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> Qualified immunity is the principle that a public official acting in good faith cannot be held personally liable for an action that is later determined to violate the Constitution. No reasonable person, other than a nihilist, could possibly disagree with qualified immunity

Actually no, it's perfectly reasonable to disagree with it as you've described. There is no analog for private companies - an employee can incorrectly think they're following the law, and end up being personally liable for actions they undertook in good faith for the company. Private companies get along just fine - in practice its not an impediment to companies accomplishing activities on the border of legality.

I do believe that the focus on qualified immunity is a bit of a red herring though. What really needs to be drastically curtailed is general sovereign immunity. If police arrest someone, bust up their home, hold them for days, etc, and it turns out they're innocent, the appropriate government needs to be held directly liable/responsible for those damages. The government/department can then sort out whether those damages were due to some employees not following written policies, and if so discipline them and subrogate the damages. Right now the damages caused by law enforcement are being left as an externality funded by a perverse reverse-lottery, so predictably the injustices keep growing.
Somewhere I read (was it Clarke?, Asimov? ... who knows) that you could pitch a baseball on the surface of Deimos, wait some number of hours (minutes?) and it would have orbited and returned from the opposite direction, you could then hit the ball with a bat and some time later catch it on the re-orbit and declare yourself out.
Isn't it just weird that a university is using this language at all? A lot of their messages seem so unempathetic and unprofessional. The spirit of academia has always been about being open to ideas and embracing open standards from my experience, too. Something feels off.

"You need to change your phone, which support Microsoft" just sounds very shady for a state-funded university. Or perhaps I am too sceptical. But a "proprietary tech only" university seems a bit of an oxymoron and close-minded for me. I would expect even staff to protest that.
If you put a \ in front of your * you can get the * to show up instead of italicizing. *Example*
I look at that kind of like, do you eat junk/fast food all the time at home, or just occasionally when you go out? It's going to do a lot more harm if it's constant vs a few cheat meals here or there. Same concept for limiting device time and privileges.

Also, it can help to know what restrictions the friends have and talk to their parents. At least in my day this was done to make sure there weren't any obvious physical dangers. Or has getting to know the parents of your kid's friends gone out of fashion?
Put briefly:

GPUs don't work like CPUs, at all, and need to massaged carefully to run efficiently. You can't just give a GPU an `int main()` and go ham. The APIs we get to use (DX12, Vulkan, Metal, WGPU) are all designed to abstract several GPU vendor's hardware architectures into an API that's just low-level enough to be efficient without forcing the app to explicitly target each GPU itself. There's no one way to run fast on everything with more than a trivial program.

As for why no 'universal high-level native GPU compute API' exists, GPU vendors don't want them because it's too much effort to implement. They'd much rather everything go through a low-level interface like Vulkan and the high level stuff get done by 'someone else' consuming Vulkan. Each new 'universal' API requires buy-in from 4+ different hardware vendors. Someone needs to painstaking specify the API. Each vendor must implement the API. Those implementations will be broken, just look at Android drivers, and now your 'simple' universal API is actually 4 different APIs that look almost the same except for strange esoteric behavior that appears on some hardware that is completely undocumented.

This is what OpenGL was and is why Vulkan, DX12 and Metal exist. The universal 'simple' API doesn't exist because it's too hard to make and not useful enough for the people programming GPUs regularly.
Licensing issues, keeping the door open to making it not free again, greed, lack of understanding from management/lawyers/whatever, not wanting to deal with contributions (though here you can do what SQLite does), false sense of security, etc.
>that movie runtimes - even though they're getting longer - just aren't a good medium for complex stories like this that rely on heavy background and backstory

Peter Jackson would disagree. If you can't get it done in a single "getting longer" movie runtime, just make it into 3. Harry Potter did it in 2, Twilight did it in 2, etc. So the precedent of using multiple movies is there.
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But how can you be certain that the answer is actually correct instead of just sounding correct?

ChatGPT can come up with completely made-up answers that just seem right.
My learning history is similar to yours Basic->Pascal->C. I feel it was a lot easier learning C by already knowing Pascal than it would have been coming directly from Basic.
> would it get published

In fact, you'd have a much harder time than the rapper in OP's post - who actually did get his published.
naive? so all the doctors who believe in god are naive? or are they more curious and think of a higher purpose?
I’m thinking of doing the same, especially as the Dropbox app doesn’t sync on iPhone whereas google photos do. But Ive delayed the migration for years as its too much of a pain
Off to lobste.rs then?

I do agree with this observation of yours, fwiw.
> Datomic Cloud will be available on AWS Marketplace with no additional software cost.

This is cool as well. It's a CloudFormation template based product you can deploy from AWS Marketplace.
Apparently the Year of Linux on the Desktop has happened without anybody noticing or giving a point.
Other than turning Paul into a crusader, what did they really leave out of the book? The dinner scene, and some of the more minor Leto scheming was all I could remember. Did they have the Jessica finding the conservatory scene? I can’t remember…
> Now that TV channels no longer exists and you just don’t catch inappropriate imagery by accident...

What? Hehe, on the internet today kids are way way WAY more likely to see inappropriate imagery than when we had TV channels. My kids seem to have turned out okay, but we had multiple accidents where they search for something and got back stuff that was so much worse than what they asked for. They get a firehose of inappropriate content on TikTok and YouTube. I would kill to have the internet be as moderated and tame as TV was.
> In a misguided attempt to fix the bad vibes, Carmack, whose understanding of human nature was as shallow as his understanding of computer graphics was deep, announced one day that he had ordered a construction crew in to knock down all of the walls, so that everybody could work together from a single “war room.” One for all and all for one, and all that. The offices of the most profitable games studio in the world were transformed into a dystopian setting perfect for a DOOM clone, as described by a wide-eyed reporter from Wired magazine who came for a visit: “a maze of drywall and plastic sheeting, with plaster dust everywhere, loose acoustic tiles, and cables dangling from the ceiling.”

It sounds like Carmack really took the dispute personally, and was making some unwise choices.
Incidentally they did themselves a favor, as biological sex differentiation is determined by the sex cells (aka gametes) an individual produces, not by chromosomes. In humans these are eggs in women and sperm in men.

https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/from-sex-to-gender-mode...
anti-gambling commercials are a joke. "gambling problem? calls this number"

would much rather hear gambling commercials focus on fact that 97% of people lose money by telling / showing stories of real people who thought they had an edge and kept losing money until they had to get into a rehab program or lost it all.

same goes for modern day options trading, crypto trading, etc.
My phone has measured 2 gbps in very rare locations on earth. As they say, the future is now but it is sparsely distributed.

5G has only arrived in the minds of marketers.
and they can use that money later on to influence the media and court cases against them or pay them off
here come the elitists
You can provision a Work profile on Android using Island (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oasisfeng....) and install two instances of WhatsApp. Although, this does require the second SIM also on the same phone.
You realize that the movie being discussed is essentially a reboot/remake as well, right?
It's so far in it's own butt that it thinks it's normal to go get 10M to raise money to build a hot dog/no hot dog AI app, or a crypto picture of a monkey.
Can we have an official policy against AI-written comments, please?

It is in the long-term interests of HN to not have this place be riddled with bland autogenerated comments.
I might add an except for Station Eleven to that rule. It was an excellent adaptation imo.
A billionaire is still a human being with the rights and dignity that come with being a person. It's very concerning to see someone essentially say "if you have x amount of money then I don't really care if you are kidnapped or killed." I don't particularly care for that level of wealth either, but I want laws to pass to remedy the funneling of money upward. I don't want to see them killed.
> The introduction of the new spectrum has relieved the pressure on overloaded cell sites

That's all I expected from 5G. 4G is more than good enough for what I do with it, in fact, I can easily watch HD video and burn through my data plan at 3G (H+) speeds, I don't really need more.

The only thing is that I assume great signal and no congestion, which is far from what we get in practice. The only reason I want 5G, and even 4G is that I can get the equivalent of full 3G speed in places where I couldn't before.

Hopefully, it will also mean bigger data plans at an equivalent price with the extra bandwidth operators get.
Germany's electricity generation from coal has over the long run substantially decreased. The low of 2020 appears to correlate with the COVID-19 pandemic and the increase since then appears to be more of a reversion to the original trend than anything to do with changes in electricity from nuclear.

2022 coal use is a third greater than 2020, as _dain_ mentions, but 2020 was anomalously low usage rather than representing a normal baseline for comparison.

While any increase in coal usage is a problem, the coal use should be compared to the average of the last few years with the anomaly of 2020 removed. This would produce effectively no increase or decrease in coal usage.

Source: https://ag-energiebilanzen.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/STR... via https://ag-energiebilanzen.de/
I don't necessarily disagree with the position that compromises were made, but

> better off as crusaders rather than jihadis

At the risk of sounding edgy, I'm not sure I see the distinction between these two things? My impression of Herbert is that the pseduo-arabism that he draped over his themes didn't serve as a moral judgement or a stand-in for motivation, but to provide some remove for his immediate audience (lot of assumptions in that phrase I realize) so that they can examine morality without getting immediately defensive?

He seemed interested in discussing Religion, the phenomenon. Not the phenomenon of a particular real instantiation.

Or is that what you meant, too?
Betteridge's law of headlines says, “no”.
It didn't read to me that they're laying people off because they think ChatGPT lets them need less employees, which is what most of the fearmongering (which may in time be justified) has been about A.I.

From what I read it sounded like they're making a major shift to investment in A.I. technology, and dropping departments in their company that don't align with that new direction (while aggressively hiring in the A.I. field).

Companies have shifted focus all the time in the past, and axed departments that no longer align with that vision. Meta's doing that right now with enterprise VR as they're dropping that to focus more on A.I. as well (have to jump on that A.I. bandwagon to please them shareholders, after all, which I don't doubt is half the reason Dropbox is doing this as well). But this isn't exclusive to A.I.
That comment seems like 3 independent thoughts. In my opinion: yes the first part was great, yes it could cover more details as a series, yes a HBO style high value production would be cool to see.

The possibility of having something better does not make this movie bad.

If you can go into it accepting that: not everything will be covered, the book has lots of internal thoughts and little action which doesn't work well on a screen, the politics part was not skipped but wasn't given lots of time either - I think you'll have a good time.

Edit: Visually - it's amazing.
No, it's psychological in most of these cases
Completely unnecessary if they’re not maintaining some kind of physical infrastructure in those offices.
Influencers & content creators. They are driving massive usage and community around gambling.
Didn’t he oversee turning windows into spyware?

In my mind, he’s the worst ceo of the last decade
If my query started 1000 ms ago, and every 200ms a transaction completed, I'm perfectly fine with getting results of some/most/all of those 5 commits. I usually don't need the database to enforce a 1000-ms-old snapshot for my own sake, which is why I'm using read-committed isolation instead of repeatable read etc. Are we saying that not enforcing this delay would break the database somehow even if I'm fine with it?

Edit: I should clarify that I recognize the need for one extra version, since read-committed txns shouldn't see it until it is committed. Other writes must wait for the commit until they can write, though - it seems like there's some optimistic-writing thing where we let a bunch of writes queue up for one record knowing that we're going to have to a problem when one of them commits and the others find out they should have waited before trying to write or something, because we didn't force them to acquire a write lock before writing.
Maybe they will have a peek at your images/files and train some AI?
I can rephrase your sentence as:

The point is that performance is so far down the list of things to prioritize that [company of choice] made it to [revenue] without having to care at all about it. It wasn't worth them focusing on until they had already acquired a very large marketshare. Only when already large and successful did the scope and complexity of their system impact performance enough to bother focusing on it, at which point they begrudgingly did.

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Performance is simply a requirement for the product, some products require very good performance, some don't.

Where you fall is a discussion to be had, because like ALL product requirements, it comes with a cost to develop and maintain.

I don't drive an F1 car to the grocery store. I don't take my minivan to the track.

The article above is bad - it treats a conversation about product requirements as an antagonistic space, where voices that may prioritize a feature other than performance aren't making judgements about how to allocate limited resources, but "excuses"... Worse - he cherry picks the most extreme take of those value judgements for his examples as easy targets to attack.
Someone tell that to Peter Jackson before he makes another They Shall Not Grow Old.
Weissbier and all other white beers are ales, not lagers.
But they went from comfortable but low performers, to literally the worst 5 employees in the company.
We don’t really need to know their whole product strategy, I just can’t even come up with plausible uses for AI that meaningfully change the company enough to require a layoff. I disagree on tour last point, organizations that have data useful for bespoke models store it in aws/etc whereas organizations with random files that they need to share across teams use Dropbox.
Can you pitch how this differs from the others, such as, say, VirusTotal and the like?

The screenshot of a scanned site is nice, but a little more details on the predictions of safe/malicious would be beneficial (without disclosing company secrets, of course).
True. I don't have a dog in this fight but if Mike sues the person who gave him the bogus data and wins there is a scenario where the detective, Mike and citizens all win. If anyone wants to pull this stunt again they will likely be caught getting cute with election data.
Totally agree… I wish I could buy Dropbox’s minimal feature set: syncing files. And that they’d improve that feature rather than adding features I don’t use or want.
Your point is that the Waymo operator isn't really in control because the vehicle can ignore instructions; the on-board computer won't allow the remote operator's instructions to result in a collision. If I attempt to drive my own car into a brick wall, the on-board computer will defy my instructions as best it can too. By your definition, I'm not in control of my car just like Waymo operators aren't.

Fact is, a Waymo operator can take enough control of the vehicle to be considered in control of it. It doesn't matter if control comes in the form of a steering wheel or a joystick or drawing vectors on a map. Control is control, whether it's direct, indirect, or funnelled through a governor. Waymo operators can intervene and direct the car as needed.
I can understand some of the skepticism, we JUST finished having every company try to pivot to blockchain and NFT and now it seems history is repeating with AI.

However, I also totally see the point, as an example: the biggest reason I like Google Photos is the automagic tagging on the pictures, I can just write any random description and it usually finds them across 10+ years of photos I have stored (not perfect, but good enough), I can see AI replicating if not even augmenting such functionalities.
For now. But to survive generations you need a continual supply of new people interested in becoming data hoarders and seeding stuff they have absolutely never watched.

Which may happen for awhile, even a century. But it won't last thousands of years, unless storage space becomes infinitely big and cheap.
They left out pretty much the entirety of the Butlerian Jihad and Orange Catholicism as themes motivating the world. Mentats are barely discussed even though they are present.

And yeah, no dinner scene, and no conservatory, as far as story telling beats
Looks like “focusing on AI” is the excuse du jour for short-term cost cutting to keep profits stable if this market downturn lasts a few more years.
Value for who? No innovation, just hoarding massive profits. Quintupled stock price for shareholders.
Yes it's significant because it's a medical study and not a personal anecdote
Why does Dropbox have so many employees? Isn't it just a small program for synchronizing files? What are all those developers writing?
Strava Expands 3rd Party App Developer Program
https://archive.is/xTw6V
I like playing this game where I count the amount of tech buzzwords per top comment in a post and try to guess before clicking on it to see how close I was.
My experience outside of gifted courses was the exact opposite of what you describe as "multi-path". My 7th grade math was the worst example of this...

The class was supposed to be some sort of experimental multi-path, and even had an extra teaching aid assigned. However, the end result was the 5-6 gifted kids sitting in the back, bored out of our minds for an entire school year, while the 2 teachers struggled to get the rest of the class to learn. Unfortunately for those of us who were ahead of grade level, this effectively put us behind peers in GT math classes right at the time we were all starting more advanced math topics. I felt like it took me most of high school to get caught up. My parents are still peeved that this class ever existed and it's been nearly 30 years.

My son didn't have anything quite so obviously awful. He just tended to perform at the level of his classmates. In gifted classes, he excelled. In mainstream classes, he was mediocre and extremely bored.

My take-away - multi-path teaching doesn't work in the typical American classroom (25+ students per class, all the same age, but vastly different skills).

It might work in a more controlled environment, where the classes are smaller and the range of skill isn't quite to broad. But, that's atypical in the US.
They will use AI to scan your files so that they can do things with the resulting harvested data.
> by multi hour podcasts, and by the binge watching phenomenon made possible by OTT on demand services which allow a 'movie' to extend 12 or 13 hours consumed in two or three sittings

Both of those things work because people do other stuff while listening/watching. There are very, very, very few 12+ hour streaming-series "movies" that are improved by paying close attention the entire time, even if you split the watch into two or three sessions—most are better if you check out from time to time, talk to someone, go to the other room to do the dishes, mess around on your phone, play some Switch, whatever.
Now I'm really wondering if they cut that from the German dubs, or if I didn't pay attention, or if I simply didn't watch enough episodes, or not in full.
They don't have the scale of customers to profit from £16. Compare how many people in the world use google per day vs dropbox.

When you have less scale, you need to charge a bit more for your initial level.
It’s terrifying to me to think we can’t trust social networks. Reddit, HN have often been my guide now that Google results lead to just advertising wrapped up as content.

And now nothing is reliable ?
Really tired of how everyone is always trying to take over the world.

Can a utility just stay a utility?
Indeed. The notion that there is some kind of divide between math, science, and religion is, so far as I can tell, peculiar to a kind of predominantly American form of fundamentalism and, somewhat ironically, its atheist detractors.

Catholics, Orthodox, and many Protestant denominations, as well as other world religions, have a rich tradition of studying the natural world objectively. Speaking to the Catholic intellectual tradition since that's the one that I know best, if our understanding of the Bible or Tradition disagrees with our understanding of natural science, then it's not necessarily our understanding of religion that's correct! As an example, while it's not technically dogmatic teaching either way, even though most Catholics used to be young Earth creationists the overwhelming majority now believe in an old Earth including the Popes[1].

[1] https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/proofs-for-the-exis...
Apple was on a winning streak when Tim Cook took over, so it does not look that impressive. But it is hard to imagine how he could have done a better job. Maybe Apple could have created a better browser :)
The amount and strength of the responses on this thread simultaneously underscores how utterly reliant we are on software and also how bad the state of general software quality has become
I can't see this being their moat though.

Google and Microsoft can do much outcompete them with their storage SaaS products.
"as long as you're good craic."

Now that is an interesting usage.

I take it as using "crack" in an expansive sense of "company" rather than simply "news" or "gossip"?

(Possibly something which may confuse non native speakers of English.)