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They should take it up.

As time passes, Apple is owning more and more of the total compute surfaces humans use. Just like Google.

We need our devices to be functionally independent of vertical-stack owning, horizontally expanding monopolies.

We only have two choices, both increasingly essential to modern life, where each player gets to charge every software and banking decision. It's entirely uncompetitive.

I'm imagining a future where they take a cut of every point of sale purchase, where they insert ads in front of travel destinations, and where they control the software and information you can run and access.

Both of these companies need to be scaled back to protect not only the consumer, but the entire computing and commerce future of the world.
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Cheers! Very helpful, we're on it!
PayPal pushes deeper into crypto payments with stablecoin launch
https://archive.is/odMr7
Coming from Enterprise and having used Retool ~3 years, I am also buffled… low code biz apps is one of those product categories that seems good initally, especially if you never worked for a Corporation, but it is really not. These tools normally don’t do governance, testing, security, users management, that well, which puts them in direct competition with MS Access. If you think MS Access is old and not web based, just use it’s evolution: MS Power Apps. Can you compete in this area? Sure, but at 100$ per seat prices, about 3-5 times less these low code tools demand. By the way, I have been quite pleased with Flask Appbuilder, which has a clean approach to crud apps, has good governance, and it is truly open source.
On Gumroad there is a Discover section but I failed to find such on Easyful. How do I discover what's there?
I'm canadian and I've always assumed they are a scam. Anything "BBB accredited" is a red flag to me, but it's more just folk knowledge, I don't have any first hand experience.
I think the issue is much more obvious and alarming in those areas, but really our perceptual baseline has moved a lot. This does affect everyone and will continue to affect even more people if unaddressed.
"Woman receives dozens of pairs of free shoes" does not sound like a problem. It sounds like an opportunity. Finders keepers.
> Why would Amazon develop a custom Arm chip and not RISC-V?

The first Graviton was launched in 2018, which means it was in development and manufacturing even earlier. You couldn't build a high performance RISC-V chip back then. Even in 2023, RISC-V is significantly behind ARM/x86 in performance and software support isnt great either (for example, Debian has supported Arm for over a decade, but RISC-V support only arrived a few weeks ago).
Ironically we later found that `select` is broken by design. `poll` was created as an improvement, and syscalls like `epoll` later refined it further.
Maintaining them by hand seems like a really excessive level of manual work. Most tools are basically raster drawing based, and raster graphics requires you to have a general layout of where things go in your head, or else spend a lot more time on the trial and error.
> but otherwise UPS has no way of knowing what packages are legitimate and which are not

She very clearly has a sign on her door that says "UPS - DO NOT DELIVER ANY PACKAGES HERE".

Surely at this point anything they leave on her doorstep is just them dumping trash.
Echo this a lot. Combined with a 4-year old at home constantly interrupting your flow, it's a hard time.
It does, but pianos can go lower than the bass. Bass guitars typically bottom out around E1, 5 and 7 strings may go lower but typically bottom out around B1 or G0. Pianos go to A0, about 7.5 hz above the bottom of human hearing.

These lower notes are the "muddy" ones, and since pianos have a tough time cleanly making those notes, then it would also mean that bass guitars would, too. Most 7 string guitars only play about a perfect 4th or a perfect 5th below standard tuning because of this inescapable muddiness, and the other extra strings tune upward into the low range of the guitar instead.

Aside from that, it wouldn't matter anyway as guitar instruments are inherently "loose" in their tuning. They may be perfect at the open string and 12th fret if they are properly set up and intonated, but every note in between will be off by a small amount.

Further, the act of fretting and plucking the instrument changes the tone of the generated note, specifically, where and how you strike the string to generate the note changes the overtones, and where and how hard you depress the string behind the fret causes minute shifts in the pitch of the string, not to mention that even minor bending of the string due to hand anatomy and grip pattern will also cause the pitch to change.

Two players can mechanically play the same piece on the same instrument in the same way down to the microsecond, but no matter how accurate they are, there will be detectable differences in the resulting piece.

A piano doesn't have that. You have your three pedals and how hard you depress the key. Still a lot of control over the sound, but if two different pianists play the same piece on the same piano with the same pedal work and finger strength, the results should be essentially identical.

Therefore, the sound quality of the piano is fixed and set based on its original setup and the string lengths it is given, whereas a guitar player can compensate for low level muddiness by altering the playing pattern, striking closer to the bridge with a plectrum or their nails, whatever they need to do to put some brightness into a low note, whereas the piano player only has the option of striking harder or softer, so in the range where a bass and piano compete, the bass can have much less muddiness than a piano.
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they're incentivized to be vague because specificity decreases the utility of the patent.
> If I understand correctly, this is not a final decision.

It is not a final decision. The title is flat-out incorrect, the SC didn't "rule" anything. They didn't even hear the case.
Shuttleworth is a very hands-on manager, which is both a blessing, if you like his style, or a curse, if you don't.
Having previously worked at a place where it took minimum 3 months to hire someone (but often 6-12), I'd be amazed if Canonical actually ever gets to hire their first choices.

What happened was this: By the time the first pick hires had been cleared, they had gotten another job. Same with second pick. Maybe even third, too.

Most people don't have the luxury or will to just sit and twiddle their thumbs for months and months, and those that do will just say fuck it and look elsewhere.

In our case, the place was a revolving door. ALWAYS hiring, never knowing who they'd hire - and those working there would carry the perpetually understaffed workload.

I can understand a hiring process like this if we're talking about fighter pilots, astronauts, special forces operators, scientists going to antarctica, or whatever. But software engineering? C'mon. Delusions of grandeur.
Same. Got a laptop and Blackberry at my first job out of college. Didn't take too long for me to realize that it actually sucked.

Later worked as a govt contractor and could leave my laptop at the office 90% of the time. Never realized how good that was until I switched back to a job with an on-call rotation.
At least it's cheap
Exactly. What if it was a "team building lunch" or they were all out meeting a client or they are all remote together in a summer share?

And of the CEO - was he meeting a client, the board, or simply out to lunch by himself or with family/friends/etc. The article is silent on this topic.
At Refine, we try to take a fresh approach to a space with very strong existing players, as you mentioned.
Our philosophy is keeping the developer-centric focus and provide the best experience possible to make boring enterprise CRUD apps fun to build.

One of the key differences is our code-first preference over no-code, which distinguish Refine from the drag-drop style workflows of Retool, Appsmith, Tooljet, Budibase etc.

Instead of offering a fixed set of pre-made components, Refine outputs a real React project with collections of helper hooks and providers. The "headless" architecture enables developers to integrate any preferred UI framework or custom design, thereby maintaining the highest level of customization and styling options.

This level of flexibility fits use-cases like complex admin panels, SAAS interfaces and B2B portals rather then single-page internal tools which require little or no customizations.
> To be honest, even in small startups I've worked at, cranking out admin dashboards using React was just so trivial that I can't imagine paying to make it slightly easier.

I haven't tried Refine, but with Retool, we had non-developers able to build themselves functional admin tools in literally minutes.

Writing new code, regardless of how great the React components are, just doesn't come close. I can do things with Retool in 2-3 hours that used to take a week or more of a senior React dev's time. It's at least one order of magnitude of difference, maybe more.
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>My experience with a semi-edge-of-medicine chronic condition has been absolutely atrocious nearly across the board and even with the absolute experts. And there's multifactorial reasons for it.

Your anecdote (as vague as it is) isn't very helpful in making any sort of point. I'd add that your interaction with the healthcare system wherever you may be is irrelevant in the aggregate WRT medical advances that have provably and measurably made folks healthier and live longer.

My goal here isn't to persuade you of anything. Rather, it's to point up that your attitude and (claimed) experience is, at best, orthogonal to my comment.
I think ARM and AMD both are starting to cut deep into Intel's market share. I do think Ampere is a bit higher priced than I'd be comfortable with if I were setting up servers. The AMD 128-core Zen 4c server chip is very impressive in terms of per-core power use and on par on power usage with ARM even.

Incredible amount of computing capacity per u in the racks at this point on both fronts. Intel is betting on custom accelerators, but I don't know how well that fits on a rental (cloud) model unless you get a full server/cpu.
Back in 2008 i worked at a Leibnitz institute in germany. First as a Wissenschafter and then as a Koordinator.

In the first case I shard a closed door office with one other person. Each of us had a large desk, bookcase and great space.

In the second case I had my own office with my own desk and even a table with two chairs for receiving people.

I was pretty low in the institute food chain. Only the PhD students were lower, and they shared 2 or at most 3 person closed door offices .

Its perfectly doable.
I'm in my 30's and just got my first credit card (big mistake, don't do this). I learned personal finance from video games- if you don't have enough gold then you can't buy it!
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"The amount of water vapor injected into the stratosphere after the eruption of HTHH was unprecedented, and it is, therefore, unclear what it might mean for surface climate. We use climate model simulations to assess the long-term surface impacts of stratospheric water vapor (SWV) anomalies caused by volcanic eruptions. The simulations show that the SWV anomalies lead to strong and persistent warming of Northern Hemisphere landmasses in boreal winter, and austral winter cooling over Australia"
The Nazis used the census to find Jews. A huge amount of people had no idea that they had matrilineal Jewish descent until the Nazis and IBM told them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
>his article presents what graph embeddings are, their use, and the comparison of the most commonly used graph embedding approaches.
If our kid was at home all the time, going to the office would be necessary, but someone has to watch the kid, and having a daycare in the neighborhood makes it better to just send them off there (and convenient to drop/pick them up via WFH).
A bias just means looking at things in a skewed way because of experience or mental conditioning.

The fact is that demographics have a lot to do with bias because people from the same demographics have similar life experiences. Having someone else with a different set of experiences can help to mitigate bias by giving their perspective in the group. It is a simplistic way to determine 'tendency towards bias' by focusing on demographics, but it is also a pretty good indicator that when you are in a group of all the same demographic then there is going to be some bias that will go unnoticed.

To answer your question -- the race part is incidental. A 30 year old college educated white male from an urban/suburban US upbringing is more than just 'white'. This is why it is not racist -- because race is one aspect of a demographic.

Hope this helps.
I think that's what the debate is essentially about. Private equity funds are basically unlisted SPACs, and have been doing this forever.

To me this is one of the key differences between sophisticated and unsophisticated investors, and knowing how to do due diligence is really key.
Just my opinion, I think they are a little late to be starting this movement. From the day they invaded Ukraine the Russian Youtubers were sharing information both inside and outside of Russia about what both Russian and non-Russian media were saying. I follow a few of them. It's mostly young people that use VPN's and get their news online in Russia and that is precisely who fled. Russia have lost over 1 million men that would otherwise be subject to conscription. Most of those Youtubers have also fled the country and continue to use VPN's to share information in and out of Russia as laws were created to crack down on anyone speaking out against the military operations. The article talks about Russia potentially following the firewall strategy of China but I think a bigger concern would be the families of the Youtubers that fled being harassed or worse which is an ongoing problem in China when their citizens that relocate speak ill of the CCP.

Also just recently Russia changed their laws about evading conscription making it a more serious offense and pretty much guaranteeing those men will not return until the Russian government is entirely replaced.
Ugh.

This is why they're coming for the web with Google's "Web environment integrity" stuff.

> a paradigm shift ushering in a new era of distribution of software

Maybe I'm just old and grumpy but this isn't NEW at all. Until about ten years ago when you bought a computer you owned it and could install whatever you wanted on it.
Nonsens, but beautiful and existential poetic nonsense.
> "Capitalism" is the seeking of profit at the expense of all others

No, that's not what defines capitalism at all. That's a degenerate form more usually called "predatory capitalism".
> Because Shuttleworth in particular or because someone at a company took someone out to a meal?

It sounds more like situation where he was eating on zoom with mic on, while the second person just talked.
Normal software testing (remember that?) can catch bugs without invasions of privacy.
Their suggestion for a $1k workstation is laughable. I can build a comparable system for $250.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_shade . An obstacle to sunlight which diverts some percentage of the light away from Earth could cool the planet, but this is a delicate and expensive operation.

I'd think at the stage we have all different ways should be considered. Maybe there are others obviously better approaches.
Services that can give you something right now and let you worry about it later can all be good if used properly but damaging if not.

So then the question to me is; should we let people do what they want to do and/or regulate the service?

Gambling is a good example of a heavy regulated service to prevent missuse, but of course not as severe as bad credit card spending.

I could say that gambling is harmless if you just limit you spending. But IMO this misses the bigger context.

I personally find credit cards very useful and never had my debt carried over. But my economy isn't exactly tight either.
In some cases, when EKG shows some signs, the cardiologist can prescribe wearing a Holter monitor for a day that records your heart activity. It will show how many beats are abnormal and the overall state.
Yes it is. In the 80s if you were bored, the solution was to go play with your friends, go run around in the creek, etc. People weren't in better shape because they had ironclad discipline.

Contrast to now: You're bored? Welp just sit right here on your ass and there is a literally bottomless bucket of entertainment that frankly is a lot more immediately satisfying than most of the stuff outside your house. And if you dare venture outside your house? Make sure you bring your parents because, increasingly often in the US, they can get arrested for child endangerment.
My view is that CBC receives more than just funding from our government. Bill C-18 being a prime example.

Sorry to derail. I believe the context is important and not generally well-known.
How many flags are we talking here? I implemted a similar system and we just replace the whole sqlite DB file by downloading it from the centralized storage whenever it changes.

Even with 1M flags it's still only a few 100 kB compressed.

I wouldn't replicate per user flags to the edge to keep size under control.
Fittingly Kafkaesque
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That irked me too. Expecting the company to not be roughly 82% white British.. in the UK. Pretty racist
Why would you blow it up with a SMPS? I built a PSU for mine with a 5V switch-mode wall wart that originally powered a USB hub and it works fine. There's a 100uf filter cap on the 5V rail inside the machine already that will smooth things out. The real danger is letting the 5V rail get too much over voltage; that's what happens with the original power supplies, and it will cook the RAM chips in a hurry.
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You're both right.

What the GP is saying is that all the details of how modern processors work are out there in books and academic papers, and that the material covered in graduate-level computer architecture courses is very relevant and helpful, and they include all (or nearly all) the techniques used in industry.

From the GP's perspective, it doesn't matter at all if the course taught branch predictors on a MIPS processor, even though MIPS isn't really used anywhere anymore (well, that's wrong, they're used extensively in networking gear, but y'know, for the argument). They still go over the various techniques used, their consequences, etc., so the processor chosen as an example is unimportant.

You're saying that all this information is unhelpful for you, because what you want is a detailed optimization guide for a particular CPU with its own particular implementation of branch prediction. And yeah, university courses don't cover that, but note that they're not "outdated" because it's not as if at some point what they taught was "current" in this respect.

So yeah, in this sense you're right, academia does not directly tackle optimization for a given processor in teaching or research, and if it did it would be basically instantly outdated. Your best resource for doing that is the manufacturer's optimization guide, and those can be light on details, especially on exactly how the branch predictor works.

But "how a processor works" is a different topic from "how this specific processor works", and the work being done in academia is not outdated compared to what the industry is doing.

PS: Never believe the marketing in the press release, yeah? "Neural network" as used here is pure marketing bullshit. They're usually not directly lying, but you can bet that they're stretching the definition of what a "neural network" is and the role it plays.
Ask HN: Was the introduction of computers deemed as transformative as AI is now?
I'm interested in knowing what the different lines of thinking were when computers were introduced to society.

What resources are there that outline the diverse opinions and predictions back then (however silly or prescient they may now seem)?
Using LLama2 to find links in mental disorders and ideological fixation
I ran the 10groups question set (https://10groups.github.io) through Llama-2-70b-hf model to get a prediction on how likely the statement would correlate with the mental disorder on the top left. From this we were able to get a fixation score. Visit our git repo for details on the code and prompt that was used to generate this: https://github.com/saternius/LLMCompass/tree/master/llama2

I'm trying to find people who are interested in research like this. If you are, join this discord: https://discord.com/channels/1138851567861256333/11388515678...
I dunno, there is a bunch of motherboard/RAM/CPU combinations that don't work properly together. Just because the socket is right, doesn't mean the component supports it.

Slightly recent example is newly launched CPU architectures using contemporary sockets, where you have to insert a supported CPU first, update BIOS and only then could the motherboard support newly launched CPU. But if you just have the one, new CPU, it might not be able to boot.
I'm not the one trying to change everyone else's work environment because I can't meet my human needs elsewhere! (and I don't think you are either?) If you value human connectedness then build it into your life. If you don't then learn to live without it. Don't try to shape the lives of others around you in order that they meet your needs merely because they are easily accessible as coworkers.
Pretty cool, but for all of what I could imagine AI could do, this seems a bit limited. Does it just generate the same thing each time? This could just be some premade lists.

When I think of an AI I'd imagine some more personalisation, and there's so much that goes into building a PC but the only input here is the price.

What about appearance? Opaque causes, transparent cases, white vs black PCBs, RGB? Preferences around the prioritisation of certain specs (more storage?). Then there's the many form factors.

Even for just a "gaming" build - are you going for blockbuster graphics, or more CPU-intensive simulation genres.
I mean if sales didn't drop why would they care?
They were being cached for at least a minute (maybe even more than that, I can't remember the details) - that's what the local memcached instance was for.

This was problematic though because changing a feature flag and then waiting for a minute plus to see if the change actually worked can be frustrating, especially if it relates to an outage of some sort.
I worked at a startup that had many internal tools for solving small problems using Retool. One frontend guy even added a "diff" component so we could compare json payloads and manually edit them.

I have to admit that it's not the best of the worlds, but for small, focused internal interfaces that call some APIs, it can serve well.

Don't know about this new tool, but talking of retool itself, I also don't see it being used for a full fledged customer facing application.
1Password has a similar feature to notify me whenever a site adds two-factor support or experiences a data breach. Password managers are (or should be) understandably uneasy about integrations, but this feels like a natural extension to those warnings.