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Can you please make your substantive points without resorting to the flamewar style or ideological battle? Those things are not what HN is for, and destroy what it is for. We want curious conversation here.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
thats odd...if its not a dub (unreleased music) - i find it 99% gets me the song every time.
So it anti-ages my..nads only?
The chill is gone, there is pip quota, aggressive deadlines, layoffs, and reorgs.

That being said, the amount of things happening is crazy compared to two years ago and generally pretty happy day-to-day and genuinely excited to go to work in the morning
Doesn’t really apply here. The answer can’t be just ‘no’. If the headline was ‘Is Malcom Gladwell a Good Writer?’ You’d have a point.
Applied science is all about the balance of harms.

In the paper we have a tenuous chain of correlations with no causal mechanism described.

Glyphosate has unambiguously improved crop yields and quality for decades. The causal mechanism is well understood: it kills weeds that would otherwise outcompete crop plants.

I don't care what other reasons there might be for not wanting GM crops; I was making an observation about populations.
See also farside [0], which maintains a list of functional instances of alternate frontends, and can redirect links to a working instance automatically.

[0] https://sr.ht/~benbusby/farside/
Glad we agree.
They still make ‘classic’ style tracks often enough, but honestly I never started paying much attention to them until they started adding vocals - it really kicked them up to a new level of creativity and value for me. Vicious Delicious was the first time I was like, oh, yeah, this entire album!!!
In what imaginary world is accepting payment and shipping the item not the same as selling the item?
27% doesn’t seem all that significant considering a vaccine
AppleWriter was interesting as it had its own built-in language, WPL, a macro language that could do a chunk more (https://archive.org/details/wpl-manual/mode/2up). That was not the sort of feature expected given the inherent limitations of an 8-bit machine.
I think you underestimate what people will do when desperate, or the extent of gender bias among the Hans. I was born in Taiwan and raised in America, and I still caught whiffs of it.

I am not sure where you are getting the idea that people in the Imperial eras were capable of determining the sex of fetuses, and proceeding with abortion. As far as I know, that is a modern thing enabled by modern technology. If you are suggesting that people heard of this modern practice and projected it falsely into the past … I had thought so to, until I read through a history of Chinese martial arts.

China’s history is very complex. There were imbalances in sex ratios, with large numbers of unmarried, unemployed men skilled in violence destabilizing the society, throughout centuries. By the Ming dynasty, every village trained militias because they had to, and it was a thin line into banditry. Villages, convoys — those were raided. Women kidnapped, and raped. It was a big enough problem that the Ming literates and intelligentsia talked about it, and it grew worse during the Qing.

Corruption among local officials wasn’t minor. It was rampant. Land ownerships had locked people out of economic opportunities, and abusive landowners were the norm. Sects, secret societies were formed for a variety of reason, including mutual protection. Those were the seeds for the near constant uprisings and rebellions during the Qing dynasty, culminating to the Taiping Civil War (14 years of fighting, 20-30 million dead, 600 cities razed). That sex ratio imbalanced was a factor leading to all of this.

China also has the world’s most complex watershed in the world, when taking agriculture into consideration. The only other comparable watershed in terms of complexity is that of the Sacramento River basin, and it does not compare to the scale of the Yellow River basin. The flooding of the Yellow River is frequent. Feast and famine is deeply ingrained in Chinese culture (“have you eaten?” is the equivalent of “how have you been?”). We are talking mass displacement of refugees and widespread hunger during the bad time. Even if it were not wars, rebellions, or bandits, this alone sets the circumstances for desperate times.

You can call female infanticide “racism” if you like, but I think doing so denies the misery and cruelty buried in history.

As for me, this — both the good and bad — are a part of my heritage. Female infanticide is one thread out of many that had happened. It’s in owning the whole thing that reform is possible.
Seems like mostly private property, but yeah.
It's a different topic, though. Women are the bottleneck of population growth, men are not, therefore women having better survivability makes perfect sense.

Men being stronger and dying younger makes perfect sense from an evolutionary perspective, and disagrees with the article. Sex-based division of labor makes total sense, otherwise men's mammary glands would actually work.
Laugh all you want, when I was like 12 years old my family was into this weird techno-pseudoscience-cult of "Ramtha's school of enlightenment" and they have the biggest trance/shamanistic playlists, we had these long ceremonies of hours of dancing while listening to music like this and drinking red wine and smoking tobacco on pipes. I guess if it wasn't for the alcohol I would have remembered all these amazing songs but well... I think that sect is still alive and I wish they had a playlist somewhere outside their website coz I can't stand the website much due to the religious content bringing back drunk memories. If you know of such a playlist please share
Plenty of contracts in the US require that the employee doesn't work for anyone else, and they are enforceable in most states.
A whole lot less once they realize that there was a free alternative that got killed.

Boomers aren’t going to live forever and younger generations pay attention to these things.

I wouldn’t buy a Mazda again based on this. I know it may not be oceans of people, but I used to really like Mazdas and am a former customer.
> Why on earth do you need a third party for your tax calc and resolution? It is surely the antithesis of the "land of the free" and all that stuff.

Because the IRS isn't allowed to tell you what you owe. You're supposed to calculate that yourself... (And it's so damn complicated that it's worth paying someone to do it, unless you were the kid who did the math textbook for fun.)

Eventually, the IRS calculates what they think you owe, and if you underpaid, they send you a bill. You can respond explaining why they are wrong, or pay. The interest is so low that, as long as you don't goof up every year, you're better off risking underpayment than overpayment.

Honestly, the system would work better if the tax prep software could see all the information the IRS has, because then it would be easier to correct their mistakes and harder to make mistakes.
It's simple... you write something, and then nobody ever comments on it, or links to it. It used to be that Google pushed blog results to the front, then backed off as they chased profit instead of quality.

The demise of Google Reader didn't help matters. Google essentially killed blogging single handed.
Can anyone explain the difference between Falcon and RoCE v2?
Many people lack basic "numerical literacy". They cannot understand different magnitudes, percentages, probability and most importantly LOGIC.

If you only understand 0, 1, 2 and MANY, you can be led astray with all kinds of politics, and advertising.

Gerrymandering, I think we should teach people how that works, and leave Category Theory to those who are truly interested in math for math's sake.
I worked in a factory where automotive scrap metal was whisked away in a similar vacuum system. When the system broke, it resulted in mounds of scrap aluminum piling in the basement and it was a rac to be cleaned by hand; I’d hate to see similar with garbage.
Why not start with simplifying the tax code, instead of letting it metasize in complexity, and then laying more complexity on top with software packages?
Crashes Edge Canary on mine.
You may not agree with the conclusions of people’s arguments but surely by now you’ve heard them, and they’re perfectly credible. The objections from day 1 haven’t changed.
Because DJs don’t want to change the tempo of what they play by too much until it sounds wrong, and most electronic music is produced to be played at clubs

And because the dance styles that match ranges of bpm are so different, audiences find ranges they prefer. Try dancing to 125bpm old berghain tracks and compare with how you’re able to move your body in sync with 155bpm hard groove. It’s a completely different experience. This is dance music.
For sure!

Though I'd also wonder if it's a tad more than a hypothesis given what we already know about memory both scientifically and, perhaps, from practices people have developed over time to aid memory. I don't know all that nearly well enough to put together the case, but the "memory palace" technique, which is ancient and apparently "tried and true" seems like a striking demonstration of the the basic spatial idea. If there's truth to that, I'd say my suggestion could be reframed as a strategy for using handwriting to aid memory rather than a mere hypothesis.

Regarding the "slowing down" aspect, as others have mentioned too, I'd argue again that this could be couched directly in well established ideas and understandings ... chiefly, I'd imagine, the processes of repetition, practice and synthesis that are essentially common knowledge. The slowed down process of deciding what you're going to write and how probably forces you into a cognitive loop that goes beyond the mere recording of information toward repetition and synthesis. My experience with typing is that the urge to simply record verbatim is more natural to the medium.
Concurrency is hard because it's difficult to know if the value you have cached in memory is valid or invalid. As soon as a value is read it's cached.

Therefore Concurrency reduces to Cache invalidation and there are again only two hard problems :)
The frat house getting a /16 and then the ensuring hijinks narrowed down the choices. I would have had MIT at the top of my guesses too.
SVM classification on an edge device I thought could be done already efficiently?
> start a blindingly successful company with wild ARR and then spend it how you want it to.

So you mean actually innovating in the space that your products occupy and become market leader there? Maybe in a niche that no one occupied before?

IDE's before JetBrains were complete ass-backwards, no wonder they're so successful.

> That's what shareholders do too. No one knows what's right. They only know the outcome they like, not how to get there.

Maybe don't start out trying to build a product that requires an instant 10 million dollars in cash injection? Before the recession there were YC backed startups on here that offered products that hat no market fit outside the silicon valley bubble.
As a graphical frontend to Qemu on ARM Macs I can recommend UTM (that's what I've been using daily since about a year ago)
https://mac.getutm.app/
I was down in San Francisco a month ago and my friend has access so we took Waymo's everywhere. We took about 10 over the weekend and never had any issue, even when other cars were doing weird things. From my limited experience I felt like they're pretty solid in the city.

The only hiccup I can remember was being in an intersection (past the crosswalk) to make an unprotected left and while we were waiting the light turned yellow. A human driver would likely wait for the light to go red and then make the turn, but the Waymo gave up almost immediately and instead decided to circle the block to make the left (three rights). A little odd, but I never felt unsafe.

If we had Waymo where I live I'd take it everywhere. It's slightly cheaper than an Uber, a nicer car, a better driver than some Uber's I've been in, and there's something nice about not having to interact with a real person.
Are you describing a "hackintosh" like configuration? Because that could be feasible but this would not happen commercially. First off: the Windows on ARM port was shipping on laptops/tablets to Apple shipping their first M1 devices. Apple wouldn't support a configuration running Windows on their laptop and Microsoft doesn't sell Windows for use on some system that the vendor didn't intend to have it. Windows is not Asahi Linux.

Microsoft had a PPC port of NT, and it never was a commercial offering for Powerbooks. Despite the fact that it could work, you couldn't get it out-of-the-box. And Microsoft obviously had x86 support and Windows-on-x86 macbooks was never a supported configuration by Microsoft nor Apple.
Downvoted at the time I see it, but actually correct. It's based on K-planes https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.10241.pdf which effectively splits each space-time relationship off from the spatial relationship. It's just mathematics, guys. The original NeRF paper talked about a 5D coordinate. You know like a k-dimensional vector?
Pretty sure most clients are the ones decided what to see. The days of going to an agent and saying “take me to see three house that fix my needs. My needs are X, Y & Z”. For the last decade it’s been “I found these houses on line, popped in the open houses on my own and I’m interested in this one. Write me an offer.”
I know what you mean by "Tom Clancy nonsense" but I would like to point out that he did do some stuff in the genre of techno-thrillers. I long for the day we can get a _Red Storm Rising_ movie (ideally one which focuses on the hardware and not the romance of course) but until then there's always Fixedit's Red Storm Rising project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo8FhChnyq0
That seems to suggest coasting your job, not really doing it.
I prefer GitLab CI for raw, get-things-done style configuration. GitHub Actions invents its own world of abstractions that can be fun to play with but that ultimately reduce productivity.
> we precompute the physical properties on the point clouds for real-time rendering. Although large in size (30 GiB for 0013_01), these precom-
puted caches only reside in the main memory and are not explicitly stored on disk,

Does the cache size scale linearly with the length of the video? 0013_01 is only 150 frames. And how long does the cache take to generate?
There is no clear path for growth. We have already written software for about every common need. The industry is finally somewhat mature, and it is hard to see how it is sustainable at this scale.
Useless. I don't see instructions neither for Linux nor for Mac. + there are no drivers for Linux or Mac.
Localization Failure: Temperature Is Hard
It seems like part of declaring these species instinct is removing them from the endangered lists, which I suspect removes the legal protections those species have. In other words, if a species is erroneously declared extinct, the penalties we have for actually driving them extinct no longer apply. This seems like a very high cost of error, with little upside besides perhaps some reduction in administrative overhead (but then, how much overhead is there to having 21 more names on a list). Anyone have insight into what motivates removing species from the endangered list so aggressively?
> Have you ever experienced something like this?

Yes, regularly. Yesterday was a lazy day for me. Today was a productive day.

> What would you recommend me to do to get out of this cycle?

I don’t have a solution. I’ve learned to live with it. I’m on ADHD meds and they help, but they don’t prevent the lazy days.
Related/dupe from earlier today:

Snapdragon X Series chips are heading to PCs to take on Apple's processors

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37899676

Qualcomm announces first-ever mass-market RISC-V Android SoC

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37919907
On Evaluating Godot
There appears to be an edge to edge connector on the mobo that the modular BMC here connects to.

What really perked my interest is noticing that the motherbiard has two of these connectors?

Also surprised at just how many connectors there are. There's probably a hundred+ on that edge connector, if dual sided.
For internal politicking and risk aversion sure
Sounds like another money maker for the pharmaceutical industry that does nothing for the patient.
I am using IPv6 on home network and I don’t know any addresses. Everything picks up the details and assigns address. To access hosts that matter, I use the mDNS names.
POSIX does document it, it just requires carefully picking through pages and carefully thinking about the wording, unlike the simplicity of GLIBC documentation. For example, the best information is on the page for `exec`.
What about things like email or shared drives? Excel & Word? etc, etc.
sure. I'm not at all thinking my flaws are insurmountable, but I think the problem is you are unlikely to get enough data to draw many conclusions, at least in places that aren't incredibly dense and crime ridden.

I'm thinking of the suburb outside of LA I live in. It's somewhat spread out, and some areas have small amounts of violent crime, while some neighborhoods are incredibly rich and most neighborhoods are gated or have private security etc. Having 3 departments be able to serve such a large land area to ensure that response types are evenly distributed seem challenging.

But, maybe in a place like San Francisco (more dense, also more crime) this could work?
I mean, it's a business like any other; they still need email and spreadsheets (actually, they probably need more spreadsheets than the average business). When I was at Amazon, they already did use Office, except it was an on-prem and sort of annoyingly-outdated version. Presumably they've decided the slight embarrassment of using Microsoft's cloud services is worth having a modern version of Office.
I think they were credited in each season finale - a "Thank You for Calling" screen.
My thoughts on all of Microsoft’s sustainability objectives and claims too. Invest in about 10% real flashy offsets but buy some credits so sweep the rest under the carpet
I think they’ve made it pretty clear they believe in techno authoritarianism. Listen to Theil Altman or AH. Same stuff.
I wanted to buy a license for the extension pack and they said not to worry unless I was using hundreds of installs.
At that point, Arjuna was having his first baby and Krishna had already done it, there for support. No one can give birth on your behalf. A warrior can not someone else make.
A sometimes random collection of people made up by a collection of burnt out middle and senior managers that are required to make lists to let go of a certain arbitrary body count or percentage of their departments typically.

You think layoffs actually target the weak employees? Maybe. Sometimes.

Too often it’s the perceived value of the employee to the business, or the idea of keeping key roles and not the talent or dedication of the employee that forms the foundation of decisions.

I’ve seen so much too talent get shown the door because companies don’t know the value of key employees like their peers know their value.

I’ll say this, after layoffs the top people typically start to split, especially in SME and smaller businesses. They start looking as soon as they get wind. So the company ends up with a lot of middling folks, as their best talent splits or burns out trying to catch up the workload and the employees that are the lower productivity but solid daily work grinders already pink slipped. The damage done by this whole culture of layoffs is astonishing.

The math is different for large Enterprises and very prestigious companies. We used to joke about the revolving door at Apple.
It has rust support.
I haven't been following autonomous long-haul trucking, why is it "back to being a sci-fi pipe dream at this point"? Again, is that primarily a technology vs safety story, or is it a political issue due to organized pushback from sections that oppose it?

(also does anyone have current data on the viable market size of driverless rideshare vs driverless delivery vs drone delivery vs helicopter taxis vs autonomous long-haul trucking)?

> "Even if Waymo could place fully autonomous taxis into every city in America, that consolation prize wouldn't nearly make up for the shortfall of not taking over the logistics industry as was hoped."

I want to decouple discussion to what's actually technically and politically achievable (within say 5 yrs), versus whatever story Waymo was telling its shareholders 5-10 yrs ago.
Because complexity is how you get loopholes, and The Powers That Be will never give up that option
It already has happened
sorry I don't see what the links have to do with what I said. In my area of CA, school funding is provided by the county and police is funded through the city.
I wouldn’t pay it but probably one of X’s better business moves since musk takeover. A dollar is not a deal breaker for most and once you have payment info stored it’s pretty easy to get them to pay for something else.
I mean for the botters. $1K vs <$10 to run a thousand bots for a year should have a dramatic effect on the risk/reward ratio.
It sounds like Falcon adds encryption, packet spraying, and better congestion control.
That's a Stephenson problem. He loves the world building, the engineering problem solving, but gets stuffed when it's time to end the books; which given his writing style, is totally understandable. I don't want the books to end either!
BitNet: Scaling 1-Bit Transformers for Large Language Models
Stanford Hospitals have a big pneumatic tube system. [1] Miles of tubes. Modern systems have automatic switches and tracking. Many large hospital complexes have such systems.

Here's what a router looks like.[2]

[1] https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2010/01/gone-with-the...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1ogS5EQpV0
well that's not pricing engine job
> Many casual listeners cannot even detect such a small change in tempo.

I DJ both electronic formats as well as "general pop hits" nights. People may not consciously tell, but you take a well know track, and speed it up 3-5% (which also increases the pitch, unless you enable pitch-time stretch correction), and it injects a noticeable amount of energy into the dancefloor.

It's also just a social/"conformal" thing. Tempo regions serve as a kind of Schelling point for styles and energy levels. So if you have a given sub-style or vibe, you are likely to produce music in that style and speed, so it can readily mix in the same context.

Again, all of these micro-genres listed still fall under the aegis of "psytrance" and djs can and often do mix across boundaries and pitch stuff up/down as a part of their art. It's really about self-association and capturing specific vibes, vs exclusion or genre-policing.
I think this will come to be seen as a turning point in the history of Silicon Valley when people woke up from a collective slumber and realized most people hailed as great "visionaries" and "technologists" actually had nothing whatsoever to offer in that department. It will be seen as hilariously ironic that those very people in fact had no idea what technology even is — a means to an end, not an end in itself, and that they had literally nothing to offer for what to do with all the technology they built. It's a conceptual dead end, sprinkled with badly digested sophomoric references. Truly embarrassing emperor has no clothes moment.