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Arrogance (un-humility / not appreciating your own limits) is not the only reason one may reject advice. Unless the person giving the advise is already respected/revered for their knowledge by the person receiving the advice, then there is no reason for them to value the advise received over whatever their original plan of action was. This is [1] from the post. Bad advice exists, and if you cannot differentiate it, you must experience the reason for it. In which case, experiencing the scenario for the advise validates the need and usefulness of the advice.
>I cannot help feeling like what we see in things like this is the manifestation of a new religion.

"Problematic" is the "blasphemous" of said new religion.
Reed Hastings was a founder and principal initial investor. He owned 70% of the company, so it was probably down to him.

There was a recent thread where Bezos was quoted as being against bet the company moves. I get where he’s coming from, ideally you’d avoid getting into that position, but faced with a fundamental technological shift like that, sometimes it’s just the right thing to do.

As an aside I’ve been at two companies that were sunk by mismanaged bet the company moves. In both cases they actually had plenty of time to change course, but management was so heavily invested in their pet project that by the time reality has punched them in the face hard enough to wake them up, it was too late.
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That's a far far future. The current AI simply can't reason with the design. It's all just 2D image manipulation, and the image you see might be physically impossible, let alone generating the fitting sewing pattern from a simple image. Perhaps, one can limit the scope of AI generation to minor details, like color, pattern, printings, pockets, etc.
fear is a mind killer

that’s the difference of devs that stay motivated and happy

even ones that don’t have pressing monetary concerns are just skittish sometimes. those folks can productive but boy do they look miserable.

kill the fear and the stuck problems become less of a thing
Same vein, same kind of progressively horrifying pacing. It reads oh so easily and has been the basis of many many technical, philosophical, and theological discussions with friends, some of which were dead on "not into science fiction", and which this story changed their mind about.

https://qntm.org/responsibility
If you're doing long FP calculations, you can allow FMA, or have poor results. Sure, some languages think it's worth it for the determinism, but rounding after every operation can completely destroy your precision. Even more so for something like x87, where internal registers are higher precision, not that too many people use it anymore.
That might be, and before the iPhone reveal, the vision was supposedly to target Nokia-style button phones.

The difference could be that the technical foundation was more sound, and also, Google is institutionally capable of large refactorings in a way that I think few other companies are.

People forget this, and it’s solved now, but it took Android several years and quite a few iterations of the rendering layer to get smooth scrolling working to the level of the iPhone 1. Look up “Project Butter” if you’re interested.

Smooth scrolling is hard, but important for touch to feel perfectly right. I’m convinced that this is one of the places where it mattered that touch screens were an afterthought in the original architecture.
> It's high time that developers cease the "everyone around me is incompetent and responsible for all problems" mindset

I reckon there’s some selection bias here too, people who perceive themselves to be incompetent probably talk about it less.
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The unfortunate situation is that the more transparent the medical system, the easier it is to lose faith in it - yet ultimately you get better outcomes with such transparency.
Looking through the top level comments, there are only 2 like that and they are about build errors in dependent native libraries written in other languages, which is not really the Python ecosystem's fault (as the author has chosen not to distribute prebuilt stuff).
Not sure what you mean by "quality is in decline".

I'm pretty happy (much like others) with GitHub now more than ever. Github has been releasing new features left and right.

Some of them are an unwelcome sight (think Github Badges) while others (think Github Issues) are a super productive enhancement imo.
I think this is the core value generation of software engineers. The problems being solved that is. If you like your job, you’ll relate to this feeling less. It also make sense that the hardest part would be highest on the list.
They already had Meego which was a true Linux distribution, already more polished than Android and fully Open Source; unfortunately the deal with Microsoft implied the termination of any further development of it in favor of Windows Mobile, and the rest is history.
My old workplace had laptops with USBC docks that would only accept the cable flipped in one orientation. 50% chance you'd get it wrong every time.
High speed Unicode routines using SIMD
Here’s another one in gif form (right image) https://twitter.com/johnowhitaker/status/1565710033463156739 These seem really useful to get intuition about im2im
What would cause this? Compromised password? Hacks into GoDaddy? What is the recourse?
You can report it sure, but does anyone actually follow up on those reports with penalties high enough to deter such behavior? At least in the UK, the answer is definitely no. Our DPA is absolutely useless and may as well not exist.
I don't think it's a waste. Some people going into web development, some into compiler design, some into database optimisation, some into IT management, some into AI, some into 3d game development etc etc. CS is a broad subject. It's pretty much like studying general science in college.
This is the theory. In practice, this is what happens: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31195851
>What a terrible leader

How can you say that!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMrhoOHNOrI

Sorry. I couldn't resist dredging up this old classic. It used to be compulsory viewing any time Steve Ballmer was mentioned.

Although, on a more practical level; with winter approaching and huge energy price rises on the horizon, the burning feeling of vicarious embarrassment you get while watching this might be a warm blessing on those cold December evenings ahead.
What's the problem with building on macOS 12?
In some specializations of programming, you're going to need a lot of those things. For instance, working with game engines, scientific simulations, image or signal processing, finance, or simply making the base software and libraries that other people use, can involve a lot of CS.

In larger corporations, the programming is often much higher level, and consists more of stringing together libraries and frameworks and entire systems so that they fulfill a business purpose. Even simple programs can take hundreds of megabytes of memory and have tens or hundreds of dependencies beyond anyone's control.

If you want to keep practicing your algorithm skills, you might try something like https://projecteuler.net/ , which is very mathy, or https://checkio.org/ , which is a bit more user-friendly, and get some practice there. As for OS theory, there are always open-source operating systems one can contribute to, though I suspect many of them would consume a lot of a person's time.
I knew someone would comment this, but I wouldn't consider those as "GitHub users", because they are not registering, and are not interacting with anything on GitHub. They only care about the specific repository they are viewing, not the platform.
I mean, even if you are, what does that have to do with an iPhone specifically? People had all kinds of smartphones before iPhone even launched(that were perfectly fine for browsing the internet, reading email, taking and sharing photos etc.....even if it wasn't the most polished experience), and even for years after it was just a weird curiosity that only rich people could afford(outside of select few markets like US). Calling it the biggest achievement of humanity reads like a really poor joke, unless I don't know, you are relatively rich and iPhone was your first smartphone, then I guess it felt revolutionary, but that's an extremely narrow perspective, and again, comparing it to human achievements of just the past 100 years it pales completely, for the simplest example I'd say the internet was a bigger and better invention.
Hm, Roswell installs it pretty straightforwardly.
I didn’t get this interpretation at all? Why do you say this?

I much more understood the “happiness” to be constrained to how you feel about work. There’s no mention of happiness outside of work.
The most likely-to-be-successful spelling reforms are those that native English speakers are already testing in the field. So why not though -> tho, and through -> thru?
You should look into https://becknprotocol.io/
They will never open it up. They're ClosedAI, because they're a for profit company that makes money off their SaaS which prohibits reverse engineering.
Even many founders find it hard to turn around the ship that they built, the forces of institutional inertia work against them as well. I wonder if he simply ignored most of the existing organization and management, and more or less stealth-founded a new startup inside the old one. Even that is not easy.
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How do the three things you listed make money for the bank? I thought withdrawing cash (maybe by (A) you mean originating loans?) and handling checks are offered at no charge by most banks as a loss-leader/because of regulations. I don’t really know what your (C) is.

Perhaps another thing is maybe the OP is mostly talking about massive banks in the United States with many branches and you’re talking about smaller credit unions or community banks which make money in different ways? That might explain why you might both talk about ‘banks’ while both being right and yet talking about totally different businesses.
NoMoreBro here on HN is also generating fashion pieces: https://unshush.com/
Can you elaborate any more? I'm aware Cloudflare is refusing to deplatform Kiwifarms, but it's not clear what a single employee at Cloudflare has to do with that. Is the implication that there is a widespread culture of hate at Cloudflare? It seems like there's a key missing puzzle piece needed to reach that conclusion.
Far far future as in 1 year?
<<“If you can do one thing to improve education,” Diane Ravitch told me, “you eliminate poverty. But people say, ‘That’s impossible. What else can we do?’ ” The question is overwhelming; the answers seem impossible to grasp. But one person is something you can see clearly. One curriculum is something you can hold in your hand.

I was mostly in agreement with the article until the poverty claim. You could be "not poor" and the results would still be the same if your parents won't either spend time reading to you or not leave you surrounded by books ( and you are the curious type ). I do not understand this fascination in US with money. Not everything is about money. It can certainly help, but it does not automatically make everything better. Some minimal level of effort is needed.
Then why do we not study debugging, naming, maintenance, reading code etc... specifically?
That's it, I'm sold. I'm building my startup around CGI scripts! /s
I think this comes down to the newbie taking initiative to seek help. In person, it’s easier for others to help a newbie that doesn’t know when to seek help (they can “see” them struggling). As long as the struggling new person seeks help, remote work is superior for the actual help to be administered. Screen sharing, meeting time synchronization, etc. all make it easier to help someone remotely.
It might even have worked out.
Just that Microsoft still doesn't know how to run a proper app store besides the XBox Games one until this day.

They flooded this thing with crappy apps anyone could submit for some weird incentives just to get their weird app store metrics up, making the user experience horrible. I wonder what would have happened, if they ran a properly curated platform, where they didn't allow for keyword spamming. At a time Windows Phone had pretty much all the apps you needed back then and a more then decent camera at a competetive price.
The page has a link to activity from 2008. OpenStack started in 2010. In other words, this project had the name before OpenStack.
I see, I was thinking in hydroponics, both terms are often associated.

I'm sceptical when I see agriculture wrapped in hype terms. I think that engineering will play a bigger role here. Forest restauration and dams that would retain soil and water and absorb part of the hit will help.

Just to speculate about possible partial solutions, I think that in plain areas subject to frequent flooding they could erect small hills and build the houses over those to defend homes. As floods will increase in the future, the sooner they start, the better.

They could also to dig a system of storm ponds. So will have many soil to build the hills. Moving soil can be done in the same step. The base of the hills should be heavily reforested to retain the soil in place. As a bonus you increase the forested area and help nature to flourish.

The other solution would be to dig concrete canals for as water highways but that would remove the main reason why people lives there: Very rich soil for agriculture plus water. You don't want all of this water lost in the sea

Storm ponds would play a benefit role to store water for the dry season also.
Can you delete your environment and try again?
When Money Is Abundant, Knowledge Is the Real Wealth (2020)
This is not the GPS week counter rollover https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_week_number_rollover

But instead it is a device-specific rollover. It’s relatively common for GPS receivers to handle the limited week counter by having a baked-in epoch that is more recent than the latest rollover, which gives them a nearly 20 year lifetime after that epoch instead of failing at the GPS rollover.
Is there a single movement that rallies scientists and researchers who are dissatisfied with the state of academic publishing?

There are occasional posts like this on HN: individuals who declare academic publishing to be bust, and who are working on alternatives and solutions.

Has a single organisation emerged to coordinate efforts? Maybe that would be counterproductive, but still. I'm curious.
At a guess, children famously sometimes write letters rotated or mirrored. But that could simply be poor feature extraction when learning or poor/untrained auto-encoding.
> shipped to you by drone the next morning to wear for the day and then dispose of

An environmental catastrophe with today's technology.

But if we can fix that, say make the clothes with a 3d printer out of yesterday's recycled clothes, with energy from renewable sources, then that sounds pretty cool actually.
> now if only shellcheck would support zsh

Since the default zsh behaviour is much more reasonable (e.g. just $foo won't do globbing or word splitting) and you don't really need POSIX compatibility if you're going to use zsh-specific features, the need for shellcheck is hugely less than what you need with bash or POSIX sh.
UBS 2021 net income was US$ 7.6 billion and they have $1.12 trillion in assets under management.
No idea, sorry. Just something I remembered.
This is maybe a very dumb question but was it so expensive to add several bits (and extend its lifespan exponentially) to what is basically a counter?
Building on this, product recall in general. Auto? White goods? Toys?
> In the more western culture of recognising that company loyalty is severed both ways, a probationary period makes much less sense.

American, not Western. Probationary periods are the norm in Western(or developed for that matter) countries, same as worker rights (such as you can't be fired on a whim). Due to said worker protections, a probationary period gives the company some time to realise it made a mistake in hiring, because afterwards it's drastically harder to let someone go. Same goes for the employee, during the probationary period you can leave with little to no notice, but once it's over the mandatory notice is in the multiple weeks to months period (at my last job it was the max for France, 3 months).
When it was illegal, I thought that smoking pot was giving me anxiety, so I eventually quit.

Now that it is legal where I live, I realize that my anxiety was almost entirely due to the threat of prosecution.

The real crime is the government’s persecution of otherwise innocent citizens that use it to self-medicate.
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Software engineering in practice is mostly about glueing components together. It's problem solving for a very narrow definition of the term.

Yes, in the end the customer will be happy. But you spent 99% of your time glueing stuff and 1% of your time thinking about what to glue.
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Man, fuck that. Name scalping is wrong. This shit is part of why platforms lock down in the first place.
It's not actually a secret.

The abundant, affordable low-octane base fuel stocks that refiners and blenders work to bring up to specs have always been a no-brainer - just add a few grams of lead to your tank, and wow you've got high-octane rated fuel. And lead is heavy so that's only like a small number of mL.

Very few oil wells naturally yield a very high octane gasoline fraction, so for adequate engine performance, some enhancement has always been necessary.

The "pipeline" ended up being built basically around gasoline and additive, where the additive amount directly and straightforwardly controls the octane.

Alcohols were always known to bring up the octane rating too but you need to add gallons of alcohols to your tank not just grams. However the energy density is lower with alcohol so you get fewer miles per gallon, not what you want in an aircraft.

Well this is more like blending two bulk fuels so that was one of the infrastructure adjustments that needed to be made as the lead additive approach was phased out.

Now major percentages of alcohol are blended with base stocks to achieve the target "clean-air" and octane-rating requirements, so this has been well in place for decades.

For the G100UL they do not use alcohol, instead they blend in many gallons of other flammable liquids like xylene, which is a hydrocarbon itself, just happens to increase the octane, and increases the energy density as well. Xylene is traditionally handled as a solvent and paint thinner, so they can get trailerloads (but not nearly as cheaply as alcohol is in automotive gasoline). Xylene has always been one of those dangerous flammable hydrocarbon cargoes, supplied as a petro-chemical by a lot of refineries, it's just one of the chemicals that is normally considered too expensive to burn.

So they're not replacing a few grams of lead with a few grams of something else, GAMI has replaced a few grams of lead with a few gallons of something else completely different from lead.

And that "something else" are actually hydrocarbons that have always existed naturally in all kinds of gasoline (only in far less significant percentage). GAMI is scientifically bringing up the percentage of this type of component while maintaining the drop-in characteristic.
Reverse Engineering the Azure Application Insights Transactions URL
Press the X at the right side of the screen, the "drawer" with info closes down then and timeline shows up.
See also the pro-Puerto Rican independence terrorists who in the 1950s a) invaded the Capitol (!) to try to assassinate Congressmen, and b) invaded the temporary White House to try to assassinate Harry Truman (!!). Completely forgotten about in popular memory, despite their murdering law enforcement in the process.
I agree that numbers without a unique representation are dense in R but I believe it is only in so far at the trivial case of the n999... bijection <=> n+1 and the case of numbers which have no representation.

I do not think that there are any numbers that have multiple representations outside the n9999... <=> n+1 bijection.

There is an argument to be made that 0.9999... is not a valid representation of 1 since it is only convergent to 1 in the limit, where as 1 is 1 all the time.
There needs to be an entire class devoted to working with Product Managers without killing anyone...
Most of the giants we built could be used in nefarious ways. It doesn't mean we should bury them underground, only letting the chosen few marvel and dabble with fire.

I find the holier-than-thou attitude from some in the ML community frankly a bit sad. Sure, some may misuse the models, but an equal or dare I say, a greater number of people will find joy. Some may even, perhaps, build another giant.
I've been on the sidelines for a while, as I keep hearing that NixOS devs are focusing on the documentation for years now... but to be honest I'm not seeing it yet. Documentation was the thing that turned me off it 4 years ago, and I'm a bit sad to see it's still a big problem even if I keep hearing it's being actively worked on.
At least 2.2.7 does, I have built it myself on my M2 Air. What is your issue?
Im confused...were 10-bit timers being used in recent history? Also they're using weeks as their atomic unit?

This seems like something that never should have existed.
Read OPs comment again, they're in Australia, so you should not apply out of place American logic and labour "laws".

Probationary periods are a normal part of employment contracts in most developed/Western countries, with few glaring exceptions like the US, due to the presence of worker protection laws like the fact you can't be fired on a whim, and you can't quit on a whim without notice. So the probationary period leaves both parties the opportunity to quit before it becomes hard to do so.
It's probably less about adding a few bits to the counter, and more about replacing the existing counters that are already deployed everywhere in the world. Industrial applications usually go by "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" and stick with decades-old machines as long as they still get the job done.
The teams that did Maemo stuff etc. weren't allowed to ship any features before the Symbian side (which had more political and monetary power) had achieved feature parity...
I'm flying on 17th September. Looking forward to it now.
Namespaces are not modules, but a proper design.
One of the problems of floppy disks IMAO is that they need to use a lot of plastics for storing tiny amounts of information. We don't live in that cheap one-use plastic utopia anymore

Can be useful for security, but is not a wise way to use the hardware resources.
No. But which way did incentives align?
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I went to a Picasso exhibition in Madrid once where they had an entire, huge, long room filled with every sketch and painting he'd done in preparation for Guernica, plus Guernica itself of course. It was eye-opening to say the least, especially as so many of the prep-work pieces were not in his typical style. Some were in an absolutely beautifully detailed realist style, and at that point I'd never seen a Picasso that wasn't cubist so it really stuck with me.
And that is why you actually need a decent reason to leave. Be it money, seemingly better culture or more interesting work.
Superdeterminism: To Better Understand Our Universe, Ditch The Idea Of Free Will
Of the 219 factors causing unhappiness, I'm guessing 218 of them are 'constantly changing requirements' :) The last one is 'nobody refilled the coffee machine.'

edit: speeling