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How much should we cut the military budget? Please give a specific number and show your work.

We all understand that there is a huge amount of waste. But in practice it seems to be difficult to cut that waste without losing essential capabilities.
The people who were paying $1000/hr were people who had selected an energy plan where they paid the wholesale rate. Normally that rate was a small fraction of the typical retail rate, but the risks should have been obvious to anyone of moderate intelligence.

Playing the lottery - small downside, huge (albeit improbable) upside.
Buying wholesale power unhedged - small upside, huge downside, and not all that unlikely - in the last few years here, we’ve had several hundred year storms.
>Are there younger engineers, new to the career, for whom programming is not merely a job but something they can imagine doing in their spare time?

I'm sure there are, but I don't know any. I have the passion (obsession as my mother called it). I've been fascinated with computers since before 3rd grade when my public elementary school installed a computer lab with TRS-80s. They soon invited me to help teach the "adult" computer class (as a 3rd grader) they offered in the evening to the local community. It was then discovering the world of BBS, then running my own, then coding it to my taste. In college came the internet and the rest is history. I have the theory that it was the timeframe when microcomputers just started to come and grow their legs is what birthed such passion in so many people. I'm not sure how much of it still exists to the current youth generations, but it sure existed in mine.

PS: I do miss those cigarettes.
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> just... completely don't understand the appeal of Swift beyond it being Apple's in-house language.

It's like Rust in that it offers memory safety by default without a big performance hit.
please consider CoreWeave - great experience so far.
I worked a bit in computational chemistry (small molecule drug discovery) and currently do some early-stage biotech angel investing.

Chemistry is very much on the edge of what is possible with ML / AI because it requires training on hard data, first-principles QM/physics simulation, and finally actual new science that has to be tested whenever the edge of the data is reached.

Modern computational chemistry marries these techniques, effectively operating a search tree from least to most expensive. Picture a huge multi-dimensional game of minesweeper where the board is the entire chemical space for the problem. And to boot, every step is a huge pain for it's own reasons:

- Data is limited, given the (obvious) huge possibilities of chemical space

- Structure data such as the PDB is still one-off captures (x ray crystallography and cryo em), and often don't even capture the molecule pose as it would appear in biology.

- Data is heavily siloed. Data is a big reason biotechs buy other biotechs.

- All your math and chemistry models may say that a Sulfur will do what you think when it's somewhere, but legitimate, publishable new science happens a lot in the practice of discovery. Like a lot.

For those of you interested, I would check out the work pymol, Schrodinger, Chemical Computing Group, and others put out when they have to problem solve for a specific use case. You'd be surprised how much of it mirrors traditional software development when using AI (P/M fit, knowing your user, operational costs, etc). It's just that getting to the actual product is 10x more expensive, and sometimes you stumble on something genuinely undiscovered.
My parents don't like me sleeping min 8hrs a day (on average i sleep 10hr).

I work a lot and sleep a lot. It's cheap and easy thing to do.

I belive it solves a lot of people's mental health issues
> Technical leadership is very expensive to find though, and once you find one you don’t let them go back to the production line.

I have a friend at our company who is a gifted programmer. He was moved into a management position. He discovered that he hated working in a leadership position. He tried to get them to move him back to an individual contributor position. They refused. He said, move me back or I quit. It took them more than a year to transition him back to an individual contributor role. That was a few years ago and he has been happily plugging along ever since. He says that even after he transitioned back, they kept coming to him to get his opinion on issues, the only way he got them to stop was to completely refuse to respond.
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Anyone experimented with Sign in With Ethereum?

Wallet based login and account management onchain.
Added final paragraph:

This is why JP+SK's FDI has been aimed at more mature markets like India, Indonesia, PH, VN, TH, MY, MX, BR while Chinese FDI is aimed at Laos, Cambodia, Central Africa, Central America, South Asia.
My experience was the opposite, I really like Swift but its usefulness is held back by the lack of a wider community. I'm not sure if that's due to a lack of investment on Apple's part, or maybe that it lives in an unhappy compromise between C++ and Python where there's always a more mature alternative that's good enough, but the language itself is quite nice to write.
> In short, there is ample opportunity for proper type annotations.

So you want the parameters to be annotated for their valid values?

Have you not heard of man pages?

I honestly have no idea what else you could mean by type annotations for cli parameters. Do you have an example?
From what I've seen the ref counting can cause a big performance hit. Maybe this has improved in the last couple years?
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> of reasonable suspicion that they're compromised

Or more likely an automated unreasonable suspicion

> Should it not?

Yes, it should never ask you for a confirmation that is impossible, this is a simple nonsense of design. Also, months is not a useful tradeoff
While low compile times are nice I don't find them strictly necessary for the day-to-day because I'm not constantly doing full builds. Swift's incremental compiles are more than fast enough for my needs, especially on M1/Ryzen 5000 or better.
Judging by what we've seen of the tech industry, seems like they've got the right idea.
Fasten Health (mentioned in a previous comment) is probably your best bet. It automatically syncs with your EMR and pulls your lab results automatically. You can manually upload your own data in a bunch of cases.

If you’re looking for another open-source and free alternative, I’m building Mere Medical which is not quite as developed as Fasten but takes a local-first approach and still connects to 2000+ healthcare institutions.

www.meremedical.co
www.github.com/cfu288/mere-medical
www.demo.meremedical.co
No, if I understand right of first refusal correctly, it works like this:

You have a buyer. You present to the company that you have a buyer (eg, contract + check deposited in escrow).

The company either has to buy the equity from you (at same or better price, depending on how the contract is written) or they have to let the sale to the other buyer go through.
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In the case of a free GMail account, the user who doesn't get the support they need can get a full refund.

In all seriousness, how does it even make sense to regulate expensive customer support for a free product?

If you do, you may not have any free products anymore. But perhaps we'd be better off having decent customer support with no free products.

As for paid products, it does make some sense to have some minimum customer support, but I'll be surprised if there's a proper way to word the legislation to achieve what we want it to achieve.
> Do you believe that exponential growth can continue forever on a finite

Yes, because money is infinite thanks to it being a social construct.
The project to rewrite Foundation in Swift is many years old, and had been stalled.

New in 2023 is instead NOT to match all of Foundation, but to make some core libraries that make Swift usable on many platforms. E.g., they broke out the very large internationalization/i18n tables required for unicode support into a separate module.

It's very unlikely Apple would move off their own Foundation, which is well-understood and well-tested. This strategy permits them to incrementally sidle over, but continue with both for some time. Aside from servers, it's likely to look promising for multiple tiny devices - trusted computing, watches, headsets, airpods, etc.
> GDP growth is a positive metric, so economists want it to be positive.

GDP would be a positive metric but I think it is flawed and also obsolete. I think other metrics like the HDI/IHDI and the Gini coefficient are better ones, in comparison.
Saudis pay the bill for those. Power problems are more from overcapacity and high fixed capacity charges.
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> Software engineering is about software engines, computer science and mathematical logic.

That might be a bit naive as a definition though; ultimately, it's about applying all of that to build things and, in the context of companies selling the things being built, driving value. Outside of the kind of RnD that essentially bankrolls folks to give them the space to go deep on ideas and not necessarily think about marketability, most engineering is about making something so it can create some business or community value somewhere.

Looking at how impact is defined here is also important, looking at the same section:

> Impact starts and ends with better serving our customers, which, in turn, helps Dropbox succeed as a business. Adoption and consistent usage of new features, keeping a demanding component of our infrastructure going, improving efficiency in our operations, reducing operational or capital expenses, improving durability of our data storage, and malware scanning of shared files are all examples that help our customers and Dropbox win.

These are great examples of how engineers can have an impact on the business without being "business people".
> Here's the key: it's an inability to make decisions.

I think this is spot on. I definitely have hoarder tendencies. A look at my office would easily confirm this. I also tend to hoard code - I'll often comment out old code that no longer applies just in case it might be needed later, or in case I'll need to remember how I did something before. This gets pointed out in code reviews.
Sorry, let me clarify my fuzziness a bit...

You are right that you cannot enter the data yourself, as far as I know. But if your lab or physician uses a system that can let you download the records, they will be stored. So I have access to all my blood labs, but there is no easy way to graph them.

As far as I know, there is no App Store rule against making an app that lets you log the variables manually, nor is there a rule against making an app that graphs stuff. Keep in mind that there are a lot of Apple rules around HealthKit data to protect privacy, and writing such an app could be difficult.
I thought Apple just wants to be different, and making Switft not cross platform can make porting software on Apple ecosystem harder...
Often you are better off running certain workloads on lesser GPUs. But this requires certain tricky compiler-level optimizations. For example, can run certain LLM inference with comparable latency on cheaper A40s vs running on A100s. Could also run on 3090s (sometimes even faster). This helps with operating costs but may also resolve availability constraints.
> That line of thought also means the employee should take every legal avenue to execute the letter of the contract.

Yes. They should.

Exercising a large number of options is rarely a cheap financial decision. It is absolutely necessary to go into it clear-eyed with a complete understanding of what you're getting into because in doing so you are locking up potentially significant capital.

And this isn't some weird edge case situation. This is something anyone exercising options in a private company needs to deal with.
Before Apple bought them and discontinued the product last year, the Beddit sleep monitor was the best option for me. I’ve had mine for years and use it religiously. It’s a small sensor that goes on your mattress. You may be able to find one still for sale. It’s far more practical than wearing an Apple Watch to bed.
I have been using PGP a lot longer and still struggle to use it.

When you say, "People make exactly the argument you are making about git," well, those people have a point. I use Git in spite of its usability problems because it gets useful work done. I don't see the upside of pushing through the usability problems of PGP. If I somehow put in the hours to get used to it, then what? What am I accomplishing?
inferno had the misfortune if being implemented during the time when all the gui frameworks were copying windows, so it's retro clunky in all the wrong ways. I strongly believe that's the main reason why it doesn't have builder community behind it, mucking in its internals and writing apps. as superficial as it sounds, this position is supported by the many variously hacked up screenshots that come out from the various 9front cool kids. a e s t h e t i c takes priority of everything else, at the end of the day
I love programming. More each day and I’ve done it for decades.

But I think everyone who enjoys the process of squeezing their thoughts through the rigors of a machine is at least a little bit funny in the head. I love it, but it’s bonkers.
It's the most wonderful thing ever, I left the US and did a change of address to a Travelingmailbox.com address. They only scan the envelopes and on demand open and scan the contents. Sometimes I get credit cards and pay the nominal fee to get them physically forwarded.

Oddly enough, when I get checks I just blow them up on my screen, sign in Paint with my mouse, and take a photo in my bank app of my screen to deposit. It actually freaking works
I really, really enjoy Beancount. I use it for personal finances, and also for the accounting of an association I'm a part of.

The combination of a simple text format (that I version), extensible CLI-based querying and reporting tools, and free software makes it absolutely perfect to me.
If that is what he meant than iOS and Android are that, their touch interface allows you to do things which can not be done in the Windows/Unix world which is why the Windows/Unix world is bringing in touch.
But did you have fun while being payed to write those lines? I hope so.
Whomever cracks the room- or dwelling-sized noise cancellation (think Bose headphones but a bubble for your house) would deserve the Nobel peace prize.
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> Personally, I think it's very fishy that a company would be allowed to sell a non-employee shares that they can't resell to someone else - I suspect that language in the options agreement is illegal.

This is absolutely wrong.

First, you're assuming they weren't an employee but they likely were when they exercised their options. Most likely they chose to leave and had vested options they had to either exercise or give up. It's quite a common situation and one I've personally witnessed.

Second, non-transferrance clauses for shares in private companies is quite common.
Just don’t pay it. I wish I had been told this instead of flushing thousands upon thousands down the toilet in a futile attempt to keep the balance at $0. The system is designed to be adversarial and your best tactic as a patient is to delay, delay, delay and fight every single bill.

I have had seven operations for Crohns, a back surgery, and treatment for ongoing Leukaemia. I have lived in a half dozen different jurisdictions for health care and I’m only alive thanks to the excellence of the US medical system. Doesn’t make the financial side of it any less onerous, sadly.
Some games are timeless classics, and to use Stable Diffusion to do this is incredible. Looks absolutely stunning. And yes, can we please have the 2 sec lag removed so we can inspect and actually see what Generative AI was able to output
I'm actually with a chain who tends to get extraordinary reviews, has 3 layers of security and A/c for all the units. . . really really depressed about their process with late payment. If not for this one shit tier aspect they're 5-stars
Bahaha! I always suspected hackernews was all bots and this comment thread confirms it. Just because you don't have a subjective experience doesn't mean us real humans don't! my chatgpt powered pal!
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PIO is indeed awesome! A while ago I was wondering if the RP2040 could be used as a scandoubler (and talking about it with the Chrissy who left a comment on your blog). I was originally discouraged and decided to not pursue it because the ADCs on the RP2040 are just too slow to capture video, so I'm happy to see the results of your effort!
> When the sun rises, the sky is the same, even it now seems orange.

I don't understand what point you're trying to make. When the sun rises, the colour of the sky changes in ways measurable with physical devices and noticeable to animal and human eyes. It is not "the same" in any sense. Different photons traverse it, its temperature changes, ionisation of its gas molecules change, etc...
Does Haiku/BeOS have a lineage, were they built off of some other OS in anyway or just their own thing which took what it liked from what was already around and started from the ground up?
Don't use the term "retirement." Instead, you're doing a solo startup. Add that it's in stealth mode if you don't feel like talking about your current focus of attention. If I'm reading your comment correctly, it's not even a lie; it sounds like you'd be happy turning a hobby into a business if that's where fate took you.

I "retired" about a year ago after almost 25 years in the industry. My story since then is a lot like that of the author of the article. I've written more code this year for love than I bet I did in 10 years for pay. It's been exactly the retirement I wanted: one of the most productive times of my life.
One interpretation is that nearly every person has some degree of tinnitus, but many are almost completely unaware of it - it's just perceived as silence under most circumstances.

I hit my head once, and lost all hearing on one side; some of it returned after a week or so. When it did, I was extremely aware of my pulse thumping through my head, bones crunching in my neck, as well as minor fluid whooshing sounds when I moved. Quite disorienting! We are always hearing that, but it is normally almost completely filtered out, imperceptible because it's always present.

It is my experience that absolute quiet is sometimes subjectively "louder" than very slight white noise, which can be perceived as true quiet. I also find I notice my tinnitus less under such conditions. This is analogous, in a rather deep way I suspect, to how most people perceive a perfectly dark visual field as grey noise [1], or amorphous slightly coloured blobs, or similar, but not a true black. A true, dark black can only be perceived in contrast to a lighter colour. Same with silence, perhaps.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigengrau
I'm not convinced that they need to. What threat model are you considering? In this case, the privilege that the user is granting the new hardware is the authority to unlock the phone.

Since the phone has to already be unlocked for this privilege to be granted, it can't be used to bypass authentication.

The hardware is already installed by this point, so if it's 'spying' it can do that. The user's choice has no impact on the hardware's ability to record and/or deliver information.

At best, the replacement hardware would be able to unlock the phone for the attacker at some later time. However, the cost of getting this customized unlocking device into the phone seems high given that the attacker needs physical access to the device to embed the hardware in the first place, and then again at a later time to get into the device.
> My wife lost her life’s email despite knowing the password. Google didn’t recognize the device, asked to verify using a phone she doesn’t have access to anymore. Despite knowing her login and controlling the recovery email, she couldn’t login.

A friend of mine has encountered this with the TOTP authentication code method. During a move from the US to Europe, they lost their phone. Google let them log in to their regular account no problem, but a second account they use infrequently for a social group got locked out when they tried logging a month after the move. The TOTP secret key string is stored in their password manager and Google doesn't say that the password or TOTP key is incorrect, simply that "for your security, you must complete an additional step" by confirming in an app they no longer have.

Maybe I have been doing IT for too long, but knowing the username, password, and any[0] second factor should always be enough. Surprising users with something else, that they might not have, is unacceptable.

0 - I'm willing to forgive if a second factor was recently enabled; maybe the scammer got in and added a new phone number or backup email account or generated emergency access codes. But, configured more than 14 days ago? Must work.
It’s fairly common for private companies to have non-transferability clauses for both options and stock.

IANAL, but this sounds pretty standard and I doubt OP will be able to fight the legitimacy of the claim. Re: a forward sale, sounds like it blatantly violates the agreement and would expose OP to some obvious risks. Agreed OP should talk to a lawyer.

Is anyone else surprised by OP’s indignation? Startups are risky, options aren’t a guaranteed payday, exercising is gamble, and liquidity events are regulated for a reason. Sometimes you lose money. Have we forgotten this?
Singapore tarnishing its actual financial reputation though? That's their lifeblood, I don't see that happening. Maybe I'm dumbbut I don't

Wontonly executing people for non crimes related to drugs yeah.
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No, all of those things are bad. But they aren't end of human species events. And GPT4 isn't even close to on the list.
I think many also find its syntax more approachable compared to that of Rust. It's got a lot of bells and whistles, but newcomers don't have to use them right away and can pick up more advanced bits as they become comfortable with doing so.
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So it's linear if you ignore the parts that aren't? Without a walkthrough and a some meta experience with VNs it's pretty easy to end up somewhere other than one of the four true endings and walk away satisfied.

Anyway we aren't going to agree here. I am interested in two things: what VNs you do like... and what VNs you would consider non-linear. The discussion can't really continue without a point of comparison.
Yeah that one I agree is the most devastating. Agree, plausibly toast.
> Is anyone else surprised by OP’s indignation?

I absolutely am, and got downvoted for saying so.
Pandemic was an interesting moment re: noise. For the first time I started to call the cops on sociopathic neighbors who thought it’s ok to put stereo system into the window and blast their radio (literal radio, with ads) so that it was heard 2 blocks away.

I was hesitant to do it; also doubted that cops would deal with this thing. Yet I was proven wrong. Never heard the stereo since.

Noise pollution on that level should be enforced with fines, no reason not to.

Same for cars with music blasting at window-rattling levels