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>> When Equinix transitioned to become a REIT in 2015, it began using AFFO as a key metric in determining executive bonuses. That same year, Equinix reported a sudden 47% drop in maintenance CapEx, leading to an estimated 19% boost to reported AFFO.

Also, is it common to use non-GAAP, accounting-dependant measures to compensate executives?

At best, this seems like a strategic conflict of interest (bonuses vs good for the business) without an impenetrable firewall around the CFO's org. And even then, sets up an adversarial dynamic where everyone is against the CFO.

I get any bonus metric will be juiced, but that's why metrics that are less game-able are used.
And then they came for the guns owned by 5 year olds, and I didn’t speak up… Then they came for the huge environment polluters, and I didn’t speak up…

Somethings really are dangerous and should be regulated.
Public schools shouldn't either. At the end of the day the entire purpose of a school is against equality. History has demonstrated that while everyone can achieve a basic level of competence, there are real differences in hard working behavior and intelligence that helps you succeed in academia.

It's insane that public schools have to be some great equalizer and then they're simultaneously sold as preparing kids for the ultra competitive cutthroat world of academia and commerce.

Either they need to not be the great equalizer and prepare kids for the real world. This would mean not serving some kids with the same services (although again, a basic education would be guaranteed). Or we could admit that while we succeeded in building a basic education system, we have failed at building a public academic system for the early years and just let the private academia take over.
Do you own one? Because I do, and I have 5 people in my family (3 teens) that I transport often. It's pretty easy. I don't know what else to say. We're not giant people but I'm 6'1". I also own a Super Duty, I'm not some kind of small car weirdo.
Is super-resolution of satellite imaging useful?
> so they finally discover how tightly coupled consciousness is to the matter in the nervous system and stop their embarrassing search for Holy Spirit

How would that explain out-of-body/near-death experiences? They happen to people, it's a fact. Sometimes people gain new information during them that they couldn't have possibly hallucinated by themselves, like being able to repeat a conversation that took place in another room while they were clinically dead. Within the framework of the modern science, the experience itself can be explained by the dying brain hallucinating it; the obtaining of new information from physically inaccessible parts of the reality, however, can not.

Then there's also the phenomenon of people suddenly waking up, or having dreams about it, when someone close gets into an accident while they sleep. This can not be explained by modern science at all. It happens too often, to too many people, to be a simple coincidence.

Then there's the phenomenon of heart transplant recipients receiving the memories of, and sometimes the ability to communicate with, their donors. This can be explained by some memories being stored in the heart cells, or in its nervous tissues.

Now, I'm not really into pseudoscience and conspiracy theories, but because of how unexplained and under-researched the subject of nature of consciousness is, I try to keep an open mind. Those field theories in particular sound appealing. They haven't been proven, but they haven't been disproven either.
I can think that better quality audio content generated from text would be a killer application. As someone else mentioned, pipe in an epub, output an audiobook or video game content. With additional tooling (likely via ai/llm analysis), this could enable things like dramatic storytelling with specific character voices and dynamics interpreted from the content of the text.

I can see it empowering solo creators in similar ways that modern music tools enable solo or small-budget musicians today.
The reason I am looking for something, is because a friend of mine died of cancer, but left some voice samples, and I want to narrate an audiobook for his kids in his voice.

In general, though, I agree, the legitimate use cases for something like this seem relatively minor compared to the illegitimate use cases. However, the technology is here, and simply depriving every one of it isn't going to stop the scammers, as has already been evidenced. In my opinion, the best thing for us to do is to rapidly get to a place where everybody knows that you cannot trust the voice on the other end anymore, as it could be cloned. Fortunately, the best way to accomplish that is also the same way that we allow average people to benefit from the technology: make it widely available
$DAYJOB is spending a lot of money very quickly in a modernisation project of our core product. It's being split into a micro-service architecture using Azure.

We've basically shipped 5% of the features but already to the point where compute and logging is costing "too much". I'm not sure who made the decision to jump to Azure without doing even back-of-the-envelope estimates on this type of thing.

My real annoyances is that the support in Azure is some of the worst bottom of the barrel crap I've experienced.

- You have to open a support ticket to raise your limits on your subscriptions - and prepare to wait weeks with zero communication from microsoft if your region is contended.

- I've had people from the third party support companies directly contact me on teams chasing for me to close their tickets... HIGHLY unprofessional in my opinion. Tickets they have not been able to complete because it's "impossible":

- You cannot delete 'views' of previous commits that may be leaking secrets in Azure DevOps. GitHub has an entire support category for this. Not for ADO, apparently it's impossible according to support. Oh well, leaked secrets in the GUI for our repository forever, despite the commits no longer existing.

- Even their architect experts are useless; we want to separate our SaaS from our company's Entra ID and even though it's one of the "legitimate" reasons listed in their docs (ISV), all of their so-called experts don't think this is wise, or at least is too bothersome for them to work out how entitlements work. Yes, let's pollute our corporate tenant with service principles etc. of our hosted software.

Overall it has been a garbage experience, meanwhile $DAYJOB is hurtling down this path for strategic reasons (boils down to the CEO being told by customer CEOs that you need to be in the cloud to be considered a real company, despite buying our services for decades).

Azure could be pretty good to be honest - it just has bad support and even worse technical sales/architect people.
This is 100% it right here. When I was young, kindergarten was preschool (sometimes actually called that) and was also not mandatory. You could start school in first grade, and some schools didn't even have kindergarten.

Now preschool has standardized tests (!!!!!) and expected outcomes and kindergarten is worse. And 3K has been invented to be what preschool (and before that, kindergarten) once was. Of course, you can't go to 3K or 4K if you're not potty trained, which puts additional time crunches and restrictions on things.

Maybe it helps overall, but I'm not entirely sure it does.
To my knowledge, Windows source code is not legally available, Microsoft didn't open source it (except for Windows 1.0 I guess)
ES had a bug where a syntax error in a query would send it in a weird state that would then give wrong answers to all queries until the process got rebooted. Which of course isn't fast.

I reported the issue, and thankfully I changed job and never had to deal with ES again. After a few years they contacted me to ask if the issue was still there, I said I had no idea.

I have no idea if the issue is still there.
> Also consciousness has an effect on physics for the same reason.

I don't think that is correct. If physicists are alleging that physics works differently when we literally turn our back then that is something they should spend more time publicising.

What I assume you are referring to is that, in practice, to observe something experimentally we have to interact with it (eg, to record the velocity of an object a laser or something has to bounce off it). Ie, it is impossible to do an experiment without interacting with the subject of the experiment.

The physics doesn't change based on consciousness, it is just a comment on the limits of what experiment is capable of.

> It seems likely that it exists, because why would we discuss it?

We discuss lots of things that don't actually exist. Most mathematical objects don't exist as far as we can tell, and even if the universe is infinite it is almost certainly not big enough to contain the bigger infinities the mathematicians can dream up unless there is a lot going on that we aren't getting hints of in our observations.

And we won't ever settle the question of whether randomness exists. It isn't possible to rule out the theory that the universe is all just a simulation and built off a pseudo-random function. Theoretical random processes are still a foundation of modern society.

Something not existing doesn't stop us from theorising how things would work if it did exist. The question really comes down to whether it is a quirk of evolution that results in a convincing illusion or an actual thing.
An American mind cannot comprehend what you just said.
>We care quite a lot about the form energy takes not just absolute quantities.

Yes, I've already mentioned this:

>However, we shouldn't assume health and diet are simply a matter of calories as input.

In the context of the discussion, it's an error IMO to compare energy as if they are interchangable. People aren't just consuming beef just for it's caloric value. The "form" of energy (protein & fat) is an important consideration too.

>In comparison with bio fuels, green hydrogen

The constant digression of a topic focused on nutrition into one merely about energy makes for a tiresome conversation and largely misses the point. Just because you can make a loose connection with the topic at hand doesn't mean that discussion is relevant.
Is a single cell conscious? What if the sun, planets or galaxies are just cells forming another being?
That's fair in isolation, but one can justifiably argue that a repeated pattern of behavior is clearly predatory.

Specifically: have the major cloud providers ever created a successful FOSS database, cache, or fulltext search index project from the ground up? By this I mean, a FOSS project with its own protocol, own community from scratch, not a fork or a re-implementation or based on another FOSS project, nor a late-stage company acquisition.

I'm struggling to think of even a single example. Even for broader infrastructure (not just db/cache/search), there's few examples, only Kubernetes comes to mind rapidly.

If the cloud providers are widely practicing "FOSS for thee but not for me" with respect to creation of new infrastructure projects, that's predatory and unsustainable.
Sorry, what? What does lack of empathy have to do with taking time out from school to go visit Grandma on her 95th birthday?
You're mixing up my Julia / Mojo as languages alternatives, versus my reference to Python JITs.
Greece isn't as tidy when it comes to administration; I wouldn't be surprised if he lives in relative comfort in a house under someone else's name, and nobody official comes to check.
the prosecuters might find this a win but from the comments it seems that there is next to no permutations where the general public would've been content.

meanwhile we are seeing "institutionalization" of crypto-related securities to displace the disrupters from the tech space.
If a stock tanks because a report reveals the company was cooking the books, that's good for the market and the economy as a whole.

That stock was sucking up investment that, rationally, should have instead been invested in other companies.
You can ask them and they'll give it to you.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/
> it looks like even jai alai is corrupted by gambling

You may be joking but for those who are not aware betting has been prominent in jai alai since the thirties.

CS Professor Steven Skiena has a book about it: https://www.amazon.com/Calculated-Bets-Computers-Gambling-Ma...

Related slides here: https://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~skiena/talks/talk-jaialai.pd...

Excerpts from the book: https://www.jai-tech.com
Or another way to put it, if 50% of everything is bullshit, you can cut out quite a bit and still not really effect anything.

The number of TPS reports filed is not the actual value to the economy, but it gets counted in the GDP.
Many years of Japanese factory management techniques have demonstrated quality and efficiency in the auto industry. They work closely with the line by making sure consistency is maintained to a high degree in the queue and by stopping the line when it needs to fix the problem to keep problems from compounding downstream.

Adding a capacity for parallel fix up product looks good temporarily but ends up decreasing quality and productivity with a lot of extra waste - one thing that Boeing has recently shown again.
Show HN: Fancy-ANSI – Small JavaScript library for rendering ANSI in the browser
I made this tool to add support for custom ANSI palettes to [kubetail](https://github.com/kubetail-org/kubetail). Maybe you'll find it useful too.

Let me know if you have any suggestions!
asteroid - something that looks like a star, rule checks out.
The poster I was replying to was asserting that the study participants would more or less choose the same harmonies. That would not be surprising.
> and dont return shopping carts

Not at Aldi.
The benefit of having it in JS is not speed but portability and access to the JS ecosystem of tools. Having the code run in the browser without needing a complex setup is a huge benefit for sharing demos. Node.js provides a way to use native code as well and it's quite commonly used https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp so there's no reason you couldn't use those same or similar libraries in a JS implementation.
I got "find the last real zero of the polynomial..." but what does last mean? Largest? Last as the polynomial's factors are given? Something else?

Edit: oh wait. It's "least". I really have no idea then :)
This is just another way of saying you're under-staffed so owners can capture more of the value of your labor. It's neither virtuous nor effective.
I think it gained popularity over a decade ago, when it was faster because it was unsafe.

In the end postgres is the better one. With mysql the defaults are bad.
you can't teach very well if 20% of the class is absent, it just creates an absurd situation for the teachers

it's not that hard, if you commit to going to school, then just try to go and do vacations during school holidays

otherwise, just home school
> how to negotiate with tradesmen about repairs to a house

It's called socializing.

> how to handle money

It's called math. Especially calculus.

> how to drive a car

Most schools do offer drivers Ed in America at least.

In my experience, the people who complain most that school didn't teach them X were the same kids who didn't pay any attention.

I don't even like schools, but this low effort nonsense should end.

Obviously you learned Norwegian faster in Norway. Good for you. The idea that a school should send kids on international vacations is ridiculous.
I do. Fitting 3 in back is always kinda pain, but then again I'm one the driving.
Rural schools often do better than urban schools, so size and transportation are likely not the reasons.
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All I know is your taste in music sucks.
I think the bigger issue is that you'll basically be at the mercy of the courts on how far you need to go with it. The scope isn't well defined IMO and it really couldn't be. Do I need to open source components that I don't have any control over and are proprietary? The questions are endless...
No. Because you have to be agnostic to the truth of the hypothesis. A good experiment does not try to confirm the hypothesis, a good experiment tests the hypothesis. For that it has to be open for disproving the hypothesis.

Setting up an experiment with the goal of demonstrating a hypothesis and then doing everything you can to achieve that goal is exactly how the replication crisis happened. That is why p-hacking occurs.

Of course scientists are biased, but they need to try to avoid it to do research. Embracing bias, "because everyone is biased" is ridiculous and legitimately insane.
I've seen a couple of successful ones, but there were extremely good reasons: Most of the time we don't need scaling, but when your target Mongo cluster has a couple hundred machines, and your queries really are very simple, NoSQL is not a crazy idea. Same with DynamoDB: Sometimes it really is a very good choice, but you need a use case of the right shape. If you have an extremely good use case for your table to be in 5+ regions, the dataset has billions of rows and you have no hot keys, maybe running your own replication system really is more effort than letting AWS do it all for you.

It's just far more common for some tech lead in small company to imagine that they are going to be bigger than Netflix, than for someone to start conservatively with a RDBMS, and realize that suddenly they have hundreds of millions of users and some kinds of data where the relational bits don't matter.
I have noticed in recent times comments on here have been getting more and more like this. An article I posted a few weeks ago got the same treatment even though I iterated multiple times the same points as I anticipated these kinds of comments from people that didn’t read it fully.
source? most psychological research doesn't replicate
Are you saying that this generation is somehow different from all the others not because of their optimism for the future, but because they lack work ethic? I think that elders have been complaining of following generations' work ethic since pre-history. But I distinctly remember kids being optimistic (I thought irrationally so; I was a pretty miserable child before it was cool) about the future when I was in school. They all thought they were going to get handed a lucrative job after they finished a four-year degree at some luxurious university.
Hi, out of curiosity: could you share some of that deep value investment analysis - even if it is outdated - or even better, perhaps some of the methodology or heuristics?

PM possible (see profile).

Cheers!
You can buy the same music as digital files or as blue ray. Don't use spotify if you don't want to.
Say more! I did read it, I don't remember much about it.
But then you have two problems
I don't understand this attitude. Most sw engineers at a startup are well compensated salary wise. Who cares if you also have a lottery ticket.
Voice Coding FizzBuzz in Rust and JavaScript [video]
Imagine if the DOJ case against Apple prevails and rivals begin distributing their own iOS apps through alternate app stores and obtain unencumbered access to currently-private system APIs.
...but they can't export, borrow from, or touch it.
So, I'm a recent transplant to Florida. All I know about jai alai was the three seconds from the intro to the Miami Vice series. I looked up whether it is still a popular pastime and apparently it has faded from the glory days of Crocket and Tubbs. Which to me sounded great, because I thought it might be a fun sport without the outrageous costs of other live sports. But, I was wrong about all my assumptions, as usual.
An unleashed public health establishment leaping outside their area of expertise to successfully push for lockdowns was the largest unforced error in generations, one whose effects we’re still feeling years later. Scientists who study the allocation of scarce resources toward desired ends are economists, not epidemiologists.

A basic truth of economics is that people respond to incentives. When you subsidize something, you get more of it. Public choice economics shows us that government employees likewise respond to career interest. Incentivizing people not to work and incentivizing another group of people to pump up their rookie numbers of people not working may create a slight inflationary pressure on the overall figure.
What do American households use electricity for?
[dupe]

More: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39832952
Yeah lol I was poking fun at the hilarious false equivalence.
McKinsey hires top of the class people at top schools and pays them top dollar. If all they needed was marketing or sales, they could go to University of Nowhere and hire good looking tall people to do sales.
Apologies if I came off as dismissive here - was not my intent at all - there’s obviously tons of fascinating little patterns to dig into here.

Like, factorizing numbers of the form 111…111 is a whole thing…

If there’s a composite number of digits in the number, then you can always factor it into a smaller 11…11 number, and a number consisting of 1s separated by repeating 0s - a 100…00100…001 type number.

And you can do the same to that number if it has a composite number of 1s in it (turns out the 1111 case is just a ‘number with a bunch of ones separated by sequences of no zeroes’).

To be concrete:

111111111111 (12 1s)
= 111 * 1001001001 (3 1s, 4 1s)
= 111 * 1001 * 1000001 (3 1s, 2 1s, 2 1s)

Or

= 1111 * 100010001 (4 1s, 3 1s)
= 11 * 101 * 100010001 (2 1s, 2 1s, 3 1s)

And it’s not a coincidence that the numbers of ones in those factors match the prime factors of 12.

So numbers in this form tend to have factors like 11, 101, and 111… and of course that means they tend to have 37 as a factor as a result. Like, in the above example, it means 100010001 must have 37 as a factor too.

Lot of weird patterns to be found in here, for sure.
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I agree with other comment and I don't think this is a good idea.
In an ideal world, we use data to create visualisation that can then be embedded in a variety of place (powerpoint, web-app or simply in a notebook).
Here you are giving presentation the central role which simply doesn't sound right to me.
I really don’t have this experience. I’d say these old-school sites are _not the worst_, and that _some_ mobile version of some websites manage to do worse. But it’s not a particularly pleasant experience, no
Nuclear would be perfect for large scale shipping operations, but it's tightly controlled for the reason you mentioned but also for what if there's a meltdown?

A sci-fi future would have small(ish) and safe fusion reactors propelling massive container ships on hydrofoils going wheeeee.
Young Indians more likely to be jobless if they're educated
I agree that a zero trust architecture makes sense. every device should sanity check requests made to it from every other device, but IMO that works best when you have a secure and encrypted network as a primitive. the network's job should be able to deliver messages security between endpoints.
Bring buttons and dials back to new cars. Touch screens distract drivers
As I was reading this it reminded me 100% of GE. Another manufacturing giant that put profit above all else and many people suffered for it as the company collapsed under the weight of its own incompetence... though many also became staggeringly wealthy.

GE is absolutely a place where leadership is the only “skill” that matters. Leaders are all that’s needed and everyone else is a commodity. Leader worship and success theater killed GE.

I could only shake my head when I got to the part where a former GE leader is in the running to be the new CEO.

Make sure your affairs are in order before boarding a Boeing aircraft.