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> John Mackey, the company’s chief executive, has long argued that Whole Foods is wired differently — that it runs on a “conscious capitalism” model that outsmarts the competitive pressures of our for-profit system through creativity and innovation.

So ... he said things and people believed him? No evidence?

> We can avert looming environmental catastrophe by becoming conscious consumers who frequent conscious companies. After all, shopping at Whole Foods is a heck of a lot more fun than lobbying for regulations on corporations or convincing people to consume less.

And it was just a fancy advertising campaign designed to appeal to Millenials and GenZ, as the "geniuses" in marketing call "socially responsible marketing".

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahlandrum/2017/03/17/millenn...
> the Netherlands

"Women cycle more than men. In total, women make almost 17% more bicycle trips per year (2.4 billion compared to 2.0 billion by men). The share of cycling among women (29%) is therefore higher than among men (27%)." [1]

[1]: https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2023/01/04/how-did-the-pa...
That is what 9to5Mac seems to have thought too :)
If you set your phone to lost mode it'll offer to let whoever has the phone contact the owner. This is done without unlocking the phone and AFAIK is done without revealing your contact info.

But… it's easy (and reasonable) to think that whoever has your phone also has your contact info which makes these sorts of scams that much scarier.
> And don't worry, there won't be some VC investment or big company buyout.

That reminds me of Torvalds' statement on Linux: "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu"
>so the spanish inquisition, or the burning of witches, and whatever else atrocious people did in the name of religion was ok

Absolutely, yes, if you ask the religious people who did those things. Of course, non-religious people (or people of a different religion) disagree, but that's simply a difference of opinion.

>have you not noticed how christianity has changed over time?

It's changed in many ways, and depends on which group of Christians you're looking at. Are you looking at the Mormons, the "supply side Christians" that are popular in American mega-churches, the rather liberal Presbyterians, or what?

>is everything religious leaders and people do in the name of religion today backed by their holy scripture?

I'm pretty sure it is. You can interpret that scripture an infinite number of ways, so they always seem to find some way of supporting their claims.

>there is room for improvement.

"improvement" is your opinion only. For them, your idea of "needed changes" are anathema.

>this is exactly what jesus did,

Jesus specifically said (if you believe the quotes in the bible are true) that he did NOT come to replace anything. Of course, the teachings attributed to him are quite different from the religion he claimed not to be replacing. And of course, there's no real evidence to support any of this, either his existence, the words claimed to have been said by him, the previous religion the people in that region followed, etc.
> Lisp let's you imagine a way of doing something, and then just implement that with nothing getting in your way.

That's something that stuck with me from the SICP lectures: problem solving via wishful thinking. That's part of why I love Lisp.
I think calling out Durability is a bit of a straw man. Most services get their durability from S3 or some other managed database service. So they're really only making the "do it on a beefy machine argument" for the stateless portion of their service.

I agree with the other points for production services with the caveat that many workloads don't need all of those. Internal workloads or batch data processing use cases often don't need 4 9's of availability and can be done more simply and cheaply on a chonky EC2 instance.

The last point is part of our thesis for https://rowzero.io. You can vertically scale data analysis workloads way further than most people expect.
Remember, M4 is iPad only for now not macbook. No light on those
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What do you have against GMO like the golden rice ? None of what you listed applies to it, yet your statements harms GMO like golden rice.
Is Social Media Leaving Us Disconnected?
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The circles never really bothered me, in the end one circle just gives you the value/time of a partial sine wave. Instead of nesting them you could just put one partial into each row and add them up down below.
> I challenge you to come up with a single plausible example

So I come from academia, but generally if you use a natural key as PK in a foreign key constraint it may be possible to express additional consistency criteria as CHECK-constraints in the referencing table.

So this is a bad example, but say you have Name and Birthdate as your PK, and you have a second table where you have certain special offers sold to your customers and there is this special offer just for Virgos and Pisces, you could enforce that the birth date matches this special offer. Some modern systems also technically allow FK on alternate keys, so you could still do it that way, but database theory often ignores that.

But second, while I agree that surrogate keys are often a good idea, I find your argument, that you must design for every conceivable change, not convincing.
I've been using Sourcehut. I respect Drew's commitment to open source, but I think that a lot of the UX misses the mark. For most things I really don't want an email based work flow and some pieces feel a bit disjointed. Overall though it has most of the features I want, and dramatically less bullshit than Github.
This seems to be a copy/rewrite or the 3b1b commencement speech ? [0]

[0]: https://youtu.be/W3I3kAg2J7w?si=7_4z-W5PmnBo302e
Distribution is in itself a problem, yes, but there's also the geopolitical angle of depending on foreign imports to feed a nation.
No, I'm not talking about an academic setting.

This is not about the language but about his expression of it in this specific instance of the grammar.

As the article makes clear, he didn't understand the language, and my claim is that is to a large extent down to how it is expressed.

Not throwing away this specific grammar instance is something you can't afford.
> in many ways making them worse for the environment

Not really, for refence I'm in a rural grain growing area with farm size averaging 4500 hectares.

Grain yields can be increased by many means, as they are, along with breeding for changing climate conditions, which they are (many thousands of ANOVA plots are grown about the region here every year) but the overwhelming practical attraction of GMO crops is glyphosate resistance .. this allows the application of weedkiller during seeding times in sufficient amounts to kill all plants save the crop.

Killing every plant across hundreds of thousands of hectares (with the exception of a very few desired by humans as food for humans) isn't exactly widely considered to be an environmental plus.

Near monoculture has knock on effects on the diversity of animal life, general environmental robustness, etc.
The most interesting part of the announcement is the agreed failure modes which won’t require the lengthy FAA mishap investigation afterwards (if they occurred).
+300, it’s kind of tragic that the general public’s concern around GMOs seems centered on the perceived dangers of ingesting them, rather than Monsanto’s relentless track record of predatory litigation and their apparent mission to monopolize global agriculture.

I’d be interested to hear examples of large-scale industry players voluntarily accepting the costs of their externalities to any meaningful degree (i.e. more than just-enough-to-make-a-good-PR-campaign). My belief is that in the absence of regulation, the survival advantages conferred by socializing costs and privatizing losses are sufficient to eliminate larger conscientious (or so-called “socially responsible”) organizations.
The reentry videos during the 3rd launch were unreal. Live images of plasma dancing.

Just looking at the 2 vehicles stacked also looks sci-fi.

It's great being part of another space age, having missed the first one when it was at its peak. Exciting times.
We already produce way more food than is needed to feed the all the people in the world. It's not about the amount of production but how we distribute the food and what are the intensives when doing that. Giving more power to ag-corporations haven't worked past 30 years and I have no reason to believe it will in the future.
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What is the actual formula you are using to plot the graph?
yes yes, that's common knowledge. but in this case, gamestop is nothing. nada. you're buying a company that just hold rent to unprofitable stores. so... what's the angle here? mass hysteria?
The volume/pricing entry point for borg is really inviting. I would love see the same things for the zfs part. Sadly 5Tb is a steep entry point for me.
> I don't have a lot of experience with Italian but it seems like the pronunciation is closer to Spanish.

Yeah the phonetics are very close. Castillan has more fricative sounds like [ð], [θ], [x] and [β] and no open vowels, but that's it.
Hi! from what I can tell, the data for the API I used was mostly taken from wiktionary. However since "orwellian" has an entry Wiktionary, i think the API must be somewhat out of date.
get it, thanks
If we draw parallels to history, Gondor is more like Byzantium, and Mordor and the orcs is of course the Turks. Return of the King is a fantasy where Constantinople never falls and instead the Roman empire is reunited and ressurrected.

The Classical/ancient world in Tolkien is Nuemenor which is somewhat a parallel to Troy.
Any way to turn it off would defeat the entire purpose. It's annoying, but I'm still glad that it's there
They completely lost the plot. Google search went from great to terrible to Ryanair check-in experience within a few years. Now they just killed traffic to a lot of independent websites in favour of a hundred or so generic superwebsites‘ slop.

The internet is turning into just a dozen websites at an alarming speed.
Then I was right. And it seems there are a lot of sour grapes in this thread...
Sure, theoretically. But what does the reality on the ground actually mean for choosing organic rather than “”they could use 100x organic pesticides”, therefore no point.

“Consumption of organically produced food reduces pesticide exposure and is linked to a variety of health benefits, according to multiple studies, especially according to a large study from France.

Clinical trials continue to show that people who switch from non-organic to organic foods see a rapid and dramatic reduction in their urinary pesticide concentrations, a marker of pesticide exposure.

Other studies have linked higher consumption of organic foods to lower urinary pesticide levels, improved health outcomes, including reductions in maternal obesity and pregnancy-associated preeclampsia risks, lower BMI and reduced risk of Type 2 diabetes.”

https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/faq.php#
Using a programming language that you enjoy or you feel strong about is a much better choice, in that it will actually make you more productive simply because you’ll be programming more often.
Or a projector..
It's pretty easy to migrate to UUIDs later if required, as long as you don't leak your keys.

My work made their own uuid-like scheme, similar to UUIDv1 which incorporates several elements like machine ID and timestamp. The mistake was twofold: first they exposed them (so people started using them) but, worse, they made them easily reversible, so people started decoding the information in them. People would naturally see one and think "oh this is a record from place X". Of course that might not be true following subsequent data corrections, but the key can't change.
so you're betting on a casino who takes from your betting pool to pay rent and staff for "the chips"?
...the very article you're commenting about is exactly about this?
Concur with the article's premise.

I've been working in AI/ML and some CV projects over the last decade.

I've seen far too many cases where the "algorithms" and modeling teams had no concern or even a concept for how the input systems for data that would be used to train models, and later inference, mattered to the quality of outcomes.

In CV and computational photography cases, there was little concern or understanding for how photography and imaging actually works, nor consideration for how variances in hardware, configuration, or the capture pipeline in general might affect those models when doing training data capture in parallel. Adding another layer, consideration for how variances between the capture pipeline and actual inference pipelines might need to be accounted for when designing the overall system and how to approach data collection and curation for training + evaluation, as well as to build-in robustness. (similar thoughts apply to concepts like bias and fairness in models)

Example: training vision models using one set of imaging hardware and configurations while applying those models on very different imaging hardware with different characteristics.

To summarize the above, not caring about calibration in CV is like not caring about how variances in feature extraction/embedding generation will affect the overall quality of your results.
> DISCLOSURES ... Scorpion Capital LLC is short Lasertec Corporation

I have no information about either company and take no position on whether the allegations are true. But note that what Scorpion Capital is doing here is a classic play of 1) establishing a short position and then 2) publishing research to convince the market to dump the stock. Of course, this classic play is most effective if they are right.

Again, I know nothing. I just find financial markets interesting.
That’s a strawman’s argument though. You can produce healthy kefir and cabbage at scale, which is healthier than any organic craft soda.

The reality is that free range animals take up an incredible amount of resources for a small percentage of the population who can afford such luxury.
My experience with longhorn, or rook/ceph, or any other StorageClass solution that enables read write many is that eventually, despite all the "self-healing" and "highly available" claims, it all explodes at some point.

Volumes become unmountable, pools stay yellow forever, desynchronization happens... Perhaps (most probably even) I just don't know how to configure them properly, but maybe that is telling of the difficulty to operate/maintain these solutions.

What I took away from this is to try my most to never deploy anything that requires shared persistent volumes. If I need something stateful, it needs to speak to a database or S3 backend, or something that handles redundancy at some other level than filesystem. If I really really need to have a local volume, I'll use local-path-provisoner like you said, which means pinning the pod to a single node, but really that is a concession I am willing to make to not deal with ceph/rook.

Great writeup, it's like I'm reading about my own journey managing kubernetes clusters!

Best of luck
What deployment orchestration tool would one use in such a case? Is it just plain systemd/docker compose and a shell script?
I surely want zero downtime for my deployments. Do I then need multiple instances of the app running on the server and do something like blue/green? In that case I also need some load balancer config management during my deployment.

How do you guys do it? Curious, because I only ever lived in the k8s/cloud native world.
Every time I used a natural key I have to come to regret it.
When I integrate systems, I use that system's natural key (love it when it's a unique ID, but in the systems I work in - it almost never is).

That said, I use that natural key as the "link" to my internally managed, normalized database.

There's nothing that says I cannot add unique identifiers that would replicate the natural key. In fact, that's good design.
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Xeon 6E launched this week on the Intel 3 process. Benchmarks of production silicon look good for performance but especially good for performance per watt. Definitely competitive with AMD.
You left off the bit where they have a pay freeze for all the remaining employees* to "keep control of costs"

* excluding c-suite employees who have recieved a 50% salary increase this year
> because we all like eating meat.

I don't. I understand that some people like the taste of meat and they don't want to miss out on that, but the animal and ecosystem exploitation have unfortunately serious consequences that we can't ignore. If we can create alternative products that taste just like meat (or maybe even better), then this would be beneficial to everyone.
What makes this better than OpenCV?
I only got FFT after following the course `Introduction to Graduate Algorithms`( Georgia Tech) and implementing everything from the lectures in python. It is really good course:

https://edstem.org/us/courses/47529/lessons/80063/slides/440...
To me (as a non-believer) this is like a fascinating combination of the Ship of Theseus [1] and a little homeopathy [2], but with fire! Wow, very interesting, thanks for sharing.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy
"Pretty soon, SaaS companies are going to be a mixture of founders, a small number of experts, and ChatGPT."

And by implication, all companies.

But, what are the rest of the people going to do, and who will the customers be when no-one has a job?

We are going to need to rethink the structure of society.
If you're correct, then we're looking at the repeat of the whole VW diesel-gate.

Unfortunately, VW is still in business. Something like $30-40B? globally in fines, they still sell diesel and ICE cars, people aren't lining up to buy electric cars (thanks to Elon fucking over the entire industry with his ridiculous bullshit).

Japan didn't blow the lid off the real estate scam in the 1980s, leading to what started as the "lost decade" and is now becoming the "lost generation", I doubt they're torpedo one of their largest export industries and it's just going to push them further into Great Depression-levels of kicking the can down the road until its too late to fix it.

Akio Toyoda and his apparent co-conspirators across the industry won't be fired, won't see jail time, although it may lead to a shuffle in the executive positions to appease the government.
Hell, it would be great if it where a Chromebook because they can run linux apps.
Yeah this is a complex problem. It does seem the case that we probably have enough food globally, but not at a national level. Also it seems that we don't have sufficient food for everyone to live at the level of the average American or European, so arguably there's benefit there in increasing food production. Also a large population still farm every day, being able to reduce the time input for farming could increase productivity by freeing people up to do other things.
Roundup is a broad-spectrum glyphosate-based herbicide.

A weed|plant-killer (not a pesticide) that grain crops are modified to be resistant to.
It's still a SPOF, though.
Also see PyWhat for both interesting strings and secrets https://github.com/bee-san/pyWhat
Universal Studios gave me the keys to a Facebook page for a hugely famous movie that had 2,000,000 followers (this was 2012). I had a fan page for the same movie with 30,000 followers.

Whatever I posted to both pages, my fan page would get 10X the engagement and 10X the sales of merch than the bigger page.

It taught me a big lesson on numbers v. engagement.
11 hours ago. 11 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40578585
I learn new programming languages and tools when I need to, because I have a real project for a customer. Sometimes I get to choose the language and development tools, but usually I have to work with a legacy system.

I find that studying books and going through tutorials to learn programming languages usually doesn't stick. I don't really learn a language until I use it to write real code. Most programming languages have a lot in common with each other, and I can learn the parts I need incrementally as I need them. Learning by doing will stick with me a lot better than learning with contrived examples and toy projects.
The tool found "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890" in our codebase as a high entropy line :)
Compared to the previous generation, scheduling should be easier. Meteor Lake has P Cores with SMT, E Cores, and Low Power E Cores. Lunar Lake just has P Cores (no SMT) and E Cores.