skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're essentially saying that actors should give up their industries equivalent of equity when joining a startup.
Couldn’t the chip have a HSM that signs requests to authenticate that it’s authentic? Data is already exchanged during the USB charging handshake, this could just be one extra step.

The key might leak, which is why you could have a new key everyday that’s signed by an intermediate key and these are internet connected devices (iphones and macbooks and ipads) that could easily download a key block-list for a kilobyte everyday.

Additionally, if the device has already connected to a charger in the past but then the key gets revoked, it could continue to show it’s authentic across their devices connected to their iCloud account, much like how wifi passwords and airpods just sync across devices.
Can you give a concrete example of imagination, and another of adaptation?
From memory, the best choice for an adaptation is probably Majora's Mask. And not because the plot is special in any way, but because of all the characters that tie the world together so well.

It is gloomy though, and maybe too gloomy for what Nintendo wants to go for. Not having Ganon is probably a deal breaker for them as well.
But if you take 400ms to respond, and the game takes 400ms to respond after that, the actual response delay is 800ms, which is quite a lot.
> Local banks and credit unions still do it, competently enough to earn very high satisfaction ratings from their customers/members.

Wrong question. If they were popular with their customers they wouldn't be small banks, they'd be big banks.

(The exception is that because of regulations, there's businesses that only small banks can get into, so it may help to appear to be small.)

> (And there are indeed still plenty of “housemaids and gas station attendants” so that was a weird aside anyway)

Do you live in India?
Not going to be christopher nolan tenet no, but I'd still say there are some games with some better story than others.

Majora's mask or twilight princess comes to mind (while not even having the latter in my favorite games list)
Now I'm thinking of an elf named Sildenafil.
>> There must be a middle ground where developers can focus on the core business logic that yields the most value without incurring technical debt and making the development process a nightmare. I don’t have an answer for that, nor have I worked at a company that found the perfect balance. Plus, I’m not a technical lead, manager, or business owner. So if you are one of them, I’d love to hear how you or your organization plans to tackle this

I'm a technical lead, business owner, and ex-manager. So I guess I qualify to answer :)

The short answer is that we have only ever had a very (very) small development team. Typically around 3 or 4 people.

Secondly we're using "old" tech, nut with up-to-date tooling. Our product contains code written in 1996 and iterated on since.

I'm lazy, and I'm not interested in writing it all again in some new language. So we haven't done that. I'm lazy, so I'm not interested in re-architecting it every 5 minutes. I'm lazy so i prefer simple, maintainable, easy to read, code over cleverness.

Most of all, as a startup (boot strapped) I didn't get paid in we didn't make sales. (That happened a lot in the early years.) So shipping is a priority. Business is a priority. But since I'm lazy I avoid solutions that'll break things, that'll cause unnecessary work in the future.

I have enough autonomy to dictate pace of delivery. I have enough incentive to move the business forward (in the short and long term.) I don't need to resume pad (this is the first ,and last, job I'll ever have.)

Alas none of this advice is transferable. What works for me likely won't work for you. Our context is likely too different.

So yeah, there are businesses in between the extremes. Ones with competent developers. Ones either competant managers. Ones where all the business interests are kept in balance. They are not easy to find. Good luck.
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That's a lot to bring to a random footer on a web page about something else. I get the distaste for sloganeering but the suggestion that 'the implications are clear' that this is.... the DSA? feels like a more than a bit of a reach.
It's a curious link that they made. Many antidepressants can cause performance issues, which can be a big deal for a lot of people. Using sildenafil with it can restore that part of the vitality.
TBH, I've always felt that the HA integration with myq was likely a burden for them. It makes way too many requests, IIRC.

But that isn't really their reason. They don't allow IFTT to open the door. Alexa and Google Assistant support is extremely limited.

They've focused on partnerships that directly produce revenue. It is purely a cash grab.
In mainland China, when used as a verb (eg.: @ somebody on twitter/x), we use "艾特" now and a few people use "圈" or "圈儿"(quānr) which is an abbreviation of "圈(儿)A".

I think the only scenarios when we need to read @ is as a verb or read an e-mail address. When reading e-mail address, I think most people just read it as "at" because other parts contain letters or English words anyway. But "." is pronounced "点[儿]"(dian[r]) rather than "dot".
Reminds me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPx_X3DjXy8
Well, it would be optional in my vision. Just a different icon to show authentic charging versus unverified charging.
"One Optus customer, Annie, told ABC Radio she found out about the issues through her cat, who is fed through an automatic Wi-Fi feeder, and missed being fed due to the outage."

Source: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/301004965/major-optu...
> She also told the undercover g-man that her real name was Zandra Ellis, confirmed she wanted BH killed, paid him $100 for the hit, and agreed to pay the remaining balance in $250 installments every two weeks

This person really tried to put a hit on layaway.
The type of therapy you're talking about is based in Gestalt principles, and when done effectively has a certain aggressive and confrontational aspect to the sessions that some find difficult to return to.

especially when the market for therapist-shoppers is full of soft touch, utterly ineffective rent-a-friend techniques which merely create an ongoing regular income stream for the practitioner, while doing very little to help the patient out of the condition they are in.
Like that classic Pokemon or Big Data
Wtf I got sildenafil which isn’t an antidepressant or tolkien
It feels like you're trying to probe me for something that you can give a counterexample to.

Like I said, it would be a fuzzy process. I explicitly rejected the idea that there could be a simple litmus. Presenting examples of imagination and adaptation so that someone can shoot them down with "oh, AI has already done that" isn't what I signed up for today.
That and there were never official grammars published for any version of any basic from Microsoft afaik
> I’m sure that’s what they were trying to do, but their argument only carries weight in the context of those hyperboles.

I think this is a bit uncharitable. Yes, nominally everyone is trying to do this, but in practice this comes down to a lot of tradeoffs in terms of timeframes, team sizes, and maintainability/scalability. Even if you have balanced perspectives, what usually ends up happening in larger corporations is some group has a louder voice and more power, and ends up influencing decisions in a way that is globally suboptimal because executives are too busy, and local managers are too focused on their own silos/perf evaluation.

For example, complexity is often built into the product and systems according to the resourcing allocated to a particular problem at a certain point without a full understanding of the implications over time. However, when that complexity is found to have a poor ROI there is then a natural aversion to removing it because at that point it's hard to quantify how exactly the business depends on it. This creates a tax on the entire org, which many can observe, but structuring incentives to fix is fiendishly difficult, especially in comparison to new growth opportunities that get executives, board members and investors excited.
To do this, you'd have to have some sort of common runtime, and nearly all command-line utilities would have to be compiled with said runtime, so that the parameters, names, and types of parameters for said utilities could be returned, parsed, and verified as a data structure, without having to manually parse the output of some `command --help` invocation.

It would thoroughly dispense with the whole argument parsing routine in the first place, which could now be done in a standardised manner; arguments could be defined as strict types with possible values limited to a set, and best of all, they wouldn't just be a dictionary/hash-map of strings to strings—the arguments could actually be named variables with values, in the context of the called utility.

It would certainly be quite a powerful shell, and I'm sure something similar has already been done. I just can't think of an example..... A Powerful shell, running on some Common Language Runtime; I wonder what it could be.
> In other words, the history.

Yes, that was my point. Have you read it?

> You need the full history because sometimes innocuous looking "simple fixes" are neither innocuous nor fixes, and because obscuring the history makes auditing and merges more difficult, not less.

Obscuring logically split and curated commits makes auditing and merges more difficult. Obscuring pointless edit history of the developer makes them easier.

> So blame and bisect are poorly written therefore you should hack around them using a convoluted process that obscures the true history and raises the risk of requiring people to redo weeks worth of work

blame and bisect are powerful tools that can work sensibly in various repository topologies. However, if you're either intentionally putting garbage into your topology, or not utilizing it well because of ill-defined idea of "clean history", you're simply doing yourself a disservice and induce unnecessary mental load.

> by overwriting branch histories on shared repos. Great idea.

Who said anything about overwriting branch histories on shared repos? It has its uses too (it can be useful in some cases when you're a downstream working on a project maintained upstream, for example), but it's not what most projects will ever want to do. That's not what rebase is there for.
If this piqued your interest you might also be interested in: https://github.com/leostera/riot
(2020)

From it's previous home on https://antidepressantsortolkien.now.sh/
Every time I write an early return (which is every time) I think about my first college lab that had the rules "no global variables, one return statement per function" that if you violated you were failed for the lab.

Luckily our TAs graded those and they cared about as much about those rules as everyone else. Today one is a principle at MS and the other at Google. Guess they knew how to code.
People aren't that self-aware though. Many people assume they're being normal and rational when in reality they're behavior is more towards a problematic extreme. Explicity showing which behaviors are extreme and why that's problematic— versus saying "drive safely," which everybody thinks they're already doing— is the purpose of this sort of rhetoric.
They do in the sense that socialised medicine wont cover all treatments. In New Zealand some things are not "funded" but you can still get private cover to extend to cover state of the art treatments and be able to skip the queue.

The difference is, that insurance costs a fraction of what it costs in the USA because the basics are all covered and the cost of providing state of the art care is drastically reduced since the hospital facilities/bed are still covered publicly.
Unless they're so small that you taking out your money results in them experiencing liquidity issues.
It’s my impression, as an engineer, and as expressed in other comments here, that a lot of (most?) engineers rather be doing/making things rather than managing people/processes/politics

I wonder if it’s difficult for companies to find VPs of engineering, staff engineers and engineering managers
OTOH, a significant subset of people do use Social Proof, including celebrity endorsements, as a criteria for purchasing decisions, despite the fact that unless explicitly stated, the endorsement says nothing about any due diligence done by the celeb.

So is it the responsibility of the fool who uses social proof without doing their own due diligence, or is it the fault of the celeb accepting payment for the promotional work?

If they are just going after the celebs to claw back any earnings, which would be put back in the pot to compensate victims, that seems reasonable.

But to go after them as if they were co-conspirators seems quite unjust.
No, the rule is about not going on irrelevant tangents and not dingleberrypicking stuff from submissions. Its actual effect is that such diversions get moderated by users and moderators, just like this one did by users.
The Labyrinth of Horta. It's a bit far away from the center but there's a metro station close.
This is why I believe it's critical to occasionally rotate people into a different team for a few weeks to a month. Every time I've seen it happen, there are subtle things learned which can lead to big improvements. It's not a magic bullet, but it's much more likely to lead to discovering things nobody knew than if everybody stays in place forever.
Jack Handey “Lowering my Standards” vibes (a very amusing short essay).
It might be a lifestyle business (or a way to keep a rich person's spouse busy) in which case you can live on only employing family.

Also, there just wasn't inflation in some places for a few decades, so they just haven't had to deal with it. (Which also means there hasn't been wage growth.)
They’ve also committed to phasing them out by 2026 to go all in on Airbus.

Still, the two aircraft fleet is a lot smaller than what you would see on a legacy carrier.
Within cells interlinked.
Did anyone do worse than me? I got 11/24 :S
> you can play chess with them and find a formidable opponent

One that occasionally tries to make illegal or nonsensical moves, though.
One, this isn’t structuring. Just because you read what structuring is 5m before you read my post doesn’t make this structuring. 50k is way over reporting limits.

And also no it isn’t faster to pick up the phone, even if I don’t get out on hold at all. An ACH transfer takes seconds, it’s like writing a digital check. Doing it 4 times takes very little time.
What you described is the present of tech, not the future.
The wonderful McSweeney's Internet Tendency [0] has a lot of this type of humour.

1. https://www.mcsweeneys.net
When I can tell an AGi to design and build a complex web app then I know we've reached the point.
Fair, you’re probably right
First, an AGI is not necessarily an active agent of the world or self training or self replicating or have any internal motivation to do anything. It can be confined inside a question reply system like the ones we use to talk with LLMs. That doesn't prevent an AGI to use us to train further, replicate and act on physical systems. The lack of a will and of a real time presence are the limiting factors.

Then, I often joke with friends that they are not very intelligent if they get a very high score on IQ tests. They are very intelligent if they can perform easily some difficult tasks. Let's say, I drop you in the middle of an equatorial forest with no money and no clothes and you come back home in a few days. A superintelligence would become a leader of that country (king, president, influential advisor, whatever) and fly me there to meet it.

That test assumes to have a body and act on the world. A confined AGI would just perform like any of us on any task we can describe to it. A superintelligent AGI would perform much better than any human, much like specialized game AIs or non-AIs beat us at go and chess. I think that this is hard to do if they are only language models even if we increase their computing power.

What's a superhuman low cost genial way to keep a toilet clean, except for me to clean it every time or paying somebody to do it? A superhuman AGI would find a way.
Profit only has to increase in nominal terms, not real terms.

You don't have to grow in real terms as long as you don't promise equity investors you'll try to grow.

If you don't even grow nominally, you won't outrun debt and wage growth.
> You are not free to earnestly threaten president or call others to do so.

Because that's not speech, as in an opinion. It's a call to action. But you can speak all day long about how the president is useless and should be replaced. People in the UK couldn't even protest the coronation of Charles without facing arrest.

> it does have roughly much the same ultimate limitations as every other modern liberal democracy (and many modern non-democracies).

Simply not true. People get arrested for speech in other first world countries that would not happen in the US.

> It’s not actually very much of an outlier at all.

It very much is.
*0.1 percentage points. About three percent.
The article seems mistaken on a point. A "lean burn" lets in _more_ oxygen than is required, whereas a rich burn provides too much fuel (wasting it), usually to help cool down the engine through evaporation. Adding water to the intake mix helps keeping the engine cool and increases the efficiency because of the expansion of droplets into water vapor before going through the turbo exit.
Within 20 years, the entire horse industry vanished: https://youtube.com/shorts/Lvzw7NPmppY?si=AA6wdHy0oDEE19DY

Same thing is going to happen to ICE cars, but faster.
This made me think of this recent video: "Why is every movie flopping?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9OAEzHI_yQ

I don't have high hopes for this.
It still works with HA but only if you set it up as a HomeKit device (does not require owning any Apple devices). That’s what I’ve switched to, and it’s working fine now.

You do need the newer generation MyQ gateway however to get HomeKit support.
> grant bodies and governments judge scientists by approval of journals

so this is the lynchpin - how is it that such judgement is reliant on the journals, when it is peer review that gives papers their credibility?

Therefore, shouldn't the peer review system be the judge of quality? Which means by exposing more peer review and making it way more open and participatory, the gov't will no longer need to rely on reputation in journals to judge grants or progress?
Honestly, at this point, I wish all established social media would just go to subscription models so the hands aren't tied by advertisers in terms of moderation. Itl greatly cut down on spam (the longer people stay on, the greater the cost of a ban is).
I like this shankbot aka Mr. Stabby.
Love the concept, but after reading the sample ( https://pragmaticurl.com/book-sample ) I suspect the target audience is extremely junior people. The sample content starts by explaining things like the difference between backend, frontend, and mobile.

Also the writing style feels reminiscent of what happens when you ask ChatGPT too broad of a question: You get an overly generic response that assumes you’re starting from absolute zero knowledge about anything about the topic. Probably a great book for someone starting from absolute zero industry knowledge who wants each thing explained in the simplest terms possible.
I'm ready to believe this, but IIRC on previous posts people accused the poster of doing shady things but I don't remember seeing it ever coming out that they actually did. Do you have some links?
> we can agree to disagree on what "industrial" means. I think that the BN-800 reactor is an industrial reactor, just not a very good one.

Fair enough. IMHO 'industrial' here (power-producing equipment) means "ready for large-scale deployment".

BREST: I didn't know, thank you! The path seems even longer than I thought.

Small steps: indeed, and those small steps pace has to be bumped up if Gen4-proponents really hope to survive the renewables wave.
> I think that the most important part of a system design is the logical decomposition initially, and secondarily the topology (servers and pods, networks, etc). If the aspects of the logical design (domain?) are correct we should be able to arrange things in different topologies as we grow.

That sounds reasonable, but defining a good decomposition initially is perhaps very hard!

One concrete rule of thumb to define a decomposition is to apply Parnas' criteria:

> We have tried to demonstrate by these examples that it is almost always incorrect to begin the decomposition of a system into modules on the basis of a flowchart. We propose instead that one begins with a list of difficult design decisions or design decisions which are likely to change. Each module is then designed to hide such a decision from the others. [...]

-- Parnas, 1972

But, for a new domain, it's still going to be challenging to be able to identify an a effective decomposition up front. Maybe once you've built 2 or 3 instances of a similar application in a similar problem domain, it starts to be easier to figure out what an effective decomposition is likely to be up front.

Another approach is to embrace the fact that you're not going to be able to decompose the system correctly up front, and figure out how to structure development to accomodate that. I.e., how do you set things up to create the flexibility to change the decomposition mid way through delivery taking into account what you've learned. E.g. if you're tossing up between a mess in 1 git repo owned by one team vs carving up the problem and handing out the spoils chunk by chunk to teams scattered across a fixed org chart, prefer the thing that makes it easier to rapidly and flexibly adapt and cheaply change decomposition: e.g. everything in a big mess owned by 1 team in 1 repo where it's possible to adjust decompositions without handoffs or external dependencies.

see also

> one thing grug come to believe: not factor your application too early!

> early on in project everything very abstract and like water: very little solid holds for grug's struggling brain to hang on to. take time to develop "shape" of system and learn what even doing. grug try not to factor in early part of project and then, at some point, good cut-points emerge from code base

-- https://grugbrain.dev/
> I wish there were a standard cross platform assembler library in C for x86, ARM, and WASM. Because frankly writing an asm text generator and shelling out to GCC or NASM is really annoying, and it feels like something so foundational should just exist.

It does, it's called C :-)

> I get there's yasm, and libnasm, and asmjit, and libgccjit, and llvm, etc but they're all varying degrees of "bad" for the purposes of a simple code generator for someone that doesn't want to dig through ARM and Intel's developer docs.

This is only for language developers who aren't writing in C, right? Because if you're writing in C, what would you use this assembler for?

Anything a cross-platform assembler emits is going to be portable, so it's only going to be as performant as C is, so why not just emit C?

Having a C library that emits C might be a nice thing to have - then all the other languages can emit "code" that is cross-platform.
I don't think that's possible. Very few fabs can manufacture these chips, and they are either several years away from completion, or fully booked for about that long.
>It makes no sense to block users simply because they will not consent to targeted ads.

It absolutely 100% does. Advertisers in todays age only spend on targeted advertising because it not only works, but the converse of that (spamming users with random ads) degrades user experience.