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> There are others I'd hardly see if it weren't for standups.

If that's a problem, it's a sign that the team is not functioning well. Standups can be a band-aid for the issue while a real solution is being developed, but it isn't a long-term solution in and of itself.
Have you read Gibson's "Sprawl" and "Bridge" trilogies? I read them > ten years ago and haven't read any sci-fi since, these books kinda put a subconscious "it does not get better, better diversify into other genres" attitude into my brain and personally I'm OK with that. Was reading a lot of sci-fi before that.
Except the whole point of bitcoin is that it's a scarce commodity enforced through power consumption (something that's a limiting factor to adversaries)

> The only thing bitcoins gigantic energy consumption does is making sure there is only one central blockchain.

which is how you constrain supply in a decentralized way with an independent time-keeping mechanism
https://go.dev/blog/context-and-structs

>Exception to the rule: preserving backwards compatibility

See that section of the blog post. It talks about the different approaches they could have took and why they chose the one they did.
I actually have the first two or three books in that series on my shelf already, waiting to be read. Just haven't worked my way around to them yet. Soon, hopefully...
This is going to highlight my ignorance of AI, so bear with me, but my rationale (which is probably wrong) was that they are training their model on my voice specifically for the word "hello". If I provide "Ahoy Hoy!" to them instead, and their system thinks that that is "hello", it might mess up their model a bit.

As I said, I don't really know what I'm talking about, that was just my rationale.
Recursive descent is great for parsing most of an algol-like programming language.

Once you get into expressions, you'll really want to do precedence climbing or Pratt parsing to get things working correctly.

This assumes that you want PEMDAS-like operator precedence in the first place. It does seem like a waste once you've implemented it and realize how little it's actually utilized by most code. Maybe the Lisp and forth people have a point...
> Basically it has become a synonym for

Its been a thing for a long time! As far as I know, Feynman first put it into words (regarding science, but applies equally to software engineering) in 1974:

> In the South Seas there is a cargo cult of people. During the war they saw airplanes land with lots of good materials, and they want the same thing to happen now. So they've arranged to imitate things like runways, to put fires along the sides of the runways, to make a wooden hut for a man to sit in, with two wooden pieces on his head like headphones and bars of bamboo sticking out like antennas—he's the controller—and they wait for the airplanes to land. They're doing everything right. The form is perfect. It looks exactly the way it looked before. But it doesn't work. No airplanes land. So I call these things cargo cult science, because they follow all the apparent precepts and forms of scientific investigation, but they're missing something essential, because the planes don't land.

We programmers usually call it "cargo culting", blindly following "best practices" and "design patterns" without any deeper understanding of why and when those should be applied.
I do not see why companies opinion on a bill has to be the same just because it is related to a similar topic. The fine details are important.
something like this is trivial to implement via a canary token. E.g.: a folder on the Desktop that is named "Juicy-Files" (or something similar) which when opened performs an action (e.g. an alert out of bad, or even deletion of actual secrets in some other location).
Some larger companies need it. I say if their equipment supports it and it's currently unused globally, then let it work internally.
If you hate Netflix, why don't you cancel your subscription?
A matchstick is the wooden part of a match so I don't see the issue with using plain sticks as long as they have the same dimensions, in fact perhaps it's possible to buy actual matchsticks.
Why then essentially ask for that? It's tens of thousands btw

There's no list of allowed dishes? But you expect one bought by Russians and used in the same town as Ukrainians are using it not it work.

The supplier is given bad press. And you expect the enmity that already exists over Crimea not to increase?

There's no free lunch
Tell HN: fuckjava.com redirects to kotlinlang.org
> This is the kind of things police will do if they have a warrant (or the local equivalent) in any sane democracy. Democracy does not mean that we have to let companies get away with crime or nicely tell them before a search so they can destroy evidence.

Democracy also doesn't mean that the authorities should ransack successful companies on a mere whim. Democracy also doesn't mean that the states and government should exercise their power limitlessly, nor turn their power into oppressing the people.

> How’s the US government handling Huawei again? Did the Atlantic Ocean close overnight?

This isn't about Huawei. The OP above me wrote about Google, and I included Nividia.

> Also, what makes you think that police investigations are more common than they used to be?

Obviously, this isn't something I'm going to be able to prove. Not all my arguments need to be backed by some sort of a sourceable evidence. If you don't want to believe this part of my statement, then don't, it's up to the reader to form their own opinion - that by no means discredits my post, since I'm obviously giving my opinion and you don't have to agree.

> Search, that’s the word you’re looking for.

Ransacked: search through (a place or receptacle) to find something, especially in such a way as to cause disorder and damage.

^ Yup, that's the one.
I've only used NixOS, but the Containerfile looks more like a shell script than a Nix config:

https://github.com/ublue-os/bazzite/blob/main/Containerfile
For my setup, absolutely none of it! Wholly incompatible with what I have.

My original question was purely hypothetical and not a practical consideration for me or, probably, anyone else.
I guess it depends on what you are defining as a chip and what you are defining as "Google" -- as in if they have contractors design/build to their needs does that count.

1/ https://www.wired.com/2012/03/google-microsoft-network-gear/

2/ I believe they had a few custom chips designed for the youtube workloads that predate the TPU.

I remember in 2010 there was a building in MV that focused on custom chips.
Does all the money made from Sequoia China and India just go right to the top to Sequoia though?
I love Hacker News... the random things you learn
I worked at a company that had an internal website that showed all people, departments, teams, and had a filter you could use for new employees or employees that left. It was sort of a double edged sword: you had enough information to start asking questions about what it meant if a team member or coworker was on the list. What was more interesting is that it almost became ritual for some people to logon first thing in the morning and check the list, every morning.
What ratio?
Considering that the Epoch Times is run by Falun Gong - definitely no friend to the CCP - I’m sure they actually read the hell out of it.
> I've never understood why building house of cards financial instruments that can fall apart at a moments notice is still legal.

It was illegal. It was illegal for over half a century. From the get depression onwards when it previously caused huge problems. And then a group of people started chanting about 'deregulation' and how much money they could make and yet again people feel for it and ignored all the lessons learned lay time people for greedy and started asking for lax oversight and rules for their financial markets. And we'll keep having examples of lessons to re-learn until we put the same regulations back that prevented this.
Which is really odd, since Texas is so liberty and free-market minded.
The comparison to a soccer team is very odd. Further, Brian seems to completely misunderstand the point of standup as he's trying to argue that standup is not conducive for collaboration.

Standup is not the forum for collaboration. Standup, and the three associated questions is purely and simply a dialog enabler. A healthy team has multiple dialog enablers. It's what helps break down the invisible barriers of communication and collaboration. ShapeUp recommends another great dialog enabler - appetite. It's quite literally why dialog enabler tools like gather.town and Slack Huddles exist - because teams struggle enabling dialog.

Cherry on top: Brian opens up by ridiculing appeal to authority, then finishes the article by appealing to authority.

> Managers around the world blindly adopt the same standup meeting format, without critical thought to its usefulness. It is the meeting agenda version of “you won’t get fired for buying IBM”.

> Now that the latest official Scrum guide has already removed the 3 questions, our industry should consider eliminating them too.
works flawlessly with Frefox UO.
The entire blog post is judgement calls, it's eminently fair to call into question his judgement. Particularly is somebody goes by "The Honest Broker" but instead seems to prefer partisan political fights.

So in sum: if he frequently has partisan politics, that's pretty important to know.

Almost no climate scientists get active in partisan politics because they don't want it to taint the perception of the science. Since the perception was tainted anyway, and acceptance of facts and science have become so politicized along partisan lines, I think there are more scientists who are open to working with politicians, at somewhat of a distance.
Beautiful project! How long does the 1100 mAh battery last?
By my reading you're agreeing with me. Attempting murder is also a crime where here there isn't really "attempted defamation" despite the actions and intent of the would-be defamer being identical. If you believe any part of the justice system is supposed to act as a deterrent then sincerely trying and failing to harm someone else is an act worthy of punishment. You might argue that punitive damages ought to be collected by the state or destroyed but regardless their function is identical.
Of course they do, they support right to repair laws as long as they are useless for repairing anything.
Wrote about this 4 years ago in Digital Vegan, that Big Tech would
eventually face a recruitment crisis. This has nothing to do with
economic slowdown, it's to do with ethics. The reputation of Big Tech
is dirt now.

People no longer want to be part of things they see as making the
world a worse place. Sadly it also affects things like policing and
intelligence work, so we get a vicious cycle of good people who could
make a difference being discouraged from entering fields where human
judgement is vital, and so more of those roles are filled by
algorithms. At some point we will have to step back from abusive
technologies and realise that humans will not so willingly collude in
their own alienation.

Question for downvoters: if technology is getting a PR problem what
are we going to do about it other than trying to silence anyone who
says it?
Not sure about "it was fruitless to fight against the government because what’s the point", a rebellion is a worthwhile thing in itself. "Make it personal" [1] is almost a call to arms.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/169549-the-personal-as-ever...
What does “camera access” mean in this context?
> Also, when talking about extra service payment networks like Visa offering, like anti fraud, gotta remember that at least part of problems this service solving is caused by the design of the network itself. And while it is not obviously energy hungry service, it is part of what everyone is paying 2-3% in credit card processing fees.

The design of credit cards does suck for fraud. I go to a website to buy a product, I put in my card number, exp date, CVV, and it turns out that site was actually compromised and some attacker got my card info. Now I have to cancel it and get a new card. It would be way better if what I entered on that vendor's site was a one-time authorization code, not the full information with which the attacker can spend from my card at other places.

Crypto is better in this regard since I never transmit my secret information to the vendor! But crypto is also worse, in that, if I do send a transaction to the wrong place (for example, because the vendor's website was compromised and told me the attacker's address to send to), I'm screwed. And if my electronic device is compromised and my private key stolen I'm really screwed.

Ultimately even though crypto has a technically better design, since it also has no support department and no dispute resolution I'm at higher risk. I've never lost money from a stolen credit card. You're right that I pay for that in the 2-3% processing fees... but it's not like Bitcoin is feeless, either.
It's not as exactly reproducible because there's no version locking, however after running the Containerfile you have a snapshot of the filesystem that is ready to be used and that you can save. Universal blue images use GitHub container registry, and it's 90 days of history to have at least 90 days of rollbacks available.

I'm currently setting up a Bazzite machine by using a GitHub actions to build every day an image from Bazzite's image and adding/removing packages and files on top. I have the DE, login manager and all its customizations in the image and for the CLI utilities and thing like that I use home manager.

I like this setup because you just need to know Linux to customize the image, Containerfile's are just series of commands or file copies from the repo, compared to nix it's easier.
> "If you're overdue according to your itinerary, and you start getting repeated calls from an unknown number, please answer the phone; it may be a SAR [search and rescue] team trying to confirm you're safe!"

Yeah, but if you answer, then the spammers know it’s a real number!
Looking at it over the long term, it's something we will need to do regardless of co2 emissions as the sun heats up over it's lifespan. The more interesting part of it is that I've you do Earth you have the tech and infrastructure to do the same to Venus and do the opposite to Mars.
Combine the solar shade with some solar panels and you are well on your way to becoming a Khardeshev II civilization.
I mean I'm not working on big code bases anymore, more tooling, analytics and managment. But both the open/closed principle and some advice from Sandy Metz and others really stuck with me: Don't bother abstracting.

Just write straight line code.

And then introduce indirections and abstractions if good reasons demand it. In fact, if changes to the code demand it.

For example, introducing an abstraction for an external database can improve testing prospects. If you need to fix the same bug in several places, it's usually time to extract a common abstraction. If you need to touch some established piece of code to introduce a choice what kinda algorithm/strategy/formatting/.... you need to use here, that's a decent point to introduce some abstraction and to inject some function/object here. If you would have to replicate the exact complex logic from somewhere else, and those places need to move in sync for reasons, moving that to a common place is probably a good idea.

Just following what the code needs and the changes and requirements around the code need has resulted in much simpler code and way more effective abstractions for myself.
Something with a black back to radiate the heat back out to space.

This is (very) stupid.
I’m not so convinced about the efficacy of transportation decarbonization, at least at the personal EV cars level. It kind of feels the same as when governments in California harp on personal water use and restaurants giving you a glass of water with your meal when the largest consumer of water use by a large margin is industry and farming.

Looking at [1], COVID when probably the most number of people stopped driving and individual energy needs plummeted, our CO2 emissions and fossil fuel energy use dipped marginally. I think the reason is that shipping, airline, and commercial transportation (ie trucks) consume the most and those aren’t getting off fossil fuels any time soon. [2] indicates that cars and buses together contribute ~7% to global emissions. Aviation and shipping individually are bigger CO2 emitters than the total amount used by personal vehicles.

Also these reports are hilarious (is that the right word?) to read. They use phase out to mean “no co2 emissions from this sector” while politicians say phase out to mean “no new sales/construction of co2 emitters in this sector”. Completely phasing it out will take much much longer.

It’s good for us to do the work and cars are a meaningful contributor, but the biggest impact would actually be shipping + aviation + trucking. Unfortunately those are also the hardest problems and the ones EVs won’t touch any time soon (maybe trucking but even then I think we’re stuck with diesel for quite a while). Shipping probably needs nuclear power and aviation needs some kind of zero emission fuel (hydrogen probably won’t cut it). Heck we haven’t even removed lead from aviation fuel and that doesn’t even require an engine change.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/fossil-fuels

[2] https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions-from-transport
You're missing the purpose. It isn't to just sit and wait till the next day to get help. It's to highlight issues that could not be resolved in that time frame, and pointing out that help (or intervention) is necessary.

It's the equivalent of saying "Service X was down yesterday, still hasn't come up, and if nothing is done about it, we'll lose another day."

In teams without standups, these blockers could go on for several days, and no one other than that one engineer would know about it. Now everyone knows and can adjust/react accordingly.
is there any allegation of illegal behavior here? Or are VCs supposed to go out ahead of Congress in sanctioning supposed enemies?
The Linux Foundation is working on cryptography for the post-quantum world
Yes, the trilogy is really a unit for me. Books 1 and 2 are really a single story. Book 3 is different but amazingly great.
You can hardly compare growth between economies in extremely different development stages directly.

Also the gap between Korea has remained constant since the 90s (in fact it even widened over the last 15 years or so)
Rocks are very dense. We are extremely good at mining and moving rocks. We produce 30 billion tons of concrete per year.

Naively, you would expect that producing and distributing crushed rocks sufficient to capture carbon would be equivalent to at most 10x the concrete industry. In practice, it’s likely closer to 1x.
Let's stay rational please
There's also the possibility of occasional space debris or solar flares striking the parasol
> You don't get to police what desires people have.

I am perfectly fine with hackers having fun with stuff. What is not okay for me is that consumers are generally not given a choice. Want to buy connected speakers that don't come with a microphone enabling something like Google Voice? Good luck.

People are generally not competent enough to understand the security implications of adding connected microphones/cameras/sensors inside their home (that usually connect to a damn cloud). Maybe I don't get to police what they want, but I can say that they should be told the truth about the crap they buy beforehand.

> I am competent enough to set up my network securely.

Is it being competent to not address the fact that connecting random stuff to your network is a security risk?
Fanatical Prospecting and Objections by Jeb Blount.

These are very full-time-sales-oriented books, and they may be too much for what you need. That said, they might be spot on.

In general, I would:

1. Talk to your network. This will yield your warmest leads.

2. Find a niche of clients who really have a tough time finding people for whatever reason. A good example for tech might be small town governments — they have needs and money, but they don’t have knowledge/expertise or funds to hire a lot of full timers. Target those groups and/or find out what contractors work with those groups and sub with them.

3. (Related to above) Find a bigger agency and just subcontract out with them. This might be a little lean in terms of money at first, but it will introduce you to a specific industry space both in terms of problems and people who solve them.

Good luck!
I remember supervolcano eruptions being postulated as way to break cycle.

(in addition to longterm heavy volcanism/impacts)
If all of them were competing then Argentina would be using the Indian Rupee or any of the many other options for their failing currency. But they don't. Fiats are tied to a specific geographic location.

If there isn't an impact on the real economy then the discussions here on how much energy is burned aren't meaningful.
I think all of Apple's "support" for Right to Repair has been carefully calculated to undermine it. They think the level of support they have to provide for repairability voluntarily is less than what they would have to do if it were mandatory.
> go right to the top to Sequoia

They go to the partners managing the individual fund.

A VC Fund is basically like a bottle of wine.

Each fund raises a vintage, and any profit (or loss) from that vintage is kept within the vintage itself.

VCs make money from their operating funds - they charge investors around 1.5-3% (depending on fund size) in Annual Management Fees.

That money goes to the staff of the Fund who are operating the vintage to pay for salaries, office space, business expenses, etc.

Most VCs end up making way less money than if they remained a PM or Engineer, but the work is intellectually rewarding and upsides/fame can be massive.
Eh, not sure about those top two. Depends on the circumstances, but in many countries there's _huge_ potential to reduce energy use via insulation improvement and that sort of thing.
Show HN: [x tldr] Table-based TUI for TLDR using sh/awk
I started a business, I did everything right, and I still failed
I'm assuming folks downvoted this to dead because they judged the book by the cover! This is a really good book and not "as dark" as the title seems at first. I highly recommend this book. It's an intriguing and easy read.
I tried that project and couldn't pick anything up. When the satellite was passing overhead, the antenna just couldn't pick up the signal. I have coworkers that got it to work, so I think either I configured the wiring on the antenna incorrectly (the directions weren't very clear to me), used the wrong type of coax, or my soldering was too sloppy (or a combination of A, B and C).

I'd love to see more demos on how to make the QFH antenna.
I'll second this as well.

Everyone has a "go-to guy". Often it's a plumber, a handiman, a lawyer, etc. Your might be the "devops guy" or the "Cisco guy", etc.

Build that reputation and then expand.

Also, learn to listen well, ask good questions, and take good notes. Communication when you are independent can make or ruin it for you.
It's a shade the size of Argentina.

Argentina is a very big country
Or just housing. Or maybe a park or school. Or hospital. Is an abandoned theater really the most socially beneficial use of some piece of land? Actually in some cases maybe it is. But not very often.
Hah, well then, maybe I just don't like vampires!

In all seriousness, I thought I had seen it in a list of "top hard sci-fi books" awhile back and a quick Kagi search seems to imply that a lot of people seem consider it hard sci-fi for whatever reason.

Maybe this means there's still a chance for me.
The problem is, I still want a camera (and ideally an easy way to sync those images), I still want iMessage, and I still want Maps. Honestly it's not that hard to strip down an iPhone these day to uninstall basically everything but those (and you still have a contingency plan if you need a browser or app).