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The takeaway is folks hate layoffs.

Context matters though: Peloton is going to save $800m/yr in expenses by laying off 20% of its workforce. It is a viable bet to take in this case.
> Google is not a private company though.

Well of course it is, isn't it? It's not state-owned, right?
Spent a week working on an organic farm in West Virginia in my teens. One of the greenhouses had a black widow invasion. There were probably 5-10 per cubic meter. One of my jobs was to clear them out with some sort of dessicant spray that caused them to shrivel up so we could till and plant tomatoes.

Had phantom black widows on me for days. But they were pretty docile.
> insidious sovereign citizen like groups behind a lot of it. "It's how they track us" mimetic stuf

I mean, you don't need to be a conspiracy theorist to understand that, when they give you 3% cash back, the credit card company has to be making at least that much more by selling something.

(That "something", of course, is transaction data.)
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https://ground.news/

It gives ratings on headlines and it helps to get an overview of the news.
Go big or go home

Or go home with a big paycheck in this case
> > "Most water than we drink lacks oxygen..."

> Do this people drink dihydrogen? Wow

No. I think what they mean is that the water is not oxygenated.

Oxygenated water is an antiseptic so it may help you stay healty (if you use it as intended). /s
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A natural, human-like chatbot that writes code in the editor and answers questions
> Or would you argue that the 2014 Ukrainian coup wasn't supported by the US?

Yanukovich fled the country all on his own, after police didn't back his government any more following months of massive protests. These protests in turn came from Yanukovich not signing an agreement with the EU that was already ratified by the parliament.

> the facts are clear, if Zelensky had resigned less Ukrainians would have died

Lol. Just look on Butcha and all the other places where Russian troops massacred the local population, or where they eradicated everything Ukrainian, from street signs to library books. There would have been no freedom under Russian rule.

> you can't fight a country like Russia

Of course one can fight a country like Russia. They lost 100.000 units fighting over Bakhmut in the last months and made absolutely zero progress in their war.

> they have 7000 nukes, it's like thinking Mike Tyson is losing against you because he's too nice to punch you in the face... eventually he will.

That assumes two things: first, that the nuclear weapons and their launch systems actually work - the sorry state of the ordinary Russian troops makes me seriously question just how much of the rest of their military has gone downhill. The second thing is, it assumes Putin is completely lost in madness. China and the US have it made very clear behind the doors that using anything nuclear is something Putin does not want to do, and in exchange the US and Ukraine's other allies have placed the condition on all major arms deliveries that these are not to be used to attack targets in Russia. Seems to have worked out pretty well so far.
Santa Cruz maybe? Monterey?
> there's nothing stopping your neighbor or anyone else from filming your home from a public/street view

Perhaps at the moment, but there's no moral reason why the law cannot constraint and regulate this space, especially if it harms the common good.
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They didn’t. They helped with suppressing its notoriety after Asturias was exiled. This part of the article should probably have seen better editing.
That's something I've said for a long time, after an argument with a "startup founder" who wanted me to code their entire website (from scratch!) with no help for a grand total of 2% equity (they got the remaining 98%, obviously) within basically no outside pay.

I tried to get a bit more equity before I signed [1], explaining that it seemed like I would be doing the lion's share of the work, so I felt I deserved at least 10-15% equity. The "founder" then told me that they deserve most of the equity because they had the "idea" for this startup, and I told them that everyone has ideas! Ideas are useful and necessary but also extremely cheap and unspectacular. No one gives a shit about your "idea", at least not until you've actually done some actual work to objectively prove that the idea is good.

[1] I was still somewhat young in my career and the red flags that I have now had not been fully developed.
A good compromise would be to open the item in a modal/sidebar/slideover by default and have a pop-out ↗ link to move to a seperate page. Jira does this for example.

This retains the benefits related to browser navigation while allowing quick inspection without loss of context.

It's also easy to implement in any decent front-end framework.
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Ask HN: Is this how we should be doing state management in React?
If you want to write one liner state management code.

If you want to share state via an email.

If you want to share state across browser tabs.

Watch this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHxob46WaLs

Download this Module
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@keldan-systems/state-mutex

Try the Demo
http://keldan.org.uk/statemutex

Then discuss
It's what private companies are supposed to do since adopting the Jack Welch way of doing business. Before that was thought all around MBA schools businesses had a social duty to society and their employees as well.

Touting that as the only reality that could exist is not knowing the past, shareholders-first mentality and extract-as-much-profit-as-possible types of business are a thing from the 80s onwards, after Welch gutted GE's engineering prowess to become just another financial scheme.

Finance capitalism is the main issue, businesses are supposed to provide value to society first which they can profit on after.
Oh that's not the case here, management would love to get off these systems. They see the risks with the age profile of developers, staffing issues, and general ageing tech problems.

Re-writing these systems in another language is almost not an option. They have been written over decades with countless undocumented projects. They are core systems that work the way the business wants (or is built around, for better or worse), and doing a port would take years 100s of millions budgets and have a very high risk of failure.

I've seem smaller/non-core mainframe systems ported and they have been years delayed and plagued with issues, where it is very difficult to specify what is wanted other than something that is the same as the systems that is currently there with all it's weird corner cases.
That’s a good one! I’ll probably steal that in the future. I like systems which have a long human name and a shorter code. Very nice.
Basically, the average distance between one planet and another will always be greater than the distance between the respective planet and the sun. (Note that in the table on the last page, all average planet distances for earth are > 1 AU.) Thus whichever planet is closest to the sun will always be the closest on average to any other planet.
That sounds like a really cool thing, me being able to walk around everywhere and just swipe my card to any computer to access my stuff.

Of course, this is a double edged sword.
When I was a student, I called my computer 'brain in a jar'.
Both have independently useful meaning.

The average closest planet would be useful for regularly traveling between two places.

The closest at any one time is useful for planning intermittent trips.

Let's say we had to pick 2 equal planets we would travel to. Adding the stipulation that planet A is closer on average to HOME than planet B; Planet B has the shortest distance to HOME.

If travel is cheap then planet A is more useful to travel to since you can afford to do it regularly.

If travel is expensive then planet B is more useful since you can't afford travel all the time and rather need to make sure each trip is worth.

If you live in a city it's more reasonable to go to the grocery every week.

If you live in a rural area it's more reasonable to wait for the Shwan truck (type of grocery delivery) once a month.
It's a point that people often forget. Going from 0->1 is a very different skill than 1->100 or bigger. Anyone who has started a company or been part of a small company then acquired by a larger company has felt this. It's also one of the reasons why so many acquisitions fail.
The thing is that news has an utilitarian function : we should be able to debate what is going in the world around us. What’s going on in the world is another word for news.

News should be free in a way.
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Author means it should be a department_id with a table mapping that to a name to be normalized like a student is taught
Async code is hard to reason about. Async closures is what I like most about JavaScript (JS) though. Because JS pass all variables by value they get frozen in time when passed to a function. This make async code easier to reason about, as all variables are immutable.
> I remember that one day the frontpage was exclusively t_d posts. Insane stuff. Shortly after, they changed the algorithm. That was the day reddit officially jumped the shark.

This was definitely a turning point of Meme War I.
Clearly “middle-click” was just an example of how to open a link in new tab. Screen readers don’t have a way to do that?
Thank you!

Unfortunately the oldest GPUs we support are Pascal and your GTX 960 is Maxwell. We have this cutoff for GPU hardware support for two reasons:

1) Nvidia doesn't support Maxwell with recent versions of CUDA (fair enough, Maxwell is 9 years old).

2) Anything other than a GTX Titan X doesn't have the required VRAM.

That said, we do support and have recommended hardware configurations for cards such as the Tesla P4, GTX 1070, etc which can be had for roughly $100 on the used market.

WIS does support CPU only configurations but GPUs offer such significant fundamental architecture improvements a $100 six year old GPU will best the fastest CPUs in the world for this application at significantly less cost and power usage. A CPU only configuration is fundamentally incapable of providing our target end-user experience - self-hosted, private Alexa without compromise.

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I have hardware arriving this week that I purchased from eBay for $320 with shipping and tax - Dell Precision with i7-7700, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD[0] and GTX 1070[1]. Seems to be the current "best bang for the buck" if you don't have any of this stuff just sitting around.

The idea is because Willow devices are so cost-effective you can buy this hardware to host WIS, HA, other homelab stuff, etc and still come out ahead (even with power) compared to Raspberry Pi:

Qty 5 Willows - $270 with power supplies (support wake word, far-field audio, LCD display, speaker, mics, etc)

WIS hardware - $320 (or less - it's up to you!)

Total cost: $590

Six Raspberry Pis (no wake word, poor audio quality, unusably slow, cumbersome, very DIY):

$720 (retail kit with board, SD, LCD display, mic array, speaker, enclosure). MSRP - can't actually be purchased for that.

I expect this hardware to do well (returning well below 500ms for Willow speech locally with excellent quality) and I'll be documenting the power consumption optimization work I'm doing over the weekend.

[0] - https://www.ebay.com/itm/234908676168

[1] - https://www.ebay.com/itm/115536328587
Mainframes are great for large batch like tasks. They have very good security and the VM isolation is excellent. The hardware is very robust and uptimes can be very high.

With the large increases in computing power and storage available via AMD/Intel/Apple, the case is less compelling now.
LiDAR also has FoV issues and is sensitive to lens debris among other things. Also, the addition of another layer of high resolution data may make it impractical for the compute power requirement to synthesize it all.
This is cool, and it reminds me of POV-Ray. I wonder if it would be easy to map Blockly syntax to POV-Ray source code.
> Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” turned out to just be a book about a rather boring Englishman and his friend, not actually a pan galactic travel guide.

It is about the travelling guide. The Englishman is there just to vitalize the story. /s
If he forgoes his golden parachute, maybe. Even then, he'll be sitting pretty on his $20M+ a year he's already made.
Nothing is apolitical.

If you don’t talk about politics then your position is “I am fine with the way things are now”, which is political.
Growing up, my dad named all his computers after native trees and plants where we were living. (e.g. Redwood) I’ve carried on doing that! Currently the main computers in the house are Cottonwood, Prickly Pear, Hackberry, and Honeylocust.
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Accessibility support is a matter of priorities for a given project.

If 99.99% of your target audience is not using screen readers, then you need to decide if worsening their experience to accommodate the other 0.01% aligns with your project plans and goals.

In some cases it will, in some it won't. It depends.
Wait, really? I briefly looked at Cobol job ads in Sweden (just for fun to see what's out there -- not actually looking for a Cobol job right now) recently and they were all looking for people with multiple years of production Cobol maintenance. I must have missed something obvious.
What kind of orbit would that be? In order for it to be that close so rarely it must spend most of its time even further from earth.
I selected other because I believe the universe has no overmind(s) in the active sense. No gods, deities, Jupiters on high.
People want stuff, we are not like ants - all to the queen.
All religions are schemes(hierarchies) by man and perhaps other animals - all to get 'stuff'. For gorillas and bulls, it is raising of their own 'stuff'. With men stuff gets abstracted with objects, money, devotion, control - but it all boils down to stuff. I picked other as none wants me to be 'spiritual' - WTF is that? Some over mind.
This all said, there may well be intelligent races/minds - far away so the limits of light speed interdict discovery/control/feedback and other forms of influence.
Is the universe a complex artifactual 'stuff'? I think not, but I also know not. The depths of time and the vastness of the expanse means there may well be minds in the past/present/future?

One thing, AI explorers are things of stuff I postulate(as others have) that have an ever improving intellect as updates from the source are a thing. If 2 of these AI explorers meet - what will they do? War/discuss/merge? A smart AI will grab good ideas that are more task optimal than theirs - changing on the fly to carry on, both better for their task. Will one of these chance upon us? What will they do? war/discuss/merge/share? I suspect share - same as when 2 AIs meet.
Time and distance are the intractable deeps, and the few hundred years of our far seeing abilities have still millennia for this to play out
No good will come if this.
Gotta rip the bandaid somehow. Even if it's not perfect, at least it would be more maintainable than COBOL.
They did good by not switching to the Oracle Banking Platform, after all, it's Oracle.
"Humanity will benefit enormously from this huge increase in the availability of intelligence."

It's a near certainty that AI will be used to create more effective/destructive weapons (if it hasn't already), and will likely be used by terrorists, scammers, and others who wish to harm humans in some way.

As this technology becomes more powerful, easier, and cheaper to use, all sorts of harmful uses of it will be made. The effectiveness and scale of this harm will also increase.

And that's all before even considering what will happen if/when AI's become truly intelligent, self-motivating, indepent, and self-aware.

The jury is still out on whether the net harm will out weigh the net benefit, and if humanity will survive something that might be analogous to neanderthals encountering homo sapiens.
Or hand/arm, or finger/thumb: for some reason, while in Polish na ręce jest 5 palców, in English a hand has 4 fingers and 1 thumb on it, what's the deal with it?
How about the fact that modal windows suck? There’s so many web apps that throw up a modal window—for e.g. editing an item—that prevent you from seeing anything else in the app or editing two things at once (because nobody would ever need that).
> My two cents on this is that he is saying "working from home is morally wrong" - for his companies... but he left out the for his companies part.

If you watch his interview you see him say WFH is morally wrong for almost everyone in the "laptop class" and not just his companies.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-work-from-home-morall...
"You're going to make people who make your food that gets delivered [that] can't work from home; the people that come fix your house, they cant work from home, but you can?"

"Does that seem morally right? That's messed up," Musk said.
The numbers for reaching LEO include typical atmospheric drag losses. That's only a km/s or so on Earth but on Venus with it's very thick atmosphere the losses are much higher.
The difference between closest planet on average versus closest orbit.
Imagine going on Executive News (EN) and seeing a bunch of c-suite people armchair quarterbacking the work of a programmer at a failing company.
> They don't comprehend the meaning of the patterns (as best I have come to understand it from reading news).

It is not obvious to me that this is true.

The argument against this is that a model has to develop an abstract understanding of the world in order to get better at predicting the next token.

You'll find different opinions as to wether this happens with todays llm's, but it's definitely not a clear cut issue.
I freakin love it when it goes to a different page with its own URL. Stakeholders/customers can just create a spreadsheet directly to the relevant link if they have a lot of things they are trying to track outside the software (think inventory management stuff).
I would like to care about JS-disablers, but it is a disproportionally large amount of work for something a few people are choosing to do.

I try to give it a best effort, but won’t e.g. rebuild a menu as an HTML checkbox just because some folks are hardliners about running Javascript.
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That is not what ad hominem means. Responding to the claim that Vice used to be unbiased by pointing out the cofounder of Vice also happened to found an extremist right wing organization—some might call it a terrorist organization—is perfectly fair game.
I think the leadership has done an amazing job. They made something out of nothing. Selling exercise bikes for 100's of percent of markups, and then charging the clowns that buy them a subscription fee.

> they chose to make their own performance bonuses a priority over long-term business survival, by recklessly expanding during Covid

There was never going to be long term survival. Peloton was the latest 'as seen on TV' level of product, and once their 15 minutes of fame burns out, the name will be sold off to license cheap products.
I like tying the scheme to the domain. For instance, mine has always been starfleet.mil. Forever non-public domain. Lots of options for host names. (I've never been able to figure out a cohesive way to do this for Star Wars.)

If you were going for deities, maybe olympus.<something> for Greek gods. Wherever the pantheon is supposed to be homed. Hinduism would give you more host names than you could (probably) ever use...
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Whatever goes on in Africa hasn't concerned Western politicians at all for decades, it was not relevant for policy discussions anywhere - not even the worldwide Kony 2012 campaign had a real measurable effect. That only began to change with the rise of al-Quaeda and Islamic State-linked terrorists, but even that didn't warrant more attention than throwing some bombs.

Nowadays, China and Russia's Wagner group have essentially carte blanche to do whatever the fuck they want in Africa. The US didn't care before, they sure won't care in the future, and us Europeans are way too disjoint (and busy with Ukraine) to go and clean up the place, not to mention our very own very shady history with Africa complicating matters even more. All we're realistically gonna do is make even more people attempting to flee from that hellhole drown in the Mediterranean or die in Libyan concentration camps.

Sad to say it, but there's nothing we can do to help the people in Africa, no matter how much they'd deserve having actual, sustainable help instead of their agriculture and textile industries getting destroyed by Western "donations".
Amazing how little respect the leaders of a company seem to have about their workforce. It looks like leaders can never be honest towards their employees.

"It is not easy to say goodbye to valued colleagues and friends, each of whom have made important contributions to helping build Peloton into the company it is today. Decisions like these were not taken lightly, and we will work hard to assist impacted teammates with their transitions."

It was probably a lot easier than their valued golden parachute.
What’s the great idea exactly? It’s an incredibly expensive (and low margin) exercise bike with an expensive (and high margin) monthly subscription.

Charging a lot (and not making a lot) for something people probably won’t use for long isn’t a winning bet IMO.
> You must use "telemetry" instead of actually talking to your users.

I mean, there are several people in this thread who like modals as users. I’m another one of those. I find modals very useful, as long as you don’t do them in a crappy way. You shouldn’t insult people just because your experience was different.
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Yeah as a user I'm annoyed how often modifiers are circumvented. As a developer I'm annoyed at how often I end up in a situation where I have to reinvent 'click to follow a link' and where it's really tedious to also reimplement modifiers.
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I'm not a native English speaker. I didn't get what is wrong with the sentence

> “States were further required to limit soot from power plants, cars and other sources to 2.5 microns, or 28 times smaller than [who can be sure what this means?] the width of a human hair.”

that is quoted in the text. Should they have said "soot particles"? Or is it something else? And why can't we be sure what "28 times smaller than" means?
Phoenix LiveView handles all of those concerns extremely well and pretty much for free. All of my modals are tied to a live action in a given live view. You can bookmark them, use the browser back button to close them and the state "under the modal" is a complete non-issue. It's just loaded as part of the live view and a modal is shown only on specific actions.

That may sound like gibberish if you're not familiar with Phoenix LiveView, but it all makes sense and it just works.
Development using remote machines is very common in the finance and Healthcare industries if you're a contractor. You do all of your work by using remote desktop onto a machine hosted in some datacenter that could be hundreds of miles away from you.

The latency can sometimes cause issues, but for the most part it works and people are able to get things done.

If Microsoft can get the latency down to what I get using Game Pass, I won't even notice that I'm using a remote machine as long as I have a working internet connection.