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Recently, David Ahl wrote: "After Eliza was published in Creative Computing in 1977, we reprinted it in my second games book, 'More Basic Computer Games', first published in June 1979. Between the magazine and book sales, that put about a quarter million copies of Eliza in people's hands. My games books were translated into Japanese, German, Dutch, and some other languages, which really spread it out. Not long after Eliza's appearance (as was true with most of our "interesting" programs) we started getting requests to convert it to other versions of BASIC and also to other languages. I routinely approved these requests and after Ziff-Davis shuttered the magazine in December 1985, I put everything in the public domain. My whole vision then and now was to improve and expand education in any way I can."
It is not fair to lump in AI (rather ML) with NFTs and other assorted garbage. By and large ML has delivered on the hype.
So the extra work part is infantalizing? I am not here to judge, just genuinely trying to understand.

PS: Should be obvious by now that I don’t work for a “paternalistic megacorp”…
I've experienced an allergic reaction to medication before. It was the worst hour of my entire life until I had an injection of Benadryl. Every moment, I felt like I'd rather be dead than experience another moment of the agony.

So sure, experimentation effects may vary but the upper limit is fucking brutal and definitely depends on what stage the drug is in. Early on in development, the effects could be worse than death.
This is not a proxy war. Russia is involved directly on its border. A proxy war is in a far off land.
It's impressive that they've actually managed to make the websites for these products as overwrought and unnecessary as the products themselves.

There must be a very happy web design team somewhere in there world that's been told "you don't need to care about any kind of optimisation, our clients will always have the tippest-top computers and phones and so that you get it right we're going to buy one for each of you too, just in case you accidentally do something that makes it work on a pleb-grade device".
You are also describing most adults.
I’m not terribly familiar with Perl. Will that interpolate at string creation, or is that just text in a string that the db driver will later do parameter bindings with?
Do embedded CPUs like the one in an SSD have floating point units? It seems more likely to me that the upper bits in a 64 bit integer counter were used for something else.
Sir, people like you and replies like yours make HackerNews worth it.
It's been over two years since this was first identified... since this apparently affected many makes and models of SSDs, it would be nice to know if my laptop could be affected and if there's anything I could do about it.
And the fortunes charged by long standing universities for degrees with little value in the marketplace, don't?
I guess you've never seen a Breitling ad.

As far as I can tell, they sell flying stunt teams.
"Organic". That's a very good word for what I was trying to say. Wish I had come up with it...
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I think I just found an answer to "If god is all good, all knowing and all powerful, how come there is still evil in this world?"

Maybe he would have to do something to prevent evil, but he doesn't want to play god.
I no longer assume rationality on the part of businesses and consider doing so a serious mistake. Businesses often have short term thinking and have shown themselves perfectly willing to shoot themselves in the foot.

The original comment that started this thread listed a bunch of plausible and probable causes of branding changes, and all of them are only rational from the point of view of an individual and orthogonal at best to the improvement of the business they are working for.
You can “prebook” an Uber but they explicitly state that they will only try and find you a car automatically at that time, not guarantee one/arrange a driver in advance. So it’s basically just automating the “find me an Uber” button press. At least this is how it works in the UK.
I've never heard of it as a technical term but I'm not familiar with pedagogy, so my experience might not be worth much here lol.
> What settlement could Ukraine have with Russia that wouldn't be the end of Ukraine?

Any settlement would've been better than this. Every major city destroyed, 15% of the population emigrated.
planned obsolescence is quite a thing...?
Maybe it would be more clear question like "why it didn't explode". It doesn't seem to be going well enough for it to be the main driver of Airbnb anymore, even though it was seemingly created to be "the" big differentiator to competitors.
Somewhat OT and forgive me if I'm missing something on your github, I don't see how to set up a cluster locally - am I thinking about Neon wrong and it only runs on one node at a time with shared storage if you want to migrate which node runs a given database at a given moment?
Plenty of people outside of cities, especially in suburban America, never use taxis, and many who have cars don't use Ubers/Lyfts. Coming from your perspective it may seem implausible but consider another perspective.
I wouldn't be surprised if you don't want to talk about it because not could try and avoid the pitfalls, but what is your plan for avoiding bots trying to overwhelm the search scraper bot?

Are you looking to build a trusted network who can verify and validate other users responses on an undefined period?
It turned out that "strongest economies in the world" are like that by literally destroying the world's ecosystems. If you have any idea how "wear a warmer sweater" is a bad suggestion until we make it so that the destroying of the world's ecosystems is not necessary, out with it. Energy-efficiency-wise, wearing appropriate clothing is one of the best ideas.
> Do you really need to pay $15k a year to learn HVAC from guys with PhDs in Theology?

An incredibly ignorant and uneducated comment that’s unnecessarily dismissive.

It took two seconds to confirm on their website that your comment is wrong. Not all their faculty is theology
They are literally directed at reducing crippling debt of students.

If they grift harder than Northwestern, and leave students in 2x more debt than a decent school, well, then I guess it's maybe a grift.

I would take their statements at face value.

I suggest they are absolutely trying to do what they state they are trying to do.

That said ... it's obviously a bit of a risk.
Biology seems like an amazing subject, and this article helped frame it in a way that seems approachable as a programmer!

One thing I don't understand after reading this and several comments, is I'll often hear stuff like "biology is so complex. Everytime you think you understand a piece you find out it's another abstraction on top of another complex system". And then, immediately people say stuff like one comment that I thought was pretty funny: "they are structurally like a cathedral built by a blind deranged architect.".

And also from the article:

> Biology is like this, just much, much worse, because living systems aren’t intentionally designed. It’s all a big slop of global mutable state.

My question is, all these comments describe how biology is an indescribable complexity, and then conclude its so complex because it's just a bunch of random coincidences that built up over time. Just because biology is one big glob of mutable global state, does that mean it wasn't intentionally designed? I know certain algorithms like video encoding/decoding and coding compilers may seem like random pieces of code when you first encounter it. You may also question whether the original authors were just writing "bad code" since it's all so interconnected. But then you learn a thing or two and realize that the process itself is very interconnected, and you can only cleanly separate so much of it, but you'll still be left with a hairy piece of code that's kind of messy but necessary.

Why can't it be the same way with life? We study these astronomically complex systems, and then we talk about how we're still so far away from understanding the system as a whole, then we conclude it's just a soupy mess that all came together randomly. How can we come to a conclusion like that without being able to understand all the intricacies as a whole? How much of biological complexity is necessary complexity, and how much is accidental complexity? And by the way, I am a believer in intelligent design which is why I raise these questions.

I just find it amazing that we can simultaneously speculate about the wonders of life, and then chalk it all up to a bunch of random coincidences haha.
Oh my sweet summer child. That just gives them an even better excuse to detain you. Now you're acting suspiciously and running away from the police.
We'd use something more like Starship which itself is about an order of magnitude more efficient that FH, but even more advanced. Nudging Earth grazing asteroids to the L1 point would take relatively little energy. We could probably use ion engines or hall effect thrusters. Something the size of Brazil is a stretch, sure, but we could probably have a meaningful effect with a lot less than that, and in combination with other measures it might make sense. Not definitely, but might.
crap so its certainly HP laptops. so which laptops are safe from this?
Last year I got bit by the productivity bug pretty hard. I tried all sorts of different tools/solutions to try and be as productive as possible in my personal and professional life.

I am ok with using multiple systems and ended up deciding on on three pieces of software that worked for me.

- OmniFocus for tracking todos/project steps (e.g. buy a desk as part of my home office remodel)

- Notion for documenting my reasoning and researching project items (e.g. desks that I am thinking about getting for my home office remodel)

- Obsidian for taking random notes/copying and pasting interesting stuff I come across (different styles of office desk) I haven’t quite gotten a ZK-like workflow down for this yet

The part that made this work for me was setting aside specific times to check OmniFocus and linking into Notion from OmniFocus. Just using the apps and building muscle memory to reach for the appropriate app helped a lot.

I am sure I could simplify this using org-mode or something, but I’m tired of reading/learning new productivity systems.
Ha. Nice. Thank you. Never seen this one, but seen some other visual fractal notebook/s. Some, for sure, may find it (zooming map) more convenient and fun than navigating text. I, personally, don't feel it's web/screen friendly. Maybe for some VR it could work much better. Would be cool to try.
None of those are capable of testing for side effects and negative outcomes as well as testing the drug on a real creature. At the end of the day those all have only limited use. If you want to be able to give the drug to people without any surprises, you have to test on a full organism. Organoids just don't have the complexity of living creatures
As bad as China’s politics is, their businesses bend the knee to the government.
> Any Swatch or Casio keeps better time

... and that's my cue to pimp one of the most practical watch of all time - Casio Oceanus, the 100 series.

* Analog watch face.
* Quartz, radio auto-sync, solar-powered.
* Sapphire glass, titanium body and bracelet. Waterproof.
* Clean design. Under $500.

https://www.google.com/search?q=OCW-S100-1AJF&tbm=isch
https://archive.ph/wfwRV
This is seriously impressive engineering.
As far as I know a new achievement in watch making.

UX is dreadful.

The one function a watch is expected to have is unreadable
at a distance.
Packing a type flag into the upper bits of a 64 bit value is a reasonably common optimisation in dynamic language implementations (because it lets you use unboxed number arithmetic).
Yup, one of the big reasons I still use it. Basically every Perl module is also in OpenBSD's binary packages, too.
I love Perl because it prioritizes backwards compatibility, and I have some confidence that my scripts will run both a couple years from now and on older installs which have older versions. . . among many other reasons.
I'm thinking 'New Coke' here. What a disaster.
When you purchase a server (fleet), you get a long warranty with it. Generally 3 to 5 years. So you expect this fleet to stay in service for <=5 years mostly.

Unless you burn through your SSDs, you're very unlikely to hit this event.

When these servers' continue to be used and disks all start to fail at the same time, this will obviously stink.

The bathtub curve is not like this. You can feel that.
Honest question: Isn't it true that we should have peace through strength? If so, I don't see how it's a good strategy to have heavy dependency on Russian oil and gas while shutting down a country's own nuclear plants and other energy initiatives and go all in green. Or maybe the strategy is if Russian depletes its natural resources, we will win eventually?
That, or its tested on humans instead. Neither seem like they'd actually be more ethical in the end.
A load being inductive, capacitive, or reactive has to do with its impedance, which is a concept related to the steady-state analysis of AC networks.

The hydraulic analogy easily extends here - just imagine water flowing back and forth.

This is well studied [1] and power engineering books make use of this analogy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_analogy.
Backblaze have a great blog about things they learn about hard drives. It's been going for years, less about firmware issues and more about general usage. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-drive-stats-for-q1-...
No, Perl strings are interpolated at creation.
> and without even an average number, as far as can tell

Taking their analysis at face value, the average/median doesn't matter. This was a relative comparison for people that were (i) motivated; and (ii) had work-life balance.

"network" was a function of how many people you interacted with via email/meetings. It's not surprising that people with better work life balance had less interactions. It is slightly surprising (IMHO) that people with less interactions were also more motivated.
This maintenance is done every year so I don't see why they would shut it off permanently.
Assassin’s Creed Liberation delisted, unplayable even to owners starting Sept 1
If you count New York Times as mainstream then plenty of times. For example

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/10/16/pentagon-pay...

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/world/middleeast/11casual...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/16/magazine/unco...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/18/us/airstrikes...

Although I agree there was no real punishment, after all the US isn't going to charge their own soldiers unless they can find hard evidence it was done on purpose because it would disincentivise them from doing their work, at best they could hope for some payment from the US, that did happen on the odd occasion, no where nearly as much I doubt as they would have received if they killed someone domestically like that though.
As a POC and for many of my POC friends in NYC Uber was a god send. The discrimination is real.
As a non-US, non-Chinese citizen, is there something that makes TikTok espionage and Facebook not? Or is it just "china scary"?
I don't understand this sentiment. Utilities already can and do sacrificially shut off parts of the grid to prevent greater outages, this isn't giving them a capability they don't already have except for increased granularity and hopefully inconveniencing fewer people.
The car itself is not the means of production. The means of production is the Uber network. Without that you just have a car.
*Formerly secret
Me in mind that at Microsoft and every large company. A lot of time is wasted in meetings. What you’re seeing is that the happiest workers AT Microsoft are the ones with more time for deep work and the ones with high autonomy. That lesson is probably generalizable. I don’t think anyone is suggesting an end to collaborative work.
I wouldn’t follow feedback from HN users on things like that too closely. We are a different bunch. Most people won’t think twice to hand over their number and would rather you ask if it means they have a better experience.
Hi, author of Replibyte here :)

Yes, transformers is the way to go. I plan to add a way to detect schema changes and at list not trying to create a dump in case of change. I don't think it can be done in a safe way without human admin check.

(Thank you for your PR)
Same... I've never dated another dev, but have dated people who were very similar in almost every way, and those never really worked out long term. My current partner, who I've been with the longest by far, is very different in all the ways except the ones that really matter (values, personality compatibility, emphasis on good communications and collaborative problem-solving).

I appreciate the diversity and our different perspectives a lot, along with our ability to talk through differences together in a "we both win or we both lose" kinda dialogue, no shouting or anything, just a lot of back-and-forth sharing.
Okay. Why? What are you hoping they'll realize? What is it you are trying to say?

Pardon me, but it feels like you're engaging in a certain rhetorical tactic where you all-but make a conclusion - you say, I'm not taking any sides, I just want you to consider X, Y, and Z that would naturally lead you to a certain conclusion which I definitely haven't made myself. This serves to launder your conclusion through your audience, as if it were their idea all along. It shields your ideas from criticism and the hazard of taking a position that may be argued against.

And whether or not that is intentional, I'd ask you to stop. I have made specific claims which can be argued against - it's pretty unfair for you to respond in a way that, should I try to argue against it, just shifts around without really responding to what I am saying.

Speaking for myself, while I do eat some cheese, I haven't eaten meat in almost a decade, and I've found I genuinely prefer almond milk. I'm fully aware of the hazards and contradictions in my life. I don't really need you to point these things out to me for me to consider them. We live in a society where each of us is unable to fully live out their values. I'm positive that, if you applied the same scrutiny to your own life, you'd find similar problems. But of course that doesn't mean you don't believe in your values, only that you are a human being who is not omnipotent. It's pretty odd to try and turn that around on another person, right? Almost like criticizing them for breathing.
I remember you, the day before the war started, you bet me $25 that there would be no war (https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=martythemaniak&next=...). I'm glad you're alive and there's obviously no need to settle that bet, but despite everything you've been through, your understanding of the situation has not improved.

First, the Americans warned everybody that Russia would attack on Feb 16 and they were widely mocked for it... for a week.

Second, there is no "settling". Ukraine could either be a puppet state with all its leaders, laws and policies decided and picked by Moscow, or it can be a normal country. This was never about Russia getting the Donbas and Crimea and you could not have assuaged Putin by giving him this. Sadly this will take a while, but Russia will lose this war the way they lost Afghanistan, Poland, Japan and countless other wars.
Back when we were on non aurora PostgreSQL, cloning from a snapshot was similarly fast. Maybe you're talking about getting a read replica?
Given the male to female ratio among developers,
this will give gay guys on the app a huge advantage.
That would clearly work for someone who is cheating by letting an engine do all the work, but how about someone who mostly plays the game themselves just using the engine rarely?

Give Nakamura a minute with Stockfish any two times of his choosing in each game, and he would have probably won the Candidates.

Heck, just give a good player a blunder alert that tells them after they have made a blunder that they have done so and it could make a big difference.

There were games in the Candidates where a player would make a blunder that would completely turn the game around if the opponent found the one move that exploited it, but the opponent didn't see it. The first player could have then saved themselves but had not yet realized they blundered so didn't. Then the other player realized what was going on and exploited the blunder.
> Early in the investigation, an elderly man in one of the affected villages told the doctors, “This disease has happened because the rain has not washed our cassava.” Perhaps understandably, investigators initially ignored him. The practice of disease outbreak investigation involves an established sequence of steps concerned with relating cases to “time, place, and person.” Heeding advice from grizzled old locals does not feature prominently in field epidemiology manuals.

This is so incredibly frustrating. Why wouldn't you at least take this as a clue? The arrogance of Western medicine and science is astounding sometimes.
I mean “inflict it on the rest of the world” come on. They wouldn’t be selling if you weren’t buying. Uber categorically provides a better service than taxis in almost all places and provides a far safer experience in others. But once again it’s likely some self righteous first world person’s opinion who has no context for how other countries function. Par for the course on HN.
It is because China is the enemy. When it's Facebook or Google strangely it's never an issue. Moral is always a facade for international economic war. And some people fall for it.
Afghanistan was on the border of USSR. Why was that a proxy war and this one isn't?
Pre-uber it was common at McCarren Airport (Las Vegas) that taxis would intentially take you the wrong way to spike their fare. Those who knew would have to demand the driver to not take the tunnel, and even then they would argue with you. There is no reason not to think that this was common everywhere.
Why can't we have good tiktok memes like for example planting trees.
Ok, so it's a position opposed to active measures? I can certainly see the argument, there could very well be negative unintended consequences. Ultimately I suppose it's a matter of balancing the risks. If controlling emissions proves unrealistic, or if a feedback effect kicks in like melting oceanic methane or tundra melting, then active measures may be the only option left.
I am in Canada and I do not use Rogers (nor Bell/Telus), although I often communicate with people who do, so it still affects me, although not as much as others.
If a spinning rust can run for ~8 years without any problems,a consumer SSD can hit beyond 40K hours reliably, and everything is checked and tested tens of times because of the complexity of flash storage, I'd get suspicious too.

Also, enterprise drives get firmware updates (regardless of spinning or not), and this firmware is automatically applied via RAID controller, so it could be remedied easily before it got this big if it's an actual error.
> is “in anger” the right phrase?

Probably not quite. You don't have to be angry to use a tool "in anger"

Something used in anger would be "used for its intended purpose, or used for real rather than in tests"[0]. In this context, perhaps running Perl on live production servers.

[0] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/30939/is-used-in...
> 'Mozilla Firefox was the very first web browser to popularize the idea of “tabs”'.

Except that it was Opera that did that.

> It also started implementing other ideas like popup blocking(now ad blocking),

Opera...