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Ask HN: Programmer Productivity as a Drake Equation?
I sometimes think of programmer productivity as being able to model as a Drake Equation:

how well you know a prog lang

X

how concise or powerful that prog lang

X

how well you know the editor/toolchain

X

how powerful your machine

X

how much/little interrupted

X

how much/little distracted

X

how many relevant "variables" & constraint factors are fresh in your brain's registers/caches

X

applying lots of little "best practices" in your workflow

X

stimulant abuse (CAFFEINE, PEOPLE! CAFFEINE! sheesh)

anybody else? thoughts? better / more refined versions of this equation/mousetrap?
I mean, you have a photo of them timestamped, there should be no recourse in those cases?
Not necessarily. Software support can just mean security updates, which would already be great. Newer versions can also roll out features dependent on hardware strength only to devices that have the necessary hardware for them. And (if the manufacturers don't do the exact opposite on purpose) could lead to longer usable operation without doubling ram every 3 years.
Exactly! In these cases it becomes apparent the market isn't free but manipulated in some way (Socialism, tariffs, tax benefits, regulatory measures).
It's not just pedestrians. I think I'll never ride motorcycles on public roads again. I just don't trust drivers. They're all talking, texting, watching a fucking YouTube video or TikTok reel. I've seen people eating spaghetti with a fork and knife while driving! It's insane how selfish and unaware drivers are, and it got way worse after Covid. Lax licensing standards and the average U.S adults abysmal literacy levels (read: the average driver neither knows nor can they comprehend the very basic laws governing driving) contribute to turning streets into a chaotic carnival.

Combined with the massive size of vehicles, ridiculous amount of illegal modifications, and nonexistent enforcement of traffic/vehicle laws, there is absolutely nothing surprising about this news.
In addition the those given in the other answers so far, there are also gas stations on Native American reservations in Oregon and they are usually self-service.
It's so suprising to me that there's enough dropped on the floor/use cases ignored from AWS/Azure that they could build such a large business.
since there is no login mechanism, I used the anonymous feedback section to request their agreements with BMI and ASCAP for creating liscenced mechanical renditions of copyrighted materials.
Yes, it's referring specific to a "large quantity" aspect of it. If you achieve some X, and then achieve X again, and again, people will trust you to achieve X again.

Of course, that leads to people faking past successful startups. There are plenty of successful serial entrepreneurs out there that sold stuff for pennies to their family or something like that.
I don't have insider info about koncrete but there is akuity which does managed ArgoCD, built by the creators of ArgoCD, and that seems to be going well.
Also, managed ArgoCD is one of ~4-5 things that we do - managed tf state and autogenerated tf, drag-drop CI builder, kubernetes management etc.
Right, but the number of RSUs is fixed at the beginning of each year, so you won't know how much each vest is worth until you actually sell them, and the price can take a shit (or moon) in the meantime.
An IP alone is personal data. Recital 30 should be enough, but it has been asserted time and time again by DPAs and courts. See also: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/r...
There’s a lot to unpack here, but just to touch on a few issues with this premise:

1) If men were simply trying to protect women from unpleasantness, there would be no need to ban women from additive things like education, property ownership, spiritual leadership, medical autonomy, etc.

2) Women have been performing difficult, uncomfortable work (think agriculture and factories) alongside men this whole time; the occupations women were prevented to hold tended to be the cushier ones in law, fine art, medicine, engineering, finance, etc.

3. Based on demographic voting patterns, the effects of democracy that you seem to dislike are more significantly attributed to men.

4. When men “don’t include” women in a realm in the ways you’ve described, the best case scenario is that women have no legal recourse when they’re denied entry to it (like when women were turned away from college entrance or bank account ownership). In worse scenarios, the consequence could be imprisonment.

5. To act as an autonomous, self-directed, free person is nigh impossible without access to education, property ownership, self-governance, and personal financial resources. Try to imagine how many life decisions would be unavailable to you without these basic rights.

To broaden your worldview, I would recommend picking a topic that interests you historically and digging into the history of women’s relationship to it. You might be surprised by some of the nonsensical ways in which women have been prevented from participating in the most fulfilling realms of human experience.
What does a subnet mask do? Almost nothing. In case of Ethernet:

— If some data is to be delivered to an IP address that belongs to a subnet, send a packet with that destination IP in a frame with corresponding destination MAC. If you don't know that MAC, use ARP to learn it.

— If some data is to be delivered to an IP address that does not belong to a subnet, send a packet with that destination IP in a frame with gateway destination MAC. What happens next is not our problem. If you don't know that MAC, use ARP to learn it.

Therefore, /32 simply makes host relay packets to all other addresses to gateway.

Note that gateway IP address is not included in any packet. We only use it to learn gateway MAC address we actually need. Note that gateway IP address can be anything, inside or outside of local subnet. The only requirement is that host gets an ARP response when asking about it (from actual interface or some other device acting on gateway's behalf). This gets trickier when host have multiple interfaces to multiple networks, and may have to prioritize, or some interfaces depend on others (as with VPN connections), but it's certainly not a problem in case of a single network connection. Note that physical network connection does not imply that only packets from a single subnet get transferred. Anything can be sent or received, the difference is in what gets accepted and what gets rejected.
No, why would you bother? It's IRC.
The GPL does quite intentionally not require you to provide a public download page (or git access, etc), and this was more or less discussed and a conscious decision by those who came up with the GPL, agreed. Albeit in pre-widespread-internet days when a "public download page" wasn't a thing yet (and the equivalents were much more expensive, thus why they might not have wanted to require that burden). But still. I agree this is more or less intentional and explicit in the GPL.

But that the GPL lets you take GPL software, add your own features on top, sell it, and tell customers that if they redistribute it themselves (as the GPL explicitly allows), you will refuse to sell them software in the future ever again? Nope nope nope. I think it's not entirely clear if the GPL allows that or not, but if it does, it seems pretty clear to me that it's inadvertant, and not what the GPL was intended to do.

At any rate, this is a different thing, and to me another level of shadiness, than simply pointing out that the GPL does not require an entity to distribute the source via public download links -- this is about the entity trying to prohibit users from re-distributing the source themselves, and the GPL really was intentionally designed to try and avoid such prohibitions, that's kind of it's whole reason for existing.
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> My colleagues and I have decades of consulting experience helping companies solve complex problems involving data privacy, math, statistics, and computing.

> Let’s talk. We look forward to exploring the opportunity to help your company too.

Getting more attention then clarifying the intent in the body is sometimes mischievous (read: every tabloid newspaper), but it nonetheless brings more good attention that it would have without the click bait. If that leads to more consulting work for the author, good for him.

(it kind of feels weird calling a high-number approximation “clickbait” but, in some circles…)
If people exercised this level of agency, no economic incentive would ever work.
Or how about you just use a damn soldering iron for such an easy job?
So, what I do is actually work from coffee shop about 1x a week. This gets me used to having a "non-ideal" setup, while also allowing me to interact with people outside my immediate family and close friends. When I work from coffee shop, I tend to get up and stretch my legs more than I would at home, but also use things like use noise cancelling headphones, have my bag in order so that I don't miss things like chargers, cables or components I need.

When I work from vacation, remotely, whatever... since I already have the "non-ideal" setup down pat, I either work from a coffee shop or from the place I am staying, but I don't have such a massive adjustment since I am already trained to be productive in a perfect environment.
It's Phones ... everywhere I go I see people using their phones while driving.

Source: as an avid runner, whenever I cross streets I make eye contact with drivers to ensure they see me.
I have no perspective on the legality, but this sounds like a corrupt contract.

The details from the article that stand out to me:

* The US Government paid nothing for Recreation.gov, and the site is instead funded by fees charged on the platform, that are passed through to the site's operator, Booz Allen

* The amount generated by those fees and paid to Booz Allen is not publically disclosed.

* There are times when government agencies (like the NPS) offer free tickets (aka, timed entry to popular national parks), and Booz Allen still tacks on a fee.

* Similarly, when you enter a nonrefundable lottery for popular permits (climbing Mt. Whitney, rafting the Salmon, etc.) the $6 fee you pay to enter doesn't go to, say, conservation efforts in those areas, but goes straight to Booz Allen.

On princple, I don't mind user-fees being attached to some activities in public lands. But this payment structure seems designed to defraud the American public. Certainly, the contractor is providing value by delivering online reservation systems, and that costs money, but they should not be incentivized to charge fees that go to them, not the public lands.

I hope the lawsuit succeeds in gaining class action status, and prevents other government websites from being structured this way.
Side note - I built a tool to help detect non-default javascript variables attached to the global scope https://github.com/jonluca/Window-Differ to aid in security analysis like this. Would be pretty nice to have in devtools
NRF52 line is Bluetooth LE not WiFi.
Never let a crisis go to waste. Great opportunity to slot folks from the US Digital Service in to take ownership.
And if there is no change they call it stagnation and people will find it unbearable as well.
I seriously want a motorized wheelbarrow now, though. That's your fault.
Aren't bikers considered "liberal elite woke". And in places like Texas, it is considered just good sport to run them off the road?
Thank you, now I can remove Dababy from Dua Lipa - Levitating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUVcZfQe-Kw&pp=ygUTZHVhIGxpc...

He just butchers an otherwise perfect song!

Will report back with results.

Edit: Results are great! https://voca.ro/13ar1g88LSKK
Price:Performance:Cost-to-Run are afaik the three metrics that will determine if something is the right solution. Barring custom accelerators or purpose-built hardware general compute is roughly as approachable for arm or x86 in terms of software applications that run on said hardware.

If the price is less and the cost to run is less, then the bottom line max performance may not be the leading factor in making a decision. It really depends on a few factors, and this article does a poor job even spelling that much out.
Thanks a lot! I'm exporting HTML documents to PDF from the browser on a regular basis, and normal http links have never had any problem to work, while jump links have been impossible.

Processing everything through Word after export could maybe be an option. In my experience exporting from the browser have been the only option to get nice PDFs. Everything else I've tried have mangled the layout something terribly, and Open Source converters are all of low quality.

It could be that it is the PDF clients that refuses all jump links, but then the problem is unsolvable, since these PDFs have to work on normal consumer devices such as Android and iOS phones. Apart from the jump links, PDFs are a god-send, since they work well everywhere.
Nah, the reaction time for drivers are getting shorter as pedestrians are getting bolder.

Must get a dashcam, due to increasing legal burden and riskier pedestrians being placed on the driver.
Thanks. I think using AI to help with translating error messages, and perhaps finding the logs that matter, and even being an "expert system" of sorts to give an opinion on what went wrong is useful. Sort of how Windows diagnosis of why something isn't working (like wifi) has got better over the years, probably by adding more and more edge cases!
That's absolutely true for people who want to interact with their projects using their editors exclusively! Personally, I like using both my shell and neovim for stuff like this, and I felt like there was no great option for me on the shell-end of things.

The usefulness of a tool like this is definitely completely dependent on a person's workflow.
Out of curiosity - What would be the difficulties in having government services like this be offered as "api-only" from the government's side, and allowing open competition for interfaces and other interaction?

What difficulties would there be from the government's perspective, what issues would the companies experience when trying to create the interfaces and portals, and what issues would pop up for the users of the services?
Facebook recently released a trove of AI models that can do TTS and other stuff in 1000s of languages. This gave me a lot of hope that languages can start to be digitally preserved!
The wording is weird but it's fully possible to use it open source.

You use it personally, you have access to the source and can modify it unrestricted. GPLv3 fulfilled.

You share the application with someone else, they get the same notice and get the same rights. GPLv3 fulfilled.
The machines are expensive. You want the machines producing as much as they can to balance out their costs. Workers don't like working 24/7, so they'll stop working after a few hours (this is good!).

If each worker has their own machine, that means the machine probably ceases to be producing when the worker is done. Coupled with potentially longer startup processes (many machines are way easier to keep running than do a cold start) it means these machines sit idle for most of their existence. This is sub-optimal.

If you centralize the machines, then you can trade off workers and keep the machines running. You then also potentially don't have to worry about startup processes eating into productive time as often. This is than a major efficiency boost.

On top of that, many times several different jobs might be related to the operation of that machine. You might need someone who specializes on cleaning the machines, you might have people specializing on the inspection on the machines, you might have people specializing on the day to day operations of the machines. Having that specialization can be a net benefit overall.

Think about repair turn-around times. So you've got a CNC operator way off in the middle of nowhere, super distributed. He knows the basics on how to use the machine, but maybe not a lot more. Then it throws a fault, and he doesn't know how to repair it or doesn't have the equipment and parts. Now he's going to call up the head office, who is going to dispatch a repair person from somewhere (maybe close? maybe far?) to come out to some far away remote location to repair it. Meanwhile, for larger operations they might have some techs on-site who can do repairs within just a few minutes and get the machine functional sooner. You can co-locate a smaller cache of spare parts for a larger pool of machines, because multiple failures is probably pretty rare. All that downtime avoided turns into productivity gains as the machine gets to functional levels faster and the CNC tech gets back to work faster.
I believe you're thinking phone numbers from legitimate VoIP services like Twilio, or the "texting app" service-providers that build on top of them.

The GP is talking more about phone numbers from purpose-built (usually Russian) "secondary market for other people's credentials" marketplaces, where people sell the use of their own personal phone numbers (usually through cloud remote-control software they run on an old Android device with the SIM in it.)
God, I love Wikipedia. Such a random thing to receive the Wikipedic treatment
This sure sounds useful, but "might remove need for deep-sea cables" is quite silly.

Anything they do to cram bandwidth into their laser link can reasonably also be applied to fiber optical cables. Except the fiber optical cables come in bundles of 12 to 144 with absolutely no separation issues. Replicating that over open space (air or vacuum), if reasonably possible at all, will chug significant amounts of power in signal processing at the receive end.

There are major benefits to free-space optics -

- quicker to build

- lower latency

- in some cases, large coverage

But deep-sea cables compete on bandwidth, and that's not something free-space optics can beat them on. Why diminish this research achievement by conflating it with that? :(
You might want to integrate this with hm.agolia.com if you haven’t already. Nice work!
That's not a property of the NFT so much as a property of the smart contract handling the sale, isn't it?
Yes exactly! PRs welcome :)
I highly encourage people to read that NYT link, the diagrams are excellent. That said, the article also shows how you address the problem of no natural light: you punch a hole through the center of the building (and in New York City's case, this permits the developer to "move" that lost floorspace into newly-built units on top of the building). Far from a trivial solution, but also far from impossible.
More a question as to the wisdom of LLM-powered chatbots as interfaces, everywhere.

What was wrong with curl anyway :-p
A station wagon is about as convinient as a pickup as long as you don't need to transport gravel.
Wasting all the money and more importantly time to try and prosper in the iOS ecosystem baffles me in this day and age.

That’s time you don’t get back, lost forever because some one you’ll never meet on a committee says no.

“It has to be an app” is old world thinking. No iOS app in the past 3 years or more has disrupted anything.
They all seem to be missing the part where WeChat played out this way because the Chinese government mandated it, not because people have an inherent desire to do everything in a single "app". WeChat is an island of Chinese-controlled services and content within a sea of Western-run mobile platforms.
In my past experience as a sysadmin, some vendors will only release drivers (as binary blobs) for RHEL. EMC PowerPath comes to mind, granted that's kind of a moot point now that the FOSS kernel MPIO drivers are good enough, but I'm sure there's other such examples that exist to this day.
So when is this time bomb exploding? We've been reading about this since Covid ended.
Comparing it to children is not better. If anything, it's worse.

Women are not children. They don't want to be protected, especially when they've chosen not to be. Women don't want to lose agency in the name of being cared for. Children don't have that option, because they're not adults.

Adult women want to be treated as adults, and very much resent the implication that they need protection. Especially when that comes with losing control over their own bodies.
I would imagine mainly containment; make sure the collapse of Russia stays in Russia and that you don't end up with black market tanks in Poland or a warlord seizing mines in Kazakhstan.
From the post:
And the way integers and floats are represented isn’t going to change (floating point was standardized in 1985!), so you only have to learn it once.

This got me thinking, what are some things that DON’T change that are worth learning? HN I think is mostly focused on the latest things that change but there’s lot of value in focusing on things that don’t change.
Even then... in what ways are they actually faster, it seems that a lot of the custom (non-arm) custom processing units are what gives them the boost in a few cases, and compared to NVidia and AMD are still a bit behind there. There are a lot of ways to approach this, and in the Apple case, where they're really winning is the power utilization in terms of performance/watt.
Prompt>trace the $15M transaction for those weapons to their geographical delivery location and subsequent transportation end-point. Then use the DoD.UAV.Drone API to launch a strike on the current location of the chemical weapons.

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GPT>The ice cream truck "Fudge Brothers" driving past 742 Evergreen Terrace in Springfield has been successfully destroyed with an acceptable amount of collateral damage and loss of life.
The time bomb began ticking around the time people started getting broadband connections and work-from-home/video-calling became viable (so around 2007). The surprising thing is the cultural shift took 15 years to play out, and needed an actual global pandemic to really push it through even then, and even then there is a massive effort to put the genie back in the bottle. Turns out office buildings are just another form of technology that has been superseded by something that just works better, deal with it banks.
"Walled gardens" when MS has a policy of porting all their games to Windows and also offers an official way for users to run custom software on the device.

Agreed on the other two though, both should also be forced to open up.
The problem with suburban office parks is that commuting to them is worse than downtown when you live in the wrong suburb - one on the other side of town from them.

Downtown is a central location that is equally bad to car-commute to for everyone. Suburbs make for okay car-commutes for some people, and utter hell for everyone else.

You can fix downtown commutes by building out good transit networks, but there's no real way to solve the suburb-to-suburb commute problem.

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And no, 'Just move from your suburb to the one that has the office park' doesn't work. Moving costs 6% of realtor fees on <absolutely insane house prices> + a mountain of effort and stress and other money. All for a job that might lay you off/that you'll leave next year.
It's trivial to identify and block VoIP prefix allocations. That's different from identifying/blocking VoIP services, which — especially in the case of blackhat services — can operate entirely by buying and porting one-off numbers from residential cellular ISPs.
"On Saturday I paid @ElonMusk $8 for a check"

And that is supposed to make you sound credible?
How insane and most probably against some human rights laws. Plus, the whole population narrative has now been turned on its head. Most developed countries are now going through irreversible population decline, which will cause some of the most violent social upheaval (see France pension protests).
Has anyone looked to see if there are more or less pedestrians?
Really great points!!

> Ideally the company has a history of acquisitions as a means of product improvements

This made me think of Apple but their product is already so good :')