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YMTC has produced "most advanced 3D  NAND memory chip in a consumer device"
> I think it's reasonably normal for people to have issues with lying

My point is that it's needlessly grumpy. It's fine if you want to be grumpy! But it's worth examining why this is a particular thing that triggers you. Far worse lies are told by politicians of all stripes every day, and we accept it as part of the system (particularly if it's a politician we voted for, not so much if it's one we voted against.) We should have a think about why we're getting tied up in knots over some shenanigans played by a couple of early 20-somethings almost two decades ago.
Ah, the time has come for me to do another rant about Amazon

- Open amazon app on your phone

- Type in “craftsman firepit spark screen” into search and get results

- Is the top result a craftsman product? No. Why? Who knows. But it’s ok, it’s like the third one down, though this is already hinting on the things to come.

- Open up product details for the Craftsman one. It’s called, and make a mental note here “CRAFTSMAN 19.5 Spark Screen for Smokeless Fire Pit Stainless Steel Mesh Lid Outdoor Fire Safety for Backyard Bonfires“.

- Oh no, it’s not quite the right size for the model I have. But there’s a helpful link to “Visit the Craftsman Store” at the top, which is I suppose a little section of Amazon that is all things Craftsman. Let’s click it to find the right size model.

- It takes me to a page with a nice big Craftsman Logo and a search bar inviting me “Search all Craftsman”.

- I enter “spark screen”. That’s the name of the product from the listing after all.

- I get 5 results. They are: screwdriver socket, 46 inch lawnmower blades, screwdriver set, pressure washer, and an electric lawnmover.

- The end.

This is the company on the forefront of machine learning.

PS: As a bonus story - I was recently trying to find “Wonderpets” cartoon for my daughter, using Amazon Prime Video apple tv app - and not quite remembering the name, I typed in “wonder pets” into the search box, and as you might have guessed, the cartoon I was searching for wasn’t in the results.

Makes you wonder how many more resources of time, money and people does Amazon need so that my simple interactions with their consumer products are not such a subpar experience.
I can literally watch SpaceX fire rockets into space 3-4x a month from my backyard.

Name one other company, person, or even a country that can and is willing to do that. There are none. As long as SpaceX can and no one else can, the future of SpaceX is on a pretty sound footing in my opinion.
Terrible management, and the people in charge probably never lost a dime personally for their poor decision making. No reason a company making a product like the instant pot can't stay in business as long as people want the product. After the initial release when everyone wants one, it should reach a steady state where sales reflect the number of instant pots going out of commission due to damage, wear and tear, etc, and the growing population. Plenty of businesses like that exist and do just fine, like selling toilet paper.
> Even if we had to fund 10 of those companies for a similar amount, that seems like a better investment than the dozen or so subway miles that would fund.

Ahh, so by ‘we’ you didn’t actually mean a group you are part of but instead other people.
Removing the middle area of the intersection has a safety benefit over the stop signs.

Some drivers habitually ignore stop signs. Since it is a physical barrier, those drivers won't ignore the removed middle of the intersection, unless they are drunk, and in that situation it's unlikely two will do that at the same time, where we would have a fatality.
From best performant to least:

Chrome Remote Desktop

Nomachine

HopToDesk

Rustdesk (open-source anydesk/teamviewer alternative)

Apache Guacamole

VNC
people in worse financial situation have more kids because many die before reaching adulthood.. they also need more people around to work and help pay for basic stuff that are just expected in developed countries.. like food, water, shelter, electricity, sewage, etc..

that was the same in the past of the now called developed countries, but as overall economy improved more people had access to better medicine, child mortality decreased and people raised above misery, all that mean that families did not had the need for as many kids as before..

In fact having more kids now can be detrimental in many places because kids can be expensive to raise..

So not only having many kids is no longer a necessity, it can be a financial burden that many families cannot take and lets be realistic that will not change anytime soon..

All in all i do not see why we should not make an effort ensure the people in worst financial situation have their situation improved.. And for the less educated people to be more educated.. And that not only in undeveloped countries but everywhere..

Last, but not least.. Let me tell you something.. People in undeveloped countries are just as smart as people anywhere else if you give then the change to achieve their full potential..

So i maintain my opinion.. we should worry to feed and shelter the people already here before we worry about reproducing like rabbits.. people can do wonders if they do not have to worry about their next meal..

But, again being realistic, i do not see any of this changing anytime soon as well.. but one can dream..

and i will not even comment on the racist implication that people in developed countries have better genes just because they are from developed countries..
that site redirects to some shady pages after a moment.
Google search appliance.
Jina AI itself is also a great framework to expose APIs from deep neural net models and deploy them to Kubernetes clusters, which I think is very promising, but they didn't get as much hype as I predicted that they deserved.
tl;dr OpenAI is bad at product naming.
Thank you for sharing. For anyone who is interested in a version with the original illustrations, I was able to find one here:

https://archive.org/details/aroundworldonbic01steviala/aroun...

https://archive.org/details/aroundworldonbic02steviala/aroun...

Not sure how well it would download to an e-reader, though.
All roundabouts prevent vehicles from just blowing straight through the intersection in the desired direction without so much as slowing down. They remove the middle part of the intersection where conflicting paths intersect.

Two-lane roundabouts are larger; cars go around them faster. There is ambiguity. Some cars short-cut using the middle lane, and veer right out of it to their desired exit. Cars in the outer lane might be wrongly assumed to be turning off at the next exit. North American drivers get really confused by two-lane roundabouts.

I don't think these situations will typically lead to anything worse than fender benders.

The same intersection without a roundabout could be host to fatal collisions, when two vehicles enter at speed and hit each other in the middle.
I think in that space ML will beat us completely. It's basically a simple optimisation problem of: these rules improve safety, here's the situation you're in, maximise rules applied and minimise changes required to apply them, repeat. The number of ideas ML can remember, test and execute is not going to be comparable with what people can do. It all relies on getting appropriate data from sensors though.
It’s economically feasible in countries where labor is almost free.

Regardless, at some point you have to replace a part. If your screen is completely shattered you won’t be gluing back together the glass pieces and recreating the LCD.

We got your point, some people have more specialized machines, some people’s time is worth almost nothing, ok cool. Why does it bother you if people demand that companies don’t intentionally make it more difficult for the average person to do a repair?
They’re optimizing on revenue not helping you find what you’re looking for
I've never had a problem getting meetings with GCP reps for both big company spend and tiny startup spend.

If anything, they have been too eager to talk when I had nothing to discuss with them.
That's hilarious. Like, the compiler team had ONE GUY that believed in and developed this feature and retired in 1999.
Not sure exactly what you mean by freely, but in most popular roundabout designs you can exit from the inner lane. A "standard" two lane roundabout will have two lanes entering AND exiting. You never change lanes in roundabouts, at least where I'm from. Only in a massive multi-lane roundabout (that's at that point more like a ring road) would you ever change lanes to exit.

e.g. for a standard two lane roundabout with four exits, if you enter in the left lane, you can exit directly out of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th (i.e u-turn) exits, but always in the left lane of the exit. If you enter in the right lane, you can exit out of the 1st or 2nd exits, but always in the right lane of the exits. With this design cars travelling alongside you can never cross your path, only cars entering the roundabout ahead of you can cross your path and it's their responsibility to yield.

The thing that most often causes problems is people in the outer lane NOT exiting (e.g. thinking they can take the third exit from the right lane) and swiping the car in the inner lane correctly taking the second exit.
Just making a box that holds passengers and meets today's crash test standards at that cost is a feat, let alone the drivetrain too.
This is the first time I've even heard the term "traffic circle"
ETF approval soon, maybe

(or not)
So you hired people from larger companies where other people handled deployment for them?

No biggie. Congrats to the Python people, they will now be enjoying dev ops.

Look into Heroku for the easiest to get started with. GCP is pretty understandable too depending on use-case and other needs.

Render and Fly.io are similar to Heroku, but tbh, do not seem as reliable. I have personally had some issues with Render.
There are great open source ones.

Rustdesk.

Aspia.org

I use both under a sdwan so performance is native like and works 24x7.

If you have to use from normal internet, rustdesk would fit the bill.

Ignore rest. They are paid mostly
This guy is a science journalist, the authors of the source research paper are more relevant if you're trying to infer anything about the material from the authors: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06668-3

FWIW I think even the original paper is more of a master class in riding an academic bubble than anything of important substance. I'm just not sure what looking at other articles by this journalist is supposed to convey.
Your core point is absolutely true about how Lisp is special in that it usually provides a read procedure to turn a textual type into a native object that can be evaluated (this is a side effect of homoiconicity, so any homoiconic language will have this property too), but I have one additional nitpick to make ontop of yours:

> [...] eval can take any lisp object and evaluate it.

eval cannot be generalized to accepting any Lisp object, only specifically symbolic expressions (symbols, or lists (potentially nested) of symbols). I discovered this because I thought Chibi Scheme was throwing a warning for valid code[0] to inject a value into an expression for eval, but Marc helped me understand that the warning was correct, because Scheme only specifies what eval does for symbolic values.

[0] https://github.com/ashinn/chibi-scheme/issues/902
That one was such a long time ago when they were struggling to find PMF. I do my best to avoid Google bc I don’t trust them or their quality, but I think I’d give them a pass on the search appliance.
You heard correctly.

Technical teams: There are some pressure-cooker teams where there are micromangers obsessed with counting diff revisions and maximum project impact, a smattering of individuals who are overconfident big fish in small ponds. Most technical teams are normal and helpful. Some are even loosey-goosey and casual. There are a few teams who have no customer service skills or professionalism at all, but those aren't many.

Nontechnical teams: I've observed multiple IRL collections of people who literally go to work to socialize... and do so loudly and not in a conference room. Maybe they do work, but I didn't see any sign of it. Slacking-tolerant areas must have a reporting structure that doesn't have a lot of hard accountability, may not have to produce quantitive impact, and are able to hide in a megacorp when there is sufficient complexity and opacity.

One other thing that ticked me off about IRL Metamates: most volunteers for a home building nonprofit left without coordinating with the site manager, leaving them understaffed for the work and cleanup tasks. It really shows the personal ethics of people who pose for photos for their personal brand but then don't care enough to actually do the work.
Useful lift, so people, luggage, and fuel.
Now you have me curious - where do you see the need for floats in shell? You are more creative than myself, because I am struggling to come up with a situation where I would lean on this. A "path" type would be by far more useful to my work.
AI powered no-code.
But why not just put a yield sign? I can honestly see why absolutely no sign suggest you have the right of way.
I'm pretty shocked by the grandparent, but on reflection, I think this is the future.

In The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck writes about the travails of a family's trip to California in search of work during the Great Depression in the 1930s. Tom Joad, the father, fixes the compression in his blown engine by wrapping a copper wire around the cylinder, then running the motor until it melts and recreates the seal. It's such an ingenious hack, and reflects such deep knowledge of how an engine works, that it's stuck with me for decades.

Today, I bet fewer than 5% of vehicle owners even know how to check their tire pressure. But it's not like fewer people are driving, or cars are more likely to be found by the side of the road with a blown engine—it's just far less necessary to know these things. I think programming will go this way, too.
I've heard good Hobbesian things about Frazz[1], too.

[1] https://www.gocomics.com/frazz
What’s so hard about “npm install” and “package.json”. It’s dead simple
None of the people in this group share a first name? What's your policy for who gets the address and who gets stuck with adam2 or whatever?
> What churn are you referring to?

I think most developers are very familiar with the framework churn that I'm referring to.

In my case, I've been dealing with it since the 90s.

So my biases are there for a reason.
It won't impact helium prices. Almost no helium is used for airships today. Most goes for industrial and cooling systems.

As a fellow diver, open circuit helium mix diving is probably not going to be sustainable. We'll probably all have to switch to rebreathers soon.
At my company we were B2B2C so a lot of features had to be built for the B2B side and also the B2C side.

B2B side asked for an analytics dashboard, we manually sent them Retool apps segmented with their data hardcoding ids in the query.
Good to know that. I might be wrong on that account.

But my complain about product stability and maturity remains and that's admittedly is subjective.
The biggest issue with the Mars plan is there's no money in it, no customers lined up and ready to take advantage of it. And even if a serious organization of prospective colonists started organizing and got funding now (nobody has a plausible answer for how a Mars economy would work, how it would get enough Earth cash to pay for itself) it would still take decades for them to develop viable Martian colony hardware. Even test-runs of such technology in closed environments on Earth are in their absolute infancy and have virtually no funding. As a Mars rocket, Starship is a bridge to nowhere.

Yet Starship is costing SpaceX a whole heck of a lot of money to develop. I don't think that makes any sense unless they have some other business plan in mind for it. Launching massive constellations of satellites is that plan, there's a huge amount of profit potential in the near-term if they can make Starship work. Starlink alone might make Starship worth it, but fulfilling SDI contracts could be the real money cow (incidentally, SDI is politically polarized, and this might be part of the reason why Musk has "gotten political". If Musk really wants SDI contracts then he needs republicans to fund it.)

If you're inclined to believe Musk is sincere with the Mars colonization talk, then perhaps you could conclude that the plan is to make insane amounts of money building huge LEO constellations and then use that to fund Mars colonization. But from what I understand, Musk has said that SpaceX won't be building colonies and is focused on building the ships to get there instead. Who's buying?

> The fact that NASA selected Starship as its human landing vehicle for the US's return to the moon strikes me as a remarkable vote of confidence by a highly qualified organization with far more data than we have and a lot at stake.

Maybe. I'm very surprised SpaceX won that contract, maybe people at NASA really believe they can do it. Or maybe they decided to give SpaceX enough rope to hang themselves. Or maybe nobody really expects Artemis to get that far and the whole thing is basically a joke at the taxpayer's expense. Or maybe there are people at NASA who believe in SDI and want to make sure Starship is successfully developed. In any case, even if they can actually do the moon missions there's a huge gap between hanging out on the Moon for a few weeks and making a serious go at a long-term Martian colony.
Is it really a surprise Google started rolling down the hill when Sundar Pichai became CEO?

What big thing has Google done since Sundar Pichai stepped into the CEO role?

Absolutely nothing. It's all past projects that came to fruition.

For what Google was, and what it has become... it's very sad.
The point is: don't expect companies or people to act against their interests. They generally haven't, don't and won't. Google isn't unique here. The problem is so pervasive in society that humans created contracts and courts to force people/companies to do things they wouldn't otherwise do.
Could you transmit multiple images in a zip file?
> Later comes along Go. No dependency management at the start. There ended up being two ways of specifying dependencies. At least one included putting github.io/username/package into your code. That username changes and all your code has to change. Awful design.

"github.io/username/package" is using a domain name, just like Java. Changing the username part is like changing the domain name--I don't see how this is any worse in Go than in Java.

If you don't like that there's a username in there, then don't put one in there to begin with. Requiring a username has nothing to do with Go vs. Java, but rather is because the package's canonical location is hosted on Github (which requires a username).

I don't know why so many programmer's use a domain they don't control as the official home of their projects--it seems silly to me (especially for bigger, more serious projects).
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Does anyone actually use unison in real life?
Easy solution --- don't use Android.

I haven't in years. I use e/OS instead.

https://e.foundation/
Cocks. Lots of cocks.
In the words of Ursula Le Guin: "We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings"

Fundamental social and economic system change can, and has, happened. The fact that we can't yet see exactly what the other side looks like from where we are now is not contraindicative of that fact.
Where I’m at, $100-150 is more likely (introductory rates) for cable TV + internet.
Can you use regular cpanm to install perl modules in nix perl?
clang+llvm releases do a three stage build and compare the output of the third stage with the second. This is fairly effective at rooting out many sources of indeterminate behavior.

> In broad strokes they do but often they’ll have randomness creep in, such as different build hashes or iteration order of associative containers.

In order to find defects related to codegen being altered by incidental ordering of objects in containers, a build option called LLVM_ENABLE_REVERSE_ITERATION was created. Builders periodically run with this mode to verify that the regression test suite still passes when containers iterate in reverse.

That said, it's true that there are probably remaining sources of variation among builds. There is a significant effort [1] to find these and avoid them.

[1] https://reproducible-builds.org/
Yep, My point exactly. And at $1M/mo...you get humans.
Tell that to Xfinity.
I don't think it is quite that intentional, but just as human economic systems regularly create bubbles there are blind spots in the academic science collective. People desperately want to get in on LLMs right now.
We just have a script that adds the lints to any lib.rs or main.rs files that runs on commit. ezpz
Nice work congrats :)
While Eisenhower was inspired by the German autobahn, military use of roads was a sales talking point. The real reason for highways was to allow favored Americans to live in detached houses while still accessing city jobs. We could have it both ways!

Rail is a much more efficient way to move troops and equipment. Modern warfare requires lightning fast movement which means cargo planes. Eisenhower himself used a “New Look” policy of relying heavily on nuclear weapons so that the army could be scaled back.
Sunrun: The Case of the Phantom Subscribers
oh definitely, because every serf got killed every day...
I legitimately find your cognitive dissonance interesting. I think you're on the other end - you may understand the fundamentals so well that your brain isn't processing the question / conundrum in the way that others see it. Honing in on the the scales of the arms as your reaction the paper is why I think this, as that's not related to the problem. And, well, you said it yourself, you don't understand the question:

> No clue why GP thinks it "shouldn't work"

It's also possible you think that this is all about laser interferometry, and aren't properly considering how it could work in the context of compressing space, since a laser interferometry system in compressed space wouldn't produce interference.
I have enjoyed watching a new launch provider emerge, EVs become a real thing, and him being forced to buy Twitter.
Just clarifying: you drive on the right-hand side of the road, so "right" for you means on the outside of the circle?

Yeah, that seems mad.
Just Intonation
Ask HN: What's the state of Clojure's ecosystem and community these days?
It’s been like 7 years since I’ve written any Clojure, but I used to like it a lot. I felt that the ecosystem wasn’t mature enough and the community was quite small in size. Is that the case now? What’s the health of Clojure these days? Especially for backend web services.
Could be wrong but I don't think this will go well for him.
Of course, Texas is notoriously pro conservation and definitely not full of people who would complain about any sort of environmental protection given the chance.
That over-ambitiousness is a big factor in attracting (and to some degree, keeping) talent I'd bet. It's one of SpaceX's key differentiators compared to incumbents where the overarching attitude seems to be, "well, we'll get back to the moon at some point in the future, maybe, if we're lucky". That's not to knock the brilliant people working for those companies but it's gotta be harder to be excited when it feels like the corporate gears are perpetually gummed up with cold tar.