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In my long computer career, I've only had a couple of times where someone got ahead of me by lying or misrepresenting their skills. When working with such people, it's pretty obvious to most that they don't know what they're doing. While I have also been a very helpful person, I have a rule: I refuse to help someone who has misrepresented their skills. This type of person has no problem lying to get ahead then expecting everyone to help them out when they get in trouble. And that occurs frequently of course, because they are in over their head.

First example was when I was the tech lead on a huge Ford project. I was only 20, doing great, Ford loved me, but the computer company I worked for (Prime) was uneasy about relying so much on a 20 y/o in his 2nd year of college for this huge project. So they hired a new guy, a Pakistani with a degree who wore a suit everyday and had a glowing resume (apparently). First, the guy was nearly impossible to understand. Second, he didn't know shit. Third, instead of spending his time reading through manuals to figure things out, he'd just ask me since his cube was next to mine. My standard answer was "I don't know". He could have asked me what color grass is and that would have been my answer. They kept him a few months, fired him when it became obvious he couldn't do shit on his own, and put me back on the account.

The other time was when a contract project manager at IBM decided he wanted to work on a project that was supposed to be for me. I was still busy with a previous IBM project (he was my project manager on that) and couldn't start for a couple of months, and since IBM was in a hurry, the project manager told them he could do it. He was a great project manager, but not even a good programmer. His previous technical experience was more with hardware. After a few months, I got called in to review his work because he kept saying he would be done in a week. I met with him, found out he didn't even have this thing compiling without errors (it was a platform conversion of a large CAD program), and he asked me if I'd help him. I said no, even though it was very hard for me to do that. I met with IBM, they asked me if I could take it over and finish it. I told them I could do it but would not be able to use any of his work, especially since he hadn't made much progress. They fired him, gave me the contract, and it was finished in a couple of months.

So if you run into people who have cheated to get where they are, don't help them, no matter how nice you are or how bad it might make you feel. They don't deserve your help and will have to qualms about taking a promotion over you, even though they couldn't have done it without your help.
I'm on year two of my journey to become a game developer, i am focusing on programming and if i realize i don´t want to work with games in the future at least i have solid knowledge on how to deal with a broad area of software problems.

I don´t rely on ChatGPT to write any code for me but i do use it whenever there´s a concept i don´t understand and if there´s any problem blocking me from getting forward in my many programming books. Having a tireless teacher/mentor with extensive knowledge and who does not care however stupid question you ask is a very good tool for learning.
Drive into any cancer clinic in south Florida and count the number of Canadian vehicle plates (most of them are very nice cars so these are people with means). Single payer systems doesnt mean equal access. Quite the contrary actually.

Don't most Canadians carry some form of private insurance? Why would they do that if healthcare is "free"?
what you are saying is, he found money for a startup he invested in, and is good at his job.
This exact comment was made, repeatedly, about Theranos.
I think it’s a lot easier to be cynical and negative than to put yourself out there a bit and say something positive. Or - at least that’s something I’ve struggled with personally.
I'm aware and use those protocols. What's the benefit of bundling IMAP/SMTP/Cal|CardDAV into single JAMP protocol here? Those separate protocols work great and if someone only needs mail can only use IMAP/SMTP?
The README could use some work. I'm already to the installation instructions and I have no idea what it does or how it works. What languages does it apply to? What code quality tools does it use underneath? I used ChatGPT to summarize and it helps a bit - this is closer to what the top of the README should look like:

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Precious is a code quality tool that consolidates various linters and tidiers into a single command. It simplifies the management of code quality tools, especially in multi-language projects, by centralizing their configuration in one place.

Features of Precious include:

- A single configuration file (precious.toml) for all code quality tools

- Easy integration with commit hooks and CI systems

- Multiple installation options, such as binary releases, ubi, or cargo

- Parallel execution of commands by default, with one process per CPU

- Support for lint and tidy subcommands

- Selectable paths to operate on, such as all paths, modified files according to git, staged files according to git, and more

- Selectable commands with labels

- Respects VCS ignore files and allows global and per-command exclude rules

Precious is designed to be flexible and easy to use, making it suitable for various scenarios and configurations. It can be run as a commit hook, execute commands in a specific order, and handle different code quality tools across multiple languages.
Yes, so I believe the target audience for this article is people who want to create and make a small difference in the world using only their own hands.
Also from the WSJ this AM: https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-bets-that-fusion-powe...
The EU should be blocked from the greater internet until they can fix their laws to be compatible with an open internet. The fact that it is illegal to link to third party sites is ridiculous. I much prefer an internet where sites can freely link to other sites and they can freely do analytics to improve their services. Having to get consent has made the web annoying to use because now every site needs to get your consent.
The hottest topic in this year's I/O would be $230m input to Pichai's pocket and many developers laidoff (output).
You appear to be talking about sysimage compilation which is a whole different beast than package precompilation which is presumably what the OP was doing in a notebook
And realize this also depends on how much the competition costs. If renewables and storage continue to get cheaper, fusion that "works" in an economic sense could transition back to "doesn't work".

It's the fate of most technologies to fail this way, so it shouldn't be surprising (or a source of dishonor) if the same thing happens to fusion. That doesn't mean money spent developing fusion is necessarily wasted; the size of the energy market -- a quadrillion dollars or so over the 21st century -- justifies longshot investments.
They didn't get the funding they needed until 2021.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/05/helion-series-e/
Already there is the excuse that your camera is broken, which is sometimes true. I can always put my RealSense developer's kit camera in depth mode if I need to prove it. (Teams will default to that of course because it never misses a chance to screw up… If you could win the world cup by scoring own goals it would win.)
If you're wondering why international students are so lucrative, it is because the majority of them they pay full price for tuition. This is particularly noticeable at state colleges/universities because those institutions have to provide in-state residents a significant discount.
McMansions are aesthetically pleasing to the average taste, which is out of alignment with coastal elite modernism. If your taste is out of the mainstream, then it is harder to find houses, and they will be more expensive. There are the occasional attempts at the non-standard suburban subdivision style. I liked these:

https://starlightvillagehomes.com/
Your examples are both bad.

IP addresses aren’t being considered not personal data (expressed without the double negative: IP addresses are still personal data), they’re just being processed under the “legitimate interest” lawful basis when it comes to things like security.

Storing functional cookies: the article discussed this in the ePD section, look for “strictly required”.
Here in Spain it's a similar deal, chips and candy or other easy to eat snacks is the usual. You technically can go ahead and have a cheeseburger in there, but it's rather unheard of.

In Spain you usually just buy the stuff, then go to the theater though, after some legal kerfuffles the current state of things is that an establishment can't sell you chips AND prevent you take your own chips, so we are free from absurd prices. I'm not sure that's the norm elsewhere.
Did the advisor counsel against expulsion of doctors per se, or against the expulsion of an ethnic group that made up most of the doctors, without mentioning this aspect about them?

If the latter, I’ve been in a similar situation, though without the ethnic cleansing. A co-worker insisted we use Slack’s thread feature, but couldn’t list any advantages to it over what we had been doing. Eventually, I discovered those advantages, and was (rightly IMHO) upset at the coworker for not being able to articulate what were actually good arguments for a useful feature.

There’s a big difference between “don’t do that because I’m wise and I say so” vs “don’t do that because it has this specific consequence from this specific model” which later bears out. (Hence my rule: “Don’t tell me I’m wrong; instead, improve my understanding to the point you don’t have to.”)

(Of course, in Amin’s case, you should have a general presumption against expulsions in the first place…)
It does, unfortunately. Standard software terms have had most strong licensee rights ironed out of them for years now, and they were only accidentally present (from the perspective of the vendors) due to imprecise wording and implicit agreements in the first place.
Those were the same days…

I assure you that “the good old days” weren’t so good for my still living parents growing up in the segregated south.

As far as “not everything being related to race”, tell that to my parents who grew up in the 60s and 70s when everything was related to their race there those were the good old days.

They literally weren’t “trusted” to drink out of the same water fountain, go to the same schools or swim in the same pool.
That's theory. In reality abused women may choose not to attempt to divorce (or even leave) their abusive husband since they fear retaliation.
I personally would argue the M1 is more interesting than the TPU, but I think the general answer to your question is “nothing”. Apple and google both churn out research, google maybe a bit more. Beyond that though, both of their product lines reach such a scale that requires the tech to be mature (aka no longer an innovation).

Apple has really strong chip prowess, eg the M1 or the battery efficiency vs size of AirPods and AirTags. But a lot of that is resting on TSMC which anyone can contract. Google has some impressive research into things like AI, database, K8, etc - but today others seem to be catching up.
Are there some interesting examples of real world applications of this stuff? Is it like planning problems or supply chain optimization etc.?

I've used SAT solvers recreationally to try solve some mathematical combinatoricsish-like problems but interesting more down-to-earth applications have eluded me. I would love to dig deeper into this stuff.
> notorious for their 'traditional' (i.e., inefficient) farming practices

Do you have sources?
My experience with the new code search has really been the opposite -- though I don't need to sort by date. Otherwise, it's a huge improvement over their previous version.
If this ruling results in increase city service activities and policing, the residents in the zone will pay for it, right? Or are “taxes and fees” also something they want outside the zone? If people want a gated community with its own services, pay the freight don’t look to others to support you.
It's admittedly a 12 year old YouTube, but I always liked watching this when I was feeling especially cynical about the overall trajectory of the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo
In a world drowning in self-interested promotional 'puffing," calling this cynicism is in itself cynical.
I prefer to see what your referring to as HN's community hype-filter.
No, it's modern day bloodletting. Dopamine is involved in almost everything and that's why this weird metaphor of 'dopamine fasting' blaming it for random things became popular, however there is no scientific basis for it. (https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/dopamine-fasting-misunde...)

It's not an addiction in any serious sense of the term and it's arguably misleading and disempowering people. Not every habit change needs to be framed as addiction battling.
According to these definitions, what is the difference between capitalistic US and socialistic Norway? Both allow social ownership of means of production, but they don't forbid private ownership.

> Socialists joke that detractors believe "Socialism is when the government does stuff, and the more stuff it does the more Socialist (or Communist) it is." But some commentators - see current popular right-wing American opinion pieces - really do seem to believe this.

By your own words, the difference between socialist Norway and capitalist US is universal healthcare, housing, pensions... government does stuff!

You are laughing at caricature capitalists, but don't you see that you are a caricature socialist? Norway is socialistic when it suits you, even though it contradicts your own definition of socialism.

> So Socialism is something very specific, but Socialists often associate themselves with other principles that they believe are in line with their moral values

If KKK starts preaching green energy, no one will listen to them. If you really want to achieve social policies similar to nordic countries, stop mixing them with your harmful political ideology. Nobody wants universal healthcare if it comes with famine caused by central planning.

> Do you have a different definition of Socialism?

Yours is fine, except that it is impractical - it doesn't draw the line anywhere. It doesn't define socialism, it describes it. How do I tell whether state is capitalist or socialist? Can it be both?

Given that socialists aren't happy with freedom to practice socialism they have right now, my pragmatic definition is that socialism is a state in which social ownership of means of production is enforced, meaning private ownership is banned. Most socialists seem to defend such policies.
Yet the tech to do that didn't exist at the time.

Right. Long and short of it is, even though a lot of people were talking about "bots" at the time, they weren't really thinking too much about what that meant, technically. Or even whether these "bots" were actually just literal rooms of people typing garbage from a script (by far the likeliest explanation - save for those which have since been verified as "authentic" right wing troll accounts).

Either way -- none of this was ever an "AI risks" story. That is -- nothing for people Hinton to be concerned about, let alone to have to answer to.
With the advent of AI and wearable IoT gadgets, the only way for schools to test out their students will be one one one filmed interviews that the students can give to future employers.
If you wanna learn more about Helion, two good videos:

One positive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bDXXWQxK38

One critical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vUPhsFoniw
> More of a federal Medicare problem because the government runs an insurance plan that fails to throw its heft around and negotiate beyond “you can’t charge us more than other insurers”.

You've got it backwards. Medicare does negotiate, in some cases reimbursing less than COGS. Hospitals and providers make up for it by charging private insurers more (that's why private insurance contracts always state that they reimburse X% of the Medicare Allowable Rate, where X > 100).
Even if it doesn't work, it's more noble to work on this than say, Juicero.
StaticCompiler / StaticTools are a bleeding-edge playground. GP is talking about PackageCompiler.jl which is for serious things that can be trusted to work, but is slow and produces huge binaries.
Oddly standarduser and mikestew aren't asking for details regarding your statement so I am. What kinds of services treatments and facilities did you recieve while visiting south Asia?

>>"so much money and back room dealing involved as the healthcare industry."

I'd like to see proof of this.
I get the joke but sometimes writing is bad
Any plan worth having does. If you are offered non ACA compliant health insurance, you should value it at $0, especially since there is no penalty for not having health insurance.
Debunking the Denning-Kruger Effect
Random viral tweet turns "This Is How You Lose The Time War" bestseller again
I've really loved seeing this today:

1) In 2019, author Amal El-Mohtar wrote a terrific book with Max Gladstone, called “This is How You Lose the Time War”. Amongst other things, it won the Nebula Award for Best Novella of 2019, and the Hugo Award for Best Novella in 2020: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_How_You_Lose_the_Time_War (And, presumably, sold quite steadily.)

2) Three days ago, a person on Twitter called “bigolas dickolas wormwood” posted a picture of the book cover along with the words: “read this. DO NOT look up anything about it. just read it. it's only like 200 pages u can download it on audible it's only like four hours. do it right now i'm very extremely serious.” - https://twitter.com/maskofbun/status/1655084850926473216

3) This tweet, with all its infectious, mystery-driven enthusiasm, went massively viral, as fans leapt in to yell about how great it is, pushing it in front of millions of new readers.

4) The book rose rapidly in the charts - and is currently the #6 bestselling book (in "Books") on US Amazon (and #31 in "Books" on UK Amazon).

El-Mohtar is basically losing her mind right now, in the nicest of ways. And it's nice seeing social media doing something this positive.
You can use CondaPkg.jl (https://github.com/cjdoris/CondaPkg.jl) to setup Python dependencies with version control. I haven't played with it too much but it seemed to work out for what I tried. Indeed the reason why I haven't had too many test cases is because in SciML we removed all Python dependencies since they were the main source of instability. PyDSTool.jl, FEniCS.jl, SymEngine.jl (through ParameterizedFunctions.jl and ModelingToolkit.jl) were the biggest development burdens because of the Python deps changing function names all of the time until they were deprecated and replaced by pure Julia packages, so I definitely know the pain.
Digital photography democratized photography in ways digital theater projection didn't/couldn't. Digital projection lowered operational costs for studios significantly and theaters marginally. It didn't do anything for consumers. They got a marginally better experience at the same or higher ticket and concession prices.

Digital photography however opened the field to whole swaths of people. The operational cost of photography was a major blocker for a lot of people. The operational cost of a film camera can be integer multiples of its purchase cost. Acceptable digital cameras after about 2000 cost more than shitty 110mm cameras but about what a midrange film camera did but then had effectively zero operational cost. The cost of acceptable quality point & shoots decreased significantly in the first half of the 00s.

This got cameras in people's hands that would have never been able to afford to shoot film.
> the twisted idea that I should be able to dictate how you raise your kids...

This is lazy. Of course society should be able to dictate how you raise your kids to some extent. If somebody starts sleeping with their kids, you don't want society to react to that? Of course you do. So the question is how much society should be dictating how you raise your kids, which isn't an easy question. You have to balance the rights of the parents over the child, the rights of the child as an independent citizen, and, undeniably, the standards you want to set for society.

We do this with tricks like graduating citizenship through arbitrary stages, maybe at 13 you can do X, at 18 you can do Y, at 21 you can do Z, and at 35 you can be President, for example. While you have limited citizenship, your parents can ignore many of your civil rights. While you have limited citizenship, the government can also ignore many of your civil rights. While you as a parent have a limited right to violate the civil rights of your children, the government has an obligation to step in if you overstep those bounds (you can't kill your kids.)

Additionally, your rights as a parent to violate your children's civil rights are contingent on your obligations as set by the government (you have to feed, shelter, bathe, and educate them.) If you fail to do any of these things to an arbitrary standard, your parental rights will be taken away - which exposes the fact that parental rights are also granted by government.

Without government, we don't talk about rights, we talk about abilities. Without government, you'd have the ability to do whatever you wanted with your child because you're larger, and could keep it in a cage. In society, what you can seen by society doing with your child without society intervening is limited, because society has set rules and has the ability to stop you.

Finally, society sets arbitrary moral values. You can't sleep with your children even if they agree. A 22-year old can't sleep with a 15-year old.

I suspect you agree with all of this, so why glibly pretend the questions are easy? We need to engage with the questions; have more basic principles (than "No one should be able to dictate...") that we can apply to the questions; and to figure out what requires consensus, what requires consent, and who has the right to give that consent.
If I could just get to a payment volume of 10M ARR I would be all about this.
Security Researcher Finds Coldplay Lyrics in Kingston SSD Firmware
Most home theater spaces are much smaller than even a small cinema theater. You need more light to fill a bigger screen and that adds cost. Engineering for a much higher duty cycle adds costs too.

Audio wise, you end up needing a lot more speakers and a more complex system to drive them. Some of the high-end cinemas put subwoofers under every butt; that's an option in a home theater too, but it's pretty excessive.
How is WSL an example of EEE? Other than adding a few things like the ability to navigate the Windows filesystem from WSL, they have really done nothing in the way of extending or extinguishing.

If anything is classic EEE of what you listed it’s GitHub, given it’s basically a series of extensions on an open standard. Its Linux EEE program is Azure where Microsoft sells you a Linux server running in its datacenter in fancy ways that lock you in.

I feel Microsoft’s monopoly around development is not that strong and it’s not terribly hard to completely avoid them.
Using Meta’s Segment Anything Model with YOLOv8 to automatically classify masks
Brief three-step guide on how to chain computer vision foundation models together to automatically populate pre-labels with class, very quickly.
It doesn't have to be a policy. Large beaurocracies naturally tend toward certain behaviors due to natural incentives. You must have policies/regulations to specifically counteract these tendencies.
Yep, neither one is really innovating, except for the examples you named. I don't know the history of TPUs vs similar ML accelerators; did Google blaze the trail on this?