (and Google already liked to kill products even by that point in their history).
That's as ridiculous as saying "integer division will be useless in 20 years". Sometimes relational databases really are the optimal solution to certain problems. I really wish CS had better authority figures, although we shouldn't need them in the first place.
Microsoft Office from 97 - 2003 handled toolbar UI almost perfectly in my opinion. As a young kid I discovered many advanced and obscure features of Word and Excel through the customize feature.

I really disliked the relatively dumbed down ribbon UI when it first came out.
If people from the Mojo team are here, I’m curious what the arguments were against focusing on improving the Julia ecosystem and instead building Mojo? Julia solves the multi-language problem pretty well now and already has lots of great ML libraries that could use greater support.

Edit: nevermind, realizing from the a YouTube video linked in the comments that they viewed Python compatibility as a non negotiable
I was also a bit confused by that part. What is it about Postgres that prevents rapid prototyping? It's not like the schema is set in stone, or even particularly hard to change once you've created it.
They only need the share price to drop significantly in short term. I assume they can close their position pretty quickly depending on how market moves. Look at the Adani Group, share price has recovered significantly since Hindenburg report.
Simple, fast, concurrent in-memory database in Go
Hahaha, time is a social construct! Saying that our current system is not useful "outside of social communication" is like saying that food isn't useful "outside of sustenance". I mean, sure?, but that's the whole point of it.
I went through the applications folder on my mac and opened every single one up to figure out what they did. That's how I learned to navigate the file system and discovered the Terminal app.

Read a "Linux for Dummies" at the library for a few minutes, that got me some basic commands.
I would spend hours using "cd" and "ls" to look at files, and then I would try to run them... 99% of the time nothing would happen. When I made it to /bin, I discovered a lot of things I could run.

You have to put yourself in the shoes of a 13 year old with no social media, no internet, friends he sees for a few hours 1-2x per week, and a fairly limitless amount of homework/chores to do. Whenever people weren't watching, I'd do anything to not be working on homework at the computer. That meant hundreds of hours to mess around.
Well yeah, solving problems and thinking critically and learning are hard and boring. "Uncle Bob" gives you handy alhorisms you can spam on your next pull request and then feel like you've done something.
New analog AI chip design uses much less power for AI tasks (2023)
In order to protect an area from capitalism (e.g. logging), you generally need to give the locals some financial incentive. Eco-tourism is widely credited with protecting mountain gorilla populations, for example, when perhaps in a perfect world we’d be able to just leave them alone.
Things like time dilation are accounted for in the measurements.
>...irreplaceable and yet they were actively trying to get rid of them... There are no words.

Best response I can offer is Kurt Vonnegut's quote:

"We'll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost-effective."
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> The fact that you also have to vet dependencies is meaningless implementation detail.

I disagree. minimizing dependencies means reducing the risk exposure. That's not meaningless.

What I'm really talking about is a cultural change where package managers have made it so easy to just throw a package at a problem that devs tend to do this too much. People using packages to do simple things, people using packages without understanding what the packages do, etc.

Every time an application uses a library or package of any sort, that decreases the security of the application. So it's a tradeoff, and I think that too many devs ignore or forget that there's a tradeoff here and just go for "install a package/library to do it" as if it were cost-free.

Minimizing the use of external code is not security theater at all. It's good practice. I think avoiding applications that use languages and platforms where lots of external code is common and expected is a reasonable thing. It's absolutely not a complete security solution, but it does reduce the risk.