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Companies being inefficient has been around for WAY longer than agile and/or modern management practices. Franz Kafka wrote his novels in the 1910s, after all. In software specifically, Fred Brooks already wrote about the problems with organizing groups of people in the 1970s.
I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment.

I think that people are looking at waste in a wrong way. It's relatively easy to point out inefficiencies in a working system. What's harder is organizing a working system. Energy and attention are finite on many levels, and this is true on the organizational level too. Let's pick an example of a computer game. Games are usually riddled with performance problems, in fact, I think that it's hard to find a well-optimized game. Yet many of these inefficient games provide good fun for a lot of people. As it turns out, engine efficiency is not a top priority for a game, there's much more to it, like the game design, level design, and the context of the game, which is marketing, timing the release, setting the price, and so on.
Good LCDs (i.e. native 8-bit IPS) have been available for a very long time. No-compromise gaming IPS's (120hz+, backlight strobing) - for more than 7 years. Decent 60hz ones (and even 76hz - 2209WA with overdrive) - for far, far longer. Yes, there's still the IPS glow, A-TW polarizer-equipped panels are almost impossible to look up in the first place. Yes, the black level is still pretty bad, unless you have a stacked matrix reference Sony or something. Yes, cheap 16-bit-with-bad-dithering TN less-than-sRGB-gamut LCDs are not great, but so were the el cheapo shadow mask CRTs.
Pretty much all companies i’ve been with an did “agile” ended up debating agile more than doing it. The outcome expected by managers was unequivocally to be able to allocate work and measure output similar to factories. Obviously it has always been a struggle to add anything of technical importance because there was no user story for it (in their limited thinking everything needs to benefit users directly, clearing tech debt is only a nice to have). As systems degrade over time they’d hire more people to maintain or increase velocity (factory output basically). Goes without saying that that doesnt work and you end up with the horror stories described here.

Agile engineering practices on the other hand are beneficial. But those arent really invented by agile. All existed well before agile.

Also every single large corporation i served suffered from endless meetings. It was almost always managers demanding such meetings. Somehow their belief is that engineers shouldnt spend time thinking about a problem - they should instead discuss it right away. A dubious mindset and telling of how said managers have no clue how thinking is to be made generally speaking. There needs to be communication between team members, but a good technical person is one that understands that and does it when needed. However since management and a factory mindset leads to hiring assembly line workers that lack communication skills that can sometimes be an issue - then the vicious cycle dictates that there need to be more meetings to cover communication gaps made by managers that hired assembly line workers that dont communicate well with peers, and so on.

Companies run by founders usually fare better because founders are either technical, domain experts and or care about inefficiencies - thus they rarely hire non technical managers.

Such companies often get acquired by larger companies that then turn them into factories and so the cycle begins. They still generate revenue and profits because generating profits doesnt always require a stellar product or sometimes they abuse their dominant position (google’s regressing, amazon’s a swamp of counterfeits, and both still make money).

After a long time in tech i’ve reached the conclusion that tech has been turned into factory work (including threats of automation replacing “workers”). Growth will indeed come from ai companies because … such companies are not yet managed and factorised to death (still run by tech founders, and so on). Thats why google’s struggling to get ai working while openai is smashing it. But those too will become bastardised.
next should be called 'Such Telescope' and 'So much Telescope wow'
With some simple clarification I got this

UPDATE your_table
SET teaser = substring(full_text from '(\S+\s*){1,200}')
Relatedly (from a data structures perspective): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10551280
It is still tracking you so it needs to be blocked.
A California wildfire created a buffet for marine microbes – Science – AAAS
13.6.1 is also affected.
How will you fix it in 4 years? I don't see were they sell spare parts.
> Re Java - If you're looking to maximise compatability, then yeah you should aim to target an older JDK. Virtually all Java projects use at least JDK 8 so that can be a baseline,

Oracle says that JDK 11 is on “Extended Support” which comes after “Premier Support”.[1] Why not just support JDK 17 and higher?

[1]: https://endoflife.date/oracle-jdk
Generative AI's Energy Problem Today Is Foundational
Another one recently: Dell support
The bit of the web that feels to me like a toxic wasteland is all the adverts; the tracking is a much more subtle issue, where the damage is the long-term potential of having a digital twin that can be experimented on to find how best to manipulate me.

I'm not sure how many people actually fear that. Might get responses from "yes, and it's creepy" to "don't be daft that's just SciFi".
FST implementation in Rust: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38096511
Cloudflare sites for Hugo or any other static site generator.
It's free, it's simple, and updates on each git push.
This isn't particularly new or novel. It's been known for a while there's no way to effectively sandbox instructions from data if it gets fed into an LLM's context.
Rationality is defined as choices being able to be made that are both complete (all options under consideration can be understood) and transitive (if I choose A over B, and B over C, then I choose A over C).

Most often people exhibit bounded rationality, as "completeness" is a heavy cognitive burden and transitivity is hard on the margins.

Neither components of rationality require belief, and both recognize that choices (free will) can be made, suggesting more nuance to your argument is needed.
I suggest you look even further and realize both sides have committed horrific atrocities.

I recently listened to the "Martyrmade" podcast and I couldn't believe it. There was a time when the British and Arabs were being driven out of Palestine using extreme violence too.

Realistically, we should all be working for peace.
The ambiguity of the Dao is just the Dao being the Dao. You can not explain something which has no duality with direct words so to try
to translate the meaning of “Dao” will always need puns and metaphors.

Writings at point to the Dow are meant to get you to stop thinking, not to think for. They’re supposed to get you to contemplate life.

But I agree, the language and cultural barriers to understanding Daoist writings as an English speaking American makes it more of a challenge.

Derek Lin has done a translation which might be helpful.

https://terebess.hu/english/tao/DerekLin.html

And there is also a literal translation

https://www.amazon.com/Tao-Ching-Translation-Introduction-Co...
Turns out that "Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind" is quite a prophetic sci-fi.
Regarding the Bible, you should read Young’s literal translation. It blew me away how much liberties that king James version took in their interpretation.
I use a lot of Apple products but this attitude you're expressing has always annoyed me (because I see it most frequently when it comes to Apple's software and hardware quality). These bugs affect people all the time and are indicative of poor QA. 5 users at a company we provide some software support for (note: we don't control their machines) decided to upgrade their machines and somehow became unbootable just yesterday. Please don't be in denial about Apple's increasingly worse QA. An intern with a checklist could have uncovered these issues.
Because in capitalism profit is the reward for taking the risk.

That's part of the deal.

Their share of the profit is disproportionate to the risk they take
True but frankly doesn’t matter to the online commentariat. Norway is a tiny country that most people don’t know anything about, but if they do know that it is an oil state then that becomes the explanation for literally everything. Even traits that are exactly like Sweden and Denmark are because of Oil.

Disclaimer: guess my passport.
Agreed, people seem to only see blobs when they run on x86. A typical PC system probably has at least two dozen ancillary CPU cores spread out among the IO and peripherals alone.

If I had a dollar for every 8051 that turned out to be inside a chip I designed around...
And I suggest taking a look at Israel dropping bombs on a refugee camp (Jabalia refugee camp) they knew was overflowing with women and children.

And I also suggest meditating on the fact that Israel's war on Gaza is the first war in modern history where women and children comprise the vast majority of the victims.

According to CBC radio, more children have been killed in Gaza in the past 3 weeks than in all conflicts since 2019. ( Link: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7012927 )

Perhaps it's time to start viewing both Hamas and the Government of Israel as Terrorist Organizations, since both of them now wholeheartedly engage in intentionally attacking civilian populations.
> Black 3.0 with 99.6% is nowhere near close to Vantablack with 99.965%

Curious, under what circumstances will this 0.365% be practically important?
That would be rational within an irrational context.

That is still irrational, and I see no reason to forgive or excuse it instead of calling it out as irrational.

It's understandable, but that doesn't mean tolerable or excusable, just that the mechanism by which the irrational process plays out is understood.
Why not both?

Rust is a great choice for anything data science.
https://deepcausality.com/blog/views-on-rust-ml/

Also, hugging faces released a new ML framework for Rust.
https://medium.com/@Aaron0928/hugging-face-has-written-a-new...

There are Rust bindings for TensorFlow and PyTorch. Just google it. There is enormous value in Rust ML.
>"Crack Theory That Everyone Is Going To Hate"

Because you're going to have to explain how it works.

>way to ensure that people with the "right" educational and professional pedigree were getting the spoils of the money-printing that was preventing the utter collapse of our economy.

How is giving money to the "right" people supposed to do that?

>tech workers are just a convenient receptacle to prevent a wage-price spiral in the broader economy.

How is giving money to these people in particular different than giving money to, say, nurses?
Perhaps not the "stun gun".
It would be interesting to know if a properly-qualified engineer has ever taken a look at the Eagle and determined if it would be possible (e.g. with nuclear thermal rockets).
The CSS tracker is as useful as server log-based analytics. If that is the information you need, cool.

But JS trackers are so much more. Time spent on the website, scroll depth, screen sizes, some limited and compliant and yet useful unique sessions, those things cannot be achieved without some (simple) JS.

Server side, JS, CSS... No one size fits all.

Wide Angle Analytics has strong privacy, DNT support, an opt-out mechanism, EU cloud, compliance documentation, and full process adherence. Employs non-reversible short-lived sessions that still give you good tracking. Combine it with custom domain or first-party API calls and you get near 100% data accuracy.
could it be automated?
Basecamp is a small-medium company and leaving the cloud was a huge win for them: https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-have-left-the-cloud-251760fb
> I suggest you look even further and realize both sides have committed horrific atrocities.

Israel has a lot of blame and any other time I would be with you with the pitchforks against Israel.

This isn't one of those days. I suggest you learn the difference between the stuff the Hamas did on October 7th and the worst stuff Israel did in the worst instances... This isn't even remotely on the scale.

Regardless, this isn't about atrocities. This is about stopping a murderous lying organization that is manipulating western media and mindshare using lies.

Israel and the Palestinians did sign a peace agreement. Guess who stopped it by blowing up MANY busses... One guess...
She understood that translating. The Dao is not so much about knowing Chinese, but knowing the Dao.

The most important part of translating the Dao De Ching is to be as close as possible to understanding Daoism as one can.
Who knows... maybe they will be like Google (which I consider a tech/engineering driven org) and they'll throw away (good) products all the time just "because"?

I think Apple plays the "niche" very well, not only regarding marketing, but also from a techs view.
I know this is silly, but I've had great success asking chatgpt to summarise chatgpt's answers.
I think you answered your own question to a degree. As I was being raised in an extremely high cost religion, I remember converts were given a very special glow and respect. Oh, they may never be full members of the tribe nor expected to lead very often, but their stories were affirmations that our religion must be right to convince people to join.

Also, these converts were used in proselyting from the populations they came from.

I've noticed most atheists are by default "converts" in a sense, and the now-religious conversion parallels appear to have a few dimensions to it.
David French is a compulsive contrarian and has ended up in a position where virtually all of his writing consists of attacks against conservatives written for liberal audiences. He’s not nearly as bad as Bill Kristol or Max Boot in this regard but he’s not taken seriously by other conservatives anymore.
True, but also it's a blogging platform - does it really have that kind of scale to be concerned with?
I completely disagree with you. However I did share your exact viewpoint at some stage.

At the start of this conflict I was all about revenge against Hamas. I still am. But Israel has taken it too far. They really are showing very little disregard for the innocent people in Palestine. I'm sorry but they do exist.

At some stage, justifying the destruction of thousands of children just to say you're trying to defeat Hamas no longer holds water.

This can never be walked back. What has taken place here will never be forgotten

I agree Hamas should give hostages back and surrender, but tell me what this has to do with a 5 year old child being blown to pieces again? Why should they have to pay for what some "adults" have done?
I thought chromium was open source?
Nothing's gonna block your webserver's access.log fed into an analytics service.

If anything, you're gonna get numbers that are inflated because it's a bit impossible to dismiss all of the bot traffic just by looking at user agents.
I think what someone needs to do is integrate an events/trigger system and add SARIMA based normalization.

Then we're looking at a DataDog replacement.
I can see what you're saying.
what solution is there then? As the internet becomes more public, so it also loses the freedom of eg the 90s and that may not be so bad with AI in the toolkit of scammers attacking older or more prone populations.
It's very hard to say what effect things will have. Free markets were always the thing but price fixing or other retaliatory measures against oligopolistic greed may now be employed (eg see canada threatening to tax grocery chains for pricing too high)
The terrorists are the side that attacked first and have a literal terrorist name.
This is so funny.

>Artists like Christian Furr and Stuart Semple have criticised Kapoor for what they view to be the appropriation of a unique material to the exclusion of others.[69][70] In retaliation, Semple developed a pigment called the "pinkest pink" and specifically made it available to everyone except Anish Kapoor and anyone affiliated with him.[71][72] He later stated that the move was itself intended as something like performance art and that he did not anticipate the amount of attention it received.[67] In December 2016, Kapoor obtained the pigment and posted an image on Instagram of his extended middle finger which had been dipped in Semple's pink.[73] Semple also developed more products such as "Black 2.0" and "Black 3.0", which are supposed to look nearly identical to Vantablack despite being acrylic, and "Diamond Dust", an extremely reflective glitter made of crushed glass shards that are designed to hurt Kapoor if he dipped his finger in it
You have to include the fact that the very clear objective of advertising is to make you consume more. Thus producing more pollution than if there were no ads.

So, even if advertising was technically neutral (which is clearly not the case), it would still be an ecological cataclysm.

One would even argue that the whole climate emergency is created by our advertise/consume culture.
I dont understand why this was downvoted. Why should a person be forced to allow updates with no opt-out or pause option? Everyone complains about it with Windows and its bullshit but FF gets a free pass?
Most of the scam phone calls when I eventually manage to get the number which has called back, (scammers usually hang up on me pretty quickly as I'm a bit deaf and they've only got so much time to fleece people) are numbers that originated with a Travelsim number. Occasionally it's a number from another carrier, possibly spoofed.

Just check and reply to the various reverse number who called me register, most people will check that - so you have a good platform to belly ache about it there, and who your carrier is ...
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I didn't know about it until I put on CGM and noticed the spikes. Then used google to figure it out. Which is also why I think it is useful to try putting CGM for couple of weeks just as a learning experience.

Most people will never have CGM on and hence no way to really understand how different food they eat influences their blood glucose.
Go already has built-in support for tests and for executable examples (that go into generated package documentation), so it might get hairy.
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It is a single concept. Different people have different reasons to do it, and different aptitudes at managing it.
I can think of a couple reasons.

* Fidelity level (in terms of resolution, color amount and similar) needs to match with the amount of information within drawing. One example of this are some of the games during transition from EGA to VGA which allowed to use more colors. Just slapping a color gradient on everything doesn't necessarily look better than more stylized look carefully using a limited color pallet.

* Inconsistent quality level. While some of the assets are much higher resolution, not all of them are. This makes the older assets look worse compared to everything being equally low resolution. The mismatch can be caused not only by asset quality level but also lighting techniques.On hand you have sharp high resolution shadows on the other there are still some low quality textures and geometry.

* Higher resolution textures makes it easier to notice bad texture tiling and low resolution geometry. With a high resolution textures perfectly projected on low polygon it's much easier to tell how blocky they are and where the edges are, compared to using more blurry textures.
9 strikes a dagger into the heart of capitalism.
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Clean rooms protect from patent issues, but do little to protect against copyright or trademark actions. The fact that one creates totally new code from scratch means nothing if the end product is too similar to the existing copyrighted work.
So are access logs. How are you going to block those?
If it's an US company then EU cloud doesn't matter regarding data protection for EU citizens.

The Cloud Act rendered that worthless.
We are the only ones who can judge and exercise moral reasoning, as we are the universe experiencing itself.
Funnily enough, `-small`, `-base` and `-tiny` versions of this would be more exciting to me. `small.en` is the largest of the original whisper models that will run anywhere near usable speed on a raspberry pi zero 2 with whisper.cpp, and it's still too slow to really bother with for streaming. Anything smaller is too inaccurate for day to day use. If there was a distilled version which had a similar 6x speedup, that would be transformative.
Oh, so in your twisted world, as long as you're atacked first, you're fully justified in murdering innocent women & children, is that it?
For someone so keen on copyright infringement, you sure have a poor grasp of what copyright is.
Finally, meaningful amount of RAM in lowest option (which is the only one most shops usually have in stock) for the Pro - 36Gb.
Israel and the Palestinians did sign a peace agreement. Guess who stopped it by blowing up MANY busses... One guess...

I also know that Israel are taking peoples homes and land. it doesn't justify terrorism but it's an act of agression in its own right. Imagine if a group came to the USA and started kicking Americans out? I'd like to see how that goes...

The reality is, innocents and children are now being blown up, en masse. It doesn't matter to me "how" it's done.It matter what and to whom the victims are.

Just because you're not using human shields, doesn't mean dropping a bomb from a hi-tech hundred million dollar fighter jet makes you special or absolves you from responsibility, or makes it ok.

Those human shields are innocent people.
I think you are being a bit hyperbolic. I think it's quite reasonable to say that a way a person perceives themselves is complex and poorly described by categories. This is separate from describing the physical attributes a person possesses. It's rather unreasonable to state anything other than this because there's very little evidence towards the claimed lack of complexity of the human experience. So any moral argument ends up coming across as rather anti intellectual.
Ask HN: How do telegram directory websites find groups/channels?
I wanted to know how directory websites (like telegramchannels.me, telemetr.io, etc.) find channels/groups.

They can't use an "official way" since the discoverability on telegram is really bad.

I don't think they can 100% rely on scraping because many channels are not even on google.

I don't think they can 100% rely on user submissions (i.e. I submit my own channel) because they have a lot of channels/groups for countries where no one knows about those website.

Any ideas?