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Do auto parts manufacturers bin their products in a way similar to what Intel and AMD do with CPUs? Where the "less perfect" die become lower-end SKUs, or certain batch numbers are known for being better overclockers, etc.

If certain units are manufactured "perfectly" while others come off the line in spec but close to their limits, I could see the suppliers prioritizing their bigger customers.

I have absolutely no idea if this the case, I think your point about the system design is most likely the bigger factor here, but I'm curious nonetheless.
Apple is increasingly making it impossible to run software not approved by Apple on machines supposedly owned by those who bought them.

That is, the owner is no longer in control of his machine, Apple is. And if the machine will no longer listen to its owner, can it really be said to be his?

It’s all baby-steps, sure, but you have to draw the line somewhere. And for some people, that line was here.
As a manager it's very hard to get everyone else on board with this
Oddly enough he did confide in me that he was bipolar.
If you stop scaling node size down and start scaling die size up, the result will be higher prices and power consumption. If you don't mind, go buy a Threadripper or EPYC. Might consider getting multiple sockets while at it. Caveat: won't fit in your pocket.

I'm sure there'll be additional interconnect issues to worry about as the physical cluster of dies gets larger and larger.
If it's a real language, it's got to work on Windows. Having written a lot of portable code in C on both Unix and Windows, I can say that the reason I fell in love with Golang and Rust was because they had out of the box Windows support.
Peertube already exists and has seen growing usage: https://joinpeertube.org

Of course, it doesn't have an ad or patronage model built in.
How do you feel about them working on nuclear bombs & working for the NSA? Cause for many years that was the standard way to live tr good life.
Well, you could do it for porn.

But yeah, not much else.

Certainly no one's gonna pay for the usual suspects' videos.
Personally I Think Paul Graham is very under appreciated, his legacy on the Startup ecosystem and zeitgeist will probably only be recognised many years on the future.
It's a great pity that he doesn't write these wonderful essays for some time now.
Me too. I find that I use the writing process to identify what I'm really trying to communicate. I see that it is important to get the text on the page, but I can't seem to move on until I can't reduce the writing before losing meaning.

A book people might find interesting is Joe Moran’s "First You Write a Sentence: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life". He examines writing from the ground up. I found it a really wonderful book to read. Each sentence in it is great.
He probably means tgs and co
Most adblocking scripts I’ve seen work by detecting if an ad loaded into its ad-placeholder. If you disable JavaScript completely then you don’t get the nag-screen. Some variants use CSS to show the nag screen by default and only removes it if it sees the ad loaded fine.

But server-side connection-blocking or request-blocking detection works even when JS is disabled, but it requires a lot of infrastructure and cooperation between publishers, ad-networks, and more - both technical and political/business cooperation.

Eventually in the future, web-browsers will render a page twice: one fully-loaded page, hidden from the user, that the ad code will think is what the user sees, while a network-sandboxed version is shown to the user with the already-loaded ad images replaced with white boxes or so. The client scripts can’t tell the ads haven’t loaded and even if they did they can’t phone-home to snitch on the user, while the browser still made those HTTP requests for the ads so the ad-network is satisfied it made an impression.

Perhaps we could get fake ad-loading working without wasting downstream bandwidth by spoofing the IP source address field?
It’s perfectly reasonable to think that whatever strategies they are using are being shielded from scrutiny at least in part because of a concern that it would be regulated out of existence, i.e., made illegal, if public. That’s just good capitalism there.
The lawlessness and chaos of a combat zone can be very freeing for the adventurous.

Nowhere else can you “hitch a ride” on someone’s multimillion dollar military aircraft.
> The amount I should have to pay to allow users to run my app on their machines, is and always has been ZERO.

You're in luck!! The amount you have to pay to allow users to run your app on their machines, is still ZERO.

Whether you can make them trust you enough to manually allow your app to run without notarization, is another matter.
> We discovered and innovated heavily on amazing pieces of technology (Computers, Web, Phones, Efficient Algorithms).

A lot of the research efforts that discovered these things were funded by governments for the purpose of conducting war more effectively and efficiently. The internet was created to maintain command and control in the advent of a nuclear war. A lot of operations research was about improving factory production of war materiel. The desire to simulate nuclear explosions drove a lot of super computing research (look at all the Department of Energy contracts for supercomputers).

Throughout human history, the desire to efficiently kill other humans without being killed yourself has driven a lot of technology development, and this is unlikely to change in the future.
I watched the video on YT last night. I find it rather disgusting. If you ask me there should be weight classes in running, a lot of them. For a company like Nike, not having trained professionals on staff is simply absurd and is completely unacceptable. Obviously, they are wrong about the importance of weight in these competitions considering they killed this poor girls potential with all that nonsense. She was running very fast, then they started starving her and then she started running poorly. Personally, I would have fired the entire staff and started over from first principles after hearing her story.
Google's ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions
Are there photos of just the Starlink satellites? I know the impressiveness of the stack of them, but I can’t tell what I’m looking at without seeing one outside of the stack. It’s like showing a photo of a geologic specimen without a scale reference.
Just out of curiosity, are there any successful Princeton/Newport/Thorpe offshoots aside from the usual one in Irvine?
Some lawyer is kicking themselves for writing a shitty contract.
It depends a lot on the particular climate and soil. In a lot of places, the best you can do with the land is grazing. The soil is good enough only for raising pasture, and as we don't diggest cellulose, cattle serve as some kind of reactor to transform unedible cellulose into food.

In other places, like mountainous ranges, it would be pretty hard to get some sustenance directly from the ground, but again, goats are useful factories that turn otherwise unedible brush into food.

Most of the problem occurs because government subsidies make economical to raise cattle in places that should have no business doing so because there is plenty of better-suited environment in the third-world to free-range cattle.

Feeding grains to cattle in a high-wage first world country under confinement is way more expensive than buying meat for third-world countries in Africa or Latin American, and it only happens because of the lobbying power of farmers and agro-corporations.
That just means you should scale based on the work to be done rather than poor proxies such as CPU utilization. Also set a reasonable minimum and maximum based on observed load in production and review this as part of regular operational reviews.
Sounds like something a romance novelist would come up with.
This has been a major generational cultural shift. I learned from old-timers who grew up in the depression and have a 3-month supply of food and batteries and a water filter in their garage, a tow-strap and toolkit in their car, a shotgun in their safe, and money in seven different bank accounts as well as at least 3 cash stash spots and some gold hidden away somewhere. They grew up in a time where almost nothing has the reliability that (we think) it does today. A less safe time all around.

The reality is, we have a much more interconnected web of dependencies with little capacity to absorb disruptions. We'll almost certainly see some much more significant consequences when those now low probability events finally do occur.
I agree with you. So, the root cause is the lack of knowledge on the coach's part. Mary in her video wishes that if there were more women on Alberto's team, that would have helped. I don't see how. This is purely an issue about Alberto's incompetence, which you've just highlighted and I agree with that.
> I tried to focus away from the pain

I've done exactly the opposite and have had some success and some failures.

I've had headaches where I focus 100% on the pain and try to objectively think about the sensation - where it is and exactly how it feels. I've found that often the pain fades away because I can't really pin it down.

On the other hand, if I do the same things with a mildly upset stomach, I can pretty much always make myself barf.
Sporth: A small stack-based audio programming language
Probably didn’t anticipate the delta in load in the flight plan?
Aircraft carriers are a couple acres of movable sovereign territory.

There is immense influence to be had using one to shape behaviour of adversaries in times of less than war.

Historically, every time a foreign nation has allegedly managed to get a submarine inside a carrier battle group’s defensive bubble has made the news.

Personally, I think the future of warfare will see a shift away from a carrier “hub and spoke” model to a decentralised/distributed model.

But it will require a new platform that can match or exceed the force projection capability of a carrier in terms of:

Radius of weapons/sensor delivery away from platform
Throw weight of weapons delivery
Repeatability/persistence of weapons/sensor delivery

Perhaps the future is more amphibious assault ships like USS America carrying a dozen F35s(fewer eggs, more baskets).

Perhaps the future is arsenal ships loaded with missiles and drone ships loaded with recoverable drones.

Perhaps the future is C17s , C5s , C130s acting as airborne drone carriers.

But I suspect the age of the aircraft carrier is approaching it’s end, but we will only know for sure if a short sharp large scale conventional war occurs between peers and near peers or if a major lasting economic disaster compelled them to be mothballed.
I can't find it any more. It's probably lost in the Internet Archive somewhere. It was done by Will Eisner, who also did many of the long-running US Army series of preventive maintenance comic books.[1]
Those are still being published, 66 years on.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS,_The_Preventive_Maintenance...
[2] https://www.logsa.army.mil/#/psmag
Counter-Strike: Source
The "never edit while drafting" advice comes from the creative writing community. It might be of limited use in cases like technical writing, where you already might have a solid idea what the final product should look like before you start. Most people find that trying to write a novel and edit it at the same time is like baking cookies one by one.
Seems incredibly...apt in retrospect.
Unsure, if that's an app error or real server overloaded becasue I tried an empty stripe templated file with real GA data.

Curious to know the price dependency.
Actually, I am curious about that question, is Oracle being picked by any new businesses? My guess is that on HN we get a skewed view, but my guess is that even given that, Oracle is not being chosen for anything new at this point?
How easy will star-link be to block, for example in Russia say or China?
Who know what apple will decide next year. Despite announcing Apple computer where switching to ARM in 2021 or 2022, leading to obsolescence of intel apps in near future, they annouced they would stop support for 32 bits apps... Every other os platforms still support 32 bit applications : Windows, BSD, Linux. It's no big deal to run 32 big application on 64 bits platform.

But there is still a slight overcharge in work comparing to 64 bits only platform. So Apple, one of the richest company in the world, decided to cut the cost, once again.

I came to believe that every decision apple is making regarding its products, hardwares and softwares is about cutting costs at every corner and maximizing profit.

Switch to in house ARM processor from standard Intel ? No need to pay intel anymore...

These new keyboards ? Well, may be it's about slim design but, having be able to use them for 3 years and having had to remove some of the keys occasionally and comparing them with the ones of the macbook pro 2015 i bought on ebay 2 month ago (I hade to convert the Querty keyboard to an azerty keyboard by switching some of the keys), I can say the quality of the material and the cost of manufacturing of these 2 keyboard are not the same.
Please do. You'd save the company I work for several tens of thousands of dollars a year that we pay on our current connection.

Unless of course you mean "$1000/mo, after several million in upfront costs".
Here is a link to the book recently written about Jim Simons and RenTech
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43889703-the-man-who-sol...
Web Almanac - HTTP Archive's annual state of the web report
UBlock origin eliminates all ads all the time. Since installing I've not had to look at, or hear an advertisement.
Ask HN: Why are the submission points hidden now?
For some reason, the points for submissions seem to have disappeared sometime in the past week or so. Is there a specific reason for this?
Masters in all kinds of areas have in common that they start with the big picture and then start refining level by level. But they can keep themselves from refining details that are smaller than the current level.

I think this works for writing as well.

Personally I also use this in programming. When I was young I directly dove into the details but that just doesn't work. Now I'm more like a painter. First big strokes and taking smaller brushes as I move along.
I know this is not likely, but you should consider setting up an anonymous email in your HN profile to at least receive questions about the company as an employee. Not to answer anything proprietary or to give anything away under NDA, but so that people can speak candidly with someone not in HR without having to rely on HN comments.

Denise is great, but I wouldn't say she's the best source to answer harmless but very important questions prospective Java programmers might have that you can answer, for example :)

Here's an example question for you: do you want candidates to also have tax and accounting experience, or is deep Java/Kotlin enough?

Something to consider.
I think you're jumping to conclusions a bit, based on your own experiences. It's textbook bipolar behavior, sure, but it's also textbook a-hundred-other-things behavior as well.

Take me, for instance: as far as I know, I'm not bipolar, or anything else. The best framework for understanding myself I've found is that I'm an INFP.

Though it might look like I prefer to work in bursts and then chill out for a while, the reality is that few things stress me out more than deadlines, and getting into a flow can take a while; while I'm in it, I'm reluctant to let it go prematurely, so I end up going until I tire out, and then I need a rest, which (in a perfect world) can sometimes take two or three times as long as the preceding flow period. I'm also only really motivated internally -- doing things just because I'm supposed to is a recipe for me doing them badly, but doing things I care about is nearly always a recipe for producing very strong work.

I'm also pretty emotionally-driven (from the MBTI standpoint, I'm Fi-dominant) and am drawn towards my negative (Te-inferior), so it's no surprise that I do creative work (music) that requires lots of control and technical know-how (writing music to picture i.e. solving a problem, lots of gear to understand; this draw-towards-the-negative is why I've ended up frequenting a place like HN -- I like the control that programming gives me, even I'm still quite an amateur). This industry has terrible deadlines though, so that's still a problem that I simply endure, and do my best to work around with workflow and efficiency hacks.

Being primarily motivated by my feelings and values means that I can easily get into a slump. It's like depression, but as far as I can tell, probably not "real" depression. Just more like "Highly-Sensitive Person" living.

From the outside, I suppose that my way of being could totally be seen as bipolar or something like that. But the devil is in the details. All sorts of states can produce similar results.
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Elevators have gotten really fast now, it probably made sense for 70+ story buildings where you might be on the elevator for more than 60 seconds back in the day but many modern elevators are going 10 floors/sec at their max speed.
I wonder what would happen if a self-driving car came across something like this. Would it classify the pedestrian as "Nothing" then run them over?
> Do they exert creative control over things that are submitted for notarization?

No, they don't, but the article covers two different topics: notarizing apps for macOS desktop (for which you have to pay the developer fee, where previously there was no need to), and distributing apps through the iOS app store (for which you have to pay the developer fee and lose creative control). Presumably the app store is relevant because there is no other way to distribute apps for iOS.
This model of a criminal is overly simplistic - shooting only happens if it is required to get away. If, from the perspective of traffic enforcement, a motorist refuses to stop or just speeds away, then there is no cornered animal that needs to escape, and hence no gunfire.
Well maybe it was the reverse :) Silicon Valley producers had many consultants in Silicon Valley.

And there was even a podcast I saw on YouTube where a former YC company founder worked for Silicon Valley after his startup shutdown. He moved down to LA as far as I remember.

Oh yeah here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kk03M3XfVY

https://blog.ycombinator.com/the-technical-advisor-for-silic...

Or they could have just read PG's blog. The writers got a lot of stuff right so I wouldn't doubt it. Though I guess I was surprised there was no "ycombinator" in the show. There was Erlich and his hacker house / accelerator, who doesn't seem a lot like PG :)
We manage this through a service, so it's not something we need to do manually for every new employee. New folks get added to one or more groups and use SSO to get access. It also varies by team, but for an engineer on my team it's something like 15-20. At my previous company it was done by hand, and was slack, aws, github, email, pagerduty. The list grew as the company grew.
See my comment below about whether IQ 100 is enough. But also, there still can be plenty holding the singularity back.

Remember Zeno's paradox. "Improving" could mean "incrementally approaching a limit". It doesn't necessarily mean "marching off to infinity".

Then, there's the matter of hardware. An infinitely smart AI running on finite hardware seems likely to be a contradiction. Is the AI going to be able to not just improve its code, but improve its hardware? Without depending on slow, ignorant humans, who might even be having second thoughts about the wisdom of giving this AI even more hardware? That takes considerably more than IQ 100; that takes robots carrying out the AI's wishes, which some factory needs to make. And an IQ of 100 probably isn't going to cut it to hack all the factory control systems, to take them over and have them start producing what the AI wants.
FYI Steam doesn't even have content restrictions on the marketplace now. There's a ton of adult games on there now. So not the best point.
> and Oracle is kludgy and outmoded

While adding EXPLAIN support to Django I ran into a very kludgy issue with Oracle. To EXPLAIN a query you need to:

1. Add an EXPLAIN PLAN FOR prefix, and give it a unique ID (and make sure it is unique!)

2. This plan is then written to a special table that you may or may not have access to, and may or may not be renamed.

3. Execute `DBMS_XPLAN.DISPLAY()` with the UUID you gave above (this function is not always available)

4. Find out that you cannot use any parameters with your SQL query while explaining, then give up.

Madness.
Well, the sense that I've gotten until recently is that they were way more open to dissenting views. YouTube was a place where anyone could host anything as long as it didn't violate any law (DMCA, etc.). It even meant hosting videos of whose ideas were just down right crazy. But recently IMHO they've gotten too political for their own good. And to your point yes, it was obvious they have editorial control over everything but unless it was breaking the law they were going to let all voices speak.

(EDIT: clarity)
HN covers intellectually interesting articles: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Rage posts lead to rage threads. Those get many reflexive upvotes but tend not to be intellectually interesting. This thread is a case in point.
Kind of reminded me of how Starbucks used to disallow photography in their Chinese stores. It was to prevent copying, but it didn’t go down well since it was mainly a lifestyle business in that country.
It assumes an efficient-market. The money is coming at the expense of fund B. It doesn't need to be a consistent loser, it just needs to make less than it otherwise would on average.

People invest in funds that under perform the market all the time. That describes the majority of the finance industry.
Why wouldn't they monitor it?
You don't have a country without borders.

And stop filling HN with this filth, this is not reddit,yet.
NB: The only long-term solution to this conundrum that I can see is that people become genuinely confident and comfortable sharing who they are without self-editing and self-censoring, and that we collectively appreciate and understand that.

Until then -- and especially in the presence of rewards for narcissism (iPhones, Instagram, venues designed solely for vanity) -- filtering and editing your own self-image is at least understandable, and at worst rational or beneficial.

That leads to issues determining (and putting into writing) the difference between malign manipulation / generation of truth and the behaviour of a reasonable person.
I am resigning as Associate Editor from Proceedings B today
Sure, the article even links to a page describing the process: https://www.molleindustria.org/blog/notarizing-your-flashair....
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On the one hand, you had a desired result: more of your heroes.

On the other hand, you had the result: failed attempts by compatriots to emulate the hero.

Maybe the problem wasn't that you had a hero, or too many non-heroes.

Maybe the problem was you.

The idea that everyone can perform the same way when given the same opportunity is local to you, the manager. Perhaps what you needed to do was recognise that some members of your team couldn't be the same kind of hero - but maybe there was another quest for them. Maybe the heroes you thought your were enabling by letting them follow the same schedule rules, really actually just needed you to let them be a different kind of hero: the kind that gets things done on a normal, 9-5, business-like schedule.

There is room for this experiment to be repeated.