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I downvoted you because of the sentence "Because if you didn't, you REALLY need to shut it and keep your ideas out of their mouths.".

The point you rised at "Serious question. Did you ask these black artists?" is a valid, reasonable point that merits discussion.

But the point raised by the parent post is also a valid, interesting point that merits discussion. And that point raised a valuable discussion EVEN IF they did not "ask these black artists", and if we put this bar and demand them to shut it, that's a bad thing for the discussion.

So in my view you made an insulting demand for someone to "shut it" without reasonable grounds to do so, and this definitely deserves a downvote or five. I'm not asking you to "shut it", you should participate in this discussion, but in a civil manner that also allows posts like the parent post to participate in the discussion even if they don't meet your demands.
The context (sigh) here is that I'm saying "like they're people" is not a good argument. Drivers are also people. It's not an argument. I don't know why the topic keeps drifting off this.
An anti-tax advocate on HN, what a surprise. The solution is that they pay their goddamn taxes. Those taxes pay for services that companies avail of as well.
For general payments, yes, but Apple allow-list known public transport networks to charge cards without auth. I would guess this involves auditing the crypto, being fairly sure they aren't going to mess it up, having a very limited payment amount (Transport for London for example "charges" £0.10 when you tap in/out, and then bills you the correct balance at the end of the day).
Apple isn't really dominating outside of the USA. I have no Apple products and have no need for them. Google, Amazon and Microsoft are much harder to avoid.
Ask HN: Manager takes credit for actual work done by her team. What should I do?
As a former L6 Manager at Amazon (now L7 since Q2), she took credit for all the work I did by restricting my access to upper-level reviews. In her review meetings, I was always called into to answer follow-up questions, only to find-our she bungled her explaination. Her promotion and achievements were solely due to my efforts and the team's collective achievements. Her only contribution was asking me to work for 24 hours a day to make up for two lost headcount on the team and forcing me to 2 to 3 hours per day coaching her on how to explain our work to upper management (she would ask us to explain the same thing again and again and does not retain her knowledge). She was a Yes-person for anything that came from one level above her, and I reported everything she did and didn't do to her L8. He is currently working on up-skilling her. I was asked to help upskill her and coach her how to be a better manager (I previously managed a small tech team but I'm not interested in managing people).

Despite being confronted, she continues to appropriate my work. However, she now claims that she won't take credit for it and she wants to help me get promoted by next Q1. I enjoy what I do, but I am displeased with this Manager's behavior. I also have no interested in being promoted (I like begin an IC). She has failed to perform her managerial duties, such as unblocking my obstacles, advocating for what is right within the upper levels to streamline our roadmap, and having a holistic view of our business for long-term planning.

Despite receiving Exceeds Expectations ratings for two consecutive years (3 years at Amazon), my PCS was only 2.3% YoY, and I was informed that I had reached the cap pay for the L6 level. I am considering leaving, and I have already informed her that I will not remain in this team any longer than necessary. I am uncertain how to handle this situation. I am currently seeking employment outside of Amazon and have 15 years of experience, with 11 of those years as an SDE and the remaining as TPM.

Could I have done anything differently? I also feel like I wasted the last 4 years of my life moving away from software development to product management.
A lot of the time I am not writing code, but I am working all the time. My job is not to write code, but rather to come up with solutions, do research. A lot of the job is just thinking things through.
When I was a kid, I was super into programming languages. Read all about the different kinds, learned about Haskell, self-modifying code, dependent typing, and of course I wanted to design my own language. Now I just want whatever breaks the least and let’s me get the job done.

It’s funny because my family always used to ask why I went into engineering instead of computer science, and I said it was because as soon as programming became a job, it would suck the fun out of it. Well I veered away from engineering into data science, and sure enough, I don’t seem to get quite the same joy out of coding that I did when I was younger.
See also: “gaslighting”
Those who exchange freedom for security deserve neither.
Depends on the provider, but with some, you can go contactless+PIN (saved my stomach once or twice already).
Many services just bundle the crap. Smart phone app, and websites, are often using third party libraries which bring huge developer convenience and other benefits - and they also imply tracking the user.

https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-facebook-tracks-...
UK bill could protect consumers from 'subscription traps' and fake reviews
> Must be a big issue if they own the "How do I get" SEO :)

That is, if this an actual "organic" suggestion and not one implanted through some search bombing attack or by Google in support of their own ML initiatives.
Unlike most of the world, where when a Chip+PIN or contactless payment is made, where the risk is transferred from the merchant to the acquirer/issuer.

That was the whole point of moving to EMV, it removes the fraud risk from the merchant.

That's different to the charge-back risk, which is where the customer disputes the transaction itself.
A lot more places could use cleaner air to breath with electric cars and bikes. Anybody living in a big city who has jogged behind a truck or even mopeds, knows its not fun breathing exhaust fumes. A big truck, you can almost understand the amount of noxious exhaust (still rather not have the pollution), but stuff coming from little crappy mopeds can be amazing. Little reason for that person to not go get an electric moped instead (if available).

Most people are not travelling that far from work or the office, nor needing to go that fast (as risking a ticket anyway), to not see an electric vehicle as a viable choice. Instead of destroying the air quality while sitting in traffic, we all could breathe a little easier and get a little more fresh air.
People who use Notion to plan their whole lives
It's true: a lot of people in software are people who, at a very early age, decided that a life with many more machines and many fewer people in it would be best for them.
Multiplying vectors differs from multiplying complex numbers.
I'm surprised to hear this. Some years back, I looked into starting some kind of co-op, maybe a school co-op, and I remember printing off detailed instructions from the internet.
Have you looked at what's popular in general?

And with that information in mind, do you think it is desirable to be popular, that something being popular is a good endorsement of it?
Your journey in that article is very similar to the route I took. I quit video games, TV, and social media together at the beginning of 2021. I blocked Reddit, and also installed Unhook for YouTube so I see nothing but my subscriptions now. I probably relapsed around 100+ times in the subsequent years before I got a handle on it, and it all stemmed not from an addictive "urge" - like that for food or cigarettes' - but simply from being bored.

I agree, it's impossible to replace something without filling the hole it left in your life. I needed to have something I could do when I had evenings free or a weekend to kill. For me, I filled it with sports/working-out, miniature painting, writing fiction, and making (speakers, dioramas, gadgets, and other fun things I find on Hackster.io).

My life is so much more fulfilling now. I've shifted from one of sedative consumptive to active creation. I can't recommend it enough.
The obvious fix to that would be to introduce a law mandating that communication with the general public by a government official has to be made on government-provided/managed social media and email accounts.

Using "private" accounts to bypass legal requirements (archival, monitoring, insider trading, or blocking political opponents/critical citizens) should result in getting immediately booted from office. Even if it's the President.
> It seems to me that the point raised by moring is more like (...)

Yes, that was what I meant. It was admittedly fueled by the confusion when I started from "did I miss some major news", as well as a lack of knowledge of what "literally" means, as indicated by the other responses.
>"real" numbers have never been controversial

Some controversy does exist. NJ Wildberger is most famous for not believing in the real numbers.
> Well yeah, paying with a credit card in physical stores

Maestro and Visa Electron are already or soon will be full discontinued. How can you even tell a debit and a credit card a part nowadays? The only distinction between my credit and debit Visa cards is a single word sign in a tiny font at the back (I live in a EU country).

So unless those Americans are trying to with Amex/Discovery/smth similar cards I'd find this really surprising.

Even a decade or two ago Germany was the only country I've been to where it was only possible to pay with these regional debit cards in some places. I really don't think this was an "Europe" wide thing for a quite a while now.
Compared to Sql server, PG's lack of true clustered indexes and no query plan re-use was very surprising, also no hints to wrangle a bad query plan!
Proper illustration is so expensive that in most cases people are tolerating it because the alternatives are either very horrible (random clip art) or to make do without illustrations.

If digital tools enable decent clipart that can be at least somewhat paired to the content, that will take over most of the market, because then it'll be just somewhat worse than proper illustration while being dirt cheap in comparison.
Expecting people to know this is going too far. I mean usually the acronym gives a hint, this is just straight up medieval druid vibes. "Oh the field which begins with a followed by our savior's pious 11 letters and then a y"
Those “22 trillion devices that run Java” have to come from somewhere :)
At least w12e is easier to pronounce:-)
In the current business climate, where businesses must deal with a number of risks including financial, operational, legal, reputational, and more, risk management is essential. Organizations may safeguard their assets, reduce losses, and improve the likelihood that they will accomplish their goals by putting effective risk management techniques into practice.
If you want an answer, here it is.

I've been monitoring artist forums since day 1 of SD's release. From various subreddits, to discord communities, to 4chan, to forums in other languages. I've never seen an artist complain even ONCE about bias, it is always, always, always, about jobs/copyright('stealing').
Congress gets 40 ChatGPT Plus licenses to start experimenting with generative AI
That's some sci-fi stuff right there. A model so bad that even your researchers aren't allowed to talk to it.
I'm fully aware of why I'm too tired to concentrate. It has nothing to do with watching horror movies.

I'm always genuinely surprised when I see things like "Studies show that watching horror movies before bedtime interferes with sleep." because that seems so obvious, I just can't imagine studying it. To me, that's like launching a study to determine if water is wet.
The re-verification isn't a hard spending limit or count. There's some fuzzy logic (or like the kids today would say "AI") behind it.

Basically it references the purchase to your history and if there's something funky it forces you to re-auth.

Mostly happens to me on vacations and road trips when I pay in multiple locations 100s of km away from each other.

But I've never had to do it at my local grocery store(s), even though I might visit them multiple times a week.
Dealing with stuff as an individual is fine, but it does not scale.

Individually, you can lose weight and go to the gym and quit smoking and go vegan and refuse those opiates and reduce your CO2 footprint and stop doomscrolling.

Good for you. Seriously!

But what impact does that have on the big societal and enviromental problems? None.

Some things need to be addressed at a higher level.
As a Dutch person, this excites me.

To respond to another person.. Klarna already works with iDEAL.. so soon Klarna can access a much greater market.
Smartphones with Qualcomm chip secretly send personal data to Qualcomm
Am I the only one who read the title as "only 12% left after 200k miles"?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Marianne Williamson so far. Apparently Joe Manchin is considering it.

The reason you haven't heard of it is the reason running against your own party's encumbent President is historically a bad idea.
A lot of new nuclear power plants can be built on the site of the coal/gas power station they are replacing and can utilize the existing power transmission infrastructure.
How one feels about SQL is moot because it isn't really a choice. Same for shell and client-side Javascript.
Show HN: FloatingAI, A GPT helper for any app with Android Accessibility Service
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You may use your own API key at no cost, or take advantage of our cloud service, which offers 30 free requests.

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I'm off to see if there are any studies on this.
Wait, what are these corollaries to? This sounds like my life over the last month...
Good article.

The last section on "Communication and Competence" i think becomes most important with experience and age. This also dovetails nicely into "The Athlete" vs. "The Coach" dichotomy embodied in the same person.
Here’s a new one for me: At a swimming championship, some coaches had taken to quick sharp [fingers in mouth whistling] bursts on say a breaststroke when their heads come up, which then caught on with other punters. Sometimes I was reminded of the voovoozela World Cup. Anyway one guy was particularly bad and I clocked him at 105db from 20m, but he was doing it next to people. I feel sorry for them.

Most dj’s are children and you can’t leave them alone for a second even if you’re very clear about noise restrictions, even driving very clearly into digital distortion without noticing or caring. More loud more better. Brick wall compression and have them sending hot and don’t let them near the console.

Potentially a hidden killer is exposure over time. You might be under because your 88db concert only went a couple of hours but you drove there with loud music and you’re going some place after with loud music and drive home. So nothing specifically was too loud but you’ll still be over for the day. But try having that conversation :/ far as anyone’s concerned duty of care applies while you’re in the limits of one specific place.
"Substance induced psychosis": https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8732862/
This is your regularly scheduled reminder that the author of these papers (https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10873, https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.15128), which this article is based on know very well that complex numbers have real matrix representations.

What they add which your comment discounts is the locality structure of quantum mechanics, i.e. what happens when you combine multiple quantum systems. Specifically if the state of one system lives in A, and the state of another system lives in B then the state of a combined system lives in the tensor product A ⊗ B.

If you do the trick where you replace complex numbers by real matrices what you end up is having the state of the first system living in A = X ⊗ A', and the second is in B = X ⊗ B', where A' and B' are real and the X subsystem is the degree of freedom you're using to "fake" the complex numbers.

Then if you try to combine the two systems you end up with a state that lives in A ⊗ B = (X ⊗ A') ⊗ (X ⊗ B') but what you need in order to get the behavior you want is actually for the combined system to live in X ⊗ (A'⊗ B').

What they do is a bit more complicated because they show that all ways to fake complex numbers using real numbers breaks this way of combining systems, but this is the gist.
I think that every platform that's old and has backwards compatibility has to have such a page - because there inevitably will be features for which we (now!) know that there are better ways to achieve the same goal, but they have to stay there for compatibility reasons.
Xerox is giving away the lab that birthed the PC, mouse, and laser printer
He probably means the algebraic structure of a field. "A field is a set on which addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are defined and behave as the corresponding operations on rational and real numbers do."[0]

You might be tempted to think of complex numbers as "just" being 2-dimensional real vectors (x, y). Looks pretty similar to how you can plot a complex number a + ib at point (a, b) on a 2D plane. But importantly, division is defined on a field, which is not necessarily true for vectors. For any complex number (except 0), you can find another complex number that multiplies with it to give 1, the multiplicative identity.

You _can_ think of complex numbers as being "made of" real numbers though. a and b above are just real numbers. Complex numbers are the two-dimensional normed division algebra over the reals[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_(mathematics)
[1] https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/normed+division+algebra
I disagree. Users generally have no idea what they want, especially related to novel things.

If you waste time listening to the masses and have no initial vision of your own you'll end up with a Frankenstein project.

Build something great and they will come.
I asked this specific question before on the PostgreSQL IRC, and was told that it simply wasn't implemented. There's no huge technical blocker to it being done, it's just a bit awkward to make it work the way the code is structured AIUI.
Can't you give us a hint of what this does before demanding an account sign-up (although, I imagine it's just a "you're a travel advisor" prompt for an LLM API, possibly with some context from scraping relevant websites).
Too little, too late. Microsoft needs to be split up into an OS company, an office company, a games company, a cloud company, ... . The MS monopoly is preventing progress in many fields.
> one of those payment monopolists decides you shouldn't be able to spend your money

I assume you keep all of your money at home?

Oh, you keep it at the bank. And withdraw it using a plastic card? Well then.
Why wouldn't the same work with a phone via NFC as with a physical card via NFC? At least my phone (Android) presents the virtual rewards card (one app) first, then the virtual credit card (another app).
This is a common theme for centralised infrastructure. e.g. power grids, roads, rail.
> trained on complicated Russian military equipment

What complicated Russian military equipment? Hypersonic missiles? Any other equipment designed in Russian Federation that was actually used in combat even after the full-scale war had started? Or is it all old Soviet stuff, the same stuff that Ukraine uses? The country that had conscription service which implies that a substantial number of adult men in Ukraine are trained to operate this equipment?

> procured enough of this equipment to fight

Donetsk had military installations. Even a whole military academy, AFAIK. Though I don't doubt that Russia had started supplying DNR under the table at some point.

> A former Russian FSB agent as the head of the military.

Seizing an opportunity for themselves. Given the specific ideological matter along which the Ukraine had been torn, this isn't an unimaginable thing.

> Thats totally what happens in a totally 'real' civil war right.

Define "real"? Is the civil war in Syria real? Was the civil war that had collapsed the Russian Empire real? If it is the foreign influence that confuses you - that is actually an expected thing: In most cases the sides of the civil war gravitate to nearest opposing poles of power, with the exception for secluded places like America.

It's important not to be dismissive of the fact that the root cause of all the problems is that people in Ukraine can not agree on a sustainable way to run their country and that people in Donbas have no less rights then the people who pushed for the revolution. Everything else is just bullshit that distracts everyone from what's important - the people.
>I don't understand why we don't also get serious about solar and wind.

Because we already have reliable renewable power in the form of hydroelectric generation in the vast majority of the country. And, of the 30% of electricity that isn't generated from dams, half of that is from nuclear.

At this point it would be trivial to replace the few thermal plants in the Prairies with nuclear technology that actually works in the winter; solar doesn't, because the sun's only present in the sky for a maximum of 6 hours 6 months of the year in the vast majority of the country. And that's 6 hours of sun right on the US border; it gets even worse as the latitude gets higher to the point where the sun just barely rises in the northern wastes.

This might be news to anyone not living in Vancouver, Toronto, and Ottawa, but Canada isn't actually a part of the US, so solutions that might work in their sunnier Southwest regions are completely pointless here. Of course, the boom in natural gas has yet to be fully exploited here in terms of much cleaner gas turbines replacing coal generation; it's almost certainly going to cause more damage to climate to go with solar power at an unacceptably low duty cycle, electric cars that won't work in the cold, and inefficient electric heating, but that doesn't matter to the "muh net zero" people who just want to make life worse for everyone.
Now this is alarming:

"According a recent AI Working Group internal email obtained by FedScoop, the AI tool is expected to be used for many day to day tasks and key responsibilities within congressional offices such as: generating constituent response drafts and press documents; summarizing large amounts of text in speeches; drafting policy papers or even bills; creating new logos or graphical element for branded office resources and more."

While generating press documents, summarizing speeches, and creating logos seem all reasonable innocent tasks, "drafting policy papers or even bills" is not exactly something that should be outsourced to a garbage-generating machine...
Intel kills ‘Blockscale’ Bitcoin chip
Semiconductors are at their least efficient when they are neither on nor off, neither here nor there. I think humans are the same. Workplaces (read: managers) have an obligation to foster a culture of deep work - it's unreasonable to expect individual contributors to constantly be fighting a culture of disruption, to be expected to be available to respond to an endless flood of alerts, requests, notifications, interruptions, and direct messages while also maintaining some semblance of productivity. The inevitable result, at least for mere mortals like me, is burnout.

On most days, I spend more time trying to enter 'the zone' than actually in it. At the end of the day, I feel exhausted despite having accomplished very little. It is indeed a miserable experience.