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> PHP let's people do really dumb ORM templating.

PHP has nothing to do with ORM problems. Any language allows dumb stuff related to ORM. Those are the libraries rather than the language.

PHP, like any language, has good and bad libraries.

If a project uses a bad solution for ORM, the language is not to blame.

I can do dumb ORM stuff in C#, Java, Rust, C++ and Python.

If a project picked a bad framework 10 years ago and now complains about the language instead of the framework I don't know what to tell you.
It goes to show that undoing incorrect common knowledge

It's because the appendix-is-useless "belief" comes with decades of evolution vs. intelligent design emotion behind it, starting with Darwin himself.
"Abenomics" was a serious failure. Maybe Japan is starting to turn the corner, finally.
I get the vibe that this is a gripe the author has with one specific person they work with, but really want to frame it as a broad general pattern
+1. I was bit by an article yesterday[0] whose content begins 13 paragraphs in. Seems like this article starts only seven, shorter paragraphs in, which is more tolerable but still annoying.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39248326
Yep, you're correct. I misread. The Northbridge has been eliminated entirely. PCH is separate.
Better yet, stick an 50hp gasoline engine in it as well, and it will carry you to the ends of the Earth, while operating 100% like a BEV for daily commutes.
>in specially engineered mice
well, if you will go to hybrid car forum to "peak covid" timeframe, a lot of users actually worried about it. this kind of stuff is rather obscure functionality mentioned deep inside the manual that nobody bothers to read.

also, this is volvo. no idea how other hybrids tackle this issue
As apples to apples as we can get is probably the Hyundai Kona. They have an ICE version and an electric version.

ICE = $24,100 for 35mpg

EV = $32,675 with 261 miles per charge

The price difference is $8,575.

The average price of gas right now is $3.15/gallon. To make the math easy, let’s say a person drives 35 miles per day (1 gallon of gas in the ICE car).

It would take 2,722 days to make up for the added cost of the electric car, even if the charging was completely free. That’s 7.5 years.

When looking up how long people tend to keep cars, the numbers varied, but they seemed to fall right in that same ballpark, 6-8 years.

So right as a person is about to break even, they are going to get a new car.

This also assumes both cars are new. The person who started this was talking about getting a used ICE, which saves a lot of money. I think people are much more comfortable buying a used ICE car over a used EV, as there is still a lot of uncertainty around the old batteries… decreased range and replacement costs. So I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of people were debating between a used ICE car or new EV, with the justification that they will make up for the extra cost on gas savings, which they probably won’t.
I'm not sure if this is exactly what you're talking about, but i'm going through a book called 'The Mind Illuminated' and the author has a section of the book called the 'Dark Night', which talks about how you can have a lot of issues if your meditation practice develops but your everyday life does not reflect it. He mentions a specific type of anxiety comes with this as well. My be worth looking into.
not only are the teeth very effective at defleshing (!) they are loaded with disease-causing bacteria and venom, too
* Bullet points make it easier to read for some reason
Spotify has been losing money from day 1. It also would not even make the US top 50 for tech companies, by revenue.

Booking.com is registered in the US...
When you "this app", I thought you meant a version of the experience in the posted video. To be clear, it's something completely different.
Their CEO needs to go, he has no tech vision
I admit in the past I've been skeptical about the use of gravity batteries when they involved things like towers and stacking large weights as their energy density is relatively quite low, but this seems like it makes a ton of sense. That is:

1. The shaft is already dug, so no need to build a tower.

2. As the article points out, many/most of these sites are already well-connected to the grid.

3. Also as pointed out in the article, this could be a boon to depressed areas and help broaden economic value generation.

Am I missing something?
I did write a book related to the topic, however it may take a bit longer to get through.

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/managing-cloud-native/9...
I think if humans are stupid enough to allow ChatGPT to deploy nuclear weapons then we probably deserve to go extinct
That thought genuinely did not occur to me. That feature alone will pay 1.5b back within moments of becoming available.
Article is reporting on someone's dubious, un-contextualised numbers. Comparing apples to sardines.
They're going to pull up their $8bn factory?
This must be orders of magnitude more expensive than pumped hydro and I would expect more expensive than lithium batteries. And unless the mine is close to an existing high voltage substation then there will be significant costs hooking it up to the grid. The pilot will be a 2MW generator but you can fit a 2MW inverter and a 2MWh battery into a single shipping container so the scale is really minimal.
Grammarly Announces Layoffs
StageCraft WAS Unreal Engine; it is not anymore.
> That doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of what people are willing to do for screen real estate.

Very, very few people. I would be surprised if it's more than a fraction of a percent of the home computing market.

In fact, most people seem quite content to downgrade. They have laptops or desktops that are collecting dust while they're browsing the web on their phones while at home. My entire family does that, I'm the only outlier.

I'm sure that cost and convenience are factors and there would be a larger market for zero-hassle "high-FOV" computing, but a bulky headset isn't it. As it is, the market for Apple Vision Pro is almost nonexistent - not without some killer use case that appeals to more than just hardcore geeks.
For what it's worth, I went to a coding bootcamp in 2012. From there, I found people who were willing to pay me money to do software development as a Freelancer.

I did countless events, I listed my services in local blogs.

This leadup to becoming CTO of a startup. 8 years later here we are.

This was in Chicago.

It was one of the best decisions I ever made.

I also did an iOS bootcamp in 2014, mostly because clients kept asking for mobile and I didn't like the hybrid mobile platforms.
Yep. Leave the user at the level they chose. Don’t override their decisions.

I want to click around on the pins in focus. I’ll zoom in on the ones I find interesting.
> People who don’t like tech corporations are good targets for this too; they should build their movements through communicating by cuneiform tablet on clay harvested from local mudbanks;

Funny, considering how much she complained about tech (in particular, shuttles) after selling her house to a Googler in the mission.
No I am not saying that things don't happen when there is no observer around. I am saying, `what` actually happened is entirely based on perception of mind, and is completely subject to interpretation.

To give an analogy, imagine the universe really was a collection of bits.[0,1,2,3,4].

We are some program which give means meaning to these bits.
Another program on the other hand interprets these bits another way, perhaps even in a language completely incomprehensible to us.

The state of the universe can change to another set of bits, but each observer could still form completely different sets of perceptions, or change of perceptions.
Does anyone know how the finger tapping tracking work? Is it just the Lidar sensors?
Wow, it really does have that sound. I'm trying to figure out exactly what about the phrasing feels that way, while at the same time it doesn't seem like it's as uniformly broken up as most GPT answers are. Of course it could be an edited combo as well.
Earthquakes last about a minute max, how many semi-conductors have been produced in Japan already? Many.
Don't use keywords (1-grams), the best results for English can be achieved with 2+3-grams. n-grams retain context.
With forced air -- absolutely. The heat pump provides most of the heat and all the cooling, and you have a high-efficiency gas boiler with 2 zones, one for a DHW storage tank and one as the AUX heat with a hydronic loop in the air handler (as you mentioned) as backup.

You could go with a combo-boiler that does on-demand hot water and a single AUX zone rather than a 2-zone with a storage tank. However on-demand DHW doesn't do well with managing the temperature with pressure changes (someone flushes a toilet or puts the laundry on or both! and you'll get a few moments of either freezing or scalding water as it adjusts). I think it's better to have a superstor type DHW tank. They only lose about 1℉ per hour so with no DHW use, the boiler only needs to run about once a day for a few mins to keep it hot.
> why do humans have superior color vision vs. almost all other mammalian creatures?

Why limit to mammals? Female birds of paradise are way more likely to mate with the male birds of paradise that do exhibit the most harmonious colors (to our human eyes: so female birds of paradise happens to share the same taste as humans when it comes to harmony of colors).
The reason it's not a major issue anymore is that most developers are smart enough to follow the web standards first and then make sure the browser supports it. They've found that following standards--just like all other programming--is the foundation of computer programming.
What about Unity then?
I don't think LPDDR5 is that much more expensive than DDR5 on a per-GB basis. The performance advantage is mostly from a wider memory bus, and a bit from being soldered.

In other words, the CPU having access to huge amounts of memory bandwidth is not really costing the users much, after they've paid for the GPU and its memory system. The cost is really just the incremental cost of enlarging a GPU die by strapping some CPU cores on the side.

It may not be precisely most cost and performance optimized configuration for gaming, but on the other hand it provides huge benefits for anything that doesn't fit in a cheap GPU's VRAM (eg. LLMs).
The article itself says it serves financial interests, and the internet is full of non-Chinese groups doing the same thing primarily for financial reasons.

I find it hard to believe the Chinese state would mix in so many crypto scams, but that makes perfect sense for a private group.
The developer experience would be one of the main advantages. Unison cloud was custom built to run Unison's language without extra steps like building packages, syncing dependencies across nodes, etc. Also, interactions with other cloud platforms typically aren't described in a programming language which is shared between the infrastructure management layer and the application layer. The draw-back is that the Cloud runs the Unison programming language specifically.
Universal web widget set and layout jawn.
Yes, and we are both specifically writing in a thread about Toyota battery vehicles.
It just switches to cooling mode and activates the AUX heat to dump heat into the outdoor coils for a minute or two and then goes back to heating.

The AUX heat is just a thermostat relay closing, so it can activate an electric-resistive coil (as is typical) or it can turn on the circulator pump for a gas fired boiler for a hydronic loop in the air handler.
I’m just gonna tap out here and finish by saying this is the funniest, most psychopathic shit I’ve seen in a long time

Empathy exists. Give it a try
It will be interesting to see how much net energy is able to be stored after the energy cost of de-watering the mine is taken into account.

(An interesting tidbit of trivia I learned from miners is that deep underground mines only became feasible after reliable pumping was put in place.[1] Prior to that, they flooded out from groundwater intrusion.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flooded_mine

Edited to add the wikipedia link.
Good points indeed.

Regarding your last remark - yeah, it's a valid question. It also shows that without heavy subsides, in most countries, electric vehicles would sell a fraction of what they sold in the past 2 years.
The wikipedia article "Komodo Dragon" clarifies that they don't have more than usual bacteria, it is because of the habits of their natural prey and the contamination of local water sources.
Don't try getting into QA in a hope to move to software engineering. It does not work well and QA line in the CV could easily make it toxic for much more interesting areas.

Instead take some full Uni course (bachelor min) in Computer Science or Software Engineering. That is the right way.

Why do you want from moving to coding from the paralegal? It has probably much lower financial bounds comparing to paralegal, with similarly high stress and very long working hours.
> The IIASA analysts noted that mines already have the basic infrastructure for such an endeavour, while also being connected to the power grid. “This significantly reduces the cost and facilities for the implementation of Underground Gravity Energy Storage (UGES) plants,” the study noted.

Not that your wholly unsupported naysaying isn't compelling.
It seems like evolution started with really efficient brains and gradually increased their complexity. We seem to be starting with really powerful brains and gradually increasing their efficiency. (I'm not an evolutionary biologist so I could be totally wrong about this.)
It's the mass market on-ramp the Metaverse needs.

https://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2024/02/disney-epic-interoperable-...

Roblox should start sweating. Then again, so should anyone who's created Disney-themed fan content on Rec Room, VRChat, etc.
Interestingly if you run a textual analysis comparing what the accused has written and what 'Anna' has written in various forums (including this one), there are some similarities that would be difficult to otherwise explain. So it seems likely they have found the culprit.
What Makes EV Charging Stations Fail?
It looks decent enough, but they forgot that it actually needs to be usable.
I actually wanted reverse, dark page with pale white circle. it felt too bright.
If instead of buying IP and stealing from public domain works they invested more into creating new IP they could actually make a lot of money.

I'm sick of them being allowed to increase their entertainment monopoly on children instead of being told to just create new original works. It's not like they have a shortage of talented people...
> The internet was better when it was smaller, but maybe that's the way it is with anything.

I'm glad more people have access to the Internet. I just wish I had access to that special place again. It's gone.

HN is a shadow of that lost world.
> “I guess I will just hang around and do my job until Google no longer wants me,” she finished her post.

Welcome to having a regular non-union job? There's several billion other people in the club. It's not exciting, and you will be let go whenever the company wants a boost in their financials. There's also no free snacks or chefs, but you (at Google) still get a bigger salary than anyone else in the world with your job, if that helps. If you want fulfillment, excitement, vision, etc, you could always change jobs to a smaller company whose reason for being isn't selling ads.
I believe the new version is called StageCraft: Brood War.

Thank you.
Again, the article is about rents being too high. If you force investors to sell existing housing stock to owner-occupiers, what direction do rents go? Up. If you are anti-rental property investor, then you are also anti-renter.

Instead of pitting renters against homeowners, think of policies that reduce costs for both renters and homeowners by adding supply. E.g., relax zoning to raise height limits and allow apartments, allow more worker visas and encourage people to work in the trades, subsidize construction loans.
Generally, they're not (or should not be), and its mostly hype tunnel vision (imo). Here's a link to the List of Semiconductor Fab Plants worldwide. [1] Note: This is a 1000 line table that lists production per plant at 10,000-100,000 / month for most fabs with numbers. There are a lot of other chip sources.

However, TSMC has the largest capacity worldwide. Intel's probably second for capacity. Samsung's probably third. Micron, Texas Instruments, Infineon, Epistar, and several others are lower down yet significant.

If you need small chips, out of plants already constructed, based on the data in the list, Intel and Samsung appear to have the "current" smallest node size at 7 nm. TSMC has three plants under construction with 3-5 nm node size. Intel and Samsung also have a lot of capacity in the 7-20 nm range.

Most companies are in the 20+ nm size ranges, although definite exceptions with Nanya (10 nm), SK Hynix (10 nm), nanoPHAB (10 nm), Win Semiconductor (10 nm), GlobalFoundries (12 nm), SMIC (14 nm), UMC (14 nm), Kioxia/SanDisk (15 nm).

There's also technology and product variety, although most list 3-5 for each plant, so there's a bunch of specializations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat...
This truth clearly invalidates anything she’s ever said about Google! /s
This looks interesting. If I can scrounge up some time in the next few weeks maybe I’ll try to contribute.
Companies don't pay for tools, they pay for value.

That said, Weaveworks implosion is probably more ZIRP/VC related than anything devtools.
You are right. 60% is nothing, especially given the political situation

/s

can't even talk about chips and language without being attacked by the crew
"nosh" is a loanword from Yiddish, definitely no silent "g" prefix there.

Unless you're experiencing gnosis while noshing, in which case carry on. I've had prunes that good before.

If you're experiencing gnashing while noshing, then I suggest taking a break and changing to a different activity.
CEO helps profits and ensures stock price. Engineers only spend money. Who should go?

/s
I'd be good with the guidelines:

1. Use a vocabulary of at most two emojis in output (e.g. one for success, one for failure).

2. Any information conveyed by an emoji should be redundantly conveyed by text.
Mines are heavy industrial electrical consumers already, so generally have strong grid ties.
Probably, whatever one I did not have time to fully write by myself; other people can help too, I hope. For example:

- Pokemon battle simulator in C with C API.

- Implementations (and reviews) of some parts of the operating system design that I had (partially) written.

- Free bitmap fonts with TRON character code. (I have partially been able to do it, by recoding some JIS fonts.)

- Probably some others, too.
Eh, Lucasflim Games was pretty much shutdown in 2013 and only stuck around as a shell just to license out to, uh, checks notes EA. They're nothing like what they used to be when they enabled games like Rogue Squadron, KotOR or Jedi Academy.
While I agree with you that Fortnite shouldn’t be considered a loss leader, the strategy behind challenging Apple in court is more nuanced. Epic also operates a rather large software/games store and I am sure they would love to see it grow.
> Not as bad as the v4 browser days, but close.

Oh my goodness, yes.

Netscape 4 was especially bad. Trying to do anything interesting with CSS was playing with fire -- sometimes it'd work, sometimes it'd break, sometimes it'd crash the browser entirely, and there was no way to tell which one you'd get.
Been there for a long time already
No, he has money vision. They're at an all time high right now.

He's not going anywhere
As I recall, IE5 on the Mac actually had very few of these problems and was highly standards compliant.
https://archive.ph/dE6py
When kingdom hearts was released I got my first glimpse of how some people seem to throw their logic and taste out the window for Disney. It just seemed the dumbest thing to me. And why was the sword a key.. [edit: this was my teenage selfs opinion]
They use it in their rides as well -- https://web.archive.org/web/20200311075335/https://blogs.nvi...
What public domain works have their recent movies been based off of?

Outside of their reimaginings/reboots, I can't think of a single recent movie that isn't an original work.

And that doesn't include things like LucasFilm, Marvel and Pixar which are, obviously, original and still part of Disney.
You can breathe deeper or shallower to control that.

Maybe that's the point. Because you have to follow a certain timing, your body is not on autopilot anymore, so you have to be conscious of your oxygen needs, maybe even adjust them (for example, by calming down).
Thanks for that image, I can see the locations in the teardown now as well. But it couldn't be more clear that the cameras do need to look through the lenses. And furthermore, the IR LEDs also go through the lenses. They are all on the display side of the lens. It must have been tricky to avoid reflections from the illuminators going through those very fancy lenses.
To be fair disparagement for middle management has been around for ages. Nobody (10 years ago) I knew wanted to be promoted into management, if only because it was so hard to manage. It seemed like there was an outside hiring binge of middle managers who wanted to grow empires (from Amazon/MS etc).

Hmmm... would be interesting to go look at LinkedIn data to see if it's really true. Of course it wouldn't fix this problem. Workers are now unhappy with senior management, which is new. Although, I think some of the empire building resulted in a lot of the pandemic over hiring (and departures of long term staff).
Google - as well as faag, faang adjacent, and wannabe faang companies - all have the same problem: The entire management track is filled with mediocre paper pushers instead of innovators.
I don't think it has to be like that.

You already are giving "someone" that information when you look up a bus schedule on the web. But, downloading a bus schedule for an entire state doesn't seem unreasonable, and only locates you down to a state.

I don't think the supermarket needs to know where your eyes wandered. An app can have information in it about all the products in the store and handle it on-device. There's no need to transmit real-time eye tracking to the store just for this purpose.

I'm sure that stores would _love_ this information, but it's not needed for the experiences mentioned. I don't think you'd need any more information than you'd already provide by searching the web.

Also, though I don't necessarily think Apple is altruistic in everything, if I'm guessing today, I think Apple would go a similar direction to iCloud Private Relay, and Meta would go the direction that you're worried about.
> then that same amount should ideally be represented in the output, not "equal probability".

Yeah but breaking down the actual racial distributions by career/time/region is a waste of time for people building AGI, so they threw it the prompt and moved on to more important work.
Looking at the code (src/microsearch/engine.py), we have:

class SearchEngine:
def __init__(self, k1: float = 1.5, b: float = 0.75):
self._index: dict[str, dict[str, int]] = defaultdict(lambda: defaultdict(int))
self._documents: dict[str, str] = {}
self.k1 = k1
self.b = b

I've no idea what `k1` or `b` are. Nor is there a single comment in the entire file. Are comments considered unfashionable these days?

Looking at `_documents`, I'm guessing the keys are URLs and the values contents of those URLs, but i might be wrong.

The whole thing looks like it would've been a useful resource for people to learn how to build search engines with, that people could build on, had the writer been bothered to document it. But as it is I'm disappointed with the poor code.
Nice joke :)
You missed the part where I explicitly mentioned that she grew up in the United States, you probably missed that.