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Community Highlight: Melanie Sumner
I think it's less about individual designers and more about the industry in general. A company that respects its users will find it harder to get money from advertisers and investors.
In the current place of work I’m at (a YC funded startup) we have 4 dev environments that are shared among several dozen engineers. Each of these is a kubernetes cluster that can be “checked out” using a slack bot. Devs can also run the cluster locally on Docker Desktop which most developers do for most use cases. It works pretty well. We have never run out of environments. There’s definitely still some room for improvement, however.

For instance we currently reuse environments but are instead working on a way to build a queue of fresh environments that rebuild themselves after you are done with it so that developers always get a clean cluster when they request one.

I will say that we almost never run into problems due to environments being shared between developers - the “clean room” approach is more for developer confidence and feeling good than anything else.
...or you live in a dense suburb where they never bothered to put up towers, or a rural area where towers are more scarce, or any where that you have to go in a building without wifi..

I don't honestly believe many developers don't experience this a lot. It's probably just such a transitory experience that it's not worth the rearchitecting required to really solve it.
it's not a bottleneck, but it is extraordinarily inefficient. how many chunks of coal burned solely to give Electron the Watts required to do what it is doing over something more reasonable? it is definitely more than zero.

how many laptop charge cycles are caused entirely by electron apps using more power than traditional applications? impossible to know for sure, but easy to know that it is far greater than zero.

does this mean that you can carry my preference to its extreme and assume that I am advocating that all applications be written in Assembly and be extensively tuned? no, it does not.

I am saying that Electron is a tool of a developer who cares about their own experience over the experience of all of the users of the software they write, combined. the entire reason we write software is so that an end user's life can be made easier. if you think anything different, you likely have an MBA or don't understand why people pay for or use software. Even games are played so that the life of the player can be enriched. Part of the work ethic of this field (that apparently only I believe in) is to not deliver terrible software to end users, and it is my personal opinion that Electron developers choose what is easiest for them to get another round of funding going, and not what is best for the users who actually consume the product. These developers write for money, and to make the world a better place for themselves, at the small, but very real, expense of everyone else.

the absurd popularity of the electron apps you mention is probably due to the fact that they are only available as Electron apps or as web pages. "Look how successful electron is" doesn't count if there is not an equivalent traditional app to compare it against. And I am recalling a lot of people on the internet, including this website, and lots of people at work actively and repeatedly complaining about the performance of all of those applications, so I am not really sure that you are standing on solid ground at all.
I tried to upload an image that I took (as part of my graduate studies) but was previously published by media outlets and the whole situation really turned me off wikipedia. I think the image is still there though!
Oh wow, that brings me back a ways...
Dude, faux ignorance is rude and anti-conducive to useful conversation; please don't. (Unless, of course, you're sincerely unaware of trains being a widely used mode of transportation even in the States, in which case you're not rude but you should go ask Google to inform yourself.)
I had a feeling you would say that. I don't think this was part of our threat model until pretty recently. That was why I asked, because these stories aren't really internalized collectively yet I think and it's valuable to reconsider who we can trust and what threat actors might value.
> Old, like from a time when it respected your freedom more?

No.

- Old like people took years to create alternative drivers and reverse engineer APIs.

- Old like hardware which was phased out due to security flaws which also happened to allow free firmware.

- Old like the producer doesn't care about it anymore and therefor some employees feel safe to leak some details needed for creating free drivers.
Show HN: Infinite Music from the Boston Public Library
This site plays a loop of more than 23,000 songs on LP records from the Boston Public Library. You can create customizable stations. Music streams free via archive.org.
(Please ignore my following questions if they make you uncomfortable or you find them offensive)

1. What was your favorite drug you ever tried?

2. What was your least favorite drugs you ever tried?

3. What was your best combination of substances?

4. Do you feel like any of your drug usage has affected your cognition in anyway?

5. Do you ever miss it?

I only ask these questions out of pure curiosity, and I do no intend to change behaviors with the information that you may provide -- as in, I am not going to try new substances depending on your answers. I personally use Cannabis, and I feel like I have definitely noticed both benefits and harm from it. There are no free lunches after all.

Anyway, as some random Internet stranger, I am proud of you, and I hope you are proud of yourself for how far you have come. It seems like you went to a version of Hell and came back, and that is not something many can say. I wish you the all best.
>Really, all non-essential flights should be banned.

Sounds good on paper until you realize that the same well resourced individuals who can afford to fly a private plane for fun, can probably also afford to hire fixers to get their flights classified as "essential" (eg. "aerial photography"). Instead of wasting time and money playing wack-a-mole with exemptions and debating whether something deserve to be banned or not (are we going to ban leisurely drives as well?), just impose a carbon tax. You want to cause $1000 climate damage by doing your hobby? Fine, as long as you pay a $1100 carbon tax.
> machine-editable configuration files. I'm not just talking about parsing and pretty printing; I'm talking about preserving comments.

Augeas is your guy here.

https://augeas.net/
> You're supposed to put your phone on airplane mode in a train or subway too,

Why would you be expected to do this when we don't require drivers to put their phones in airplane mode? I get that US trains are slow compared to other parts of the world, but does the Autobahn require airplane mode? Doubtful since my German car happily connects to my phone in multiple ways.
I occasionally wonder if it would be the cheaper, sustainable approach to just give everyone an iOS device containing their full medical record in HealthKit and require that all data requests go through your device, where you have full control on who gets access and for how long.

A simple back-of-the-envelope calculation results in $1 000 per iOS device x 300 000 000 = $300 000 000 000 (three hundred billion). To put that into perspective, the CDC says that $3 795 000 000 (three-thousand seven-hundred and nine-five billion) was spent on healthcare in 2019.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus/topics/health-care-expenditures...
2FA needs to be implemented in a more human-friendly manner. Apple does better with their "friend or family member" account recovery. 2FA needs to be something you know not something you have. Or at least needs to support that. Yes, this would be a problem for someone who doesn't know someone to be their backup. But that's a real edge case.
You are thinking with present limitations and I mostly agree.

I can actually take a drink with the headset on but the bulk does make it odd. But these next gen headsets are much more compact. Check out the vive flow, and then the nvidia prototype holographic displays.

If I live in a small apartment or dorm or just don’t have a tv in my room and want to watch anything then that becomes a better choice than holding my extremely heavy iPhone or iPad very soon.
> Its popularity has been deeply tied to Christian imperialism and its adoption has often been forced.

I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news but ancient Israel was also a kingdom/empire.

You are just migrating from the conventions from empire to the conventions from another one.

If imperialism is bad there might be non-imperial calendar alternatives you may enjoy more, like the French Republican calendar.

If you dislike Ancient Rome, you may also consider not using the Latin alphabet.

Most of the atrocities you mention took place during a time when literacy rate was really low, masses took place in Latin and absolutely nobody understood what was going on. Copies of the Bible were extremely expensive and for over 1000 years there was not even paper to print them. Most of the people involved in those acts of violence had no idea what actual Christianity even meant because their only connection to Christianity was attending a church on Sunday where the entire thing was in Latin.

Jesus was an extremely tolerant guy and his message was one of tolerance and forgiveness, which is extremely unusual for a monotheistic belief system.

Another thing to take into consideration is that it is the successor of Christian imperialism mostly what helped found modern Israel and is helping protect Israel today. So perhaps it may be a good idea to relax those views a bit.
I always ask my potential peers how they feel. Are you stressed, relaxed, happy, sad, mad, excited, ambivalent. What works great, what needs improvement. Ask them directly: are you happy with your scrum/agile process? Be careful though as just the words might trigger some ;) If they won't let you talk to your peers and instead you only get to talk to the manager and team lead, be wary: they might be trying to escape & say anything to hire new people. And if they say they are very very excited to have you on board, I'd say that's worrying too, unless you are some kinda rockstar. Also check out Glassdoor and other review sites.
Occam's Razor would suggest a Linux bug.
> As I once told one of their sales execs, "quit worrying about people pirating your system and worry about people ignoring it".

That's a very frequent comment about tech companies with underperforming sales.

This is how ARM leapfrogged MIPS around 2010. Their licensing was basicaly "you are buying a USB stick". MIPS on other hand was "pre-pay us $100k just to have our attorney to take a look on if we can sell to you"

In those "deep" tech companies, it's absolutely not unusual to have sales staffed by people with zero background knowledge, but nevertheless star sales professionals.
A Story of My Burnout
An app? How about a website?
I still suspect we'll see much cheaper gear once the patents expire, though it might be due to more computationally expensive encoding.

10GBASE-T was standardized in 2006 so 2027+ hopefully? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Gigabit_Ethernet#Copper
> You’d think they’re stuck in a luggage area and airtags would help you hasten them getting to you?

Absolutely! Look at the photos in https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-61848486 and imagine trying to find your bag without a tracker in that mess.
> Google's Imagen was trained on about as many images as a 6 year old would have seen over their lifetime at 24fps

The six year old has the advantage of being immersed in a persistent world where images have continuity and don’t jump around randomly. For example infants learn very quickly that most objects stay put even when they aren’t being observed. In contrast a dataset of images on the internet doesn’t really demonstrate how the world works.
10Gbe is really best with DAC or Optical cables.
If someone has a good argument in favor of less cooperation and less coordination around the world, I'm all ears.

If someone knows of a better hope out there than the UN to encourage cooperation and coordination, I'm curious to know what it could be.

Far as I can see, unless there's a miracle and we strengthen the UN, our grandchildren (or maybe us) are in trouble.
GNU Guix is way different from upstream (but that's about it, in terms of GNU forks that actually offer value)
And almost always renders them less readable, and occasionally unparsable. I do wish they'd turn off this "feature". I've yet to hear a coherent explanation for how this improves the quality of submissions.
PayPal is known for keeping your money at length or indefinitely with no explanation or recourse.

Venmo is a mindbogglingly stupid thing that requires you to take active steps just to keep it from broadcasting your financial activity to the world, and last I checked there was no way to keep your "friend list" from being public at all.

On top of that there was a period where they disabled transfer functionality on their website altogether and the only way you could send money was through their proprietary mobile app. Seems they eventually reversed course on this, but I have no idea how long it took.
National Gallery of Art Discovered One Vermeer Painting Not Painted by Vermeer
Are doctor's notes part of this?

I wonder how many doctor's are going to regret some things they wrote.
Can someone explain to me the point of a sprint? How about "there is some work available to do, and you do it as you become ready"?

Am I supposed to be working longer than 40 hours this week to finish the work arbitrarily assinged to this sprint, because if so you are absolutely fucking off your rocker.
I guess to me 2.5gbe just seems like a weird in between with less support, but I agree that it's probably going to be my only option otherwise. Though a 10Gbe switch would also be awesome for local lan, since my servers' NVME SSDs are constantly "throttled" by my 1Gbe (and would be at 2.5Gbe too, but to a lesser extent).
In 2013 the FCC started a regulatory preceding to evaluate allowing the use of mobile phones on airplanes, because currently there is an FCC regulation prohibiting cellular mobile phone use while a plane is in the air. in 2013 the FCC also said there were no technical reasons to prohibit their use in flight. But the preceding was ended in 2020 with no rule-making because of opposition from pilots and flight attendants.
Well, maybe. My kids seem to have taken it for granted that clicking on that weird square thing that we know as a floppy disk icon saves their work, somewhere. I don't think they ever asked why that symbol.
If SFO is supposed to mean San Francisco and CDG Paris then certainly not. The max range of a 737-800 is about 50% of the distance.
This is interesting but I would much prefer to know what the cheapest copper 10GbE switch is ...

We've been buying the d-link DXS-1210-12TC for top-of-rack 10GbE switches and at (roughly) $15xx it's fine ... but I don't have one of those in the lab ...
There's no substitute for pragmatism when it comes to enforcing limits to misuse of the commons.

Should someone with the common cold be allowed participate normally in society? Probably yes, even though they may do slight harm others.

Should someone with Ebola be allowed to do the same? Probably not.

This is pragmatic line drawing. There is no alternative.

We let people generate a little pollution because we accept some is necessary for normal life. But beyond that should be regulated.
It's seriously such an underrated technology. The fact that there are billions of devices spread out all over the world that can suddenly spring into action to precisely locate my item any time is so crazy to think about. All for a $29 one-time purchase. And I get the sense most people don't even know this exists.
On the plus side it's probably a lot less likely that they'll forget about your bag if it's incessantly beeping at them
Very cool! If I remember correctly Reddit self-posts have a similar origin story.
> then the playing field is level;

But it's not, because it only affects a small number of devs with a lot of conviction. A number small enough to be mostly irrelevant for any company with relevant market share. The rest of the world does just ignore the FSF of today.
> Do you support all the barbaric teachings in it, like stoning your daughter when she lost her virginity before marriage? Is that a truth we should blindly follow?

John 8:7 pretty clearly obsoletes that. So yeah, I'm still happy to follow what the Bible actually says.
You may have read the comment the way I initially did:

as "Now let us (let's) delete them"

I think his meaning was "give us the right to delete them" which IMO should be the standard.
More NLP Researchers Should Engage with AI Safety Concerns
Users benefit, too. You phone uses a lot more power when trying to connect to all those towers.
https://archive.ph/tmbk6
Audible is terrible for this. The parking lot at work is situated juuuust right to the point that when I'm leaving the office, my phone thinks its connected but has no actual connectivity. Audible sits there trying to sync the storefront and whatever else instead of just playing my damn book when I turn on my car to leave for the day.
I like learning about these historical time reckoning methods. Using the solar system as a clock is a nice way to be more in touch with the cosmos. I’m still fond of our new gps time though. A simple number line that doesn’t skip a beat and clocks so accurate that I can get a feel for the warping of spacetime.
The CD I was given has a Windows-only program on it, complete with installer, and that is the only way to view the pictures on the disc. There are no JPG, PNG, GIF, RAW, PDF or any other recognizable files on the disc by itself.
Even for really short runs? I'd mostly use it for the link between my ISP modem to the switch, and wouldn't mind slower speeds for the rest of my devices. But that's definitely something I'll have to keep in mind.
Or even more extreme, perhaps, TAILS on a stick and you just yank the stick when you're done. As long as you don't connect via Tor you're all alone.
JetBrains IDEs are not on mobile though. It doesn't matter if they're incidentally accessed on mobile if they're not actually designed to be used on mobile.
Contrary to popular conception, GPLv3, at large, dramatically reduces risk for commercial use compared to GPLv2 -- https://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/fosdem-video/2015/devroom-lega...

But as long as companies like Apple whine about it (and sometimes outright lie about it), people will continue to believe that it poses a great risk to commercial use.

Edit: Not Google. Google has been fine on GPLv3 for years. It's individual Google employees that have said incorrect things about it, but I can't find a reference for what I'm remembering.
For me, hockey was the biggest help.

I met many friends through having season tickets for my local NHL team, met friends playing adult "beer league" hockey, met friends traveling for away games in different cities, and I even have friends internationally whom I've never met in person but still remain in contact with.
Ahhh, memories.
There is a lot of discussion about supercomputers in this article. I don't think public cloud providers can compete easily with traditional super computers because they are built for optimal processing of extremely large scale MPI workloads. Such workloads are not common so I expect that public cloud providers wouldn't bother optimizing for this niche use case (though I know they all have offerings). Also when you are only optimizing for a single variable (i.e. speed), you can make design choices that would be impossible to make in a more general situation.

Of course, not all scientific computing workloads require a traditional supercomputer. In fact, I suspect most do not.
A long time ago in the US, one could purchase additional baggage insurance at the check-in counter. Insuring for $10,000 USD guaranteed face-to-face hand-off-on-signature delivery at every step of the way. There are crappy third-party insurance underwriters for luggage these days, and the airlines stopped offering their own insurance policies because theft is so rampant in their baggage handling processes.

In the US, there is a myth that packing a gun and going through the procedure to declare it would sprinkle magic never lost dust upon the luggage. It was once true a long time ago, but these days it only marginally improves the odds, if at all.

An AirTag, Tile, and an old phone with a basic plan, new battery, and on your find device app, is about as good as it gets nowadays.
15,000 in the past 3 quarters. I saw quite a few of them in California.

Nowhere near Tesla numbers, but quite good for the age of the company. Doing significantly better than Lucid, Lordstown, etc from what I can tell.
I'm pretty sure vi/m needs a proper terminal, so... actually that might not be surmountable, given that there were probably BBS clients back then. But I suspect it would be easier to write a file system adapter that could let you safely share the files then to try and support a modern program in that kind of resource constrained environment.
They don't. The options the Fed has are:

- Continue printing/lending (enabling further inflation)

- Cut printing/lending (economy/markets crash)

- Try to perfectly balance the level of printing/lending (resulting in a period of economic stagnation and slow growth as we pay off our debts / deleverage. AKA the soft landing)

Option 3 is what they're trying to do, but it's unrealistic to achieve as it requires perfection not only on their part, but on market participants as a whole, so some degree and combination of all 3 is likely to happen.
Servethehome once again doing extremely high value review. We'd make better tech, have better stuff, if we had such practical & value minded reviews.

Powered by 52V 2.5A brick. TBH, the rise of e-mobility has been great here. All kinds of devices that want somethin under 60V, all kinds of great bulk power providers at this low-medium voltage. And all manners of suoer efficient low cost buck adapters from there.
I work in this field and I found this article... very difficult to follow. More technical description would be helpful so I can pattern match to my existing knowledge.

Are they re-inventing autoencoders?
AA does.
This really should be a top level comment, as it’s spot on imho.
That program is probably just a DICOM viewer.
We have a market system that lets people make up their own minds about how they deploy their resources and has been shown unequivocally to be the least bad of potential economic systems. If you disagree that aviation is properly priced with respect to externalities, make that point. Suggesting (or implying) that some central committee should decide on "essential" purposes for aviation and only approve those (obviously the aviation needs of the committee members and other elites will be essential) is incredibly ignorant of history. This has happened before and it doesn't work.
Leave India and Move to the US while I was young(in my 20s).

Seems to make the difference between heaven and hell in terms of overall quality of life and opportunities.