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Leetcode is a form of hazing that no other professional class endures. I'm surprised they don't make programmers solve problems for 36 hours straight to see how they do when massively sleep deprived. Just because...

EVERYONE in the tech world knows that nobody does leetcode like things in their daily jobs. The vast majority of actual software dev at large companies is untangling complex messes and dealing with cross team integrations (when relevant).

Actual hard problems in real domains might take years to solve and involve very large systems.
WSJ is much cheaper than FT. I pay about 4x as much for FT as WSJ.
People who care more about finance & economic analysis than they do about signalling political affiliation. There’s strong overlap with the WSJ in the USA I would imagine, except the WSJ is notoriously pro-Republican, whereas the FT has supported various UK parties across the political spectrum & the FT has a more internationalist focus.

They also really care about their Arts with a capital A reporting.

If you want a more eclectic approach to financial reporting, the FTAlphaville blog at ft.com/alphaville is free (registration signup required) & often well worth reading whether you read the main paper or not.
> Anything that provides value can be turned into something that generates money.

I don't have much of a problem with that. Heck, looks like Bruno has multiple tiers that they sell the product for, and it looks like a very reasonable way to make money.

The problem is this idea of "infinite growth" that modern markets demand, which results in the eventual enshittification of nearly all tech products these days. Postman could have had a very nice, reasonable business, but once they took an obscene amount of funding (nearly half a BILLION dollars, for an API client tool!!!) their fate was sealed. Beyond taking too much money, Postman clearly thought they had a much bigger moat than they actually do.
The problem with this sort of software is two-fold.

First, if the target customer is public money (ie govt at dome level) then you run into procurement layers. Unlike business govt can't just have sn opionion on the best solution and buy that. Specs have to be written, tenders awarded, qualifications checked. It's far from a simple process.

The second hurdle is that, it's immediate scale. It's an all or nothing solution. All the bits need to work flawlessly, at significant scale, with custom hardware, in various locations (or worse, in this case, moving vehicles. ) All with unreliable connectivity.

It's a large, complex system with a million edge cases. The programming part is easy, it's the rest of everything that kills you.

Yes, projects like this are possible. But they are wicked expensive to pull off, and require an exhaustive specification, and a very long buying process.
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$5b fine paid by taxpayers through the next air force contract they get with no competition.
It’s a fair question, but one we should be asking about all models, perhaps especially our own. It’s of course easier to see the propaganda of foreign cultures, and this should be investigated, but let’s not let ourselves believe that a model is more likely to contain propaganda because it is Chinese. It will just contain propaganda that is easier for us to see as propaganda.

Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman wrote extensively about propaganda in democratic societies in their 1988 book Manufacturing Consent. A nice introductory excerpt is here, and the first two or three paragraphs are enough to begin to see the argument:

https://chomsky.info/consent01/

Put as briefly as possible: propaganda in totalitarian societies is simpler. They just use force to remove people who say the wrong things, and state media to broadcast the “right things”. In democratic societies, institutional power still wants to protect itself, and this is achieved through more complex means, but it is nonetheless still rather effective.
Suppose you touch a fireplace once, do you touch it again? No.

OK, here's something much stranger. Suppose you see your friend touch the fireplace, he recoils in pain. Do you touch it? No.

Hmm... whence statistics? There is no frequency association here, in either case. And in the second, even no experience of the fireplace.

The entire history of science is supposed to be about the failure of statistics to produce explanations. It is a great sin that we have allowed pseudosciences to flourish in which this lesson isnt even understood; and worse, to allow statistical showmen with their magic lanterns to preach on the scientific method. To a point where it seems, almost, science as an ideal has been completely lost.

The entire point was to throw away entirely our reliance on frequency and association -- this is ancient superstition. And instead, to explain the world by necessary mechanisms born of causal properties which interact in complex ways that can never uniquely reveal themselves by direct measurement.
Interesting!

I'd heard it referred to as a "bar sinister" before but when I looked it up I couldn't find anything to confirm that. I hadn't thought of looking it up in the context of heraldry.

I suppose dexter when it's left-to-right and sinister when it's right-to-left?
Writing quality and critical thinking are double that of WSJ though.
There's no amount of sophistry that can handwave away the fact that Israel is knowingly killing dozens of civilians for every Hamas member that they kill.

And no, this is not accidental. They're explicitly okay with it: https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-cal...
> rotting from the head down

Jeff Bezos stepped down 2021 - need a better metaphor.
Aisle, middle, window, or porch?
But your idea of working harder falls apart though with taxing the middle class for UBI.

Bezos doesn’t work 1M harder than the average worker. But a doctor making $250k definitely works 2-5x harder (education, life and death, training, etc etc).

You’ll find lots of people for taxing Billionnaires but you’re not going to find many takers to tax the 50M people making $125k+ to fund UBI.

There’s no arithmetic model that I’ve seen shows UBI as being feasible without some level of magic.
Looks like this business model is serving them quite well, compared to competitors. I work with news organizations and we have seen all kinds (for-profit, non-profit) taking a big hit in the last year. We did pilots with companies that had no concern about paying post-pilot, but then times got tight and they did layoffs. Pretty much everyone is just hunkering down right now. It's really surprising they're cutting so much, given that it's election season, when people are more likely to spend time reading the news.
Wonder how long it will be until I see "market price" at a fast food restaurant.
What is a Globalist?
Until California breaks the back of its landed gentry class (real estate investors and NIMBYs), job growth will remain nill. You can't pay 75k and expect people to live hand to mouth.
Sad to hear that people so badly over identify with their tribe that they'd rather obstruct solving a problem they care about than to cooperate. Since solving together would be seen as a win for the opposition. This binary, one-up-one-down thinking is pathological and will just produce gridlock.
> If your operation is already idempotent in its implementation

No, this is not at all what I meant. I don't think there's any value in introducing at-most once semantics to an already idempotent function.

I'm definitely not trying to have an answer for everything. But I guess we can leave it at that, at this point.
Amazing video, but I don't understand how the creator can just skip over JRPGs like that.

At the 90-minute mark he talks about how every single studio from the "golden age" (mid-80s to mid-90s) had disappeared by the early 2000s. This is obviously not the case if you consider some of the excellent RPGs created for console systems during that same time
The review content is presumably fed in to the LLM. So that means reviewers might be able to jailbreak and affect the 'search' results.
The issue here concerns criminal law. Liability is civil law. Whether institutions should be held liable for not putting things like ventilation in place is an interesting question, but irrelevant to interpersonal criminal law.

And besides, the law turns the act from a felony to a misdemeanor. We are not even in the same ballpark as asserting some kind of "right" to give someone else a cold or HIV.
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But the public has no duty to the engineer.

The SEC has a whistleblower program to ensure whistleblowers are financially well off after basically getting blacklisted when the industry when they report crimes

There are no such protections for engineers and the aerospace industry is very consolidated these days.
This news has not reached the UK. I think any fix-it-yourself bargains are snapped up by professional repairers now (keeping 2nd hand prices higher).

And people don't have a clue. They're 'I bought this laptop 4 years ago for £400, so I sell for £250 now'. Meanwhile the same laptop is £280 brand new on Amazon (https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/product/B09XY3WLLP, 2nd hand prices was on Facebook).
The problem is that your ticket does not guarantee a plane model so it can change at any moment
when I used to wear monthly contacts, “quats” were used in the disinfecting solution. I only know this because one of the “quats” was my daily used password.

Eventually switched to daily contacts for a couple of years before going back to wearing glasses.

Then eventually settling on LASIK :)
If you read the article, it's fraud.

They ran the exact same fraud as had been run on cell phones.

> Criminals imported phones from other EU countries, sold them to consumers with VAT tacked on, pocketed the tax, and disappeared before anyone was the wiser. Or they used carousel schemes, pretending to sell phones through a chain of businesses created for the express purpose of fraud and requesting VAT reimbursements from governments at each point of sale.
> So prices going up means they must be getting increased pay

sorry, is this sarcasm?

edit: to clarify, there must be assumptions to see price hikes as benefitting the bottom. even to view meager increases as improvement is disingenuous if what goes down is a fraction of what goes up.
the fundamental problem is information asymmetry. when a consumer makes a purchase, they do not and can not evaluate the safety of a product design. As such, the nash equilibrium is for manufacturers to cut all the corners they can.
>1. Economic growth is anemic, and despite Canada’s vaunted environmentalism liberalism and environmentalism, is still highly dependent on resource extraction and de-facto government-sponsored monopolies like Rogers and Bombardier.

I've heard Canada described as three mining companies standing on each other wearing an overcoat.

>2. Health care is an absolute mess, and I know this from personal experience, living with a paramedic.

As the article says, an amazingly high portion of Canadians don't have a family doctor <https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/despite-more-doctors-many-cana...>. In Atlantic Canada it is impossible, repeat impossible, to get a family doctor if you don't have one <https://web.archive.org/web/20190226051406/https://www.thete...>. It's one thing to have shortages in rural areas—that happens in the US too—but Halifax?!? I've heard the same occurs in Vancouver too, and the article indicates that this is a nationwide problem.

>3. Housing is beyond an absolute mess—it’s broken beyond all repair. Which is, in part, because there are basically 5–6 real metro areas in Canada, and the government is utterly reliant on immigration to keep the population and workforce growing, so everyone wants to move to the GTA.

To a first degree of approximation, there are no jobs outside Montreal and Toronto, except mining/O&G in Edmonton/Calgary and some tech in Vancouver. Alabama is more productive on a GDP/per capita basis than BC. <https://np.reddit.com/r/CanadaPolitics/comments/17oostz/the_...>

>4. Canadian are…I’ll be blunt, I don’t have a citation for this…complacent.

The one thing Canada has always outstripped the US on is production of smug sneering across the border.
I must be imagining copilot.el, then.
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> Nikkei is employee-owned?! I need to look into this more!

It's a Kabushiki gaisha (株式会社).

They aren't "employee-owned" in the progressive western sense (that's actually a "Cooperative") - it's just a joint stock company similar to McKinsey where employees can partake in limited profit sharing.
No, don't do that. Set up a lifecycle rule that expires all of the objects and wait 24 hours. You won't pay for API calls and even the cost of storing the objects themselves is waived once they are marked for expiration.

The article has a mistake about this too: expirations do NOT count as lifecycle transitions and you don't get charged as such. You will, of course, get charged if you prematurely delete objects that are in a storage class with a minimum storage duration that they haven't reached yet. This is what they're actually talking about when they mention Infrequent Access and other lower tiers.
Sometimes monopolies exist because it's extremely hard to succeed even if no one is stopping you
Weirdly, the village the town was built around had that name originally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middleton,_Milton_Keynes

Milton is a contraction of Middleton & Keynes was from the Norman de Cahaines family. There are a few other X Keynes dotted around the UK, all presumably on lands gifted to the de Cahaines family after the Norman conquest.
> I'm not sure what "complete feature-set" means—the free offering already seems pretty complete to me, though obviously my use case is not very demanding.

I worded that part a bit oddly (sorry, not a native speaker), I meant that one already gets all features, as we don't do any feature gating or the like.
I.e., you can use all features of the software with or without subscription, the latter only provides extra services.

> Still, I wonder how many homelab users would be willing to pay something like $10-20/yr (or maybe a one-time license purchase) just to make the nag dialog at login go away.

Actually the "stick" part of the carrots and stick design is just as important for enterprise users, as surprisingly a significant amount of enterprise user do not care of not getting any software updates ("it's enterprise, it just needs to magically work, even for new unforeseen events!11!!1"), and the subscriptions and enterprise repo existed before the nag, I cannot share all details, but you will have to believe me that it made a big difference. It also showed that a lot of companies are willing to pay for projects supporting their infrastructure, but they need to be made aware of the possibility quite actively.

But yeah, I can understand the opinions of the home lab community here, but I also hope that I could convey that the current system was carefully optimized over many years for our business case, and that means, that it can pay a (nowadays not so small amount of) developers salaries to extend, maintain and support the growing amounts of Proxmox projects.

If anybody that stumbles over this still does not believe in the necessity of the system, or know how it will be better if we do XYZ (how, if you have zero insights in our data and obviously do not run your own company doing this?), I just have to be blunt and recommend just using an alternative, for PVE et al. the single nag on login is the price you pay to get a full-blown cluster & hyper-visor stack.

> or maybe a one-time license purchase

I feel already like some FLOSS evangelist, but that's something I just have to correct: we sell no licenses at all, our projects are, and will stay, AGPLv3 licensed. And w.r.t. the same question for a life-time subscription with a one-time fee, not planned, reasons: see above.

btw. thanks for the discussion, most often I read this more in the demanding voice, which is hard to stay polite when responding – that wasn't the case at all here.
So they found the probable place where neurons dealing spatial and temporary matters are located?
this sounds like something an LMM wrote lol.

Answer me this: often times even my product manager doesn’t know WHAT they want. They think they know but they don’t really, once you start looking at the code, there are dozens of edge cases throughout the system. The requirements are vague. How do you expect an LLM to magically figure that out? Or more importantly, the business domain (a domain not easily trained on textbooks or crap found on the internet)?

And I don’t have my head stuck in the sand. I’ve found LLM’s great for brainstorming, implementing small functions, or updating snippets of configuration like terraform.
Yes, the author doesn't seem to realize that "object storage" is a term of art in storage systems that has nothing to do with OOP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_storage
Licensed engineers today don't really get that much benefit in increased pay these days. It's just considered part of the job and it's really your professional liability insurer carrying the most burden and hence your premiums. Lol
> I have the feeling you're asking something more specific...
> Do you have anything specific in mind about something that you expect the Chinese government to feed as propaganda that is not already widely being sculpted into the chinese text corpora available on the internet?

I don't have anything specific, and it doesn't have to be different from "chinese text corpora available on the internet", it's just that these models can become yet another channel of distribution for the "chinese text corpora available on the internet" especially if they are unknowingly/naively picked up and used as the foundation by others to build their offerings.
> Very few can create.

I'm not convinced. I think that several things hold most people back from creation:

- the risks that must be taken

- the continual destruction that accompanies creation feels like a waste to many of us

- other commitments

I'm convinced that we are allowing vast amounts of creative ability to be stifled not merely by stultifying educational systems but simply by lack of opportunity.
I cannot deny that your comment couldn't have failed more to displease me. Cheers,
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But it allows Kayak to increase sales, playing of peoples fears.
What? How do you know the data your buying isn't AI generated by the sellers?

If they are scamming and you contact them, of course they will lie.

So how does this work?
Someone new, and let's be honest, who is naïve and hungry for the big-tech paycheck is going to naturally be enthusiastic.

Compare that to someone who has worked in organizations for 20+ years. That person is going to be a realist, which doesn't automatically mean toxic/negative. But they are not going to bounce around the zoom screen with excitement.
Depends how you’re iterating. If your iterating by hierarchy level, then you could easily see this being several orders of magnitude more requests.
The term “security theater” has a specific meaning which is not a bug or less than perfect protection: per its creator, “Security theater refers to security measures that make people feel more secure without doing anything to actually improve their security.”

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/11/beyond_securi...

Public Relay is obviously not accurately described by that term and any rule which classifies it as such would be useless because it would classify all browser security as theater because everyone has had bugs, and everyone has had to adopt more sophisticated defenses to counter more sophisticated attackers.
I think that the UX could work really well for mobile with one significant tweak.

A typical design pattern on mobile is that if information is obscured for some reason, you click on it to expand it. Consider a drop-down text box on a blog: there's a little arrow and cut-off text with an ellipsis (...). When you click on the arrow, the cut-off text expands to fill the screen and allows you to read the rest of it. In contrast to what other users have said, this doesn't need to be idempotent. Tapping again hides the box.

To apply this design pattern to your site, simply make it so that tapping anywhere on a bar brings the UI to a known state, eg with the bar in the center with the text at a readable scale. This would work either horizontally or vertically.

Benefits:

- Your idea of the UI rescaling is preserved, and you can preserve the animations between states. I think the "rescaling bars" idea is fun.

- Cause and effect is preserved. If I want to read the text on the bar, I should not have to click on some arbitrary point above the current location of the bar.

- Further, the user does not have to hunt for the correct spot to click on a bar to make the text visible. Instead, clicking on a bar immediately and always makes all the information on that bar fully visible, by design.

I think this tweak would significantly improve the experience of interacting with the website.
Wait till your grocery store starts surge pricing.
By this effect probably any ecology friendliness claims MS ever made, if any, flies out of the window, right into the next trashcan.
I believe they're referring to HaBsora: https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-cal...

Now, to be clear, Google didn't work on that thing directly. However, the whole point of Project Nimbus is to provide cloud infrastructure to Israeli military and intelligence agencies, and it specifically includes AI/ML. Given all this, it would be very surprising indeed if HaBsora did not run on the infrastructure that is tailor made for just such tasks.
https://listudy.org is a brilliant open source opening spaced repetition trainer. Another one is https://chessdriller.org, though you need to provide the moves yourself for that one. There's also https://chessmadra.com, but I believe their backend is closed-source.
> Social media activity generated by click farms can be hard to detect because the online behavior appears similar to that of a legitimate user.

The premier AI-peddling companies in the world can't deal with basic fraud. Is it that their algorithms don't work very well, they cannot be bothered to even try, or they make more money from enabling the fraud against their customers (advertisers and users both) and looking away?
I've been hearing that you have to use an app to get reasonable prices at fast food restaurants anymore.

Yesterday, I tried the Wendy's app. A Dave's single cheeseburger that listed for $6.49 (in the app) had a special offer of $1.00 in the app. I ordered it as an experiment and sure enough, that was the price when I got it in the drive-thru.

McDonald's had deals in their app but they were conditioned on buying more - get X for $1 if you buy Y. That seems like a more sound approach for the restaurant. I appreciated the opportunity to get just one fast food item, though.

I think the app prices are updated daily, perhaps weekly. It's not a reach for them to be updated a lot more frequently with that restaurant's flow.
To readyman's flagged response, I was referring to HIV+ people in general as the stigmatized minority. But shame on you for your response—no reasonable person would say that sex workers aren't a stigmatized minority.
If you think about it, though, the symbol has been around longer than most people today have been alive, and for a substantial amount of the time people have been driving. Compared to other symbols, it may be fairly "new" (for example, the Christian cross or Islamic crescent), but in the realm of widely standardized symbols, it's pretty old.