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I would prefer an entire team of senior programmers. That way maybe you get something like Unix or C or Oracle out of them rather than months of arguing over React vs. Vue.

Seriously, skills multiply. If two senior people can’t get along and complement each other one or both of them shouldn’t be called “senior.”
Another thing to note is China is not just producer but huge consumer of Apple products. India with its rather small population of folks who can really afford Apple products, and primitive manufacturing capabilities at scale compare to China is going to remain minor distraction for at least couple of decades.

So sensible diversification is in distant future than many imagine.
Is there even scientific consensus for how human sentience works? I certainly don’t consider myself qualified to explain how I can formulate the process of asking that question, if it’s even a thing that’s knowable.

With laws like these we would be incentivizing sentient silicon life to hide itself. Can we not be adversarial by default please?
It's totally bizarre to compare Unreal Engine with Godot. One is a AAA 3D game engine with awful support for 2D games, the other is a superb 2D game engine with modest 3D capabilities.

There's just very little overlap in sensible use cases, they barely even count as competitors.
Why all the hate to solar panels here?
> There is no way a roof solar panel would enable you to "drive for months".

FYI: Solar-powered race cars can go 88km/h: https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-technology/world%C...

Having said that, if you throw in the required safety features and basic creature comforts of a modern car that's going to add a lot of weight but I wouldn't be surprised if such a purely solar-powered car could reach ~30MPH (with a 0-30 time of like 30 seconds =)

With the right balance of batteries-to-weight I wouldn't be surprised if you only needed to charge the car for like 8 hours to get 100 miles of range at highway driving speeds (on a sunny day with solar assist). The 1000-mile range is probably only possible if you're doing like 30MPH with the wind at your back with the sun beating down the entire time.
When one reads a reply that is out of his expectation, and when his expectations was for granted, then that reply will be perceived as negative or hostile, right? But the reply may just be out of his expectation.

This is common when a newbie discuss with an expert and when the newbie assumes certain understanding that are in fact incorrect or should be redefined. When the expert try to explain or correct that basis, in a way of explaining why the question was a wrong question, it may often be perceived as lack of respect -- one deserves to ask an question without the question being attacked, right?

The "asshole" is uncalled for.
Archived: https://archive.ph/2022.08.05-064822/https://www.nytimes.com...
But the former is acquiring information that may lead to them blackmailing you and/or your loved ones into spying against your nation, which may lead to more than just an arrest.
I think the person you're replying to considers the worksite a factory simply because there are workers constructing a thing there.
Neat, knew about the 3d caret placement for years but not the selection part. It doesn't seem to be incredible precision however, on mine you can only add one word at a time to the end of the selection.

Better than I knew before, but not incredible. Would at least require letter by letter precision for that.
The mistake was not properly versioning the ABI
I don't think the author's good-faith reflection on their experience at Woodstock '99 supports your conclusion about fake news. But telling someone the proper way to remember their experiences does seem like forcing a specific narrative.
There is a huge gap, and obviously so.

Imegine the courts were to recognize some algorithm as the legal owner of a copyrighted work. What exactly would that mean?

If someone were to reproduce that work, how would they seek approval from the algorithm? If they don't, how would the algorithm sue them? If it did and won, how would they pay restorations?

Would any copy of the algorithm hold the copyright of that work, or only a particular one? If all copies do, and you infringed their copyright and had to pay damages, how much damages would each copy of the algorithm receive?

The concept of an algorithm holding copyright or a patent or nay other kind of right over something is in fact logically incoherent if you examine it even slightly.

Now, if in the future there would be some form of advanced AGI that does have the ability to understand and use such rights, the situation may change. But nothing that exists today comes anywhere close.
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> As an observer it looks like Python's package ecosystem in particular is a giant mess.

Most people would say it is. The better question is how to avoid such a mess.

My take is that maintaining backward compatibility is a core principle which needs to be strictly observed to solve that problem. And yeah, that has also become a cultural issue with Python, as the Python2/3 breakage shows.

So, could one sum it up in that Nix magnifies unsolved compatibility issues in packaging systems? Because if there were a single core Python distribution, like say, Anaconda, but nothing else, these issues would not exist. Of course, people can avoid the issues if they only use a handful of packages. But putting all into a single channel makes the problem much more acute.
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That was a point I remembered from Apple's Human Interface guidelines. From the 1987 edition, on modal dialog boxes:

Because it restricts the user's freedom of action, you should use this type of dialog box sparingly. In particular, the user can't choose a menu item while a modal dialog box is up and therefore can do only the simplest kinds of text editing. For these reasons, the main use of a modal dialog box is when it's important for the user to complete an operation before doing anything else.

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Another crucial detail is that these attestations are not an audit of assets vs liabilities. In the past, Tether has been caught borrowing money in the day of the attestation to give the impression that there's more in their bank account than there really is.
...you're using a four thousand dollar (not including lens) mirrorless camera as your webcam for videoconferencing services that are typically barely a few megabits per second?
Could they have not started with say, one neighborhood in SF, proved the idea, and raised from there?

No, they probably couldn't have. Nobody will build IoT devices for a network that exists in one neighborhood so they built a global network and now they're hoping that devices start appearing. Besides, this kind of "go big or go home" play is exactly what VCs were asking for. I'm still highly skeptical of Helium but there is a certain logic to it.
And I didn’t advocate either way of doing it in any case. I just offered an alternate that may or may not be better.
I disagree -- a large part of the lookdev process at animation studios involves single artists working on single workstations with single GPUs while they work on their part of the pipeline. I'd wager that Dreamworks almost certainly does big distributed renders for the final frames of the movie, but a large number of the in-between steps and still-frame test renders probably happen in individual employee's machines -- not to mention that having an engine that can preview the render in near-realtime is a staple of modern 3D pipelines now that we have such beefy graphics cards.
How would you stop this degenerating into Blind?
We should probably arrange for dolphins to get property rights first.
So all you’re telling me is “you have no options, there’s nothing that can be done, and nothing will change”. What’s the point of that? If that’s the case why bother caring?

If it’s politically impossible to do something that’s all the more reason for personal change. Sure you can’t buy a MacBook that isn’t made in China, but you can spend more money and buy other things made outside of China.
Was that an Intel toaster or an Apple one? I think the Apple ones don’t get so hot.
I meant cheaper engineers.
Exactly.

Google calendar modals: excellent.

Outlook web modals: gross
A car that passively recharges using solar is always superior to one that doesn't. I don't care if it only charges 5 miles per day. Just the fact that if you're stranded just a few miles from help, or to stave off charge losses when parked for a long time, or to power connected car features when it's off without draining drive battery, all make this make sense, and every EV should have at least a consideration for a solar panel on the hood and roof if not a glass roof.
Maybe it would be more correct to say that "Nix integrates all package updates into one channel which is unique to system integrators (like Nix and Arch) but an uncommon workflow for regular application developers".
> Taiwan is a sovereign country by definition.

There is nothing "by definition" when talking about the legality of sovereignty of countries.

Is Palestine a sovereign State, if "it is by definition"?

> Sovereignty is something you observe, not something you declare

You are confusing sovereignty (or trying to confuse the readers on purpose) with being a recognized sovereign country, which is a legal construct, we have developed International legal frameworks for that, we enforce them, using the force if necessary, or I could declare the land where my house is built upon "a sovereign country".

I clearly can't, can I?

If China attacks Taiwan, technically it's not really an invasion.

It makes a big difference.

> Taiwan's regime has been able to control its territory for decades

So has done Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.

edit: technically the Taiwanese one is not a regime, it's an elected government.

> Just a little English vocabulary lesson!

maybe you should focus more on "text comprehension" than on the vocabulary.
Good tool .
I Tried: "On alternate Saturday at noon"

Not sure if it gave right results. but i think this is amazing stuff. Thanks for building it.
What’s hard to accept about it?

The US has existed in a state of national security paranoia for a long time.
I’m not going to defend citizens united, but the opposite conclusion is also silly: that a group of people lose their 1st amendment rights as soon as they organize as a corporation.

That’s really just an issue with the 1st amendment that should be further amended, not an issue with the concept of corporate personhood. The concept of “natural personhood” exists to handle cases where the differentiation is necessary, and it’s the legislature’s job to use it.
> Apple has released flawed products in the past, but they rarely (never?) include emerging tech that isn't polished enough for mainstream consumption.

I'm not sure "they screw up well-established and fully-functional tech rather than new, innovative, and risky tech" is really that good a compliment.
Not open source, but Medtronic published a complete ventilator design and documentation, including firmware, in response to the COVID crisis.
Lol - get real. $255k? It's not particularly "cool" looking so unless they fix the styling, I can't see people dropping $255k for a solar car.
> If that’s the case why bother caring?

I don't know, you're the one who started with the "And basically everyone here is choosing cheaper Chinese goods so we're all complicit too" defeatism in the first place! And then turning around and condemning people for buying Chinese goods when 1) legislation for reducing trade dependence on China is very difficult, leading to 2) few consumer choices that have non-Chinese made alternatives in many product areas.
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Usability. For artists and non professional programmers, those options are fairly inaccessible.
> Leverage an already existing compiler backend, typically GCC or LLVM – just like Julia, Rust, or Swift.
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> Or, similarly, target an existing, battle-tested VM – like e.g. Elixir, Kotlin, Clojure, or F#.

Each of these options come with enormous, unavoidable, and ultimately unnecessary baggage derived from their substantial histories. They simply don't, can't, represent the full spectrum of acceptable foundations for new language development.
I would argue Excel is the ultimate example of sunk cost fallacy but w/e if people like it, you do you.
> Nix magnifies unsolved compatibility issues in packaging systems ... putting all into a single channel makes the problem much more acute

Well said.
A related issue is whether the availability of AI as a tool for creating innovation should raise the bar for non-obviousness. Both effects could make it harder to obtain patents.
Wouldn’t it add weight though? It seems like if the car is parked next to a solar panel and drives away without it then it’s a lot more efficient.
> - Guix is slow compared to Nix. This is especially noticeable on older/weaker hardware.

Yeah, I have noted it is not the fastest snail on the lawn. On the other hand, I have seen so much time wasted on integration and reproducibility issues, that I'd be happy to run one day a week nothing else than a Guix install and not have any of these issues.
Kenji has done lots of testing about this, and his result was: flipping doesn't matter. I tend to trust him over old kitchen myths, although I cannot prove he's right.
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Just some really great reading I came across that we're applying to our startup. Really deep insights with practical things to do.
Newspapers of course have the right to endorse candidates and support or oppose the adoption of various laws and policies. And other companies routinely make statements for or against legal decisions, laws, etc. None of which I think it's fair to say is especially controversial. (Though some would probably argue that company advocacy especially with respect to policies that are probably divisive even among their own employees should perhaps be minimized.)

Unless you're going to ban or greatly limit political contributions across the board by deciding they aren't really speech, it's not clear drawing a line between natural people donating and corporations donating makes a lot of sense so long as both have freedom of speech.
Ya, sadly there's a rolling "requests per minute" on my OpenAPI account.
While I don't disagree with this statement, it also seems to make sense to me that you were corrected.
Words mean things and if you use a word in a way that someone disagrees with, there you go.

Probably just don't take the correction so personally.
I think quite often it is the case that a person "corrects" in this manner (remember: this is a public online forum) because they want the thing they say to be visible alongside the thing they responded to.

Not you, but instead the next reader, will read what you wrote and then build their medical/finance/legal application thinking that the availability of additional metadata can't possibly have any downsides.
But (perhaps) now that reader will read the response and not make said mistake.
Ok so why would we design all cities and all infrastructure to cater to a small minority of people and use cases to the exclusion of all others? And the worst part is that if we designed for the 90% you’d still be able to do the thing you want to do, and it would be cheaper and faster for you. Instead we all have to drive to Costco.
255k! That's a bold price point for a car that appears to have similar performance to a prius.
I'd guess that the volume rendering in MoonRay is pretty top notch considering Dreamworks was also responsible for creating OpenVDB. Furthermore, while their characters and environments are often stylized, watch a few minutes of How To Train Your Dragon 3 and you'll see their volumetric rendering is stunningly believable.
Except they used crypto to mask the fact that the positive ROI of ownership is at best years out rather than months out.
>Librem 5 USA

The problem is that it is $2000 and doesn't even run Android. The usability of a non-android Linux on a phone is just not there yet.
Most of the suburbs, small cities and towns I've been in are predominately single family homes, yet they somehow all have schools paid for by taxes. People that tend to live in very large homes tend to pay disproportionately larger shares of taxes.
well, welcome to 2022. It's hard to find really smart people: don't be fooled by credentials and a superficial love of learning...Even those who seem to have a certain amount of erudition are not really smart--there's a clue to find out those but I won't reveal it. It's a lonely world for the smart person, but we have books and this helps.

The thing about people is that at first we are all good and nice to each other until the surface-niceness wears off and true characters emerge, the real face, and much as one can be optimistic and say a person in his true character is both good and bad--hopefully more good than bad--it is the small amount of bad that can lead to a variety of problems.

In the modern world, it is becoming increasingly hard to find psychologically healthy people, and hence, I never seek other people to befriend and am content with my books and pets.
-> 'crashing' Bill Gates' agricultural land investments

I'm assuming Gate's immense holdings in land, big pharma, the WHO etc is less altruistic, more long term political control and profit driven.
AFAIK they "fixed" the fake node problem by preventing people from building their own; now you have to buy them from Helium. Arguably this is semi-centralized but no one really cares.
> But slaving over a fucking burger kinda defeats the point. It's a dish that's very tolerant of loose cooking procedure and you'd be a fool to not take advantage of that.

Sure but that doesn't mean that it's not worth talking about complete optimization. If you know the absolute best technique then you can decide which parts are worth the extra time for you. Or sometimes you feel like a burger and you have a lot of time, so it's worth knowing the optimal way to do it all.

I think of it more like... a bad burger is still good, but that doesn't mean it can't be better.
Updating the model happens offline to ensure protections of this. As part of the research on BlenderBot 3 we also have improved detections for safety and can learn from "trolls." https://parl.ai/projects/trollhunting/

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US-only at the moment unfortunately
So they dug into the science a fair bit in https://www.seriouseats.com/the-burger-lab-how-many-times-sh... and concluded it really doesn't impact the quality at all.

Is there something specific that you feel they failed to do correctly in their process?
What ever happened to the transhumanists?
If you are cooking your burger in a skillet or a flat top, you want a 70/30 ratio, not 80/20. A 70/30 ratio increases the fat content enough that the grease released from the burger will essentially fry the burger in its own fat instead of steaming it in the pan.

I also do not fully agree with their idea of not salting the meat at all before forming the patties. I do not want a hamburger with the consistency of meat loaf. I want a bite to it. It's a burger, not a steak. The meat matters, but the bun and condiments matter just as much.
I grew up eating meatloaf style burgers with a bunch of stuff - onions, mustard and seasoning - stirred through the ground beef. Learning to just season the outside was a game changer. I never really cared for homemade burgers before then. But that tip makes the burgers less effort not more.
These companies filter employment based on leetcode ability and they also promote a workplace where you move up or out within 4 years. To tell employees to ignore leetcode means they are stuck at there current faang where getting promoted internally is much more difficult.

This service is really for current faang employees who need career advice because developers outside this bubble are dealing with other challenges.

I would make this a premium service and charge 1,000 per year because your target market is niche, uniquely rich and small. Developers outside of these bubbles are dealing with host of unique issue like startup problems, or government employees issues or issues working with large banks or freelancing. Developers want to know how to switch stacks after 10, 20 years while keeping same pay. Developers want to know how to create a part-time startup while working fulltime. These issue don't apply to your service.
One section says it averages 1000km per charge based on 50km city driving per day. Another section says the battery itself has a range of 625km (city?) and 560km highway. So that would suggest that just 375km came from the solar, or 18.75km per day.
Tesla already considered this and they came to the conclusion it wasn’t worth it at all. Made the cars more expensive too, which is highlighted by the fact this car costs $255,000.
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> By absurd, I mean that this is leaps and bounds beyond what was predicted.

More than double, yes.

> It also means that the Fed isn't going to taper off rate hikes anytime soon.

Well, maybe. But there's at least one more jobs report before the late September FOMC meeting, and it could be just as far off expectations in the other direction. Economic indicators have generally been wonky recently.

And jobs aren't the only factor in monetary policy. Strong jobs but monthly inflation tapering faster than expected could still lead to the Fed easing up on the brakes.
Definitely missing some Web 3.0 treasures like a Metamask connection and microtransactions for each event displayed.
Extremely this. Junior or mid-level developers need to be surrounded by senior developers, not the other way around.
0-100kph taking ten full seconds doesn’t sound… great in a lot of practical driving situations.
> Unless forced to manufacture here

This is exactly what's happening. Companies realize that they don't have any influence or visibility into overseas production in places like China. That labor savings doesn't mean much when you're not allowed to actually make things, or when your goods get stuck in shipping for months on end.
AFAIK when there is a single comment under an article linking to HN it's recognized as a dupe of that link.
No hate on panels, the engineering claims just come pretty close to not passing the sniff test.

I did a bit of math once to work out if panels could power my (future) Cybertruck and it wasn't even close.

So maybe they have very efficient panels and the car is very light? But the Lightyear One as described on the (marketing) site is not obviously possible.