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HP laying off 4k-6k employees globally over the next three years
It's not just kids though ... I have free games on Epic and I honestly can't be bothered playing them. I've caught myself almost re-buying them as well.
Well, Plato and Xenophon both present Socrates' Apology speech, and their versions are almost completely different. So at least one of them is made-up, rather than being a verbatim copy; probably both of them are (to some extent) fictitious.
Police can't control their own actions responsibly, what makes you think a robot would be any better? Seems like it would be worse.
Why? CC processors are not in cahoots with the cops.
The French national identity goes back to Charlemagne, not merely de Gaulle.
I just want an eink tablet that lets me search my handwriting using grep. It's almost 2023, why doesn't something like this exist!?!
They apparently tried to combat NSFW generation by filtering the training dataset not to include any.
But then what would people talk about on HN? There has to be some kind of faux outrage about SOMETHING.
Well, Bolt himself was born into a poor family. Someone who has the genetic potential to be that fast is going to spend their whole early life being the fastest kid anyone around them has ever seen. Sure, some might not pursue it seriously for whatever reason, but any kid with that much inborn talent is going to know that they are fast, and others will know it too--that kind of thing gets noticed.

It's a bit like if a 12 year old is 6'6" and athletic... there's a pretty high chance someone is going to try to teach that kid to play basketball.
That could be difficult in places with $8M homes.
A serious problem with this is scaling of operating costs.

A 5 MWe reactor, operating at about 90% capacity factor and selling power at wholesale prices (maybe $0.03/kWh) will earn $1.2M/year. You need at least four employees to operate it (3 shifts, with a spare), and probably many more.
How high pressure is solar sales? It often makes economic sense.
Right. We've changed to that from https://localtoday.news/ca/the-san-francisco-police-departme... and banned the latter site.

Thanks!
What matters: Your loved ones and your health.
So police officers should just carry out their duty and charge with reckless abandon toward the business end of an AR-15 like automatons? Wait...
$4,000 to $10,000 for a single tree removal is incredibly high. In a very high cost of living area I can have a very large tree removed by a licensed insured removal company, the best in the area, for $1,500.

Are you in the Bay Area? NYC? Those are about the only places I could imagine paying $4k or more.
I recently thought about this when I was thinking about my programing skills in my current job.

I'm not the best programmer there by a long shot. I didn't grow up programming at the age of 10. I don't have a CS degree.

But then I thought how nobody has the same experience as I do. I have a mixture of things I'm good at that make me unique and valuable.
Losses Pile Up in FTX Bankruptcy Turmoil
Would be interesting for the paper’s author to address that point.

After FTX “lobbying” officials comes to light, crypto is going to turn onto a political third rail. Expect regulation and outright bans if its detrimental to Russia/Iran/China.
"Project Dilithium", heh ! (A Star Trek reference.)

Wide-ranging article, thanks !
One other great thing about the ring buffer is built-in sane backpressure. I think the article is good, but too quickly dismissive of backpressure as a tool for system health.
Could you be a web designer?
I made a short quiz to test web/frontend design skills. Some of the questions require knowledge of trends, but most of them test the ability to notice small details in the design and css of the page. Hope you have fun with it!
> I also don't think it's lost on anyone how the public would react if these RC robots started to stack a body count...

Police have already demonstrated publicly that they don’t care about the public reaction to them killing people in their custody. I cant see how their use of robots would change that.

> This is all good stuff to have in the vein of reducing lethal force use.

And I guess this is where we fundamentally disagree. I do not see how reducing the risk of using lethal force will lead to the reduction of the use of lethal force as a whole.
If your writing is decent you can pipe images into a OCR.
It's a pretty amazing story, and shows that if you do something (like publish a book) but can't get it in front of the right people then you might as well not have done it.

> The first person to teach traditional Chinese medicine in Japan was an 8th-century Buddhist monk named Jianzhen (Ganjin in Japanese), who collected some 1,200 prescriptions in a book: Jianshangren (Holy Priest Jianzhen)'s Secret Prescription. The text was believed lost for centuries, but the authors of a recent paper published in the journal Compounds stumbled across a book published in 2009 that includes most of Jianzhen's original prescriptions.

> That's how they stumbled upon a 2009 book entitled Three Treasures Be Published. It turns out that before he left for Japan, Jianzhen gave a copy of his many prescriptions to one of his disciples, a monk named Lingyou. The text passed through 52 subsequent generations, until Lingyou's descendent, Lei Yutian, decided to organize all the prescriptions into his 2009 book.

52 generations passed down through one family is quite incredible. I'm not aware of anything else like that that has ended up published, although I could be uninformed.
Actor methods with a script, I presume.
> The largest elephant in the room to address is probably Rust. ...

Breaking this down, I can only find two practical problems the author has with Rust:

- long compile times

- the ownership model ("the borrow checker")

The rest of this paragraph appears to be much more general in nature.

Given that the project is only 58,000 lines of D/C++, it's hard to believe that compile time alone is so bad as to drive a decision toward an experimental language like Jai.

So it appears that the main problem the author has is the ownership model ("the borrow checker"). It would be interesting to know more, but the author does not elaborate.

AFAICT, the Rust compiler can be viewed as enforcing the good practices that C++ developers already recognize. So how can this be an issue at all, especially given the ability break out of the ownership model into unsafe Rust (or use other tricks) if the situation calls for it?
It occurs to this reader that that's symptomatic of the problem!
Cops shoot people because they fear for their lives. Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
Depends on how you define ok. If you define "ok" as "life will continue on the planet", then yes, it will work out ok... if you define it as "humans will survive" then we can't be so sure.
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[1] https://youtu.be/xsuo3FnG4g0
I quit FAANG to do startups this year. I quit because I was completely bored out of my mind, hyper underutilized, there were so many people around me doing the same work as me so zero interesting growth options.

Now that I am in a (very good) startup, I am incredibly happy, learning and innovating nonstop, meeting new people, in a hyper growth market, building a completely new skillset.

I could never go back to these big companies. Not unless I was reporting directly to a CEO.

I am not getting rich but I am filled with joy.

At my previous job, I was so frustrated and the work was so pointless I was literally throwing things in my house. It made me so angry how stupid and useless a waste of time. We were working on a product which was entirely fake and everyone in the team knew it, but it was generally agreed we would all fake it together.

I would rather suck on a gas pipe than go back. It was damaging my mental health.

Say what you want about desperation: You only have time in your life. They were wasting my only resource, my time.
This kind of thing in general is very common and goes back decades, it's just that the languages used to be custom (QuakeC, UnrealScript etc) before the industry largely standardized around Lua. Some older games also experimented with Python for this, and I recall even seeing Tcl once.
> Doing a 2.0 release on a (US) 2-day holiday weekend is an interesting move.

Their HQ seems to be located in London.
> Asking a cop to walk into an active shooter situation isn’t great either.

I don't think valuing a cop who doesn't want to do their job, but still demands to keep it, over innocent civilian lives that they were hired to protect is a great situation, either.

Delivery drivers have more dangerous jobs than police officers do, and they're asked to walk into situations where they can be murdered, and are statistically more likely to be than cops, literally everyday, multiple times a day.

Cops are often the highest paid employees on a government's payroll, and it is very common for over 50% of a municipality's total budget to go towards cop salaries and benefits. In my state, cops earn a median salary of over $105,000 a year before overtime, bonuses or benefits, and they can earn over $250,000 a year with overtime. They can retire after only 20 years of working with a full pension that they can draw from for life. In my area, they're also given special mortgage rates of about 2% versus the more common ~6%+ as of late. For comparison, software engineers in my state only have a median salary of $89,000.

Delivery drivers barely make minimum wage, they often have no benefits, and their employers tend either pay them off the books or classify them as independent contractors.

Cops are rewarded even more handsomely than military members are, for the very miniscule risk they take on. This is what they signed up for, often because the rewards are that good.
Well, they probably are looking into this because they were defunded and don't have enough officers.
This is a classic and reposts are fine, but only if the story hasn't had significant attention in the last year or so (this is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). Since https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31796353 spent 14 hours on HN's front page just a few months ago, this particular repost counts as a dupe.

Here's a list of past threads if anyone is curious:

Richard Hamming: You and Your Research (1986) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30910461 - April 2022 (1 comment)

You and Your Research (1986) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31796353 - June 2022 (33 comments)

You and Your Research (1986) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28322153 - Aug 2021 (35 comments)

You and Your Research by Richard Hamming (1995) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18505884 - Nov 2018 (10 comments)

You and Your Research (1986) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18014209 - Sept 2018 (10 comments)

You and your research - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14179317 - April 2017 (1 comment)

You and Your Research - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9279585 - March 2015 (1 comment)

Hamming, "You and Your Research" (1995) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7683711 - May 2014 (25 comments)

Richard Hamming: You and Your Research (1986) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4626349 - Oct 2012 (27 comments)

Richard Hamming: You and Your Research - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3142978 - Oct 2011 (7 comments)

You and Your Research - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=915515 - Nov 2009 (5 comments)

You and Your Research - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=625857 - May 2009 (13 comments)

You and Your Research (1986) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=542023 - April 2009 (4 comments)

Richard Hamming: You and Your Research - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=229067 - June 2008 (7 comments)

Why do so few scientists make significant contributions and so many are forgotten in the long run? - "You and Your Research" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=52337 - Sept 2007 (11 comments) - evidently before pg introduced the 80 character limit for HN titles...

You and Your (Great) Research - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13218 - April 2007 (6 comments)
This is true until it isn’t. Read up on the torture following the Invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, particularly in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. The accountability was really minimal, and a lot of people guilty of the horrible crime of torturing got away scot-free.

See also quite a few murdering of civilians conducted by private military contractors such as Blackwater (now Constellis; in particular the Nisour Square massacre). Some were charged for the crime they committed (or for a lesser crime of manslaughter) but were later pardoned.

Since this is HN it is also obligatory to mention Chelsea Manning who leaked many crimes committed by the military (in particular the murdering of the journalists Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen from an attack helicopter). She was the only person convicted for that incident. Nobody was charged with the murder of the journalists. (But they did [finally] charge Julian Assange for helping Chelsea Manning reveal these crimes to the public).
True, but it's going to dampen the launch a bit.
Currency and pensions have been heavily devalued as well.
This thing only outputs hot water, you need a lot more equipment and people to turn that into useful power on the grid.
Spans/slices are getting incredibly common in as a fundamental building block in modern (or modernized PLs). C# also has Span<T>, Go and Rust both have slices etc. We are at the point where they should be standardized on ABI level, IMO, before things get too messy compatibility-wise.
From what I understand, VSI's C compiler for OpenVMS/x86-64 actually gives you a choice of two different variadic calling conventions - something very close to standard SysV ABI x86-64 (which doesn't pass parameter count and type info), and the OpenVMS extension which adds that. So, while I doubt one extra "mov rax, CONSTANT" is going to be noticed (variadic function calls are rarely found on performance-critical code paths), if a function doesn't need va_count(), it can turn that off.

From what I understand, their x86 C and C++ compilers are a patched version of clang/LLVM – they've said they planned to upstream their changes, I don't think it has happened yet, but I hope it does. (Their other compilers – COBOL, Fortran, Pascal, BASIC, BLISS, MACRO – are also using LLVM as backend on x86-64, but with their legacy frontends.)
> But I've never about even one conducted double blind randomized controlled trial.

Their active ingredients (e.g. salicylic acid, benozyl peroxide) have received FDA approval (in various forms); it would be illegal to market them as acne treatments otherwise.
> Being in the same room as one another, even if we're doing different things, works pretty good for us.

My partner feels this way too. I feel the opposite. To me in some way I cannot reason it makes me wish we would a) do anything else as long as we had each other's attention or b) enjoy time to ourselves. Either to me lead to better longer term health.
Calling a drop in price a market distortion is fairly loaded language.

This is the market, demand rises and falls. Currently the demand is falling and prices will have to drop to match. That’s not a distortion, it’s normal market behavior.
absolutely nothing.
Fuel costs, maintenance, and operation would be over $2M.

Normal energy prices are about half of what you quoted. It's TBD if they come back down to normal in the near future in the EU.

You're looking at $18M in revenue. This thing will probably cost more than $10M to purchase, and then you need land, a grid-tie in, and permits.

It would still work - but the numbers aren't going to look as good as wind & especially solar.
Interesting I was diagnosed with ADHD and always felt the teacher was stupid for making us hand write because I spent more time focusing on the writing than remembering what I had written down (and I thought this was likely the case for most people)… but never knew these two things could be related.
The problem is even small niches can have ton of competition, and second, market share is too small.
If by “worked out ok” you mean where life on earth is reduced to little more than weeds and it takes millions of years for the complex ecosystems that support humanity to reemerge, then yeah, it worked out just fine. We would definitely go extinct after a long period of decline and suffering, but let’s not worry about that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event#Effects_and_r...
> I eat meals, in the life I live now, at a table. I eat them alone, because my marital family – as you can tell – imploded up their own backsides. But in many ways, I was always eating alone, even when I was in that family, perching a plastic tray on my lap while they stared at the glowing box like they’d dropped acid.

Gee, wonder why no one is interested in sharing a meal or conversation with the author. Couldn't possibly be the sanctimonious disdain for your family, could it?
We also have Xenophon and Aristophanes as sources about Socrates.
What I am trying to describe is a very different kind of organization of policing agency and your response is to repeat old semantics, and conclude then it’s not that new?
Sometimes I wonder where military fetishism comes from. Early on it was toys. Then film. The last couple decades, the Call of Duty franchise has represented a kind of militarism fetish brain rot, at societal scale.

What I find funny if not sad is when both law enforcement and militia types follow suit, or at least try to.

There's nothing more pathetic than overweight law enforcement that can't even run a mile decked out in camouflage tactical gear they barely know how to use, with the wrong attitude thinking they're an operator or some such.

It's like institutionalized stolen valor almost, they want the honor and respect without the level of hard work actual Special Forces put into it.
If I recall correctly there is some interesting discussion of that in the delightful book "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" [1]. One it describes (unless I'm mixing it up with another book) involved someone getting shot at close range through the heart, destroying their heart. They still had time to draw their own gun, aim, and fatally shoot the first shooter.

Another dramatic example, which I read about in the wonderful "Bloodletters and Badmen: A Narrative Encyclopedia of American Criminals from the Pilgrims to the Present" [2] is the death of the 1930s bank robber Baby Face Nelson.

He got in a shootout with two FBI agents. They shot him in the abdomen. He then advanced on their position while they continued shooting at him, hitting 8 more times in the legs. Still he managed to keep going and killed one of the agents and seriously wounded the other (who would later die of his wounds, as would Nelson).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiff:_The_Curious_Lives_of_Hu...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Bloodletters-Badmen-Narrative-Encyclo...
Perhaps it can ask the shooter to "please put down your weapon, you have 40 seconds to comply", giving them an opportunity to surrender before unloading a machine gun into them[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFvqDaFpXeM
Cottingham: Europe's biggest battery storage system switched on
The nice thing about investing and the stock market is you do not have to be extraordinary or that talented to be successful. Index funds, maybe some leverage, and you can beat most active managers and funds.
just did it and got 6 out of 12. I think some of the border/radius/corner ones are weird because even as a designer you think about them as buttons, seeing a blocky div makes it confusing
Bummer. AI porn is fun.
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>legitimacy of the profession

High pressure sales and a willingness to betray common politeness does not lend it self to "legitimacy". Its scummy.
That’s coming to all cars, even old ones. (A new car now in 20 years will be a beater).
It’s crazy how defunding the SFPD involves raising their budget every single year. It’s almost as if “the police have been defunded” is a bit of rhetoric to justify more spending and more draconian violence.

https://abc7news.com/sfpd-budget-defund-the-police-departmen...
I'm confused - isn't he supposed to be an AI genius, who can "fix Twitter search" in 12 weeks - and he's asking for help that amounts to ~10 lines of basic JS to process the search results and display them differently? (based on some of the tweets with solutions he commented on)
> That is not remotely true. What SCOTUS has ruled is that police have no constitutional duty to protect citizens, i.e. the Constitution doesn't say anything about it one way or another.

No, you are misinformed. That is, in fact, what SCOTUS ruled, not that "the Constitution doesn't say anything about it one way or the other."

> The actual duty of police to protect citizens arises from state law, departmental policies, and/or employment contracts. If you are so unfortunate as to live in a municipality that imposes no duties on their employees, perhaps you should vote for someone who will.

This is incorrect, and in fact directly backwards. SCOTUS used the premise that police don't have a Constitutional duty to protect citizens as the basis of their decision to overturn such a state law.

It's also a moot point, because state courts - including in California, which is what's relevant here - have treated the Castle ruling as binding precedent that police do not have a duty to protect citizens.
There’s no practical way to distinguish between these two options for web extensions: once the extension can fiddle with the HTML on the page, it can use that power to make network requests (trivially, by inserting <img> tags onto the page).
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> "One of the biggest Flexbox quality-of-life improvements in recent years has been the gap property. Gap allows us to create space in-between each Flex child, along the primary axis."

He is not wrong. It's an underrated improvement.

I couldn't believe it when gap arrived last year (2021) out of nowhere to solve the biggest issue I had with flexbox. No more assigning margins to flex items and dealing with the annoying side effect of that margin applying between item and container edge, rather than just between each item. CSS gap is applied on the flex container, and items can have zero margin, and everything just works now in flexbox.
Praise tends to cause people to seek association with those being praised, and those who are praised the most tend to be insiders with lots of friends in the field. This effectively does the same thing, causing people to shun outsiders and instead try to attach themselves to those who are already the most prominent members of the field.

I don't think that it really encourages research to create an environment that makes people uncomfortable voicing criticism of those with the greatest power and influence.
Got any evidence for the first statement? Germany stopped the certification process of NS2 the second Russia invaded Ukraine in February of this year.

The rest is also complete nonsense - NS1 doesn't go anywhere near Ukraine. It's a subsea pipeline in the Baltic sea.
Ukraine borders the Black sea and not the Baltic sea.
Also NS2 is right next to NS1..
That's a fixable problem. Police could have a legally mandated ethics code similar to lawyers and fiduciary duty.

I do believe, ethically speaking, Uvalde officers should be criminally charged. There's no legal basis of course.
Comparing the price of unreliable energy to reliable energy is like comparing the price of a junk bond with a treasury and wondering why the latter costs so much more. It costs more because when you turn it on you get a known and reliable source of power, day or night, cloudy or sunny, windy or quiet. That's why it costs more.
AI Learns the Art of Diplomacy
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