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Some paperback editions of The Wasp Factory had quotes from reviews included at the start alternating between very positive and very negative reviews.

His non-Culture non-SF works as Iain Banks deserve more attention I think - mind you perhaps that because I frequently travel across the Forth Bridge (The Bridge) and, as I write this, I can see Inchmickery out of the window (Complicity).

However, my favourite has to be Espedair Street - which is simply sublime.
PHP too.

Its arrays, which also behave like hash maps, respect insertion order.

https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php
Looks sort of like MartenDB but trying to minic mongo api, unsure why anyone would want to do that... mongo api is horrible...
I use Jupyter Lab every day on OSX in scientific/academic work, so I feel I am your target audience. In case it helps you gauge my impression, I spent about two minutes reading the post and scrolling through the website.

I feel I did not understand the main advantages of this notebook aside from the AI integration. I don't understand how "start-up" time is a cost; I have a Jupyter server running at all times and use it as a scratch-pad throughout the day, so it is always available.

I don't understand the "modern command palette". As far as I can tell all the commands are available to regular Jupyter Labs, and either way I always use hotkeys for them.

The code formatting using black isn't bad, but notebooks are for scratchy ideas, not real code. If I'm at the point of formatting code, it's going in an actual IDE. I'd even argue providing formatting inside of a notebook encourages bad habits for scientists, who prefer to stay entirely within a notebook, but are then sometimes unable to reproduce their results.

I don't see the advantage of the copy-paste; I can copy paste directly from Labs to Slack/online editing pages, and certain Latex typesetters.

Pros: it looks pretty, the site has nice demo videos (in terms of quality; I didn't understand the content).

I want to like this but I don't see any benefits for a power user except for the AI integration; if AI is the only selling point then I prefer to get it differently.
I think a lot about the light-cone of information that spreads outward from every move I make. It seems that every action online, especially communications- results in a permanent footprint that ripples out forever, available to be studied by some future information gathering thing.

I try not to let this thought chill my behavior too much, I don't like that sort of preemptive surrender. But it's part of the thought framework for while civil liberties like freedom of speech and privacy are so important.
> It went from horrid to okay, and the from okay to one of my favorite tastes.

On the one hand, congratulations, it's good to develop a palate for something even if you're operating on hard mode.

On the other hand, and I can't emphasize this enough, I have always found cilantro delicious, even as a young child. There are tastes I've acquired through diligence, olives for example, but cilantro? Never, I love the stuff.

The genetic propensity here is real.
> What makes mongo mongo is its distibruted nature

Since when? Mongo was popular because it gave the false perception it was insanely fast until people found out it was only fast if you didn't care about your data, and the moment you ensure write happened it ended up being slower than an RDB....
That will be interesting. Happy to test and share feedback. Previously, I was a part of the DataSpell and PyCharm team building notebook support.
Now working with dstack, where we support dev environments and super interested in remote support.
Actual title: "Using copper to convert CO₂ to methane could be game changer in mitigating climate change".

Is there demand for methane? Why are there so many methane flares at oil wells in Texas, then?

At the rate solar, wind, and batteries are coming along, carbon capture is a waste of time and resources. Price alone is going to eliminate most demand for carbon based fuels. This is happening much faster than expected. See last week's Economist.
Wouldn't that allow to switch from Mongo to Postgres without having to rewrite all of your app?
This is more true than I think many people realize. Many of my terminal apps are in direct competition with an electron app.
interesting point, I think there is large chunk of truth in real life here.

stretching it a bit further, I can imagine things like "we've used the best clouds money can buy to run it fast, but task is soo complex, not every project can deal with such complexity, thus is current performance is at it's peak. Also, we used the best DX practices so all team members, while tired, do feel happy about projects progress".
A language that officially recommends "don't communicate by sharing memory; share memory by communicating" is obviously not meant to implement concurrent data structures well. This means, in some cases, it is indeed the wrong language to use. Go is no longer positioned at the low-level "systems programming" segment and hasn't been since not long after its release. It's better to think of it as "compiled concurrent Python" than "a competitor to Rust".
Looks like someone didn't get their free 1000 hours of AOL. Maybe that's why I got so many.
web != internet, especially in 1994. Bad headline is bad. news at 11.
A contributing factor in that is that Germans eat less and less traditionally German food. I'm wondering if fries are counted among the processed potatoes (I suspect so), as those are seemingly – like in many places – the most commonly observed form of potatoes.
> between very positive and very negative reviews.

Funny that they would put negative reviews on the paperback itself. How honest ...
Biological microscopes illuminate the sample from below, as the samples are typically transparent. Metallurgical microscopes illuminate reflective samples from above.

*"Below" meaning "on the opposite side from the objective" - you illuminate _through_ the sample.
The best results will be with custom shapes and custom individual placement of every transistor outside standard cell but within the PDK rules. Going outside the PDK rules will be even better but also harder.

The trial and error you do mostly by simulating your transistors which you than validate by making the wafers. You can simulate with mathematical models (for example in SPICE) but you should eventually try to simulate at the molecular, the atom/electron/photon and even at the quantum level, but each finer grained simulation level will take orders of magnitude more compute resources.

Chip quality is indeed limited by the magnitude of computing power and software: to design better (super)computer chips you need supercomputers.

We designed a WSI (wafer scale integration) with a million core processors and terabytes of SRAM on a wafer with 45 trillion transistors that we won't chip into chips. It would cost roughly $20K in mass production and would be the fastest cheapest desktop supercomputer to run my EDA software on so you could design even better transistors for the next step.

We also designed a $800 WSI 180nm version with 16000 cores with the same transitors as the Pentium chip in the RightTo article.
> This is one of the reasons why many hashtable implementations introduce a random component into the algorithm.

If the random component is a seed that can be forced/stored/logged/reproduced then it's okay. Otherwise it's actually an horrible idea because it complicates debugging other issues.

Randomness is the enemy, not the friend.

> It also very nicely prevents security issues, since if the hashing algorithm is fixed, it can be exploited for denial of service by coming up with keys that all fall into the same bucket.

Yeah, 20 years ago this was a thing to attack Java webservers: crafting URL with parameters so that they'd all end up in the same bucket. Big denial-of-service one. IIRC PHP webservers suffered from the exact same security issue.

It was fixed by implementing a hash table with a seed and that seed was, of course, under the control of the dev because...

Randomness is the enemy, not the friend.
(not the person to whom you were replying)

Hello, fellow clusterhead! May I ask how you obtained 100% O2? Insurance won't cover it because I have no respiratory issues, and medical supply companies won't talk to me because of insurance denial, even with valid rx. In the meantime, I've been using the canned O2 from sports stores, which is expensive and seems unnecessarily wasteful.
"Example: people spend ungodly amounts of time creating marketing materials, and this is all getting automated 10:1 or more."

So expect 10x more ad spam? How wonderful!
McArthur's Universal Corrective Map of the World
It's in Chrome natively. But in Youtube you have to right click on the video twice.

First to trigger the Javascript context menu, and again to trigger the native one which will have the "Picture in picture" option. And there are actually two different native context menus, so if the PiP one doesn't pop up, you might have to try multiple times.

Very weird UX instead of just giving us a PiP button under the video.
Thiel - "I would be tempted to draw a very sharp contrast between CZI and the Gates Foundation by asking questions about what kinds of philanthropy resonate with the younger generation (vs. what kinds of philanthropy Boomers think younger people should be doing!)"

HOUSING. Millennials and younger age cohorts need affordable and preferably private, housing.

Zuckerberg - "we work a lot on housing, but perhaps there are specific things we could do to make housing more affordable with an emphasis on younger people who don't have large families yet."

This is smart, though the conspiracist in me wonders if he's talking about "pods"?

Thiel - "What I would add to Mark's summary is that, in a healthier society, the handover from the Boomers to the younger generations should have started some time ago (maybe as early as the 1990s for Gen X), and that for a whole variety of reasons, this generational transition has been delayed as the Boomers have maintained an iron grip on many US institutions."

Refreshing. Talking to you NIMBYS.

I assume a lot of the negative comments in this thread are from those who the system has worked for, those with housing and wealth. Talk about an impending revolution from organized labor sounds like wealthy liberals larping as radicals. We need real solutions from those capable of providing it, fast. It can't get much worse, if Zuck, Thiel or whoever want to have a go at reforming this mess I say cheers.
Yeah, I doubt the "common meaning" really covers it. To extend your example: I would bet (although I know no Swedish beyond "skål!"), that the manner in which you say those words would instantly make apparent (to a Swedish speaker) that you do not speak Swedish.

I think the commenters need to agree on a more-nuanced set of terms to reach agreement on this.
>Why are there so many methane flares at oil wells in Texas, then?

Flaring is more cost effective at current prices
> On the other hand 5% of population are psychopaths with inhibited empathy and they do not care.

Do you want psychopaths to be the ones to determine what content is too violent?
I found the meme "Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism" recently and thought it was hilarious (pretty sure Banks would have liked it as well) it does rather capture quite a lot about the spirit of the Culture.
fwiw, I tried to find a source and couldn't... also, R&D funding gets messy since the definition can be blurred by what's considered R&D, if and how much energy or other R&D goes to coal, etc... finally, it's unclear if $500M is a lot or a little - wind/solar get billions in many forms of support...
Hint: I'm an ex-Marten maintainer, so the similarity is not accidental ;)

As Op said, not needing to rewrite applications or using the muscle memory from using Mongo is beneficial. I'm not planning to be strict and support only MongoDB API; I will extend it when needed (e.g. to support raw SQL or JSON Path). But I plan to keep shim with compliant API for the above reasons.

MongoDB API has its quirks but is also pretty powerful and widely used.
I thought that we need to do both - stop emitting and clean up historic emissions - to keep climate change in check. Zero emissions won't happen for a very long time, unless everyone is ok with giving up air travel and a few other modern conveniences. Is carbon capture really pointless?
You should read more about how plate tectonics (and many currently accepted scientific theories) were received contemporaneously.
Unnecessary though productivity outpacing demand as far as I've understood it.

In Marxism what they call "full communism" is envisioned to be the "final state of humanity" where productivity is described to be higher than the sum of needs and wants - everybody can help themselves to anything from the warehouses. Obviously very utopian, and I'm not sure there ever was any detailed analysis on how a society a would actually function in "full communism" - but I don't think the economics of The Culture would be that far off if you would describe it to someone of those views. Early Marxists were much a bit more practical, more focused on critiquing the practices of their contemporary societies than envisioning the details of their utopia.
Yes I did. So?
And battling God.
Haven't gone too deep to Culture. But it does the whole post-scarcity thing much better than Start Trek does. When anyone can basically do anything they want well, apart from getting space ships... And it is all provided for by essence robots if I have understood right. Whole thing does coherently make sense with advanced enough technology. Where as in many other universes it just does not.
Just on a practical note, if you're looking to buy dry beans in Germany, every Turkish supermarket has a whole aisle dedicated to them. You can get a couple dozen kinds of dry beans there, including pinto. Most organic grocery stores have them too, but for 3x the price.
Some of the sites that went online around 1994 are still there:

https://north.pole.org/

https://town.hall.org/

I believe Carl Malamud (Internet Multicasting Service) was behind these.

The audio files are in Sun Audio format, which all browsers supported natively back then. Chromium apparently no longer does, requires saving and opening in VLC.
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Metallurgical microscopes illuminate the sample "from the top side". The actual implementation even goes as far as making sure the illumination happens on the optical axis of the objective (as if the light was emitted from your eyes/camera, reflected from the sample and then seen by your eyes/camera). They are also called reflected light or epi-illumination microscopes.

Biological microscopes, on the other hand illuminate the sample from the back side (which doesn't work for fully opaque objects).
Yup, I might not reach full compliance, but I will try to follow the Pareto principle. Thanks for the link and kind feedback!
A regular biological microscope shines the light from below. This is good for looking at cells, but not so useful when looking at something opaque. A metallurgical microscope shines light from above, through the lens. They are used for examining metal samples, rocks, and other opaque things.

An external light works for something like an inspection microscope. But as you increase the magnification, you need something like a metallurgical microscope that focuses the light where you are looking. Otherwise, the image gets dimmer and dimmer as you zoom in.
Just FYI your logo is almost identical to that of Inoreader (apart from the color).
Question: Is it that the helicopters truly can't fly as in not enough lift? That seems strange because hot air in Death Valley is still thicker than cooler air in the mountains.

Or is this an FAA problem? Aircraft are not allowed to operate outside their published performance tables. Phoenix has been hit by that more than once--lots of tables top out at 120F and it becomes illegal to operate the aircraft if it reaches 121F.
This is great and very happy to see it. Mailchimp is annoyingly expensive for what it is.

With that said the sending of the emails is the easy part. Deliverability is hard.

Sending via SES is pretty likely to go straight to spam folders or worse. Granted if it’s 100% opt-in and you have the kind of audience that will hunt for the email and mark it as valid you’ll probably improve and be ok long term but it’s something to think about.
I'm planning to add possibility to use Generated Columns in the future https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-generated-column... to allow more optimisations.
Re: slavery - Almost all societies/cultures had slavery. Many on a far greater scale than US. The US took around 400,000 slaves from africa in total while the arab world took 10 million. The reason there is a huge “african american” population and not a huge “african middle eastern” population of slave descendants is because the arabs castrated their 10 million slaves.

Additionally, while almost every culture/society had slavery, it was UK/christians who basically ended slavery globally.
Ah ... Never found into Culture. I started with Consider Phlebas.

So Player of Games or Use of Weapons?
Read the books first for sure. The essay is a bit spoiler-y.
I think of the Stripe Mongo install, as it was a decade or so ago. It really was sharded quite wide, and relied on all shards having multiple replicas, as to tolerate cycling through them on a regular basis. It worked well enough to run as a source of truth for a financial company, but the database team wasn't small, dedicated to keeping all that machinery working well.

Ultimately anyone doing things at that scale is going to run a small priesthood doing custom things to keep the persistence payer humming, regardless of what the underlying database is. I recall a project abstracting over the Mongo API, as to allow for swapping the storage layer if they ever needed to
I don't think Iain M. Banks is a good writer. (You can see it in this piece, which falls into the trap of using long words to sound clever.) His sci-fi has a serious flaw: it's static. Nothing changes, everything is inevitable, the baddies are predestined to lose. His characters and dialogue are bland.

The books do have a strength, which is the completeness of their picture of the world. The concept of the Culture is interesting. I think it has less to do with the third dimension of space, and more to do with the 1990s. The Culture looks a lot like confident liberal democracy, pitting its advanced tech and cultural openness against its various (doomed) rivals. That's why a lot of the books seem a bit colonial: travel to a small annoying planet, knock some sense into the primitive authorities holding sway. And it also has that 1990s vibe that one side is in the right, and that side is always going to win.

For a contrast, think of The Three Body Problem. It's set on an equally epic scale - but so much more happens!
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I agree with your view on this too (though I'm not fan of FreeBSD, quite opposite), OS doesn't seem relevant here much.

I do observe similar cases here and there, especially on "small" sized projects with Laravel/WPs - basically there is no one to say "hey guys, 20 years ago, the same type of load was working faster on my Dual Pentium 3 server with 512MB of RAM - what your code is really doing under the hood?"
A month ago, I built a website for a client who needed to collect customer feedback directly on their site, such as opinions on specific choices. Initially, I suggested Google Forms, but its user redirections and full-form requirements posed issues. This led me to create FeedYourBack: using pop-up forms that keep users engaged on-site, it offers a seamless, question-by-question approach for secure responses and valuable insights. Easy setup and customization make FeedYourBack ideal for enhancing user experience and refining products or services.
alt models https://paperswithcode.com/task/face-detection
Ask HN: Finding ideas for tech startup
Currently, so many folks are doing AI startups and it's widely becoming the norm to create one with the application of LLM etc.

How to find ideas exclusively for tech startup exclusively in the current market(maybe AI driven)
GP is more accurate, because "file contents" could be in either or both. Not all files had a data fork, and not all files had a resource fork. Some metadata, such icon position, was also stored independently of the file, using the hidden Desktop database.
I would use Aerospike, it has strong consistency or session consistency and will soon get multirecord transactions.

https://dbdb.io/db/aerospike

And also see the second bullet point from this Guy Steele talk from 2010 Strange Loop. Synchronization and ordering and a lack of idempotency need to be heavily justified.

"How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not!" - Guy L. Steele Jr. (Strange Loop 2010) https://www.youtube.com/live/dPK6t7echuA?app=desktop&t=1747s

transcript https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/St... thanks matthiasn!

Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2105661
If you had any plans at all to maybe think of an alternative app store, it's equivalent. You have an expectation from a competitor who allows this and IOS instead will charge you despite not using their own store. Pricing that is worse than staying in the walled garden.

If you were apathetic/supportive of Apple and would stay on the App Store anyway, nothing changes. And I suppose a lot of businesses are in this group.

>But nothing has been taken away from them in the process. It is completely unsurprising that there is apathy.

Yes, that's my core problem. But the last two years should have taught me thst companies aren't looking in the long term these days. Epic is, sort of. if only because they have no option given their whole kerfuffle.
One of my pages from around then still just about lives:

http://www.exnet.com/springboard.html
I read the article, know a reasonable amount about CPUs, and have no idea what the article means by 'dual-use'. Typical clickbait fluff.
> but I don't think the economics of The Culture would be that far off if you would describe it to someone of those views

Seems right up their alley ...
But you have not actually been able to point out the basics that I am missing. You mention a specific condition which is listed as rare via a google search [0]. This condition is also caused by tumors so again perhaps a subset of these cases are completely resolved just by destroying the cells.

The fact of the matter is that I think any kind of refutation is actually pretty difficult for you (perhaps due to the medical training). It likely would have been easier had you just agreed and said "Yes if you can destroy the cancer cells you can treat >90% of all cancer."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK507890/
Agreed, it needs to be mandated. The healthcare companies fight tooth and nail against any such mandates, though, and usually get no more than a slap on the wrist even if there are rules.

I think public is worse than private in this regard, it's a lot easier to change the definition of acceptable than it is to fund what really should be done.
Going outside of the PDK rules you risk contamination because a chip machine is a high speed ultra-accurate automated mechanical and chemical laboratory. It sprays extremely corrosive acids and vaporizes metals. Going a nanometer outside of the rules would send droplet or flakes of chemicals flying around at high speed.

https://www.epfl.ch/research/facilities/cmi/equipment/photol...
I'm planning to add methods for raw JSON path or, in general, raw SQL syntax to enable such fine-tuning and not need to always use MongoDB API. I agree that for many people, this would be better.
Dual use as in desktops + servers.