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> other media that humans enjoy creating themselves
Yes, “other media”. Not “art”. Decorative filler for emptiness lacking any sense, manufactured to trigger expected reactions. Gigabytes of nonsense texts to put some ad revenue driven sites on top of other, less technologically advanced. Ask people who produced that before whether they enjoyed it.

> Weren't the machines supposed to make labour easier?
Those new “machines” were supposed to make certain activities even cheaper than hiring the cheapest workers, and make companies owning them indispensable providers for most businesses. That's how they intend to make money. Laborers can now do some other shitty job for new kings.

> Is the current gen AI state a stepping stone to much more useful applications?
No, it's just marketing.
I assume you mean carpentry, as installing carpet seems like a rough career, especially on the knees!

But even carpentry is hard on the body. Endless sawdust in your lungs, nonstop splinters, and of course spinning blades everywhere. We are very lucky that the biggest physical risk in software development is sitting down too long.
Reuters article cites Bloomberg article here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-16/reddit-is...

https://archive.is/caW1Y

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39404051 (15 hours ago, 29 points)
> Medicaid gets "best price" which is the lowest price the drug sells for anywhere.

I'm guessing you mean anywhere in the US. Apparently Florida is currently pushing to import drugs from Canada.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
Do you have a reference for the notion that lifestyle choice is artificially inducing ADHD? I'm interested to learn more.
His actions are in concordance with his words. For now, at least — I've seen enough CEOs turn out to be secret villains to remain somewhat skeptical.

The board firing him last year would have changed my mind about his qualities, if not for all of the board's own choices of replacements siding with him rather than with the board.
Xcode and Android Studio have plenty of warts. What is it about Android Studio's experience that you find lacking in Xcode?
They get access to servers and/or data centers where they can run their analysis. Its trivial to control for data egress in such a scenario.
Bear in mind that Apple and Adobe have a very long and close history - Apple did not kill Flash to spite Adobe, they did it because 1. Flash was plagued with security problems, and 2. Flash was plagued with performance problems and the iPhone was a very low performance device.
The majority of mine are, yeah
The current development of AI seems like speed run of Crystal Society in terms of their interaction with the world. The only thing missing is the Inner Purpose.
The Inuit have come up with an innovative solution for a teaching kids to control anger in playful manner. YMMV.

As to the original post, seems dubious at best. Succumbing to anger is simply punishing yourself for others' mistakes. Anger is a natural and even healthy emotion, but trying to harness it perpetuates it. I do not know about you, but who wants to be angry all the time to stay motivated? Surely there are better ways?

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/03/13/6855333...
Eh it’s not like being a navy seal is some glamorous elite status so I find that hard to imagine, plus people who are unfit for the military already have an alternative that gives them more power for less effort: policing.
That's present tense though. It was more popular in the past, but today, it's been relegated.
Russian (Russish) language is recent development. First song in Russian language was publicly performed by Fedor Shaliapin as demonstration that Russian language can be used instead of French language in culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMCFALhS90c
but web apps can usually offer the same experiences if programmed well

it may be a current situation that some web apps seem inferior, but it is not a necessity

plenty of web developers cannot even use js as a programming language or companies do not heavily invest in web apps since 1. they already invested in a native app 2. apple crippled the web via webkit and now tries to flat out crash web capabilities on iPhones

I mean who will invest in a country with a dictator? Would you build something if the dictator can demolish it any time? Like Apple actually does this with businesses that had a web app strategy?

once companies see all platforms supporting web app technology, wait 5-10 years and then judge

if 90% of the best app programmers migrate to the web stack and flickering html-sites and css stylests are history, I would be surprised if anybody could say whether an app is native or not...

and again, you do not really see native AND web app from the same company on the same platform

but actually commanding pixels on a screen is just as possible with js as with other languages, in the end you instruct c++ or rust coded browsers with js to perform tasks and there is webassembly too

and of course, backend with supercomputers but actually it is possible from native too
This might be one of those things like monitor refresh rate where you can only really tell the difference if you've experienced the better version for a while, but I haven't ever felt slowed down by the speed of VS Code.
My favorite anecdote on the topic involved a codebase like this, handled by inexperienced programmers. I came into the team, and realized that a whole lot of careless logic could be massively simplified, so I sent a PR cutting the codebase by 20%, and still passing all the tests and meeting user requirements.

The problem is, the ugly, careless code extremely very well tested: 95% code coverage. My replacement had 100% code coverage... but by being far shorter, my PR couldn't pass tests, as total coverage went down, not up. The remaining code in the repo? A bunch of Swing UI code, the kind that is hard to test, and where the test don't mean anything. So facing the prospect of spending a week or two writing swing test, the dev lead decided that it was best to keep the old code somewhere in the repo, with tests pointing at it, just never called in production.

Thousands of lines of completely dead, but very well covered code were kept in the repo to keep Sonar happy.
Yeah the solutions were like, "when you're angry, don't be"
despite what the article claims, clang and gcc are acc very good at vectorising code, and intel, arm, etc have entire teams dedicated to improving vectorisation in modern compilers
No, it's not. Like what is described in the original post, it is they spirit.
For example for the case with the printer and the xbox, they could have an explicit obvious error for the application.
Then it is the task of the application dev to validate its application for target it will run on. If it is does not work, it does not work.
Otherwise, you will still have dozens of bugs and unexpected behaviors, so a crappy application.

And new app developers will have to build upon that. Imagine the next app developer, you have to take into account that a platform pretends to support printers when it is not the case. So you will do things like: if there is a printer api but i don't see a printer available (/connected), pretend that we can't print and don't show the button... and so on...

If you have doubts about that, you can read the history of the openxml format:
https://ooxmlisdefectivebydesign.blogspot.com/2007/08/micros...
Is there real evidence of people becoming more fragile?

Tons of young people still play sports and are physically active. Maybe it is just the bubble I live in, but kids who are on even rec leagues from 5 years old on are engaged in organized sport activity multiple nights a week.
You misread that sentence.
> financing the drug seems to be an unsolved problem, except for the rich

Wait a few years for patents to expire (or go grey market with pirated surplus from the factory)
That is a good interview, but the article title doesn’t really match what the Indian spokesperson is saying: India wants to be non-aligned, with friendly relations with other countries, and that they care most about their own neighborhood of the world. I am a US citizen, and in my opinion our uni-polar approach to the world used to make sense but not anymore. I would like to see my country change course, since I feel like the requirements for prosperity and safety have changed. We need to adapt, and the old neoconservative and neoliberal approaches no longer are in our best interests, or at least not in the best interests of our citizens.
Game theory tells us the most effective strategy is matching their energy until they shift modalities.

Sometimes, adults deny this truth to their own detriment because they’re “smart” or “civilized”.
I bought a second hand first gen EPYC for my desktop. I’m not sure it was a great idea overall but it does work fine and I have 128gb full ECC, two M2 slots on the board and many many PCIe 3x lanes for anything else I want to add. The built in BMC is handy for remote access.

The 32 cores is pretty pointless, I very rarely use more than half. And it probably uses way to much power.
"Kickbacks" is the term used internally at Siemens for this modus. They only document it well for their CEE subsidiaries but the fish rots at the head.
Unpopular opinion: there should either be mandatory military service (or physically intensive alternatives for conscientous objectors) or a life long military tax for people who don't volunteer to join the military before 25. Not just the issues you described but a lot of social issues rooted in americans not being able to relate with each other or understand each other will be solved.
in grocery stores it's harder to pay with just cash.

and now all the menus are qr codes.
I would guess most developers do not use vim. Pretending that vim is the universally loved editor that every developer has agreed upon using seems pretty disconnected from the real world.

VS Code came up out of nowhere pretty recently, and is used by a lot of people, so that shows that there is (or was, but still post-vim) opportunity for a new editor. Whether Zed is able to gain momentum to cater for the long-tail that other developers do remains to be seen, but I'm pretty keen to see more products trying to compete for users.
Ollama is now available on Windows in preview
Just as I said: you add a P in front of web apps, suddenly as if by magic all the issues disappear.

> PWAs do not need to be wrapped in a browser engine of their own, they use the installed browser engine.

Ah yes, they don't need a browser engine, they just need a browser engine

> They are not inherently bloated or resource-intensive in any way.

So, let me get it straight. A web app running inside a web browser engine is bloated, slow, and non-performant when it's on desktop. But the moment you put it on mobile it's not?

> There are not many good example of great PWAs precisely because Apple has been crippling web capabilities on iOS by banning other engines

Two notes:

- Which of the features that Apple "crippled" will help web apps not be bloated, non-performant, slow, with bad UI etc.?

Is it the lack of an install banner that makes a web app struggle to display even a static text with any semblance of performance?

Is it the lack of push of notifications that make Google say: okay, we give up, most sites load in over 2.5 seconds now, so we assume anything faster than that is a win [1]?

Is it <the list is frankly endless>...

- Android has been a dominant mobile OS for over a decade with "non-crippled" PWA support. Where are the not inherently bloated non-resource-intensive web apps we've been hearing about? Please say Twitter :))

[1] https://blog.chromium.org/2020/05/the-science-behind-web-vit...
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The Ute Tribe will construct one of the largest solar farms in the US
"When a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric".

A big problem is making it mandatory with huge bureaucracy to avoid its stupidness. Just last week I was battling yet another code quality tool they made mandatory: it was complaining that my res.status(200).json() wasn't setting up HSTS headers. And then I tried setting it up manually, it kept complaining, app.use(helmet()), same thing. Apparently it wanted me to write the whole backend code into a single file for it to stop complaining. And of course, HSTS is much more elegantly and automatically handled by the ingress or load balancer itself.

I could have spent a week or two flagging it as a false positive and explaining what is HSTS for upper management to approve it. I ended up just adding a res.sendJson(data, status = 200) to the prototype of the response object. Which is obviously stupid, but working in a bureaucracy-heavy sector has made me realize how much of bad software is composed of many such bad implementations combined.
If your PWA is deleted in iOS 17.4 then your data is gone. (PWA does not share data with browser)
Fedora uses tmpfs for /tmp. I think it still makes a lot of sense to use tmpfs for a heavily written-to transient file system.
Ignored often: $$ at the lower end make a much bigger difference than same $$ at the higher end.

Tax wealthy individuals a few hundred $/month extra, and it'll hardly be a blip on their radar (although they might make a stink politically).

Give poor people a few hundred $/month extra, and it could transform their lives.

In short: those $$ have a much higher ROI if spent on the lower end of the population. And thus a much higher bang-for-buck when trying to maximize a population's overall well-being.
When I was 18 I had done badly in my school exams due to lack of focus, and just managed to scrape into a degree course in pure maths at a low grade college. I did no work at all except in the pursuit of pleasure and was thrown out after a year. Despite not looking for work I collected benefits, and someone in that office decided I was employable. I was persuaded to go for an interview for a job as a "programmer" (this was 1972). They thought I had potential and took me on. No one expected prior knowledge in those days. I loved the job, they loved me, and I never looked back.

I wish I had some sage advice, but in the end you are who you are and life throws random stuff at you. Start there and work with it.
Do you have an actual argument or are you really committing to "nuh-uh"
Same. I use an M.2 HAT to boot from SSD, and it works great.
https://www.yachtingworld.com/yachts-and-gear/seasickness-cu...
The only senior (L5) engineer making 600k TC is one that has been at senior for several years and stock appreciation brought their RSU value way up.

The high end for L5 is like half that.
Every now and then I switch back to Apple's Terminal app, and I'm blown away at how much faster it is at just typing than iTerm it is, and how much nicer that is.
A useful deciding factor is whether your application benefits from an operating system and its utilities, or not.
My MacBook Setup (the 2024 version)
> Individuals in the study were instructed to eat either low-fat or low-carbohydrate diets— about 1,200 to 1,500 calories per day for women and 1,500 to 1,800 for men.

If they're splitting groups, why didn't they bother having a control group with no diet change and only the study follow-up ?

I couldn't see any link to the actual study, was there more details ?
When it comes to digitalization and privacy in Germany, no good intention goes unpunished.
Okay, okay, so? The point is, there's a hell of a lot of songs, books, science articles, movies, video games and other kinds of content in Russian now. It's standardized, everybody can read, speak and write it. Things are going around Russian language. It's an UN and UNESCO language. A lot of goodies.

So it makes sense that everyone who is fluent in both Ukrainian and Russian will be consuming Russian content 90% of time. Hence people no longer use Surzhik anywhere east of Kharkov (or Khabarovsk), even if some of their ancestors actually spoke it. It just don't make sense to do that anymore.

It does not help that literature Ukrainian has a lot of borrowings from Polish, Romanian and Hungarian and is not really accessible to people who did not visit Ukrainian state schools. However, Russian is very accessible to basically everybody in Ukraine and the rest of ex-USSR.

Regarding folk songs, people actually did a lot of digging in this area starting with late Soviet times, and now there's huge revival of folk music in Russia. Many contemporary pop or rock bands use Russian (Slavic, maybe even Ukrainian) folk motives in their songs, which are usually in Russian. By doing so, they enrich Russian culture, which I've started this comment from.
Most their work is getting others to do their work for them.
Having met a lot of people who have been in the military (including my dad and grandpa and a few other people in my extended family) I don't think military people were any better at relating to or understanding people. For me that's been people I know who are teachers but that's likely because of the sort of people that go into that profession.
On what cause does the model reduce content?
America's Army was wild. An online FPS PvP game where you only ever play as the 'good guys'. It swaps the enemy models to always appear as insurgents so you're never shooting at, or being shot at by, American soldiers.
My goodness…

While there are people trying with great effort to make computer as intelligent as humans, there are countless organization trying to make humans as dumb as computers by making them adhere to arbitrary numbers without giving them any agency on the evaluation of the usefulness of the metric…
I guess I'm confused then. Is the expectation that you can just run any Windows app on an Xbox, unmodified? I would think you'd have to at least change the UI
No money in cars. (That's why Tesla insists it's a robotics/AI company.)
>1) ECC is almost free if done at scale (e.g. every computer). The only reason it costs extra is that it is only done for high-paying customers and in limited volume.

A ECC DRAM module contains 9 chips rather than 8. I'm not sure how you can claim that's "almost free" unless you have a very loose definition of "almost free".

>2) Computer crashes cost lives. If e.g. your doctor's device has an issue mid-surgery, you potentially pay.

Sounds like a good reason to regulate medical devices and force them to undergo certification as well. Surely you wouldn't want the the computer to have ECC memory, but it decides to reboot for a 2 hour update?

>3) It's good for the economy. In either case, the cost savings of not having a call center rep say "Wait a minute. My computer just crashed." far outweighs the costs.

If this is true, why do we need the government to step in? Why aren't businesses doing this themselves out of self interest?

>4) It's critical for resilience. Disasters (solar flares, EMP, etc.) are rare, but if every computer destroys data, we have a systemic problem.

ECC protects against solar flares and EMP? That's new.

>6) That's not to mention dual-market uses. E.g. if we need to ramp up military production, medical production, etc. next crisis, our infrastructure should be ready for it.

1. DRAM modules aren't made in the US, they're made in asian countries with cheap labor. If there's a military crisis, we'd be screwed regardless

2. As mentioned above, ECC DRAM modules are basically the same as non-ECC modules but with an extra chip. The only work to retool a line from non-ECC to ECC is to change the PCBs. Thus the supposed benefits is negligible, unless for whatever reason the military needs a massive amount of desktops.
I have 11 Web Apps in iOS Home Screen, 9 Web Apps (MS Edge) in macOS & Windows.
Sounds like the team you were in back then was a bit dysfunctional but if you feel rage and shame over SW bugs in your codebase you need to address that first as it's a disproportional reaction to normal things happening in programming. Speaking up immediately but calmly when you get blamed for something you didn't do would be a good skill to acquire.
I am glad I trashed my reddit posts/comments before deleting accounts with shreddit [0].

[0] https://github.com/andrewbanchich/shreddit
Weird how I write complete thoughts and supply references but this site full of tech geniuses mostly produces downvotes and single-sentence drivebys.

Come back when you have things worth contributing.
The lighting, esp color temperature, backgrounds, angles and zoom amount all very uniform and Center, it looks like a game avatar. If you look at fb profiles you will know
Yes, indeed, but I still think they're "working hard"? Perhaps it's just a linguistics game though, what counts as "working" and what counts as "hard"?
I highly disagree. Web apps are notoriously slow. I'm developing a Notion alternative in Qt C++ that load large text files on my 2017 MacBook Air while on my friend's 2021 M1 Pro, the fastest web based block editor (MarkText) takes around 11x longer to load the same file. So, essentialy, my 2017 MacBook Air is FASTER just due to more efficient software.

Why are we allowing this degradation of software? Each time I think about opening Spotify (Electron) on my desktop, I dread the loading time and the RAM it would use.

For very simple apps, frameworks like Tauri should do the job. But for complex applications, let's please not lose our benchmarking standards.

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Oh no, how terrible, all the Russian colonists who moved in after the annexation would have to leave, and collaborators would face justice.
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Cross-platform support is in development. You might miss the announcement that actually matters to you
I've seen this sort of thing mentioned but I wonder, where does it leave people like me who had a childhood disability (Perthes disease - look it up, it's a disqualifying condition in the military's medical standards)? I get to be disabled for life and have to pay a tax for it?
I've never seen a large company with more L7+ engineers than L7+ managers. Usually it's a ratio of drastically more managers hired/promoted into those levels than engineers, and some orgs don't have any engineers in those levels at all.
The struggle with getting people into the military has very little to do with anything you just talked about. Educational capacity of the public schooling system that feeds the army is also down(states are not investing in public education), single parents are forced to give up guardianship if their kids want to enter the army, you can’t do weed but you can drink, etc.
I found guidelines not rules:
"Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

For me, "kill web apps" is misleading since we have to wait and see how the EU reacts. The original title is more of a clickbait.

I am not a power user of hacker news. I found a title to fill in and did my best.

Had I seen there a link to the guidelines or a text like: please use original title if possible, I would have done it. It is actually 1 minute "site engineering" to mention this on the submission page.
Why would you buy an expensive raspi for these scenarios?
Wasn't it meant to be a computer learning platform for people with no access to powerful computers?
Your applications don't need GPIO pins, so you could just use any small PC.