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IMO EVs work best in medium density urban settings, where people still probably have their own garages or at least private parking spots but aren't likely to need to do 100+mi drives constantly.

Truly high-density urban settings should ideally find transportation solutions without cars.
How many hedge funds are there? A few thousand? How many beat the s&p? Of those how much can be attributed statistically to skill rather than luck?
> ICJ punted

Yes. But this isn’t the final ruling.

South Africa asked for something analogous to a preliminary injunction. The ICJ declined to order a preliminary ceasefire. Instead, the case will be tried as usual.
But even if developers opt not to use Apple’s App Store or payment system, they will still be required to pay a “core technology fee” of 50 euro cents per user account per year.

Alias "the Apple racket fee".

How can this be accepted? You don't use any Apple infrastructure but you owe them money. And it's not like phone owners were not paying more than multiple times the real cost of their devices to Apple.

Pure greediness in action.
Interesting, because I find that running software like MyLifeOrganized in Wine to be fairly cumbersome versus running it natively.
The brilliant engineers laid off would simply form new companies or join existing ones to drive competition and innovation! Which in turn will provide better choices and prices for customers and consumers! The marketplace is working. /s
Yes, it is, but only if you're a technical person, some sort of pragmatist, or have vast niche/field/focused experience and want to apply it.

In such case you'll find yourself spending most of your time fighting to not become a complete bureaucrat, and eventually using only the minority (if any) of your time doing actual work.

However there's plenty of people that's there to "strategize", to "synergize", they're on online calls all day long, it's all career path and promotions and (hopefully) golden parachutes for them, so they'll call it exactly the opposite of "dull". What you call "dull" is actually _their goal_.

On the flip side, startup environments are way less dull but way more punishing, and may not be for everyone, or may not be for every stage of life.
Go to youtube and see how NewFoundLand in Canada is pronounced. People just want a single word.

It cracks me up that the Foundland wasn't good enough (some place in the UK), so off they went to find New!
NSA data brokers con't: Wyden asks DNI to stop it
French does that too so I think an invasion would not have helped.
I don't think this was the whole calculus. I think they wanted Apple to grease their palms a bit more and Apple declined.
I like the culture of huge companies because as a programmer I enjoy working on technical problems and working on a large system and improving things that millions of people actually use is cool. You can make something 2% better and that's worth like 50 million bucks. Seeing really large stuff come together that many people work on is fascinating to me.

That there's more streamlined processes to me is a good thing, because it actually frees my time up. Small companies just have so much more overhead and chaos relative to the size of the business.
I assume this is fresh water pumped into Gaza. What of the desalination plants? Cutting off all fuel surely ensures that that water source is also cut off. I would not be surprised to learn that this infrastructure has been targeted for destruction.
Can't say I disagree.
I hear what you're saying, and actually agree that - unfortunately - is the current state of LLMs today. But I think OP still has a point, and I'd argue as well that that is the aim of GAI, to be able to take a simple question, understand and produce the desired results.

As it stands, and as you mentioned, the current generation of LLMS seem a long way from there. Thus the need for prompt engineers. It'll be nice to see how long they take to crack this problem.
I think this was a more accurate assessment a couple of years ago. AMD historically under invested in their software stack, as is well documented. But, they are catching up. The prevalence of pytorch makes it easier for hardware vendors to target a single set of libraries for implementation and get broad distribution. Even Apple has made major progress getting mps support in more broadly, first directly into pytorch, and they are now charting their own course with MPX with some early interesting successes. Zuck recently used the word "H100 equivalent" in compute, and my memory is he indicated roughly 35% of that compute was not from NVIDIA -- that will all be AMD.

There's still work to do -- lots of repositories still contain `if device=="cuda"` type language, but my own experience is that manging code around to use apple gpus has gotten vastly easier this year, and I see more and more AMD GPU owners floating around github issues with resolvable problems. A year ago they were barely present.

All that said - people aren't ignoring it - and entrepreneurs and cloud monopolies are putting real resources into opening things up. I think the playing field will continue to level / get back to competitive over the next two to three years.
The EU should just fine apple 50 cents for each app store installation in retaliation.
Flexport news is wild.

How often do you see 20% layoff less than a week after raising $260M?

https://www.flexport.com/blog/Flexport-Fundraise-2023/
Yup, I'm bullish on the Vision Pro from a purely entrepreneurial standpoint, and not a fan of it from a social perspective.

But willing to be wrong on the latter, so might as well watch as it plays out.
> The negative consequences almost exclusively stem from autistics interacting with neurotypical

When it's not something to do with sensory overload or having trouble navigating something in the world even without any interaction, sure, almost all that is left is problems with interaction.

And even then when the problems are due to interaction, it's not always due to a lack of tolerance or something, it's often due to the autistic person being unable to read social cues and similar, and so that's a negative consequence, not just a neutral difference.

> And for the record, you can count me among the people who think that the average person could stand being about 20% more autistic.

Yeah that's ridiculous. It's like deaf people wanting people that can hear to be deaf.

> There’s nothing noble or special about being leashed to emotions and arbitrary social cues.

NT's are not leashed just because some people are, anymore than all NDs need to rock back and forth or something to deal with sensory overload.
Why Boeing's Problems with the 737 MAX Began More Than 25 Years Ago
The problem with large companies is that by design, it is almost impossible to see a product from all stages and from beginning to end. What that means is you're working on a tiny piece, and you can't make creative decisions on how to make things work. You also don't get much real feedback on what you do from users.

Maybe it's preference, but I much prefer to work in a small company where you can actually influence decision making. I've worked at some large companies and now I am independent and I also work in a very small company with half a dozen people. I much prefer it because it feels like there is real meaning in what I am doing.

Large companies can give you some meaning too but you have to fight for it there, and work against the bureaucracy, which I hate so I left that life behind.
A 'Public Nuisance': Laguna Seca's Neighbors Sue Track, Want It Shut Down
Well they need to wait a few more months before Apple will get their teeth kicked in, for this Bullshit Compliance by the EU Commission, and cry about handing over a sizeable chunk of their global turnover to them.
Maximum fine under DSA is 10% of Global Turnover
I was referencing those conspiracy theories, yes. Note my use of quotes.
I remember the first time I heard one of the CD samplers that musicians use, and then started recognizing there unaltered use in pop music. Some sounds were so widely used, it almost felt like a Wilhelm scream intent rather than musical intent.
You mean they were raped ok by the militants? https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/there-wasnt-a-moment-freed-h...
Right. This would be my hypothesis. Something really bad happened here, imo, and I am really boggled as to why the heck it would happen. It's possible that if you create enough accounts, you'll get one where the pair of nameservers will coincidentally line-up with some domain's nameserver configuration.
More compute can't save you from dumb methods. Memorizing the whole of human text while being fooled by a prompt crafted by a 14 year old doesn't mean its intelligent.
If you want to, you can invest time in automating this so that you can feel at home at every boxes.

Surely it is some work to ensure your user environment are all the same across different machines. But it is also liberating as you are no longer limited to choose the few common features available everywhere.
Teams is always pretty bad, I noticed slightly worse service/message duplication/call drops today.

If it weren't for MS being a monopoly I doubt we'd use it
Shareholder capitalism needs to die out as a business practice. Share buybacks should be outlawed.
https://archive.is/3AAQl
What an odd response. Your entire comment was predicated on the assumption that Apple would not be allowing 3rd party browser engines, so I'm not sure why you're acting like it's irrelevant to point out that that's wrong.

> Sure, Apple might have plans to allow that, and there are probably articles mentioning it.

Not "might", they do have plans to allow that, and there are articles mentioning it.
Screen Capture Leak: Firefox Bypasses DRM
If I understand what's happened elsewhere correctly, then we have an example of this elsewhere at the world stage -- the separation of Kosovo from Serbia is in a large part due to land purchases from Albanians, who then vied for independence when their population grew enough.
Even when the link is handy, the stupid Zoom UI is horrible to use from a car.

I park myself in a meeting before driving and then use CarPlay mute/unmute as needed. It works ok. If I lose the call, it's impossible to get back in, as I need to use the phone.
> I think its likely israel will comply.

Comply with "Don't genocide"? At best, they'll argue semantics while they keep doing what they've always done.

Nevermind. I read the article:

> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the fact that the court was willing to discuss the genocide charges was a “mark of shame that will not be erased for generations.” He vowed to press ahead with the war.
Busting Up the Home Sales Cartel Is Overdue and Necessary
No. If you use a good wire nut (i.e. use a good brand, have experience, and never reuse a wire nut), the nut itself makes the electrical connection. A good wire nut application will never fall off. If it does, you didn't attach it right. I concede this is a function of experience and it's not foolproof.

All that having been said, I still pre-twist because it helps keep the wires together which makes it easier to put the nut on in the first place -- especially if you're connecting more than two wires.

Edit: One point I left out is that if you don't pre-twist, correct attachment means you should put the nut on with enough tension that the nut itself causes the wires to twist together. This hurts your fingers if you do it all day, so using a wire nut twisting tool is recommended.
> The law of retaliation is a never-ending cycle.

Well, there are ways to end it. Historically there have been thousands of cyclical conflicts that eventually ended without a diplomatic solution.
> We are still reviewing the technical details but are extremely disappointed with Apple’s proposed plan to restrict the newly-announced BrowserEngineKit to EU-specific apps,” DeMonte says. “The effect of this would be to force an independent browser like Firefox to build and maintain two separate browser implementations — a burden Apple themselves will not have to bear.”

I guess they were hoping that the EU's rules apply everywhere?
The business model likely doesn't work. The provider can make some money on hardware but serving advertising hardly works. Would users be willing pay a monthly subscription fee?
I've been hunting (as so many people are, now) for a new role in Software Engineering. A recent online application for an Engineering Manager role had only one question outside the usual demographics/race/disability ones: "How important is empathy for an Engineering Manager?". My answer, in a nutshell, was "not very".
"Charging an EV from the roof skips the grid entirely"

As long as you have enough sunshine hours in your region.

Southern Spain is fine year-round, but you won't get any meaningful output out of a solar panel in Finnish winter. The rest of Europe lies between those two extremes.

Northern winter will be made more challenging by addition of EVs to the grid, because a lot of electricity is being used for heating as well.
It's not dull for me. God I wish it was.
Do you want to produce something, or do you want a paycheque for doing work?

If you're a plumber, do you want to be responsible for building a brand new skyscraper with top of the line pipes, or do you just want to show up to your dead-boring factory maintenance job, fix the things you know how to fix and go home to your wife, kids and/or hobbies - which is where you draw satisfaction from life.

Hackernews is slanted towards the "build the latest and greatest and be the best software developer ever". The people who are just average, or good enough for their job, but don't care about staying current with the bleeding edge of tech (like what's posted daily on HN) aren't here to give you a contradictory opinion.
After 9/11, the united states president at least tried to say "hey not all muslims, alright?"
> " complexity of work is created by all the processes "

this is it. it's not that it's boring, it's that it's POINTLESS. the bigger a company gets, the more it's burdened by its processes. and that comes directly at the expense of your career and satisfaction, if you like, y'know, actually building stuff. if you like to wrangle process, which is a career unto itself, then well, enjoy, you're in the right place.
It’s not after an investigation begins, it’s the moment that it’s likely or foreseeable that an legal action may come. Basically, if you think you might be in trouble and you delete stuff, you definitely are.

Edit: illegal -> a legal
Is that true and is that sustainable? My understanding has been that only the relatively low level libraries/kernels are written in cuda and all the magical algorithms are in python using various ML libaries. It's like how intel BLAS isn't much of a moat -- there are several open source implementations and you can mix and match.

How is CUDA so sticky when most ML devs aren't writing CUDA but something several layers of abstraction above it? Why can't intel, AMD, google w/e come along and write an adapter for that lowest level to TF, pytorch or whatever is the framework of the day?
There’s nothing dull about it! Make sure to keep detailed records of everything you and more importantly the people around you do and say. Working in a corporation is about having brag lists for yourself and nuclear information to use against those around you, especially your boss. As you get experience you realize that at any given time everyone has said or done something that could be taken out of context as evidence that that person is a risk to the organization. It’s just that usually people don’t use such information, leaving it in a benign state. That is until they do. And hopefully not against you!
You can have Firefox as the browser and then the bribe would go to Mozilla. But in this case, Apple and Google would not let anyone to choose really.
Moore's law died several years ago. Mid '10s. The strong evidence? Pay more attention to consumer computer tech.

There are still ongoing improvements - but the pace has slowed, and those improvements are MORE expensive. This is how Moore's law died, not with an end to a trend, but a faltering curve.
I honestly though this was all normal. Teams works great when it's working.
Yeah, it's 100% a poison pill. They clearly tried to craft an alternate TOS that would look reasonable at a glance to regulators and/or judges but that almost no serious companies would accept.

Even if you are just a small indie developer that's far too much risk for anyone offering free apps (or that might want to in the future). Imagine being the next flappy bird (over 50 million downloads before it got pulled) and suddenly being on the hook for $25,000,000.
18650s are very widely available, although sadly there are a lot of fakes so choose a reputable supplier.
Its interesting when all you seem to factor in is level of education, implying it's the most important metric for selecting tenants. I'd contend its hardly relevant.

My only gut impressions is the first seems rather nonchalant, which is sort of strange when entering a presumably expensive contract. The longer response just feels very boilerplate to the point where I'd question if its not the opening to a blanket scam message.

I guess an important takeaway is that everyone perceives interactions in different ways and that's really why this whole thing is relevant.
I got the Onyx Boox Palma for this. Phone-size E-ink screen (no SIM slot), Android + app store support under the hood.
Yes, I read numerous EWDs, starting roughly 40 years ago. Many of them are indeed interesting (even, or maybe particularly the gossipy parts).

The problem is not that he self-aggrandizes or is boastful; it's that he keeps tearing other people down. And that he was very willing to offer sweeping pronouncements on matters that he had no practical experience in. He basically stopped touching computers in the early 1970s, and certainly stopped writing practical programs. What basis then, did he have for dismissing object oriented programming, which for all its flaws has done decidedly more for human progress than program verification has?

And as the tense exchange with Backus shows, he was quick to dismiss the relevance of functional programming, which certainly has done a lot for the kind of mathematical reasoning he advocates for programming (Apparently he taught his students Haskell later. Did he ever apologize to Backus for his wrong headed initial assessment?).

Would computer science miss ANYTHING relevant if he had stopped working in the field in 1975? His output basically consisted of proving propositions over cherry picked toy problems. I don't think anybody doubts that this is possible, but is this a viable approach to build real systems (not only large ones, but also ones whose requirements evolve over time)? I consider this, at best, highly unproven, and yet he advocates this as the sole approach to be taught in CS education. Knuth noted, correctly, that neither Dijkstra's education nor any of the practical systems he built (Algol compiler, etc) were based on this approach.
And the problem here is the lack of agency of the individual people. Larger companies run everything through committees, even ad hoc ones (i.e. "meetings"). The approval chain is long and slow.

My favorite anecdote was when the company basically told us that we could not talk directly to the person next to us, and had to route everything through the project systems.

Small companies, more folks are "on the line", and thus more engaged in the entirety of it, rather than their own little niche. Similarly, you have more access to people for discussions, problem solving, etc.

Yea, "it's interruption". And that's just where you need to learn personal boundaries on the individual level, rather than corporate structured boundaries that simply dropped on the team.

In large companies, more and more people are "doing their portion", "not my job", etc. I'm not suggesting everyone needs to work insane hours and burn the midnight oil, but it's the ability of build a local culture rather than have on mandated upon you from up high.

When you're empowered and have agency, you're (I am) more motivated to participate and grow and engage instead of checking my boxes for the weekly TSP reports.
Well if the EU manages to hold a hard line against Apple, other big markets will surely follow.
Shame for whom?
Ok what's not working properly then?
In many ways, it's about where you are in any company. If you're in a business critical, mature project with massive risk controls to prevent anything from going haywire, it's going to seem slow, since you'll (for instance) end up spending 5 hours running tests, formal verification and such to ensure that you're 5 line change doesn't break the system. If, on the other hand, you're in the new Skunkworks division, trying to figure out how the competition could upend the entire market, you might get less defined, less bureaucratic work. I've seen both in some of the oldest and largest companies I've worked for, but even the Skunkworks stuff is really different from startup world. Many of those projects are filled with workplace politics about who's positioned to be promoted to Senior Vice President of New Technologies and AI and who's going to be shown the door for having wasted $50million on something that can never make it to market, or even more esoteric things that only make sense in the context of the giant organization. Most of those dynamics are external, pointed at investors and finding product-market fit at smaller places. There's also less of a built in scaling factor at smaller companies -- you definitely want to figure out how to scale the product, but it's less immediately critical, whereas in a giant company, if they figure out how to upend their own business, they could theoretically deploy nearly instantly.
US scientists proposed to make viruses with unique features of SARS-CoV-2
> If Putin is arrested in a foreign country, you'll have the largest nuclear weapons arsenal in the world staring down at the very existence of that nation

Eh, or not. Putin isn’t Russia. Depending on timing, it might be a convenient time for a change in government. They could then demand his remittance, where he would no doubt get lost along the way or have a change of heart about his place in public policy.

That said, the prudent thing to do is that which was done. Barring Putin from entering South Africa.
RenTech remains a touchy subject, as their only high performing fund is closed to external investors. Their available to the public stuff performs much less than their closed fund.
I edited my comment to lead with that, because that's the main point. Thanks for helping me see that.
> The ICJ punted.

No, it didn't. It ruled on what amounts to (in the parlance of the US legal system) a preliminary injunction, ordering one because the pleadings and supporting evidence on initial review warrant it, while the process of a trial on the merits will take longer.

> The ruling is a joke, how can you rule against the defendant and yet order the defendant to monitor themselves?

The only people the ICJ can order are the parties. External monitoring and enforcement is a matter for, primarily, the UN Security Council.

> The ICJ knew if it found against Israel it would loose all credibility outside the West, but it also had too much political pressure from the West to rule for Israel.

The process by which the ICJ might rule for or against Israel, rather than ordering provisional measures, is much longer. This is just an early part of the case.
drive a woodscrew in beside the power plug thing and the "lighter socket" in a car to ensure the thing stays in. (same axis as the plug)

Works for shovel and other tool handles too.
This isn't really true, Fedora, Debian and Arch have huge numbers of packages, many very niche. You might well need to make the distro aware that the new program exists, but there are established routes for doing that.
That, as I have been told, is "object-based programming", not object-oriented programming.