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>I'm sorry but nVidia proprietary driver and "just works" doesn't belong in the same sentence.

No issue for me on kubuntu LTS and I am using NVIDIA proprietary drivers since 7 years ago, I even experimented with various drivers to make wine games to work and never had issues. But maybe *ubuntu gets better testing and support from NVIDIA then other distribution,
That's the point. Try it out for a month, get overwhelmed by your expenses, then cut back as you learn about them. After that month, turn the email notifications off and make a habit of checking the website every day or every so often.
Put conspiracy theory that this is related with layoffs aside, the author of the article didn't do a simple fact check.

The mentioned case happened in Santa Clara, the 2 person involved in the Los Altos case are both 66 years old, they are not the 2 Google engineers the author put names in the title.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/01/16/two-adults-found-dead...

One party in the title is not deceased, there is a felony case against him in Santa Clara Superior Court.
If you insist on using a B-Tree index and random UUIDs that's certainly the case. Many of the formulas used to generate UUIDs in the past had terrible privacy implications: Office 95 would fill documents with UUIDs generated based on MAC addresses and timestamps so Office documents could be tracked to particular machines until Microsoft changed this with little fanfare.
Ha! I was literally dealing with that exact issue last week as I was doing my Mint to Monarch migration.

And thinking I'd to categorize my transactions as AppleCare+ vs software vs gaming vs cloud storage vs streaming, for budgeting purposes.

And then just kind of gave up. Apple seriously needs to put more detail in their transaction line, although I guess they can't always when they combine things in a single charge. But even just different merchants would help between iCloud, Apple Store, App Store, and Apple Services. Or something.
Thanks for nitpicking, but according to wikipedia it is the largest[1]. Regardless, the idea that Berlin is a haven for folks that don't care about their career is a little bizarre to imagine.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_the_European...
I understand that this probably refers to a French grocery store of some sort, but I can't get the image out of my head of you ordering a baguette off of the localized French version of https://www.monoprice.com/.
The free market also leads to shortages - see the news about chips, housing, health care, education, etc etc etc. Don't compare a policy to the almighty, compare it to the alternative.

The free market allocates resources to those who can pay the most for them. That's good for corporations using lithium, but not, for example, for sustenance, shelter, healthcare, or education.

That said, I don't support price controls except for very specific situations. For example, when health or safety is threatened (lack of food, shelter, health care, for example) or to prevent extortion or exploitation.
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The claim that SFPD ceased enforcing traffic laws, leading to a rise in overall crime, oversimplifies the complex factors influencing crime rates. While COVID-19 may have impacted police operations, it's unfounded to suggest a complete halt in traffic law enforcement by the SFPD. The correlation between traffic stops and a reduction in serious crimes is not straightforward. The challenges faced by the DA's office and judges in San Francisco are part of the usual checks and balances, and don't imply a systemic failure. The assertion that only law-abiding citizens face legal consequences while serious offenders escape is a broad generalization without specific evidence. Crime prevention and law enforcement are multifaceted and cannot be reduced to single-factor explanations.
The Panama Canal Authority derives ~3 G$ in fees over ~14 K crossings per year for a average cost of ~200 K$ per crossing.

40 M gallons is ~150 K*m^3. Modern bulk desalination turns seawater into potable fresh water at ~0.40 $/m^3, so only ~60 K$. The cost of filtering out any incidental saltwater mixing should be a tiny fraction of that cost.

Even at full desalination it would only constitute ~30% cost increase. Given the minimal amount of filtering that should be required for incidental mixture, it is hard to call that a great expense except in relation to rainwater.
I like https://oldweb.today ... actually emulates old OS/browser combinations and proxies stuff from archive.org
I get the attraction of this technology for the police, but we definitely need to acknowledge the massive potential for misuse. I think I would be more OK with these license plate readers if they only scanned for and recorded plates when a warrant or other court approved order was issued. Allowing them to capture and record all license plates at all times seems like an overreach.
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I suppose you could split the HDMI signal and have one side go to the Display and the other to your device for analytics. Good luck
Alarm fatigue [0] is a very real phenomenon that I am sure (potentially, depending) translates to people in their everyday lives somehow, too. I personally disable notifications for practically everything except messages and weather on my phone. Anything else, I have to check it manually. I do get email notifications about charges to my CC, though, and I tend to review them fairly quickly because I check my email a few times a day.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_fatigue
One of the reasons why I avoid subscriptions to anything if at all possible is to avoid this. More than a couple and the cost of having to keep track of them exceeds any value of having them.
There isn't a choice. Its -20 out. Are you keeping your window open in the third story to run a 150' extension cord down the parking lot?

Before commenting it is useful to test your position instead of replying on someone else to invalidate it for you.
Oh yeah, the C preprocessor is extremely mediocre, even compared to other text-based macro preprocessors
I've never been able to find my old geocities account. I'm pretty sure I remember the neighborhood/number correctly.

It was an ultima online and final fantasy 7 cheats webpage haha
And none of them flew again, with louder voices calling for them to be court martialled on landing.
Citi still offers it
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The forst model of that rover was on the ispace lander and I had the pleasure of working with the Jaxa team integrating it. Was super fun to see it rolling back and forth and taking images in the test facility.

It was the payload I was most sad to have lost on our crash.
How? A cop is going to spend extra attention on minorities driving through white neighborhoods, a camera doesn't care.
Sports Illustrated's publisher terminates most of staff in mass layoff
Never mind, I watched the video they posted and they only give you a single laptop-res display. That blows.
I tried the product and I don't think this intro does it justice – this is a surprisingly authentic experience that I didn't think consumer AI was ready to do. There were definitely some rough edges, but this feels good enough to pay for as a tech screen.
Mistral IMO:

1. Doesn't have to pay the obscene alignment tax that OpenAI/etc have to (something between 20-50% of from what i understand) nor worry nearly as much about """the brand""" and the baggage which comes with that.

2. Likely will have/has the EU behind them out of pragmatic protectionism realpolitik verus the US (which basically started with GDPR) - though it might end up being a duo with Aleph Alpha.

3. Generally has the widespread support of the hobbyist/opensource community (for whatever aims those may be), both out of ethical/moral consideration and performance/quality reasons

4. Seems already *quite* competitive with GPT3. I rarely find i need to invoke GPT4 and when I have to, I'm annoyed with the latency and milquetoastian nature of the damn thing.

Wish I could purchase stock in these guys honestly
Even with a corporate credit card you are usually personally responsible until the expense is approved.
Strong US domestic energy production disempowers petro-state dictatorships such as Russia, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia etc. whose interests and values are not aligned with ours.
Richard Hamming’s The Art of Doing Science and Engineering is one that’s really shaped my philosophy on CS. It pushes for the importance of reasoning from first principles, experimentation, and taking on extraordinary work. There’s also a fascinating and prescient section on AI and the limits of computers and how we think about them. Stripe Press makes a nicely bound hardcover edition of the book, too:

https://press.stripe.com/the-art-of-doing-science-and-engine...

Heartily recommend!
There are three levels:

- Infinitism, people who believe in the existence of completed infinite sets, and transfinite numbers more generally.

- Finitism, people who believe that "infinite" means "arbitrarily large" or "unbounded", but nothing more.

- Ultrafinitism, people who think every quantity has an upper bound due to mathematics not being separate from the physical world.

Zeilberger identifies as an ultrafinitist. I personally think finitism is the most plausible one. It accepts an intuitive notion of potential infinity, but it avoids basically all the mathematical paradoxes of infinity and the philosophically extravagant mathematics of transfinite set theory.
> if I start to slip at work you can talk to me, discipline me or fire me

I think that's what they're getting at here. They're trying to call out things that could lead to needing to have these type of conversations and prevent that from happening by preemptively giving examples of problematic scenarios.

Under "Not OK"

1 & 3 - Are basically don't work for a competitor at the same time because that's a conflict of interest. Totally fair, IMO, as it opens the company up to lawsuits about trade secrets.

2 & 5 - Are basically don't do work for another company during work hours as it's disruptive. Again, IMO, a totally fair ask.

4 - This is the only one I really see as overstepping a bit. I think they're trying to get at something something similar to #2 (don't let another job take time away from your work here), but it's phrased in a bit of a controlling way.
See Gödel, Escher, Bach [1979, pp. 452–456]) (that's pages 452 to 456 in the original) for more about problems caused by infinite precision, infinite numbers, and infinite "tape size" (for Turing machines). I and other people would also add "infinite time" as well.
The advantage of a vault server is that it can rate-limit your login attempts based on your master password in a much better way than layering an encrypted password store on generic cloud/synced storage using modern PAKEs.
Why do you think that? Give us reason to believe!

Also, don't many of the solutions you name exist to 'correct for market failure'? Why are price controls different?
They tried to apply the ribbon for a time, but the server's clock was wrong.
I try to look at systems level more than blaming certain individuals. I'm sure a lot of engineers working on Google X projects honest to God cared deeply about the specific problem they were tackling. My own wife was once pretty close to taking a job there. But unless they're going to donate labor by working for free, they can't fund the projects themselves. The company has to be willing to lose money on most if not all of their work. I guess that worked for a while when ads were so profitable and no one else did them well enough. I may be misremembering my history, but as far as I understood, Bell Labs had to do this kind of public good work as a condition of being granted a national monopoly.

At the cultural level, though, during periods like the space race and cold war, there seemed to be a national zeitgeist such that companies, their owners, their directors, were all willing to sacrifice some profit to serve a common national mission. Maybe it was just the fact that the CEOs had grown up in a time when food was rationed and factories were ordered by federal fiat to produce war materiel.

I don't actually think this type of culture is completely dead, for what it's worth. But it's not exactly in vogue. I personally work in defense, I served in the Army, and I make more than enough money but quite a bit less than Netflix likely would have paid me, but I work on products that serve US strategic interests. Entire companies exist explicitly for this purpose, but they're not Google scale and never will be. I don't think very many people on Hacker News would even consider this good, though. Witness the backlash to OpenAI even being willing to work on military applications at all. The readership is so cynical that they can't imagine a military serving any purpose aside from valueless destruction. In the 20th century when militaries saved the world from German and Japanese conquest and mass genocide, that kind of thinking was a lot less prevalent.

I also don't think these are the only two options, either. People can also be motivated purely by the science itself or by the global wellbeing of all mankind. I just don't know that, historically speaking, those bring large-scale resource mobilization to bear quite as well as getting rich and ensuring the continued strategic dominance of a way of life represented by a country of birth you deeply believe in. As people come to believe less and less in their own countries, we seem to be left mostly with getting rich as the only viable option.
Or seeing reality for what it is, without a fancy headset :)
> "In London, [...] When [a friend] is at the pub with a pint, or with their dog, you'll see it in their story. I don't see that that much [in Berlin]." [...] Could Berlin's values of privacy and freedom from photography be eroded by the increasing pressure in other cities for professionals to have an active online presence, I wondered?

Tell me a journalist without telling me you're a journalist :)

I can assure you, normal professionals in London are not under pressure to have a social media presence whatsoever, let alone one showing dog walks and pub visits.
Was this just like s/ftp accounts? Or something more complex like a 1996 dropbox? It was a mounted filesystem in your machine?
Both the Java and .NET ecosystems are monumental (in every sense of the word) engineering accomplishments, but they don't strike me as very similar to the ultra-dynamic, introspective Lisp Machine experience. Can you elaborate on that a little bit?

FWIW, the browser (though still far off) feels closer to me, with the ability to instantly pop open a DevTools console and inspect the state of everything, as does Apple's Cocoa-based stuff from my limited exposure to it, maybe not surprising given its Smalltalk heritage.
Interoperability IS right-to-repair for software.

Should Sony decide what you do with your TV? No.

Should Haier decide how you control your AC? NO.

Should Whatsapp decide how you interact with your own account. NO!

Interop devs are the Louis Rossman's/mom & pop repair shops of the software world.

They take whatever redundant software/service you have and enable you to use it as you see fit.
HN is a site for intellectual curiosity. Predictability cuts directly against that. What do you think we should do—not be a site for intellectual curiosity anymore?
I was conjecturing it was the same reason as the other hosting providers, not saying that was the same or that I had special insight.

Instead, I was pointing out that since all the providers I looked at have essentially the same restriction, you likely shouldn't use any of them. Certainly there are a lot of people who use GitHub despite having no guarantee the ToS won't be more restrictive in the future.

Sourcehut's ToS is certainly not exceptional in that regard, so really you are objecting to essentially every 3rd party code hosting provider, yes?

Or is there one you had in mind where you aren't concerned about further expansion?
> It takes 5 minutes to skim your transactions, look for suspicious charges, get a quick read on where money is going.

If you use your credit card heavily, then this takes a lot more than 5 minutes. Keeping the CC usage light in order to make it easier to manage is important to me, and a key part of that is to avoid recurring charges as much as possible.
Yeah, it's called a salary, you'd get one.
The whole point of virtualization is you're running as close as possible to directly on native hardware. That's literally what makes virtualization distinct from emulation for VMs.

If you're trying to run an x86 client OS you need an emulator, there's just no way around it. If you just have some x86 binaries and don't actually need a full x86 OS, they've made rosetta available for client linux VMs.
[deleted] means the author of the post deleted it or asked us to delete it for them. The mods never do that without a request from the author (and usually not if the post has replies).

Mods almost never flag submissions but we do sometimes flag comments.

Both of these points are in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
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Did I live in another city than the author? I constantly see people doing selfies since it came in fashion. I lived there for decades (born there) and I travel around a lot. Still don't see any difference. Just go to the Brandenburger Tor, and you will see a massive amount of people doing selfies. Or is it actually about the people, Berlin people or germans in general? But who then is actually Berlin person, a city where less than 50% are actually born there (probably the same in many big cities).

I'm kinda confused and was even surprised after reading the title.
All Boeing wanted to catch was a break.

Caught fire instead.
Apples, tomatoes or pork, most people don't buy heritage anything because they're fucking poor.
I read the book completely. The book was on a second year reading list for my industrial design department.

I absorbed as an introduction to the philosophical aspects of quality. Quality is truly a tough concept if approached as a universal truth.
Anyone that has had to work in a global corporation and had actually collaborate knows this is always how its been.

Even before the pandemic more than half my meetings were on zoom. Now at least I can do it from home.
I think the danger of such a policy is that it's easy for those in charge to declare that any complaint or POV they don't want to hear is "political" while the discussions and opinions they approve of are not.

In other words, if people of a particular subgroup of the population were to complain that the company's policies or culture were harmful to them, that might get shut down based on this policy. An example I could see happening is a company with a handful of Deaf employees who ask in the #general Slack channel that anyone running a Zoom meeting could please enable captioning when setting up the meetings. If few people honor this request, maybe the complaints escalate and the Americans with Disabilities Act gets mentioned. Suddenly it's "political" and the Deaf folks are causing a distraction. But really, they are just asking to be put on a more even playing field so that they can actually participate and contribute to the work, but if the wrong person got their feelings hurt, suddenly it's a "political" issue and no one can talk about it, and before you know it, all the Deaf employees have left for greener pastures, and now maybe there's no more "politics" in the shared channels, but the company is worse off for letting themselves become a hostile work environment for those folks.
s/forget to cancel/unable to cancel/
I am going to have to play with this tonight, while I know it won't be exactly the same it will give a good enough indication of what this workflow will be like.

That might sway whether or not I get this thing. Being able to more optimally work while away from my desk is worth... a lot.
The System76 machine bested Phoronix's DIY setup. So clearly they aren't equivalent.
It was a drive letter mounted on your Windows machine or a mount point on Linux. I forgot what protocol was used and I never personally used it as I had my own SFTP servers. On Windows people would run an app but I think it was just mounting a SMB drive. I only handled the backend storage, HP-UX servers and DNS for them. Other people managed the Windows servers and their company managed the applications.
mistral will be successful as a matter of national security for the EU. it literally cannot fail at this point
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You can see "Adversarial Interoperability" on Youtube to see talks on this.

This is a good one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimtaSgGz_4
Japanese design always seems adorable to me.
> this is kindergarten level perception of reality

An interesting projection.
"Alignment tax?"
Those are all good points. But to be clear for point #1, the devs never responded to this feature request. What you see in that thread is a couple of the community moderators (myself included, and all of my replies are tempered with "and I'd like it too") discussing some of the reasoning for why it likely is the way it currently is, and mostly just trying to simmer strong accusatory language. (But I totally understand the passion for our tools!)

#3 I'd likely be using my IDE (nvim) as well, except that I rely a lot on media and attachments for my work. And I just like to have dashboard/Kanban style views of things.
Pretty accurate, except for one major thing: all the pages load instantly. In 1999 you pretty much expected each web page to take at least 10 seconds to load, mostly for the images to gradually...fade...into.....view.
IMO immigration would focus on merits AND integration more than length of residency. In the past by physically traveling and being in another country is a testament of the financial means and the willingness to adopt the new culture.

Nowadays traveling is much easier and many immigrants are simply, put it harshly, colonizing the foreign country instead of adopting it.
Ask HN: Folks who are/were "overemployed" – how did it work out?
During the hiring boom I remember hearing tons about people who knowingly accepted multiple offers and worked multiple remote tech jobs while expectations were low and companies were hiring like mad. I remember someone mentioning they had ten jobs and were on track to make a million that year.

How did that work out? Were there professional ramifications? Are you still doing it today?
Yup, I've learned that lesson as well.

You go on vacation and bill pay day was in the middle of it. Or you're just busy and forget to move the calendar reminder to tomorrow. Or you get through half of them and get interrupted and forget you didn't finish.

I trust autopay far more than I trust myself!
Don't disagree. Many of my charges are some vague Amazon charge that my wife made, which could be a product delivered, or a subscription. So Amazon subscriptions is another place to check. It would take time to match up each charge to the actual order.
Boomers won't part with their homes, and that's a problem for young families
Autopay did more to improve my credit score than anything else. If left to my own devices, I'll forget to pay bills. Autopay prevents that.

It may be evil for you, but for me, it's an absolute lifesaver.