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Wow, that brings back memories! I still have a copy of BCPL: the language and its compiler on my shelf, though I admit I haven't looked at it in years. But spent¹ many happy hours with BCPL back in the early 80s. (It was that, Fortran, or Pascal; we didn't have a C compiler on the University system. Oh, there was also Algol68C, but I never really got into that.)

¹Perhaps my tutor would've said "wasted", as it had nothing to do with my courses. But I learned a lot, anyhow.
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Can you be more specific? Like break it out into AND and OR statements? Or just more iteration back and forth? We find people more familiar with the system learn better strategies than the LLM can suggest.
Haven't third parties been repairing cars for all automotive history?
Having worked service industry jobs (US) I think there would be a dramatic increase in my quality of life had the customers been happier.

Not to mention the unrelenting psychic toll of working low wage jobs in a country with a weak social safety net.
Exactly why I do my own brakes.

And why I want to control my own keys.
Articles about this reference a research paper, but I cannot find it. Anyone have a link? Also, doesnt this happen from almost anything happening on earth? say a mud slide, or volcano eruption? A sports stadium doing the wave?
quite impressive! This is really more like what I was hoping Elicit would be.

Are you breakdown the question into subtopics, doing a broad search and then doing some sort of dim reduction -> topical clustering to get it in the format?
The world over; humanity has put more carbon into the air by weight than the total sum of all that we've built on the surface, and it's still accelerating. It's a rather awesome testament to humanity, but not exactly in the positive sense given that the externalities are beginning to bite.
It's not as slow as it was 20 years ago.

It's only as slow as you remember because the actual performance was so bad that you can't physiologically remember it.
I don’t know which is worse, that they sold my data or that it was worth so little.
It’s good to learn.
Since RAID is not a backup, isn't availability the main point of RAID1?
The main thing I got out of teaching myself how to do it from scratch is the discovery that there's possibly nothing more frustrating and less satisfying than spending days and weeks designing and building relatively simple electronics projects from scratch and then discovering all the fascinatingly inscrutable ways your designs can completely fail to work.

This isn't to say that there aren't people who love it. But I'd guess that for every one person who does there are 100 people where immediately diving in at such a low level kills all the joy. Maybe compare it to trying to get a 10-year-old into games development by starting them off on z80 assembly language.

Tangentially, my time learning electronics straddled the demise of Radio Shack, and I think that might be part of what made it less fun than I expected. With Radio Shack, if I realized I needed a component I had a decent chance of being able to acquire it that day, probably for less than $1. Now that sourcing components almost always has to be done by mail order, realizing you're out of that one size capacitor stalls your project for a week or two and might involve being willing to pay $10 shipping and handling for a $0.15 part.
"We are still investigating the issue"
> You need to give them a better alternative if you want to influence their decision making.

Exactly! Offering compelling alternatives is the only way to change behavior in a way that's a win-win for both you and the people who prefer the option you don't.
It’s no secret that one of the biggest challenges a founder of a startup or SME faces is liquidity.

Especially today as VCs are becoming more selective than ever, betting more money on fewer companies, with AI startups taking around 28% of all VC funding in Q2 alone.

Moreover, bank lending to SMEs has continued to decline in 2024, with 68% of brokers expecting this trend to continue. Yet, 86% of brokers expect the demand for SME financing will only increase.

All this means startups and SMEs are increasingly reliant on new ways to generate working capital. If they don’t’ they risk severe cash flow issues that hinder their ability to meet operational expenses and invest in growth opportunities.
The idea that a brand new filesystem might be more reliable than good 'ol BTRFS, which Facebook runs on basically their entire infrastructure, is downright laughable to me.

Btrfs is also far more reliable than ZFS in my view, because it has far far more real world testing, and is also much more actively developed.

Magical perfect elegant code isn't what makes a good filesystem: real world testing, iteration, and bugfixing is. BTRFS has more of that right now than anything else ever has.
Running models locally, on your development machine, will be slow. You need beefy GPUs to get good token/sec speeds.

Run the models in the cloud, each one on a separate machine, and then invoke them remotely. You can skip the time/cost and use various APIs from 3rd parties directly.
How to optimize a CUDA matmul kernel for cuBLAS-like performance (2022)
> "My point is that it should have been easy to just continue with shipping, as it seems to me that it has to be the default. But maybe I am wrong?"

I don't think it was ever the default for domestic nuclear fuel shipments.

Despite being on the coast, many of the UK nuclear sites do not have easy access to harbours, and the processing facility at Sellafield itself does not have a harbour either: ships carrying foreign nuclear fuel would dock further up the coast at Workington [1].

Since the fuel would be transferred to rail for the final leg to Sellafield anyway, presumably it just made more sense to transport domestic fuel flasks directly via the rail network rather than have a longer, slower, and more complex journey with multiple mode transfers.

It was also likely considered the lower-risk option: train collisions in the UK are very rare (much more rare than shipwrecks!) and the flasks were proven to be able to withstand even the worst-case collision scenario.

In some cases, like at Dungeness for example, old rail infrastructure already existed nearby that could be re-used for a nuclear rail terminal pretty cheaply [2].

[1] https://cumbriashipphotos.weebly.com/nuclear-carriers.html

[2] https://kentrail.org.uk/dungeness_nuclear_terminal.htm
https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/southwest-low-approach-ta...
This has nothing to do with policies or cost of living - Israel is an extremely expensive place to live, but they just love babies to a ridiculous degree. Almost like a fetish combined with a historical biblical “order” to procreate (I grew up there - there are literally pregnant women everywhere, and the ones that aren’t pregnant are walking around with a stroller). My sister has four kids and cost was never something she even considered, as far as I know.

It is also very common for grandparents to help with childcare almost every day, since the country is small and people usually live within a short distance of their parents, something that’s not always the case elsewhere.

EDIT: this applies to Jews and Arabs alike. They’re all having tons of babies with no end in sight.
I’ve seen a lot of engineering jerking off lately with some other teams I’ve hung around and it’s like developers don’t understand that if the end result isn’t better it’s irrelevant to consumers.

But hey look at this cool technical thing we can do!

It’s so cringey.
As a Britisher my fondness has always been for this one:

https://britishrailmanual.com/
That project says distributed inference, OP is looking for training, not inference, solutions.
POC: Using LLMs to do stock research – product roadmaps, financial risks, etc.
Heh, I grew up in a small town in Southern India. One of the summertime activities for kids was to go shake these trees (they are everywhere), extract kernels and make a few bucks at the local markets.

They were quite bitter. And the bitterness transferred to anything you touch after handling them unless you wash your hands thoroughly. IIRC, the oil was used in the soap industry.

Having said that, isn't any kind of monoculture bad? Traditional farming always had crop rotation and/or mixed cultivation. Any "magical" and "hardy" crop is gonna ruin the soil if planted over and over for years.
> There's no genocide ongoing in Ukraine. No international authority has declared or recognized what's going on as genocide.

Putin is literally an international fugitive wanted by the ICC for genocide.

> Looting and raping is what happens in any war. The Americans know it very well.

Scale makes a fundamental difference. Nothing comparable to 1-2 million raped German, Polish and other civilians in Prussia during the final months of the WWII took place on the western front. In Ukraine too, Russians continue to use sexual violence against civilians and prisoners of war in a systemic and institutionalized manner and on a massive scale. Trying to wave it away with "happens in any war" is disingenuous.
https://archive.md/P5fNF
Talking to people I don't know absolutely terrifies me to the point of shaking, which is really annoying when I want to try and make a new friend. Even trying to compliment someone's outfit has left me quietly breaking down in a panic instead of saying anything :/
I can only speculate, but I hope one of the things we get out of an analysis of the Crowdstrike incident is a thorough analysis of the consequences. Airports just a few days ago were packed with passengers, delayed planes, misplaced luggage, and general chaos in scheduling. I imagine flight crews were impacted just as much, if not more, even if their own airline wasn't directly involved.
traditionally we got plenty of omega 3 from consuming grass fed cows and wild caught fish. with the introduction of corn to our livestock feed, omega six has climbed in our diet with omega 3 sources dropping. cows and fish get ALA from their wild diets and convert it to easier to absorb stuff DHA.

In other words, cheaper omega 6 rich oil + protein means they will inevitably use this for livestock feed which will make it even harder for people to get omega 3 in their diets.
As noted in the article, nothing about their explanation makes sense.

Fort Lauderdale is over 260 miles from Tampa. How in the world is that closer than trying to turn around and land in Tampa?

Between stories like this and the ones about runway incursions, it does sometimes feel like our system is beyond the breaking point and that we're on the precipice of a disaster. On the other hand, I can't remember the last time there actually was one and it's very possible that the fact that we only hear about when things go wrong is coloring my perception.
Hadn't seen that. Very complementary. We don't address staying up to date or pull in community value metrics (other than total citations). It's a somewhat different goal to broadly gather emerging ideas and stay informed.
Pennies, you say? That seems like a useful data asset at a deanonymized level, maybe rolled up to census tract or block groups, and with POI split out so you can investigate all sorts of things.

I don't really care where Ms. Wilkins next door takes her cats during the day, but if I were looking to buy a small business I might like to know which grooming service is drawing people from further away.
Many oils are bogeymen.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/the-false-promis...

Optimizing among edible fats sometimes seems like optimizing among which brand’s cotton sock design makes us run faster. The sock companies and sock researchers are very confident there are critical differences.
So far a large portion of the ice melting is sea ice. Because that was already floating and thus displacing water it doesn't actually impact sea level. That's why people always talk about Greenland and Antarctica, two landmasses with huge amounts of ice on them (often kilometers deep). When their ice melts (and it is melting, just slower) you see notable changes in sea levels. This will also accelerate when there's less sea ice around the land keeping things cool
Sure, I have done all three for a work commute as well.

It just depends where you live and where the job is. The city is not homogeneous, nowhere over maybe a few km in radius is.
I’ve been experimenting with this on the side for fun.

Langchain is not my favorite, so I just wrote my own abstractions.

I hosted a neo4j graph database and extracted entities from the input data. You can do this with spaCy or LLM. I then generated nodes and edges between these entities, the chunked text and the embeddings for semantic search.

This combines the power of search with higher relevance due to crawling the graph with more intention
I was going to recommend an A100, but they are not available cheaply anymore. I set someone up with two of them I managed to score from Amazon for like $400 each, but used. They had 40gb RAM, but it was HBM and super fast. There were mining cards based off of these as well, but I have no idea what was stripped down to make them cheaper. The only issue is that you need to heat sink them if they are not going in a server, and in a rack-mounted server, there needs to be proper cooling (big dog fans).

But I just looked again, and A100's are not around at reasonable prices anymore. I cannot even find the old mining equivalents (they used to be everywhere, and CHEAP). Perhaps many people are building similar systems now. After the Ether merge it was a great time to build.
I am in Canada too. If you are working for a pension fund doing appraisals for their own assets that’s totally different. I am referring to appraisals for lending decisions.

I have pension fund lenders on current projects and past projects and they absolutely did not care about (or even inquire about) incentive packages affecting NER so long as the stabilized NOI meets the debt servicing ratios.

I have dozens and dozens of market value appraisals for projects I’ve done and projects I’ve looked at doing (vendor provided) by appraisers all across the country and I have never, ever seen one that takes into account inducement packages.
What's your starting array look like? If you're already on Btrfs then I recall you could do something like `btrfs balance -d raid6 -m raid1c3 /`

https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Balance.html
It's more complicated than you think. Office buildings aren't configured like apartment buildings; for example, plumbing and windows/lighting. Also, depending on the local rules, an office-to-housing conversion might require adding more parking.

All these are expensive things to do, because office buildings were built to be office buildings. It's not impossible to convert them to housing, but there aren't as many cases as you'd expect where it makes economic sense to do so.
I firmly believe in climate change and global warming.

I do have a question though. The graph presented starts in 1880 and rises linearly from then, with no correlation to a graph of CO2 levels, which had far more exponential growth between 1880 - 2010s, until recently.

As I understand it, the mini-ice age finished in the 1800s. And started in the 14th century.

So, is this actual evidence? There doesn't seem to be any visible acceleration from what was always happening pre-global warming. And can be blamed on the mini-ice age finishing.

Most worryingly is that page, from scientists, doesn't even address that obvious objection. It briefly mentions sea levels have risen from the 1880s, but doesn't at all address that eyeballing the graph it seems quite obviously linear.

Even more misleading is the graph someone else has linked which starts in the 1990s and doesn't show the rest of the data.
Nuclear power needs massive amounts of cooling so they are most often built close to the sea, or at least a major river.
What are you doing to get spammed/phished that often? I am not sure I've ever seen an illegitimate use of .xyz.
Celebs at some point need to do the celeb stuff. Movies, TV shows, writing books about dragons and incest. You know, the reason why they're known.

10 videos a day every single day on average mean some celebs are expected to do way more than that. That's unsustainable for a person.
> was predicted for awhile before it happened

As were the other 15 crashes that didn’t happen.

Though you may of course try to identify possible triggers early and try to defuse them in advance.
The guy is just constantly lying on HN about he was "falsely" arrested and many other things lol

It's pretty bizarre.

I think its a case of mental illness tbqh. Just warning others.
For that, you're going to need to stop banning nuclear power and start embracing technological progress (including but absolutely not limited to EVs).
I thought it goes without saying, that when you post something sensitive, that you don't want to connect openly to your account - you use a throwaway account. HN made it easy to do that.
We need to up the ante: Getting human-like performance on any task is not impressive in itself, what matters is superhuman, orders of magnitude above. These comparisons with humans in order create impressive sounding titles are disguising the fact that we are still at the stone age of intelligence.
Soon as you said Ninov, I knew whose video that was immediately. BobbyBroccoli seems to make rather good documentaries on weird subjects, and they seem to be pretty well researched.
They provided both desktop and mobile web versions on day one... this is a beta. This is NOT day one. I'm betting that the other offerings you provided had similar restrictions while they were still in beta, but you don't know that because you're comparing a BETA product to a final product.

What is it about Apple that brings out the most shrill and uninformed opinions, even on a website that skews toward software developers?
The problem is that when you apply the malware lessons to your software, every anti-virus starts to work against you.
Which minimal init process? The one that comes builtin in busybox?

https://github.com/mirror/busybox/blob/master/init/init.c
That’s easily solvable by seating wheelchair-bound passengers in the back of the plane so they have to wait to get off.
50 or 100 million customers, a few pennies each, is a lot of pennies.

It's why car interiors are so cheap, when alternatives aren't expensive.
It would destroy older comment threads. There are quite some gold nuggets to be found there.
If you're not going to do be doing the hiring... mate, I don't think you're in a spot to manage them.

Best thing you can do to help is set good requirements. Be clear up front. Have designs ready. Know how you want integrations to work. For off-shore teams especially, you need to have workflows, annotated wires, a style guide, and some sort of clickable prototypes to get the most out of the team.

You do all this mostly so you know where you need to provide copy, and so you know you're picking and choosing how all the integrations work.

As others have pointed out, there are nuances to eCommerce that can be tricky.

Some basics... (for pretty much any project these days)

1 - Make sure all code goes into a repository you control. Make sure there are no passwords in the code, and that you know how deployments work, and can build one (ideally on your local) if needed.

2 - Have them use Lighthouse. Aim for 90s in all categories or it's a fail. https://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/overview/

3 - Have them use Wave. If they can build a site without accessibility issues, odds are they know HTML / CSS fairly well. Aim for No Errors or Contrast Errors or a it's a fail. https://wave.webaim.org/

4 - Have them use HTTP Observatory from the start (just keeps everyone mindful about integrations and 3rd Party tools... updates to the Content Security Policy is another great way for you to make sure your architecture diagrams are in good shape. Aim for a B+ or it's a fail. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/observatory

5 - Make sure everything they use is open-source and permissively licensed, or you're comfortable paying for the license. A lot of times people will use some sort of proprietary accelerator, and the only real way to maintain a site built on those is to keep paying the people who wrote the tools... shady. Just be mindful for stuff like this -- the best way, I've found, is to make sure you are watching what all is used and how it's all licensed.

6 - Make sure you document things well, and assume devs will cycle off and on the project. Off-shore teams typically cycle through devs quickly, so you'll need a way to on-board new devs to the project quickly. Keep your architecture diagrams, and onboarding doc, coding standards updated. Make sure you have everyone's contact info; don't put up with anyone using a generic account, or handing an account off to someone else... best way to prevent being scammed with a bait and switch. "Oh here's the dev you'll be working with..." and then they switch him for someone less talented or who doesn't communicate after the first session... no thank you. Ha. 2FA on everything helps a bit. I always insist on doing a video calls with the devs when hiring 3rd Party devs... I hate doing it, but it just sort of keeps everyone honest.
A Unlikely Chess Game (2020)
Kubernetes 1.31 – What's New?
Interestingly, I am in that Industry. That's why I have such a cynical view of it and why I drive an ancient shitbox. Interestingly, a lot of Automotive EEs I know do. I wonder why...
This is great I rather have my taxes being spent for this than nearly everything else.

Even if it pans out to not work supporting fundamental research like this is really best for DARPA due to its mission.
And then you get into things like mouse input, creating a primitive GUI or even windowing system, printing, saving/loading different file formats... (at least back the early days if you were using something like DOS that didn't have any of that)
Linear? The rise is more than twice as much between 1980-2020 as 1880 to 1920.
Rustic Witcher goes open source
We have went ahead and open-sourced Rustic Witcher as previously shared here: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1dv45k2/rustic_witche... Since it's one of our biggest projects in Rust and we are new to it, any feedback is more than welcome!

Repo: https://github.com/bluegroundltd/rustic-witcher
Note that by doing this most (or maybe all) credit card companies will only honour whatever protections and insurances they offer on the original portion of the limit. So if you make an $11k payment, $10k of that is like handing cash to the vendor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_sea_level

The ice age had a big impact on sea levels, estimates of 100m lower than it is today
Funny but for me fish oil acts like a drug. My triglycerides would be sky high if I didn't take a rather large dose prescribed by my doc.
That's how I read it too, and that seems bizarre to me. The one request for actual performance numbers was ignored? That seems pretty crappy.
the same, I get weirded out sometimes when I read a remark from someone who evidently has decided to keep track of who I am on the site. Seems like a lot of wasted mental effort for little reward.