skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who says monoliths don't have clear and explicit separation of concern between domain concerns? I think that just comes down to how the codebase is organized and how disciplined the team is, or possibly breaking out core parts into separate libraries or other similar strategies - technically it's still a monolith.
My guess is that your cetacean originates from the Sui-Tang under a nihilizing influence of Buddhist rationalizations.

"No creation without injury, no injury without creation."

(My interpretation, cf the Japanese distillation)

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%89%B5#Japanese

Compare with (note element of chance)

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/incido

More relevant to thread
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/pare

(Vs https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/par#Latin)
Thank you. Fantastic article.

This sums it up.. it always comes down to ‘California’s Water War.’

CA Ag is devastating. There is so much more to this story.

[..]Today, groundwater in Michoacán is disappearing and its bodies of water are drying up. Lake Zirahuén is polluted by agricultural runoff. Nearly 85% of the country was experiencing a drought in 2021, and experts project that the state’s Lake Cuitzeo, the second largest in all of Mexico, could disappear within a decade. In part because of the conversion from pine to avocado trees, the rainy season has shrunk from around six months to three. So profound is the drain on the region’s aquifers that small earthquakes have newly become commonplace. The 100-mile avocado corridor has, in effect, become the only live theatre of what is often referred to as “California’s water wars”.

It’s unclear whether the avocado can survive this changing climate. But in Michoacán, the more pressing question is whether its residents can survive the avocado.[..]
The issue is shelf life, it’s not going to kill you if you consume it directly after mixing.
One year of solo dev, wrapping up the grant-funded work
Please don't do that if possible, billionaires use to pollute the environment for too much.
This is elitist and frankly, unhelpful. The answer to a skills shortage is not a practitioner lockdown, but policy, training, guidance and mentoring. If you're stuck in start up land and you have this issue, you have hired the wrong skills. If you're encountering this in enterprise land, your organisation, and potentially you depending on your position of influence, should be angling to improve compliance and literacy not through obstruction but through policy and upskilling. Failing to do so will kill your ability to innovate.
Infused oils don't fall under most people's mental model of "canning" though.
the business unit that actually operates the waymos operate in the real world, and so are subject to real life scaling problems. Assume the self driving cars are capital efficient and could actually make the drive from San Francisco to Mountain view (they legally are allowed to, but Waymo has not unlocked this ability to the general public). yYu still need to manufacture the damn things, and Google isn't a car company. Manufacturing is hard. Tesla making 5,000 Model 3's that fist quarter was considered an impossible accomplishment. Google is reliant on many third parties to produce Waymos. How long do you think is should take them to replace busses assuming those priors?

It's gonna take some time. Regardless of the economics of it, they can't just magic up a fleet of Waymos. That production has been planned for and allocated and remember, they don't actually offer rides down the peninsula that the shuttle busses do yet. That said, I can't wait for Waymo technology to mature and be cheap enough for cities to use them on mini buses.
Safety, for non-proliferationists, does not refer to meltdown risk. Safety refers preventing the large scale enrichment of uranium.
Depends on the paper, it would still require review mechanisms. “Nuke it from orbit”is an overreaction to this, as the debunked paper may play very little part other than as a reference.
You’re missing the point of the benefits of solutions like these, and the original set of tools like the Informatica of the kind. Those tools come with limitations and constrains, like a box of legos you can build a very powerful pipeline without having to wire up a lot of redundant code as you pass data frames between validation stages. Tools like Airflow/Spark etc are great for what they are, but they don’t come with guidelines or best practices when it comes to reusable code at scale, your team has to establish that early on.

You can open a pretty complicated large DAG in and right away you’ll understand the data flow and processing steps. If you were to do similar in code, it becomes a lot harder unless you comply to good modular design practices.

This is also why common game engine and 3d rendering tools come with a UI for flow driven scripting. It’s intuitive and much easier to organize.
They are intentionally misusing the lingo to emphasize the fact that guts of a laptop are basically a single board computer. It is a bit of rhetorical flair.
The lower cost of a function call versus any microservice network call is a good performance advantage of a monolith. Monoliths also make refactoring code a lot easier. While in theory I agree about the spaghetti issue, in practice I haven't seen much of a difference. In part because microservices seem to encourage proactive overdesigning, and then the designs don't age well.

I also find monoliths a lot easier to debug. You have the whole call stack, and you get rid of a lot of potential sources of latency problems. You don't have RPC calls that might sometimes get forgotten.

Given the choice, I'd choose monolith every time. Unless, of course, microservices are needed for various other reasons. (Scale, the ability to distribute, etc.)
Full article title: The New Alt Media and the Future of Publishing
Could have meant RoarVM. https://github.com/smarr/RoarVM
So that’s why the book publishers are trying to take over the IA.
Hey, I really like the design. I currently have a lot of ETL going on through various mechanisms, but the thing that is always difficult to communicate to BAs and PMs, and any other individual is a graphical "what is this thing doing and how". This is neat for those of us who are visual.
You could probably decontaminate the soil in place by cultivating plants that bioaccumulate the lead, harvesting them, burning them, and then disposing of a relatively small volume of ash into which the lead had been concentrated. There's sure to be complications, I can think of a few and I'm not an expert, but you wouldn't necessarily have to rip out everything.
Nuclear is a horrible complement to cheap intermittent renewables. Running it as a peaker multiples your costs and running it as base loads means selling power for negative prices when the sun is shining.

Solar/wind plus batteries for short term storage and pumped hydro for long term storage is the cheapest way to get zero carbon energy. Pumped hydro is more expensive than fossil peakera so build out of that hasn't happened yet.
You see this a lot. A new generation comes in to relearn all the old lessons. It’s also happening on the frontend “server side rendering is bad, it’s slow” to the latest frontend frameworks and thought leaders “you should be using SSR” (server side rendering)

ETL is hot again with machine learning. Companies have massive amounts of data they need to get in shape for models. The promise of a GUI anyone can use with little experience (low costs) means these tools are gaining traction again for the same lessons to be learnt from the last generation who moved on/out the industry.
This is pretty naive about the reality of stock ownership. If you're an investor in the US, you probably own the S&P 500. You want me to hold 500 different companies accountable? And, failing that, you're going to dilute my shares?

The reality is that shares are absolutely useless as a distribution of responsibility. Shareholder decisions are dominated by a few majority shareholders who likely hold shares as part of a portfolio, and in the context of a portfolio, it's the whole thing that matters, so it may even be good to tank the share price of one company if it benefits the value of other holdings. Minority shareholders are held responsible for majority decisions they may have directly opposed. And shareholders are limited in what they can do to hold people responsible anyway: if approve a bonus check to the CEO for a successful quarter and then find out that the success was built on murdering toddlers, the CEO still has the bonus check and there's nothing the shareholders can do to retract it.

I think a better solution is to admit the basic fact that people, not corporations, make decisions, and when people make unethical decisions, hold those people personally responsible. Stop trying to fiddle the knobs of your economic Rube Goldberg machine to get the invisible hand to hold people responsible, and hold people responsible.
The charitable interpretation of for the reason why companies ask things to be reported internally is that espousing a stance where people have to report things externally could itself be treated as being equivalent to turning a blind eye to malpractices.

Legal stuff is weird like that; this is also why airlines will refuse to apologize for accidents, because such a statement could be equated to mean that only the airline was to blame for the accident without consideration of other factors that may have been out of their control, such as faulty designs on the part of the airplane manufacturer that would have been difficult to verify for the airline.
It doesn't matter. Nuclear power generation is going nowhere because it's not economical and likely never will be.

Modular reactors make no sense because larger reactors are more efficient. Nuclera plants ultimately just boil water and turn a turbine to generate power, just like any coal palnt. Coal plants burn coal to generate heat. A nuclear plant simply has a nuclear pile that generates heat.

The failure modes are prohibitive. Just one incident (Fukushima) has a likely clean up cost of roughly $1 trillion [1] and will take decades, if not more than a century. Nearly 40 years later the absolutely exclusion zone for Chernobyl is still 1000 square miles.

Chernobyl is hand waved away as "poor Soviet construction and management". Fukushima is hand waved away too. Massive failures are hand waved away by talking in terms of deaths.

And, of course, fusion is a pipe dream.

[1]: https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Fukushima-Anniversary/Fuku...
> For healthcare, it's much harder to fundamentally lower the cost.

I strongly disagree. Compared to the rest of the OECD we have much higher costs (3x OECD average!) and worse health outcomes (life expectancy 4 yrs < OECD average).

https://www.oecd.org/unitedstates/health-at-a-glance-United-...

If they can do it, obviously we could do. There's just no political or social will. Everyone complains but no one is willing to make the radical changes (i.e., Medicare for all), or lifestyle and environmental* changes (i.e., to combat obesity, which costs us $150-200 billion/year in health care costs).

https://stop.publichealth.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs4356/f...

* (availability/affordability of healthy food)
I encountered this problem in a Cruise. I was picked up late at night with a friend, and this drunk person ran over and banged on the window, which caused the Cruise to panic and stop. It called customer support and I told them that there were some drunk people and to please get us out of there. The car started moving, thankfully, but it's an interesting problem to consider.
No, you're wrong. There are really community defense organizations and communities that have set up checkpoints against cartel violence. It's well known, well documented and there's even a link above to one particularly well known case of these organizations fighting the cartels. Some of them do eventually get infiltrated by gangs or turn into something similar, but not always. The idea that absolutely nobody stands in the way of the cartels is not only false but also paints an ignorantly defeatist narrative about their power.

Even the apparatus of the state in Mexico could stand in their way, or crush them, but due to a complex multitude of factors, it doesn't and appears weaker than they are though it's in fact stronger and in a certain way the senior partner in the tacit arrangements cartels and formal authorities create.
Wow.

The Vix krater

The largest and most famous of the finds from the burial is an elaborately decorated bronze volute krater, 1.64 metres (5.4 ft) in height and weighing 208.6 kilograms (460 lb).

Kraters were vessels for mixing wine and water, common in the Greek world, and usually made of clay.

The Vix krater has become an iconic object representing both the wealth of early Celtic burials and the art of Late Archaic Greek bronze work.

The krater was made of seven or more individual pieces with Greek alphabetical markings, indicating that it probably was transported to Burgundy in pieces and assembled in situ.

The vase proper, made of a single sheet of hammered bronze, weighs about 60 kg. Its bottom is rounded, its maximum diameter is 1.27 m, and its capacity is 1,100 litres.

and double wow:

Its walls are only 1 mm to 1.3 mm thick.

The krater was found crushed by the weight of the tumulus material above it.

It had telescoped completely: the handles were found at the same level as the base.

It was restored after excavation.

That's some seriously impressive restoration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vix_Grave
i agree that using less energy would be bad; we sure as hell aren't going to achieve atmospheric carbon capture that way, much less terraforming mars. but i think using less energy is not what's being advocated; rather, presuming that consumption patterns will remain unchanged in the face of a new incentive structure will result in an unrealistically pessimistic assessment of the required battery storage. having energy that's literally free during the day is likely to result in using more energy, not less

commercial building hvac systems have been responding to these incentives for decades: freeze water with chillers at night when electricity was cheap (or free, or actually negative cost), then circulate coolant through the ice during the day to get cold coolant to cool air through heat exchangers and thus air-condition your office. you could imagine freezers and refrigerators that worked the same way, storing energy when the sun is up to keep your food cold when the sun goes down

the popular evacuated-tube solar hot-water heater of course only heats the water during the day, storing the hot water for nighttime in an insulated tank, usually supplemented with an electric heating element for the rare occasion that the stored heat is insufficient. and there are already places where electric hot-water heaters respond to commands to preheat water at off-peak hours. these so-called 'sensible heat storage' devices are much bulkier and leakier than the phase-change type from the previous paragraph, but they can be very simple indeed

going beyond phase-change energy storage, tces energy storage uses phenomena like the enthalpy of hydration of the muriate of lime. this provides thermal energy storage that's another order of magnitude more compact; it can be used for heat and dehumidification as well as cooling, and some storage media such as lye can even get hot enough to be used for cooking

this stuff is straight from the 22nd century
Hmm, there was an article about Java's BigDecimal behaves differently for equals and compareTo: https://igorstechnoclub.com/java-bigdecimal/
i liked the idea of leveraging jupyterlab as server. data engineers/scientists already use jupyter, so this is neat idea.

custom extension for jupyterlab is a great way to leverage existing jupyterlab install base: not everyone will be willing to install and jump through hoops to install software X, but installing extension is one pip install away and no need to run separate process, since you are running inside jupyterlab server.

this reminds of ALTERYX (another drag and drop ETL tool)
Saw the thread title and immediately knew it was Bisqwit's old video.

The guy is super talented, love his stuff.
If it has enough vinegar, it should be fine, no?
Has worked out just fine for France.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France
Introduction to Advanced Bash Usage – James Pannacciulli, Oscon (2014) [video]
I wouldn't exactly trust someone posting about Gemini in a r/chatgpt sub, seems more like looking for attention than an actual true story.

Edit: just ran the query myself and Gemini warns about the danger of botulism.
Right, the model didn't try to kill anyone.

It simply suggested that the person follow a series of steps, the culmination of which could have been serious harm or potentially death.

If that difference is meaningful to you, then good for you
> because the premise of your question would imply that trickle down economics work

I’m not certain how a person could read that from my text. The premise is:

1. Employer does some harm to employees
2. State fines employer the value of employee harm
3. State general fund receives money (minus lawyering costs)
4. Employees receive no remuneration for harm
5. General fund pays for general government activities

Effectively the value from the harm the employee suffered is transferred to general government activities. The employees are not made whole from being mistreated but their mistreatment is a revenue source for the government. It would be interesting to see the actuals but my cynical guess is that the money will go toward lawyers and other people better off than warehouse workers, which is why I call it regressive.
New magnet without rare earth materials
It is an argument based mainly on learning rates. He doesn't need to know any details about the economic model of nuclear; the observations are based on the economic model changing over time.

> The baseline cost of fuel rods alone ends up being ~0.9c/kWh.

I saw a quote from the 4th generation reactor wiki page (it came up while people were talking about China getting started on the build out of next gen of nuclear tech) that mentioned "100–300x energy yield from the same amount of nuclear fuel" as a potential advantage. People will figure out how to make fuel rods cheaper. We haven't really pushed the limits of this stuff.

Besides, even in the current climate 1c/kWh is still a great lower bound to aspire for. Possibly even that would be worth pushing through the political blowback for.
-Can I infuse infuse olive oil with garlic without heating?

-Sure can, this is how.

-Will it be safe to eat?

-Hell no.

The rule of the thumb with LLMs seems to be "treat any output as if it's from a very knowledgeable but not always lucid man".
I think it's simple: async runtimes/modules in JavaScript/Node, Python (asyncio), and Rust. Those basically handle message queues for you transparently inside of a single application. You end up writing "async" and "await" all over the place, but that's all you need to do to get your MVP out. And it will work fine until you really become popular. And then that can actually still work without external queues etc. if you can scale horizontally such as giving each tenant their own container and subdomain or something.

There are places where you need a queue just for basic synchronization, but you can use modules that are more convenient than external queues. And you can start testing your program without even doing that.

Actually async is being used a lot with Rust also, which can stretch that out to scale even farther with an individual server.

Without an async runtime or similar, you have to invent an internal async runtime, or use something like queues, because otherwise you are blocked waiting for IO.

You may still eventually end up with queues down the line if you have some large number of users, but that complexity is completely unnecessary for getting a system deployed towards the beginning.
While some of these AI Overview stories were true, a lot are made up.
The tax department is, in fact, not "out of money" in that sense, and tries to recover the money first with some penalties added.

They're incredibly empowered to conduct raids and seize property and other belongings, if it comes down to that and the sum involved is large enough.
> There was legal action taken against some doctors.

Please give us an example of legal action taken by the Biden administration against doctors.

You're probably remembering that some doctors lost their licenses for spreading lies about Covid, which is entirely appropriate. That was action taken by boards of doctors against incompetent doctors who were a danger to their patients. Again, happy to see a counterexample if you have one, where a doctor suffered consequences from the Biden administration and/or unfairly.

> And, it's pretty clear that the govt was behind [Twitter blacklisting...]

The govt asking Twitter to do something and then Twitter voluntarily doing it is still not Biden "going after" someone. There were (and are) no consequences for social media companies refusing to take meetings with govt disinformation groups, as you can see from the fact that most of them don't do it and Twitter doesn't anymore.

> It would have been illegal for the govt to force the NYT to not print those stories but ...

A sure sign of a weak argument is the use of inuendo rather than saying what you actually mean.
This workshop serves as an in-depth exploration of KusionStack and how it can be leveraged to deploy an LLM Agent application to the cloud. The demo consists of several stages that progressively carry out a story to deploy and manage an LLM Agent, each slightly more complex than the last.

This session is designed to provide a practical understanding of managing complex applications in modern cloud-native environments. Through real-world examples, we'll demonstrate KusionStack’s pivotal role in enabling the realization from intents to actual deliveries, providing actionable insights for leveraging KusionStack in a similar environment.

Prerequisite:
- A Kubernetes cluster. Minikube or Kind is fine too
- AWS Account with AccessKey and SecretKey ready (Optional, for provisioning cloud resources)
- An OpenAI key (Optional, for testing the Agent Application)

Website: https://www.kusionstack.io/docs/
GitHub: https://github.com/KusionStack
Ran the same query and Gemini has a similar warning.

> However, some say that homemade garlic-infused oil can develop botulism if stored at room temperature for more than four days. To prevent this, you can sterilize your jar and refrigerate the oil as soon as it's made
Why would I do that? I don't care about how accurate a STT engine is on his voice? Seems like an artificial benchmark.

All that teaches me is that my auditory system is still far superior to SotA in STT, which... isn't surprising?

If anything, your benchmark seems more like an indictment of how such STT engines have been trained (bias in training data, etc).
Once a fine becomes a revenue stream there will be an incentive to maintain the flow of money that may run counter to the goal of the fine.
(Blogpost with an implementation of IStashy is here — https://secretgeek.net/stashy_gist)
i'm not convinced that the fuel is inherently that expensive; plausibly a lot of that cost is unnecessary bureaucracy and antiproliferation costs. i think the killer is your point, 'even if construction costs were the same as a coal power plant'
If there were grant money for incorrectly claiming "this other thing that isn't a computer behaves just like a computer", well, we wouldn't need VCs anymore.