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A thing I was thinking was that, though almost surely the line was broken in the West, it might not have been broken altogether. We know, for example, that the Pauliṣa Siddhānta in India contains Hellenistic astronomy; and we know that as far back as Classical Athens, Greek philosophers reported visiting India and studying with "gymnosophists", an ascetic tradition (called Digambara in Sanskrit) which either survives there today or has been coincidentally reinvented in the same subcontinent at least a thousand years ago. Surely it is conceivable that, during the period when Rome was laying waste to the Hellenistic world, some philosophers might have fled to India and trained their successors there?

But it does seem very unlikely that we could trace it, given how little written material survives from that period in India.
> Make as much of your code someone else's problem through FOSS.

Not all FOSS is created equal. Can you rely on well-established FOSS projects like Linux, PostgreSQL, and Redis? Absolutely! Should you rely on a random library you found that happened to be the first to name itself after a trendy new thing and only has one active maintainer? Probably not, at least not in any important area of your business. If you do, be prepared to fork it or replace it at some point.

I know people reading this are going to say, "Duh, of course I wouldn't do that." Congratulations, you understand the concept of risk management. But I have seen firsthand a number of teams fail this basic test. I have spent far too long trying to chase down a bug in some multiselect dropdown jQuery UI library that hasn't been touched in four years. That doesn't sound like it would be that hard to fix, but if it's spread to every important page in your app and is breaking some key features, you're gonna have a bad time.

If you're going to make your code someone else's problem, they'd better be just as invested in it as you are.
Every second word in the Guardian is brexit.
I don’t take lightly how many people used covid to further their ideological… or what just so happened to align with their ideological goals and beliefs.

Some of them… well, what an amazing coincidence really!
I am perfectly happy to have a COVID spewing firefighter get me to the hospital after a car accident and let me take my chances there, than to be left without a first responder. 100% of the time.
LAME is a really great example of why patents exist: the need to avoid the mp3 patents resulted in the development of technology that was superior to that covered by the mp3 patents. Do people really think LAME would have been developed if people were just reimplementing the existing mp3 encoder?
No. Someone else in this thread who has opined that the build quality was mediocre, but I forget who. i personally don't mind rubber keys for operational use though I would not want to write anything longer than an email or a HN comment with one.
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I remember maybe ten years ago "real" pirates (from "the scene") thought that everything needed to be in rar format, and anything else was considered "p2p" and not as pure. They were also late with h264 and used xvid for far too long.
Awhile ago (year+) I was trying to set up a project for free that hand a frontend/backend and database. I landed on Vercel with NextJS and MongoDB’s Atlas, for no other reason than I am familiar with Next and like writing typescript/react, and wanted to not spend any money. It’s been easy to push to master and deploy, and never seems to have any issues. All in all I can see Vercel being great for small/one person teams. Id definitely pay the $12 to not do any dev ops if I was running a business on it.
> We paid them a fair market rate, and as mentioned, we were flexible on working hours. One contractor worked their day job until 5:00pm and then on Pave from 6:00pm-2:00am, for example.

Can anyone find anything positive about this arraignment? I can't. It can only work at all for very short term, and even then the likelihood of avoidable tech debt due to poor decision making at the end of a 16-hour work day is very high.
Probably all comes down to ffmpeg not supporting av1 well. Pretty much everyone uses ffmpeg or a wrapper around ffmpeg like handbrake to encode. And my understanding is that ffmpeg implements an old and very slow and partially broken version of av1.
You can take things on/off someone's plate, but you cannot improve them into good judgment. If you are letting someone go, it is almost never the case that, had you given a different set of tasks, they would have been a good employee.
> Why would any rational individual take an IQ test? IQ cannot be changed and whatever outcome doesn't change your course of action

From what I can tell, most professions have a rough IQ floor. If you're above the floor, more IQ can always help, but other traits like conscientiousness and agreeableness tend to matter more. But if you're substantially below the floor, there's almost no chance that hard work will help you bridge the gap.
Yes, I hate the trend to apply mobile paradigms to a desktop OS. I will stay on Monterey for as long as I can.
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Margaret Atwood's book Oryx and Crake references this. I don't remember the exact plot, but somewhere in there civilization collapses and pigs go feral within years.
Currently my daily driver is the Microsoft Surface Go Laptop 2, running Fedora. Fedora has surprisingly been pretty much pain free in regards to compatibility issues, and within an hour of installation I was happily chugging along without much thought to driver support. I know that M$ also sells the Surface Laptop line, which has more power, but I really really really like having a compact laptop, and I have to say the keyboard is really nice :)

I've had it for about a year now, and from day 1 the battery life has been pretty good, albeit plugging it in once or twice for 10ish minutes. It definitely lasts all day (mobile app development workflow) and although I carry my power cord around it's not usually the first thing on my mind. Definitely should last you at least 8 hours.

As a whole, the laptop has a nice almost Apple-like premium feel, and the display is no exception. It also includes a full USB port, so you don't need to carry a USB-C adapter everywhere you go, something that has saved my sanity on multiple occasions. Performance is good with the i5, and generally I haven't found anything to complain about.
and you'll also have an easier time hiring new people when you need to!
That doesnt explains why its hard to find buildings built newer than 1971 in rural oregon, Oklahoma, or other places.
Yes, it has the same spirit of S-expressions and shares the lovely square brackets with Rebol. The major difference is that Jevko is whitespace-agnostic: it has no notion of elements separated with whitespace.

Generally it's a simpler, more low-level thing. It could be used to build a Rebol-like language. You could add whitespace rules on that level.

A toy example: https://github.com/jevko/jevkalk

This one does not use whitespace as a separator, allowing spaces in identifiers at the expense of more brackets.
> No, Linux is not superior in any way for Windows install image automation!

Having to configure a Windows environment for programmatic actions and subsequent changes is definitely more challenging. Even with the recent SSH access, which I believe the WinRM feature is still in preview, there are a lot of challenges for authentication that simply are not present in Linux.

> Why the heck would you reverse engineer and port the DISM tool, when the DISM tool already exists!?.

Because if you can do it in Linux, it makes sense to use an OS that is optimized to run like 95% of the world's server infrastructure due to performance and operational benefits. I really don't have time to get into an argument about why Steam OS chose Linux and why people use Wine to run Windows games on Linux. However, those are just a few indications that you're wrong.

> Windows has a built-in set of free tools for automating image updates, integrations, and builds.

They have a tool. I'm aware of Windows ADK. Everything else they had is no longer updated as far as I can tell. Most of them are just crappy GUIs wrapped around basic instructions that are as simple as creating partitions and copying files.

> E.g.: you can mount a WIM image offline (without booting a VM or needing a container), and inject updates, software, configuration, or even drivers.

It takes several minutes when in reality it is a subpar experience for developers looking to create multiple images. If someone creates a tool in Linux to do the same thing, but does it better, why does that bother you so much? Are you as bothered that Windows essentially has tried to create a Linux subsystem for Windows because developers were leaving Windows in droves because they found developing on Linux more pleasant?

> The one time in my career I had to inject drivers into a Linux install image.

You mean essentially installing a package via cloud-init which takes a second to add? Injecting drivers with Windows is still tedious if done through DISM and not the unattended XML.
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Hence, we would hear if people are being 1) sued, or 2) or are paying. We haven't seen any evidence of either.
How long do you think it will be until many things are ported to arm?
On my new laptop, whenever opening a h265 I would get message from the media player saying I can buy HEVC for $3 or something.

But if you follow the link below to the Windows store, you can download it for free!

ms-windows-store://pdp/?ProductId=9n4wgh0z6vhq

Found out on Howtogeek

https://www.howtogeek.com/680690/how-to-install-free-hevc-co...
No one is forcing you to upgrade. I still have a 2008 Mac running El Capitan and I can do everything I need to do on it.
Do you have any sources for this? SAT scores aren't highly correlated with household income, there is something but it's far from everything.

In my opinion and experience of the results my peers got, these kinds of standardized tests were really pretty good. The tests and studying methods themselves didn't necessarily mimic what you would do in a real job or even a university degree and sure seemed stupid and annoying at the time when you had to do the damned things... But stepping back and thinking about it, for the most part the people who were intelligent and capable of a motivated and disciplined approach to academics and fields that typically require degrees did actually tend to score better than people who were lacking in those things.

Yes there was the occasional very intelligent person who wasn't disciplined or motivated for whatever reason who did poorly. They weren't or wouldn't have been happy or done well in college either though, for the most part. And there were a few uninspiring intellects who got extremely high marks withe the sheer grind, although I think that's an impressive attribute itself and probably very useful for a lot of fields. There certainly were not hordes of Einsteins and Newtons just slipping through the cracks because they didn't test well.

So I don't know. There is this "common wisdom" that tests are terrible, which is an attractive idea. I just don't know if that's really true. Maybe they're actually pretty good for a large proportion of people.
Exactly. IDK how people can use Google software. You never know when they will quietly inserts some spyware or adware into their so called open source software.
How did Dorsey leave?
I guess we could both read the part of the report where they explain it :)

If it's capitalized, then it's not R&D, which is all expensed.
I didn't tell you what to do, I just dismissed your opinions as amazingly uninformed. Whether you want to keep spouting amazingly uninformed opinions is up to you.
Your account is pretty new, how many times have you been kicked off HN?
That's probably an accurate deduction.

I generally base my unofficial estimates on the volume of blog posts, google hits, etc... for specific offerings that have direct equivalents in the two clouds.

I still see a significantly smaller volume of hits turning up for Azure, which makes me suspect that they have a higher revenue per resource.

E.g.: I suspect Azure targets "large enterprise", which is notoriously wasteful, whereas AWS targets frugal startups that use Linux and OSS.
well, maybe, just maybe, that's because the socio-economic status correlates positively with cognitive abilities and the kids somehow inherit the traits of their parents?
Well clearly there is an elite class to whom body autonomy is granted, and an underclass who must follow arbitrary and capricious rules. OP appreciates that celebrities and entertainers are our betters and should not be held to the same standard.
Thanks, the kind words really do mean a lot!

So each prebuilt environment is basically a container that is exclusively accessed by your test runner. We set up the environment in the container and code and tests are run there. So there is no sharing of the build environment between customers.

We are pretty paranoid about protecting people's code (as you might expect). We do all the "normal things", encrypt connections, etc. One novelish idea we use is that different customers' code never shares a binary. So, what that means is that the CLI connects through a load balancer directly to it's dedicated server (a binary running in it's own container) which connects to it's dedicated workers (more binaries in their own containers). Once we are finished with a server or worker we destroy the entire container. We have multiple layers of security, and for example once a customer has connected to a container, only a customer with the correct key can connect again (so it should be the same customer). We also offer on-prem for people who need more security wise.

I feel we are a long way from getting the pricing right. At the moment most people are on the free tier just trying things out and getting started. I think as we grow we'll probably fill the space between the two tiers as you suggest. But to be honest, the details of exactly what this will cost us at scale is still very much open. Usage rates and test suite size are very variable and until we have a good idea on that we are just trying to make the best guesses we can and try not to shoot ourselves in the foot too much :)
Show HN: I wrote a short story about brain-computer interfaces
> Thatcherism has little basis in actual sociology in my opinion.

The entire basis of Thatcherism is dodging tax on riches made by selling the entire society.
“Remove my details” that asks that I sign-in to Google. Privacy-washing.
I don’t think you have the makings of a varsity engineer. This is the universe telling you to find something you’re actually somewhat passionate about and get a fresh start.
Currently we require a Microsoft account. What is your preferred way to login? We are open to adding additional ways to log in.
Doubtful. Suspect Google departments get headcount proportional to the department's revenue. Google over-hired, simple as that. Pausing hiring in a booming economy gives warning signs to current employees. Over-hiring allows leadership to layoff without actually causing workforce impact. It's always better to over-hire than under-hire when you are a F500.
They were fired for cause, namely, insubordination. The resistance to vaccination is entirely political. The mandate was not, but instead in the interests of public safety and health. Easing the mandate for special cases was a terrible decision. The decision to ease the mandate should be reversed, not the mandate itself. So quickly they've forgotten the piles of bodies of COVID victims in NYC.
List of Alternative Shells for Windows
Is this kind of like the fact that there really is no “present”.

You are either anticipating it(future) or looking back on it (past).
Is there a good resource for flashing Android to more user-respecting OSes these days? I haven't rooted a phone since the G1...
> others who are ostensibly as much a part of the nation as you are are going to live differently

I don't honestly think that most people care about people "living differently". They care because people affect each other. And the rules in your state affect me living in my state quite a bit.
What makes you think the fire department's medical staff aren't professionals? My city FD has 148 EMTs and 88 paramedics and are assigned to every station and unit in the city.
> sibling (n.) (computing theory) A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/sibling

> share (v.) To have or use in common

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/share

> another (det.) Not the same; different

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/another

Being one’s own sibling is incompatible with the accepted definitions, so no.
They certainly do all three.

This doesn't mean that SAT scores can't still be similarly predictive across socioeconomic gradients. Both of these things can be true without any inherent conflict.
Yes, let's solve the problem of skewed student assessment by solving inequality. Your solution is far less tractable than the problem!
> Where are you viewing statistics as having failed, precisely? <etc>

I don't think it's failed. But it certainly failed to capture the public imagination. Some people I talk to (fewer now than in the past) seem to think that statistics is old and irrelevant, and that machine learning is new and changing the world. Those people also don't usually have any idea of what they're talking about, but the idea is out there.

> "train a model"

But how often do mass media or industry publications talk about "models" as some kind of new hotness? It's all about "AI algorithms" now.

The terminology usage is especially surreal in the "digital insurance" space [0], where content marketing writers churn out breathless articles about how AI is the next big thing, as if insurance execs didn't understand what a model was!

[0]: https://www.acko.com/digital-insurance-trends-and-benefits/
I really like this idea. Brings back the good feeling I would get with CoffeeScript's syntax being shorthand for what I would write in JS but targeted at TS. I hope this stays around and gets some traction.
maybe i misunderstood, then. i thought that HEVC licensing was paid for by the hardware vendor, and hence acted as a broad tax even if you’re not using HEVC, or using GPUs in a HPC context, etc (and unnecessarily raises the barrier of entry to new HW vendors, etc). but if Windows users are individually paying those licenses, that’s probably not the case.

i guess the worry then is that HEVC crowds out AV1/others, and this Chrome change is setting the stage for it to become a broad tax on video? i could buy that angle.
White House officials haven’t completely ruled out fuel export restrictions either, but the American Petroleum Institute and the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers sent out a joint letter expressing their concerns in early October.

"Banning or limiting the export of refined products would likely decrease inventory levels, reduce domestic refining capacity, put upward pressure on consumer fuel prices and alienate U.S. allies during a time of war,” the group wrote.

The first two assertions sound like threats, the third is a reasonable prediction, and the fourth is not within the purview of an industry group. Who do these people think they are? Of course they can send letters expressing their unhappiness at the prospect, but their actual arguments are specious.
> Could you elaborate on this more?

> What exactly happens between 20k and 100k LOC (or 2 devs and 10 devs) that makes Go more suitable than Python?

> What exactly happens between 100k and 1kk LOC (or 100 devs and 500 devs) that makes Java more appropriate than Go?

> How do you even find this boundary when same apps in Java and Python might have 2-3x LOC count difference?

I've been thinking about those questions for roughly thirty years, and I still don't have exact answers. (If I did I'd be famous and hopefully rich, but that's another story, eh?) Speaking in broad generalities, the main thing seems to be something like the number of separate concepts you have to keep in mind to make (non-breaking) changes to the system. The more that the system you're using can do for you, the more suitable it is for larger-scale projects.

> I've seen this mantra repeated for decades (technologies X/Y/Z for small/medium/large projects) and could never make sense of it.

I gotta say, it's not a "mantra", it's experience. Have you not worked with various languages on various sized projects?

(In re: Angular, to me that was an obvious shitshow from day one. I would never hire anyone who admitted to ever thinking Angular was a good idea. Same thing in re: Heroku, while I'm at it. Lots of people do lots of foolish things when computers get in the mix.)

> I'm actually into the opposite mantra: only the tech stacks that are great at small scale are capable of being great at large scale. Note: capable, not guaranteed.

I don't see how that follows? (I also don't see how that's "opposite" to the other "mantra".)
The closest equivalent to that today, in most white-collar roles at least, is contracting. Usually not a physical walk-on hire anymore, but it is often quite a quick process (sometimes as little as a few hours), from "I need a worker", to "I can do it", to "get cracking sonny". And it's then, days / weeks / months (usually not years) later, a similarly quick process, from "we don't need you anymore" / "I'm outta here", to "don't let the door hit you".

But the contractor usually needs to be "employed by" some agency company, that guarantees his/her suitability, and that handles the (not insignificant) paperwork / legalities, and that takes a handsome cut.
So corporations doing share buybacks and dividends? Something else? Is there a real number you're looking at in order to do a comparison, or just labeling some vague idea?
easy. take the first one then use the money to dabble on your favourite tehnologies on the side. you can also use that money to create additional cash flows.
I realize that the link between consciousness and quantum effects are far from proven but if you will entertain the idea that they are...

Delayed-choice experiments demonstrate the seeming ability of measurements in the present to alter events occurring in the past. eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed-choice_quantum_eraser

Now I'll throw out another completely unprovable thought...

Perhaps consciousness has the ability to affect how wavefunction collapse occurs, perhaps it even has the ability to influence the observed outcome.

I'm not going to try to prove these two ideas but together they can help form an idea that perhaps observations on the past actually influence the past and perhaps despite this 'observation after the fact' there's still free will.

It's not provable but then neither is the "there's no such thing as free will" arguments that this sort of research leads to. The point of the above is to highlight that there's still a way out for free will.
I for one thought the party that has been adopted by people that have been most lied to by the government and treated unfairly and who faced discrimination and prejudice would be least trusting, but instead they were told to trust it more and they just gobbled it up and fell in line.