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> He would have to surrender a sum of taxpayer dollars that equaled five times the budget for education and 10 times the budget for public health.

I can't imagine for a second the state of mind of someone who thinks that's OK as long as they can make money.

That these Quinn and Cahill and the ones in London who arbitrated in their favour can be free, and very likely richer than most good people are, makes me loose all faith in our stupid civilisation.
A point of a demonstration of an extreme like that is a reflection on how fragile and disenfranchising a tactic voting can be. It's argued voting tames people from increasingly illegal alternative action which has historically been found necessary toward labor conditions improvements that we enjoy today (such as through wildcat strikes) or tames them into highly hierarchical and process bound forms of group coordination. Where the sum is a shapeshifting ruling class that largely works toward its own interests regardless of flavor or how often they bow to the power of popular or private interest movements.
Politics happen. Things that were previously unthinkable suddenly become thinkable.

It only seems "suddenly" because all the behind-the-scenes activity was going on when no one was looking.
Ive had every iPhone since launch upto the 8s+

I have dropped and broken so many fn iphones - once, I had just picked up a new phone and went to dinner where the restaraunt had concrete floors... I had that phone for ~6 hours.

I dropped it and broke it because I hate cases, and the iphone is so damned slippery.

I berated Jony Ive (I sent him an email) and told him that the lack of a lanyard bracket was BS. (This was also when I was flying a lot to asia, and so many phones had lanyard brackets...

I think Ive gone through ~25 phones? I have a stack of several right here: https://i.imgur.com/QvODonY.jpeg - plus the one I took the pic with...

I think I have several more strewn about my tech graveyard...

What sucks is that I have called phone repair places what to do with them all, and they say they are all worthless.

"Throw them out"

I just feel bad for all those kids in China who died at the assembly line to make these worthless products requiring suicide nets. (Thats not a joke, that is really fn sad that people at Flextronics (who use to build a bunch of stuff for Lockheed as well) just killed themselves.)

(Oh and I had a MBP that was under recall for battery fires, CATCH fire in my bed when I was asleep...

It was also an AirBNB and I woke upto my MBP on fire.

Apple held it for two months, then even though the machine was under recall for fire, refused to replace it telling me I had the option to buy a new machine at full price.

They claimed that a moisture sensor went off so warranty (and recall) void.

it took them TWO months to make that statement and try to get me to buy a new machine.
Because the two CEOs are family? Like literally.
That doesn't explain CDNA. They focused on high-throughput FP64 which is not where the market went.
Interviews are for weeding out poor candidates; what you have left are the good ones. Weeding out poor candidates is not possible with 10-15 minutes informal chats.
So you're saying the rate of change of compensation (or "jerk rate" when entering and exiting a curve, as people enjoy calling it) is worse on tilting trains?

I would love to see some data - I assumed this was a solved problem, but I wouldn't be too surprised if the tolerances were revised to fit the problem.

I forgot to mention the 'interesting' part of this problem: that the effects are measured cumulatively. That is, against passenger journey length. Drivers and other staff are not considered as far as I know!
I attended DS in the mid-90s, slightly before @girzel (who does great work btw!).

DS is essentially a transfer school that offers no tenure and whose small student body is on a two-year program. That is a recipe for rapid cultural change and little institutional memory inside the valley. Which is to say, Harrison got a snapshot of a very peculiar place, which is now peculiar in very different ways.

The school went co-ed a few years ago (it had spent the previous century as an all-male school). That brought a sea change.

Harrison is correct, I suppose, to say that every institution is deeply human and no one should be intimidated by them. But he is wrong to extrapolate too much about DS based on his visit there.

Even people who spent years of their lives there would have trouble generalizing about it in ways that accurately encompass decades.

If I could try to generalize about DS, I would say: it has traditionally been a place where excellent weirdos learn and work together, and which puts tremendous pressure on them, for good and bad. I have not experienced a more intense or sincere learning environment before or since.
> Using the tax code to punish or reward behavior is always bad

Isn't that pretty much the entire purpose of the tax code and why it's so complicated?

It's one of the tools the government has to shape behavior.

Actual tax revenue doesn't really matter since a permanent deficit and ever-growing debt is apparently fine.
You sell some to pay for your living expenses and sell some to move into fixed income for some guaranteed income. You rebalance your portfolio by your risk tolerance and your current needs.
Evolution: Fast or slow? Lizards help resolve a paradox
Think about the language from a technical perspective. EDIT: On second thought, presumably you did and you are also adding humor!
Because I am already alive. So I'll see this amusement park ride to its conclusion.
The US never ceases to surprise me

That's so medieval and backward for a country like that
Data centres curbed as pressure grows on electricity grids
That would benefit from various subsidies; from the article it _looks_ like the $54/MWh projected figure is before subsidy.
Which one fired most Rust developers?

The foundation or the corporation?
Can you please clarify what Hobby Lobby has to with the whether the government is allowed to make contraception widely available and easy to access? Are you saying for example that the gov wanted to directly provide contraceptives, and Hobby Lobby somehow sued to prevent this? Or are you reframing something like, "Hobby Lobby was about whether the government is allowed to make contraception widely available and easy to access" by forcing private employers to cover/pay/subsidize them?
Which part are you disagreeing with? I'm literally laymaning the law.

The law never covered using cryptography, it was always about exporting it. Mostly it was written around keeping military specific cryptography from entering rival powers hands, but was overbearing. So they amended it to allow commercially developed/homegrown cryptography (explicitly not developed for governmental/military use) to be distributed normally. In practice, it's still a little muddy as many of those use DoJ/DoS-funded cryptography patterns, but the government has chosen to take a fairly hands off approach on those (RSA and DSA are key examples).

You're correct that it would also be almost impossible to enforce the original wording in today's world of globalization. They also have little power to enforce it on foreign nationals, which is why a warning was usually Good Enough(TM) for American software developers.
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Tbh I completely disagree with this statement.

Even extremely simple CRUD has unique data modeling, validation, storage and scaling, deployment, UI/UX concerns, etc

A very, very small percentage of software falls into the category of “simple form on top of a database table”. And even when it does, it doesn’t tend to stay that simple unless it’s just kinda not that valuable anyway.
"Cartels of unions" or whatever are legal in some jurisdictions. See e.g. solidarity action / sympathy strikes.

Depending on the country, that varies from "totally illegal" to "well of course you're gonna solidarity strike, that's how it's done".
I would look at this somewhat differently - I think very 'narrow' jobs (with lots of people doing the same, very specific job) were previously more common. Think of the rooms of people replaced by 'mail-merge', for instance. For jobs that involve lots of disparate activities and responsibilities, it is difficult to 'automate' the job because it consists of many different jobs, none of which fully occupy a human. That type of work resists expensive solutions, since automating 1/16 of someone's job is just a slight productivity boost, but not necessarily much of a savings to the company, and you might need to develop 16 separate solutions with varying levels of reliability and effort. If a 'department' is only a handful of people, reducing the number of people has negative impacts on reliability and sustainability for the company - how vulnerable is your company now if you only have 1 compliance officer, and they leave / get sick / whatever? There will definitely be some jobs that get eliminated by this type of technology just the way mail-merge eliminated lots of workers (or a zillion other examples in the last 200 years), but it's not obvious to me it will even increase productivity enough to deal with the worsening demographics hitting pretty much every developed country these days.
Job interviews should be about fit in the team and projects - not tests and ridiculous whiteboards where you start solving their problems for free...
>I'm a man, been married almost 20 years.

Congratulations, sample size of 1.
It’s a shallow understanding of the code if you don’t know the variable definitions and types. Good enough for some things, though.
There is ambiguity in the physical world. Some audio equipment have what's called a ground lift. It physically disconnects the ground conductor between two devices, and it's usually a single push-toggle in/out button. I've seen some devices with "Ground On/Off" - does that mean grounded (not lifted) or not grounded (lifted)? IIRC one of the DI boxes I've used is the opposite of what you'd expect - "Off" means lift is off, meaning ground loop is connected. The sensible devices have two states "Lift/Gnd".
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This sounds like a repairability nightmare. The number of cracked screens you see on an average walk/bus ride is all you need to know that phone manufacturers are failing to consider and meet the needs of their users.
> I'm really rooting for AMD to break the CUDA monopoly

Personally I want Nvidia to break the x86-64 monopoly, with how amazing properly spec'd Nvidia cards are to work with I can only dream of a world where Nvidia is my CPU too.
The 737 and 787 are fundamentally different designs. The 737 is made to be small enough to deplane using stairs to the tarmac at smaller airports while the 787 is exclusively for modern airports with walkways. The 737 is about 12 meters tall and the 787 is 17 meters tall as a result.

That was the driving factor behind the 737 Max disaster. The most efficient engines are high bypass turbofans which are getting taller and taller to fit the main rotor so they had to place the engine nacelles in front of the wings rather than below in order to fit them. This changed the flight envelope and necessitated retraining which Boeing avoided by implementing MCAS which caused the crashes.
One trick is do not clean it up with a vacuum.
> "If your boss doesn't approve that you completed the day's work when you actually did, the money stays in escrow until it gets settled by a court."

Boss: "Your court hearing will be in 2-6 months, you'll need to take time off work to go to court and I'll get the company lawyer to argue our side so you'll need to pay for a lawyer to argue your side. You'll need to risk losing and being lumbered with court costs on top, and extra time and costs for a retrial. Or ... you could stay an extra hour tomorrow and I'll approve today's salary release. What do you say, low-wage labourer?"
I think no. There were versions of GCC that could, and FreePascal does. Microsoft Visual C++ (2.0?) could from Windows, and of course CodeWarrior, Symantec C++, Think C/Pascal, and MPW/Apple compilers.
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Does art belong to the artist or the public? I only ask because of things like the alterations to Star Wars by Lucas. It felt like he was modifying something that no longer belonged to him.

At the other end of the spectrum you have the Bobs who refuse any manipulation or sequels to Back to the Future and turned down Universal's offer of a 3D conversion of the movies, which I actually thought might be OK.
I think the answer is that "looking pleasant" is much more of a goal for commercial software. In usability terms the much denser GUIs of the 90s were arguable better in some ways than what we frequently see today, especially for power users.
If you replace CUDA -> x86 and NVIDIA -> Intel, you'll see a familiar story which AMD has already proved it can work through.

These were precisely the arguments for 'x86 will entrench Intel for all time', and we've seen AMD succeed at that game just fine.
Trusted simply means that the arrangement benefits $bigcorp's bottom line.
I have no idea about current textbooks. But certainly the physics textbook that I learned from quoted the myth. And it is easy to find examples online, like https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Physical_and_Theoret..., that still do.

I wish it were otherwise, but there are some weird dynamics in the textbook industry that reward looking like other textbooks more than accuracy and usefulness.

A classic essay showing this is "The Case of the Creeping Fox Terrier Clone" in Gould's book Bully for Brontosaurus" that traces the history of textbooks comparing Hyracotherium* to a fox terrier. This, despite the fact that most students and authors have absolutely no real idea how big a fox terrier is. And it wouldn't help if they did know, given that Hyracotherium actually weighed over twice as much!

Another classic essay showing how textbooks repeat other textbooks without properly questioning what should be taught is https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/lg5/Rota.pdf. If you've taken some variant of the differential equations course that he discusses, I highly recommend reading his essay. I guarantee that it is far from the only standard course with such levels of silliness.
Dang. This corporate nonsense at it's best.

Personality test are completely bogus.

Marston's was a master con and even expressed it in later life.
Thanks for your perspective. It's all a grand experiment. Maybe you'll see a thread on here in 30 years about how it all turned out.
I received a three question geometry quiz inside of a google form as a screening for a backend nodejs a couple weeks ago. Apparently it was critical for the role that I know the relationship between the circumference and the radius of a circle.
Look at techniques such as Dependency Injection, and Feature Flags. Each deployment should only be a different configuration of Feature Flags. Otherwise, you're overcomplicating things.
Does the NFL use the term “Big Game” anywhere?
The age group is relevant, because the Florida law that many people point to was about younger children.

But regardless, my second point doesn't depend at all on the age group. So sure, ad hominem is an easy way to avoid having to reconcile uncomfortable logic.
I'm aware and I hate it. I have zero interest in most of the crap the foundation gets up to, but I keep sending them money because it's the only way to "support Firefox". I want to support Firefox but I resent every cent I send them because I know they're wasting it on irrelevant crap.

I would really love to see a mass resignation of Firefox engineers, who then set up a new nonprofit + ff fork, and I could just switch my attention and my donations over there.
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> I passed the first interview, but the second was going to be a 5-hour remote codeshare/whiteboard interview with the team. I declined the second interview.

Last year I interviewed for MongoDB. They proudly boasted that their hiring process consisted of a 7 interview marathon. I asked if that wasn't too many interviews, and the interviewer boasted that they already managed to streamline their process down from 12 interviews.

They also proceeded to point out that all FANGs follow the same process, except they really don't.

I respectfully dropped from the hiring process there and then. The extremes to which they take their cargo cult mentality is out of this world.
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That is Don Hopkins, “a very imaginative fellow” (according to Richard Stallman), hacker extraordinaire, and very active in (and leader of many) important and well-known software projects throughout the 1990’s, or thereabouts. Here on HN, he often comments with insightful historical context (in his inimitable style). Just don’t get on his bad side, is all I’m saying (at this time); I have personal experience, but you can simply peruse his comment history here.
Hey I'm excited to share my first project, Receipts2CSV, a web application designed to simplify bookkeeping by converting receipt images into CSV files.

Problem Statement:
Keeping track of expenses and managing receipts can be a tedious task, especially for small businesses and freelancers. Traditional methods involve manually entering data from receipts into spreadsheets, which is time-consuming and prone to errors. With Receipts2CSV, users can streamline this process by simply uploading images of their receipts and obtaining structured CSV files ready for import into accounting software.

If you are lazy like I am, you could accumulate receipts in just one folder and re-run all images every time, remove duplicates and merge with older CSV to minimize looking through receipts on a monthly/annual basis.

Questions for Validation:

Do you find a receipt image to CSV converter useful? Would you consider using such a tool for your bookkeeping needs?

Considering higher costs for AI models like GPT-4 Vision Preview, how are other indie hackers able to create and sustain offering free products like these?

Do small products like these have a monetization market? If so, where do I begin?

Curious to hear your candid thoughts about this web app. Should I explore it further or move to the next idea?

Feel free to share your thoughts, suggestions, or any additional features you'd like to see in the product!

Thank you for your valuable input and support!
Oh yeah, QoL is pretty decent. The economy for most of Eastern Europe is great as well. It's a geopolitical question more than anything else right now. (Not that Western Europe is much better there, but the time scale for potential conflict is currently a bit longer)
I wonder what you would happen if you really probed a "consumer" about what they mean by trusted.
How effective would it be to build a neural network that controls the reaction wheel motors?
Convert your newsletter into an app and boost sign ups, open-rates and sharing
This is not a real issue on Android, where this has been the status quo forever. Are there any reasons it would be different here or is it just FUD after all?
100k? In many places, just an additional room for child alone would be that much.
To fit in an IP packet?
And having had this issue myself with a Hollywood movie, where the rights for the music in the final cut were too expensive, trying to replace the music is always horrible. Especially, as in this case, where you would likely have to go with public domain music.
I didn't know about this - thanks!!
The LLM won't reveal what happened during that weekend in Ibiza and drunkenly recount it to the extended family.

Not unless you add that context to the prompt, anyway.
> Could you give examples of such companies

One example is ARM, which licenses the processor designs they create, and do not build or sell the chips themselves.
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And indeed more than succeed, they invented x86_64.
The exterminator who handled ours 7 years ago swore by using whatever he uses for dealing with mosquitos. I don't know the specific chemical.

Took 2-3 treatments but it worked.
Glad to see feedback from real users. My company was pitched by Paradox [1] to use their chatbot and this bizarre questionnaire to hire SW.
Their solution target mostly McDonalds workers and other bluecollar, where I believe it's "okeish to put human beings thru the mud first".
They claim [2] there is science behind it, but me and my partner's feedback was it will never work for IT workers.

[1] - https://www.traitify.com/
[2] - https://www.traitify.com/science
My mom found an old portrait painting in an antique shop decades ago that looks similar to these. It's definitely a great painting, and it's signed Rembrandt, but of course there are hundreds of fakes out there for every real painting. Was he known for small paintings before these portraits were rediscovered?

The painting is in good quality -- would you expect significant deterioration of the paint if it was actually painted 400 years ago?

Curious if and when it's worthwhile to pay a professional to really have a good look it.
IMO a criminal charge does seem a bit heavy-handed for this. They should've just made him shovel it all back, lol; that would've been punishment enough.
> How is any of this unique to a capitalist system and prevented in, say, command economies?

Social-capitalist economies (the “social democracies” and adjacent) tend to do better job at this particular thing. Unions are pretty damn effective at cutting down on employers failing to follow through on their obligations, for one thing, and other states do a better job of supporting and incubating those organizations, besides whatever else they do in statute and enforcement to curb the power of capital to behave poorly.

The US tends to center its capitalist nature more than other states, is why I suggested we wear it rather “on our sleeve”.

“Why does this liquid taste like apples?”

“My brother in Christ: the label reads ‘Apple Juice’”
I actually built the frame from crappy construction 2x4s milled down to 3/4 x 3 because this is mostly a proof of concept and learning project.

You can use a table saw to do a decent approximation of what a planer or a jointer does by fixing the work pice to a sled. This worked kind of poorly for me, but that was my fault, and next time I'll do a better job. I spend a lot of time sanding out saw marks and never got a great result.

Tamar uses a planer in this video for the first side, but I think you can see how you could do it just with a table saw, for small pieces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWOB-WIDkOs
My totally real cybernetic AI planning advisor is a bit worried about the chosen abbreviation's ability to outshine the other GDI.
Impact of Intel Compiler Optimizations on Spec CPU2017 Example
This is the reason that we tell ourselves, but it isn't the reason why we stop having kids. If it were, the human race would have died out millenia ago.
I've written a lot today and don't have the time to reply to this comment properly.

I'm not familiar enough with the situation to really know. I was just commenting on the use of the term victim blaming.

I don't think I necessarily disagree with you that some people bring consequences upon themselves, even if those things are themselves illegal. Ultimately I would say that SWATing is clearly not a trivial thing to do: people die, money is wasted.

In general: nobody deserves to be SWATed; go through legal channels to seek justice. If that person is untouchable, maybe some sort of "vigilante" action is warranted; I don't know.
As someone stated above, there might be rights issues with the music and other elements used in the movie where the IP creators expect to get paid with every viewing etc.
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