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Ask HN: How to stay out of office politics?
How to stay out of office politics (as a junior):

- Always put your headphones on, at some point they'll get tired shouting at you and ignore

- Do not speak unless you have to, but don't look anti-social either

- Do not comment when the office is talking about a co-worker, it'll bite you

- Do not act weird (golden rule of life), speak, walk and sip your coffee slowly

- Arrive as early as you can, and leave as late as possible, you should OWN the office and shouldn't miss an important event

- Always smile and be kind, they will hesitate to raise their voice

- Smell nice, brush your teeth, they might use your shabbiness as an ad hominem argument

- Don't get too friendly nor too cold, both ways end in regret

Here are the tactics I've developed in my first 6 months. I'd love to hear about yours!
This is just corporate gaslighting at this point; There is no legitimate reason so many very profitable tech companies need to fire so many when we are not even in a recession according to the United States Government and the treasury and the banks, and its not like they are not making record profits.

They cant say "we are making record profits" and in the same breath say "we need to fire people to survive" that's not how that works. Pick one.
And even if it were (I suppose a very clean natural gas car vs the worst coal plant ever made) the electric still has the advantage of regenerating braking.
I want to be back to piracy. Not specifically for money, but for quality subtitles :

I want translations that are close to the original content, not an adaptation that nearly destroys its meaning.

Until a decade ago, Japanese right owners were hardly interested in broadcasting content in my area.
Fansub teams would provide subs for content as long as it wasn't licensed. (it was in order to make it available, but most of them didn't want to compete with companies who would actually develop the content).
This resulted in a range of subs, each with a different trades-off between pure translations and adaptation.
If you got a subtitle from a team that offered a close translation, you had much more meaning, but you had to understand a bit of what was going on.

We also had the opportunity to make the shows a bit of our own by discussing about its meaning and by reflecting on it, in order to write the subtitles. The we could compare subtitles and what each team understood.

Now most commercial services destroy that meaning.
They take the show away : you're just a consumer/viewer without a say (don't forget to purchase a shirt to make the show your own)
They adapt it with a lot of approximations, and remove the quirks and rudeness to make it ok for the most viewers.
(yes, shonen characters are rude, you can ride a mamachari and it's not just a bicycle on which you're an angry cyclist, -kun / -chan / -dono have a meaning, ...)

I no longer enjoy to watch anime with commercial services, that's just bland. They just want to do a western show with a Japanese show.
And since I used to be in a fansub team with the 'as long as it wasn't licensed' clause, I and don't approve of piracy, so I just no longer watch this content as much as I could.
(now US shows like South Parks feel more mature)

I find it a shame that governments went all over the place to find dichotomies to break down public services on behalf of free competition (operating train isn't maintaining rails, selling power isn't maintaining lines and power plants,...), but that you can't just purchase a license for movie and its subtitles separately.
Qualification of the C/C++ Standard Libraries for Safety-critical Applications
I think the golden age of piracy ended when it became impractical for individuals to collect digital media. The streaming services deliver a convenience to consume anything, anywhere which is cost prohibitative for laypersons to replicate by other means.

So no - while I'm not opposed ethically, my family would be very frustrated with such a transition.
hmmm... my (possibly incorrect) understanding is that ovulation in ancient times was much less regular due to diet.
The price difference is because the vast majority of costs for car transport (direct, like road maintenance and indirect, like millions of people dying because of pollution) are handled by the state. Trains can easily be much cheaper as most costs are fixed and they can handle orders of magnitude more traffic without congestion.
The n identifier has a valid place in a world trying to say the output is racist.

It is not exclusively applied to any skin color either.
Hey, I'm one of those "IDE people". :-)

But I've posted something similar to what is described here just the other day:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34232549

The thing we interact on the surface should stay "text like" of course.

But the tools used should work on the actual data structure (and this should be also what ends up it on disk).

Proper editors (and IDEs) do this partly anyway. Only that things get converted (loosely!) back and forth between the internal representation of the IDE and the text on disk. The compiler than again extracts the rich data form the text, over and over. Pure madness…

If just the LISP machine would have won… Things would likely look much better now. We would work with rich ASTs instead of text blobs I guess.
I see your point. And of course it's not a 100% accurate thing, but you know what I mean. Being admissible in court as evidence and furthering representation of a group are two completely different things.
I'll stand out here, because I work for a major sports streaming service. So let me be heard about live streaming at least:

1) Content needs to get paid for, if you're watching an illegally restreamed match then you're not rewarding people like me for the hard work we've done to get that game to you. It's not just faceless corporations, we're people and it's really hard to make a profit in the streaming world, so every viewer counts.

2) We don't decide how much the rights cost and on top of that we spend millions getting it to our subscribers (e.g. cloud providers, CDNs, developers). We've got to pay our bills, again, no streaming service is scalping right now. Delivering Tbps of streams is hard!

3) Many live sports re-streaming services really are run by organised crime gangs. I have involvement in some revenue protection work, there's not just hacking, there's also money laundering, we've even encountered links to people trafficking in the same organisations. I'm sure you think it's an exaggeration, but it's real and it's not just some guy in his basement doing this stuff.

4) The companies that invest in technology for this stuff often invest in things like AV1, FFMPEG, Exoplayer, stuff that's available to the wider open-source community. We, as organisations, contribute back to the world in other less obvious ways. Hurting us hurts the community as well.

5) Lastly, I presume that most people here get paid for their work, or at least would like to be paid for what they do in the future. Put yourself in my shoes: how would you feel to have your work ripped off? Oh, and then someone else profits from it? Hmm, not cool. That app you work on? That website you support? Maybe you hate your employer enough that you don't care if they get ripped off, but most of the people I work with love their work, so consider that as well.

I am sure people will argue against all my points, but they stand none the less.

What I will say, unofficially, I sympathise with people who cannot watch our content because it's not available in their market and I also have some sympathy for those who are too poor to pay. But I'd assert that 99% of the people who pirate our content are not too poor and have ways of watching legally, they just choose to go to the dark side.
I’ll take the troll bait, if that’s true then why are “left wing” people the main driver of EVs? Criticizing a technology is one thing. Willing to adopt it is another.
Now that models like Stable Diffusion have been available for months now, allow completely uncensored content and have a rapidly evolving ecosystem around them, are releases like this banking on reaching people unfamiliar with the technology first? Who are the expected users?
> What we are considering is subscribing for maybe 1-2 months a year, bundle the things we want to see on it then.

Do you see them stopping that ability at some point, and requiring a yearly subscription? I remember the cable companies wouldn't let you start and stop premium channels each month. You'd have to sign up for at least a year.
A better formulation would be "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the null hypothesis.".

That is, instead of "no", say "it's nothing".
> is it even possible?

I believe so. As I understand it, in current cell designs, only a fraction of the lithium leaves the anode. This limit is deliberately imposed to preserve the integrity of the physical structure of the anode. Increasing the deintercalation fraction (the percentage of lithium that moves in the electrolyte) is being actively researched. So are other cell types where the whole problem is avoided.

And yes, lithium isn't the only possible choice.
Do you have write up or guide somewhere on how to specifically set this up, configure and add security?
Not sure if this is irony or not.
The only 3 platforms that receive my money are Bandcamp, Itch.io and Steam.

The first two are pristine from an ethical standpoint.

I'm torn on Steam because it's not run as a typical USA corporation with all the anti consumer BS. The DRM they themselves provide is more of a suggestion instead of a real challenge. It can be broken with off the shelf tools or just stepping and dumping in x64dbg. However they did their fair share of damage in eroding what it means to own digital goods.

I also bought https://everycircuit.com/ because halfway through reversing the license checks I started feeling bad for the developers :(

I unapologetically pirate everything else.
Anecdotally, the only people in my larger circle of family & friends who bring up cobalt mining are the right wingers. You are probably right that they don't actually care, though. It's concern trolling.
I find a lot of piracy to have better UX than the legitimate ways, although maybe not for the average user who doesn't know how to set up things. But I find Plex superior to all of the legitimate streaming services and their apps.

Biggest exception is probably gaming and specifically Steam. It's been a while since the last time I've pirated a game and even then it was probably like a retro ROM.
Had an AST 486DX2/50 as my first PC in ~93 or so--I have a lot of good memories poking around DOS, playing Doom, tons of shareware, dialing BBSes (on a 2400 baud modem!) and more. It was a great machine.
> Apple is big enough they could just tell authors "here is our new narration feature for users. If you don't like it, pull your books off our platform.".

You assume that it is authors who sell books on Apple platform (or on any platform).

Let me introduce you to a couple of chunky boys:

- Penguin Random House https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin_Random_House

- HarperCollins https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarperCollins

- Simon & Schuster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_%26_Schuster
> If I like the album that much, I can buy it via iTunes or their store, however finding lossless versions are hard.

Try Bandcamp.
I'd say SQLite entered into a new dimension of applicability once local disks got very fast. You can insert a SQLite row in ~40uS on local NVMe storage today, assuming you can be bothered to set 2 pragmas.

For certain applications, a millisecond is too long to wait for a trip to the database. I've got some control loops written around SQLite that operate at 1kHz and beyond.
Completely open to piracy.
It would be as hard as writing the file {n} number of times again. So if one created a 1MB log file and then did a 3 pass wipe that would write 3MB. Number of passes would really just depend on the system being worked on. If PCI I would expect 7 passes and I am sure that would just be factored into the cost of the servers for that environment.

Shred also isn't perfect as it has no concept of the file systems journal and does not clean that data but I think it is still good practice for sensitive data, in addition to filesystem or file level encryption on systems with highly sensitive data.

With sensitive data one must look at the value of the data vs the value of the SSD. If I go out of my way to extend the life of my SSD, do I risk losing $5billion? That is how I factor in whether or not extra wear-and-tear on a SSD makes sense.
No.

So the title is misleading, even if it is true that you get this performance with a program that uses a single CPU core.
I re-upped their DVD service for a while early in the pandemic. It's still worthwhile if you want to watch a lot of movies even if their back catalog availability has deteriorated quite of bit. It makes me shake my head a bit that so many people consider suggesting that the idea of just watching some things on physical media (whether Netflix disc by mail, library, or just buying a movie) makes you a weirdo. (Or for that matter, renting streaming a la carte.)
Wouldn't putting that editor's note there also have done that?
What do you mean by 'planting racist information' exactly?
Things were transferring from non digital to digital decades ahead of expected[1], so head counts had to be adjusted to where companies thought they would be 30 years from now.

The gamble was once people went digital only, they won't go back. The bet was wrong. People are back to their 2019 digital habits

Plus, with all the record breaking profits, there is pressure from shareholders to re-invest in the company (and create even bigger record breaking profits)

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-10-11/amazon-am...
Is Microsoft the biggest investor in OpenAI? I wonder what the breakdown is in getting the ability to leverage technology of a company you don't outright own but have heavily supported.
"again" ¦-D
Hmm, I think you might have to adjust the padding to be 128 bits then:

__shared__ float As[(CHUNKSIZE+4) \* CHUNKSIZE]

Ultimately it's down to trial and error, like always with GPGPU.
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If you have a spare 17 minutes, this great, informative video by Wendover Productions [1] goes more in-depth about the various problems with Lithium-ion batteries.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dnN82DsQ2k
Correct.

I lied to somebody that was wasting my time.
> ADHD used to be only a tiny amount of outliers and is growing, thanks to the lifestyle we lead.

That's speculative I believe. Last I checked, I think they chalked this up to better diagnosis.
The incentives are misaligned.

Netflix, Amazon, Disney et al, aren't interested in showing me what I want to watch for a purchase price, they are after my attention, and to divert me to their most profitable revenue stream (Netflix in house creations etc).

My attention is not for sale, I'll buy content if it is sold in a manner that is attractive to me in a consumer friendly model, Louis CK selling his standup specials on his own website come to mind, otherwise I won't bother.

The problem is there's no end game for these companies, if you agree to buy something, they'll stop selling it and sell you a subscription instead. If you buy the subscription, they'll chuck ads in front of the subscribed service, and then periodically cut off access to certain content in an effort to maximize their own profit. There's no way to manage you're own library, you're subject to whatever the shareholders think they can keep squeezing out of you. On top of that, even if I yield to them completely, I still have to run their DRM blobs on my computing devices for the priviledge.

It's "amoral" to pirate in my worldview, but these companies are equally amoral. I still want to participate in the collective modern culture of tv, movies, etc, so somethings got to give.
An EV is much heavier, thus you need more energy to move it. But I think in total it should still be a net win for EVs.

But the real problem is that we move 2000+ kgs around to move a human of 80 kgs around. EVs don't fix that. EVs are mostly to save the car industry, the solution is to drive less by creating a society where people don't need to own a car and drive everywhere.
Connection Machine showed otherwise, just like HPC languages as Chapel.
The goal with the open data stack is that companies can reuse existing battle-tested solutions and build on top of them instead of reinventing the wheel by re-implementing key components from the Data Engineering Lifecycle for each component of the data stack.

In the past, without these tools available, the story usually went something like this:

- Extracting: “Write some script to extract data from X.”
- Visualizing: “Let’s buy an all-in-one BI tool.”
- Scheduling: "Now we need a daily cron."
- Monitoring: "Why didn't we know the script broke?"
- Configuration: "We need to reuse this code but slightly differently."
- Incremental Sync: "We only need the new data."
- Schema Change: "Now we have to rewrite this."
- Adding new sources: "OK, new script..."
- Testing + Auth + Pagination: "Why didn't we know the script broke?"
- Scaling: "How do we scale up and down this workload?"
They probably will. It usually takes a while because they prioritize shipping the chip in laptops, then OEM systems. Maybe they skip the second part this time because now they have the basic igpu for the office PC market. Also with the down market they may have an oversupply which let's them start selling at retail faster.
It is actually far scarier that they are able to bypass any sanctions and buy everything they need to make weapons. And it seems US government can’t do much about it.
TLDR; for the time constrained -

They propose a vertical capture surface that is 210 m wide and 100 m tall, roughly corresponding to the vertically projected area of a large cruise ship, can provide a sufficient volume of extractable moisture to meet the daily potable needs of approximately 500,000 people, on average.
I had DX/33 DX/50 and then DX2/66 plus DX4/120

I remember that before DX2/66 i wasn't seen on chip labels about "heatsinks". On DX2/66 there was label "heatsink required".

But on DX4 label was "heatsink and fan required".
The danger of accumulating meaningful but unusued stuff
And many people here comment like it wouldn't. I guess you're so used to Betteridge's being true that you presume the answer in the article is "no".
I’d love to drop them, but they’re industry standard. Good open source alternatives such as Gimp are somewhat lacking the AI features. Which have most likely been trained illegally!
> when it became impractical for individuals to collect digital media.

When was this? I have a 300mbs internet connection, cheap access to seedboxes and newsgroups, and I can buy a 15TB hard drive at Walmart.
I'm reminded of the Hunt brothers attempt to corner the silver market in 1980 [1].

> But as the high prices persisted, new silver began to come out of the woodwork.

> “In the U.S., people rifled their dresser drawers and sofa cushions to find dimes and quarters with silver content and had them melted down,” says Pirrong, from the University of Houston. “Silver is a classic part of a bride’s trousseau in India, and when prices got high, women sold silver out of their trousseaus.” [2]

Price seems to be able to make material availability very elastic. If there is a huge demand for lithium and our collective resources are bent toward obtaining it (or finding a substitute) I think you can trust "The Market" to find a way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Thursday

[2] https://priceonomics.com/how-the-hunt-brothers-cornered-the-...
Twitter's revenue comes almost entirely from advertisers, not from Twitter users, and there's no way it's going to pick up enough paying users to come close to covering its costs.

Advertisers are very sensitive to reputation, and to optics. The optics of what Musk's done with Twitter have already driven most of the major advertisers away.

The idea that Musk can come out of this with a profit is absolutely ludicrous at this point.
Thanks for this. Can you do Go Dog Go next?
Question is if this is on purpose.
Those electric cars that aren't being used could theoretically be used as renewable grid load balancers, but in reality I doubt many people would degrade their battery longevity for a few bucks a month they'd likely get from it from the power company.
Oh Great, because that is utterly less confusing way to fix the problem he created.
Sure, there are other ways. For instance using different dishes than the rest of your family to limit portion size. You can share most of a meal, but have a specific side for yourself, etc.
Shopify's developer focus is nothing but marketing spin
Shopify just released "a new product" with their Commerce Components: https://www.shopify.com/commerce-components

It seems like their latest attempt to cater to developers since first Shopify+, and later Hydrogen, failed to pick up traction. While I welcome the focus on developers and good APIs, it is still striking how much this once again seems to be unsubstantiated in a truly new product.

Instead, they re-packeted their old product into yet another bad developer experience:

- their APIs are inconsistent and cause headache to work with

- whenever you want to build in any customizations, you end up hacking another Frankenstein together

- docs are super thin when you start drilling a bit into the details
multi-currency is gone (have managed 8 shops because of 8 different currencies)

- support is expensive and getting small roadmap prioritization, even for large projects, is almost impossible

The list goes on...

Sorry for the rant, but getting frustrated with their way of doing marketing instead of product innovation.
"Brush your teeth" is good advice.
Reminds me of the scams that were pulled off in RuneScape a long time ago.
Yeah, it was big although it worked better for film than TV. I wish it were still bigger. The fact that so many people seem to think that just renting a physical disk is something weird means that they're really not investing in restocking older films any longer.
7GUIs in React with Signals
For the PC gaming market, gg.deals can sync with your Steam wishlist and let you know where to get the best deal.

It's actually possible to get Steam games for a better price outside of Steam from official retailers like Voidu or Green Man Gaming that get their Steam keys directly from the publishers.
I wanted one of those so bad. I opted for the Diamond Rio CD Player (SP250)

I loved that thing. That was an exciting time in tech because prices were falling into the affordable range for a lot of portable/mobile tech. (It was clunky and prohibitively expensive prior to that.)
Isn't the problem that the car's that are parked 95% of the day are all moving at the same time in the last 5%? It feels like building a carless society is a lot more deliberate effort and requires a lot more public good will than electrifying what we have. That being said, it's probably the better long term goal.