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> Is the same thing to happen with software?

I have a theory that one of the major challenges facing manufacturing in the US is actually the opposite.

A manufacturing company in the US is competing for smart, numerate STEM graduates with the likes of Google who offer graduates $180,000 with zero experience (or so I'm told)

But they're also competing with manufacturers in the far east, where $40,000 is a great salary, for someone with several years of experience.

Difficult to win both competitions.
There's an entire refurbishment industry keeping them going.

I know that this article said that you could order machine tools from Japan in the 1980s and get them in a few weeks. But that's not the case anymore.

People buy some press or lathe or whatever out of a liquidation warehouse in Michigan for ~$50k and then pay a refurbisher $1,000,000 to get it to whatever specs they need. That's more expensive than buying a brand-new machine from Germany/Italy/Japan, but you get it installed in your facility so much faster that the extra cash is worth it.

And because they last forever with proper care and maintenance, nobody cares if the "new" tool is 70 years old.

Note that this behavior can easily distort the stats on demand for new machine tools ;)
While there are many downsides to the loss of understanding that physical reality is fundamental, and underlies/provides the make believe world that most people seem lost in, there is a significant upside: any phenomenon that contributes to reducing the number of humans on the planet is helping.

So, don't have kids, or even a relationship with an actual human, just live your life in your own favorite make believe world. Because, obviously, you're at the center of the universe and it all revolves around _your_ "feelings".

At least this isn't contributing more monkeys to the already over-burdended planet...
On the topic of interesting Physics contributing to new cancer therapies, there is also Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (https://www.neutrontherapeutics.com/about-bnct/). I gather the gist of it is that it builds up boron isotopes around a tumour, then bombards it with neutrons that mostly pass through the body but interact far more with the boron isotopes. Energetic particles are emitted, have a low range, and hopefully kill just the cancer cells. Apparently all in less sessions than with X-ray or proton therapy.

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor or medical physicist, I’m just fortunate enough to briefly use a machine intended for this purpose in separate nuclear physics studies. I believe BNCT has been done before with reactor sources of neutrons, but for some reason not as a standard treatment and there’s only one left in Taiwan for this purpose. The new development, afaik, is the ability to use accelerator neutron sources for this. Would love it if anybody knows more!
Also, I think you're referencing a skill from something that people want to do — play a video game — to work, where it's something much harder to keep people focused on.

As a manager, with both WFH and in-office employees, the difference is very clear on my end: In-office employees do undeniably better. In my personal experience, of course.
They're under a crane lifting stuff up overhead on a work site, that's probably why.
A Guide to Mocking in Java
I think with the "X can be phished" argument, there is a massive tradeoff to keep in mind: Everything where you as a user have direct access to the key can in theory be phished. So the only way to make credentials unphishable is by hiding the key from yourself and entrusting it to a third party, in the way that passkeys work. However, now you're entirely dependant on that third party. The question is if, everything considered, this is really such a big security improvement for you.

I think an alternative approach would be to accept a certain risk that credentials can be stolen and improve the ways in which stolen credentials can be revoked.
Someone once said that society forms laws and such mainly to prevent vigilantism, and not really for much else. The remainder is post-facto argumentation about how it was "ok" to do so.
The real problem with red flag laws is that they are engineered without any checks. They are the equivalent of a temporary restraining order, but without the short term limit of such.
They have that problem, but there are frequently programs or legislation designed to reduce that burden. Eg, >10% of Americans are (theoretically) covered by Prop 13. Other municipalities may have laws on the books limiting property tax increases to a certain percent per year. Many other places offer property tax relief programs for people with low income, or the disabled, or the elderly, or generally by increasing exemptions.

As I understand it though, you wouldn't want these programs with a LVT system, because they would just distort the market in a similar manner that it is now?

Yes, because of the property appreciation, Terry can say that on paper, he is rich-ish, but a weird kind of rich where he has nothing but a house in a nice neighborhood, and otherwise has very little money.

How does he pay off the taxes with the equity of his home? A HELOC could work, but he already can't afford the increased taxes with his income alone, so a HELOC would just delay the inevitable and based on his income he probably wouldn't qualify for one.

Or he could do a reverse mortgage, be able to pay the taxes, but put himself at a major risk of losing his home entirely if he lives long enough. Also, reverse mortgages are only available to people over 62.
Google CEO says more job cuts are needed in 2024
Congrats on the launch!

On your pricing model, as it's usage based, don't you incentivize your customers to use your product as little as possible? Wouldn't it be better to have limited tiers with fixed annual/monthly recurring rates? Also, do you sell to enterprise? I assume these would like this setup even more as the rates are predefined and they have a budget they have to deal with.

I'm currently developing my own pricing model and these are some issues I'm struggling with, so curious what you think.
The point is that cryptocurrency enables an entire category of crime that was for all practical purposes infeasible otherwise. There is no way for ransomware actors to demand payment through traditional financial institutions without getting caught very quickly.

We can easily compare the amount of ransomware activity enabled by crypto (all of it) with the amount of the same activity enabled by the US dollar (none of it).
Hans is probably high on the psychopath scale, and if you do any reading about psychopaths, the main takeaway is that you can never believe what they are saying. From Google:

What is a psychopathic person?

Psychopathy is a severe personality disorder characterized by interpersonal deceptiveness and calloused, remorseless use of others, as well as behavioral recklessness, impulsivity, and overt antisocial behavior (e.g., aggression, violence). From: Encyclopedia of Mental Health (Third Edition), 2023.
As a purely practical matter, a measuring spoon works just as well. I keep a 7.5ml spoon in the creatine jar because it's a quantity I don't seem to ever need for anything else. I agree with all the points about reasonability and probable cause described above, but it's also smart to assume that cops are low IQ jerks and (for example) if you're traveling, to keep your creatine in a labeled container, ideally the one you bought it in. Failing that, print out a fact sheet on creatine and keep it with the creatine.

Of course we shouldn't have to engage in pre-emptive defensive strategies like this. Cops should operate to far higher standards and exemplify the principle of innocent until proven guilty. But the reality is that a lot of them are stupid and/or corrupt. Having been arrested on false pretences a few times, your post-contact explanations, no matter how reasonable, don't carry much weight if the cop finds you suspicious for some reason. For all practical purposes, cops are trained to maximize confirmation bias.
Cue the downvotes but I imagine you could sort those people into two buckets:

1. Those who love their Macs a little too much

2. Those who routinely build a PC.

i.e. Are you familiar with the hardware market.
Imagine you use systemd to manage daemons in a large distributed system. Crashes could be caused by a failure in a dependency. Once you fix the dependency, you want all your systems to recover as quickly as possible, you don't want to go through each one of them to manually restart things.

This doesn't mean that you don't investigate, it just means that you have an additional guarantee that the system can automatically eventually recover.

If you set a limit on number or time or restart, what's a reasonable limit? That will be context dependent, and as soon as it's more than a few minutes, it may as well be infinite.
Why the hell was this flagged? It’s an excellent and funny read that finally makes an original point regarding the decay of academia and great outlook how digital media and LLMs will and have changed literature culture.

How the hell was this gem flagged @dang?
One of the best things I read on HN and I almost missed it…
Carrington Event of 1859
Canada is vast, and it definitely causes pain, not that I'm excusing it for the ISPs.

A Bell 1.5Gbps/940Mbps FTTH connection is $120 without a deal if you're in an area it is available, but then you go three blocks down the road and all you can get is a 300/30 cable connection for $90.

A little further down that road, and maybe only DSL or Starlink is available.
Meanwhile on the web RSA keeps popping up because for some odd reason it's the easiest way to do public key encryption using the built-in option, Web Crypto (it does support RSA-OAEP, but still). With interfaces like this https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/RsaHashedKe... I'm sure there's plenty of typos to be found just setting the publicExponent for example.

There are good third-party libraries but it's too bad Web Crypto doesn't offer something like libsodium's sealed box (or XChaCha for that matter on the symmetric side) to make encryption less of a footgun for devs building web apps.
This post is a long-ass “told you so” and honestly, I’m here for it. I too had an Ello account and thoroughly enjoyed its minimalist nature.

VC money really seems like the beginning of the end.
I was explaining to someone why I enjoy my commute. It's totally OK if you don't enjoy yours! I would also hate having to sit in a car! People are different and have different situations and that's OK.
He was sentenced to 15 years to life, 16 years ago. I'm not sure this letter is for us, or for the parole board. Maybe I'm being cynical.

That's not to say I didn't find the technical parts interesting.
ah yes, endless greed. hopefully i'll see capitalism destroy itself in my lifetime.
When I feel like I've made some form of meaningful progress. Sometimes it isn't much in the way of output but will contribute.
1BRC in .NET Among Fastest on Linux: My Optimization Journey
I knew I recalled it from somewhere, thank you!
I don’t think that has anything to do with FP honestly. I think it’s a combination of package culture, the language making it incredibly easy to write poorly performing code, and the massive scale and cultural/corporate tilt of the JS community resulting in a generally lower quality of developer.
How would one manage a fully connected VR-scape without AGI?
It is not the hardware actually. It is network reliability makes cloud better.
Welcome back to the Unicorn Club, 10 years later
As a rule of thumb, pay attention to crypto parameters and cipher 'suites'. Use the highest SHA, use seven word diceware phrases for the password, ensure the latest TLS version is used, use a reputable & robust RNG, etc
Whelp, my experience is waiting 6h in line, despite doing all of the above, because there's only one DMV, and they know they've got you by the cojones. Damn monopolies, amirite?
This was a terrible way to run a company then and now. It leads to an incoherent product strategy. It doesn't provide the persistence required to pursue strategies that take many years to eventuate. Google succeeded in spite of this culture, not because of it; they found an immensely profitable niche, which enabled them to hire huge amounts of incredible talent, which covered up their cultural problems.

[Disclaimer: I work at Google.]
I don't know what this means, sorry.
> Which also means that K-9's should have to be replaced with new K-9's that aren't trained to smell or "indicate" on marijuana because they can't distinguish between legal THC-A weed vs. illegal delta-9 weed. So their "indication" can't be considered a reliable piece of evidence when they still indicate on legal material.

I'd agree with most dogs that have already been trained. However, I'd be curious to see if a dog could be trained to differentiate the two. I wouldn't discount it out of hand, those noses are something else.
Lmao you know that cash still exists rite?
It would seem sensible if fire codes were something like LEED certifications, where different elements scored different points toward certification. Example: You don't need a second staircase if you have a sprinkler system. Non-flammable materials like brick and stone earn more points that wood and asphalt. etc.
Better yet the CEO could puckerup and kiss my bhole with tongue and it won't cost a thing.
> Unless you're a criminal, nobody's looking inside your VM.

> Heck, AWS can't access VMs (of course it's Internet cool to not believe this).

Do the VMs only let someone in if they’re running a criminal workload, or how does it work?
but it's not a construction site though
I remember using something like this in the long-ago days of DOS.
Have you implemented it? The orm aspect is actually pretty weak. You end up implementing an RPC api anyway. And then you wonder how this was sold to you as declarative and idempotent.

I exaggerate here because graphql does not solve the datalake problem. And it doesn’t do graphs (you can). The curb appeal looked super promising, but then it was just rpc with a bespoke ORM syntax.
WTF? CAs should be mandated to have an automated, public form/API where you can submit a private key to have it revoked.

Lets encrypt has this. https://letsencrypt.org/docs/revoking/#using-the-certificate...
It's been there for a long time. The quality of their products is awful.
Seriously, stop using RSA (2019)
"But a little digging shows a much more predictable source: they took a $435,000 round of seed funding in January from FreshTracks Capital, a Vermont-based VC firm that announced the deal in March."

People forget (or mostly never knew) that Ello was a Vermont thing.

I once spitballed with a certain VC at FreshTracks Capital about an idea I had, which lead to him running off with it and burning millions of dollars making it into BRIDJ, which shut down a few years ago.
Whenever I'm roleplaying with my tinfoil hat, I say that the NSA is behind the "never implement your own crypto" advice.

If you're really worried, roll your own encryption, and then also run the encrypted message through standard encryption implementations. After all, if the standard implementations work, it doesn't matter if you mess up your own crypto implementation, because the standard implementation is unbreakable.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Reiser5-Development is the last reference I find to Rieser5, but the link in it goes to what appears to just be Reiser4 maintained against moderately recent kernels.
That's such a crazy scale to consider that it makes me wonder how easy it is to maintain control over that many cards, and how easy it would be for someone at a company of this scale to become a purchasing tunnel to countries with sanctions.
Apart from the examples given by the other user: 64 bit integers and their atomics which are the bread and butter of efficient software rasterizers such as Nanite, or for point clouds which can be rendered multiple times faster with 64 bit atomics compared to using the "point-list" primitive; subgroup operations; bindless; sparse buffers; printf; timestamps inside shaders; async memcpy and copy without the necessity for an intermediate copy buffer and so much more. One of the worst is that they're adding limitations of all languages, but not the workarounds that may exist in them. Like WebGPU actively prohibits buffer aliasing or mixing atomic and non-atomic access to memory because of Apple's Metal Shading Language, but Metal supports it via workarounds! I mean... seriously? That actually makes WebGPU even worse than the lowest common denominator.

One of the turning points for the worse was the introduction of WGSL. Before WGSL, you could do lots of stuff with spirv shaders because they weren't artifically limited. But with WGSL, they went all in on turning WebGPU into a toy-language that only supports whatever last decades mobile phones support. I was really hopeful for WebGPU because UX-wise, it is so much better than anything else. Far better than Vulkan or OpenGL. But feature-wise, WebGPU so limited that I had to go back to desktop OpenGL.

In one way WebGPU really has become a true successor to WebGL though - it is a graphics API that is outdated on arrival.
dumb question... is it purely the demand that makes it this expensive? The "you need this or you die" aspect? Or is the cost of research and manufacturing for this stuff so astronomical that it warrants such a high price?

I almost don't want to even know... if I find out it costs only ~$5 to develop a dose, and they're charging $200k to dying people... ugh
I cannot wait to see what colab people come up with to integrate your device with a head-tracking mouse, e.g. TrackerPro by AbleNet?

Haven't looked in to your product at all, but am trying to help an eighty year old genius succumbing to Parkinsonism.
Interesting! I always try to guess how these things work before I read the article. My imaginary design would have the kite pull a heavy weight up and as the weight moves, it rotates a generator. When the weight reaches the end of the travel, it falls back down and the cycle repeats. The flaw with this design is if the wind was strong enough to pull the weight up, then the weight is not going to be able to fall back under its own power. That's why the real design just uses a motor to do that. Makes sense!
Ask HN: Whats an easy way to only read x HN per day?
Hi,

i'm reading to much hn (a problem because i also skim over hn top list page 1-3 too often).

I also like to comment which is also consuming too much time.

What longterm options do you know? Like some RSS Feed which is not dependend on someone no one knows who hosts it for fun, but something like a rss feed for the top x news per day.

As far as i know, the hn rss feed provides around 700 news per week, which is a 100 per day, which should be over 3 pages (too much).

Unfortunate nextdns.io doesn't support hn for parental control. In worst case i will block hn completly and host an nginx reverse proxy, but than i can't use hn remote :(
This is a very US-specific problem, for the record. Most of the world is fine without health insurance and without worrying about going bankrupt.
I would be immensely paranoid that an arresting cop would find this somehow personally offensive, and replace my joke cocaine with real cocaine.
"Right, it seems the U.S. economy is trying to say, "making elementary machine tools is beneath us.""

Hopefully policy makers and the citizenry will resist following what, as you say, the US economy is trying to say.

You see ...

You can stop making elementary machine tools.

You will never stop making (people who can only make elementary machine tools).
I understand your cynicism, but let’s inject some actual data.

The price that the manufacturer charges for a course of blinatumomab (in a different indication for adults, not that this is especially relevant in this discussion) is ~£56k [0] - so significantly lower than the price quoted from the US.

NICE (the organisation which published the document referenced) exists to achieve value for money for the NHS for higher-priced and specialist treatments. If, following a thorough assessment, a medicine does not achieve the required value for money standard at the price proposed by the manufacturer, they are presented with two options: to not have the drug reimbursed in the UK at all, or to lower the effective price, so that the drug becomes cost-effective.

[0] https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ta589/documents/final-appra...
If it's a one-off then it's unlikely a red flag will matter. It will either have already been done or will not be done, the flag comes too late to intervene.
If you look at the source for into_boxed_slice, it calls shrink_to_fit at the beginning before doing anything else. Hence the documentation is slightly wrong, and no copies occur.

Edit: I submitted a PR to clear up the docs: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/120110
A quick look at the App Store games section suggests about half of the "top" games exceed the default file size limits for both of those.

(But this is rather beside the point, I've been trying to repeatedly make it clear that I was defending the initial value proposition when the App Store was new and shiny and Apple were mere upstarts, not the ongoing one where the corporation's market cap is approximately the same as the net value of the entire country I was born in).
He doesn’t discuss the deprecation at all. Instead he paints a picture with technical discussions of the past, and still sees himself as some great inventor and the cause of many things. Dreams of others etc. Puke

He has god complex, but now also has some verbal tricks up his sleeve. The whole thing felt disingenuous.
Which ties into a second problem: the US especially requires elevators to be too large, which limits how many are built because they take up so much square footage, which drives up the cost to install.

In Spain and France you’ll find single staircase, 4 story buildings that have one meter-by-meter sized elevator. Often even as retrofits in older buildings! In NY you’ll find these too, but they’re only in pre-war (1930s and older) buildings. It would make many apartments much more accessible and desirable to live in if we could drive down the cost of elevator installations for smaller buildings.
It has to be a mix. If I only encouraged my employees at what their good at, and never pushed them to get better in areas they're lacking, things would go down-hill over time.

It can't be an everyone gets a gold star situation. Encouragement/reward is good when warranted, and encouraging everyone to recognize their strengths and weaknesses is required.
This is somewhat of a side question, but do you have an opinion on Ironclad, the Common Lisp encryption library?

https://github.com/sharplispers/ironclad
Great job! Thanks for sharing this!

I'm developing a dynamic tutorial desktop app and I plan to use this model as text to speech synthesizer. Any chance it can be ported to ONNX format?
Ableist Language and the Euphemism Treadmill (2020)