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Very cool, thank you! Creating diagrams using code rather than using drag-and-drop tools might be a good idea for more complex architectures as described here:
https://www.ilograph.com/blog/posts/its-time-to-drop-drag-an...

- Can check the textual description of the diagram into version control and track how it changes over time

- Can easily diff 2 versions of the same diagram

- Adding elements to a large existing diagram using WYSIWYG tools can be tricky (eg: you may have to move or reroute existing elements to make enough space)

Another cool idea is to create multiperspective diagrams with different views for different purposes (eg: code structure, deployment, network architecture, security):

- Clarity. By breaking up diagrams into perspectives, diagram authors can bring much more clarity to a system. Individual concerns can be spread out over many perspectives, allowing each the space it needs without interfering with others.

- Extensibility. Multiperspective diagrams share a model, so creating additional perspectives from an existing diagram is incredibly easy, far easier than starting from scratch each time.

- Maintainability. A corollary to the above, individual perspectives can be modified without affecting the others. Diagrams that are easy to maintain get maintained, while diagrams that aren’t fall out of date quickly. Multiperspective diagrams greatly help in the fight to keep documentation up-to-date.

This is a cool demo: https://app.ilograph.com/demo.ilograph.Stack%2520Overflow%25...

For other textual diagramming tools and ideas, please see this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37222855

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with Ilograph, just stumbled onto their blog and I think they have a lot of cool ideas.
The other option, which was the one traditionally used, is strong social pressure favoring marriage and stigmas against divorce. We can recognize that it's an unfortunate reality that will occur, while still not normalizing or glorifying it.
To support your point, having a locked TOGA mode can be extremely dangerous even if the pilots know exactly what it does. The equivalent would be a risk of death if you just once wrote a React component that had an infinite loop in its render function; I would venture a guess that if there was that kind of risk, most programmers would resign in very short order!
Obligatory NNTP throwback https://alt.pavethe.earth/
I'm in the UK and have recently started hearing the euphemism "passed" instead of "died". I find it confusing, at least for a moment, as I track back in the conversation to identify a thing the person could have passed by. Then I realise, and start pondering how there is an implication added by the euphemism , that there is an afterlife someone has passed into.
Indeed. Though I did like the rest of the article, three of the authors' pillars to define specialization are dubious:

> 1. substantial numbers of calculations can be parallelized

> 2. the computations to be done are stable and arrive at regular intervals ('regularity')

> 3. relatively few memory accesses are needed for a given amount of computation ('locality')

Where (1) fails, any modern multicore + SIMD + ILP desktop/console/mobile CPU will run at a tiny fraction of its peak throughput. While sufficiently small serial tasks still complete in "good enough" time, the same could be said of running serial programs on GPU (in fact this is sometimes required in GPU programming). People routinely (and happily) use PL implementations which are ~100x slower than C. The acceptibility of ludicrous under-utilization factors depends on the tininess of your workload and amount of time to kill. Parallelism is used broadly for performance; it's about as un-specialized as you can get!

(2) and (3) are really extensions of (1), but both remain major issues for serial implementations too. There mostly aren't serial or parallel applications, rather it's a factor in algorithm selection and optimization. Almost anything can be made parallel. Naturally you specialize HW to extract high performance, which requires parallelism, for specialized HW as for everywhere else.

The authors somewhat gesture towards the faults of their definition of "specialized" later on. Truly specialized HW trades much (or all) programmability in favor of performance, a metric which excludes GPUs from the last ~15 years:

> [The] specialization with GPUs [still] benefited a broad range of applications... We also expect significant usage from those who were not the original designer of the specialized processor, but who re-design their algorithm to take advantage of new hardware, as deep learning users did with GPUs.
> but it feels like kids would rather use a phone or a tablet to do anything.

Please define "anything".

Mobile devices are basically consumption-only devices. Yes there's lots of options to turn 'em into general purpose computers or even do development on them. But they just... aren't it.

A RPi otoh is a general purpose computer (and Chromebooks too, for the most part).
Your comment is made up.

Made up doesn't have to mean false.

The facts are fake-able too.

Subtle mis-interpretations can be all that's needed to lead a perfectly true narrative, astray. The line between myth and fact, can be very finely sliced indeed.

There is not a single academic field free from fictionalizing Key aspects of the narrative to put someone in a more favourable light. Unfortunately.
Entering a crapy boat or canoe in a place known to be run by drug smugglers and gangs sound like an easy way to disappear without trace after being robbed and murdered.
Actual engineering blogs,

https://engineeringblogs.xyz/
“Child Sex Abuse” actually puts the pain and damage to the victim front and centre in a way that ‘kiddie porn’ singularly fails to do.
Room and Board is a significant factor. See figure CP-9. Through the entire period, RB exceeds $10k/yr, as compared to ~$3k/yr for tuition. That's 3x the cost!

I would not say that I cherry-picked from my source; the argument expressly is that *published* tuition numbers are meaningless, because few students pay them. The correct number to use is tuition net of Grant Aid, which is also listed in figure CP-9, and hits my $2,500/yr. The $1.63 trillion debt level does make sense when most students do use loan money to pay their room and board, and do so for 4 or more years.

Obviously, some families do save money to cover college costs, so most students aren't taking out 20k+ worth of loans each here, but the driver is not the expenses of the colleges. Indeed, if you look at Figures SA-1 and CP-11A, you can see that when college affordability became newsworthy, as loan amounts went up by over 75% is exactly when states were slashing support for students, during the Great Recession, between 2006-2010. Since then, states have been restoring funding, and loans are down. Many state college tuition rates have been flat or flat in real dollars for the last decade. As an example, the UC system had completely flat tuition rates for 4 straight years, and now guarantees each student that they will not be subject to tuition increases during their undergraduate education, and will pay a flat rate.
Not to take away from anything you said, but the woke/PC mob are kind of scary right.

They have the cultural supremacy part, like a non theistic religion where adherence to the tenets are required or you'll be excused. Those weird and creepy struggle sessions. Not to mention it is one side of the ongoing culture war.

They have the rigid hierarchy known as the progressive stack that ranks people on their immutable characteristics rather than their individual merits.

The might makes right comes from the antifa groups who ”by any means necessary” violently attack those who do not adhere to the tenets of the strange religion. As well as the control from the institutions such as universities where in faculty or students that don't adhere to the tenets are abused until they leave or are fired outright.

So it's pretty close right? I'm sure there are a few other tenets of fascism that you left out for brevity which would preclude the woke/PC mob from the facist label but it's interesting and scary how close they come.

I'm just glad they're not good with weapons, except for the Jon Brown Gun Club, for whom the addition of weapons seem to have a slightly deradicalizing effect
If you were here for part one, it opened with: "his only chance at survival is a miracle clinical trial drug".

Desperation drives us all to be magical thinkers, even someone with a medical degree, and it's a natural error for hope to intensify into belief that somewhere out there is a magic potion that will solve all the health problems of the loved one they feel otherwise powerless to help.

Cue a billion words on substack.

The harsh part: just because you or someone you adore is (to use a medical term) circling the drain, doesn't make you/them more entitled to something. We are all already entitled (certainly morally, in many jurisdictions legally, and sometimes even financially) to the current standard of care, and sympathy besides, for any suffering or condition we are currently undergoing. We're all dying. Sorry. Some people carry the horrible knowledge that for them it will be soon, and from something specific. And at any given moment, that's actually quite a lot of people. Again, we can share a moment's sorrow.

The quiet part: if poor admission protocol fucks up the science for something that could extend or improve life for millions of others in future by advancing the standard of care, then it was the gatekeepers for that process that are culpable. Not even the hardest of hearts would seek to blame a patient, or their advocate, for trying something, anything. But they are nonetheless expected to default to a closed door.
It seems that we've learned over the last few years that a big part of getting a robot to operate in an unstructured environment is contextual understanding. Example - a woman fell under a Cruise car recently in SF and the car ran over her leg. The car correctly guessed that something was wrong, but it did the wrong thing in that context. It stopped on top of her leg and pinned her under the vehicle.
> My last day on Mastodon was the day a few people ganged up on me quite aggressively for not putting Alt text in an image.

Why was it important for you not to include it?
Thank you for sharing that here. Your post is why there should be a 'favourite' button for comments as well as posts. Edit: there is one, and I've just clicked it!
Are we though?

I sure as heck can't afford to pay a staff of servants.
List of the 72 names on the Eiffel Tower
The many reasons we are who we are
Now this is interesting... apparently it is possible to run Nix AKA "The Nix Package Manager" on Alpine -- despite the fact that Alpine is Busybox and Musl based, and NixOS is Coreutils and Glibc based!

Well done, Nix engineers and contributors!

(I may switch to Alpine w/Nix Package Manager in the future, depending on how well it works!)

Related:

Bedrock Linux: https://bedrocklinux.org/
That was so powerfully written, I'm shocked that I found it in a small comment. It's perspective changing. Wow.
Thanks for sharing this! Zizek is extremely engaging but I wish he would be more perscriptive than just descriptive.
> College is mostly about the private institutions at a national level. That's where people would like to go.

Yeah, I think this is an uninformed take, and that many students never even consider a tier-1 private university. They attend their local university, or even a community college before transferring.
> In the U.S., she says, unmarried adults who decide to live together do it for a much shorter duration than in Europe.

Are there any theories about why this might be? The article doesn't seem to follow this up.
Based on their prior history, iMac do appear to be updated every 2-years.

https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/#iMac
Your link states that evangelicals have the highest divorce rate out of any religion.

Further, southern states do generally experience more divorce than areas like New England and CA.
It seems like these days, the X1 series is considered the ThinkPad flagship. That's where I've seen the best chances of getting hardware that's compatible with Linux OOTB and performs well with it (e.g. Intel WiFi/BT).
Contrast this with all the news reports lately about Cruise vehicles being involved in traffic jams, accidents, and emergency vehicles, leading them to be forced to halve their # of cars on the road.

“Comparable driving environment” indeed.
Here’s the report: https://getcruise.com/news/blog/2023/human-ridehail-crash-ra...

Biggest question is if the miles driven by autonomous vehicles are the same likelihood of crash as the non-autonomous miles driven in the survey. Effectively, all roads aren’t equally safe, and often times autonomous vehicles (rightly) drive on safer roads in calmer climates.
I mean, you are posting this in a hugbox forum where overtly suggesting that certain opinions don’t have merit or rigor is forbidden because it hurts peoples fee-fees. You, too, participate in society.

Some say taping aquarium rocks to your cables improves the sound, some say it’s rubbish, let’s have a discussion and if you are really so sure about your ideas I’m sure you can refute the idea right? Let’s have a debate!

(And now just continue refuting it every day for the rest of your life…)

https://www.machinadynamica.com/machina31.htm

https://www.machinadynamica.com/machina17.htm

https://i.imgur.com/296fTdq.jpg

Effectively that’s outlawing the opinion of “no that’s dumb, you’re dumb for suggesting that”, which is unfortunately rather a necessary one, science doesn’t work if everyone has to treat the idea that the moon is cheese with equal weight. At some point you can believe whatever you want but the scientific discourse doesn’t have to include you, and people don’t grow if they’re not told their opinions are wrong and objectively incorrect from time to time. The moon is not made of cheese and unless you got a real good reason then you’re dumb for suggesting it, and you’re worsening the discourse for all of us too by even entertaining it. Discourse does not benefit from entertaining facially outlandish ideas without some evidentiary backing etc just “for the sake of discussion”.

At some level, enforced politeness and forced equality-of-merit for all opinions is a thought-terminating cliche and becomes destructive to discourse. It’s a little bizarre how people love having legislated “truth in the middle” outcomes to discourse. The truth often is objectively not in the middle and it worsens the discourse to pretend it is.

(Same for the way this forum treats hanlon’s razor tbh. 99% of the time when people invoke it, it’s a handwave to excuse some pretty conveniently malice or self-interest. That’s effectively using it as a thought-terminating cliche. Any time profit or PR spokespeople are involved you should never invoke it, because malice is indistinguishable from profit-seeking in most circumstances etc.)

The same is true of certain openly callous and cruel perspectives etc. It’s not just factual perspectives that can be destructive and noxious if tolerated as though they held rigor and merit, and extreme indifference etc is just as toxic as wishing harm directly etc. Just because you don’t care about litter, or masking during a pandemic, or climate change, doesn’t mean the rest of society isn’t going to set expectations etc, and “I guess you’ll have to die then” is not exactly sympathetic, but it’s uncouth to point out the callousness here. And that is, itself, an editorial lean towards the legitimacy and integrity of such positions. You’re treating “I don’t want to die” with the same weight as “I guess you’ll have to die for me”, and tutting when people get upset about it.
Not sure what parent was talking about. You are correct. This is Harvest’s responsibility, not Microsoft’s.
I was in panama when i was young, about 17 years ago. I always wanted to come back and had the idea of building startups there that help local economy. How is the landscape there now? Is there a startup scene?

I love panama and hope to return some day. Always excited to hear from panmeños!
or.. pressed ganged as a poor man into the Royal navy - on one of the lucky ships that didn't suffer too much.

besides 'if you were rich' is same trade-off as today's world...
> I have yet to find an actual vision-impaired person complaining about missing alt text.

What was your sample size?
I recently watched a video (2 years old video) of a guy documenting that he had participated in make a wish, and that the kid had left this world, etc. very sad video.

My recommendations have been filled with nothing but cancer stories, people on their deathbed, all kinds of ailments, etc. From that single video, which was not at all related to his regular videos. I haven't watched any of them, and they just keep pouring in.
This one seems like a pretty simple question to answer: randomly poll 100 homeless people and ask whether they become homeless in California or came there homeless from elsewhere.

Not hard, not complicated.
Microservices allow development orgs to scale horizontally which enables businesses to expand to adjacent markets, faster.
Having travelled a fair bit, I can tell you that economic insecurity breeds a culture of selfishness, not the other way around. Where people are not economically precarious, there's almost no culture of trying to get one up on those around you. It's when you're scared of falling behind that you struggle so hard to keep yourself ahead.

Wealth inequality is strongly correlated but ultimately not the root cause -- it is rather precarity that causes many of our social ills.
Yeah. For example, from Google…

> The average salary for a Therapist is $31.40 per hour in United States

And yet my insurance is billed at $1,000/hr. They knock this down (thankfully!) to $20/h, and merrily claim to have saved me 98% of the bill! Wow! And yet … I'm paying 64% of the therapist's salary.

If I were uninsured, Google says that I would most assuredly pay nowhere near $1k/hr. I.e., the "98% saved" bit is hot, steaming bull.
I have a very conscientious friend who used to drive across state lines to do a video visit from their car with an out of state provider. It's pretty wild to think about what a waste and time sink this is for families with complex illnesses.
Seems like a long term solution for a short term problem. Addiction is hard. If you are struggling, there is hope.
There's an an interesting HN comment[1] from 2020 by former Uber engineer, which discusses the complexity a bit. It's more about UI, but the thread discusses the backend as well. In brief something that may look super simple for the user (like handling payments) is actually quite complicated when you cover all the market, different payment types etc. And all this carries to the backend as well.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25376346
The History of Lotus
You think 10% of people were notable or nobles?
Not to diminish the work on the browser extensions, but the majority of the value is in the filter lists. In the cat and mouse game, these lists need to be constantly updated and pruned, while also ensuring the false positives are minimally annoying to users.
If it would be 300% raise and everything else equal, then yes. But I for example am not a big car fan. Europe is a bit better in that regard. Also vacation days, criminality, the whole work life balance, how would be the new work position(much more stress and pressure, office politics), child care, schools, etc.

Uprooting ones existence has to be worth it and money can make up for something, but not everything.
> Private Layer (AS 51852) .... an “offshore” or “bullet-proof” host, with a complex corporate structure typical of the market.

I'd actually like more details on this. What does a complex corporate structure look like? If I have a VPS or two, how can I know if they're hosted by Private Layer?
Reports like those are not great for people trying to understand data and solve problems. They're for bureaucrats. They're always full of aggregation errors, which is also a common problem many people often get frustrated with from armchair experts. People __should__ be suspicious when reading that the average price paid for college is $2.5k but student debt is almost $2T and the average student debt is nearly $40k. The way the data is presented should cause people to be suspicious because the narrative doesn't make sense. The problem is with the narrative around these numbers, which is how people "lie with statistics" (because math isn't just numbers, data analysis is about stories).

A good way to think about this, and why it should reason that this data at face value isn't useful, is with a rather extreme example. If you took the average income across the globe then you'd conclude that no one could afford college. But that'd be unreasonable because the distribution of incomes is not the same as the distribution of people going to college.

Similarly, in these types of numbers there's a large difference in groups. In fact, contrary to popular belief, those straddled with the most debt are not liberal arts degrees for people with low job prospects but rather high level education of and high prospect jobs. Graduates take out more loans[0]. Medical students take out by far the most[1] -- side note: maybe we should discuss this given the doctor shortage -- followed by PhDs and then masters. Obviously these are in lower numbers though But there are a lot of variables at play here that affect things and it should be rather obvious that you can't treat all these things equally. There are also other issues where private colleges have higher debt burdens and there's also a lot of dubious institutions taking advantage of people (which do we want that happening for people who are specifically trying to become more productive members of society? The most vulnerable are also the "least productive" and even small changes can result in large outcomes).

[0] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/who-owes-all-that-student...

[1] https://wordsrated.com/student-loan-debt-by-degree-statistic...
You do realize you're on hackernews, a platform built by YCombinator right? You can apply with your startup just like anyone else and, if you're good enough, they'll invest half a million dollars.

I can't wait to see what you build.
I still have a couple of things to try... But you are right. If it doesn't work so early...

Thanks for your comment.
I wonder how much more we can add to this with

Divorce being more common now, but adding

Family sizes decreasing over time.

Families moving farther away and not able to support each other as readily.

Fewer friends with kids reducing the number of potential helpers with ones kids in time crunched/emergency situations.