skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...or that it generally results in things that wouldnt have happened if one didnt work to have control over ones cognition, behavior etc. This isn't at all at odds with my deterministic view in my opinion.

Can you explain how it is not? As I see it, my theory is directly breaking out of determinism.

> I guess what I am asking is what is causing you to exert control over cognition?

Consciousness (self-awareness, will & determination, etc...the "how" of which I make no claims of knowledge about). I absolutely agree that it is substantially out of our control and thus at least semi-deterministic, where we would differ (at least) is on the 100% part.

There are many problems, here are some:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decidability_(logic)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessity_and_sufficiency

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_and_indirect_realism

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotard%27s_syndrome
gate·keep·ing
/ˈɡātˌkēpiNG/
noun
1.
the activity of controlling, and usually limiting, general access to something.
Same experience at EDR. It was a great research platform, but nowhere near ready for the real world. Compute, power, functional safety... The "real" working robots of today are completely different. A successful product from EDR would have looked completely different.

That said, I love your farm robots.
Trump declares he will "end Joe Biden's war on crypto"
Regardless of what computers find interesting, humans want to progress math in stuff humans find interesting. We can't fully rely on computers to do that yet since they can't seem to judge that very well rn as good as human mathematicians.

Don't necessarily see a tautology here.
Yeah that’s about what I figured based on the info I’ve been finding. But of course no one official wants to say that, so it’s just quotes like “we are monitoring dairy workers but it’s voluntary.” And a bunch of academic virologists saying “I’m concerned we should be doing more.”

The only preparations I’ve seen so far are 5 million H5N1 vaccines being made, and they seem to be pretty good about cataloging variants in case they’re needed for future vaccine production.

At a minimum I thought at least some dedicated officials would have an up-to-date detailed crash plan (which I will post here if I ever find it), even if they’re not actually putting resources to the problem.

Once this thing gets into pigs or some dairy worker contracts it and gets a seasonal flu strain at the same time, it sounds like we will be in big trouble. Former CDC director Rob Redfield is already saying he expects it to cross over and have significant mortality.
If you live off the land then you don't need much income, and the income you get from selling your surplus can be sufficient.

Take a trip through rural America sometime and look around. You'll see lots of very poor-looking households, but if you look carefully you might notice that they keep chickens and have a garden, and larger properties have more in the way of animals. Many are dirt poor, but they live off the land, and can afford to be dirt poor. Not romanticizing it or anything -- the homesteadies I know are not into being dirt poor, but they are into being more independent and living off the land so as to stretch their savings.
To be fair, I suspect they meant it in a more idiomatic sense. Not that they literally went farming. Sort of like when one says "water under the bridge" they aren't commenting on bridges, nor water.
Investors won't be interested in a one-shot project. They'd be interested if the company can grow big, either by selling systems to other cities, or expanding into related businesses. So figure out whether or not that's possible.

Most cities are terrible customers. They make decisions slowly and often impose painful requirements on suppliers. They're wary of anything that could fail publicly, because the media loves to show failures and blame it on the city government.

Another way that cities are bad customers is by not actually using things they buy. They might buy your product and then not get around to hiring anyone to operate it. Even though you got paid, you won't be able to iterate and improve the product.

City purchases are generally public records, so you should look for similar products the city has bought and go talk to people in the company that made it for advice and connections.
Most infrastructure is paid for by states and cities, not via federal transfers. Your quote is actively deceptive, you literally cut out the second part of the same source here[1]:

> The federal government spent $44.8 billion on infrastructure in 2023 and transferred an additional $81.5 billion to states. In 2021, state and local governments spent $218.5 billion on transportation and infrastructure, excluding federal government transfers.

[1] https://usafacts.org/state-of-the-union/transportation-infra...
Quick note - I’ve been where you are on hardware, which I imagine is “interested and curious and might have a use case”. Silicon is an industry that is related to software, but in no way the same, and it’s a fairly complex stack, with its own unique supply chains and considerations.

All that said, if you’re exploring, have fun! If you’re getting serious I’d recommend you find someone who can help you navigate it; there are many surprising things to learn as you go.

For instance, to answer your question on chips: all chips are made by ‘taping out’ - a process that yields the masks that can be used to make chips. These are only good with a specific chip maker, and will live with that chip maker near the hardware that is used to make the chips forever. It’s expensive to design the chip, and expensive to tape out, but once you have something it’s relatively cheap to make more of them.

180nm is potato quality - many many generations behind. So far behind it might actually be more expensive to get chips than at 110/65nm, although I’m only speculating here.

A shuttle run means the vendor is going to put your chip designs onto a wafer with a bunch of other ones at the same time; it’s a way to share out the costs for a tape out with other customers. The general idea of a 180nm tape out is likely that you want some parts to test in your infrastructure / build ahead of your full launch. Think of it like a compile with -debug turned all the way up.

Usually you’d then either adjust the design and re-do a shuttle run (your compile turned up real problems or your use case changed), or you’d shrink and make your own wafer, (turn on optimization and compile for deployment). Shrinking from 180 to 110 or 65 is likely almost totally an automatic process these days; as you go smaller, analog physics makes this challenging.

So, upshot: you probably could ask for another shuttle run, but you’d have a higher part cost than your first run because you’d be paying for the whole wafer alone this time, but only able to use the part that has your chips on it.

And, you’d need to be in a world where you really wanted another 300 chips of the same potato speed (and possibly quality) as your first run. Most likely a silicon consultant would find a more efficient use case for your needs, whether that’s a small geometry FPGA that is programmable, an existing chip (there are A LOT of chips in the world), or some other solution.

Anyway, have fun if you get into it — fascinating world.
Instead of AI, I'd settle for decent speech-to-text.
The EU does not create.
That makes a lot more sense than "it obscures the obscure thing it does to obscure itself".
> > There's over 30 microservices in our org to every 1 engineer

> I wonder if this a factor in making onboarding of new hires difficult?

Not so much that but a culture of rapidly reconfiguring the whole organization around new product work every three sprints and no ownership/responsibility for maintaining prior work.

It almost seems obvious what would happen.
My point is with microservices you can, in theory, write all that stuff in a spec, and hand it to some new kid on the block. They then don't need to know about billing or what not, you've taken care of that in the spec.

Not saying it's a good way, but it's one way to end up with an inordinate amount of microservices per dev.
No he never cried wolf. That tweet makes no false claims.

All he did there was fail to believe that Putin would actually do something quite that extremely terrible. (Not my assumption. Later tweets supplied that.)

He was accusing Biden and the media of probably crying wolf.

He expressed a perfectly valid and supported-by-evidense opinion that the media stokes fires and the US manipulates the people via the media, and therefor you shouldn't just accept everything without question.

The media and the US government do in fact both do those things. You in fact should not just accept everything without question. That is all true and was true on that day too, because it's true at all times every day.

Merely in that case, that specific claim by Biden and the media was not false.

And because he got that wrong, he stopped tweeting at all because he considered his opinions and advice of low value on that subject. What lack of integrity!

Try again.
Not sure where the actual limit is or if they changed it, I also don't have any hard sources, just heresay that there is "no limit". But there are 20 buildings over 150m, and 6 over 200m, so it probably is or was quite a bit above 100m.

And if it is due to the usual fire brigade ladder height problem, that would be at most 68m currently: https://www.magirusgroup.com/de/en/products/turntable-ladder...
(around here in a smaller town, a company got a 50m building permit when they paid for the new fire truck with a sufficiently long ladder).
And the seller can say “no” as well. It’s a scary proposition for old hats, but I’ve only ever seen it make a small number of buyers frustrated with the lack of special treatment (but buy the product anyway, and in all but one case turn our to be great, engaged customers).
Small companies don't need sso because when an employee leaves, they just go into all their sass and remove the user or change the password. A large company can't work without SSO because in an org with hundreds of users they can't login to each SASS and disable and enable everyone coming and going at the company, which is many per month in some cases.
I realize you're being sarcastic (I think), but I actually would put microservices in the same boat. There was a huge push to microservices in the mid teens, and a lot of companies came to hugely regret it. There is a reason this video, https://youtu.be/y8OnoxKotPQ, is so popular.

And it's not that "no one is using microservices", it's just that tons of companies realized they added almost as many complications as they alleviated, and that for many teams they were just way too premature. And a lot of the companies that I've seen have the most success with microservices are also the most pragmatic about them: they use them in some specific, targeted areas (e.g. authn and authz), but otherwise they're content using a well-componentized monolith where they can break off independent services later if there is an explicit reason to do so.
Flash Diffusion: Accelerating Any Conditional Diffusion Model
Why are girls better at thinking creatively than boys?
So others have mentioned this in previous posts that 99% of companies building an app will not actually need this level of infrastructure especially considering how much better computers have gotten since the 2000s.

But...

Isn't another reason why we don't see hype around message queues and such in Distributed Systems because they are standard practice now? This discourse feels around this feels like, "message queues will make your architecture so much better, you should try it!" and more like, "just use a message queue..." To feel like the hype isn't there anymore because the technology is just standard practice now.

I could be wrong but whenever I come across any articles on building Distributed Systems, message queues and their variants are one of the first things mentioned as a necessity.
Drugs in literature: a brief history (2008)
Are you sure about that? Their average markup is around 10%, so that would mean that the average member would be spending $600 or less in the store per year.
I care about maximizing people's happiness function.

Whether there are a large number of people who believe in something that's incorrect is immaterial, as is over-counting kvetching without any intent to follow through.
I wonder if it’s a funding issue or cultural organization problem or something else. The federal government has been mediocre at disaster management historically, and I don’t envy any other countries response & results, but I’m disappointed how much they seem to be dropping the ball again.
Years and years ago, I got a warning because I downloaded some new series or other there was a lot of hoopla about.

It wasn't something I did regularly but it was definitely a wakeup call that if I was ever going to do something along those lines, I needed at least some minimum level of protections in place. Not 100% reliable I'm sure but almost certainly enough to protect against random torrent tracking.
Traditional* p-zombies presumably form and act on memories, as well - another strike against the 'drunk people are p-zombies' argument.

(* - Not to be confused with the 'fast p-zombies' which were briefly popular in 90's existentialist cinema.)
Yes, Software Execution Has Variation
Agreed - the day I emigrated from the third world to Canada was the day my life hit the elbow of exponential growth.
In this case the wine is being sold directly to restaurants, removing any middlemen. The pigs are being made into artisanal chorizo onsite, and direct-to-consumer sales allows the farmer to capture most of the markup. Similar goes for the market gardener selling fresh and washed vegetables directly at markets and to CSA box subscribers.

I'm not suggesting everyone can be Jean-Martin Fortier, but with sufficiently low overheads and access to somewhat affluent markets, it is possible to make a living on an acre.
I mean yea, I read this as an idiom for "went to do something wholly unrelated to programming". Not as "I literally am going to begin farming". Like I would read anything from "restaurant owner" and "artist" to "flight trainer" and "corporate DJ" as all fitting under that.
There are a couple good points in the linked Wired article, such as the fact that the Russians, Chinese, Iranians, and North Korea are already escalating attacks on civillian and commercial targets and our restraint isn't being matched.

I fully understand why the US and partner governments won't be able to respond in kind, but there is certainly a lot more that could be done in that domain.
The Ascent MKE is a mass timber example completed in 2022. From Wikipedia:

> The 284-foot (87 meter), 25-story high-rise is the world's tallest mass timber structure, edging out Norway's Mjøstårnet. It features 259 luxury apartments, retail space, an elevated pool with operable window walls, and a sky-deck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascent_MKE

https://ascentmke.com/
I’m all for upskilling.

On your example, when I was an intern in a factory, I was banned from the pneumatic tools with a counter grip. Because if you use them incorrectly your finger/ hand / arm is a flesh pancake.

My solution suggestion here is definitely to empower more people to work on this by teaching them basics of data base design and enough python to write a dag in airflow.
https://archive.is/mz5m8
This. And as-mentioned, RabbitMQ is already part of our platform. Using Kafka here is both extremely wasteful and unnecessarily complicates the product.
Humans are probably unique. Intelligent life probably not and life at all is likely commonplace. It would be quite a miracle if given the size and scale of the universe Earth is the only place where life arose and also managed to evolve multiple intelligent species also emerged (cephalopods, dolphins, elephants, and primates at least)
Genesis 11 in the Bible.

Men decide to build a tower to Heaven. God isn't having that so he scrambles every language so the workers can't communicate with each other. They put down their tools and migrate to other locations around the globe.
There’s a lot of interesting and profitable niches that can be done in a small scale such as microgreens, certain species of mushroom, certain varieties of pepper, etc.

This will entirely depend on local market conditions and suchlike, of course.
>The age of consent in Germany is 14

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Europe#Germ...

I always find it funny when Americans find out that Europeans aren't prudes like them.
Most enterprise features are nice-to-haves. SSO is a must-have for companies with enough security or compliance ceremony, which includes most enterprises.
It is in that if something happens less often, you don't need to prepare for it as much if the severity stays the same (cue in Nassim Taleb entering the conversation).
60 MH/s with parallel Rust code (rayon) on a 5900X. Got stuck on 8 zeroes, changed my nonce prefix and got lucky with 9 zeroes after 10 seconds! Currently sitting at #73 and pondering whether to write a GPU solution.

https://gist.github.com/zdimension/63d3aa5f04573267f423520e4...
Part of this article is someone upset that a company is ignoring the robots.txt file and scraping their site.

To that I say boo-hoo.

Many other companies already do this (not just Perplexity),

Your moat shouldn't be hoping that actors follow your arbitrary business rules,

and having data available to all (humans/robots) is a net benefit to all.
That was not crying wolf, and was not supporting Putin or Putin's misinformation. See other comment.
Also vmsplice
Most local numbers were short and people developed a muscle memory for numbers they dialed frequently. Somewhere in the eighties we got phones with a memory for speed dialing. I think it's still called dialing a number even though that's not been a thing for a few decades.

Anyway, we had this exact model in our house when I was a kid in the seventies and eighties. The PTT (now KPN) had a monopoly on phone lines and rented out this model; so they were everywhere. Eventually newer models with keypads and memory functions came and the market opened up with more providers and different models. But that took quite some time to happen.
Show HN: PreQL/Trilogy – A Higher-Level, Composable SQL
An open-source language implemented in Python that replaces the FROM/JOINs in SQL with a lightweight semantic layer and compiles to SQL against supported backends.

Key features are: Reusability - semantic layer supports full reuse of calculations, CTEs, and even entire models through a lightweight python inspired import syntax.
Simple - writing queries that combines data at different granularity is straightforward and avoids common error patterns.
Easy to refactor - changing the way the semantic layer binds to the database doesn’t require you to rewrite your queries. You don’t need to codemod 100 ETL scripts to deprecate a table!

Related packages [basic, links available from https://preqldata.dev/]:
pypreql-etl -> basic DBT integration. pypreql-nlp -> obligatory GenAI integration. trilogy-studio -> electron IDE for running queries directly. trilogy-public-models -> common repository of public models (mostly BQ public datasets right now) that can be imported/queried.

Differs from other approaches to make a modern SQL I’m aware of (links below) in that it attempts to embrace current SQL syntax, not replace it. Each of these linked projects has a distinct value proposition and is worth checking out on their own!

Note: as you can see by names in the space, it turns out that I was not nearly as creative as I hoped with ‘PreQL’ as a ‘prequel/sequel’ play; PreQL/Trilogy is the intermediate Star Wars pun and it may migrate to just Trilogy (after the sequel!) to avoid confusion.

Other SQL Replacements:

Malloy (full rewrite, semantic focus)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30053860

PRQL (pipelined SQL alternative, all new syntax)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36866861

preql (much more ambitious, all new syntax)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26447070

Things to do:
- Define/implement better null handling
- Rewrite some parsing/CLI in rust
- More functions/backends, more window flexibility
- Performance hooks/optimization
It is physical and satisfying to work with fabric, I have met a lot of nice people while learning hand weaving.

I have not tried stitching but my experience mirrors that of the article, just "the simple things" with twill or satin can be a rabbit hole you need to limit yourself to understand them. There is a lack of easy to access models of how different thread interact with each other, just creating a simple pattern is more of an art form or knowledge which thread works best. If you talk with the people who works with it it becomes apparent why, there is a myriad of edge cases. There are some really cool physical 3D models, at least on in C/Python on github.

It is easy to see why it is expensive to do fully automated, one computer controlled actuator per pixel adds up in complexity and costs if you want to do 3d thread work.
To add to your point, Microsoft had originally envisioned that vendors would write their own HAL.DLL’s to make Windows compatible with their hardware, but it turned out nobody really had the expertise needed to do that, and Windows started to depend more and more on implementation details of the most common one, and at this point the idea is dead. Hardware vendors target one single windows HAL for x86_64, and porting windows to another platform requires rewriting/rebuilding all sorts of stuff, not just the HAL. It was a cool idea at the time that didn’t really pan out.
Oh lord, you just had to use a screenshot of Elite :)

It looks utterly wonderful, I wish you every success in your production run!

Makes me want to play Manic Miner.
I am descended from farmers on both sides. When I was young dad made me raise some livestock to really impress on me how bad a job it was. I got up before sunrise to feed them before school and so on. When I went to sell them dad sat me down at a spreadsheet and had me enter all the expenses and the net profit was something like 10 dollars for months of work. Most farmers I know have a second job just to stay afloat, or do it only because they know the quality they can get is so much better than store bought stuff.
Fake Meeting Software Spreads macOS Infostealer
I love seeing ridiculously technical investigations like this. It has zero relevance to me but it’s just sooo satisfying to see someone solve a tough problem.
Let's look at money. Would you rather have a 1% chance of losing a million dollars today, or a 100% chance of losing $20k when you're 76?

Statistically speaking, a small chance of losing everything today is actually worse than a guaranteed chance of losing a smaller amount later.
Why Americans aren't buying more EVs
This is actually part of the PROBLEM - with so many bridges on the "worst possible category" it becomes a bridge who cried wolf scenario. There is no way to highlight "yeah this one is going to fall down tomorrow" if the worst you can do is mark it "this bridge bad like 42k others".

You need some form of a "stop ship" where inspectors get some number of "no way, close this entirely" that they can use without repercussions or something.
Right, I'd read something like that but without the specifics. If that's over-spooked developers then it's a shame. Microsoft has what it wanted—an almost halting of the project.
The Apple detectives hunting for lost varieties
It is a surge compared to last year’s activity with flat or declining prices in markets.

The layperson is generally not using a thirty year rolling average as a baseline, and the headline makes no attempt to say it is a historic anomaly.
Astronomy's secret weapon in the resolution wars: interferometry
The Invention of Drawing (2014)
Do look up Rule 34 of the Internet...
I like the idea of perplexity a lot but I’ve also found that it hallucinates a lot. It will fully make up products that don’t exist when looking for something.

This tech probably is the future but it’s not dethroning google today