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50% rejection rate sounds incredibly high to me.

I'm not sure the code shipped by the offshored programmers I've interacted with built 50% of the time.

Something like 90% of "software engineers" in the country are considered unfit for software engineering [0] [1]

[0] https://restofworld.org/2020/india-engineering-degree/

[1] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/jobs/only-6-of-those-pa...
Nobody tell Ted Faro.
We changed the URL from https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/google-employees-cri... to the article that one is pointing to.

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I've had 4 jobs (one a short-lived one cut short by dot-bomb) over the past almost 40 years. I've done fine starting at a time when tech industry salaries were a far cry from where they are now.
Am I going to be able to fine tune GPT-J or GPT-JT on consumer hardware?
You're willing to throw amazon under the bus, but what company are you at now?
Direct link: https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimic...
If you care about efficiency, you have to take computer architecture into account. (One important example is that floating-point numbers are not reals we tend to think of them as.)
I wonder if that goes hand in hand with declining birth rates. Single motherhood is extremely difficult. Having even one other person around who is legally committed to assist would take a ton of pressure off. There are many other reasons to get married, but child rearing seems to be the one that makes it just shy of indispensable.

If women don't wish to raise children, there is much less reason to get married. Not zero: there are plenty of married people without children, just as plenty of people do successfully raise children without a spouse. But it would be interesting to see how much correlation there is between the two.
Huh! I love how you can switch between instruments on each track, that's a great idea.

Have you tried Tone.js vs Howler? Any thoughts?
competition is the fuel of our entire economy
Rust might end up in the same situation if LLVM development lulls and the GCC implementation of Rust takes hold.

The editions certainly help, but I think only if you can use stable Rust.
You're right: what you wrote is poorly conceived. You can probably just delete it (or edit-clear it)! I'm an ass all the time; I'm not high-horsing you, but maybe we'd all just be better off if this whole subthread vanished.
I've worked at my same company for 10 years and I'm disillusioned. There's no real advancement and nowhere else seems any better.
I think there are use cases.

If investors don't invest then how will the technology progress?

Would I spend my last dollar on investing in it? No!

It's funny because Google is investing Billions in it.
why can't such a spy plane release shell with parachute, to slow down the shell, containing a self-inflating balloon? possibly with some thrusters?
Reading the responses to some of these posts it feels like the pendulum has swung too far in the other direction in the "the company is not your family" discussion.

Yes, if you expect corporate America to always treat you fairly you're going to end up disappointed. But spending 9 years at a place and not even giving a little bit of yourself to the company seems even worse.

It's OK to think that your boss cares about you as a person, it's OK to make friends at work, and it's OK to believe in the company mission, as long as you don't overdo it.
It's actually the opposite that's true. It was when the Chinese government let go of economy that China got good at manufacturing. I do wonder if India's legacy of heavy state intervention might be the cause of the current issue (from the little that I know about India) and if they would follow a similar trajectory as more companies start to compete. I don't know enough about India to comment on the latter part but my family is ethnic Chinese and we own factories in China. State intervention is definitely not why manufacturing improved in China. There is fierce competition among the companies. Talented managers and leaders are lured away with big salary increases or start their own companies, etc. Ironically, in the beginning a lot of managers who worked for state companies were lured away by enterprising business people to get their factories started. Those same managers would quickly ram up and become more productive once they were motivated with bonuses and freedom to manage, etc.

I would not be too negative on India. I don't see a reason why things won't improve with enough time and motivation.
By control point you can understand a corporation or a government, no need for false dichotomies: in the age of capital there is no beyond.

Enron was a weak company, nowhere near the escape reality velocity: at peak, in 2000, they had a market capitalization of $60 billion, at the same time Microsoft was at $600 billion [1].

Also, any company worth their capital knows very well that "competition is for losers" [2] and dreams of the ultimate consolidation [3].

[1] The Largest Public Companies by Market Cap (2000–2022), https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/largest-companies-from-2...

[2] Competition Is for Losers, https://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-for-..., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Fx5Q8xGU8k

[3] The Consolidation Curve, https://hbr.org/2002/12/the-consolidation-curve
This isn't true. There is no national standard to this effect, nor do most (like 46-47) of the states require it.

Some municipalities might - I couldn't find any data in a few minutes of googling.
Btw, you don't actually want to use a lossy image container in the modification steps if you don't want to leak any data.
JPEG has ways of extracting data that was either cropped out or written over, by how the compression is performed over the parts of/whole image. Compression artifacts can and will propagate data that you are not fully aware of.
PNG is a safer bet for screenshot content for the middle steps.

Only the final image should be compressed using a lossy image compressor as then any details can't be diffused to the image if they simply aren't there.
They are really excellent at decoding video, as you would expect. They can't run a 4k UI generally, however.

I think it's holding the industry back somewhat. Having a bit more power might make these boxes a home hub, a video calling device, a gaming device, or at least a bit future-proof.

One thing I like to do with Android TV devices is install tailscale on them. At least I can ADB to them from anywhere, and I can also setup the exit node. They use hardly any power, so it's a nice solution to have access to your home network or home internet connection.
How can we not understand each other? If a business doesn't put out a price, they will be contacted by people who can't afford the price - since you have to contact sales to get a clue. The wast majority of businesses who don't publish a price are not serving enterprise clients.
Not been involved in manufacturing there. But was very pleasantly surprised by the quality of IT and datacenters in Jakarta.
This exact problem happened with an optic in my lab in graduate school. For two years the senior grad student and postdoc blamed each other over the entire apparatus becoming misaligned every couple of days. (It was a really toxic environment.) Eventually, they both left, I was the only one there, and it still became misaligned. In one day I tracked it down to a prism from Thorlabs whose glue had gone bad positioned at the very beginning of the laser line- it was sliding in its mount.

I wish I had pushed more strongly about it. We spent probably a full person-day of work every week on that.
It depends on how good their process control is. A low yield rate indicates poor process control, and that will vary from supplier to supplier.
OTOH its convenient. Say you live in socal with a pass and want to ride the new ride with a virtual queue. You can just sit on your couch at home and see if you get in the queue and if its even worth it to go to the park that day. If they didn't have that system, it would be a crapshoot and probably like a 2 hour wait. This way you can estimate when you need to be there and can basically walk on. Then if you want food, once again, turn to the app, schedule a pickup window when you are going to be over there, hit a button on the app, walk up and grab it, versus waiting in line.
What concrete, user facing, revenue generating product have you built using Wasp?

How is Wasp more convenient than other frameworks? How do I hire people that know it or can train themselves to use it?
Would ECP brakes have stopped this, a serious question? I don't know if the severity of this warrants blame on a lack of ECP braking. There is a study done[1] that compared different pneumatic vs electronic signal brakes and ECP brakes could have potentially reduced the number of cars in a derailment but I don't know if it's a significant decrease in cars that are derailed, 50 cars derailed. It does not seem that way to me. But I could be wrong.

[1]: https://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/Documents/2017_casselton_BM...
> It proports to be anti racist but it's the opposite, it treats minorities as a special lesser class that require protection from everyone else.

No, mandatory DEI statements (statements about how a person has and/or plans to advance the institutions diversity goals through their work) do not treat minorities as lesser or needing “protection”.
Thank you! I really appreciate hearing that.
Oh that explains why it is hung up on "match item['blah']:" then. I was scratching my head trying to work out what i had done wrong since the code worked fine.

Love the tool
Quick test shows ruff doesn't seem to.
I don't think that the problems with Google are the result of the CEO, specifically. They're the result of the board of directors and the investors.
This is an article that paraphrases another article from the Financial Times (https://archive.is/iuXAm) both of which lack any real sources or facts from Apple themselves. The only people quoted are a random Bain consultant and Vivek Wadhwa who basically shows up with an opinion whenever anyone says "India" - regardless of whether he actually understands the industry or not.

None of this is to say that the problems might not be real, but bear in mind that China literally started producing electronics in the 80s, a 40 year headstart. And even then, until the early 2000s even in India Chinese goods had the reputation of being low quality, and for good reason. It takes years of experience on multiple levels to achieve the level of production that Apple targets. But it's not unachievable, even in India.

The country has pulled this off in other sectors - IT, Aerospace, Automotives and Pharmaceuticals to name a few.

This is HN so the moment I say IT and India in the same sentence a megathread of outsourcing woes will start to form. But Tech in India is much more than outsourcing for the last 2 decades - solid tech companies serving global and local markets like Freshworks, Zomato, Zoho, BharatPe, RazorPay, Chargebee etc have emerged.

Apple is big enough and has sufficient resources to have known that manufacturing in India will have a learning curve. It's not like they sent a team of 5 engineers on a plane and told them to go get it built. Apple has been operating in the country for well over a decade now - it's only just starting to scale things up on the production side. This will also pass.
It's getting better, but correct shadows cast on dynamic objects are still a relatively recent thing. Can't test now, but i would bet some modern titles still only do shadows on static geometry on lower settings.
It might been my ignorance but I haven't seen any tools written in JVM or Swift for these kind of scenarios, but I haven't looked too hard either.

I do think Go has have success in the same space because it is fast, but IMO the ergonomics in Rust for this problem space are a bit better. Of course, that's just my opinion.

> You can still have kinds of memory bugs in all of these incl Rust, esp leaks.

You're right. Leaks are not covered in the memory safety guarantees by Rust, neither are OOMs, but you can't deny you're on a way more safer space than with either C or C++.
So, if this topic interests you, and you want to read a couple books related to it, I highly recommend Delta-V and then Critical Mass by Daniel Suarez. Both are sci-fi books, and deal with precisely this thing.
FWIW we've been waiting for a native M1 Steam app on macOS for more than 2 years since launch, I guess we need to wait for Apple to drop Intel support.
Do you think it’s even possible? Imagine written facts as a thick thread and bs as long hairs growing from it (both written and hallucinated, there’s no limit for bs). We can ask something very well-known and likely(?) the answer will stay within that thread. But if you ask something non-trivial, i.e. start in the hairy area, which force could drive its “thinking” back into the thread? I believe that there’s no way to create it (in this model). Once far away from the main road, LLMs can wander bs space indefinitely. If my analogy makes sense at all, obviously.
Because government is so well-known for not being bureaucratic?

I'm being a bit snarky. I've known people who mostly liked working for a national lab but, like academia, it's not really a panacea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust
the soviets could have shot him down more than once but didn't
That's really harsh. At the job I mentioned in the above they pip'd me because I delivered 8 points per week instead of 10 for 2 weeks right when COVID lockdown hit. They couldn't understand why the world melting down and my kids suddenly home schooling would have any affect on my productivity.

Companies treat us as replaceable widgets. If widget A is broken just throw it away and use widget B. No reason to be loyal in that environment.
She and her ilk sucked the energy, momentum of Google AI.

If Jeff Dean's brain cells are precious, where do you think his time is best spent?

a) Dealing with Activists and Woke Politics

or

b) Delivering sustainable AI
> How much concrete (and GHG emission and coal inputs) were just wasted?

I would put the lives lost first on that list. The tragedy is incredible.
> It's not obvious that aliens who reach Earth must be much more technologically advanced than we are.

The odds of bumping into an alien civ that is anywhere near technological parity with us are vanishingly small. Given that the universe has been capable of hosting habitable planets for ~10 billion years, the median age of alien civilizations could easily be billions of years old. Meanwhile our civilization is a paltry .00001 billion years old.
https://www.igvita.com/2012/02/06/sstable-and-log-structured...

May be of interest to you
In June 2021, a condo building called Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida collapsed, killing 98 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfside_condominium_collapse

This prompted a huge flurry of investigations and inspections. (See "Building Integrity" on YouTube for a particularly good series)

Turkey has suffered thousands of Champlain collapses. I can't imagine that there will be enough resources to investigate each collapse at even 1% of the intensity that has been devoted to Champlain Towers.
If someone's paying folks to shill Rust, then they owe me money!
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> Great products are built, not planned.

Great products are both.
It starts with one nail in the coffin, then another one, then another one.. Eventually most autocrats ends up badly after some time.
> better to trust that system than to take his word as truth.

What? Why would that be better? Absent more information I'd rather assume innocence until proven guilty.
On the other hand, I don't know if telling kids and families to just take the lane is the right approach.
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I used to ride my bike to work in Boston, and one day I ran into the rear fender of a car who had cut me off, basically crashing into the car at pretty high speed, and the car didn't even notice.

I realized that even if I was a master at city biking, through no fault of my own I could easily die or be seriously injured, and I haven't ridden a except for fun now and then since.
There are two problems with your assessment:

1. This is an underestimation of the actual flight durations:

> However, there are few enough volunteers outside the United States and Europe that coverage may be limited, leading to underestimation of flight time and distance.

2. Much bigger issue is that the comparison used is apples-to-orange. Comparing the gross footprint of an average American to just the private jet use of another person is not a fair comparison. From https://www.npr.org/2022/11/09/1135446721/billionaires-carbo...

> Some of the world's richest billionaires each emit about 3 million metric tons of carbon dioxide on average per year, more than 1 million times the amount emitted by 90% of people, according to a new study.

If you take into account all modes of travel and entertainment by the richest (yatchs, planes, fancy cars, giant mansions etc etc) and how investment props up fossil fuels, 15k quickly grows to be orders of magnitude more.
I believe Apples decision isn't based on viability of moving manufacturing to India but rather requirements of the Indian government to access that market.
Great book! (Although, it could have used a more aggressive editor)

Reading it felt like a personal attack in many places. However, reading it forever changed how I think about things. It's a much more useful framing for everyone involved if you start with the question of "why did they think this was the right thing to do?" as opposed to "this person made a bad choice / mistake". My (extraordinary) impatience naturally predisposes me towards the latter, but the core argument of the book is that that's lazy -- you can hand wave away anything and everything with "operator error".
The latency hit of the extra trip will definitely be felt by end users if the endpoint is far enough away (e.g. ~100-200ms.) You can mitigate the initial setup other ways though, like the CDN approach: terminate TLS much closer with a proxy and use a warm, pre-established backhaul connection to the origin.

Less round trips are always good, though, without any extra stuff to put in place.
Well, we are actually going to kill a lot of people going down the current road, because we can't be bothered reflecting our life style.
You could have just said that. It distracts from your message.

I've worked at too many companies where hack job losers stuck around 5, 10, 15 years, insulating themselves with low enough pay and job security by not sticking out, keeping their head down, and creating an environment that breeds passive leeches.

These lifers would create enough mess that would eventually be cleaned up by people who could read a man page instead of a Medium article and who eventually left for greener pastures because they too were interested in creating good work.

You can be technically excellent and have enough brains to pay attention to the CPI-W. Records profits from corporates aren't for you and me, they're for the businesses themselves.
You're employing a logical fallacy called whatabooutism.

Regardless, you still managed to prove my point that there definitely hasn't been peace between Hindus and Muslims since 2002
No. There have been years of serious quality problems at certain Indian manufacturers. Here's a case from 10 years ago:

During a visit to a facility of leading Indian drugmaker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd last year, U.S. inspectors found that a black fiber embedded in a tablet may have been a hair from an employee’s arm, according to documents seen by Reuters. ....

The Mohali plant, in the northern state of Punjab, had not been making U.S. exports since last November, when it voluntarily recalled its generic version of cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor in the United States due to the potential presence of glass particles in certain batches.

Here's another case from last year:

A parliamentary committee in Gambia said on Tuesday that India-based drug maker Maiden Pharmaceuticals Ltd was responsible for the deaths of at least 70 children from acute kidney injury and called on the government to pursue legal action.

According to a WHO report, "labs contracted by it in Ghana and Switzerland found excess levels of ethyleneglycol and diethyleneglycol contaminants in the Maiden syrups."

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/gambia-lawmakers-say-ma...

Note that the plant cited in the 2013 case was majority owned by a Japanese pharmaceutical company. They still couldn't get QC right.
The GPU issue isn't limited to Framework; see https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/6679

Panel Self Refresh (PSR) seems to be at least the most common cause:

> @kelnos, have you tried without psr? E.g. add i915.enable_psr=0 into your kernel boot parameters or disable it via debugfs (as a root):

echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/i915_edp_psr_debug # yes it's '1'

> You can check that psr got really disabled by:

sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/i915_edp_psr_status
Sink support: yes [0x03]
PSR mode: disabled
PSR sink not reliable: no

I'm on a Framework 12th Gen running Fedora 37, kernel 6.1.9, with no freezes for several weeks after having loads of them under both GNOME and KDE on Ubuntu and pop_OS.
And you are trying to spin masculinity in general as toxic. There is no such thing as toxic masculinity or toxic femininity. Some people are just jerks.
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> How do you reward people for doing boring maintenance work on existing products?

Maybe start by hiring people who don't find maintenance work boring? I've known tons of excellent engineers who very much prefer maintenance work.
Turkey was doing just fine until Erdogan rolled along, they were really moving in the right direction, becoming a much stronger player economically on the world stage and quality of life was improving. Since then it's been one long series of setbacks, the guy has been a complete disaster for Turkey and a benefit to a very small subset of Turkey.
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> you're also indirectly preaching the praises of corporate loyalty

I didn't preach that, I purposely left out where the first one works and what the industry is. In all honesty, you have to admit you filled out that part yourself so you can have something to argue about :)

No, it's not about corporate loyalty at all but I don't have any means to dissuade you so you'll just have to trust me on this (or don't).

You purposely skipped the part where one person is honest and good at what they do while the other is the opposite.

> the nice guy you're talking about had job pay increases exceeding inflation at each 3 jobs over 20 years

The smart guy did not rely only on pay increases, you're thinking too small about financial compensation. Salary is not the only source of compensation. There are other, better financial models to keep the expert employee and to grow alongside said expert and to keep every party happy. Win for engineer, win for employer and win for customer _is_ a possible scenario.
For my 2020 Model 3, all but one of them. There was a recall to replace a cable in the trunk that could break, disabling the backup camera.[1] I still haven’t taken mine in to get the free replacement, but my backup camera has been fine.

1. https://www.consumerreports.org/car-recalls-defects/every-si...