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No worries. I am very aware that HN is heavily biased (actually, most places where discussion happens are biased). Also of course HN is not my only exposure to american culture (would be kinda absurd if it was though lol).

But your comment actually illustrates very well what I mean. I know it's normal for americans to call HN "socialist" and in my culture almost nobody would use that word to describe HN. Or another example is that liberal means left-leaning (like in your comment). In my culture liberal means economically liberal (no tax, no regulations), so the exact opposite of left-leaning. Those are things you have to learn in order to really understand the language. Just understanding the language by itself is not enough because the dictionary will not say that socialist or liberal actaully have a different meaning.
Putting the aggressive tone aside, this makes sense.

His acts were a different kind of altruism compared to other billionaires. But altruistic, nevertheless.

My take is that somewhere deep inside, he felt he didn’t deserve the amount of wealth he had. There was some guilt and pain that ate him up inside. He seemed like a good man who was motivated by something other than money. The fact that he made a lot of it seems coincidental.

A round peg in a square world, he was unlike his peers - much less obsessed with spending the wealth on himself. I hope that we can find some inspiration from his desire to build a community larger than himself.

I hope he is now at peace, wherever he is.
$400 for 16GB of ram that Apple is willing to warranty for 3 years.

Try pricing a 3 year OEM same day replacement warranty for any memory product in your country.
The problem is when an installation is penetrated the reporting does not hold to account all the cybersecurity vendors that failed on the defining day. Like how reporting of being broken into is mandatory the list of failed cybersecurity vendors and the ensemble of software they guard should be listed. For learnings.
Pedantry: depends on your definition of work. If you mean "expend calories", then yes. If you mean "have more free time to call your own and not your employer's", then no.

ChatGPT can't do anything, but legislation can, once the social consensus build enough. Just as it did for the 40 hour week.
It's a perfect use case for SQLite or similar. It's a low overhead solution (just a library) and you get a lot of benefits out of the box.

A text file? Maybe if it's an append only kind of deal.
> if you told someone in 1923 that 100 years from now, by far the most relevant technology companies will all American or Asian, they’d be a bit surprised.

If you told them that the war which ended five years previously would be repeated, except with greater destructive capability, resulting in the flattening of much of Europe leaving tens of millions of its citizens dead or displaced, while at the same time the Washington Naval Treaty being signed in 1923 ultimately failed to contain the Japanese entering the technological arms race, they might be less surprised about that outcome.

(because I checked: several of the ships involved in Pearl Harbor on both sides were either in service or under construction in 1923)

I'd be very much interested to see if it's possible to compare the wealth gap and the lifestyle gap between the US and Europe to see what its peaks and troughs are over time. It was probably at its widest during the Eisenhower administration.
The king doesn’t really have any power in practice, I think the royal family mainly exist for tradition/tourism reasons at this point

At least according to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index it’s one of the most democratic countries at 18th in the world (to be fair that’s made by a UK company but I don’t see why they would be biased)
What's the conversion rate though? How many of those people continue to read the emails sent out by said site?

Feels like you'd get a lot of dead subscribers and opt outs (and spam reports), not an active community or follower base.
It's been years I don't read emails that aren't job specific or have more than 10 lines of text. In fact, the email communication within my job is all reduced to notifications more than work, everything is handled on Slack.
3rd party apps are validated via OCSP on macOS when the apps are launched.

A few years ago this was an issue, when millions of macOS users found that they couldn't launch any apps at all on their Macs, because Apple's OCSP servers were down[1].

[1] https://blog.cryptohack.org/macos-ocsp-disaster
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Terrible article but yes probably. The amount of people , that have joined the industry, with no knowledge, no knack, no appreciation for the craft is way too high. A lot of them were just drawn by the lure of easy money and now I have to deal with them I don't want to. They can smash LC but can't wrap their head around a single class in an existing codebase. I am tired.
The meat & dairy industry is pretty desperate this days, they'll do anything to keep their profits up.

Idea for the next ad: "It's not real milk if we don't separate female calves away from their mothers and don't kill male calves immediately after being born !"
I've been working remotely for 4 years and can assure you: no it isn't FUD. It is a real issue that can and should be addressed. And the good news is that CI/CD, Slack, Dischord and Meetup make the solutions possible. All you need is management understanding and buy in.

There are a lot of organizations that try remote with the same culture/mindset of in office. This is an error. Communication and iteration on remote work must be explicit, formalized and enforced.
It’s interesting that Japan and China have separate more complex sets of numbers specifically to prevent this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_numerals#Formal_numbe...
Out of interest, what are the typical conversion rates people see on this? What % of users actually sign up?
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I'm just sharing my personal experiences. Every time I've charged at a DCFC in the past year all dispensers appeared to be working and I was able to either plug and charge or tap to pay with Google Wallet on my phone. I did not wait in a line once nor did I fail to charge on the first try.

Meanwhile in the last year I've waited in lines several times to get gas, and I've pulled up to a pump only to find it out of order three times this last year and seen many others with bags over the pump handle signifying they're out of order.

It's definitely not 99.99% of gas pumps working.
Btw, this kind of language is already all over the place:
https://twitter.com/d_feldman/status/1649466422018318338
Which is hilarious and sad at the same time.
The best part is after when the site tells you to "Enter your email" to Unsubscribe
My juniors would like to have a word with you about why you think they’re not paying attention during my meetings.
"So I think what happened is computing has turned into pop culture" -Alan Kay

I love conferences, but I also loved other types of clearly pop-cultural conferences, and that's what they are.

I used to make a living producing livestreams for these kinds of conferences and they're all about passionate geeks coming together to build connections over the current latest trends.

They are about bonding over either rejecting the values of "the establishment" in your area of interest, or of simply examining how "new pop idea X" fits into the set of values your community is currently built around.

So they are about community building around a set of values, often trying to set themselves apart from the mainstream. Nothing wrong with that.
There's an unofficial filter list for uBlock Origin to hide shorts videos/links

https://letsblock.it/filters/youtube-shorts

It works very nicely without adding additional browser plugins.
I'm nowhere near an expert, but the only mechanism that I have heard of for them causing damage is through inducing large currents in long power transmission lines (and, formerly, long telegraph and telephone lines.) I would guess that the risk to electronic devices themselves is less than from a nearby thunderstorm, and that measures to protect from damage via lightning's effects on your external power supply would also be adequate protection from geomagnetic storms.
This is not true.

Other companies have and do most their own snap stores.
a) Betteridge's law of headlines

b) privatizing profits and socializing losses - so no
Everyone does it because everyone else does it. And since everyone does it, it does not hurt metrics. And seems like noone had the guts to be the first to stop this nonsense. (also applies to layoffs?)
I've gotten to the point where if a site displays a popup, I just close the page. If I had the ability to remove that source from all future searches I would.
The UK is no less democratic (and perhaps more so, in important ways) than the US, so getting off the high horse there wouldn't hurt.
Imagine if there is a government funded, independent company that does the in depth fact checking and analysis on the important, mass consumed information pieces. How much would that cost to operate for the government? A few mils per year? That's nothing for the gov and imagine how much value would this company bring to people/nation/world.

Maybe soon later we'll have an AI in place that would be checking whatever you're about to post/share and warn you, show you what you're posting from perspective you're not aware of etc.
What on Earth casts the longest shadow?
The heredity of intelligence actually depends on the environment. Those high percentages you mention only emerge in a 'stable' environment. That's not saying that people can grow (far) beyond their genetic makeup, but the opposite can happen.

If you think of (defending against) all those negative effects, I think the impact of a parent goes well beyond the basics you mention. That goes even further when you consider all other skills that one can foster that benefit a future member of our society.
> Have you not heard of timed popups (such as those that trigger past a certain element), or popups that don't make you want to immediately close the site?

How about NO POP-UPs? Remember when browsers came with built-in pop-up blockers so users didn't have to deal with them at all? Newsletter sign-ups are the same bullshit as 90s style pop-ups, and everyone agreed we should block those then, why are these different?

I don't want timed pop-ups, or pop-ups that are more convenient, I want NO POP-UPs, and as soon as I see one I am closing the tab and writing off the website as not worth my time.

I don't mean to call you out specifically, I don't think you're arguing in favor of pop-ups, but I'm just confused why your initial response was to ask for lesser evil pop-ups, rather than no pop-ups at all.
Test-driving RISC-V Vector hardware for HPC
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Will have a look, thanks!
what is a "native flower"?
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They do?

Google doesn't have their own LLMs? Microsoft isn't running and training their own copies?

Hell, if you have enough money you could run your own. This doesn't sound like a monopoly in any definition that I use (and I cast a very wide net with my use of monopoly).
That’s interesting insight.

Anecdote: I just took a 50 min flight on a budget carrier: £230. Didn’t even include a checked bag.

You can’t just compare costs between now and the past either because you get much less for your money now, pretty much just a seat on a very cramped bus.

I’m not old enough to have flown pre deregulation but I did fly in the heyday of EasyJet and Ryanair etc.

The flying experience is significantly more stressful and cramped than 10-20 years ago.

I have no problem paying £200-300 for a flight but I want good leg room, good staffing levels, good service in face of disruption etc. Even flying business class in Europe is hardly worth it as you’re still flying the low-cost airlines/subsidiaries, so you’re just paying for a tiny bit of extra legroom and luggage, and some crap lounge access if you’re lucky. And some short flights in Europe are absurdly priced (eg £816 Manchester to Amsterdam in June/July)
> No Core Proprietary Stuff: Rye (with the exception of it's own tool section in the pyproject.toml) uses standardized keys. That means it uses regular requirements as you would expect. It also does not use a proprietary lock file and use pip-tools behind the scenes.

The use of `pip-tools` to generate a `requirements.txt` as a lockfile is a big negative for me. Last I looked, they do not generate a cross-platform lockfile. In theory, you could still use `requirements.txt` for a cross-platform lockfile; it just might be a mess for doing incremental updates like when adding a new dependency.
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Back then there were not a lot of frameworks for C++ like there are available now, gradually added serialization, reflection, orm, modules for apache|nginx, then started adding programming language integration and then finally added support for building on various Os'es and also support for most of the build tools out there.
Of course pension funds are a big part of any large-cap company’s shareholder base. But I wouldn’t be surprised if on a proportional basis LVMH’s customers are less well off than their shareholders.
Ending encryption isn't really feasible. But ending the use of (true) end-to-end privacy in mass-market communication apps is entirely possible, if many governments unite to do something truly stupid. And that is what the US, the UK, Europe and (implicitly) China have all united to do at this time, and all using similar strategies.
Yup, reader mode is the only way the web is tolerable any more. It’s truly sad.
Isn't much of engineering applying tried and true principles and then working with a trial and error/experimentation mindset when combining or extending these principles in untried ways?

You speak as if no EE has ever had to respin an updated set of PCBs, or a ME never had to CNC another part using a stronger material.
All of these complaints boil down to people wanting something for free, without any inconvenience at all, even something as minor as clicking an extra button.

Unfortunately, most websites require an actual business model to consistently produce content. Business models usually need a form of lead gathering, or audience building. (Which is, frankly, core to most businesses.)

If you don't want to engage with businesses, then there are still endless hobby websites out there that do little other than produce content for free, without any popups, ads, upsells, etc.
What I've also experienced is a whole ecosystem has been built up in other departments in the organization (but outside of development) around the crazy CSV file formats, eg: Marketing uses it to trigger campaigns; Accounting uses it to reconcile live accounts; Support uses it to find accounts.

So anything you do to make this better means you now have to deal with this ecosystem. At best, you're solving some pain point these groups have and they're happy about it, but in most cases you're probably forcing unexpected, extra work on them to "fix" something they perceive as not broken. At worst, you don't discover they're even doing this until after you've changed it, and now you just broke a production system you didn't even know existed.

In some cases, the hack another department put in place will also have their own ecoystem built on top -- it's turtles all the way down.

How bad this situation is directly corresponds to how your organization has grown and how siloed different departments are. And keep in mind we're talking about a fictional but easy-to-understand "emails in a CSV file" problem -- most of the real-world problems are significantly more complicated.
The three name agencies have complained since day 1 about encryption. Of course they want it gone or have some backdoor. Remember to think of the children and that they'd never spy on americans... not unwittingly.
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The web has become quite unusable over the years with all the popups.

Perhaps we need a browser that uses AI to block all the annoying page elements?

Or we use crowd intelligence to achieve the task. If enough users flag the page elements that popup, and this data is shared, many could profit from a better experience.
The cringeworthy part was Amazon self righteously declaring that they were acting as staunch defenders of open source when all they were really doing was trying to deny an open source company a well earned cut of the profits Amazon made from hosting the software they build.

Lots of companies do similar or worse, I do agree. For instance a certain company that has obviously paid a PR company to go on an open source charm offensive (the article has all the hallmarks of pg's submarine) in this thread has strict rules about when its workers can pee. That's probably worse.
Even copycat competition might help in that it can lower prices for consumers. I use a Penguin mouse and they cost a lot for what is just generic electronics in an unusual-shaped housing. But I can't find any other ambidextrous vertical mouse.
I'm still waiting for mine and I signed up September 2021 as well.
Improbably Right
It would take a heart of stone not to laugh
With automatic updates and SaaS business models, we have fully lost control of our devices.

There is no way for me to disable marketing push notifications on any device.

I can’t tell Facebook to remove Reels because it’s too addicting.

Firefox is my primary brower, but 5x per week I have to switch to Chrome because a website won’t let me login or is acting funky.

We have lost control of our devices
If it is higher than zero somebody somewhere can justify it.
You don't need to predict if it what written by LLM, if it's a human or machine makes no difference to the validity of a text. You just need to be able to extract the actual information out of it and cross check it against other sources.

The summary that an LLM can provide is not just of one text, but of all the texts about the topic it has access to. Thus you never need to access the actual texts itself, just whatever the LLM condenses out of them.
Sure, but why does that matter? A lot of good software got developed by itch-scratching.
It has only gotten worse.
So here we've got someone who considers Romanian and Dutch dialects, while elsewhere we have someone who considers Brazilian Portugese and Portugese Portugese two languages.

I doubt you know anyone who knows five languages in your definition (and by knowing, I don't mean travelguide fluency). Such people are rare.
It's pretty normal to have a local dev database on your machine. It's how we did it for decades. Are there really developers in the wild now that have never been exposed to working with a locally installed SQL instance?

These days you can even set it up in docker, automatically migrate the database to the latest version and install a bunch of test data. So you can wipe the whole thing and go back to a good state if you muck it up with a bad or ill-thought-out local migration, etc.

Same with redis, etc.

And it's still much, much simpler than a microservice architecture.
Oh no not a chance, finetuning is really compute intense.
You should already be spinning up caches and databases in dev anyway?

I agree though that the article is missing some explicit insight into how this change is handled on the local dev environment. I'm assuming the local dev environment run commands were also updated to be these three commands, one per workload.

Basically, this distinction should be represented throughout all environments, dev/test/prod
Depending on language, interfaces also places additional constraints as it limits interdependencies.

For example, in Delphi classes in the same unit (file) can access each others protected members. This is usually a code smell, which interfaces prevent.
You would assume wrong in the case of the UK. "Extreme pornography" is already illegal, even when staged, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_63_of_the_Criminal_Jus....
If the logo didn't already made it clear which Java inspired the name, the island Java was/is also instrumental when it comes to growing coffee, so still, Java the language was a bit inspired by the island Java :)
Upper 40s there right? That's within the design range for a 5/4, a 6/5 if you're lighter.
> abled people who speculate on the needs

A device like this makes a lot of sense for wearable computing. I wouldn't assume the target market are people with disabilities.
Current job we have a rule: we should not write no more than four layers deep of abstraction in our codebase. The thought being any more that is too much for more than a single person to keep in their head.

I feel like this slays the monolith and forces developers to really think out stuff before they write it. There is of course exceptions to everything including this, but it’s served us pretty well.
It's for both as far as I understand it - Philips built a bunch of CPAP devices and ventilators which all had the same basic flaw.
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> So at face value "market capitalization" means "degree to which a market was converted into capital", which is clearly not how the word is used.

“Market” in “a company’s market capitalization” is an attributive noun: a noun acting as an adjective.

It is not the subject of a verb.