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hmm, why is it never the case that <insert western country> propaganda is seeping into and poses as news or valid opinion (?)

It seems the power elites want to have it both ways, docile sheep-people which can be herded for/against anything on moments notice through overwhelming psy-ops (on a spectrum from blatant lies to pure disinformation by omission of cause and effect) assault on social media and main stream outlets. And, at the same time, they recognize that such deliberately trained obedient unthinking/confused but conveniently conforming beings can be also swayed but other actors through inserting messages into media products.

The solution is trivial, though not handy to the elites, so we keep hearing about other's propaganda (oh.. how evil the others are). We, the morally elevated uber-mench are never to be blamed for anything. We do not do propaganda against own citizens and against citizens of other countries.

At least one does not have to pay to watch this circus...
Thank you for your opinion.

I know that you can generate IR using LLVM tools (clang, rust, zig etc.) but the "well-known" languages generally restrict you with some:

- Static & Dynamic Typed Languages (which makes it almost impossible [0])
- Philosophies: e.g some languages embrace OOP-like systems for their general program design philosophy while others may not
- These two are some of the cavities in my mind but simple primitive types wouldn't be that hard I think

Even If It's just primitive types I think this can be a tool for automatic configration wrapper which would help a lot when integrating a new language to a program (e.g lua for neovim & awesomewm)

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[0]: I'm thinking some run-time checked generic type implementation but I need to figure A LOT for this. (something like rust's dynamic dispatch but more enhancable?) (maybe an enum for all edge cases? like Function, Struct, Class ...)
I'm a fellow amateur, but I would say it allows higher bandwidth than X-band. It's a higher frequency range, shorter wavelength.

Edit: it might be worse for signal propagation through the atmosphere though...

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Techn...

Probably a bit like 2.4 GHz vs 5GHz WiFi.
putting batteries in parallel comes with its own problems, namely that you need far higher current to charge them at a reasonable speed, which is more difficult to scale up effectively than voltage
absolutely love it, wouldn’t change a thing. the estimates on availability are really great to see.
> Consumers use batteries that are a specific voltage.

Consumers use batteries that are a specific form factor. They don't buy 1.5V batteries, they buy AA's. They don't know or care what voltage their computer battery is, they buy a Lenovo T14 battery. Et cetera. I can't think of a common single battery where you can buy the correct form factor but get the wrong voltage.

The only two pieces of information that matter are form factor and wattage. You can derive voltage from the form factor, but you can't derive form factor from voltage. You can derive amperage from wattage and voltage.

Edit: I finally thought of an exception. 6V tractor batteries are form factor compatible with 12V tractor batteries. But those are hardly common in 2023.
There is a new and shiny bias on conference talks. People talk about cutting edge / newest stuff, and don't talk about seemingly "boring" topics. Yet I find the concrete, actual, nuts and bolts, not cutting edge and practical stories of "boring" implementations very interesting. I think other people do too, because they identify with them more.

The talk where we did X thing with Generative AI, with no problems, is the antithesis of this and almost comes across as a sales pitch for how awesome the team / product is we're building. Nobody learns anything if you don't present your actual failures.

It's way more interesting to hear honest, actual, nuts and bolts engineering stories of real implementations IMO.
This sounds to me like an gigantic amount of money. I looked it up and apparently it was $136B in 2019¹ and $111B today². And Microsoft, although it is the company with the most cash on hand, is not an outlier here with Alphabet at $121B and Apple at $100B².

I really don't know why they do this though.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/07/microsoft-apple-and-alphabet...

[2] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MSFT/microsoft/cas...
A great illustration of this is the GitHub outage a few years back. They had a fairly well distributed application layer but the database topography at the time didn’t consider the failure mode, even though the application layer did.

That’s a realistic scenario no matter whether you’re bare metal, building out your own cloud, or using someone else’s. No amount of AWS/GCP/Azure/et al marketing changes that.
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> What function do I use?

Traditionally you use sum, which gets you total utilitarianism. Some have advocated avg which gets you average utilitarianism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_and_total_utilitariani...

> root-mean-squared

Why?

> Can I perform arithmetic on utilities from two different agents?

This is called "interpersonal utility comparison", and there's a ton of literature on it. Traditionally utilitarians have accepted it, and without it ideas like "sum the utility across everyone" don't make sense.
But the recipient already has access to the shared document?

Is the concern that the recipient might share the link to the image? Again, they already have access to the shared document if they want to leak it.

I don’t think accidental discovery is possible - there’s a long shard of random data in there. It’s no more discoverable than the share link.
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It’s super common and reasonable if it saves days and dozens of emails just to replicate
Cool it with the antisemitic remarks.
No. The editor sends information about the environment to the server. That was a mystery to me, too, for a while.
That's surely hyperbole. You can just say "This is unnecessary" and it achieves the same purpose. Maximalist comments like this tend to amplify the tension in these sorts of discussions.
> engineers will soon be able to visually log issues in Jira

I already use windows game mode for screen captures. Why would I need a separate application for that?
1000 sq/ft per person is laughably huge. 1000 sq/ft/5person family is adequate.
This has been true since the integration was released and main reason it's been disabled at most companies I've worked at.
Definitely nothing new and reported to Slack and Google multiple times, always replied with working as expected. If you don't like how it works, remove it.
Recently the UI and options changed a bit and you can now disable previews but I believe is a user setting and not a organization setting.
Two of the largest American global corporations (Google/FB) would have a much smaller bottom line if there were laws prohibiting the interchange of user data for marketing purposes.

There aren't any laws about that for the same reason that there aren't any laws addressing corporate tax loopholes.
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> Pre-“USB-PD”, it still kind of made sense to use mAh because we knew it was always 5v but that too has changed.

Really? How many of those devices actually had 5V batteries inside? (Are there even credible 5V Li-poly battery banks?)

Original USB (based on a quick search) specified 5V +- 5%. You’re not getting that by direct connection to a battery, and you also can’t charge the internal battery by direct connection to any common supply. Somewhere in the power brick is a switching converter.

So maybe a 5000mAh USB-A power brick can supply 5000mAh output before conking out, but I doubt it.
The free version of Jing used to have a 5 minute limit and it was the perfect constraint to ensure short or multiple videos
>iirc he could still have pulled out by paying "only" a couple billion dollars in fines or something.

He couldn't have. That clause protected Twitter, not him. It ensured Twitter would still get something in case outside forces, like government regulators or financing falling through, prevented the deal. It did not give Musk the right to pay a penalty and back out.

Twitter explicitly reserved the right to sue for specific performance, i.e. to force the deal through rather than merely getting damages. Musk explicitly signed away any rights to investigate or back out. Twitter was honest and forthright so any fraud claims were nonsense. Musk didn't have a leg to stand on, legally or factually.

The most he could have done was tie things up in court. But the courts can throw out bad-faith lawsuits pretty quickly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/11/business/dealbook/elon-mu...

The other guy you're talking to is being a dick. There was a concerted disinformation campaign from Musk and friends, and the papers were not willing enough to call "bullshit" on the front page. The truth was out there but hardly staring you in the face.

But hedge funds have teams of lawyers reading this stuff all day long. They have no excuse for not seeing through Musk's chicanery.
It also has a history of active military use, especially for detecting weapons.
Reads like a ChatGPT argument with an idiot savant, with emphasis on the idiot.
I've been working on improving academic publishing and review from a software angle for a year a half. I think there's a ton of room for improvement here (all the software tools journal teams have available to them leave a lot to be desired). In improving the tooling, I think we can make the work of editors and reviewers a lot easier and that will increase the response time of reviews. We can also help editorial teams that want to experiment with things like multiple submissions, or open submissions.

I'm currently building a platform that aims to make these improvements and enable these experiments - the working title is "JournalHub". The one liner might be "Github for Journals". It's in alpha and currently supports preprints and preprint review, journal publishing flows, and post-publication review. I've done a bunch of iteration on the review UX, which draws heavily on Google Docs and Github PRs, and that's getting pretty close to beta. I'm still working on the editorial workflows which are in early alpha.

Once we have a platform that a significant number of journals are using, we can then build opt-in experiments with peer review. An example particularly relevant to the OP is potentially allowing multiple submissions where each editorial and review team can see the other's comments and thus multiple journals can collaboratively review a paper and benefit from each other's work. I've talked to editors who actually suggested the idea while doing UX research, so it's not unfathomable that journals might opt-in to something like that.

My impression from UX research is that there are actually a lot of editorial teams aware of the problems with journal publishing and eager to experiment, but feeling restricted by the mandates of the commercial publishers. So my main goal right now is to enable editorial teams to escape the commercial publishers, to free their hands, and enable their experiments.

I'm still doing UX research and looking for editors and editorial teams interested in talking - so if you're a journal editor and you want to help develop a platform that might help you escape the commercial publishers, reach out! (Email: dbingham@theroadgoeson.com)
JIRA already had attachments.

Win+G, drag & drop
The bus broke down the other day so I hitched a ride with a grad student who works on modelling MOFs with density functional theory two buildings down from me. We talked quite a bit about MOFs, particularly their ability to open and close that are good for applications about the above as well as carbon capture.

I confessed that one of my regrets from grad school was I never took a class is density functional theory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density_functional_theory
Yeah, Loom nailed this feature. Streaming the upload while recording means the video is ready to share instantly, which is very slick. Great UX.
It’s surprising loom doesn’t work on Linux. I wonder why.
Some people will get fat bonuses
@robocat linked a great video showing how to do this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A-L7KOjyDrE
Bose recently retired their 2nd attempt. The team behind those have a new one coming out in January, https://ozlosleep.com I'm pretty interested... hard to tell how long the pre-sale discount lasts
Wow, an extra 30 thousand satellites on top of the already planned 42 thousand starlinks! Well, since we can’t be the spacefaring civilization we dreamed of and we’re stuck on this planet, we might as well fill up the sky with a million satellites so that we can’t leave earth.
It's not an abuse, just as 2000 kilometres (that's 2 megametres!) or 200 grams (that's 2 hectagrams!) or even 20 milligrams (that's 2 centigrams!) are not. One of the points of prefixed units was that a field could find "base" resolution for their measurements such that most of those could be integer multiplies of some chosen unit.
> Why is that, I don't know.

Big money, I suspect.
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Though in Manhattan the 3 good commute/plentiful jobs/good services are probably offset by how bad the 2 bad are - housing & taxes :-)
you missed the point.

the laptop's battery is not 3.7v but more likely to be in the 20-ish volt region because the cells are in series. the assumption of 3.7v is plain wrong.
Seriously. 30,000! They should just go ahead and call it the Kessler Network
Then it crashes with an illegal instruction exception.
Look let’s you play back the video faster.

Also has captioning, transcripts and summarization.

For when a bug doesn’t seem possible, video remains invaluable.
It seems a plausible argument that the same happened to the Democrats beginning Bill Clinton in the 90's. Obama out-fundraised from Wall Street both his Republican opponents. Also, with their lock up on big-tech (Musk aside), and their tepid or purely rhetorical support for unions, the Democrats are the big business party.
Yes, technologically, this is amazing. But I honestly think it's sickening that a company controlled by one man is allowed to send 30,000 pieces of junk into space.

The fact that the one man who controls it is a billionaire demagogue (yes, by now Musk is a political leader) with his own media company just makes it worse.

Tesla's revenue in 2 days are roughly the same as the yearly GDP of Tonga. Space X's revenue is 10 times the GDP of Tonga. There will be no real oversight of this billionaire on the loose.
I'm also confused why they drop this point. I don't give in to this kind of threat because I expect overall a policy of giving in leads to worse outcomes.
Put 29 988 people spread out on the globe (slightly larger since we are further out in the radius, but lets ignore that).

Do you still wonder? Probably you could put a few million up there before collision is a worry.

Space debris and blocking observatories is a much larger problem.
On paper it makes sense to have a microprocessor guide the pressure used on fruit and vegetable pulp [0]. Between that and the introduction of software to manage the fruit supply chain, the Juicero embodied Marc Andreessen's prophecy [1].

Unfortunately, they got the verb wrong: software is eating _not_ drinking the world.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juicero

1. https://a16z.com/why-software-is-eating-the-world/
have you tried a wet towel with ice inside for a simpler solution...
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You mean a Kessler syndrome, or event
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome
And to answer your question : we don't know exactly yet, but I guess we'll know pretty soon
I am still dreaming of something that would allow a user to file a ticket, have them record audio and video like loom to describe the issue and what they were trying to achieve, and then dump a screen record of the last minute before opening the ticket as well as as much info about the machine's state as possible. And/or maybe connecting to helpdesk with video directly. Existing software comes close but is not quite there yet.
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> It seems like Microsoft believes they can settle for something much lower.

They could hire the best lawyers, accountants, lobbyists, etc in the world. Unless someone at microsoft did something criminal, it's likely they could knock a significant portion off the tax bill.

> The stock price doesn’t seem to be hurting pre-market at all.

Microsoft's market cap is $2.5 Trillion. The one-time tax bill amounts to about 1% of its 'total value'. It's like a one time $1000 special property tax on your $100K rental property. It sucks but it's not the end of the world. Besides, even if they had to pay $30 billion in back taxes, MSFT's customers are utlimately going to pay for it, not microsoft. It doesn't affect microsoft's market share in OS, Office, Servers, etc.
I seriously cannot tell whether food dyes will be this era’s “refined sugar” in terms of epidemiological impact or a massive red-3 herring.
5000 Dollars per customer. Interesting.
Or heating up a frozen burrito
Space is big. We would have to put tens of millions of satellites up there to have any impact on our ability to leave Earth and even then the collision risk would be low.

It's sort of like the asteroid belt. You picture this belt of rocks, but in reality the distance between the rocks is so vast that it would take days, weeks, or months to travel between them even with powerful rockets.

All these new-generation communication satellites are intentionally placed in low somewhat unstable orbits too. This is done for two reasons. One is to minimize latency. You want them as low as they can possibly be to minimize distance between them and the ground. The other reason is so they will naturally deorbit after a while (when they are long past their design life). So even if the ability to intentionally deorbit them at EOL fails they will still not stay up there forever.

They do have a negative impact on terrestrial astronomy though. Astronomers using ground based telescopes need to ignore satellite tracks or remove them with post-processing.
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Mixergy is one:

https://mixergy.co.uk/mixergy-tank/
Agreed.

The loom integration has been useful to attract some users who don’t use Jira otherwise.

I just wish Jira-1369 would get solved after 20 years because users refuse to adopt Jira or confluence when they’re getting waterboarded with notifications instead of a timed digest that can be set.
No, it's very easy: https://existential.audio/blackhole/

Blackhole is Free and Open Source.

Also, Rogue Amoeba has a product called "Loopback". It's not cheap, but it's another alternative: https://rogueamoeba.com/loopback/
Until the preview uses machine learning to skip that and show the first page containing content :)
We have both problems, but the issue with low construction is not developers simply deciding not to build and/or building but deciding not to sell.

The headwinds on construction are labor shortages, material shortages, zoning, and land prices. Zoning and land prices are both also alleviated by LVT.
Ranked choice is one of those policies that people on the internet and the academy are really into that is less rosey in practice. I’ve seen a number of elections where a candidate wins without a clear mandate and a lot of people have a sense of confusion about the winner. The psychological aspect is never studied in the theoretical literature. The main candidates get a lot of coverage and are naturally more polarizing. Down ballot candidates seem less extreme just because nobody knows them. People who don’t care that much will read “democrat I haven’t heard anything bad about” to be a calm centerist, when they could just be a second runner who is actually a bit insane. Maybe if people were more familiar with this voting scheme it would be better, but given that the media/politico elites who should be well versed in these topics have trouble coordinating media coverage and campaigns accordingly, I am not so sure that it is an easy change.
Niiiice. I forgot they had the same style uniform in Voyager too.
I would wager the M2 is more energy efficient than a 4090.
Just describe Joules. No need to bring hours into it.
> Put 29 988 people spread out on the globe...

... and then have them run at 17,000 miles per hour.
>Now we just have to ask… who benefits from pushing a bad narrative about rank choice voting

Any party that already has high likelihoods of winning the election will be hurt by RCV.
If you're going to coexist with decimal, you're best off starting over with a distinct set of words.

For instance, scales have 12 notes, with seven common words for the notes (do, re, me, fa, so, la, ti). Add five more similar but distinct phonemes (go, ki, za, we, je) to insert at the position of the half notes skipped, shift la to position 1 since l looks conveniently like 1, and add nul for zero: nul, la, go, ti, do, ki, re, za, mi, fa, we, so, je.

Add in some rules for forming larger numbers (laj, goj, tij..., soj, jel, jel-la, jel-go..., jes-so, la-gross, la-gross-la, ...) and begin learning your addition tables over again (la plus la is go; go plus go is do; do plus do is mi; mi plus mi is doj).
To my knowledge, this is not trivial (maybe not even possible now). there are simply too many packages that now define systemd as a requirement, like udev, dbus, etc.

If you want a systemd-free Debian, then Devuan is your go-to.
Great, the developers of Jira are expanding their horizons.

On the other hand, having used Loom a few times, I admit I can completely understand why. Loom is an almost unbelievable piece of software.
I briefly thought about making a Kit version ... but this actually does not make it much cheaper. As long as there is anything pre soldered to the Board, you'd need CE to comply in the EU. (some manufacturers simply ignore that)
Besides this, PCB assembly is pretty cheap compared to all the Component Costs.

And as I'm currently doing the end assembly by myself, for free. There is no cost saving in this either.

I might be able to make a cheap version in the future. But this would probably be a completely different product (no full size connectors, smaller display, made in china, ...) It would only share the software with the current version.
Seems to be plenty of support for this kind of technocratic authoritarianism on Hacker News, based on the comment voting.

Is there an alternative venue similar to HN where people who value freedom and individual liberty can discuss topics like this without getting demoted and silenced?
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The 800 G/s bandwidth is amazing. I ordered a maxed out Mac mini with 32G ram and 200G/s bandwidth. For the LLMs I want to run right now, that is sufficient for my needs, although I did consider over-buying and getting a M2 Ultra. I also pay Google for Colab, and as long as I don’t over-use it, I can almost always get an A100. My strategy is to split my work as appropriate between the Mac mini when I get it in a week or two, and Colab. I used to run on Lambda Labs, also excellent, but setup time was non-negligible.