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> Can such a figure really be deemed an anachronism?

Obvious answer is the correct answer: yes!

Hell, there are moments in Brahms' Paganini Variations that are more experimental than Rach's Paganini Rhapsody. I'm thinking in particular of that wonderful little canon where the right hand follows the left hand in a slightly-altered triplet pattern.

Alternatively, listen to Lutoslawski's Paganini Variations for two pianos written only seven years after Rach's Paganini Rhapsody. And realize that is about as conservative as Lutoslawski gets!

There's absolutely nothing wrong with Rach's compositions, and turning the theme upside down in the Rhapsody was a stroke of brilliance. But the question is elementary to answer and not at all elucidating. He wasn't a radical composer in any reasonable sense of the word.
Webex...
It's pretty easy to get one now. You can just sign up for a wait list on amazon and be notified with a 72 hour purchase link. My friend did that a few weeks ago and got one in 2 days, no hassle, at retail.
>I think a lot here miss the main point of the article.

People are very, very clearly reacting to the headline and making the same comments we've seen 1000 times before.

It's a shame since the article itself is interesting and could stimulate actual novel conversation, but the chance for that is gone.
Being in Engineering Management, I agree 1000%.

My advice to anyone feeling the pains of that article ... work for smaller companies. The 'operational overhead' of smaller companies is much much smaller.

Let me add, ive spent a lot of time thinking about what advice to give my children about their first job in real world. As someone in management, here is my advice to them:

Don't choose your first job based on salary, title, or company prestige. All of those can and will come with time. Choose your first job based on who you will be reporting to and what type of person they are. Will they understand you? Will you understand them? Will they support you? Can you trust them?

The spirit of this advice is that if you have a bad boss, most likely your day, each day, most likely will suck. Sure, twice a month your check will look nice, or maybe your business card will have impressive branding on it, but will you be happy? My wife gave me an article once, it was something like "you spend 1/3 of your waking life at work". Don't hate 1/3 of your waking life. Enjoy it. I believe the best way to enjoy each and every day of work is to have a boss that gets you, supports you, and empowers you.
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Is there any hope that even if there emerges a consensus package management solution going forward, old packages will be easily portable to it?
Engineering management is not bullshit, but there's a lot of companies with a focus on engineering that aren't necessarily good at hiring managers.
Can we ever reasonably expect to use our cars for that, with vehicle2grid?

I have a ~60kWh battery sitting around in my garage, that I typically only use 10% for daily driving.
>> Why build 20 $50k homes on the land and make $200k profit when you can build 10 $500k homes and make $1mil in profit?

I don't understand this comment. This is the same profit margin. You invest 1 million (20 * 50k) and make 20% (200k) or invest 5 million(10 * 500k) and make 20% (1 million).

Depending on the amount of initial capitol you want to invest you may choose one over the other.
I can't be the only who hate's PS5 design overall. Just something about it doesn't sit well with me.
I wonder how an alternate timeline might have played out if Richard Hipp had not named it "SQLite" and instead called it "SQLightning" or "SQLExpress" or something like that. For much of its lifetime, SQLite wasn't taken seriously despite being an extraordinary technology and part of me is convinced it was in large part due to "Lite" being in the name.
What, precisely, was Stuxnet a proportional response to?
Homebrew 3.6.0
>>Pichai also gave more specific examples of how he hopes to [increase efficiency of the company]. He gave a past example of aligning YouTube Music and Google Play Music into one product.

I see creating YouTube Music when you have Google Play Music as textbook Not Invented Here (I'm aware of the irony of that statement).
They could have just rebranded it, but no, they started from scratch. They switched audio codecs, and rebuild the entire app and backend infrastructure. Probably because YouTube is run like a separate company inside Google.

They've done this type of stuff over and over. It boggles my mind.
He could start by cutting the team that flags Google’s own emails as phishing attempts.
Do you mean competition in terms of employees (hire so they don't work elsewhere) or companies?

The employee thing is silly IMO. It's just a losing game and the number of engineers is very high. And the hard part of creating a killer app isn't necessarily the engineering requirements. Sure some hard problems require a few dozen people out of maybe a few thousand, but most killer apps are relatively simple CRUD apps that require relatively basic engineering. Finding product market fit is the hardest part and that's not necessarily an engineering problem. There will always be people that want to leave FAANG for other opportunities even taking a huge paycut. And most apps don't require tens of thousands of engineers to create.

In terms of acquiring successful products, maybe. I do think its weird when companies pay big money to buy a user base of a few hundred k to millions and shut it down. An example is Twitter buying Vine, but that didn't prevent TikTok from being invented. But there are counter examples of course like Meta buying WhatsApp and Instagram.

Maybe FAANG does do that but its a bad strategy and is wasteful
What do you believe is inside a standard battery? Pure electricity? That doesn't exist. It's a compound that goes through a chemical reaction when you charge it, and which goes through another one when you discharge.
>Sure, 2020/2021 the prices of Timber exploded due higher demand. This variable is simply not taken into account.

Indeed, the article ignores costs entirely. According to a 2020 study, mass timber buildings costs 2.4-12% more than concrete buildings over their lifetime[1]. That said, if carbon emissions were taxed to account the destruction they cause to the world (and consequently the global economy), I bet wood timber buildings would be way cheaper to build, even in the middle of supply shortage like we saw during the pandemic.

[1]: https://www.fpl.fs.usda.gov/documnts/pdf2020/fpl_2020_gu001....
A few reasons:

1. They would rather be building cool things than doing all the other things involved in running a company. Nobody said managers are doing literally nothing, just that they're generally not very good and they really don't deserve or earn the authority they have. Their role is a support role, like a typist or a document manager or something. They should be considered basically secretaries to the engineers, so your question is "why don't the engineers all go become secretaries then?". Not to bash secretaries, but rather to give you the point that their authority comes not from what they do, but rather from the caste they were born into and/or the college they graduated from.

2. Many of them would go and start their own (likely very successful) companies, if doing so weren't a gated community open only to either (A) those who already have lots of connections and lots of family money to fall back on as a safety net if they fail, and (B) those who are willing to subsist on dry Top Ramen and live out of their car for years while they devote 100% of their time to their startup. Most of the good engineers out there have responsibilities like kids and/or mortgages, because it takes a long time to become a good engineer. And most people aren't born into the "business caste" that starts companies and becomes high-level managers at companies in the US.

3. They do. When it does happen, they become wildly successful and do completely fucking steamroll the competition, because the competition actually truly veritably is garbage run by chucklefucks who are only there because they were born into the Business Caste.
I have an addiction (not gambling) and my life has been changed by a 12 step program. I can't say it will work for everyone, but it's worked for a lot of people.

https://www.gamblersanonymous.org/ga/
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Some of these images are fascinatingly similar, but a lot of them provided in the tweet are more "creepy looking vaguely female creature" than a specific entity
I know this is more of a tech demo, but my mind immediately jumps to what sort of controls would be most playable. Have you tried something like:

• Gyroscope to look around.

• Scroll crown to walk forwards or backwards.

• Tap anywhere on screen to fire.

(Pushing in the crown to fire isn't possible, right?)
Except financial companies are given civil immunity for this kind of thing if they file a SAR. It's effectively a license to steal. And I suspect it has less to do with any actual crime and more to do with the fact that some of the team is Russian.
Can you design an organisation in which has managers, which would fall apart entirely if you took them away? Yes absolutely.

I'm not sure this really demonstrates that they added value so much as they just prevented value from getting subtracted by other dysfunctional parts of the organisation.
The workaround is to understand how the questions you're asking the database relate to the structure of your data. What you describe is a brute force way to acquire that understanding on the fly on arbitrary queries. It might sometimes be the best you can do, and then it might be worth it (benchmark!), but in quite a few cases it'll be quite a bit slower.
You had me until “talent.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
National Academy of Sciences sanctions White House climate official
it's also way simpler than some might think, in that it's simply a matter of Facebook choosing not to devote enough resources to it, and thus choosing not to know
I got introduced to a gacha game for the first time about 2 years ago, compared with classic mid 2000's Gamecube games. Gacha is a type of Japanese gambling game that is found on mobile phones, and can be tied to various media properties to link into pre-existing fondness for characters.

I don't consider myself as having an addictive personality (only got a smartphone about the same time, etc) but it has been an education in how much effort one has to put into not making it take over your life. If I didn't have a strict "only money you spend on this is the flat 5$ monthly subscription fee, no more" rule, I can easily see a bad night wrecking havoc on a pocketbook. The thought with the subscription for me, is that the gameplay's fun enough for me to spend a starbucks-a-month on it.

The wildest thing is, this specific gacha (Fire Emblem Heroes) is considered very tame compared to most gachas, when it's all said and done.

Given the popularity (an order of magnitude larger than FEH) of other gachas like Genshin Impact among Gen Z ... and the horror stories I've been hearing of former friends backstabbing each other and sabotaging fandom projects to steal money for gacha addictions ... this worries me.
Baltic Birch is 5'x5' (but it's more typically used for furniture)
I’m not in agreement with this idea, but i wonder if these companies could legally be considered a participant and therefore the one party consenting…
The weak suffer what they must. Iran could definitely have gone for some sabre rattling and asking for aid from their allies, but obviously their options were limited.
Clearly, 90% of the people commenting haven't read through the article and putting out their feelings by taking it personally instead of adding anything constructive.
YC is a big-time brand, being a YC company is a powerful stamp of approval for acquiring customers, hiring and raising further investment. Go YC first, then get more interest/better terms from VCs, hire more easily, sell more easily.
Don't the need the permission of all participants to transcribe?
I don't see the contradiction here. "Doing the work I'm being paid to do" is not at odds with "I work at least as well at home as in the office".
Engineering management is only bullshit if the managers are not potential target users of the product, since a manager needs to deeply understand how the product gets experienced by its end users. Note that this does not mean that non-technical people cannot be engineering managers; it just means that they cannot manage technical products.

Thus, you cannot have effective nontechnical managers for products intended for technical people (e.g. IDEs, sysadmin tools, etc.), but technical managers for products intended for general audiences (e.g. email, office applications, etc.) are perfectly fine (and perhaps even better, since they provide a much needed nontechnical perspective to highly technical developers).
My understanding is that the .NET version is a port and only related in the style/approach. However, if I was them I'd consider renaming the lib. Looks like the name "Akka" is tainted at this point.
Agreed. It sounds like the writer was lonely prior, moved to a new country for some reason, and complained about loneliness.

This isn't a dig at the author, though. I've moved all over the US, and my complaints in most cities have to do with things being different than I was accustomed to, rather than strictly worse. And that's pretty close to what the article goes through.

I guess I was in search of some dream location, and finally realized such a thing doesn't exist. The grass always seems greener, as they say. But some stubborn folks like us have to learn the hard way.
> but also makes you pay more in overdraft fees

Overdraft services have been opt-in only for over a decade: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/rules-policy/regulations/100...
This is true of all the tech whales, it's actually smart business in a climate where antitrust enforcement doesn't exist. Paying a few million dollars a year for a team of engineers to do nothing for a few years to eliminate a startup that could have carved a couple of hundred million dollars a year out of Google's top line is actually a great return on investment.
https://archive.ph/4MaVq
Exposure + validation. It's a desirable credential + guaranteed press and intros to VCs if you want funding. YC is basically like going to an Ivy League school for startups at this point.
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I would argue that the greatest thing the Russians ever did was convince the West they were pros at manipulating social media.

The FBI literally interfered with the 2020 US election because they were that afraid of the Russians. Russia didn't even have to do anything, the FBI did it all for them out of an unearned reputation.
Show HN: Calculate how much time, CO2, and money you saved since you went remote
Is hydrogen -> methane -> turbine more efficient for electricity generation than just hydrogen -> fuel cell?
Probably simplicity. It would be easier for a manufacturer to do a quick firmware update that implements BigFAT than having them support BTRFS.
The best cheaters are also highly skilled. This is true in online competitive games as well. Very rarely do these folks just leave cheats on all the time. That's blatant and easy to ban. But toggling it on at critical moments will give you those "clutch" wins which genuinely happen sometimes, but makes them much more reliable.
The problem with this analogy is that the CIA uses frameworks like Marble [1] to stage false flag cyberattacks. Attribution is never as obvious as helicopter landing on your roof, not even close.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7#Marble_framework
As impressive as the tree-sitter ecosystem is, there is a certain danger in building tooling on top of it. Unless tree-sitter is used as the parser in the actual language compiler, it is almost always going to be an approximation to the language grammar. This is somewhat risky if it is important that any kind of semantic analysis, including diffing, is correct. In the case of difftastic, what worries me is that it might be possible to inject malicious code into a repo by exploiting a bug in the tree-sitter grammar/parsing implementation such that the malicious code is hidden from difftastic because, for example, it is treated as whitespace when it actually isn't. This of course wouldn't be a problem if PRs are being handled by github, but what if down the road github starts offering difftastic (or something similar) as a diff option for PRs?

Admittedly, this is a somewhat far fetched scenario that I have posited but I am somewhat concerned that the proliferation of incorrect tree-sitter grammars is going to lead to the worst kind of problem down the road: tools that work great _most_ of the time.
If I'm not mistaken, this is likely to be the final Zachtronics title release, unfortunately. Looking forward to seeing what the individual members of the Zachtronics team go on to do next.
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Well, in many cases, dimension mismatch causes errors, not just lets you find them. And in fact, with the recently-ish introduced broadcasting behavior, you don't even get an error, just surprising dimensional-increasing behavior.

As for "math error", it often is nothing to do with that, you just want a list of values, what should such a list be? Column or row? And often, I'm the user, calling into other people's code that sometimes wants columns, sometimes rows, and behaves surprisingly different for each (sometimes with errors, sometimes not.)

There should be a convention in Matlab about whether fundamentally 1d structures should be columns or rows, but there isn't. (Just for example: reductions work down columns, except when the columns are length-1, while iteration only occurs along rows...)

This is a huge, huge problem in my daily work. I can give many examples, but am on my phone now.

Let me put it like this: if I could change only one single thing about Matlab, I would introduce a proper vector.
Did you explain cryptographic signing to them?
CRISPR fully reprograms mammal genome for the first time
"Free market" does not mean a market without any regulatory structure. A market in which monopolies have formed is not free, as monopolies can force conditions on transactions that would not exist if multiple independent and competing parties were able to participate on the supply side.
Rsync copies data to destination. Backup software such as Restic or Borg are miles ahead: incremental, snapshots, checksums, compression, encryption, etc.

Highly recommend Restic and Borg.
Yes, folks are being priced out of healthcare, but the healthcare that is being provided is of superior quality than can be found in other countries -- even first world countries with socialized healthcare. I mean it in that narrow sense, that the service that is being delivered is of higher quality.

It sounds like your point is that wider delivery of healthcare would be superior overall. That's fine, but I contend that the best way to achieve that is by increasing the supply of healthcare providers, instead of applying a price ceiling, which leads to shortages (as seen elsewhere on this thread[0]) and quality deterioration.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32745467
> I guess 4GB seemed like a reasonable limit when FAT32 was designed.

FAT32 was always seen as stop-gap measure for low-end consumer hardware when introduced in 1996; NTFS was introduced 3 years prior to handle terabyte-scale data for enterprise users.

> Most likely FAT32 has a 32bit number for file size and ExFAT presumably has either a 64bit one

Correct.
There was an article in Wired around 2006/2007 where a guy built exactly that. Basically built a solar powered hydrogen collector in his back yard.

Found it: https://www.wired.com/2007/03/backyard-fuel-cell/
"2% in Climate, Energy, or Sustainability"

I know YC is not a governmental agency and their main goal is profit, but given all that's going on in the world, would've loved to see a substantially higher number here.
The ecosystem. Being able to interact with other founders, the exposure you get, advice & help etc. It's not about the money.
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Can you elaborate? Not sure what you are talking about.
They're also really useful for differential testing.
This reminds me of Joe Hisaishi and his soundtracks for Studio Ghibli movies. He's the big guy right now as far as I'm concerned.
I already linked a different Igudesman&Joo video in another thread, but this video beautifully shows that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9akzcgzRaw
For envelope (floor, walls roof) key metric is $ per sq ft. Its possible to do <$10 per sq ft in most of USA. So for a 100 sq ft room it works out to 6 sq ft envelope per sq ft of floor so $60 per sq ft of floor area.

for a 500 sq ft studio that works out to $30k.
Is the big file handling seemless? If not why not just split files and use regular FAT32.

And what about converting FAT32 to a linux partition? Or buy a new
disk and move data over to that.

Edit: it is a genuine question. downvote implies not but honestly it is.
missing the file embeds and comparisons that make this tool great for black box testing, also that it makes a pseudo home and environment.

testscript is great for sharing reproducer scripts (commands + files) in a single text file. You can then turn these into a test suite
Vacations are booked through a booking system, pay raises are negotiated by a union, so not an issue.
Instead of actually reading the article and critiquing what the author wrote, you've taken it personally and really just haven't provided any valid points.

The last 2 paragraphs of your comment can be applied to your behavior actually.
File a complaint with the FTC.

https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/

If you're in a two party consent state, probably worth the effort to file a complaint with your state's attorney general.
In an all-party consent state you would need everyone in the call to consent for recording to be legal, but even in one-party consent states you would still at least need OP's consent to be recording! If the user says no and they record anyway, I can't think of any state where that's legal (though the EULA probably has something covering that, unsure if that holds up in court).
> you do with the minimum you can get away with

What an odd way to say "refusing to do work you're not being compensated to do".
Hah, I might have agreed before I worked on a credit card processing system. There were plenty of rules alright, but it's possible to abide by all the rules without actually making a secure system. Some of the rules made it harder to create a secure system because they did not reflect the state of the art, or they made adding additional security too burdensome to implement. In the end, you can't force competence through rules.
On top of my head, a couple different ways of doing search I've been using lately:

* Business search via maps service.

* "How To" search via video service.

Funny enough, best services to do so are Google Maps and YouTube.
The wiki article doesn’t even mention false flags? Why wouldn’t the CIA make their malware another language? You think they are going to be hacking Russian networks with English language malware?
This kind of thinking is called collective punishment and ordinarily is discussed as a human rights violation.