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Explore the art of navigating cultural differences and building inclusive strategies in international business communication. Understand the role of technology in connecting global teams and discover methods for evaluating the impact of communication to continually improve engagement and foster meaningful international partnerships.
I think it's meant to signify the pricing scheme / platform type. Here, you pay for exactly what you use, and it is stored inside "projects". Meanwhile, in a "managed" scheme, you would pay a monthly fee on a per-node basis.
Bullshit, this is just the standard lie rolled out to keep people from questioning it.
Location: New Delhi, India

Remote: Yes, any timezone, available worldwide I actively work in EST and CEST.

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Technologies: Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, AWS, GCP, ETL, Spark, Airflow, Cassandra, MySQL, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Redis, RabbitMQ, Docker, Terraform, Git, Linux.

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Hey everyone! I am Shashank, a data, cloud and backend engineer with 8 years of experience. Currently, I am working at an Ad Tech security company where I specialise in building backend APIs, ETL pipelines, working on security tools, overhauling our architecture and deployment processes, and managing a small team on the enterprise vertical. Prior to this, I was a founding engineer and data engineer at a DeFI based music startup, where I single-handedly built the entire data infrastructure, payments platform, analytics and reporting system and most of the company's products.

Throughout my 8-year career, I have gained extensive experience in delivering products from concept to launch, designing architecture, product & infrastructure planning, and managing small teams.

I have been working fully remotely for New York based companies since the past 5 years from India and Europe(as a digital nomad). I am open to fully remote roles as well as onsite/hybrid if visa sponsorship is available.
Agree, but I think the usage of “ditch” is a bit snarky.
Humans evolved during a period of ice age. The earth (while it has hosted terrestrial life) has typically been much warmer.

If we return to a Cretaceous period temperatures, can we and our crops survive?

I've read that if we wind up with a navigable north sea and arable north, that the earth would be net better for some (eg. Russia) despite the fact that other climates will suffer. (Some surmise that Russia could be catapulted back into superpower status.)

Could these runaway heating systems go beyond sustainable and turn earth into Venus?
Make Web Apps

- Work on every operating system.

- Easier to monetize, easy to charge a recurrent fee, no worries about piracy.

- Easy to distribute.

- Great dev tools and frameworks.
https://archive.is/1xhYm
COM has become iunknown ;)
The article said it wasn’t visible because that stub was machined after it was placed in the hub. Which begs the question “why would you weld a tube in place and then finish machining it after?” Maybe it was easier/faster to machine it while it was on a hub. Also, wasn’t there an oil filter that had to go in there? Wouldn’t the oil filter experience interference if the counterbore was offset?

Closing comment: damn I thought people paid more attention when building turbines.
Xbox Will "Exit the Gaming Business" If Game Pass Doesn't Get Enough Subscribers
Sounds like they need a bus.
This kind of post, where one describes stereotypes in an amusing way, are the opposite of "Ten software manager lessons from Napoleon". There's some truth in stereotypes, but Napoleon didn't know about software or programming or engineering or anything, the lessons are just pasting a modern view on a historical figure that happens to be convenient.
Also, today is the 30-year anniversary of DOOM's release.
Scientists Created Tiny VR Goggles for Lab Mice
From the wikipedia article, it's all about the form factor:

> The space utilization of the battery pack is increased by over 50% compared to most conventional lithium iron phosphate block batteries.

> BYD claims that, in the nail penetration test, the Blade Battery emitted no smoke or fire after being penetrated, and its surface temperature reached only 30 to 60 °C (86 to 140 °F). It is currently the only power battery in the world that can safely pass the test.

Reducing volume by 33% and mostly eliminating fire risks are both huge wins, if true. Doing it in a standard form factor that can be reused across future vehicle platforms is an even bigger deal.
…in the way governments want the data to extend control…

SMH
There are levels of survival that humans must be prepared to tolerate as long as we do not work together to act in the interest of our species.
Wikipedia defines it as

> a constructor is a special type of function called to create an object.

Now, I don't think Wikipedia is always the authority on everything, but this is how I view them as well. A constructor is kinda like a callback that the language runtime invokes when an something is created. For example, in C++:

class Foo {
public:
Foo() {
// your code goes here
}
};

int main() {
Foo a; // constructor invoked here
}

(please excuse formatting, there is no unified C++ style so I just picked one)

or in Ruby:

class Foo
def initialize
# your code goes here
end
end

Foo.new # constructor invoked here

These "constructors" in Rust don't work like that at all. They are not special member functions that are invoked when something is created; they are the syntax to create something.
This is one of my pet issues. I'm absolutely of the opinion that you need to at least be familiar and understand what has come before in a technical field in order to have real mastery in the same field today.

Practically speaking, knowing the hows and whys of obsolete technologies makes it much easier to learn new the new stuff that is coming tomorrow as well. Everything is built on what has come before.

I see many "kids these days" who not only don't know the history, but actively think that knowing it is a waste of their time. It's a shame, because that attitude is a handicap. I also take it as an indication that the person doesn't have an interest in the field for its own sake.
> The space utilization of the battery pack is increased by over 50% compared to most conventional lithium iron phosphate block batteries.

> BYD claims that, in the nail penetration test, the Blade Battery emitted no smoke or fire after being penetrated, and its surface temperature reached only 30 to 60 °C (86 to 140 °F). It is currently the only power battery in the world that can safely pass the test.

> In addition, it successfully passed an extreme safety test that saw it being rolled over by a 46-tonne heavy-duty truck[citation needed].

> The Blade Battery also passed other extreme test conditions, such as being crushed, bent, being heated in a furnace to 300 °C (572 °F) and overcharged by 260%. None of these resulted in a fire or explosion.

None of that sounds like big leaps of progress to you?

More on-topic, I wonder if the battery is fully functional with that 260% overcharge. Could be interesting if you can tell the battery (controller) “yes I accept the 1% point extra wear, please enable overcharge mode” for a really long trip that won’t have charging stations.
I agree. We have no idea. From a statistical standpoint, I‘d rather have humanity pollute less because the chance that humanity will thrive in a changed ecosystem is lower than in the current since humans have evolved in the current.
> The most important thing a teacher should do is help the students internalize why they’re learning the material. What they can do with it.

Depending on the topic there is often no "why". Most classes a student takes are required and they have absolutely zero interest in them and they will willfully forget them as soon as the semester is over
>Imaging large-scale neural activity with cellular resolution in awake, mobile mice

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17920014/
When will corporations get scared? When the insurance dries up? New Zealand can't hold all the world's millionaires and billionaires. If there's a rush, then that money won't matter much.
Used as a common denominator for basic communication, yes. Use for the kinds of rich interactions and modalities (like the "server" metaphor) that Apple, Google, and everyone else wants to add to chat, no. And that's where we get lost in "extension hell."
"Ditch Vim" is definitely weird wording for people (like myself) that consider Vin great. I can understand it for those who don't grok it though, then it's rather frustrating.
I've never used Pandora before so I had no idea. Do they have a patent on the concept or something? It seems like such an obvious idea and yet the best Spotify can do is prepare a playlist based on taste rather than adapt on the fly.
Hah, I only say large as anything smaller they're already getting you somewhere at your provider's provider.
My personal perspective is that computing has become much more complicated than necessary in the past decades. Of course abstraction will always create complexity, and some of that can hardly be avoided, but in computing these days complexity is really off the charts.

So for this book I chose a platform that is easy to understand and does not make you wade through tons of abstractions that are only loosely related to compiler construction (e.g. ELF object file format).
In a sense, though, that doesn't matter. I mean, it would be nice, but it's not material. That knowledge is of value to the devs directly because it makes them better devs. That is something employers do actually value.
Maybe there are certain domains where you could obviously do better. Take an artist wanting to version control images, i could imagine specialized tools that could be much better. For programming, there could be improvements for versioning groups of repositories that work together perhaps.

For standard needs, probably going to be difficult.
HN is not typical of the general population of Europe, not even within the IT community. It self-selects for certain kinds of people. There are other IT communities, such as the CCC, that do not at all share the libertarian bent that HN tends to have.

I'm from the EU, and I'm not afraid that AI regulation is going to make my job disappear. There are other EU laws / rulings that I'm much more worried about (e.g. chat control, or for a mundane example, mandatory time tracking).

Meanwhile, if people from the US are "laughing at the EU consistently shooting themselves in the foot", I kindly suggest taking a close look at your own country before judging others.
Says the person who cannot live in a state bigger and more populous than many countries because he thinks they have the wrong core values. That speaks volumes about _you_. You are young and you have an ego problem, not a _other people's core values problem._

Yes, they can probably see parts of what kind of a person I am. Just like we can all see what kind of a person you are. A person that knows that there's something wrong with everybody else.
People will believe it isn't harmful to all insects because the manufacturer says it's only harmful to specific classes of insects.

(Carefully crafted) Studies will confirm that.

And the government tacitly endorses the claims (by the EPA approving its sale).

What is the customer supposed to do? Doubt everything the manufacturer, scientists, and the government say? Ok, some doubt is healthy. But then then what?

Should the customer test the chemical on all classes of insects himself? And what if the effects aren't immediately obvious (as is the case here)?

I guess you're arguing for pesticide-free farming here, which is unsustainable for almost all farms.
Indeed. Would only add, context windows are continually multiplying in size. Who knows how long Moore's Law will apply here, but it's a continually improving window.
The United Arab Emirates' takeover of African forests
I think the release of closed source models right now is a net negative and worth opposing. Right now we’re building a future where the very wealthy and powerful will control access to AI on ethical grounds, while they have uncensored access to the latest and most powerful models. Innovation, high frequency trading, medical breakthroughs, creative output - all of these and more will be enhanced by AI, and you’ll be eating leftovers and paying a fortune for them, wondering why you can’t keep up - unless we enable a vibrant open source ecosystem, and force big tech to release models into that ecosystem.

Support open source models by celebrating their release and pressuring companies to release them, and oppose closed source AI or face a very bleak future for you and your descendants.

You may be having fun with “Open” AI’s API today, but you’re supporting and celebrating the collapse of society into megacap AI elites and a majority paying for metered access to old technology.
It's mentioned in the post link, but I suspect in practice distrust is less useful than you'd think as long as fresh identities are free. You can't punish someone without any "skin in the game". Centralized systems have an advantage here: they can refuse to issue new accounts or make it cost money to register, which puts some cost on spam. Distributed systems can be spammed and sock-puppeted for free.

In practice most central systems don't explicitly charge money for accounts, but instead require verification of something that would make it inconvenient to register large numbers of accounts all at once. For example, if you want a Gmail account, you need to verify your phone number with SMS. Phone numbers cost money to obtain, which means that you can distrust ones used to create spam accounts and the spammers actually lose something.

This is also why Fediverse moderation puts so much emphasis on defederating instances rather than banning individual accounts. In the Identica/OStatus era of the Fediverse, defederation was actually very controversial! But here in the Mastodon era, the only way to actually punish bad instance operators (and there are plenty of them) is to defederate their instance. This works because instances are referred to by domain name, and DNS is a centralized[0] system that costs money to register, so you can distrust a domain and actually cost the abuser money.

[0] The distribution of domain records is decentralized, and you can delegate subdomains forever, but you have to have a chain of delegation leading back to the root servers. Top level delegations cost lots of money, second-level delegations less so, and subdomain delegations are basically not worth anything and can be distrusted with wildcards on the first private zone in the domain (e.g. ban .evil.co.uk, .evil.net, etc).
Room 641A was known to the security community long before the Snowden leaks.
I was just reading or watching something about this last week. I will see if I can find it.

Horribly paraphrased:

Carmack was able to pull off impressive tech without impressive level designers was the gist of it.

Romero is talented at the design side but at the time that didnt translate into better games / companies like the fundamental tech did.
This isn't the police reading your emails. It is envelope metadata (to/from). This type of surveillance is not even a search under the 4th Amendment (Smith v. Maryland). Having a warrant makes the activities described in the article completely legitimate. It is the definition of "due process".
I'm pretty sure the IRS has rules for appraisal of assets to prevent exactly this kind of thing from happening.
It's almost like a chose the example on purpose ;)
To add to this, I have a laptop with 32G of RAM and am able to run some 7B models on CPU. But I'd like to work on some larger models. Are there any eGPUs that can aid in this?
Evolution - T.Rex with it's upright stance evolved out of earlier animals that walked on four legs. The small size of the arms of most (but not all) species in this family of animals tells you that the arms were not normally used.

Some snakes (also having evolved from animals with legs) still have vestigial legs - all but disappeared since they too serve no purpose.
That sounds sorta like Cholo, but it was never on the Amiga:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholo_(video_game)
Whoa! Surprising
Here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38592180
Taking a sentence and doubling the world count with folksy-sounding adjectives does not actually make the prose more "literary". It's just bad copy...
The government spooks aren’t at the ISP level…remember the AT&T whistleblower…

https://www.wired.com/2006/05/att-whistle-blowers-evidence/
Nobody should be surprised. I think most people are familiar with Murphy's law
Browser based terminals look like one of those bad ideas that people just refuse to give up on. Like singletons and graphical imperative programming.
I’ll bite, what real powers do European kings and queens still have? And do those powers supersede the powers of elected officials?

Whereas, we know Saudi kings can order assassinations on foreign soil and request a live recording of it… and get away with it.
The road to global warming is mined by positive feedback loops all the way to hell. Every step forward on it is risking a disaster, and by the time we finally acknowledge that we stepped over a landline, there is no way back, even if all those processes takes years to decades.
With its USD 99 price (or USD 149 for a version with additional material), this e-book seems quite expensive to me.
Perf tests will be done soon. The data model is different from mongo and the query language differs as well. Otherwise you should be able to store what you can in Mongo on Skytable as well (excluding full text search, a feature that we're working on).
Is it? Or is it just picking a point in space and time that has a lot of data to back it up? I would not expect this to have been out of the norm for the time. Slavery and cruelty were very common.
He is a good game designer who invented some of the common tropes of FPS. After Quake and Doom he tried things that were sometimes too ambitious or just didn't work out.

First of all, most game designers don't have as much success as he had after Id. Second, how are you going to follow up games as successful as Doom.

Also don't forget Wolfenstein, Hexen..

(Full disclosure: I met him once and he was nice.)
Most things I've seen say next year. Regardless, it's not a fact that they are the biggest yet.
Thanks for being so transparent
> Tigers eat grass

Tigers, and housecats, don't have the digestive system to get sustenance from grass. A cat swallowing grass is kind of like a chicken swallowing gravel; it's not food.

If tigers could eat grass as opposed to just swallowing it, they would have no reason to hunt anything; they're more than capable of driving away most things that would compete for their grass.
I have trouble believing anything that Microsoft says to regulators at this point.

Remember when they told the European Commission that they wouldn't have an incentive to make Bethesda games exclusive to Xbox?
In addition to the many great recommendations already posted in replies I recommend reading and watching videos about how Steve Jobs approached product design, and watch some infamous Apple keynotes.

A part of this is developing a sense of “taste”, which I strongly believe is possible to do but you have to have a certain mindset to do it. This helped me immensely once I realized it.

One great website with great tidbits around the creation of the original Macintosh is Folklore[0]

[0]: https://www.folklore.org/index.py
That sounds like great news for consumers.
Well at one point the Republicans were a third party. Yes First past the post is terrible, but to say your candidate can’t win without getting the most votes is how nearly all election systems work.

A lot needs to be reformed with regards to voting and election systems in the US but to claim it is impossible for a third party to win is factually incorrect. How else would independent politicians like Bernie Sanders or third party candidates like Abraham Lincoln would have ever been elected?
Catagolue – The Largest Distributed Search of Cellular Automata
I was surprised too.

When I talked to fellow gamers about the awesome stuff Carmack does, they were all like "he's just a engineer, Romero is the real genius!"

But somehow I didn't see anything impressive from Romero, while Carmack was doing cool stuff all the time.

Sure, it wasn't artsy like Romero's work, but it was still impressive.
> "Of course not, unless you move the entire office and all roles."

Yes, do that. If you can close down one role and replace it with an Indian in India doing that role cheaper, then with the same logic you can close down the entire office and replace it with an office of Indians in India doing those roles, cheaper.

Somehow, the first applies and is used a threat for return to office, but the second 'magically' doesn't apply. If you need to keep westerners doing the jobs for any reason, and you can't outsource those tasks to India for any reason, then the people may as well be westerners WFH.
I’ve never been in jail, but I assume if you actually do need your dad to come bail you out, you’re going to be out of luck trying to access the generated TOTP on your smartphone.
Missed opportunity in naming it.

I wish it was DA-URF. Then you could say we have a lab, it is deep in DA-URF.
Can anyone recommend any online communities to have designs critiqued?
Carmack and Romero will stream on Twitch at 20:00 GMT. https://twitter.com/romero/status/1720489883590939047
Paddle has its seat in London but they also have a US company registration. Revenue from my US customers goes through Paddle in US.
It has been working well for me so far, except for very long response times from their seller‘s support.
This is Emacs, so one presumes that it's a SMOeL (Simple Matter Of eLisp) problem.

However, it seems tasteless to impose the burden.
What a ridiculous comment. $10 per month is like three orders of magnitude less than a developer. Clearly they could charge a lot more
Do you have any links to writeups about this? I haven’t heard of the /r/Canada coup
Raspberry Pi releases PCIe FFC connector specifications, new HAT+ standard
From experience, in the last 5-10 years most lecturers won't care if you go to classes or no. The will only require you to do continuous evaluation tasks.
"at this point" was 1975
No it's not. That's already accounted for by the "10*".

It's 1%. Any specific song is 0.1%.
Apparently no one can afford the tax bill on an inherited farm, and it looks terrible forcing family farms to sell their land to a large conglomerate.
Datawrapper: Create Charts, Maps, and Tables
Can someone comment? Is this just posturing in a legal case? They're trying to protray themselves as "the little guys" in an antitrust suit.

I'm not giving this a lot of weight
Nadia Humanoid
> Note that GDScript (the primary scripting language for Godot) also uses reference counting for its memory management, so it doesn't have the GC pause issues.

This is a great point, and something someone pointed out in the Q/A portion at the end.. I don't think Icaza cared though, he seemed very motivated to slay the dragons of his past and make good after working so hard to integrate C# into Godot.

There's another talk about the GDScript from the same conference that I've been meaning to finish watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNR4Tne5DRE
Debian 12.3 Delayed Due to an EXT4 Data Corruption Bug Being Addressed
Old and pointless article. Since then they "won" the FTC case and purchase Activision Blizzard.

Nobody spends 70 billions only to "exit" the gaming business couple of months later.