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Well alright. I value the act of writing pretty code.

But in many teams, I often see managers wanting more features, while I frequently see the devs argue for taking some time to address technical debt. Maybe there's some selection bias in me always being one of those devs.
Man, your priorities are totally inverted.

> The train has derailed. Yet balloons may keep coming

The balloons may keep coming - the environmental disasters are certain to keep coming.
IIRC fluid mechanics is where this turns up most obviously.

So the issue here is you don't quite know how certain shape of boat/airplane will behave in a flow of water/air.

But you do know that whatever the relationships are, they have to be dimensionally consistent. You then work out a dimensionless version of force or whatever your interested in, and that tells you how it scales since you have a bunch of square, cube, root, etc terms.

So now you can build a little model, measure the real force you're interested in, and make a guess about what the force would be on the actual size version.
I feel the topic of having a passion is becoming a contentious issue. When that investor letter to Google ceo came out, I unfortunately suggested that maybe for a company like Google, too high salaries would bring people in who "work for money and not passion".

I never even dreamed of seeing so many people taking issue with what I said. Many were saying that it's just a job and people should not be passionate about Google for working.

I understand that perspective. It sounds dystopian to have every employee be a character right out of The Office, protagonizing a corporation that's out there to just make money. A corporation that won't second-guess firing them because someone said things might get rough later.

Still, trends like Quiet Quiting seem like the worst response. Going emo and glorifying people who stay detached from their job doesn't seem to solve anything.

If passionate people are being let go too easily, it's a sign of poor employee representation in the leadership. But approaching that subject we enter yet another ick territory that's... unions.
I don't disagree with you. I invite you to take a step back and stand in the shoes of someone who is exhibiting "carbon entitled behaviour". Do you think what you're saying here and your hardline stance on measures is going to get them to behave closer to your ideal? If not, how else are you going to make this happen? A lot of these people are politicians, so "just impose a higher tax" isn't a measure, it is a result of a measure (that measure being convincing those people to do what you want).

You say we don't have time for a communist revolution. We don't have time for any kind of revolution, because revolutions famously don't really work or improve anything. This is extra relevant because your other statements still lean on the premise of a revolution happening, just one with consequences you think are more important than communism.
I sort of agree, teams are working really well for us, a medeium sized globally dispersed team of developers.

I do have one pain-point: my phone discord sometimes does not understand that it should be quiet if I am active on a computer at the same time, and dings for very new chat message.
That always frustrated me, even more-so considering how that volunteer-built package I mentioned (https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux - an Electron build of the web app, nothing flashy but does the job just fine) does support screen sharing. I haven’t checked whether it supports backgrounds as I only use voice when on calls, but I’m guessing it does if the browser variant does.
Combinatorial circuits aren't turing complete. The novelty of mov being turing complete is that they were able to do conditional branching with just loads and stores. In the FHE case, they can't read and write to parts of memory, so it's a no-go.

This is why their compiler essentially only works on pure functions whose inputs have a statically known size.
>the automated IoT future is already here for those that want it and can afford it.

And that can (is able to) mantain and troubleshoot it ...
The article doesn't link to the primary source (of course they wouldn't do that). When I see articles like this, I always wonder if they fudged the cases to reach 5k. I recall all of the articles talking about how there are thousands of mass shootings in the US, including cases where 4 burglars got shot at by the home owner, but only one got injured. Or articles about school shootings including cases of someone accidentally firing a gun to the ground within a 1 mile radius of a school's playground in the middle of the night.

If this is actually 5k children being abused, that is bad. If although 4,999 cases are children missing a small amount of nutrients during lent, that doesn't sound nearly as bad.
I did a similar comparison for all the mentioned fonts, but optimized more for the legibility of source code. I ended up selecting Source Code Pro.
Guys, could we be sensible enough not to slide into another world war this time because of trade agreements and political rivalry?
Can we stop doing that? No, he is not starwing his children.

You know what? Sometimes parents want some food for themselves. In a house full of food, this is the one food they really like and want to have whole meal out of it without someone trying to eat bites out of it. It might even be crackers at a time.

And you know what? It does not even mean that kids are spoiled or parents cant control them or yadda yadda.
The balloon story is being propped up by UFO conspiracy theorists and let's not pretend it's anything but that. They are absolutely going nuts over every "unknown object" being shot down. Every single mention on it here on HN is filled with people talking about it.
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I dont think this thread is describing starving situation. It describes family tug of war about flavored chips and seasoned piece of chicken in a table full of other food.
Heartbeats and not footsteps?
An IP by itself is not PII.

You have to be sure that you or anyone else in your chain can't link an IP to a specific person without explicit consent (and thus compliant with the rest of the regulation).

You can have cloudflare giving you IP/location pairs as long as cloudflare doesn't know who that person is.

You can keep your own logs of IP/person. You have to keep it safe, and inform somewhere in a policy that you are doing that. If the logs are kept abroad or cloud, then you need consent (and comply with the rest of the regulation).

It's all made to avoid companies tracking using across boundaries, selling data and having all that PII unwarranted for the next "We take your data and security very seriously" blog post about a leak.

It's easier not to keep any PII around. IPs? you can have as many as you want as long it can't be used to identify a person (without consent).

PS: here is a checklist => https://gdpr.eu/checklist/
Gripen is not a NATO fighter though, and currently looks like it will not be
Regular Pixel 6 has crazy value, you get an absolute steal for around 300$.
Looking at the screenshots, to me the fonts with the stronger and more defined lines seem slightly better than others:

- Go Mono
- JetBrains Mono
- MesloLGS NF

In comparison, there are some that are clearly harder to read:

- Iosevka Term
- Inconsolata Light

I actually commented on the fonts that I use (Liberation Mono for readability and PT Mono for stylistic preferences) a while ago, with my own example images, but I'll also agree with the statement that most modern fonts look a bit samey: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34588312

However, I can't help but to wonder how exactly one would measure how light or heavy a font is, when compared against other fonts. Maybe some measurement of how much contrast there is to the edges of the strokes (e.g. the font doesn't appear blurry and is readable, given a certain quality of eyesight, at a particular size and distance), or just how much of the image is made up by dark tones, or how clear the strokes are?

Comparing the histograms seems borderline useless, for example, even between Go Mono and Inconsolata Light the differences are very slight: https://imgur.com/a/BWbzJzj
> reads like this person has not worked in a well run engineering organization.

Could be, it's not unusual. You might be surprised how common it is. And it is useful to address the real world of that.
You: "We are constantly fouling our environment in the most horrible ways, so there's no point in even thinking about it!"

> Over a thousand trains derail every year

How many of them are filled with toxic chemical substances that force the evacuation of a town?
Because it was not trained with bias in favor of "reality" or facts but grammatical sense. Given that gpt is a statistical model in theory it should be possible to bias towards facts, but that means being able to identify bs from facts. This is a subject on its own.
>self-identify as disabled

and herein lies the problem. to get any kind of support (money, housing, respect) it's ultimately a doctor that decides whether you are disabled or not
Yup, different definitions; I was going to bring this up but chopped it to avoid the wall of text. (I'm glad that someone caught it up though.)

My definition is roughly "ability to process information and generate useful conclusions as a result". Rationality would be a "side-effect" of intelligence, not part of the definition itself. I think that it's more useful than the def provided by the author because sometimes intelligent people with dumb beliefs will also do dumb shit, that clearly contradicts their goals. Does that mean that they aren't intelligent to begin with? Acc. to the author's definition, yes.

A good example of that would be Steve Jobs. It's hard to claim that Jobs wasn't very intelligent (even if I don't like him); and odds are that "to survive" was one of his goals. Then why the hell would he prefer alternative medicine over actual medical intervention, for something as serious as a cancer? (It's just an example, mind you, we could use others.)

However, once you shift the definition of "intelligence" to the one I'm using, there's no paradox: he was intelligent, sure, it's just that his "processing ability" was not directed towards that specific goal. And sometimes it might've been directed against the goal.

It's like something is diverting that processing ability from the personal goals to something else. Dawkins' memeplexes might be the answer here: the memeplex "alternative medicine" was competing with the goals of the individual, and leeching off his processing ability to its own end, like a parasite of the mind.

So, alternatively, and in addition to what the author said, we get another line of thought: sometimes smart people have dumb beliefs because intelligence does not immunise you against parasitic memes. Perhaps it even makes you more vulnerable, as those memes will be abler to successfully reach you. And then, [this point agreeing with the author], once those parasites are installed, they'll divert your intelligence towards their goals.

[Sorry for the wall of text.]
before they put some guard rails on it, I asked chatGPT to write a 400 word press release in the style of the Taliban and it did a remarkably ideologically consistent accurate job.
I view WSL the same way.

Especially cloud devs prefer running Linux on their machines, or Mac (the latter is a bit more popular in our org). And developers is where the exodus starts. Because they build ecosystems.

The big selling point of WSL for businesses is endpoint management. It's really hard to manage Linux endpoints in particular if you have a mix of distributions. Windows is better at this despite active directory being a horrible mess of legacy crap and modern management not really ready for prime time.

In fact Linux is so bad at it that I see a lot of users wanting it so they can escape company management.
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I'm not sure the guy who've been stanning for each and every dictator out there was meaningfully to the left of anyone in the party.
I might misread you. I would believe the best approach is a top-down / bottom-up approach that combines strategic directives with tactical and local goals. Otherwise, you would essentially say that the owners of a company would not be allowed to shape the direction of their own company, but that they would have to accept to be convinced by whatever the individual teams come up with. There are many valid goals that will never make sense for the individual teams to prioritize on their own but require a mix of top-down / bottom-up goal setting
I notice quite the opposite, not just about climate but many topics. Doomsaying. People who will only believe and repeat something if the narrative is “this is the worst things have ever been and it is continuing to get worse”. When confronted with information to the contrary, there is always a scope change “What about x”.
Sorry but no. This is poor planning of life in general. I know you should be earning more but why bet your life and your family's life on an open source project? To "make the web a better place"?

Go for the best paid position you can go and do open source work in your spare time if you can't help yourself. Don't risk the comfort of your family for this stuff. It's not the first time I hear people complain about OSS; why don't we learn? Esp since we have kids, problems with the law, ilnesses or whatnot.
The funny thing is, if someone actually has the guts to tell Ryan "Hey you know that thing you insist we do? It's costing us $Y every year. Do you still want it?".

The Ryans of the world usually respond with "no that's mad, why didn't you alert me sooner? Stop that at once!".
> what's their incentive to use it? It's simply demanding more from those who are already giving.

apparently the notion of Tivoization was lost in a very short period of time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization

When I license something under GPL I'm not asking people to give more, I'm forcing them to not take without giving back.

They are free to use my software however they want and to modify it however they want, unless they want to redistribute it.

Plain and simple.

What's so hard about it?
> I'd have burned it all down the first time someone got pissy about a free thing I

Sadly this is the state of open source projects. People feeling entitled and doing nothing but complain. It's sad really because negative compacts often have a more lasting impact than positive ones.
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I've updated my Xiaomi phone to MIUI 14. It lost the ringtone I've set, so I had to set it again. Before selecting the ringtone, it shown a full screen ad, then another ad after selecting it. This is not a free app from Google App store, it's Xiaomi's own system.

I don't want to install a custom Android image. Is iPhone the only alternative to getting rid of ads trends? (Samsung TV also has ads)
I think you are sad and lonely.
I was merely pointing out that it happens that 2.35:1 prints are sometimes produced from narrower masters.
2.96 billion people remember that the company exists on a daily basis. Meta did more than three times TikTok's reported total 2022 revenue in Q4 alone.

https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2022/q4...
I may have misread the title and thought that was one bigoted compiler
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Linux ‘sorted out’ its display server protocol years ago, it’s Wayland. Fedora has been on Wayland by default since 31. Ubuntu has been on Wayland by default since 21.4. Debian has been on Wayland by default since 11. Distributions that don’t have an implementation of Wayland enabled by default are hold-outs at this point.

It’s somewhat understandable that developers for Microsoft might not be fully across the status of display servers and their respective implementations in Linux, but it’s a reasonable rule of thumb to assume that Wayland is the way to go for any new projects since 2021 at the very latest. If you build your app for X today it’s probably going to be running under XWayland anyway.
I wasn't recently laid off, but I quit. In retrospect, my manager handled 1:1 meetings extremely poorly. He always asked me to lay out any aspects that I could improve. I confided in him that I wish I could be more organized, but the amount of work I had made it hard to focus on improvement task rather than problem solving in the code base.

When I quit (due to stress, in a high work load phase of a project), he included my phrases verbatim in my written job reference (these are common in Germany).
He literally wrote that I was unfocused and easily overworked. When I complained, he made sure to let me know that the stated issues were just what I told him in our 1:1 meetings. I can only assume malice, since they were really unhappy about me quitting and they expected the project deadline to be missed because of it.
I try to avoid merchants on Amazon preferring to buy sold and shipped by Amazon even if it costs more. At minimum it needs to be fulfilled by Amazon. I've just had too many troubles with merchants.

The last one was I tried to buy a smart phone that was shipped by the merchant. Well it never arrived, which happens with packages but I had to wait 15 days before they would do anything. Then they said oh golly that sucks let's have FedEx trace the package and we'll get the results in another 14 days. I told them no thanks I'll just use Amazon AtoZ and get my money back.

It's like they failed to understand that all I wanted was my product and it could easily be seen it was never delivered. When it didn't arrive in 3 days they should have offered to ship another. That's what Amazon would do.

I feel bad that small merchants get squeezed out but a lot of it is their own fault providing a worse experience than a faceless corporation.
I recently had a period of intense stress, stomach aches and all of that. I'm normally pretty stress tolerant so feeling these feelings was very uncomfortable for me. Being this stressed obviously impacts your mental clarity.

This led me to discover Andrew Huberman, a renowned neruo-scientist at Stanford that talks publicly alot about well being.

Learning some things from him I came to realize that "feeling bad in any way" is pretty much just your body being out of whack. I implemented some of his tips into my daily routines and the feeling of stress went away, despite my external circumstances being roughly the same.

Not saying there is anything magical about him, but you could look into him to see if he's got anything that could help bring back your mental clarity.
>I asked myself, why would ask somebody an AI trained on previous data, about events in the future?

"Who won the Superbowl?" is not a question about future events, it's a question about the past. The Superbowl is a long-running series of games, I believe held every year. So the simple question "who won the Superbowl?" obviously refers to the most recent Superbowl game played.

"Who won the Superbowl in 2024?", on the other hand, would be a question about the future. Hopefully, a decent AI would be able to determine quickly that such a question makes no sense.
...in classic salesforce style...
> Nor has another one taken its place.

Yes it has, the spook-friendly Bellingcat. It filled a Wikileaks-shaped hole.
Thanks for writing that wall of text, it’s bs and I’m not going to read it. Don’t waste your time.
Zero.

Trains derail all the time.

From the link below [1]:

From 1990, the first year the BTS began tracking derailments and injuries on a yearly basis, to 2021, there have been 54,539 accidents in which a train derailed. That’s an average of 1,704 derailments per year.

[1] https://thehill.com/homenews/3539221-how-often-do-trains-der...
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I would much rather live next door to a nuclear plant than almost any other type of large scale power plant, including wind and hydro (assuming I was downstream to the hydro).

Being afraid of a nuclear plant is like being afraid of flying.

In fact, flying is way, way more dangerous. Even if you ONLY consider radiation exposure, a few hours in a plane per year will eclipse the increase in exposure the average person living next to a nuclear plant will receive.
Greatest potential and best employees aren’t the same at BigCo. Institutional knowledge is worth more the larger an organization is, and those willing to move may be more devoted to the company and willing to stay around long term.

In fact, if Walmart pays exponentially more for tenure as some bigcos do, the most willing to quit would be the most junior employees. There are many ways to skin the cat, but either way reducing office space to save costs makes sense, remote work policies aside.

And they did offer both relocation benefits and severance, which is about as ideal as this kind of thing can be.
Metsamor plant checks that box since it's only 10 miles to the border: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/110412-mo...
If both parties to a trade are free, I'd say free trade is generally fair (otherwise the parties wouldn't come to an agreement and the trade would not happen). If only one side has that freedom to choose, it's possible to make an unfair trade.
The link to the "additional information" were very helpful. Thanks!
For me it's a simple problem of information size. A complete model of reality, aka the universe, takes this many bits. Our brains or computers have that many bits, obviously many, many orders of magnitude less. So any model we can actually make is an extremely lossy compression that will have horrible artifacts and distortions. But I also find this a truism, and quite a useless one. Of what help is pointing this out?
I posted in another thread but I'm curious what happens when you throw a large language model into the mix that can "just do this". Suppose you prompt it with "input: <user>, <query>, <mic intensities in locations> output: an appropriate api request in <format>".

ChatGPT and the other GPT variants can already parse natural language requests much better than the incumbent systems can (for now). My Alexa device seems incapable of understanding that I have a "bedroom" area defined in Philips Hue, yet clearly knows individual lamp names.
Mine was that you need an Excel to create a CSV file.

For one email.

Why?
Capsaicin (Chili) is a chemical cousin to Caffein and Theobromin (Cocoa), Methylxanthines. I once ate some Cheeköfte with loads of Jalapeños at 9PM, could not sleep till 4AM.
Let Russia take over, run their genocide they planned, you know, typical anti-war stuff.
I fail to see how some compiled, minified js is any better than wasm code.
I was thinking especially point b. I don’t know any large enterprise that isn’t using mainly half baked products sold on the golf course or whatever by the army of consultants and acquisition pushes.
Non big city schools aren’t a 4x multiple or even 2x. And most schools aren’t in New England.

And most schools don’t require dorming, especially for all 3/4 years. The average student loan debt for a graduating undergrad is 23k. If college costs were truly 100k that just wouldn’t be the case.

Edit: median
Which is why you likely won't be a senior VP. Sales are demanding the fringe feature to meet a RFP requirement & the flakiness in the main software isn't meaningfully impacting renewals. These things are not (always) accidents.