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What would you expect as actionable advice? The software world is so diverse, how could a reasonably sized article cover all those needs?

The best I can think of would be: regression tests are ok and mean "don't you ever do _that_ again". But they are not sufficient to catch the funny ways your customer will use the software. For that you need some people striking a balance using it in new but realistic enough ways.
And keep in mind that these are theorists, the eternal optimists. Or think of your (least?) favorite group of sports fans, just before the season starts, talking about how awesome it's going to be. That mental image isn't too far off...

(In case it wasn't obvious, I'm on the experimental side of things. There's a reason Jester says we're i brutti, and he isn't wrong....)
"I am super jacked to see progress being made in controlling the moral failings of certain humans, even if it has to be through banning the sale of alcohol nationwide."
sidenote: hard to imagine what FB is paying at those positions. I mean top leadership's pet projects are always a bonanza, and that is a pet project of Zuck at FB where pay is already extremely high.
Which includes a lot of PCs with beefy GPUs. Nvidia in particular has a lot of issues with idle power usage for their cards.
In this specific instance the consumer is being done a favor by being prevented from buying terrible prebuilts, but the law is absurd.
Afaict dojo is just a training asic integrated into a cluster, just like other big tech companies have had for years. If anything at all it’ll just mean a lower cloud or compute bill for Tesla. It’s telling that Elon is the one that likes to mention Dojo and Karpathy is generally quiet about it - it’s not actually a quantum leap in ML capabilities.
Tbh queued for delivery doesn't mean the email has been successfully delivered, BUT, the mail server should inform the user if a delivery cannot be performed.

Most probably this whole problem realted to silently dropping emails is intended behavior, a type of shadowbanning applied to emails to prevent spammers from knowing their email was blocked.

Too bad that this in turn causes huge issues for legitimate users
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Tim Sweeny is very aware that Fortnite is turning into a metaverse. He's commented on that quite a bit and Epic is adding features to Fortnite. Carefully; they don't want to break their cash cow.
For me the aha/eureka moment about the force of water pressure was when I read that water jet is used sometimes to precision cut diamonds.
More detailed information:

https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/26/dell_energy_pcs/
This reads like this classic (sardonic) Tyler the creator tweet:

https://twitter.com/tylerthecreator/status/28567082226430771...
If I'm not mistaken some bit-hacking optimization could be done for the LCG variant. `X % 2^Y` can be re-written as `X & (2^Y-1)` . It seems GCC does not benefit from this optimization (it uses 32-bit truncation), but Clang does.
Beautiful, and yet incredibly terrifying.
I think the best way to explain a new concept is by analogy. Take something solid that everyone knows about and then explain it that way. It's not 100% effective, but it is probably 80% effective that people will understand the broad underlying concept, then be able to fill in the dots on the remaining explanation. That's because they have a framework on which to hang the sheetrock, the electrical sockets, put on the roof, etc. (see how I did that?)

That's pretty much what happens when we are 4 or 5 years old and learning. You don't teach a child 1+1=2, oh no. You take one rock, then a second rock, and ask them how many. The rock is one. "1" is not 1, and "1" + "1" is not "2", because the young children don't understand it that way. Then you put the number 1 next to each rock and add them, and eventually they understand. But it is very concrete. As adults, we don't need the actual rocks, but we do need a known structure to compare things and assign the "rock" we know to the number "1".

This applies to rote memory as well as understanding concepts. As an example how concreteness helps rote memory, let's take the following list of 11 words: dog, cantaloupe, priest, hill, tornado, ocean, yellow, urn, fox, moon, mushroom.

Most people (not all) will not be able to memorize these abstract words/ideas, even if familiar with them all. But if you match them with something more concrete, they will.

So instead of looking at the abstract words, just match each word with something more concrete in your imagination. So see in your mind's eye this story, and the words you hve to memorize are in italics: A huge 20 foot German Shepard (dog), has a cantaloupe in his mouth and spits it out super hard and fast and it goes through the air like a cannonball and hits a priest who is standing on a big hill, and the priest rolls down to the bottom of a hill where a big tornado comes by at that instant and scoops him up and travels a little while to a big ocean that is bright yellow. Floating on the water is a huge 10 foot tall black and white striped urn and all of a sudden, a very sexy cartoon fox (https://cdn4.vectorstock.com/i/1000x1000/03/28/fox-sexy-posi...) comes out of the top and then shoots straight up out of the atmosphere at supersonic speed and goes up and lands on the moon, where the fox creates a big mushroom cloud when she lands.

If you imagine this story in great detail, you will have little problems memorizing those words and be able to say them all in order with ease. Even backwards order is easy. And this is almost always with 100% accuracy.

So it is the same thing when trying to teach someone an abstract idea for the first time, the exact same. Use concrete examples. Like the stairs in this guy's example, that was great that he finally understands about using analogies.
I had so much fun reading this! Brought back my star craft and CandC days.
Hell I even have a Nod tattoo.

(Long live Kane!)
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Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27954946

The top comment explains why this is probably a good thing.
I have similar thoughts. I basically make pixels change color all day long, and the effect of it is mostly that it changes the color of pixels on other peoples screens as well. Somehow that's valuable and while I understand why, it also seems deeply surreal at times.
Well, it is natural because those countries have a lot higher risk profile. Meaning, their stocks could make 2-3 extra percents per year but this is the price of risk of something really bad when they go to zero, say Taliban takeover, or Communist revolution, or a hot war with India...
> The only part of the article that surprised me is the fact they actually got the issue escalated. I've never succeeded in doing that; talking to Microsoft support is like talking to a brick wall.

I’ve found that the best trick with Microsoft is: money talks. If you pay them for support suddenly you should have a much easier time getting things done.

Obviously paying MS to fix a problem they caused is abhorrent but sometimes you gotta hold your nose and do it.
All dark blue states. California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington.

Pointless vote-grabbing bills are pushed to get headlines and signal the lawmakers virtuosity. Makes me think of the plastic bag "tax" in LA.
How is that determined?

Few PCs draw much power when idle. A dual-monitor flat screen setup probably draws more than most idle computers (but yet not in power saving state).
They should be liable for their shitty ML algorithms. It’s extra detrimental to small businesses who get their email dropped for no good reason. Silently dropping email is malicious IMO.
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The articles title and topic is estrangement between parents and their adult children, but the only statistic they cite is about estrangement between a person and at least one family member. I didn’t find a link to the paper either, so it’s hard to get any sense of what the situation actually is
At a minimum, at least this is ideologically consistent with wanting to ban bitcoin, since both consume approximately the same order of magnitude of energy.
Then people will just buy more gasoline cars.
Are there any restrictions on the purchase of individual computer parts, or restrictions on assembling those parts for a fee? What about the import of those parts, or a whole high-end gaming PC from out of state, post sale?

Would leaving the state explicitly to purchase a high powered gaming PC be illegal? A federal crime?

This just feels nominal and designed to send a message, but I genuinely don't understand that message. Gaming is bad because it hurts the environment? That's not right...

So many questions, and I'm suspecting there are fewer answers.
Having dived deeper, this is under the tier 1 requirements under California's energy efficiency limits. Which the California Energy Commission (CEC) noted to adopt tighter appliance energy standards.

However from December 2021, "computers with high-speed networking capability, multi-screen notebooks, notebooks with cyclical behavior, and monitors with high refresh rates" will be covered by the rules" under tier 2 requirements.

That is ridiculous.
Still a very annoying law because it prevents you from enabling stuff like wake-on-lan on modern PCs. You have to turn off all the power compliance toggles in the BIOS or it will power off the NIC and break a bunch of other stuff. If the vendor doesn't let you disable compliance mode, you're SoL.

Idle PCs consume roughly 0% of the country's energy. If they wanna reduce it anyway, they should put an energy star sticker on computers so people can save money with more efficient machines.
Not really. The regulations also hit me as relatively reasonable, seemingly having exemptions for highly expandable devices, and largely being concerned with idle energy usage. Furthermore, this was known a long time in advance and is the reasoning for the ATX12VO standard that appeared in 2019.

https://twitter.com/JayzTwoCents/status/1420206010317230081
There’s a residential energy tax called monthly energy bill. What is best, people are taxed on usage. Consume more - pay more. If it’s too low, just slap extra per-kwh tax on top. Like for gas.
Although the top comments TO that top comment seem to be explaining that the top comment is wrong, and it's probably a bad thing.

...I feel like this topic is oddly confusing.
I would agree with you and say while there is no set advice or plan to follow (that would make things all too easy) there are a couple things here that we could all apply to our teams.

> Tracking automated test coverage (unit, integration, ui) is a performative task that doesn’t provide hard evidence to increase confidence with stakeholders. Instead we should shift automated testing from functional to compliant, accessible, and security based testing and track coverage there.

> Shift testing to the left. This has been a major problem in the organizations I’ve worked at and we should continue to keep a close eye on. Establishing processes to get QA as early as possible into architecture reviews, design reviews and other early processes that tend to only be dev, product, and design focused.

> Continue to build up our embedded QA unit to be sources of insight for multiple stakeholders and provide domain knowledge for our products. As QA we should always be asking two questions are we building the correct product? And are we building it correctly?
Well, then your key features are already implemented. So much to that
My favorite coding font is actually a proportional coding font: Input Sans.

I love the legibility and the nod to the fact that I am not a computer. I dream of a world where computer code is formatted for humans, not punch card readers.

https://input.djr.com
Wouldn't it have been easier to use another cloud-based service such as Slack?
Yes but gaming PC's are far more useful
It’s tacit collusion between the big providers to force all businesses onto their overpriced cloud services. One Office 365 user costs the same as 50 users at a shared host.
One might say we’re already there. Median wages aren’t keeping up with inflation. Housing prices are at an all time high, pushing rents higher and higher. Our service economy, upon which many stagnating nations thrive, was hit hard by COVID-19.

At the same time, REITs are poised to purchase the impeding foreclosure and eviction-driven dive in housing with all cash offers, bolstered by the same 0% interest rate that drove the prices in the retail sector to stave off the pandemic depression. Yet those low interest rates in the retail sector make this corporate takeover possible.
First they came for the gamers
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how does this apply to builds ie are parts next. many gamers build thier own pc's. i am personally no where near these high end but do build my own.
Ah, sorry - I those keys aren't present on Apple's laptop keyboards: only their full-size keyboards.
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Power companies do like your power consumption. It's the state that doesn't, but they also want you to keep buying electric cars.
You can build it yourself then. They're banning complete packages which is much more likely to reduce grid power consumption.
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It seems that charging a premium on energy use beyond a certain threshold would be far more effective. The carbon-cost of investigating high-end consumer electronics might actually be more than the few PCs that would be purchased.
What's wrong with the prebuilts? Price vs performance?
But Facebook is not really a developer, get what I mean?
My guess is the exemption is to tend to corporate interests? Absurd.

Its a law about how much energy PCs can use. Consoles aren't exempt; they're just not PCs.

They'd probably be allowed anyway because the law is about how much energy is used when the machine is idle, and consoles are pretty efficient when they're not doing much.
I'd argue the what we have now is worse than 95/OS9. Affordances, feedback, and system status are gone, UI elements are gone or hidden until hover, error recoverability is an after thought, and consistency is nonexistent. Everything has taken second fiddle to visual aesthetic.
Do you ever turn on chip-tunes mode? The first time I did I couldn't remember how I turned it on. That was a fun few minutes
Are they? With cryptocurrencies I can at least conduct commerce. With gaming PCs, I can... play violent videogames?
If you didn't read the discussion, that is the impression, yes.
Its name is an anagram of Scott Alexander, Slate Star Codex, and Astral Codex Ten, so it is probably a forum for Scott's disciples.
I discovered Columbo just a year or so back and I love it. Peter Falk is the big draw, but I also appreciate the relatively low intensity of the show. Scenes are allowed to unfold at a pace that would seem too slow or baggy for today's shows. It's a perfect evening watch to unwind after a long day.
I love IBM Plex Mono and try to use it on all of my machines
> I finally gave up and switched entirely over to Fastmail awhile back. No more delivery problems, but no more self-hosting my own e-mail, something I'd done for twenty years prior (my domain is older than Mozilla and Google).

Can anyone speak to what a provider like Fastmail does behind the scenes that guarantees their delivery? Is it the threat to sue/kick up dirt/raise issues with the appropriate regulatory body if perfectly good emails don't go through? Merely having a seat at some sort of regulatory body or committee?
I fail to see how this is an attack on people’s moral failings. PC makers can improve their idle energy usage and get back into the market. This seems no different from regulating the efficiency or emissions of fridges.
There's something wholesome and epically 'sci-fi' about this idea. Thanks for sharing!
Even better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observability
Whats is wrong with dell gaming desktops ?
I'm confused why the article says it only affects high powered PCs and not workstations, so professionals won't be affected. Is a workstation not merely a high powered PC. What exactly is banned here, RGB lighting?
Not to mention meat is only 3% of emissions in the U.S. (of which the U.S. is the largest producer of emissions on a per capita basis). So if these gaming computers are a few orders of magnitude less than that (at idle speeds) it shows how ridiculous this is. Not to mention that these systems will just be shipped to the other 44 states (they aren't exactly dismantling them) so it's really just shuffling the problem elsewhere.
But presumably they’re not banning coal powered electricity stations, they’re focusing on banning ….. gaming PCs.

What about air conditioning, heaters, houses without insulation…. All banned?
We’re getting close! PSO2:NGS has a button for “Simplified Movement” which will trigger whatever attack it deems appropriate at the time.
If you let the uses of electricity become politicized, don’t be surprised when your electricity consumption gets banned. Bitcoin mining is no more useless than video gaming.
> Its a law about how much energy PCs can use. Consoles aren't exempt; they're just not PCs.

I don't understand what distinction you're making -- the Earth is getting polluted all the same. It's still an exemption.

Consoles would likely still be allowed -- but that's more fair and future-proof.
Compare this old simple and easy to use Start-menu with the current overloaded version.

No scroll, no keyboard input, just klick open, move over to your app in less then 1 second and done.
High/low crush is different than high/low options. He's talking about things like Street Fighter's Rose s.HK going over attacks that hit low or sliding attacks that duck under attacks that hit high.

Also people cannot SRK/DP on reaction to all attacks or the game would be completely broken so saying '2nd to attack wins' is a bit odd since it's only in the situation where both players use an invincible move.
Same, absolutely love it.
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Alcohol is a good that is enjoyed by huge numbers of people for pleasure and to escape pain. It can also be produced from basically any foodstuff that contains starch. I don't think high power PCs fits into the same category.
Surely getting “unlucky” is a sign of significant variance, which would mean your A/B test needs to be extra robust to detect signal.

Presumably, a high standard deviation of multiple randomised pre-groupings could show that your A/B testing is likely to be problematic.
Similar to how broadband is charged? On the flipside of that, energy users could also have their energy throttled based on the number of consumers in the household.

You have x energy credits as part of the package, if you don't want to pay over that then your energy will, of course, be throttled.
Not always - especially on laptops
I.. don't know what to say with this rule

Wait, what about people who already own the high end gaming pc?
This is HackerNews. Either the top comment will support TFA and replies will refute the top comment, or the top comment will refute TFA. I can't think of a major story where that wasn't the case. That's kinda the shtick here.
> uses more CPU than Element

0.25% CPU right now, ~10 channels, some of them are 1k+ on Libera.

Hope e2ee arrives soon in Next branch.
> Why learn when you can invent your own shorthand

If I don't want to sign up for learning a new language, I should hardly sign up for creating one :)
yes, the violent video games are fun, life is also about having fun.
Surprised that there was no mention of Fantasque Sans Mono, one of my favourites and full of character especially on Windows.

For MacOS I've yet to find anything that comes close to Andale Mono.
I agree, mixed remote and non remote is very difficult to get right.

I think we should all just switch jobs to remote companies if we like that and our company is not, and vice versa.
It looks like this ban tries to fix the symptoms, not the problem itself.

Also, is there any data that backs this? Like what % of total grid load goes to such PCs?
That person is misreading the regulations. It's not about idle power consumption.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27957381
Ah yes, one of the many languages where designers were like "you know what sucks about writing code? All that damn punctuation you write! It takes so long to type those curly braces. We're going to make a language where all our punctuation is invisible! Our code will be so much cleaner when all these important control-flow and context-determining marks are unable to be seen anymore!"

Looking at you, Python, YAML, and Coffeescript.
Having spent hours looking for the 'perfect' coding font, I've noticed a lot of them only look good under Windows on a HiDPI screen. My main monitor is 'only' a large QHD screen, that I run at 100% scaling, and most of the really nice coding fonts render really badly at typical sizes (12px-16px).

It feels overkill to get a 4K monitor and scale at 200% just to get nice looking fonts :/
Price vs... price. You can nearly always build a more suitable PC for cheaper(potentially with the extra steps of paying someone to build it for you). Though recently I've heard of a distortion where apparently due to high GPU prices, some prebuilds' value was more fair.
So Nvidia will finally fix the issue worldwide thanks to this local law.
And the response explains why that comment is wrong:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27957381
> talking to Microsoft support is like talking to a brick wall

I once had DKIM keys get out of sync with DNS in Office 365. It’s supposed to be handled automatically and that should never happen. Support was as useful as a baby trying to do calculus. It took me 3 days to get the keys rotated and after I understood how it works I realized they should have been able to help me mitigate it right away (dkim keys can be rotated while disabled).
You can create an entire VFX short film with an high end pc. You can simulate fluid mechanics and invent a new revolutionary propulsion system for aircrafts with an high end Pc. You can train a NN to recognize perilous situation from webcam footage and distribute the weights freely on GitHub With a HPC. There are Miriam of things you can do with a powerful computer.

This law is stupid, a single EV recharge consumes 100x more than a HPC every single second.
The plastic bag "tax" means I use the same number of pastic bags bug now I pay an extra few nickles when I go to the store and the bags I use and dispose of contain much more plastic than they did previously. I don't know who won there but it isn't me, the environment, or the retailer.
Dell won't ship energy-hungry PCs to six states due to power regulations
You can play peaceful games too.
There’s an accessibility option to display buttons with an outline. I have enabled that for some relatives as they are also confused by the (lack of) design. All hail flat design, sigh.
Sounds like gun laws. As long as the grip on the gun is shaped in a certain way, it's no longer an illegal assault rifle.
I agree that is the saddest part, but that has nothing to do with anti-union propaganda. Unions can be afflicted by this "crabs in a bucket" mentality just as easily. The fact is that free market was the reason the OP was able to leave for a different job in the first place.
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