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Note that GPS week number is now 13 bits long since the introduction of CNAV navigation message format; devices only accepting the original NAV format are now pretty rare.
Could be construed as illegal to do this user the FTC act.
A different example, from Amazon. The top down directive from Jeff was to build every new initiative in total secrecy completely cut off from rest of the organization. To an extent even the building would be cordoned off for other employees. Kindle reader, Eco line of devices, AWS and so on.

I guess the reason was to let them move fast and deliver 0-1 product without being shackled by existing strictures, including the leaders with vested interests. They would hire whole division worth of people within weeks. The downside was a whole bunch of duplicate systems, as everyone would build their own payment processor, order management, UI etc. The results are starting to show as AWS is struggling to piece everything together as coherent higher order offerings. Like there are some two dozen ways to control access, a dozen ways to deliver notifications and so on.
No. Bobby and Annie read thanks to tens of thousands of genes and astronomical numbers of interactions between them. One may have a few more copies of this or that gene. But there are super duper few actual "you have a gene with X function but they simply don't" cases. Loss of function cases for some non critical genes are the only case you're likely to encounter in typical people. And it's not even clear how much this matters in all but extreme cases (e.g. dominant genetically determined face blindness certainly can happen https://doi.org/10.1080/02643290701380491) but I'm not sure that it makes sense to take these extremes as a model to understand normal human capacities. We are in general extremely similar in innate abilities, with incredibly low genetic diversity relative to other species. In fact, our similarity may be the driving factor in the incredible levels of social organization that we can achieve relative to other organisms.
Perl was widely used for websites through at least 2005, mod_perl being the dominant expression of it.
Noticing a broken window and telling the owner about it is not actual work towards fixing it.
I remember how we once ran into trouble with a large timestamp counter in a FPGA implementation. (Was it just 64 bits, or 112 bits? Probably the full PTP timestamp, including fractional nanoseconds for precise drift corrections.)

The extra bits of storage are cheap. The problem is the addition circuitry. With a small counter, you can do addition in a single clock cycle, very easy to implement. With a large counter, addition of the highest bit has to wait for completion of the previous one, etc. so if this takes longer than one clock cycle you have to implement a different, pipelined addition algorithm. (Or run everything at lower clock frequency.)
Thanks, it worked
> They are incompetent honestly

Do you have to insult them? People make mistakes all the time, taking decisions is hard. It's clear they didn't expect removing this page to be a big deal.

The fact they acknowledged the issue makes them the opposite of incompetent IMO (inincompetent!)
Nit: I'm seeing 36%.
You have, you just don’t call it that. You probably know that accessing an array list is faster than a linked list, and a binary tree search is faster than an array list search. What you may not remember is the specific big O notation for those, but that’s not the important thing anyways. The important thing is being able to reason over relative complexities of various operations. When I interview people, I ask the question, but don’t penalize them for not knowing. I penalize them for not being able to re-derive them after reasoning through the algorithm.
Oeffi presents transit options in the same way. Don't know if the style has a name.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.schildbach....
On porn, I'd argue it's probably the other way round as well, creating a cycle. Traditional norms dictated where the money go, and people wanting to chase that money now repeat the process, even as norms have shifted and they could address a bigger market.

There is of course a case to make for places with religious laws, but it doesn't looks like the AI devs are thibking about that at this point.
> Why they would expire I don't know.

I have a (not directly) related hypothesis I heard stated once about vouchers and bonus programs once.

If the operator takes your $20 to buy a metro card, they made $20 of income. The $20 of "value" the card now holds is accounted for.

Assuming a metro card never expires would means that the operator would have to account for this value to be in existence for perpetuity.

If 1% of metro cards never expired but still had 20$ on them, there would be an ever-growing amount of money-to-be-accounted-for which (I've been told) is a bit of a nightmare since it's technically a liquidity, but obviously unavailable to the company.

It's obviously shitty for the customer, but there's seemingly some sort of (tax/business) logic behind it.
> HYSA have 2% right now. My money-market fund is 2.3%, and my ultra-short bond funds are 3.3%.

So in real value they are -5% -4.7% and -3.7% meanwhile my blocks of granite are going up by 7% minimum.
I think they only way in which they are similar is the way a user would add dependencies for a project. If with devbox a user populates devbox.json with package names, with bob you add dependencies in list inside bob.yaml. You can find out more in a short guide[0] I wrote.

But bob intends to be more than a dependency manager, it wants to be fully-fledged build system similar to Dagger, Bazel, Earthly etc with features like:

* build pipelines[1]. You can define and manage your build pipelines in a familiar YAML format. You also get caching for your targets and so on.

* isolated environment. We completely clear the environment for a task. I see with devbox that if I do a `printenv` or an `echo PATH` while I'm still in an active devbox shell, I see variables from my local system which can affect reproducibility.

* workspaces: manage multi-repo setups in an easy manner

[0] https://bob.build/docs/usage/package-management

[1] https://bob.build/docs/usage/build
It's also the same logic as the moral panic against violence in video games, which seems like a poor look for the credibility of the "moral" argument.
Ask HN: What kind of post is the “Flexport hire” story
So I noticed this story on the front-page
"Flexport is hiring smart people who want to work hard"

Which is not a normal HN post or story. I literally looks like a sponsored post or publicity.

I can't interact with it in any way except hiding it.

What's happening here? Maybe @dang can add some clarity.
no problem. This is how Spain works. I am spanish. I left pissed off with service vs taxing. And it is going to keep getting worse.
If there is no technical means to enforce the law, there is no law. At least when it comes to the war on drugs ... at least there's some physical thing being traded along. These models would generate such imagery and then immediately destroy it.

This will be a bigger disaster than the war on drugs, because it's almost impossible to provide proof. So what's left is convicting people based on oral testimony alone ...
1.4MB is okay, not being able to reliably read it is not okay
We are not allowed to state opinions that do not agree with our woke corporate masters, it seems. What are they so afraid of?
Too many products/businesses use "Open" to mean "You can use it if you pay" rather than "you can understand how it works" or "you can look under the hood".

OpenAI is just another example of a typical SaaS business misusing the word to make themselves seem "nicer" than they are. Ultimately, it's a for-profit business and it will operate as such, shouldn't surprise anybody.
who pays the bill? It seems noone seems to care about these things. They just care about free things.:(
The target market for thunderbolt and USB cables are very different though. Most USB cables are bought by people who just want to charge their iphone and don't want to spend a cent too much. Thunderbolt cables are bought by people who want to send data between very specific and expensive devices.
Nothing that’s controlled by someone else can ever be trusted [blindly and completely].
> can't remember this too but maybe its 2 Mpx camera was a great one in 2007 (for a phone.)

It was comparable to what mid-end smartphones offered in 2007, like Nokia N75. Higher-end ones, like Nokia N95, already offered 5MP cameras with ~3" screens.
Spain contributes a 0.7% of the CO2. A huge mark...
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Let's not forget, the bubble being about getting these substances back from being banned and considered to dangerous for society to research and otherwise deal with responsibly.

Fits the theory that this is a paid hit piece, obviously without evidential support. Remind me, could there be an industry financially interested to get psychedelics back into the box?
Exactly what I am doing. The job is still technical but not so academic
We as a human race have been terrible at anticipating how fast numbers grow. A similar story is that with databases, we used to think that 32bit primary keys were plenty big enough to store all the numbers we'll ever need. In all likelihood, people who manufactured these timers in the past thought that their equipment would never outlive the need for 10 bits.
Pokimane is done with the Twitch grind
Huh, sounds right up my alley. I am kind of obsessed with open world crafting games, so thanks for the recommendation.

Edit:
This whole comment chain is a gold mine :-D
GHash.io controlled 51% of hash power for a short time, no attack was carried out. So no, there wasn't a 51% attack on BTC.
What did you use for bootstrapping? sbcl-1.2.11 does not work (on x86_64).
People are upset not because the show is bad but because it's not as bad as they expected. In fact, it's quite good. This ruins their mockery narrative.
"Standing infront of your augmented reality mirror in the evening swiping through AI generated outfits for the next day that are made automatically during the night and shipped to you by drone the next morning to wear for the day and then the next time to drone comes, it also brings with it yesterdays fabric to recycle it by destroying it to small particles, washing them, then create new clothes for a different person, and the cycle starts a new"

Adding a bit more imagination to your initial idea make the entire idea actually a net-positive. People can start recycle clothes (good for the planet), with a new design everyday (good for people who like that) and it provides a business (good for the economy).
Current standing on IMDB:

The Rings of Power - 6.2 stars (42K ratings)

House of the Dragon - 8.8 stars (75K ratings)
Several smartphones already had a GPS receiver back in 2007. The original iPhone did not.
the "MooMooMo" platform community is still alive, funnily enough.
Looks great. I especially like the idea of incrementally longer snoozing - I might have to steal that one..

> progressive deterrence for adding new items

What kind of deterrence are we talking about here?

I use an app for what it wasn't really designed for and has the side effect that after 9 items, stuff get hidden and cannot be shown without deleting other items. I have found it useful. Reaching 9 items becomes a real trigger to realize that I'm trying to handle too much stuff at once.
If it would be unusuable it would not have been used to do so many useful things. By all means, there may be better options out there but it is far from as bad as you describe it.
Something like Clojure's spec would IMO be a better fit, yeah. I've written an experiment with a runtime type-spec and checker for Nix: https://code.tvl.fyi/about/nix/yants/README.md

However, this has massive runtime cost (especially in hot code paths), so some sort of spec-like annotation system would be cool. We'll see how it shakes out over time ...

As for error messages, we might already be able to do big improvements in Tvix. Our bytecode has pretty exact tracking of the source spans that things come from all the way throughout, so we could trace things like a type error being raised somewhere to the last time that value was passed through as a function argument from user code etc.

This error message business will be a whole area of development of its own however, for now we're just making sure that as much of the relevant information is available as cheaply as possible.
That's the hosted web app. If you download the distribution, you can run it locally.
What does woke have to do with anything?
> The findings were somewhat lackluster: it found that the psychedelic was only marginally better than traditional treatments at relieving depression.

Not a peep about the side-effects of "traditional treatments", which presumably include the designer drugs.
No, it hasn't even started, and it's not a bubble.

There is so much potential in this and so much catching up to do. Many who are familiar with the relevant substances know this.

Our various corrupt systems (political, financial, "health" care, media, etc.) have deliberately prevented this type of therapy from exploding for a very, very long time. It will massively reduce the pharma industry's revenues, among other things.
The USB3 names were also internal (Proper marketing terms were Superspeed 5/10/20 Gbps). However motheboard manufacturers loved technobable as marketting.
> after which they'd see what teams had openings and that it would be 3-4 2+ hour interviews per team before an offer was made if I was a fit. Who has the time for this?

This is really not how the Google interview process works. At least not as far as I know.

1) Each interview is only 1 hour

2) Usually it's 5 technical interviews (after you pass phone screening and the 2 initial remote interviews)

3) The team matching (unless you're applying for a specific position or under special circumstances) happens after you've passed all interviews and the hiring committee has approved you for hire
All crowd-sourced online aggregation is bogus. Every single form of it has someone placing their finger on the scale one way or the other. If it isn't a familial corporation it's for-hire bot farms, perhaps even hired by your competition. Or maybe it's the aggregator themselves, running a digital protection racket.

Instead, go read a full review written by a trusted curator.
> People had all kinds of smartphones before iPhone even launched

Not only that, but Apple never even had (or was anywhere close to having) a majority on that market. The actual popularity of modern-day smartphone skyrocketed due to Android devices replacing all sorts of feature phones.
A biased opinion will be biased.
I think most people actually doing something with this technology will be making the maker argument:

"Unless you have real-world means to make your opinions reality ... I don't care about your opinions"

Which goes both in the positive and the negative. Both "show it working or you can't do it" and the negative "prevent me from making it working or shut up". You have zero means to prevent such use of the technology ...

Add to that trillions of dollars in reasons not to outlaw the technology itself.

Attempts to enforce this will be worse, much worse, than the war on drugs. Plus, frankly, drugs do a lot more harm than just allowing this fully would do, so hopefully that will mean less attention going into this.
At my old startup I probably interviewed 80-100 people for all roles, from sales to SE. We’d have 3 rounds, the 1st being a quick 20min chat over the phone/call as a sniff test.

HR would do those to filter bullshitters, but also set expectations on culture, salary, work etc. If the person came from a huge bank and is joining a 50-people team, they need to understand the difference in work environments.

So I’d second other comments saying that I wouldn’t rule out a company just because HR is doing triage.

Edit: typo
Did you not watch the episodes that are out?
Science should not be political. Science is about intellectual honesty. The results can have 1000 interpretations but at least it should be consistent with your models, as transparent as possible and without trying to force conclusions from your hypothesis beforehand.

Anyything that does not try to its best to be like that would be something else to me, honestly. So no, science is not political, it would be more tied to politics philosophy itself. But it looks it could be convenient for some to promote people to believe that. This article seems to push in that direction.
>Nokia had nothing that matter

Nokia had extremely high hardware quality. Indestructible Nokia 3310 meme and all that.
The show is bombed with bad reviews because some people don’t like some aspects of the show, that they find "woke".
Pretty sure he just said whatever he needed to say to promote Microsoft. I can't take anything what any tech leader said/says as truth or their honest opinion. They all have something to sell.
That should be the post link. The current link doesn't really explain anything at all.
Worth noting: the USB cables I have which reliably work at 20Gbps currently are considerably bulkier than other cables. Thicker wire AWG and more shielding. They're not always the most practical and they're considerably more costly.

Also, I had to test quite a few cables which were sold as supporting 20Gbps before finding ones that actually worked, so pre-buying ones which supposedly work at a certain rate when you cannot test that may not be the most prudent approach.
> There is so much potential in this and so much catching up to do.

And a whole lot of new risks to go with the potential. As the saying goes: it's important to keep an open mind, but not so much that your brains fall out.
There isn't always a trusted curator. Most of the time, there isn't.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13056254 (6 years ago, 785 points, 139 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20767183 (3 years ago, 394 points, 59 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29982286 (8 months ago, 392 points, 54 comments)

Edit: Add dates, remove double entry
Are stablecoins “widely accepted as a medium of exchange?”

I know some places accept Bitcoin. Tesla accepts Dogecoin for some products.

What can you buy with stablecoins?
> Nope. See my previous post on this.

They absolutely did. Just look at plenty of confused people in this very thread, who attribute things like downfall of standalone GPS devices or the rise of mobile app market to the original iPhone that didn't even have these features at all, or praising it for including sensors (camera, accelerometer) that were already common in smartphones back then.
This ignores the fact that AGPL has no strict definition of “forking/modifying”.

So, adding text/marketing copy (see user comment on a restaurant app use case) can be seen as a modification.
I have run into this problem too, maybe someone could update the official binaries to something newer.
Here's website and source code of Firefly:

https://getfirefly.org/

https://github.com/GetFirefly/firefly#about-firefly
Fix annoying max open files for Emacs
One particular sexual preference has children as a result ... and of course we all start as children. The first sexual preference, the first sexual relation anyone is confronted with in their life is heterosexual, simply because that's how childbirth works.

People are deeply uncomfortable with it, especially these days, but of course child-rearing families are the place were nature actually intends there to be sex, where there's almost guaranteed to be sexual activity. Probably the younger the child, the better the odds of sex. And, of course, this is not bad at all: that's how human society has worked for hundreds of thousands of years, how every animal society has worked for a billion or so years.

This probably "gives an advantage" to that particular sexual preference. You learn sexual behaviours, and the first ones you'll learn are heterosexual ones. There's nothing wrong with that ... or at least I don't think there is.
But why specifically these tags? You avoided answering that. :)
I do worry about that. The extremely negative sentiment IMHO is vastly out of any proportion to the quality of the show. Frankly, much of the criticism was based on misunderstandings of the characters and what Tolkien actually wrote anyway.

It’s not Shakespeare, but it’s nowhere near as dire as the anti-hype suggests. If it had come out without any connection to Tolkien, or the truly cringeworthy marketing, I think it would be doing fine.
>I find kratom superior to cannabis in this regard. Of course kratom is not without concerns, but in the scheme of things they're just unpleasant rather than deadly.

Is your implication here that cannabis is deadly, or am I misunderstanding your point?
I have not seen it myself, but every criticism I've read so far was complaining about "mandatory woke".

Some reviews also mentioned other things they don't like, like costumes not being good or fights being cinematic instead of subdued or characters appearing where they shouldn't be if you take Silmarillion into accord ... but I have not read even one review that didn't include some version of "I hate it because it has black people in it" - whether calling it political, woke, "not true to source with regards to casting" or whatever.

I am not overstating it - literally one hundred percent of reviews I have seen were about people not liking it because there are non-white people in it.
As I've gotten older, I've become less convinced to the value of "advice", but far more convinced to the value of learning by watching what people do.

Unsolicited advice is usually ignored or unappreciated, and published advice has often been through so many layers of thought and editing that it doesn't reflect the true experiences or opinions of the person with the experience. Tell me what you actually did, what happened, and why, not what I "should" do (shout out to Julia Evans as she is a grandmaster at this).

Watching people work and reading their personal recollections is a great way to learn. I've learnt more watching folks doing things like writing code or solving puzzles on livestreams than reading articles by the same people.

Godin says "we don’t have an advice shortage", but we do have a shortage of unembellished recollections, recordings of how people work, work diaries, and other ways to truly see what people do and think rather than what they say we should do or think.
The BRIEF text editor was also launched in 1985, and it incorporated a tiling windows manager (implemented in the MS-DOS text video mode, and using the MS-DOS graphic characters for window decorations, menus etc.).

That was the first tiling windows manager that I have used, and it worked much better than many of the much more recent tiling windows managers.

I believe that the BRIEF text editor for programmers was used much more widely than Windows 1.0, which was mostly a toy.