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God bless CSS. I mean just look at the alternatives. There's really nothing else in existence with such power and flexibility. Any time I spend in native land it's always a feeling of pure freedom and enjoyment coming back to the web platform.
Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of LLMs than she did to the building of the pyramids of Giza.
What car is that? Of all the cars I've driven I've never encountered one that allows for more than ~2 seconds on the maximum setting. Thus leaving me a bit nervous.

I'm almost hesitant to believe that any car on the market has good enough sensors to do 6 seconds. That is a very long distance at highway speeds.
Autistic individuals often have differences in muscle tone and hypermobile joints
Interesting! I'd best write this down. Current notes on macOS and Windows port work:

https://github.com/Flow-IPC/ipc/issues/101 (<= https://github.com/orgs/Flow-IPC/discussions/98)

For macOS/ARM64, currently it looks to me like the apparent lack of /dev/shm equivalent (unless I messed up in searching for it) means the most significant amount of new work necessary to port it ... but you just mentioned a thing I did not know about. (SHM size/count limits definitely were a thing in Linux, though, indeed.) TY
The 1950s situation can be restored without introducing gender inequality or occupational bans though.

A four day work-week would bring us at least a little bit closer to the 1950s situation, and improve the leverage of workers.

4 x 2 > 5, of course, but 4 x 2 is still less than 5 x 2.
Yeah, that doesn't sound fun. But to some people, that 3-hour trip may be a relief from a home environment they don't enjoy or frankly just grateful to see colleagues in person. I imagine individuals respond to it differently and at different times of their lives and different job roles. If I'm coding, yeah, I'd probably rather work remote. If 90% of my time is having one-on-one meetings with people, I'd probably prefer to do most of those in person, maybe some walk-and-talks.

But again, this all depends on a lot of variables. I think in the past, few people knew what remote work was and now that many of us have tasted it, there are lots of pros/cons to any remote/hybrid/office choice.
Drones are crowding Ukraine's skies, largely paralyzing battlefield
> what technology could be implemented to mitigate this type of attack (beyond sshd)?

UNIX ?
(do one thing and do it well).

When your program links with 20 libraries, i have i very hard time to believe that security is one of your goals.
> Grown-Ups Are Now a Gold Mine

They always were.
It doesn't make the article less interesting but this statement is wrong most of the time

> This scenario is essentially identical to one in which there's a single migration statement that requires an `AccessExclusiveLock` and performs a table rewrite, such as adding a NOT NULL column with a DEFAULT value.

Unless the `DEFAULT` value is `VOLATILE` (this is rarely the case as usually default values are at least `STABLE`) no table rewrite is necessary since Postgres 11.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/sql-altertable.html

> Many other useful performance improvements, including the ability to avoid a table rewrite for ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN with a non-null column default

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/11.0/
Being content is like a drug.

The fire reduces, but does go out, you feel warmth in the familiar rather than the new, and you find yourself beset, wondering whatever you did to deserve this joy.

I hope to sone day some can say the same about me.
"So many drones patrol the skies over Ukraine’s front lines — hunting for any signs of movement — that Ukrainian and Russian troops have little ability to move on the battlefield without being spotted, and blown up."
> Judging people based on their looks is wrong.

I'm no expert in morals, so I won't comment on that.

But wrong or not I'm pretty sure it's a useful tool in assessing people. Not assessing their innate "good given looks" of course, but to look really good you have to put effort into it. Real effort - studying fashion trends, purchasing decisions, time spent on personal grooming. Time spent doing that is time they could have doesn't dining other things, like learning their craft. Go too far the other way to the extent of ignoring personal hygiene and it shows a lack of respect for their fellow workers.

I've never interviewed anyone who deviated too far from the norms, so they are fairly well known and respected. Still, it's not difficult to imagine an attire that would get a near automatic reject. It would trigger questions that help me understand why they chose to look so different from the norms, like cultural background and family background - things I normally wouldn't spend any time on.
Oracle DB is, or was, very close to that with its query profiles, baselines, and query patches. It wasn't automatic back in 2014 when I last worked on it, but all the tools were there. Heck, it was possible to completely rewrite a bad query on the fly and execute a re-written variant. I suppose it all stems from the fact that Oracle is regularly used under massive black boxes, including the EBS.

Also, the problem with automatic indexing is that it only gets you so far, and any index can, in theory, mess up another query that is perfectly fine. Optimizers aren't omniscient. In addition, there are other knobs in the database, which affect performance. I suppose, a wider approach than just looking at indexes would be more successful. Like Ottertune, for example.
This is bad faith, by that token dead people also don’t produce any more CO2. This is not what the article says at all though.

By that token, we can’t possibly do anything about climate change because surely that would mean living in caves and never taking a shower again. Or becoming homeless as you put it.
I threw the code away again in the end. We didn't have that much of a need for non-UEFI targets, but I was experimenting at the time with booting on some cloud x64 machines that lacked UEFI support.

If I had to do it again, I'd probably just write a loader myself. It took about the same amount of time to fight grub as it would have done to smush together a basic GPT / FAT / jump chain.
Is it? sure we have the Internet and big TVs and fast cars, but how much time do we actually have to enjoy them? quality of life is measured in more than just the things you have. I mean, yeah, if you're getting Doordash every meal and spending all your money that way, that's on you. Trader Joe's is frigging great, imo. but eating at home and having an older car isn't going to get me to a place where one median American salary can comfortably support a meaningful amount of people.

this is after we decry the other ills of there 1960's, of racism and sexism, which hopefully it's obvious I don't want to go back to, but letting both parents work somehow became both parents need to work for middle America and I'm just tired of my friends living at the edge.
Sandbox exposed as API to run arbitrary Go code safely with real-time output
A Rick Roderick quote comes to mind;

"" Now, I hate the movie The Big Chill, let me make that clear, and
I hope I can’t be sued for hating a movie, I hate The Big Chill,
because it’s about members of my generation, all of whom have
become swine. The only person in the movie I like is dead when
the movie starts, and they are having his funeral, and the old
preacher says something quite profound. He asks the crowd of
young yuppies, he goes "Isn’t our common life together and just
being a good man enough to sustain us anymore?" And the answer to
that is 'No, it’s not'. ""
Which automated method do you use?
How does this compare to Deepl in translation quality?
With the way prices are dropping for solar and batteries I would recommend doing the calculation again 3-5 years from now as with the current cost trajectory specially if it is just 20-30% more expensive. I think even prices for electric appliances will drop as more people start to use electric appliances like heat pumps etc as they will also enjoy economies of scale and labour cost drop as more installers get used to working with them.
> But I’d be curious which areas of NLP __weren’t__ disrupted by LLMs

Essentially come up with a potent generic model using human feedback, label and annotation for LLM e.g GPT 4, then use it to generate golden dataset for other new models without human in the loop, very innovative indeed.
(pedantry: just about everything can be reduced to computation, just not necessarily deterministic computation)

A major difference between cities and computers is that cities self-organise. (the larger ones organise not only themselves but also their suburbs and rural hinterlands; for the US context see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_statistical_area but note that countries are ephemeral with regard to cities)

see also Jane Jacobs, The Economy of Cities (1969)
> instead we're worrying harder than ever

I was going to say this typo was accurate, but now I realise I've never actually seen a detailed analysis of how much people worried in the past, just confident claims it was so.
Very moving. Often, this is called a "quiet, simple life". I like that this obituary does not do that. Being there for your family, acting in accordance with your values and standing up for yourself, being content with what you have - this is not "simple" at all. Someone to look up to.
ah. my car doesn't have adaptive cruise control but I've rented cars that do. it took a bit to get used to medium and feel comfortable and not dangerous, but then people aren't cutting in.
How would that even help?

Are we forgetting decades of office suite incompatibility? The main reason most european companies use Office365 over alternatives is:

1. Fear of retraining

2. Fear of untrodden path

but most crucially:

3. Fear of incompatibility with other businesses
>Europe's legal structure is unsupportive and hinders software development on the scale of an Apple or a Microsoft

Nah, what hinders software development at that scale is literally just... scale and network effects. Europe has a significantly better legal infrastructure than Russia or China (which routinely kills entire sectors for random reasons) but Europe is not a homogenous isolated market of hundreds of millions people speaking the same language. That's literally it.

Looking at it another way, what's the American competition for Microsoft? You're just one company ahead of Europe in most cases, and most of them ironically sit in a state that looks like Europe in regulatory terms. If the vast majority of American states can't produce much competition, most of them extremely lax in terms of the legal environment, that's an indicator that this isn't what actually matters.
Good ol’ times.

A list apart, yayhooray, … and your articles helped me learn web design.
Anyone have a gut feeling about Teams and Office penetration % in Asia/India/Africa?
I'd even challenge "frequently" to the extent that it rises to an obvious point of "exploitation" when "their" code is used. It claims ownership and a position that is neither relevant the copyright issues presented nor, in my opinion, even true.

It's probably not controversial here on Hacker News, but many people live inside this HN valley bubble that's pretty solidly disconnected from the rest of the country and even the world. You've made this particular case here perfectly by attempting to connect identity to open source.

Which, I do find annoying, as many people make the same assumptions you do towards me in my work, as if presumptively pushing politics into an engineering conversation is a worthwhile or welcome activity. The mixture of faux shock and bullying in response is, sadly, nothing new to me either.

Anyways, you're welcome to openly have as closed of a mind as you like, but I will always find the behavior baffling and worthy of comment.
From the oeis link: https://tromp.github.io/blog/2023/11/24/largest-number
First of all, wow, I didn't expect someone will ever reply, thank you!

Is there some document on the internet confirming this? I will update the blog post with this new information.
Lovely piece, thanks for posting
We were actually flying on vacation in the 1960s though.

My maternal grandfather was a school principal and his wife didn't need a job. They went to England and Spain on vacation.

We also of course absolutely loved potatoes. We still do.
If your doctor is more clueless than you that speaks of itself.
He is not wrong.

“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same” - R. Kipling

Media riles up those who have been limited or deprived by circumstances. It waves flags and triggers emotions and creates envy and conjures social ladders to political influence, or financial gains, or popularity and public attention, or peaks of history. The reality though is that those apply to the people who don’t know better - the new grads, the hungry and ambitious, the midlife-crisis sufferers, the naive who haven’t encountered bad people or circumstances. If you’ve seen a lot or you know evil, you don’t need a public life where you may attract it. When you know what you have and value it, a quiet life is the best way to protect it. People value privacy when they have something to lose. If you know what you want to do and can do it without attention, you are much better off doing than dealing with collateral damage from unpredictable attention.

The media today is becoming incredibly propaganda filled and charged. This is a highly combustible environment. Big geopolitical risks are coming and publicity risks making you a target.

When low interest rates paid for VC-subsidized press the world was filled with startup success stories and drums up for startups and their potential gains. That meant many promising entrepreneurs took money at unsustainable expected ROI and lost years of their life working for a promise. Another word for that is lottery. When the dust settled having a quiet business and chugging along profitably proved to be like the little mice who survived underground after the asteroid hit.

If you are a cat who just caught a mouse, would you go to a hill to advertise to all local predators that you are about to enjoy fresh meat?
Being content is not about lack of goals or striving. It’s about enjoying the journey, appreciating what you have, being OK psychologically even if your grand plans don’t come to fruition.

I am always working towards multiple goals in parallel, from short to long to ultra long term. But the cadence of regular life - the routines we do daily and weekly and yearly - are the things that sustain existence. My children, wife, extended family, friends, acquaintances, the holidays, the laughs and stories and memories. I like exercising, I like coffee, I like learning. I can make all the money in the world but the real mass of life is not changed, and money is unnecessary to live a fulfilling life.
> Why not increase the supply of doctors instead of reducing demand, whatever that means?

Because that's not sustainable. We can't throw unlimited human resources at health care. We have other issues and societal problems to focus on.

We can only create so many doctors, because its expensive to lock down a smart and ambitious mind for so many years.

Opening up healthcare for free for old people is like opening up an untapped fire hose. This is insanity.

Has anyone ever to stopped to think what work life is like for these doctors and for other health care workers? These people should be able to have a social life, a family, and be able to live out there lives.
For me, I'm not surprised inflation went up. We had a global lockdown during which some industries made a lot of money and some industries made little to no money. Once the lockdown ended, I assume the ones who made a lot started to lose sales and increased their prices to keep growing. I assume the ones who didn't make a lot of money started to increase sales again and probably increased their prices to recover the money they didn't make. I imagine both of them want to make sure they have enough money to survive another global crisis, especially the ones that almost didn't survive it.

So, yes, I think the government has a role in trying to limit inflation (and also increase wages), I just think that some inflation makes sense from those dynamics above.
And that's because of Medicare? How do you figure?
> You can be wrong without being a strawman.

Sometimes yes, but not always.

> but if every example you have of X is Y

Is that actually true though? Are you not assuming perfect rationality on behalf of the poster, and that they have an adequate sample size, which tends to be subject to who the individual associates with.

> it's not a "strawman" to say "all X are Y"

That depends on the truth of the matter.

>when you're wrong, it's a black swan.

Only if the initial guess was correct.

You may be describing appearances. That which cannot be seen does in fact exist, it just doesn't seem like it because it exists in a different realm, and how our culture is trained to think about such problems spaces.
The Bible speaks about this:

“But godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.” — 1 Timothy 6:6-10 ESV
CPI is used for other things too, including contract negotiations and standard of living comparisons.

Anyway, recursive sums like that are nothing unusual; as long as the sum converges it's not a problem. Any negative feedback amplifier does the same thing.
That answers the wrong question.
> I'd rather have choice and transparency

it is very hard to force trancparancy.

Transparancy (at least how I see it) is matter of culture.

For example, if you open up ISP accounting books to the public, creative people will find ways to hide things. Instead of line item “10M € kickback from facebook”, there will be “10M € sale to facebook”.
Yes. Data can and will be used against people wether it's petty scamming or political/war operations. If there is uncontrolled prolifiration of personal data it makes this much easier to exploit
there's a link to Ehlers-Danlos syndrom (EDS) there as well enl
I once - by complete chance - sat next to Henry Cavill at a bar. He was trying to talk to a friend and then an attractive woman interrupted them almost right away to strike up conversation with him. Over the next hour I watched dozens of women come over, throwing themselves at him. It was eye-opening seeing the way he was treated, I actually felt kinda bad for the guy. He was trying to have a nice drink with a friend but was treated like some sort of show animal.
Come on, let's not go down this rabbit hole. We have real problems in this world: WW3, Climate Crisis. The West has to be comfortable trusting each other.

Microsoft is by the way more trust worthy than European governments!
I think you need to look into what favoured the creation of MS or Apple in the first place

MS is from Seattle but it didn't start there

Culture and investment/market conditions (sure, with the help of laws) play a much stronger part on that

You couldn't get them without available hardware and without a market willing to experiment.

And you couldn't have that without strong CS/EE departments that had strong investment in the decades prior that had spun a whole semiconductor industry

And you wouldn't have had that without some welcoming immigration laws (at the decades prior) and some worldwide conflicts neither and a specific country that touches both main oceans and has decided that farther away areas might be safer for some developments.

If you want to understand why laws in France are the way they are you need to take a look at what happened in the past 250 yrs more or less.
I can't even stop my family that lives with me from overloading crappy extension cords; most people, including my tenants, don't know enough to avoid overloading extension cords. Frankly, all extension cords with a NEMA 5-15 or 1-15 plug should be required to either be rated for 20A, or include over-current protection; and the fuses should be shaped to prevent you from putting an over-current fuse in the fuse holder. But alas it doesn't work that way in the US. (It does in some countries).

That said, I drive by all my properties periodically, and my property manager does annual walk through; large battery banks, excessive extension cords tacked to the walls, and solar panels sitting on the roof with wires run through a window would all get flagged in such a walkthrough, any my rental agreements allow me to require the tenant to correct unsafe conditions, which all of those are.

And I do have good insurance. There's a pervasive believe on HN that you can't get insurance that covers variations of not-to-code, not-properly-permitted, and/or not-done-by-licensed-electrician electrical installations. There very may well be insurance that excludes these things, but its easy to get insurance that covers those things, and mine does. If my tenants do dumb-ass stuff that burns the building down, I'm covered, even if that dumb-ass stuff involves electricity.
https://archive.is/2ZtUv
What is CPI used for? Mostly to index the Social Security payments, and, to a lesser effect, adjust tax brackets. Retirees don't use much credit, on the contrary, they benefit from higher borrowing rates, because they are those that lend money. So it makes sense that borrowing costs are not included in the CPI. Otherwise it would be double-tap for retirees - they get greater SS increases and greater income from safe investments.
When preparing the blog post, I also investigated the analogue term in Russian: контрольный список (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Контрольный_список). At first, I discovered the first mention in 1882, but then in 1823! So I can't say that it's the resolved question for me.
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40029190
How does one install this on a aws rds instance?
I also get lost all the time.

When I pay attention to landmarks they don’t “stick”, and neither does travel time. I’ll have vague recollections, but as often as not they’ll cause issues because I’ll vaguely recollect at the wrong location.

GPS has saved my bacon time and again.
Never heard of? On the contrary, they were on several of my yearly BestOf lists, like in 2018:

https://spotify.link/mHdcZggAMIb
Yes, through nomenclature. Algebraic geometry has a lot of terms. Almost anything having two properties gets a name.
> Looking at it another way, what's the American competition for Microsoft?

Yeah this is another point that people seem to forget

We're talking about 2 or 3 cities in the US that punch way above their level. But we don't hear too often how there isn't a competitive cloud made in Boston or where's the FB competitor from Minnesota etc
I understand, times are hard. Always were.

When was this chill time when we could just take off fishing for a week or two?

Random breakdown of time :)
* 1800s
* 1900-WW1
* WW1-WW2
* WW2-1980
* 1980-Now

And yeah, single breadwinner households were a thing back in the day it was generally because women didn't have a choice at all.

I'm pretty sure you have more options and choice today as to how you want to live your life, but if you want a family you gotta feed the little bastards one way or another, that has always been a "worry".
There is currently a generation of founders who think that talking about PMF somehow gets you closer to PMF. Talking about it, having a great following online, being a decent marketer - does not mean zilch.

Knowing everything about PMF probably moves you single digit percentage-wise toward it.

It's like being a vampire, avoiding garlic (hell, even drinking blood) doesn't make you one.