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Integrity.

I will get modded down and probably flagged for this because it's not just dissent but existential threat on HN, but this means:

Don't ever use AI generated content [0]. The pictures, the words, the video, the voices, any of it. Because not caring about creative choices poisons your integrity.

e.g. for illustrations:

- if you can draw well, do that. Find a way to capture them consistently, use those

- if you can manage a half-arsed sketch, do that. Find a way to capture them consistently (or use some of the minimal tricks in an iPad drawing app to fix them up). Make a virtue of it.

- if you can't draw at all, do you know someone you could ask? Or are there relevant sketches in the Flickr Commons or whatever. Or get just good enough that you can make a virtue of being crap at it.

For photographs:

- if you can photograph something relevant, do that

- if not, use a stock library. Pay, preferably, but credit if not. Or use the Flickr Commons and find something relevant

Failing all this, illustrate with something irrelevant but contemporaneous. Write your stuff, and shoot photos on your phone of your day as you write. Use a photograph from your phone that captures the day you wrote the article. Write a little caption to do it. Make a virtue of this sort of separate parallel stream of your content.

But no AI-generated content. Ever.

[0] except maybe when you're writing about AI-generated content. But please, if you can, find something else to write about. Integrity 102: don't shoehorn AI into every conversation.
AFAIK, in EU countries you cannot build/run "your own" billing system. Unless you have a special type of company/enterprise that is accredited and registered specifically for this purpose. This is officially named "Payment Processor".
I hope that it wont cost an arm and a leg if Canada if supported in future
Other than the World Wide Web. Which is a great distribution mechanism.
Funniest conspiracy theory I've heard in a while.
CO2 is actually not so nice for breathing, if you ever monitored a CO2 ppm meter indoors, where the air gets stuffy when too much CO2 from breathing accumulates. With the current trajectory, by the end of the century, opening the window won’t get you what we now consider fresh air anymore, the air will feel stuffy all the time. We already get less fresh air now than 50 years ago, where CO2 base levels were around 300 ppm, vs. 400 ppm now.
I don't know what this person is talking about, our billing was brain dead simple, it's only got like 20 lines of Stripe Billing code. :-)

But in all seriousness, we looked at Stripe, thought about "aw man is it worth spending the .5% extra" and then spent about 30 seconds thinking about how much time it would take to roll our own, and it was an absolute no brainer.

(replace Stripe with any of the other similar competitors, not trying to be too biased, but stripe is kind of the mind-share default for SaaS startups, aren't they?)
> The minimum wage employee who stamps the check and deposits it at the bank with the hundred others in the pile isn't an accountant either.

That’s not how any of this works lol
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I have a garage machine with a ca. 2014 Haswell
that's been running full tilt at 90C+ for a good
bit of its life. It just won't die.

First of all: that's awesome.

Second: what's it doing spending that much time "full-tilt?" Just curious. Sounds like something interesting.
What is wrong with just making the product paid? How can there be any kind of ethical dilemma for the author? Charge a fair price for the app and that's it. Freeloaders do not have to be considered. Paying people for their work is a matter of respect.
Surely the car manufacturers must share some responsibility here? It's not like they weren't forewarned about the security issues with keyless systems by academic security research.
I don't see any companies related to feature store or feature computation?
I did not intent to advocate for any solution (drug-based of otherwise), just tried to say that ADHD covers a wide spectrum of situations.

Some won't be able to "hack" their brain for motivation (which, btw, comes from doing something in the first place), some will. Some will react well do medication (compounds, amounts…), some others won't. There is also CBT.
Much akin to the Hacktoberfest debacle, manufactured incentives seem to hurt public spaces.
Naw, you still don't want to, at least not in a context in which you're billing enough to be a real workout, because the non-engineering aspects will still get you. Like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37557989 which, in short, refers to the fact that nobody in the company considers billing a system to be designed in the first place, so it gets approached with a truncated Waterfall that doesn't even have a requirements analysis phase, so you'll have no support whatsoever for your attempt to bring higher quality to billing.

Also, with all due respect to those working on billing I have seen that it is generally handed to engineers who are, shall we say, adequate for the task but no more, and unless you're 100% greenfielding you're going to be dealing with their stuff no matter what.

From another cynical point of view, it is a situation where you can fail miserably and bring great pain to the company that is traced directly to you, but there is no success; a functioning billing system is just what is expected. It's all downside and no upside for you personally.

I have a billing system (a component of the larger whole) and I'm pleased to be able to hand it off next month. I've not enjoyed my stay there. Though it was miles better than when I brushed the data lake/data analysis world. If I had to maintain this system for another few years I could and I wouldn't scream if I had to do it again someday. Dealing with the data analysis world beyond just throwing them some data is a "never again".
Yeah in most restaurants you can't just start randomly eating food, in the way that you can just start randomly surfin' tha web in software engineering.
Momentum, installed base, established interests, changing uses.

Foolishly reductionistic model: at the instant that solar becomes defacto cheaper, if everyone immediately changed, you'd need at least [total world power consumption / solar panel production rate] years to change over.

2022 world electricity consumption was about 25000 TWH. That envelope-backs to about 2800 GW if the sun is always directly overhead everywhere and there are no transmission losses.

In 2022, we installed about 228GW of solar panels. Assuming constant production (HAH!) that says it should take more than a decade to replace the existing demand. Which will of course stand still for us.

Apply whatever multiplication factors you like about what percentage of the year a given real solar cell will generate power; about how quickly folks are convinced to change; about the construction of projects which were planned before this price threshold was passed; about the impact of using grid power to do transportation work which was previously done by pumping dead dinosaurs...

The confounding factors abound. But that's an ignorant sideline answer to why. :)
I have friends who happily use Airalo but I can't bear the latency & slowness that their routing adds.

You're basically "roaming" on the local carrier, and your APN route you through an Airalo server. Which seems reasonable, except the server is some random OVH VPS with all the downsides of a noisy-neighbor cloud environment, and it's sometimes even all the way in the US. (Not to mention your geo IP is wrong and region-locked websites fail to load unless you find some local free WiFi. Netflix is also wonky thanks to that.)

That's fine for some countries, but in my experience, roaming with my home carrier was somehow faster & more responsive (despite the APN being all the way in Israel).
Why is that a bad thing? I don’t see a problem with a company coming out with a demo of some cool tech they’ve come up with, and then asking their own consumer base if it’s something worth pursuing. This is a far better outcome than the marketing people at the company making that decision on their own, and we (the consumers) get to at least see the cool tech versus it being locked in the vaults of said companies.

You have to remember that every company develops wacky stuff like this all the time to test out new concept tech, we just rarely see it as the consumers. This is the step before the money for R&D is spent to make it an actual consumer product, think like a concept car. People’s comments on this can cause tech from this concept to make it into other actual products for market.

I applaud this sort of behavior from hardware OEMs, nothing is lost and a lot gained.
To feed billions "more greenery" is not sufficient, you need reliable and predictable weather. Just one or two years of world-widespread crop failures can cause mass famine. Even if on average "it's getting greener". The temperature during last 10k years varied still much less than long periods before and we're now already outside that band. For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/m...
There was a fairly recent case [0] exploring a situation in which the amount of time is 0. In that jurisdiction, if somebody owes you money and pays you money, they aren't entitled for that particular payment to be returned just because it was an "accident".

[0] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/02/16/busi...
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People are overselling and hyping it in similar ways, and entire companies springing up that are essentially just thin wrappers around chatGPT doesn’t help, especially when a lot of the same people pimping that stuff were on the crypto/web3 train barely over a year ago.

However, while definitely overhyped and its capabilities far exaggerated, its applications already in several fields have been significant. I think the “gen AI” thing is pointless, but I got an eerie feeling watching 4 fairly senior engineers the other day huddled around a chatGPT terminal they were asking questions.

To me it felt like some profound moment, like maybe how the guys that went around manually lighting street lamps felt when they first saw electric lights.

Anyway, the answer usually falls in the middle somewhere between hype and doomsaying. It’s improved my workflow a bit. Not too worried that it’ll replace me, but I do believe there will be less work because of it, and to management that usually means someone’s getting fired.
Crazy idea --- is there a reason you couldn't run an email server as a private messaging system --- no forwarding to other servers?

Clients/users will obviously have to be configured with a private email address/account that only exists only on your server.

Does this exist? Has anyone tried/done this?
I had fi for several years. IIRC it was billed as $.01 per megabyte. If I used 341MB, my bill was $3.41.

I think you would still pay for the full MB though.
And it’s not just gay people. It’s illegal for a woman to be raped for example

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/dubai-a...

And of course somewhat extreme responses to altercations

https://metro.co.uk/2023/10/03/student-jailed-for-a-year-in-...

And don’t take any selfies

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/british...

Don’t drink wine on the flight there

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/10/woman-held-in-...

Maybe if you are a straight white rich man Dubai is great, other wise the entire Middle East is a risky place to travel through

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-59288177
It's truly bizarre how pro-crime you'd have to be to allow this to continue, but it seems like a common position in some western countries. People will try to blame literally any other part of a formerly high trust society (the owners, the car manufacturers, etc) before coming down on the criminals. A concerted team of less than 50 people with a budget for costumes and a couple cars and surveillance tech should be able to put an end to most of it.

This is one of the most interesting parts:

> But the police in Ottawa stumbled on it when an officer noticed a Range Rover being backed into a shipping container on a rural property. A second car in the container was Mr. Elworthy’s Ferrari.

> “I was absolutely ecstatic when I got the call from that officer,” he said. “I was literally jumping up and down.”

What happened to the shipping container? Who owned the rural property? Who was working with that person? Where was the shipping container going? Did they catch more than one person in this operation or what?
Small scale side loading is absolutely available. Side loading marketplaces are not.

Apple is insisting that marketplaces have a form of accountability.
> Is it really that surprising that there's people that don't want to put the kind of effort needed to dig into and repair an older car?

This is weird to read having grown up in a family that has never once bought a car new. My parents don't know a damn thing about cars and it's never been a noticeable issue. Buy the car with 40-60k and drive it to 200k, repeat. They're usually not American cars but there were some Ford trucks in there.
Really? Do you have a link to laws for that?
Sure, though no reason a Corporation could not also have a duty to all stakeholders. Back when Corporations were a new thing, you had to prove they would be a benefit to the crown to form them. That's not to say it's necessarily ideal in all cases.
> Firsty's connectivity services are currently available in Europe, the USA, Turkey and Switzerland. We are actively working to expand our coverage and aim to offer global connectivity as of March 25th, 2024.

So the marketing claims are aspirational.

I still think it's a fascinating business. There must be a lot of number crunching going on regarding ad view rates and the most popular tourist destinations.
Why do you believe that? You can just write software to bill your customers. There are no special laws prohibiting automation.
> it's always _significantly cheaper_ to just get a SIM locally.

That's also been the case for me, but I haven't encountered a local carrier that agreed to sell a prepaid eSIM. It was always a physical SIM card, and I didn't want to swap out my home SIM because I needed to be reachable via text. (Plus: FaceTime & iMessage get reset if you do that)
Now. Does lateral bias in cradling determine handedness in infants as well?
The latest iteration of DMD compiler as library presentations during DConf 2023:

DMD as a library: Myths & Reality [PDF]:

https://dconf.org/2023/slides/nitu.pdf
I would bet most of these protests were funded by the fossil fuel industry. The chances of this many people organically being anti-nuclear are near 0%.
Not collimated, you'd need a collimating lens and something to project the image into at which point just use a regular screen.

If you stuck this in a windshield you wouldn't be able to focus on the display and traffic at the same time and it would likely be fairly headache inducing.
As someone who's been involved in both building and integrating billing systems, I can say you speak from a position of blissful ignorance.

Building the system always looks easy, and on day 1, it really is. It also guarantees you'll spend many hours with your Finance Director explaining why the reports you send them are complete garbage; many hours with your Support team explaining why your invoicing failed, why you charged incorrect subscription prices, any many more fun edge cases you never knew existed.

Next up, regulations change that you need to adapt to, or maybe your chosen gateway doesn't support a growing region.

And before you say "just build it better," remember: that's also time. Time not spent on your product, improving your pricing model (oh, you need to build that yourself, too, of course), or any number of things you want to do that actually grow your business instead of standing still.
Check with a lawyer, this varies all over the world and you don't want to mess this up. Not only might the money become theirs again, it might become theirs with interest. Though you might be able to charge them storage fees. don't forget that laws change so keep in touch with your lawyers so they notify you when laws changes so you can remain complaint. Make sure you keep record of what the lawyers say as well - if (when?) you mess something up record of trying to do the right thing can work to your favor in court.
One of the most egregious issues with the second avenue extension is that the underground portion is way larger than comparable systems. A large part of this is backoffic space (which should be overground and consolidated, like everywhere else), which no minority interest group is interest in. And you can see that: In the next Phase they have reduced the backoffice space (which no passenger will ever notice) due to cost pressures (saving over a billion, I think) and no one complained.The same is true for many other examples.

This is also noticable elsewhere. When looking at german planning, they reference other german projects and rarely projects of the sourrounding countries, and thus often don't notice the lessons learned there.
Honestly, I wish folks would stop recommending PID as the go-to tool for control design. Like some others have said, it is never the right answer in any non-trivial system. The problem with newcomers blindly incorporating it into their design for quick satisfaction is that they have just done so at the expense of making someone else's job harder down the line. In a system where many things are interconnected or nested, introducing artificial dynamics via feedback in one part often leads to unpredictable and undesired behaviour in another. Then the next junior engineer comes along and thinks the weird behaviour can be solved with more PID loops, repeating the process until you end up with a un-tuneable mess with a precariously narrow operating region.

If you are working in this field, no you don't need a PhD, but for the love of god invest some time into learning more appropriate techniques for the work. Start with learning to work with MIMO systems in state-space, then learn to use LQR (literally a one-liner in MATLAB) and reduced-order observers, then some nonlinear techniques like Lyapunov functions and integrator backstepping for those tricky nested loops. I'm happy to suggest resources for anyone interested.
I like it! I do the steps involved in this occasionally, manually. It’s not hard but this makes it nice. Not sure I’ll use it since it is one more thing to install and remember, but the author had an itch and scratched it. Well done.
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I always heard that your dominant arm is usually weaker, because it is reserved for fine motor operations while your non-dominant arm bears load. Consider e.g. putting keys in a door while you carry groceries, etc.
I learned to program in Borland Turbo C++. One thing from back then that I really miss is how easy it was to do some complex things. I was able to draw to the screen by just calling geometric shape functions, and it made pictures! I found out that if I drew a shape, then called the xor function on the shape a new but sligtly different shape, I could make animations. So making little sprites that looked like they were running made out of only 1000 lines of C++ code was awesome. Some friends and I we got together and made a final fantasy like game using these tricks, hand crafted sprites and a game world that you could walk across, every map was a whole screen, and you would go to an adjacent map when you hit the sides, and every step if you had a natural 1 you would go into a fight with some enemies.

This was all pretty tedious and everything, but it was a lot of fun to high schoolers. And if we knew more computer science and software engineering we would have done more probably, and it would have worked better. But unlike today we didn't have to learn SFML or or activex or opengl to just start playing and get stuff working, we could just call circle.
Not only casemodders... I have a Sony CMT-CP1 stereo from the early 2000s that I still use as "PC speakers" on my desk, and it uses the semitransparent window of the cassette deck as a display (a "dual mode transparent display" in Sony marketingspeak - when you actually use the tape deck, the backlight in the window turns off and a second light behind the cassette turns on). So "transparent displays" have been possible for as long as LCDs have existed, but the applications have always been rather limited. What this display has going for it is that the pixels are luminescent, with transparent LCDs you still need some kind of backlight or you won't really be able to read anything.
I don't think it's that realistic; nuclear simply takes way too long to build. For instance, the most recent nuclear reactor under construction near where I live has been under construction for 40 years and it's still not complete. In the meantime, the amount of added solar, wind, and hydro has been several times the power that single reactor will have once it's finally done.
My wife has been on Xolair for about a year, monthly injections (more would be nice, but that is all we can get from insurance). In her case, MCAS (Mast cell activation disorder) her body reacts to everything as if it were a food allergy - even though she isn't allergic to these foods.

They don't know the root cause for MCAS, so they sure don't have a cure or barely a clue it seems.

She lives a very restricted lifestyle, can't go in public places were people have perfume/strong smelling products on, can eat about 25 different ingredients (including a few spices), so eating out is not an option. A ripe banana in the room is enough to set her off and the impact is usually 2-3 days.

Xolair had allowed her to feel like a normal(ish) person - as long as all of the restrictions are followed.

Yup, it sucks to have to inject her monthly to have something that resembles normal and is in no way a cure - but I'll take it. Treating symptoms is far better than treating nothing. But a cure? If shell out quite a bit for that!

Copy paste for those wondering what MCAS does to a person. "MCAS is a condition in which the patient experiences repeated episodes of the symptoms of anaphylaxis – allergic symptoms such as hives, swelling, low blood pressure, difficulty breathing and severe diarrhea."
OWL was pretty good too.
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> bullshit reasons

That's very subjective. No one starts a war for bullshit reasons. They may sound bullshit for you but not for them.

PS: hopefully I don't have to point out that _reasons_ and "denazification" casus belli are different things.
How about OpenAI?
"According to Microsoft telemetry, Solitaire was among the three most-used Windows programs and FreeCell was seventh, ahead of Word and Microsoft Excel."

Damn! Throwback
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> Give them a rationale, give them a deadline 24 months hence and a fair price increase

consider that, for shitty, demanding customers, the 'fair price' may be 12x more.

$8M probably doesn't justify the effort, and they may well use $10M+ in support, resources, or potential liability.

Good faith in the contract is expecting to give something in the contract and then meaning it. They will give good support -- for 100M.