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To answer your example question directly: English. I don’t think Toyota would ever be written in Japanese on a car, but when talking about the company in writing it would usually be rendered in Japanese.

For model names, it’s more possible that it could be in Japanese, but even then I think it’s rare. Even outside of the realm of global industries like cars you’ll find English words and phrases being used to brand everyday local products all over the place. Japan is far more full of English writing than the Anglosphere is of Japanese…or any other language. When actually talking about these products, though, it’ll usually be written in Japanese (not least because most people in Japan aren’t confident enough in their English ability to use/remember those words and their often unpredictable spellings).
No problem on the book suggestion.

Chutkan deserves the success she's had since that book shipped. The book is not an easy read. It requires a strong stomach, to say the least.

I was lucky to have a doctor who was thoughtful enough to connect my obsessions with diet and exercise to continuous improvement by leveraging my hyperlexia against the root cause that I have a stomach in each leg. ;)

I like your theory. It would be interesting to see a group of biology students debate the merits of such a theory and how they might prove or disprove such a theory.

I'm sure there are some game theory problems lurking there.
I feel like I could envision an opposition to eventual sodium ion battery technology form these larger companies (that have oil ties) with their expensive new investments that they would want to protect, but maybe I am misguided or jaded. Either way that would be the potential thread I see in this being an issue.
Well that is obviously something that will never come through, right?
Why would the UN even discuss this?
right; this is why I won't accept that SQL is good-enough, so DSL's aren't worth looking at. The current state of affairs should be despised just as much as JS-only browsers -- these DSLs are an attempt to alleviate the suffering! SQL even shares many of the same issues -- weird semantics (stuffing a trinary logic into boolean operations, enabling both false negatives and false positives), lack of a proper library/module system, inconsistent language, non-composable features, etc. The difference is only that with JS, there are many better-behaved popular languages to look to and criticize it on. With SQL, there are competing languages implementing the relational algebra, but they're mainly serve as a curiosity and few use them in practice; there is SQL and only SQL.

You can fairly argue that the DSL cannot fundamentally succeed until RDBMS vendors finally buy into it, but you can't argue that SQL is such a great representation of the relational algebra that it isn't worth bothering with; it's just the language we happen to be stuck with.
The problem is that these are systems. I.e. you're right that in a given system if all else is constant the presence of some QA/testing step should improve quality. But everything else is not constant.

But yeah, point taken on the bike helmet arguments, though I think that's a little more clear cut.

I think QA (manual software testing by professional testers) has an important role in producing quality software but there are organizational corner cases where the idea of "QA" in software promotes the wrong thinking/approach to quality that results in an overall poor outcome. Quality in software starts before a single line of code is written and has to be in mind throughout the development process so you shouldn't fall into a trap that somehow slapping "Quality Assurance" on top of bad engineering can create quality after the fact.
> I am under the impression that the design was heavily data driven, building on decades of industry experience in many different sectors and actually providing efficient instructions for the operations that are used the most in real code.

Yeah, that's the impression I get too. I also get the impression they were planning ahead for the very wide GBOoO designs (I think Apple had quite a bit of influence on the design and they were already working a very wide GBOoO microarch), so there is a bias towards a very dense fixed-width encoding, at the expense of increased decoding complexity.

ARM weren't even targeting the ultra low end, as they have a completely different -M ISA for that.

This is in contrast to RISC-V. Not only do they target the entire range from ultra low end to high performance, but the resulting ISA feels like it has a biased towards ultra low gate count designs (the way immediates are encoded are points towards this).

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You might hate me for this, but I have to raise the question:

Does AArch64 actually count as a RISC ISA?

It might have the fixed width encoding and load/store arch we typically associate with RISC ISAs. But there is one major difference that arguably disqualifies it on a technicality.

All the historic RISC ISAs were designed in parallel with the first generation microarchitecture of the first CPU and where hyper-optimised for that microarchitecture (often to a fault, leaving limited room for expansion and introducing "mistakes" like branch delay slots). Such ISAs were usually very simple to decode, which lead to the famous problems that RISC had with code density.

I lean towards the opinion that this tight coupling between ISA and RISC microarchitecture is another fundamental aspect of a RISC ISA.

But AAarch64 was apparently designed by committee, independent of any single microarchitecture. And they apparently had a strong focus on code density.

The result is something that is notably different from any other RISC ISA.

You could make a similar argument about RISC-V, it was also designed by committee, independent of any single microarchitecture. But they also did so with an explicit intention make a RISC ISA, and the end result feels very RISC to me.

> that perhaps even uses something like software-aided decoding (which appears to be more power-efficient than pure hardware decoding)

At this point, I have very little hope for software-aided decoding. Transmeta tried it, Intel kind of tried it with software x86 emulation on Itanium, Nvidia bought the Transmeta patents and tried it again with Denver.

None of these attempts worked well, so I kind of have to conclude it's a flawed idea.

Though the flaw was probably the statically scheduled VLIW arch they were translating into. Maybe if you limited your software decoding to just taking off the rough edges of x86 instruction encoding it could be a net win.
The recommendation to use Markdown+MathJAX fall short when you want to write longer documents with numbered section, subsection, and theorem/definition/figure etc tracking and referencing.

I'm sure with Sphinx and reStructuredText you can get that large-scale document tracking stuff, but with LaTeX it just works for the most part and you don't need to juggle a bunch of different side-projects and extensions. Plus you get things like automatic index generation (for a physical book).
Yeah, this isn't true at all.
Feels more relevant than the 12th paragraph implies;

The sale has been in the works for more than a decade. Congress first mandated it through the Helium Stewardship Act of 2013. It was initially supposed to occur in 2021, but a series of delays — in part due to the same logistical and regulatory issues threatening shutdowns today — postponed the auction to Thursday.
Or perhaps it doesn't matter whether a particular Member of Congress knows something, but the important part is to have the responsible person in the room and giving testimony, on the record, under oath.
It's up to those of us living today to decide to make the common rising baloon extinct. It's going to happen one day regardless. If we do it sooner, we get to use helium for medicine longer.

I'm in favor, though sad, of a government ban. It should probably happen slowly so that no one's job is to empty canisters into the open air. Opinions?
People wouldn’t be any less stupid if you pulled the rug out from under the folks making money off of them. The problem has to be addressed elsewhere.

Specially we need advertising out of the news business, to higher the level of education for the kids who choose it, and an alternate path for the kids who for whatever reason have no interest so they’ll get out of the way. In other words, some children need to be left behind so they’ll stop dragging everyone else down. Bring back real expulsion and make real requirements for graduation.
> The Martian

The thin atmosphere bit is acknowledged by the author, you can watch his talk here around 32:35:

I just want to be as accurate as I possibly could. There are a few places that are inaccurate. The biggest place that's inaccurate is right at the beginning. Don't tell anybody, but if you're in a dust storm on Mars, you're not even going to feel it. Mars' atmosphere is less than 1% of Earth's. So a 150 kilometer an hour wind would feel like about 1 kilometer an hour wind does on Earth. It wouldn't do any damage to anything.

https://youtu.be/gMfuLtjgzA8?si=8aZUEizDWuBhnaJg&t=1958

There is another clarification later at 35:34 saying the dust storm is basically like talcum powder.
Or it can just invert the L component of all colors in the HSL colorspace at the very last stage of rendering, which only requires a couple subtractions to do in sRGB.

Unlike the unfortunately common "invert directly in sRGB", this preserves the colors changing only the brightness, and honestly it's pretty good. Colorspace nerds will no doubt complain that there are better colorspaces available, but in practice, most consumer devices implement "sRGB" perceptually such that this works better than fancier methods (which only work for carefully calibrated displays in carefully calibrated rooms).
I'll bite.

Where is the line then? What good justifies what "evil". Where is your line in the sand?
> The open source SDK you talk about might be completely free of Apple’s code, but it most definitely makes use of Apple’s code.

It "makes use of Apple's code" in the sense that it calls iOS APIs. But the resulting binary wouldn't have Apple's IP, which is what matters for the purposes of copyright and patent law. When saying something "uses" an IP, we generally mean the exclusive rights granted to the holder by law. Merely interacting with an already-existing API on an already-existing copy of iOS is not "use".

If the opposite were true, all third-party aftermarket accessories for physical (patented) products that merely plugged in to the mechanisms and didn't implement them themselves would be illegal.
I am not presupposing anything, I am laying out a _possible_ scenario (see all the ifs?). I am just doubting safety procedures where followed as they should, which is the same thing the FAA is doing and that’s why they are investigating. If they were sure everything was fine, they wouldn’t do it.

Doubting, and scrutiny in safety-critical environments is not a bad thing, it is what makes things safer. I won’t defend Delta nor Boeing until the FAA sees the t’s crossed and the i’s dotted, and neither should you.
The Posterous founders started Posthaven after Posterous shut down, and Posthaven – by all appearances essentially a Posterous clone – is still going (and promises at least for now to stay that way): https://www.posthaven.com/features

One of those cofounders is probably familiar to YC nerds: https://blog.garrytan.com/about-me
I was surprised recently when I changed up my HTML and PDF toolstack not just how good pandoc was, but the entire ecosystem that had emerged around pandoc including pandocomatic and pandoc-resume.
There's also the question of what a country even is anymore, other than a company that collects taxes when goods or money move across an arbitrary border, in exchange for using its brand image.
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The issue with the Cybertruck isn’t controversial style design, it’s that it’s probably going turn out to be a very poor product and business decision. Time will tell.
Its easier readable.
They should focus more on things like affordable housing and minimum wage.
Maybe those are pieces of rotor? I know the rotors look white in the other picture, but maybe the broken surface is different and/or they look bluish reflecting light in that picture.
Me too but it was only a nibble.
I have a close friend who is constantly hustling but has little technical expertise, so he just says "yes" and hopes I'll swoop in and figure out execution.

We built a lead qualification and sales coaching plug-in for a CRM, the thing has a lot of personality. IMO it was a project conceived to automate sales that ended up automating sales coaching.

From there I've done a fair bit of red teaming customer-facing chatbots, then helped save some stuck projects because these approaches to problem solving are so new.

Something that was really satisfying was a project to introduce natural language queries to a ridiculous array of internal corporate databases without sending private data out of the network. That thing is like an extremely boring corporate Jarvis.

I have absolutely zero traditional "AI" skill set, but I guess there's a lot of room downstream for implementation engineering.
> which is otherwise a hard sci-fi book

Hard sci-fi is still a story and doesn't need to nail everything. And it had other pretty "unrealistic" moments that put me more off than the storm. Foremost, how they fixed the missed orbital rendezvous, no never going to happen that way. Or that they could just revert their home flight and go once more back and back again, how much delta-v would that be, never could have had that much extra fuel at least in that world... and other minor things, but still superb story.
did you just compare Facebook to Hamas?
Interviewing continues while on the job. People have been put on layoff lists, "encouraged" to quit, and passed over for promotion based on age, too. People have take these cases to court but it's not easy to prove.
Almost all natural gas wells just vent the helium they produce to the atmosphere. Helium balloons won’t ever be the culprit in a shortage. This is a plastic straw ban kind of issue, visible to people but pointless because the actual problem is elsewhere.
DRY seems to be taken as gospel in web dev these days. I'm not really sure why. For some reason, repeating 10 lines of code in even one more file is a sacred violation that requires abstracting away the offender. The irony is that the solution ends up being 100 lines and involves bizarre logical jumps and magic methods.

Also I love nothing more when a couple lines of vanilla CSS replaces a monstrosity of Javascript code
Using it for internal docs, but we don’t generate pdfs so I can’t comment on that part.

I personally find asciidoc easier to write manually.
Also the older I get in this profession the less my wrists and fingers will let me do. I honestly worry about my career later and whether I will qualify for any assistance if I am disabled from it.
I mean, it's not particularly surprising that it's a lot easier to manage a community if you just find every political split point, pick a side and then remove the people on the other side.

I think we used to call that sort of thing "gatekeeping"?
They do, but the nameserver pairs aren't unique and there aren't that many combinations (2500, apparently).

It would be easy enough to automate the creation of accounts until you have an account for every nameserver pair, then start serving on unclaimed domains.
Well, in most casees you can configure it and back in all black and white\green if you want to.

Having 8 (or more) colors help when dealing with information though, at least when you need to get a quick result and not just dig into the man pages.
pandoc is so good. And volunteer maintained.
The fact that ~20% of gen Z don’t believe the holocaust happened is directly related to Tim Tok imo, and an absolute cancer for our culture and way of life. Something absolutely needs to be done about social media.
What one considers a "profoundly stupid question" can be a question that shines a light to a heart of the problem or provides necessary context.

For one such example, the question "how Facebook makes money" provides context so that other people would better understand what follows.
We can do more than one thing at a time, and this is just as important as anything else.
A "vocal minority" with a wallet is a market.

The question is probably "is the market it represents sufficient to sustain a product line which focuses on it?"

There are plenty of niche manufacturers who prove that you can survive in the smartphone business selling something other than "the exact form factor Apple and Samsung are offering". Oukitel with their 20,000 mAh batteries comes to mind.
That site is just a big ad for the book, I was unable to find any actual recipes.

Edit: turns out this entire post is just an ad for the book.
I've been using Starship for quite some time, and it's awesome! Definitely recommend it to anyone who wants a fast, modern, and rich prompt.

Besides the product, the community is pleasantly awesome as well. I've contributed a module to it and the maintainer has done a good job reviewing and testing. Heck, they even have a Discord server for contributors.
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Having a meeting about compliance != vetting changes before announcing.

For example:

* Apple says "here's our proposed new framework." EU regulators say "We don't like it." Apple replies "Too bad, we're going to do it anyway, and we are confident we are in line with your regulations." EU regulators say "If you do that, we'll sue you." Apple replies, "OK, we have good lawyers." End of meeting.

* Apple asks the EU for more specific details on how the EU will approach various provisions, without actually revealing any concrete details of what they were planning.

* Apple requests the meeting with the EU regulators, to reassure them they are going to take action before the March 4th deadline and that they have a detailed plan in place to meet the new regulations, but then does not actually reveal any specific details in the meeting and instead talks only in generalities.

These are all possible contents of such a meeting. Just because you know they had a meeting on the subject of the new regulations, does not mean you can assume Apple was vetting their changes and getting EU approval before announcing. There are a great many things that are not that, and just because you can't think of them, or I can't think of them, does not mean they did not happen.

Unless you have direct or indirect knowledge of what happened behind those closed doors, which have not been reported in the media or elsewhere, you are not entitled to make any assumptions.
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While their conclusions are okay'ish, I'd perhaps argue that it should be parents who should be taught instead. And the ideas in Section 5.2 are perhaps better left unopened because, well, who really would want a robot from a unknown entity raising their children?
Exactly, there is a triangle of tradeoffs here: prettyness vs easyness vs responsiveness. You can only have 2 of them. pretty and easy is Latex. The reason people call CSS a nightmare is because responsiveness fundamentally makes it much more difficult to make a document pretty. So HTML+CSS gives you pretty + responsive or easy + responsive. That's not the same functionality as a pdf for a fixed scientific document.
Try out Typst.

It senses changes to any file and auto-updates the doc lightning fast - it's far better than LaTeX IMO
In Go, I'm going to avoid using 'any' as an actual type
Typst.

Typst is better IMO
He's not doing anything to you.
You'd be amazed at the number of YC companies building that boring version of SQL Jarvis!
> This is a plastic straw ban kind of issue, visible to people but pointless because the actual problem is elsewhere.

Curious, would you mind expanding on where you think the actual problem is?
It works great against the unprepared, not so much against people who plan ahead.
> It is possible to patch a running CL system by simply setting a breakpoint and then revaluating a function.

It's also possible to change a running CL system without setting a breakpoint and/or re-evaluating a function.

> I am unaware of any other language that is possible in.

Start with Smalltalk and then search for more.
> none of what you said is wrong but it’s not peculiar to private shares. Public shares are directly analogous

Most publicly-traded shares are held in street name. (Most but not all of those are with Cede & Co, but again, that's a technicality.) There is no common analog for street-name holding in the private markets. (Idiots keep trying to create it.)

> most founder shares are directly listed with a transfer agent (in the west probably at Computershare)

Yes, if you're a founder, "holding" shares on Carta is similar to "holding" shares that are publicly traded. I'm assuming someone asking this question isn't the founder.

> philosophically Fidelity failing _doesnt_ impact your legal claims precisely because Cede & DTC exist

There is no philosophy. Legally, if Fidelity fails, you have a claim on Fidelity and the SIPC. They have claims on Cede & Co. But in a very real sense, you "hold" your shares there.

Practically, Fidelity is unlikely to fail for a host of reasons. Maybe a less incendiary example is this: if Fidelity wants to freeze your shares, they can freeze your shares. They control them. If LTSE...E wants to freeze your shares, the company can overrule them. LTSEE isn't a "golden source." Put another way, Carta != EquityZen. (Though I think they also launched an SPV product?)
What annoys me is that the people who first promoted him, e.g. Andy Greenberg of Wired, were far from cryptography illiterates. I'm pretty sure they raised the profile of this fraud knowingly, out of a misguided effort to protect the privacy of the real Satoshi.

This is why you don't do that!
It's interesting to think about:

The stated mission for the Space Race has often been "put a man in orbit", "put a man on the Moon", "put staff in the space station for X period".

But implicit in all of those mission designs has been the goal of returning the crew alive and in one piece. The record is rather favorable in that regard, and it's always a tragedy when we lose someone.

So that's one of the reasons a crewed Mars missions is a daunting prospect: because even with improved technology, it may be a one-way trip.
The article didn't say but I hope there are restrictions on Messer as to where they can sell it.
Shouldn't an “Anti-Social” social network, however minimal, be NO Social Networks?
I also can't understand the two-line prompt. I want my prompt to take as little space as possible.
That's a shame. I thought this much was progressive:

> Do not roleplay racist, sexist, homophobic or otherwise bigoted characters in public-facing or semi-public areas (emphasis mine)

Too good to be true?

> hate groups that have gained political power such as the Donald Trump administration

That's not a hate group, that's the other half of the entire country that doesn't toe your party's line.

And it'll probably happen again because this sort of sophistry has made life an insufferable pain in the ass.

Like or hate Bush/Clinton/Obama, nobody was kicking you out of a community because of your political affiliation. I miss the inclusiveness of the 90s.