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"Making calls" isn't a feature phones compete on - it either works or it doesn't, and I hope a review would let me know if calling was defective on a phone. Otherwise, there's no point in including information on making calls - it's a basic feature everybody who buys a phone expects to have.

It's a bit like saying "most car reviews don't review whether the car stays still when parked in a garage or not!"
There was a protocol document which showed at least the data structures of the original IBM 7074 survive. I wouldn't be surprised at all if some of the machine code would survive as well, emulated easily.
From your article it seemed that your use of anycast was more accident than feature, due to the limit of BGP prefix sizes. If you could route those IPs to their correct destination, you would, you only go to the closest data center and route again because you have no choice.

Maybe this ends up reducing cost on customers though, because the international transit happens in your backbone network rather than on the internet (customer-side).
> Do you really need tests for the read(2) syscall when Linux is running on a billion devices, and that syscall is called some 10^12 times per second globally?

I’m not sure why you’re expecting the answer “no” here. The biggest value of automated tests is non-regression. So with billions of users, yes, you absolutely need reliable and reproducible tests. Maybe not unit tests (I agree they’re overrated, you want to test contracts and behaviors, not implementation details) but a strong integration test suite is a must have. To ensure you don’t break anything your billion users might rely on.
Most folks aren't interested in housing cooperatives- too much work, they want to be able to move without strings, etc.
I don’t understand. People who were not vaccinated had worse effects on average, including dying (painfully and slowly azfixiating as your lungs collapsed). This was common at the beginning of the pandemic, and extensively documented. Millions of people died this way.

It’s choosing between that and … “a girl who died in Slovenia”. How are those two things equivalent?

Even if you can spread COVID, if the effects in your body are lowered, chances are that you will remove the virus it from your body earlier (it can dedicate more resources to winning the battle instead of … breathing), so you will be effectively less contagious.
Hey! Austin from Manifold here, thanks for the links! I wanted to note that our novel mechanism which we've termed "Maniswap" is indeed pretty cool, but for most intents and purposes a simpler Uniswap constant product market maker would already do quite well as a mechanism, with the advantage that it's really simple (explainable on the back of a napkin!)

Happy to chat more about prediction markets/AMMs, feel free to reach out to austin@manifold.markets
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> saying "Windows does not officially support Vulkan" is a completely blatant cope by maclovers, nvidia and amd, the people that make the cards support it, and windows "supports" their cards, so let's stop being dishonest.

It is completely honest. On a fresh install of Windows, if you don't have graphics drivers, you can't run Vulkan or OpenGL. Windows washes their hands of any responsibility. You can at least run DirectX with software rendering regardless of hardware support. It is also for this reason that the locked-down Xbox where Microsoft can assert more control has zero tolerance for OpenGL or Vulkan.

> "Vulkan is not an industry standard" I mean yeah, in the same way Microsoft word is not an standard.

Microsoft Word, and the DOCX format by extension, has >90% market share. Vulkan has almost no presence on consoles, presence on less than half of smartphones in use, and mixed presence on Desktop because MacOS doesn't have it. Word is more of a standard than Vulkan.

> "except Switch, but it is so slow" again that seems to be a lie, doom eternal orks way, way better on it than it would be on similar software on a different API.

DOOM Eternal is one of the few games that uses Vulkan. >90% of Switch games do not use Vulkan, and found it preferable to use the proprietary API. That developers would overwhelmingly opt not to use Vulkan on Switch tells you all you need to know about the state of it. If adding another graphics API (such as Metal) was such a big deal, why in the world would they do it if Vulkan was cross-platform and worked fine? It doesn't work as well as it needs to - and adding another graphics API isn't as much of a blocker as we like to think.
Not to mention illegal in some parts of the world, where Google might have some employees.
There have been a few broken designs recently, here for example https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1595389202878824448?...
Maybe Japanese people have resisted the western degeneration in attention span and patience, and retain the ability to not have a seizure looking at a webpage with a modicum of information density. I've noticed this trend following very "busy" 1800s signs/newspapers/etc up to now. People back then weren't addicted to fast and easy dopamine and had the mental space to parse something with detail on it.
Imagine a rectangular-shaped classroom with whiteboards around it and movable chairs. Motivated students are captivated by tales of Greek myths, the power of Zeus, the god of the sky, and stories of the legendary Hercules and his son Therimachus.
I dunno if 10k tech employees getting laid off with generous severance packages and unemployment qualifies as an atrocity.

Is your issue with them trying to quantify what a "poor performer" is? Or do you think it is immoral for a business to lay off bad workers? Or do corporations at a certain scale and profitability have a moral imperative to employ people just for job creation reasons?

I am just asking because laying off poor performers sucks and it must be a soul-searching moment for whoever it happens too, but I don't know if a business doing it is inherently evil.
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I'm sure it's already been said, but I genuinely avoid all new Google products/services like the plague. I don't see how anyone could comfortably invest time into a Google service when they have a graveyard of over 200+ cancelled services.

If I were an employee, I would be incredibly demotivated. Why build anything new at all? Why work hard at all?
No where in the comment did OP say they were moving. They also stated explicitly that competitors were virtually non-existent:

> Practically every other building in the area (downtown Redmond, WA) has increased prices in unison so there is basically 0 competition.
This is Bain Capitals MO actually.
The whole point is to layoff the highest paid people and have the company coast along on previous momentum, making the profit look better so they call sell it off.
Looking at the websites mentioned in the randomwire article, those popular websites are not like this article portrays them to be anymore, imho.
This fits the strict definition of "conspiracy theory" -- a theory that a group of people are working together in secret (or "conspiring") to achieve a specific goal.

You're attempting to apply a connotation -- that the theory is unfounded -- that is usually associated with the term, but not definitive. This is particularly troubling in the face of the evidence presented.
And you're also going to require this for all other mishaps on the road that we can reasonably prevent?

Legally binding regulations for auto maintenance? Legal stops on the road for tire wear checks? Legal scrapping of cars that don't pass certain safety standards? Legal checks for dementia and vision for the elderly?

Basically - why is this one the one that you draw the line at? What makes it special? Most folks can agree that neither the driver nor the public want a vehicle with a malfunctioning control module. It's not like there are misaligned interests here. Tuning should be expected to work just as well and any other after-market modification. Are you concerned that it provides more torque, or more speed? Because the same thing is true of just buying a different car...

Should a sports car be illegal because it has more torque?

Should we ban red cars because - statistically - they're more likely to be involved in an accident?

Should no one be allowed to drive a subcompact because crash mortalities are nearly double those of the average vehicle?

Why? Why does this require regulation that you're proposing? What warrants the loss of control for the individual, in a case where it's pretty clear interests are aligned, and there are dozens of other nearly identical risks?
My philosophy is to make switching to a new cloud possible. It doesn't have to be easy. We just shouldn't nail our feet to the floor.
I think what the person replying was saying was not about static typing being easier for the compiler to understand, but the fact types being documented in some way(whether it be embedded in syntax or via documentation) make code far more readable.

Python was my first programming language(cliche, I know) and I didn't understand the whole "static typing is good" thing until I learnt languages like C, C++, C#, and rust.

Python also introduced type hints and made them a valid part of syntax for good reason. You'd typically end up writing a docstring with the return type of a function and the types of the parameters anyway, which is what the person replying to you was presumably referring to.

It's not about passing in an int instead of an array, but rather but being able to figure out what a function wants without needing a stackoverflow thread or having to search through tons of documentation for something that would be otherwise trivial in statically typed languages where the function declaration tells you quite a bit about a function.

Hence it's safe to say that types documented in code in some way are very useful for humans, and if you have issues with statically typed programming languages, there's a chance you were not documenting your code enough already.
A variation on this was a key plot point to Westworld season four.
This article looks very speculative:

> The company’s new performance management system could help managers fire thousands of its underperforming employees from early next year

I suppose it could do that, but it could also not do that?

It seems to be based on a report by The Information - no idea whether that had anything more solid.
> Is that why they're so unresponsive to user needs?

It's because Wayland is a set of protocols, rather than a single dominant implementation.

In order to do it right, cross-compositor and flexible, you have to get different actors with different interests and bandwidth agree on a standard. This takes time.

In order to get it working fast, developers need to make a compositor-specific implementation first and then put in the extra work of getting it through the standards discussion as well as switching their compositor ecosystem to the new standard.

Until this happens with all parts that you care about, you're going to be annoyed either about interoperability or functionality. Pick your poison, and cue Moxie's "The Ecosystem is Moving" blog post. Also, keep using X11 until Wayland has the features you want. Most DEs/WMs haven't ripped out X11 support yet, and hopefully won't until their support of Wayland protocols is solid enough.
There are just way too many landlords to make it work. There is no single dominant landlord and no number of landlords small enough to fit around a
conference table that controls a significant portion of the housing stock. Staying with my city of Berkeley, the notoriously abusive (seriously, Google it for some extreme horror stories) Everest Properties holds only 354 units. There are 30 different apartment owners who hold at least 100 units and 6000 total landlords. There's just no way with that diversity of ownership that collusion would amount to anything.
If Google is only laying off poor performers, why hire anyone who has recently worked at Google? Guess you better work harder or be shunned from the industry. Google is a very evil company these days.
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I guess they didn't knowingly invite scammers, they just provided the regulatory and banking environment to enable scammers and profited from it.
a poor man also wants one thing. :) same for homeless person.
Anycast is implemented by BGP and doesn't take load into account in any way. You will reach the closest location announcing that address (well, prefix).
Hi I’m one of the maintainer of Hurl! You can capture data from the DOM using XPath and inject it in next requests (classic example being a CSRF token for instance). One thing to have in mind is that Hurl is working on the HTTP level, there is no JavaScript engine, you get what the network gives you, like curl.

There are a lot of similar tools (see this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33287137#33296902), we try to focus on: simple plain text format, CI/CD integration, fast multi-platform CLI. Plenty of options
I want to hear from clients.
They used to be, but not anymore. However, they switched, because even if not pixel perfect, it is good enough. At sizes used by their laptop, most users are not going to notice that it is not pixel perfect.

The system they use gets them something: 1) apps do not have bother with fractional scaling, so they do not get to bother about rounding errors and 2) they get to use output encoder for scaling, which is essentially for free, instead of GPU, which will take its toll on power consumption and GPU load.
Because KISS?
Reverse this - get 100 people to take on construction loans to bud a co-operative to live in, and then refinance after completion. You'll have no problems - except people don't want to take the risk of owning.
Seriously! All anyone talks about is how Twitter is going to die now that Musk sacked the commies, yet, what really kills apps is feature bloat from disconnected management
They earn on both. Ads and the ad cramped seo stuff. So they probably wont change anything. And this is the case for the last ten years.
Loading much faster for me: https://web.archive.org/web/20221125181106/https://sabrinas....
Makes sense! And by the way thanks for teaching me React two years back, your course was the only thing that made sense to me.
It's not meant to be a perfect analogy. The replication analogy is mostly talking about the tradeoff between performance and cost. So it's less about "replicating" the ip addresses (which is not happening). On that front, maybe distribution would be a better term. Instead of storing a single piece of data on a single host (unicast), they are distributing it to a set of hosts.

Overall, it seems like they are treating ip addresses as data essentially, which becomes most obvious when they talk about soft-unicast.

Anyway, I just found it interesting to look at this through this lens.
The problem is if you get rid of the mods you have a moderation problem and lose ad revenue.
Exactly... People confuse eurodollar market with dollars...

What Ghana is doing is a symptom of global liquidity crisis not a dollar crisis... Ghana cannot print dollars... It is short dollars and would rather have more then less of dollars. So this situation makes dollar more wanted not less.

Michaell Howell is an expert on Global Liquidity and does good job at explaing it.

https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/global-liquidity-matters-no...
ISP-hosted Usenet was a cost center. Between the potential liability from illegal content, the heavy bandwidth usage of alt.binaries.* and the lack of interest in anything else, it's no wonder ISPs shut it down. Frankly I'm a little surprised they still offer email, I can't remember the last time someone gave me an ISP email address. I can't see any business model for ISPs to start offering Mastodon/ActivityPub either.

Back in the early days, a Usenet server represented a natural community - a university or employer. The early regional ISPs like Panix were small enough to still be community-like, though the common bond was looser. Modern ISPs, your Comcasts and Verizons, aren't communities at all, any more than customers of any other large business are. So although from a technological standpoint it makes sense to organize user-facing decentralized services on an ISP basis, from a social perspective it really doesn't anymore.
"Overall, we found that warnings have no effect on affective responses to negative material nor on educational outcomes (i.e., comprehension). However, warnings reliably increase anticipatory affect. Findings on avoidance were mixed, suggesting either that warnings have no effect on engagement with material, or that they increase engagement with negative material under specific circumstances. Limitations and implications for policy and therapeutic practice are discussed."

The characteristics of the meta analysis were largely focused on the general public and attempts to limit anxiety in that domain. But I think they forgot an entire other application: NSFL warnings.

Whenever I see NSFL I ABSOLUTELY avoid clicking, I even stop reading, and that has greatly improved my peace of mind. Learned that the hard way during the early internet: I've accidentally seen way too many horrific things I wont even tangentially mention to last me 1000 liftimes. Sure there is an anticipatory impact, but NSFL works for me!

It seems like one message here is that more moderation is needed if anticipation has similar impact as the actual content.
Here it is a few weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46_JtaO7TYo
So the reasons people are for this stuff are pretty uniformly incorrect and the reasons people are against this stuff are either also incorrect or possibly correct depending on the situation?
But you still need to store all four sticks in the meantime. Some people have extremely limited storage space.
it's deliberate, and necessary to achieve the intended effect. these statements and mass firings discipline developers as a class. it serves as an excuse and monetary whip to inflict desperation and reduce compensation generally across the board.

you can agree or disagree if it's honest or justified, but materially that's whats happening.
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It's slow as hell and I'm afraid to click anywhere because I'm never sure if there's a way to return.
Not if contrast with MUMPS language (pre-algo) as viewed from issues with today's lisp & multiprocessing.
But that's a discussion more for a separate post.
Every VC company in the valley was scammed. FTX was seen as the pinnacle of exchanges.
Did they change this? I just checked twitter.com (without having an account) it its an endless feed of random/popular posts. I opened tiktok.com and it looks similar.
For me it quickly feels too much like work (I have the same feeling about all other factory/production chain games from Satisfactory to Dyson Sphere)
Even this confuses people. Often the name of the interface is something like S3Client. No, the name should be something like PolicyWriter.
This article and the others like it are baseless speculation based on perf process changes from earlier this year. There’s no new information they are reporting on.
This comment is so far off it might as well be an outright lie. There hasn't been CSAM on /b/ for years. The 4chan you speak of hasn't existed in a decade.
> But it's Amazon, it's a synonym for toxic.

You realize this article is about Google, right?
Good news. Turing defined a nonterminating Turing Machine in his paper so we don't need to worry about some weird nonstandard definition of nontermination.

"Oh, computers have finite memory so actually they are finite state machines" is just needless pedantry that is not useful for the actual mathematical relevance of Turing's proof and its consequences. Yes, the field of static analysis makes practical (though not flawless) solutions to undecidable problems every day. This is not relevant here.
> "Without going into the details, it's been a pretty good year for us," Bankman-Fried said. "To the point where, frankly, we don't need to rely on the other 18 years to have the funds for this."

Irony at its finest
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This is great news and a big win for consumers!
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Were they happy, or did they just appear so? Some places punish employees that don't act unnaturally friendly and happy.
Don't blame Google yet. This is Forbes fabricating a story for clicks, and the Independent parroting it uncritically. It's possible (and IMO likely) that Google will undergo layoffs (but you don't need to be Nostradamus to predict "company will undergo layoffs" during a recession), but both Forbes and the Independent appear to be misrepresenting their speculation as special knowledge.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that Poland has only rosy things to say about the US (it doesn't). But we may speak about varying degrees of criticism, especially in context. Polish spending on American military equipment (but not only: see S. Korean purchases) and energy technology (Bechtel/Westinghouse, for example) has been increasing. Even before the war, at least some diplomats were disappointed with the high prices being negotiated for military equipment (I can recall such criticisms as far back as the Kwasniewski presidency), but Poland continues to negotiate and make new US purchases, and intends to increase military spending from 2.4% to 5% (see article linked in my original post). The terms under which American presence in Poland were negotiated are also very favorable for the US. In fact, terms are in general favorable for the US, even if it comes at a significant cost to Poland (I cannot judge how optimal the political/diplomatic calculus is). My point is that I have not seen evidence of any uptick in Polish criticism beyond the usual airing of grievances. Of course, if that has happened, and military contractors are raising prices artificially or ridiculously, I would kindly ask for a reference.

W.r.t. Norwegian gas, yes, I recall several months ago, the Polish prime minister did indeed criticize Norway, but I thought we were talking about new EU criticism of the US? In another comment, I did explicitly refrain from commenting on price gouging surrounding gas as I don't know to what degree that is occurring (my original post was specifically related to defense, which perhaps was not clear except by implication given the link).
The Batch Service schedule history monitor sucks. It is inaccurate and doesn't sync the job order correctly. You can call them, they will get on the phone and then say they fixed it. Then you call them again because they didn't and they give you the same answer. Can't blame them, most of them are on H1B's. Nobody wants to be the squeaky wheel in that position. So you will just get the runaround all the time.
My “hard-earned engineering wisdom” says: if you can’t use the existing resources effectively, pooling more people in will make the situation worse, not better.

Look at the list of the biggest FTX losers (I’ve just submitted it to the thread). These people have enough resources to police themselves effectively. I would agree to add taxpayers’ (mine) money to the picture no sooner than I see people who are allocating huge amounts of money without any homework going to jail.
With all the interviews and speaking the principals are doing, some say they are narcissists and/or feel immune.

There might also be a lesson in here: Any exceedingly wealthy person who's lawyer is their father has a fool for a client.
It’s to imply that Google is doing fine to investors.

Like every other organization, Google isn’t immune to entropy. It seemed they went into organizational decline faster than the others
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