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I’ve got the hard cover version from Stripe. As someone that also moved to the Bay Area fairly young to start his career, I identified with the author. It’s a cute book and really does a great job of putting you in his head.

I found it funny that he wasn’t sure that the video games industry would last.
Great example!

We want to interact with conscious entities for the obvious reason as well that we want to connect. A machine is a blind, dead entity. There's nothing to connect to. Also, even if the output is far superior to a human in limited domains, eg chess, the way it arrives at these outcomes is sort of banal (if clever). It's not intelligence and its not thinking, I think the 'intelligence' part is a misnomer in AI but perhaps its a semantic argument. To me at least, consciousness is fundamental to our type of animal intelligence. I'm a naturalist through and through, we might even be able to create animal-like intelligence and consciousness one day, but until then at least, interacting with Turing machines is a cold boring experience if you know what is really 'inside'.

The line gets blurry when a dead machine one day passes the Turing test, but if I ultimately knew I was interacting with a philosophical zombie, that would kill the appeal quickly.
In every bike I remember having the dropout were facing forward and slightly upward
Well technically speaking it did lead to higher inflation, it's just that the things that got inflated(assets, especially financial ones) are not part of what people look at when they look at inflation.
And the purpose of life is, of course, economic efficiency. /s
If you want to replace the 80 MW of a big engine [1] you'll need quite some square meters.

Let's assume the solar array operates at some medium yield of 4,5 kWh / (sqm * day) [2].

Assuming you have some big enough battery on board to evenly supply the solar harvest of the sunny hours over 24h this results in a contant power output of: ~ 0,18 kW / sqm

So to replace the 80 MW engine you'd need a solar array of more than 400000 sqm.

If you tow several floating arrays that are 100 m wide and 200 m long, you'd need 20 of those.

Sounds like a challenge at least for the huge vessels.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%A4rtsil%C3%A4-Sulzer_RTA9...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_irradiance#Solar_potenti...
Twint takes 2% from vendors. This is also why you can't generate a code to have your friend pay you but instead have to enter their phone number since those transactions are free.

In 1-2 years we will have instant IBAN payments, I wonder how long until there is a fee for that as well which is currently free just takes a day.
You have to wonder about the economics of this scheme. The music probably isn't expensive to produce and clone, but Spotify pays so little per stream, how is it viable to purchase bot streams in large quantities?
When wealthy people say they want an unregulated free market - this is what they mean.
Indeed, he just was. https://twitter.com/deitaone/status/1562069657582018560

(That account tweets bloomberg alerts)
I also worry about all kinds of other exploitation that could result from the immigrants’ legal situation.
That means adding a lot more tables doesn't it?
Wrong country. Despite the joke, the UK isn't an American state.
every hn post has a relevant krazam: https://youtu.be/1RAMRukKqQg
The whistleblowing case is a new dimension. To me as an outsider it implies Agrawal may have also been the manager in his previous technical role for a lot of the tech problems Zatko identified, and what made Agrawal CEO was his ability to leverage these problems to play ball with all the interests in that company and board, while sustaining through neglect some of those concerning practices within the organization. Twitter's product isn't technology, it's an uncertified slot machine that pays out in political influence, and there are a lot of big interests depending on their cut of it. They needed a steady hand who wouldn't be vulnerable to being swayed by principle, and that's the one thing you don't keep hackers around for, imo.

If I were betting, nothing is ever really systemically broken in large orgs, it just works for someone you can't see. This is a factor everywhere and not necessarily at Twitter. Shitty process? Cui bono. Unverifiable systems? Cui bono. Deniable and unaccounted-for access to God-mode data? Cui bono. Repudiable numbers reporting? Cui bono. Bizarre political posturing? Cui bono, etc.
It could take 20 more years for scientists to truly understand color
You make it sound like this is inevitable.

It isn't as far as I can see.

IMO it is just Google trampling over peoples rights while trying to use a weird reading of GDPR as excuse.

I'm so ready for EU to start punishing more of the blatant abuse of GDPR that we see, especially by the big players in the market.
Benefiting from exploitation =/= dependence, but I would imagine some businesses rely more heavily on this than others.
I had a similar experience as a kid at Dairy Queen. At the time, I adhered to the common cultural milieu in my little Bible belt town and had a load of cognitive dissonance when they took my friends away, never to be seen again -- the spirit of this was totally violated: "For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me."

It was an eye opening experience for me. I take as a fundamental human right that people and capital should be able to travel without sovereign restraint. You should be able to vote with your feet.

I get the pro-isolationist arguments regarding wages, of course, but restricting immigration because your wages are at risk is a zero-sum game where one side the winner violates a human right.

The EU gets this and allows people to travel to work between countries. The US gets this and allows people to travel to work between states. Why does a line on the ground invoke magical worldviews and forced tribalism supporting sovereignty?
agree, since India is like 5-10 years behind USA in the tech space, most unicorns in India are just companies that already exist in some form in USA. In India, the execution of a business is the hard part by far, and not the novelty of the idea.
How would you determine efficiency then? This will also only ever apply popular services. No random e2e encrypted messenger will implement this.
Have you ever encountered the customer service in Europe? (Especially outside Germany, Sweden, etc.) It's awful and everyone is rude. It's because they don't have to worry about being replaced by illegal immigrants.
Probably what Brexiteers expected to happen, that everything they don't like disappears and nothing gets worse.
If grammar counts, say so up front. In other situations correct language, proofreading, and concern for detail have been held to be racist, supremacist, or at least arrogant; so over the past few years many may have re-tuned the way they communicate in writing by default.
The first Java applets that stood out for me were Anfy Team’s. My images looked supercool with a rippling reflection underneath them!
80% of rides is a single person commuting and standing in traffic jams during normal, mild days.

Cars are a complement.
617k is roughly 11% of admissions for that year. That alone doesn't explain the situation.
There are plenty of mid-sized cities with decent bus service and bikeability, where living car-free may not be the easiest option but is totally possible and preferred by many people. Austin, Seattle, Portland OR, Boston, DC...
They can always go back. It's not the better choice.
There is an excellent short story from the 50s, "Omnilingual" by H. Beam Piper, that explores deciphering a literally alien language. It is mercifully in the public domain because it was written before copyright became infinite in the 1970s. You can read it here: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/19445

I would be interested to read the book you're talking about, if you have the title!

(Your math example reminds me a bit of Lambda Calculus, but I guess you'd have a hard time making a real language out of it.)
Fascinating different approach taken by Canada for workers from Mexico and Jamaica.
Workers are flown in during the farming season, legally, under laws created for the purpose in cooperation with the governments of Mexico and Jamaica.

The migrant workers don't want to stay in Canada for most part.
They just want to work, for $15 CAD/hr, remit money and go home for Christmas.

It's not perfect, as some employers treat them poorly, but that is not the norm.
The farmers/country need and appreciate these people.
Even with that issue, it was still a project that was amazing, they did incredible work, and the cost was very small. Almost hilariously so compared to other nuclear reactor projects.

Had that same team received the funding for a next large commercial prototype, the world would be different now.

But sadly Nixon preferred to spend money for nuclear research in California, Tennessee not exactly a priority.

Alvin M. Weinberg also didn't make himself any friends with government higher ups when he criticized PWR programs for civilian nuclear.
How can you complain about them being "ideologically driven", and simultaneously criticize them for not insisting on anti-war/environmental ideas in the face of war in Ukraine? I say they're doing realpolitik, even if it might lose them some of their more ideologically entrenched voters.
I don't trust Google with anything that I need to keep either private or access too. The company doesn't care about their "customers" because their actual customers are the advertising companies they sell their "customers" data to. Google has nothing of importance from me because they are unreliable and untrustworthy.
Astronomers solve the case of missing carbon monoxide in protoplanetary disks
I too do not like bicycles because people in Paris are rude.
No they really didn't. Horses were for cargo, people in a hurry, and rich people.

For the most part people walked or more recently used a train or trolley. Now we have bicycles and it turns out if you don't spend trillions designing your towns and cities for the benefit of the auto industry you can get where you're going on a bike or train faster than if you do and use a car because you don't have to spread everything out.
Totally forgot that Netscape had email and a usenet client built-in! What nostalgia.

It's funny to me that the original use case of Java -- write-once, run-anywhere -- was eventually overtaken by Javascript, a language that had nothing at all to do with it and just wanted to steal its name for marketing. Well, guess it worked? lol
What becomes a "right" is up to society, it's rather arbitrary. That doesn't necessitate that everything and anything be a right, but each comes with a compromise to varying degrees.
Yeah. My brother just built a house and it's grey everything. As a homeowner I do see the logic in not proliferating too many different colors throughout the house but if it were me, I'd definitely have had at least some variety.
Nope, not travel! For us it was a built in feature, not a plugin. This was earlier this year also.
I still think liability is the tool that will change how we approach security.

Right now breaches don’t cost much and cause a lot of harm. Companies have no incentive to drive the speed limit and listen to their engineers.
Or maybe, you know, the media finds this story interesting because this is an extremely visible company with tons of influence on narratives around the world.

Who are these "powerful people"? And why do they care about Twitter so much? Most powerful people aren't even ON Twitter.
> Hm, we respond to emails, so

A week ago, I emailed nkohari in regards to an issue with an API Stripe has repeatedly suggested to me via the dashboard. This is after previously being invited to email documentation questions on a previous HN thread. No replies have arrived yet.

I'll forward that email to you, also (assuming that by "we", you mean Stripe as opposed to a tax-specific team).
It was mostly copper and gold colors in the beginning of the graphic. Then they found same ways to apply colors to objects. And we can't say anything now about if Color has been disappearing from world. The data and graphic is not complete. It could be demand and demand can change with time. People may be bored from black and grey in future and all the object colors would change.
> Resale value is way too forward thinking for a corporation these days, it's all about short term profit

This is a commonly repeated trope that is just wrong. Corporations are very forward looking. Consider the price earnings ratio of the S&P500. It's been on a general upward trend since the 80s, only disrupted by recessions and stock market crashes [0]. That means stock holders are willing to invest more money for future earnings. Discount rates are also very low historically which means future earnings are discounted at a lower rate.

Similarly the number of companies that earn no profit is very high:

> Of the largest 1,500 companies by market capitalization today, around 200 weren’t profitable during any of the last three years. But instead of punishing them, investors have rewarded them with a total market value of more than $2.3 trillion. Wall Street hasn’t been willing to attach such high market values to unprofitable companies since the late 1990s (and even then, the total market valuation of the unprofitable companies wasn’t even half of what it is now). [1]

Private R&D spending is also on an upward trend since the 50s as a percentage of GDP, displacing much of federal spending in R&D. [2]

Everywhere you look you'll see long term thinking is rewarded. The only place you hear complaints about "short term profit" is corporate managers that want cover for bad results. They can always say they're "investing for the future" and their investments will take a decade to pan out, but conveniently they won't be around by then.

I doubt you can find any Excel valuation template that's used in business school that does not include resale value. You can bet the people in charge of purchasing McDonald's real estate look very closely at resale value.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclically_adjusted_price-to-e...

[1] https://money.com/stock-market-companies-no-profits/

[2] https://cglife.com/blog/recent-trends-in-rd-spending-the-lan...
If you live in a cool winter climate white colour is bad the metal doesn't get warm enough to drive off moisture. Rust forms more readily compared to a dark car.

I spoke to a local mechanic who said never buy white or light colour car (for this region) he spoke with decades of experience.
This is literally state sponsored bicycle use. What would you suggest that 'state sponsored bicycle sharing' should consist of?
Wow, that was quick!
Back in college I had an assignment to build some kind of CRM-like system, and the professor made a point that we used Java applets, because that was the future (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_once,_run_anywhere was all the rage).

I proposed instead learning PHP and using it for that purpose, but was laughed out of the room. Developing this was a PITA and I feel vindicated that applets faded away soon after, and PHP became part of the web-app "standard" (the LAMP acronym was started to be used around then). But I never learned PHP.
amanfrommars? Is that you?
With radio, air conditioning, seated on a comfy seat,...

And regarding two wheels transport, I still don't see why one should get an electric bicycle versus an e-motorbike.
There have been posts on Phoronix about Imgtec drivers going into Linux/mesa occasionally, maybe the posts linked from them help you find the code in Linux/mesa.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/PowerVR-DRM-Kernel-Driver-RFC
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Open-Source-PowerVR-Vulkan
I often watch in horror what some people suggest is 'good SQL'. You even find plenty of those humongous multi-hundred-line beasts on the official PostgreSQL wiki, a single statement going over several pages if you were to print it out. Sure that's hard to debug. What I do in such cases is using many intermediate views, sometimes just named like `_foobar_010`, `_foobar_020` and so on, and a single `create (materialized) view foobar ... select from _foobar_120 ...`. That way, I can rely on the DB caring for basic structural soundness, giving error messages that are better localized than "something is wrong near ','", and I can visually (or, indeed, programmatically) debug all the intermediate steps.
Avoiding sweat is not a good reason to keep people in 5,000lb mobile air conditioners. There are plenty of hot cities where the majority commutes by walking or non-air-conditioned trains.
I don't think it's nefarious, just incompetence. I like Poppy, the bubble gum pop youtube girl turned metal, turned grunge artist. Her name is pretty generic though, and I've seen multiple artists with the same name have their stuff put under her identity on spotify briefly. The artists I've seen are clearly not fake artists trying to sneak into her brand.

Composer / performer is a whole nother metadata thing that should happen.
Yep, getting more users wasn't really the goal of this blog post. Mainly it was intended as a response to the many support requests we get asking about what kind of encryption is utilized in Supernotes, which frequently lacked a clear understanding of different types of encryption and what that means. That is why I tried to structure it as a helpful tutorial that anyone can read to hopefully gain a better understand of encryption basics.

Our current set of priorities means that E2EE is not going to be at the top of the list for the foreseeable future, so we want existing and potential users to be aware of that (and our rationale behind it). We prefer to have users that understand and align with our vision rather than trying to convince/trick people with different priorities to use Supernotes.
> only pleasing it's sponsors, investors, and execs

Yea, that's the game. They are a for profit business. This situation will happen every time. Profits over people, line must go up!
This was my first thought. TFA claims he started the whistleblower process before the Musk deal was signed. Seems kind of fishy though.
This seems like a huge win for the defense in a case using DMs or Tweets as evidence.

It would be quite easy to argue that a highly-politicized org like Twitter _might_ alter tweets or DMs to implicate someone in the opposing party. That’s reasonable doubt that at least some jurors would buy.
What others have said here is accurate. Vulkan is excessively low-level for most.

OpenGL is not API-machine precise, but widely this isn’t relevant for people who are primarily concerned with shipping products.

APIs like Vulkan, DirectX 12, and WebGPU need to exist, but there is too much fragmentation in the graphics API space now and because of this API decision making that has taken place, the situation will not be smoothed over for probably a decade.

Many people hoped for an OpenGL successor that provided API-machine precision without explicit verbosity that you could simply opt-into if you needed control. Instead what we ended up with were required definitions of API mechanics.

These aren’t obvious to implement. It also debatably moves engineering efforts to the wrong people. There are graphics programmers who should not be involved in adapter-device type programming, who instead should be focusing simply on graphics shader work and the like.

Vulkan is a textbook case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater in pursuit of a more precise API. It throws out development practicality by allowing vendor engineers to wipe their hands of things that some of us want them to take care of.

Imagine if every time you wanted to write software you first needed to probe for what CPU cores existed, and also define how to allocate memory, and also how your program should run.

This is needless. It would also create a scenario where people would say similar things like, “Well sure it’s verbose, but of course you would only write this once.”

And everyone, individually, would do this, because everyone, individually would be forced to, and they’d all have to maintain it.

And along the way, most would get it wrong. Or implement only a subset of desired behavior.
A lot of the time it's not an algorithm in charge. Most of the time now recommendations are based on who paid to promote their song or podcast.

Algorithms cannot be left running totally when sponsored ads can be purchased on the fly by content creators and musicians unless a site is lying to ad buyers about ad effectiveness.
State Machines (In Rust) II
Or golf carts. If cities would allow them on the streets, they would be a great way to start transitioning away from cars.
I think they are also making claims about the "E" but the claims which seem valid to me are about the "bike."
"Twitter has hidden negligent security practices, misled federal regulators about its safety, and failed to properly estimate the number of bots on its platform, according to testimony from the company’s former head of security, the legendary hacker-turned-cybersecurity-expert Peiter “Mudge” Zatko."

"Zatko was fired by Twitter in January and claims that this was retaliation for his refusal to stay quiet about the company’s vulnerabilities. Last month, he filed a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that accuses Twitter of deceiving shareholders and violating an agreement it made with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to uphold certain security standards. His complaints, totaling more than 200 pages, were obtained by CNN and The Washington Post and published in redacted form this morning."

What a bombshell! Maybe Elon Musk's complaints about Twitter have more merit than anyone expected.

What might the SEC and shareholders do in response?
Wouldn’t rearward make the problem worse? If you imagine slamming on the front break, the wheel wants to stay put while the rest of the bike wants to move forward. If the dropouts face rearward and the QR has wiggled loose, there’s nothing to stop it from slipping backwards.
Significant numbers of commercial buildings like that simply get razed to the ground when the tenant leaves. It's cheaper for the new tenant to build the building they want than adapt to the older one.

Which is why you only find "reused iconic buildings" in parts of the city that are now more run-down.
> Better give some money to people who don't need it than make some overly complicated plan that requires a specialist to access and only targets some friends.

I personally agree with that. But then it always ending up hurting the politicians that came up with that policy because medias will broadcast 24-7 examples of the few people that received it that did not deserve it. Even 2 years after COVID stimulus, McConnel keeps repeating that people are still so rich from receiving thousands and thousands of dollars and that was responsible for 2022 labor shortage... (for $2000 distributed now more than a year ago)
Did you read the article before slinging mud yourself? The whistleblower has been communicating with DC way before EM entered the picture.

Media only got its hands on the leaked material now.
The space container idea could make for a really interesting book plot. It starts in modern day where they send the capsule up. Then skips forward several hundred years to society collapsing. Then skip forward a few hundred more to see how the myth of knowledge falling from the sky is being passed down. Then it keeps skipping ahead to see how the myth evolves. By the end you just have some super cryptic prophecy like "god will descend from the heavens to bring about heaven on earth" and then it actually happens.
I think the objective of measures like this is to encourage use of ebikes for individual/family use, especially in urban or suburban settings (which means 80% of the population), not professional use in rural or mountain environments.