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> How can you preserve the will to live under these conditions?

You probably don't. I cannnot speculate about someone else and I don't know what's in her head but if it happened to me, I would hope I quickly die and my family can move on with their lives rather than watch me suffer for God knows how long.
He shows the complete opposite, how to seperate data, so they won't appear on the same cache line. This is of course nonsense for single threaded accesses, but beneficial for concurrent accesses.
There aren't that many private jets, the article talks amount their investments causing 40% of their emissions, so not directly causing it.

I suspect house size is mostly to blame.

But the solution is simple, tax everything the amount it costs to clean up the pollution it causes, and then use that money to clean up the pollution. If importing from a country that does not to this, tax the imports.
Inheritance is a useful feature, using bad abstractions is a user error.

Nulls are an error in that no language feature solves them (though third-party tooling does), so far at least.
It's way worse than that: there's also deliberate cellar boxing (bankrupting) of companies on a large scale.

Hedge funds working with consultant buddies (BCG) to take over the board/leadership of a victim company.

The consultants then deliberately destroy the company from the inside while their hedge-fund buddies (naked) short it into literal bankruptcy.

It's a very easy game, it's tax-free (because the short position is technically never closed? or something) and it only very very rarely fails and backfires (GME).
The government is made up of employees, politicians, and lobbyists. The employees are trying to act, the politicians are doing whatever they need to get reelected, and the lobbyists are actively sabotaging any progress that might interfere with corporate profits.
For cases that are IO bound yes. Threads still have their place (another thing that golang doesn't have).
I understand being nerdsniped dissecting language, but doing it in front of them and amid jeers is kinda different imho. While I understand you weren't jeering, the context of this subthread makes it pretty weird to me.

Have a good one.
I think the solution is more DIY, build your stuff. Somewhat similar to the boom/boon of Modular eurorack. There’s tons of people creating things, even open-source, and selling the circuits fully assembled or packaged for DIY at lower costs.

I fundamentally believe that the human being requires designing their environment. This is also why cities in their current configuration may be such an anti-pattern with the trajectory of dystopian qualities; it is absurdly difficult for any human in a city to modify their environment in such a way it is the product of their inspiration and function.

Tl:dr I think people value things less when they don’t directly build it.
Worse, though some countries with lower productivity might have higher productivity growth.

But the problem with looking at it this way, is that it’s not a competition over finite outputs, it’s something that we can all get better at without taking away from each other. In fact one country’s growth usually helps other countries growth.
Nice. What's your favorite key/paddle? Assuming you have a particular favorite, that is! I notice CW ops are quite particular about such an instrument, and I can see why. Each has its own characteristics and feel, and becomes a familiar part of your arsenal as you use it. Sort of like a keyboard for a programmer! ;)
ok, then let's have an alternate pov
In Germany we have the Lenovo Yoga with a 7840U.
That's good, in fact. People should be compensated for the value they generate. Why should a fast food worker be compensated equivalently to a doctor or engineer? I do not want to live in a world where that could exist.
What is a language with judicious oop design? Asking to know
The responsibility is only on the government for allowing the pollution of the commons for less than the cost of cleaning it up.

Getting away with not paying your externalities is the reason things are cheaper than your competition. Tax pollution correctly.
>If you have money, you can effect change. If you know people with money, you can effect change. //

How's your record go on this. Even with family members (not rich, but much richer than me) my influence is essentially zero versus the influence advertising has on them.

That probably pales against the influence those who pay them have.

Perhaps you meant "if you know people, with money, who are already won over to your cause; then you can effect change by partnering with them". Which is effectively "rich people can use they're influence on poor people, and their resources, to effect change".
> As an electrical engineer don't you deal with temperature?

Sure, but I’m talking about in the context of everyday life, shooting the breeze, and all that.

> My point is that 100C (boiling point) is not very useful for a person using F as a reference point when/why something feels hot or cold.

Indeed, the mnemonic I actually use in practice is “32 °F is 0 °C; 32 °C is a really hot day.” Sadly, I still have to do the math for anything in between!
Don’t fixate on the boots. You will probably not find boots for $6 neither. The point is about availability of options, not about how much a boot costs or lasts. See Pratchett quote above.
She has children. For some people, that will keep them going.

In her case, as a quadruple amputee, it would be difficult to arrange an unassisted suicide. So she may keep going simply because checking out is not really an option, especially during the immediate aftermath when people are more likely to feel incapable of living with this.
That seems like the same voltage at about 1 Ghz less clock, which makes sense.
Who had to stop and go play "Let It Go"?! LOL.
I think, though I'm not sure, that some people prefer the latter environment.

Having worked with teams which have preferred to work in as pure a technology environment as could be constructed while still providing value, I think this might be the "product focussed" (or not) distinction that people make about themselves on their CVs.
Something in the codebase that you don't like can be because of cutting corners for business reasons.

The real question is whether it is actually debt we are talking about. A developers hurt sense of code aesthetics isn't technical debt, but e.g. if code uses an ugly hack it can bite you performance wise, or when something is added or changed. When code is never maintained the libraries used can expose known weaknesses to the world etc.
Through Space and Time
>I think millennials and younger people should continue to hold out and have fewer (preferably zero) children until we get a more favorable deal from society.

Your gametes are accumulating mutations every year you get older. If you actually want kids at some point, and you're in a position to have them, then you should do it soon, for the sake of their health.
Some richer people buy carbon offsets or products from companies that claim to be zero emissions, and such. These things are expensive and so much more affordable for the wealthy. It could easily be the top 0.00001% entirely offset their emissions impact -- but probably they'd still have more externalised impact in other things, micro plastics, resource wastage, ...

It's not essential that the rich have a greater impact. Similarly, rich nations are in a better position to take action.
I don’t understand this comment. Flagellation is not my thing, I’m good, thank you.
>..action of a system that has complex interlinked parts.

This is such a well formulated response and I just wanted to include part of it that I feel clicked with me.
If I understand correctly, one entity cant take all blame because that entity also depends on actions from another entity.
It I fall on my butt due to running on ice, nobody really taught me, yet I still learned a lesson :-)
haven't seen any bricking robots, yet.

thou ime construction has moved to prefabricated elements (import wall from factory) in order to cope with less skilled workers and higher labor costs while retaining some margin.
No, not at all. Destroying something, well, destroys it. Rebuilding it then means you spent a lot of effort with nothing new to show for it. That’s the opposite of production.
Why didn't you linked to the report instead? This feels like original research, and I doubt that a lot of people will be bothered to verify your claims.
It's not almost no one.

When my boss's boss's boss spends 4 hours on a private jet he creates as much CO2 as I do in a year.

I need a house. He doesnt need a jet. His jet should be banned yesterday.
That's a "rationalist" blog, an inherently unreliable source in this area, and they're literally only quoting people who have a relationship with him and stand to gain financially from his success.

Objectively, at present he's stoking a fire comprised of $44 billion dollars, committing anti trust crimes, and endangering a besieged foreign nation.

Judge him by his actions, not by what his blowhards say about him.
Because it's a smaller upfront cost, and a "pay per usage" cost ongoing. Many people don't want to (for example) dedicate the space to a large dvd collection for something they're only going to watch once, or to buy a media cupboard to hold two extra dvds. People don't want the hassle of reselling/searching the second hand market (where companies like eBay provide value, but friction and risk at the same time as anyone who has ever had an "item not received" case opened against them will tell you).
Ask HN: State of iOS Assistant
There is such a misalignment between mac devices plus generally iOS and Siri, which is rather always a disappointment. With last two or three keynotes I am mostly waiting for a breakthrough in that and it is obviously not satisfied. Question is why, whats the reason, Siri through all these years is so shitty and disappointing and abandoned? With this feature bandwidth to communicate with iphone brick will be increased. Is it technology, around the corner feature, part of bigger strategy, problem to govern rules for such an endless outcomes in one single phone, human nature not in par with this developed feature, social turn to silent the interface between you and your phone? Just curious if someone close to topic can hint why?
We've got a couple here in Western Australia building houses (at least two seperate designs):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6IQB5S1N5I (2019 - 4 years ago)

Mind you we (Uni of West Australia) built a sheep shearing robot back in 1980 and use robot trucks | trains | excavators to mine ~ 800 million tonnes of iron ore per year.
> reliance on traditional OO means that only a small subset of business domains naturally map to the language's constructs

You don't have to stick to OO constructs. Java has functional programming support and pattern matching.

> best represented as thousands of threads going off to do independent work and then unifying results

Java has had executor support for a long time now. And if you're talking about IO bound tasks, Java has virtual threads now.

> parse a raw binary stream that had a lot of unsigned ints

Java has `Integer.parseUnsignedInt()` and other similar operations.
That's not at all what they wrote. Genuinely curious, did you misread? If not, what did you hope to gain by creating this strawman?
Ask HN: What is the one thing you would change about documentation?
I've been in talks with research orgs, government orgs, and software companies and everyone seems to have something they would like to change about the way their documentation works.

I'd love to hear what HN has to add to that.
In a class room setting sure, but in every day conversation, no. Not on the West Coast of the United States. Kurt Cobain made the distinction and didn't think fish had feelings:

And the animals I've trapped
Have all become my pets
And I'm living off of grass
And the drippings from my ceiling
It's okay to eat fish
Cause they don't have any feelings
- Something in the way

Could you give me some samples of how you and your friends refer to fish as animals?
AMD is seemingly pitching this as a "power efficient" AI engine, where the integrated GPU is still better for maximum throughput.

The iGPU has a much better chance of broad adoption for GenAI type of stuff because its basically mapped to CUDA through ROCm, and probably works with triton.
Since there is no way currently of removing CO2, and we don't even know how that technology would work, there is no fair tax amount. Any amount you set will just be a robbery. Might as well make it a cent per ton, or a gorillion dollars per ton.
Lidl/Aldi don't put their prices online, I think? But also, perhaps they change their prices more rapidly?
I don't think this is a problem.

A piece like this is not a self contained textbook. It's a hot topic with 100 years of history near the centre of political and economic discourse. Contentious claims are inevitable.

The reverse claim also gets made, and whether or not the claim is "supported," it's never sufficiently supported. The reality is that there's a whole debate with vountermoves behind either claim.

One side looks at employment, tonnage, plant construction, anecdote and common sense. The other looks at accounting.

Accounting says that "manufacturing" has increased. Skeptics consider this an accounting fiction. The reality is that "manufacturing" in 2023 is not quantifiable in the way that it was in 1923. Accounting semantics are abstract and past a point turn into a matter of accountants' naming convention.

A 1923 ford factory represented most of the "manufacturing" represented by the cars that they produced. As the industry splits into OEMs, T1s, T2s, toolers and whatnot^ we move into more abstract definitions. Has one of Ford's industrial engineering teams ceased to be "manufacturing," because they now design processes for a Mexican subsidiary? How about the US-based management/overherheads for the subsidiary? Irl, accountants can represent these any way that the tax man, board or market prefers. The same physical change can represent 20% or 5% decrease in manufacturing.

There's just a point where quantifications fail, and can't be used to decide such debates conclusively.

Where we're at now, imo, requires us to keep purpose in mind, and forget about a single, neutral quantification. If you're quantifying manufacturing for maximum military potential, employment or resilience to trade problems... You probably need different definitions/quantifications of "manufacturing."

^These specific conventions were created to structure trade deals and regulate tarrifs.
They're not paid for the value they generate either. They're paid proportional to the leverage they have to extract money from the business.
One reason is the unstable base class phenomenon. A some changes in the base class require you to constantly change all your derived classes.
But do you have to do within the app or on a per app basis? Not as familiar with android. That’s a step in the right direction but I mean something more like delineating them at the os level so I can go into settings and say “I don’t want to see marketing related notifications from any application ever”. If an app mislabels marketing notifications to circumvent this it gets pulled from the store or (ideally) doesn’t pass review. So I can just flick off a toggle for those intrusive notifications but keep my important ones. Then my feed is suddenly worthwhile again with stuff like package delivery, calendar, messaging apps, etc. fussing around inside each app is a pain in the butt (although better than not being able to do so at all).

But does this apply for all apps on android or is it up to the dev? Can you make the Amazon shopping app just give notifications about package delivery and make it shut the fuck up about sales and suggested items? Or doordash, instacart, etc? If the dev can just ignore it then it’s kind of pointless and why I mean it should be part of the design guidelines

Maybe if the ftc would get off it’s ass and force the issue. The USA is legally required to have unsubscribe links in commercial emails, I don’t see how this is all that different
> I've worked with the kind of engineers who are still doing Java + Spring like it's still the 90s, and they're not the ones you want on your projects

And I've worked with programmers who use the latest fad of the day (golang, etc) and they're not the ones you want to have on your projects.

> The best talent don't even want to consider working with Java if they can help it.

Not in my experience.
> Of course you are you simply don't realise it.

Don’t be ridiculous. Of course I know that the customary units are formally defined in terms of metric. I also know my milk jug, like all gallon milk jugs in America, says “3.76 L” next to “1 gal” on the label. But if I ask someone—anyone—in my family or my workplace to pick up three liters of milk, they won’t have any idea what I mean. If that’s your idea of a culture that “uses” the metric system, you have a very strange definition of the word “use.”
Please add (2021) to the title.
looking around online, yes there are robots. very very expensive looking robots like the Hadrian X and SAM100, both for stacking brick walls. but who is building full buildings with 100% brick these days*? we probably got more productivity gains when we stopped digging dirt manually.

My guess is that any tech like this coming out now is at the far right end of an S curve and the real gains are to be made politically and socially, though i doubt it's a regulation issue like the quote.

*turns out its australians.
> Women are primed to (...)

Your comment sounds awfully prejudiced.

I've worked with women in leadership roles that were more assertive than all the men in the room, and I also worked with men who went out of their way to avoid any semblance of confrontation. That hardly justifies bigoted views towards men or women.
I know this isn't what you're saying, but I'm amused at the notion of a hypothetical person thinking that containers could leave the factory filled to 120% of volume so that they're at 100% of volume after settling, if only manufacturers would stop being greedy or something.
Fireball over Iceland
LLM "Penis Size" Test
Well trees are a technology to capture co2, are they not?
Love the dedication to the goal.

In 2005 I had a watch computer called the onHand PC. Basically a TI-83 on your wrist. The vendor gave out a C compiler and I wrote a game for it as well as an RSS reader.

Seems pointless now that wifi is so widespread.
What the fuck are you talking about? What does that have to do with what we're talking about? These things are not fucking comparable.

We're talking about something and I think it's helpful to have everything explicitly stated instead of just implicitly hoping everybody draws the same interpretation.

It's one thing to be willing to be wrong, but it's an entirely different thing to have the grace to accept being wrong when you're in that situation, which can take a level of emotional regulation and acceptance that isn't automatic. That's something most of us have to work at. That's why it needs to be explicitly mentioned. I've been willing to be wrong and stated things I was reasonably sure was correct, but felt frustrated and embarrassed leading to me being unnecessarily combative. Over time, I've worked on that emotional response so I'm able to say "yes, you're entirely right" and not take it personally when I am wrong.

So yes, it needs to be explicitly stated and discussed and cannot be glossed over.
Yeah, the crypto-scammers/get-rich-quick crowd, who’ve actually had a brief dalliance with AI before (remember there was a weird 6 months around 2015 when no VC would talk to you unless you were pretending to make a chatbot?), have embraced it _in force_.

You might find Mastodon or something better (honestly, I’ve carefully avoided each of the 3-4 AI bubbles that have shown up during my career, so am not paying attention to AI Mastodon, but technical content in areas I do know well is generally far better on Mastodon, and largely free of the get rich quick tendency).

Alternatively, this is one base where one of those “block the blue” extensions may be helpful; it’s probably one of the subjects on which the blueticks are at their most vapid.
Babbage was never able to complete any of his machines due to conflicts with his chief engineer and insufficient funding. It wasn't until 1941 that the first general purpose computer, the Z3, was built, more than a century after Babbage proposed the pioneering Analytical Engine in 1837.
In my opinion, if a bug report is crap, it is perfectly acceptable to politely say so with a canned response and then close the issue a week later if better information is not forthcoming. Declaring 'issue bankruptcy' shows that you do not care about your users time and tells me that I should not trust your project.
You are in a world where that can exist if you make international comparisons. There are some fast food workers earning more than some developers.
In the 1970s Dutch lawyers, in the hippie spirit of the time, realised that only the rich could afford legal advice. So they decided to start doing pro bono work for the poor.
Mitigating LLM Hallucinations: a multifaceted approach
Has anyone here looked at the Movesense(1) hardware / SDK from Suunto? I have seen some claims(2) that its better than the Polar H10.

There are quite a few products based on Movsense (see the showcases) but my experience with two of them is mixed. There seems to be way too much "secret sauce" involved in the processing and presentation of the results.
This project looks very interesting from that perspective, but I'm unsure if it would work for the 24x7 monitoring for Cronic Fatigue I'm looking for. (never mind that it's not an app yet :-)

1 https://www.movesense.com/

2 http://www.muscleoxygentraining.com/2020/06/movesense-medica...
Be a Bit Unhelpful
695,620 km2

It sounds like you might need some help with the math.
Do you?
Nice to see open source hardware token usage in the wild.
we literally got reusable rockets because of him.

no one says he is a great engineer, but oh boy he sure does well in finding those great engineers and funding them to work on large scale projects.

he hires people greater than him in other fields, no doubt.
I don't feel mocked. I feel people are being pedantic. The Hacker News comment section isn't biology class.

"I went to the San Francisco zoo and aquarium and enjoyed the animals and the fish" is a perfectly acceptable sentence is it not?
As someone with chronic GERD, I am really interested to know your recipes, how many meals you take and your food preparation technique. Are these any cooking websites/channels you would recommend?

In my university years, I used to eat whatever was cheap and available easy, the result was my GERD symptoms were so bad most nights I couldn’t get full night sleep. Over time I noticed some common triggers. Black pepper, garlic, raw tomato (weirdly cooked tomatoes don’t trigger as much symptoms), any citrus fruits, carbonated drinks to name a few. Mostly it was learning by suffering. I make conscious efforts now to avoid food with these triggers and manage the symptoms quite a bit when I am not traveling. But some nights still end up waking up with intense upper esophageal pain. Honestly over the years the sad truth I have now realized is fasting is sometimes better than consuming types of things now a day that we call food.
Ah, it’s a Mastodon compatible thing in 6 files. I was wondering; Ruby on Rails does not get out of bed for 6 files. I’m actually vaguely curious whether it is even possible to have a 6 file Rails app, or would the mandatory config files alone consume your quota.
Elite athletes often eat pretty poorly. But they can get away with it because they work so hard.

I know a lot of D1 football players not only eat cereal for breakfast but also as a late night snack.