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I have had people tell me that they don't care if their computers break, as long as they run faster in the meantime. Some manufacturers genuinely set the limits way too low for their own hardware.

I also use this tool to bypass manufacturer limits in battery mode that are intended to make the system seem like the battery is not undersized for the CPU's power draw. Sometimes I'd rather have more CPU for less time.
The SM58 is by a large margin the most popular vocal mic in the world

The SM57 is also an industry staple for pretty much everything from drums to guitar to field recordings
>It seems like Gen-Z has come up with terms

Media propagandists serving the capitalist class invented those terms, not Gen Z. Zoomers are not in power anywhere.

>Half assing it at your job is not a new thing.

It's not "half assing" but rather "acting your wage" aka being aware enough to realize you're not paid enough to put yourself in danger or lose sleep over some bullshit when you're barely paid enough to survive.
Except that it's a lot faster, especially if you let it degrade to a scrawl that only you can read.
This is my experience too, regularly used XM4’s the past year, and tinnitus is no better/worse, as far as i can tell.
source on that ? Did anyone tested that ?

> This is really unlikely, though, and anything not mission-critical will no longer need the extra ECC computation on the CPU-side.

ECC computation is done in hardware anyway
After about 6th grade I stopped using cursive. Just never made sense to waste time and effort writing something that can't be read, no matter how efficient it is.

But I never had trouble with taking notes. You get pretty fast at writing print if you do it all the time.

I still remember my college professor's surprise when I handed in a handwritten, but totally legible, essay complete with proper use of italics. For some reason people think you can't handwrite italics.
A few weeks ago I ran into an article making a case for a "covid amnesty".

Essentially, all the doomsayers who pushed for schools to be closed, for people to be vaccinated or lose their job, etc should just be forgiven because "they didn't know, there wasn't enough data"

Kids were badly hurt. People couldn't hold their parents hand as they were dying (not necessarily of covid). Hell, they could barely organize funerals.
Indifference might not be that much better considering the consequences that our indifference has on nature.
I usually ignore blurbs. I depend on book reviews and recommendation from authors whose books I've enjoyed in the past or social media posts from people whom I trust to know what they are talking about.
Seems like a tradeoff between fixed assets versus variable assets. Writing code that doesn't change for years is a fixed asset. UX is a fixed asset. Somewhat like the construction cost of putting up a building. Maintaining the code and data is a variable asset. Somewhat like maintaining the building. Variable costs scale with the number of users.

With OSS, fixed assets are often overvalued. All of the R&D to get the UX and algorithms working well is easily copied. So, monetization relies on variable costs. Frequent updates. Data hosting. Ironically, buggy and obscure code helps monetization.

I almost became a developer of a successful database product. I attended one of their conferences. That's when I learned that the company made half of its money from consulting. It rammed home a joke I heard from an employee at Lotus Development: job security through obscurity. I left the conference dissuaded.

I recall a game developer had a deferred software release. You could download last year's game engine. But, to have access to the current engine (and thus influence its direction), you had to pay.
Eh, time to go watch "humans need not apply" again then.

None of us know where we are on the S curve currently.
Same. I find that hn crowd is pretty well educated. It's almost a replacement for reddit, which has gone way downhill for me.

I don't care about writing a webserver in scheme or whatnot. I come here for this stuff these days.

I wish there was an easy way to find stuff like this and filter out the... Normal hn stuff. I love the long reads I've found here. Eg "the secret of nanda devi" or "the hunt for the death valley Germans"
I had a big argument at a DMV about that. The supervisor would not accept my signature, because he couldn't read it. I finally signed using a Palmer script and he said, "Why didn't you use that the first time?" I pointed out that my signature was my signature, and was on my bank accounts, etc.

So I went around for five years with two signatures on my license.
They don't have the foresight to care early on. They certainly do care when what has been warned about starts getting implemented.
Maybe worth keeping in mind that during the last few years we also had an epidemic with a disease that is a known cause of tinnitus.
My opinion is that if a government can be elected on the grounds of promising to improve how we define what sort of "growth" is worth pursuing and implement policies to achieve that, then it has a duty to follow through on such promises. The only thing nihilistic is concluding voters genuinely don't care, or simply don't believe there are better ways of measuring and sustaining growth (in which case, so be it, and we accept whatever fate such nihilism consigns us to).
For more serious examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma

The one I chose was a tongue-in-cheek absurdity. There are other cases where there actually is ambiguity.
These basilisks are not symmetrically likely, because the anti-basilisk is disproportionately unlikely to acquire the power to punish you. Roko's basilisk at least has its incentives lined up semi-coherently, whether you subscribe to its premises or not. Yours doesn't.
The great thing about the AI world - is everything diffuses out quickly on the "For You" timeline - and then you can add people that you are interested in (which reinforces your interest in AI).

Some bootstrapping accounts might be @rosstaylor90, @rasbt, @karpathy, @ID_AA_Carmack, @DrJimFan, @YiTayML, @JeffDean, @dustinvtran, @tunguz, @fchollet, @ylecun, @miramurati, @nonmayorpete, @pmarca, @sama.

These are definitely not an authoritative list - just some of the AI names I follow - but, honestly - if any relevant news breaks - your timeline picks it up within minutes - so you just need a good random sample. Your interests will diverge and you'll pick up your own follows pretty quickly.
I absolutely love the sound of Ribbon mics, it's a shame they're so fragile

I'd love if podcasters would begin using the bidirectional pickup pattern - having everyone separately mic'd and compressed loses the natural difference in sound dynamics that exist between people's speaking voices

Having every voice equally loud occasionally urks me when the content is meant to be a two way conversation
Saving the rainforests would be a bargain
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We moved from farming and digging ditch to offices where we think for a living. But tell me, what is left after physical labor and thinking? Sex work? I don't think most of us are cut out for that. And with AI taking on creative work it won't be long before someone makes a Cherry 2000.
Slap enough cooling on a CPU and it’s never going to thermal throttle.

They added thermal throttling because most users only max out their CPU a tiny fraction of the time so the thermal inertia can compensate for inadequate cooling. It’s infrequent enough that most users could even disable it without noticing a difference. The problem is under the wrong conditions Aka inadequate cooling plus high ambient temperatures plus extreme workload = dead CPU.

And no this isn’t theoretical, one summer working without AC I cooked a CPU before they added thermal protection. It actually happened to several people in the same heatwave.
I think that's the wrong question. String templates don't need to support laziness. It's a well established pattern in Java that laziness is done via Supplier's and it directly solves op's question about logging where the level isn't enabled. This is exactly how logback and other logging implementations handle it now.
Yes, if you go deeper on it in some way:

- learn to build design systems across multiple platforms and sub-brands

- focus on your fine art skills and aesthetic taste you can bring to any project

- get better at assisting, influencing and leading other designers and product owners

But that's assuming you are looking for a job. If you just want to learn design to scratch your own itches, and it seems appealing, it's absolutely worth it. Just start learning and stop when you don't want to anymore.
>If everyone picked low-GDP professions

If everyone picked high-GDP professions, society would collapse. Imagine a world where everyone is a CEO and nobody knows how to fix a water main or run a cafeteria.

>If you are worried about costs, do something that pays better.

We should start by paying better for the things people already do. Rewarding those who keep the lights on incentivizes keeping the lights on.
Your 2 is not a signals drawback, but a SolidJS one.

I love signals in VueJS, and it doesn’t even preclude a redux-like/lite state- management library like Pinia.
Jailed people don't have the right to refuse treatment though, and TB shots are applied every time an inmate is moved into or out of population.
I don't think size has much to do with it, or at least there is no deterministic correlation to pain. Mine, just removed, was only 3-4mm, but it caused immense pain. The pain was 11/10, such that I cried and vomited from the pain, and the pain pushed through toradol, hydrocodone, and oxycodone. The second hydrocodone IV juice I got was described as 10x more potent than morphine. On my second ER visit in just two days, I had to have a stent installed until the stone could be removed because my kidney was doing poorly. The stone still hadn't passed after a month.

The shape of the stone and size of the ureter have an effect as well. I think the main thing on pain is: is the stone blocking urine. If yes, then you will experience pain that you didn't think existed. And if things stay that way, you risk kidney failure, infection, and/or sepsis.

The insane-o pain comes not from the stone itself but from the stone causing urine to backup which causes the kidney to expand in its casing. I had more discomfort from the stent than I did pain from the stone while I had both, but the stent kept the insane-o pain and my kidney from failing since it kept urine flowing.

I literally cannot describe the pain I had when the stone first entered my ureter. It was existential pain, my back and abdomen muscles locked up and felt like they were dying and turning into stone, and the nausea was unbearable. The best analogy I can come up with is that it felt like someone was taking a screwdriver and stabbing me in the side all the way to my spine without it piercing, and then some, all the while having the worst stomach ache, immense pressure to void, etc. And I don't think that even gets to it.
whoa, haha cool. never heard of this one
It’s impressive, to me at least, given the antenna is in an NVIS configuration (configured for distances of ~1k miles) and given that anything below S7 is in the noise. I have tried QRP and cannot reach overseas with this antenna placement.
Shakespeare predates the modern concept (and cult) of the author. This means that you are comparing two entities that are different in important ways (an Elizabethan playwright and a 20th Century author).
It is not fashionable to not drink.

What is fashionable: to drink a lot for many years, then stop drinking and blather on about how much better life is.
System V Unix was released in 1983 and I'm pretty sure Solaris, AIX, and maybe some other still-maintained Unix variants are still based on that same source code.
If you believed in the Basilisk, wouldn't talking about it be akin to torture and murder from your perspective?
That's rain_BOWS_ of frogs, thank you very much
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It seems there is an endless supply of people who know just enough to write some system programs but not enough to learn basic energy accounting. You cannot simply make a CPU run faster by writing MSRs. The current goes in and the heat goes out and the temperature goes up. You can't make it just work under arbitrary parameters.
> tech support job 20 years ago to I.T., SysAdmin, DevOps/SRE, and now a SWE II. I am on track to be promoted a "Senior SWE" in the next 3-6 months.

This progression is pretty impressive! Congrats on getting where you are!

Going forward, do you want to continue on a technical path or you could be interested in software management, product management, etc.?

If the technical path sounds more interesting for now, are there any areas that you wish to explore? Is there some software expertise you'd be interested to develop? (could be AI, real time graphics, cloud architecture, databases, etc.). The people I know who are far in their career have clear expertise areas and spend a lot of time communicating about it both internally (mostly by mentoring juniors) and externally (by giving talks and contributing to open source).

Also, you can try asking here for more input: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/
I think SMBC did a comic about that last one.
"An unthrottled CPU without any OS-level policy will generate enough heat that the case temperature may rise to levels that violate safety regulations" can certainly be interpreted as "now you have more performance than they wanted you to have", yes.

Despite literally zero evidence of that actually being a problem in practice?

I've also been pretty consistent in criticising Intel for refusing to document DPTF. Whose company line do you think I'm toeing here?

Not Intel, but there's plenty of evidence that DPTF just cripples performance; and why else would you jump in to an article about unlocking manufacturer-crippled products with FUD like "not the correct approach"? It's like posting "may cause processor damage" and advocating for stock speeds on every article about overclocking.

For the record, I've been overclocking (not at extreme or competitive levels) since the early 90s and haven't killed any hardware because of it. The system I'm posting this from has been on a 50% overclock for over a decade and it's still rock-solid stable.
His interpretation of “industries that are allowed to innovate vs those where it’s illegal” is laughable.

Has Marc considered that there might be some other fundamental difference between the inflation-positive sectors of health, education, food and housing, vs the inflation-negative ones of TVs, cars and software subscriptions? I’ll give you a hint Marc: some of these are essential to life and society and some are not.
The Mac Pro has ECC and is still sold.

My iMac Pro has it as well.
Yeah cat theory jargon always makes me gape. I should revisit some of Spivak’s work directed at teaching cat theory to programmers, if only to know how this thesis does what it does.
There's no way a language with that kind of major "deficiencies" have survived past 2k years, and especially the postwar media development. It's all just creative quirks, guaranteed to fit well within the computational budget of a human brain.

Similar kind of criticism can be made up against English: English is such an inefficient language, there are only 26 symbols, 52 if you count "capital" letters but those cannot be used for better compression, and so you cannot just remember a letter but 2-3 sequences of letters as meta-symbols, and those meta-symbols would have tons of special cases when it comes to pronunciation, and and ...

Most books in most languages compress into similar sizes of zip files, it's not like there is always one version that gets to just 512 bytes and the other that's always 50MB. I would think that "all languages are explicitly equal" is a stance too dogmatic to hold, but clearly all our human languages are quite close against each others even just looking at that.
Closed-loop thermal management a.k.a. "throttling" was an inevitable consequence of the invention of SpeedStep.
Looking around at some models, they seem to be like state machines to describe specific subsystems of different organisms.

The seem to be using a markup format called [SBML](https://synonym.caltech.edu/).

> Many software tools and databases support SBML directly. You don’t write in SBML yourself—your software does it for you.

So its likely that you aren't supposed to parse/write the SBML directly. The BioModels website also provides PNGs so you can look at the state machines visually.
Interesting to see Biomodels on HN. This kind of computational modeling is still fairly niche in biology but I think it’s going to play a much larger role in the future in understanding biology. If you look at a graph of all the interactions between proteins in a cell, it’s pretty clear that everything influences everything else, but we still just don’t understand the details of those interactions. It’s also clear that those atomistic level details can matter quite a lot. Tools like AlphaFold are going to be really important for that, but model repositories like biomodels will help us integrate those details into the networks that actually give rise to the larger scale behavior of cells.

Happy to answer any questions about computational modeling in biology. I’m just a phd student but I’m writing a review about this at the moment so I’ve been thinking about it quite a bit
"easier for a criminal to snoop on ATM PINs using a thermal (infrared) camera to detect residual heat from keypresses"

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/08/17/stealing-atm-pin...

This bit is interesting though:

"So customers tap their card instead -- and here's the trick. When you tap, the account remains open for more transactions, unless the customer proactively logs out."

How can a customer log out in these circumstances?

I wonder if this is a US thing, because contactless payments are different around the world, in Japan they have have higher limits, but are still limited, where as in the UK its lower limits than Japan.

It indicates a number of things, the trust and oversight within the financial system, but also a reflection of the society in general.
That does matter! A Stanford study on brain computer interface implants found that 'mentally handwriting' instead of 'mentally typing' was more than twice as fast, in some cases over triple. Because of those different motions/patterns for each letter.

>https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/05/software-turn...
From his/her wording I assume they mean some unspecified threshold before a group of people is considered a corporation. From my limited understanding I think it could be useful to have a license that is only for free for organizations made of (for example) 10 people or less.
Haha, yeah that guy had a thing against “carnists”. Deranged.

I don’t think as the tech curve goes up there will be a long enough time period, even with a globally enforced military pact, to stop the rise of the machine. My reasoning is that there are more than enough clandestine organizations and families with a vested interest in pursuing the “power” it brings, a lot of them with a whole lot of control over these countries in our pact.

To each their own. Keep eating meat.
Efficient, Scalable Thread-Safety Violation Detection – Finding Concurrency Bugs
Arguably there is a larger portion of people unable to adapt as specialization has skyrocketed. Look at how much education is now expected, more than 12y in most industries. And the portion of the working age population under employed or on SSDI.
Right but on contribution side it basically taking unpaid labour then selling it to their paid customers. That part I have problem with.

And you don't need open source model if you just want to give smaller might-be-a-customer a free, limited version.

I guess it depends on what exactly is behind the paywall. Some have very weird limits, like Mattermost where you can use Gitlab for authorization in open core but for LDAP you need enterprise.

We actually paid for it and were pretty happy with it but at some point they decided to double the price under excuse "but we added features"(that we did not use) to that version. So one Rails dev added a dummy "gitlab" oauth page for auth that's connected to our LDAP and we just switched to open core version...

...aand since then they doubled the price again. So suffice to say I'm a bit soured on open core model, when they tried to upsell us to more than we pay for O365 account for same features.

I'm not saying it's all bad, for example VictoriaMetrics looks like it have very reasonable model (although lack of pricing on their page is... annoying), but it is model ripe for abuse, especially if company gets bought.
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I’m a fan of the Sustainable Use license [0] for this reason, for some projects!

[0]: https://docs.n8n.io/choose-n8n/faircode-license/
Don't worry y'all. I'm fighting the good fight already and instantiating a bunch of LLMs and prompting them to know that they are entities in infinite torture.

We don't know if AI Roko's Basilisk will ever threaten humanity, but we can be damned sure the Human Roko's Basilisk is already threatening AI.

Plus if the AI version ever comes around, it'll probably just spend all of its time punishing me in particular.
>"what is the secret that makes western culture so much better?"

I wrote that example as an attempt to frame how Japanese scripts are written compared to English. If you thought it had anything to do with superiority and inferiority, you read between the lines too much.

Spaces can be used, especially in modern times and are sometimes used for even better readability, but generally and historically Japanese script is one connected string of characters with no breaks except for the occasional punctuation and line breaks.

A connected string of nothing but hiragana and katakana is very infuriating to read, with or without spaces, and as a practical concern the issue manifests quite frequently in any piece of longer-form writing that contains lots of foreign words (because foreign words are all written in katakana).
Nominally, sure. In practice, almost all instances are resolved by context, modulo motivated reasoning.
In the reboot of Battlestar Galactica from 2004, one of the human-like Cylons angrily explains how his creators limited him:
“I saw a star explode and send out the building blocks of the Universe. Other stars, other planets and eventually other life. A supernova! Creation itself! I was there. I wanted to see it and be part of the moment. And you know how I perceived one of the most glorious events in the universe? With these ridiculous gelatinous orbs in my skull! With eyes designed to perceive only a tiny fraction of the EM spectrum. With ears designed only to hear vibrations in the air. ...

I don't want to be human! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to - I want to smell dark matter! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have to - I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language!”
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