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bash and other sh related approaches have a lot of "foot guns". python, or powershell, or even C++ are often easier to read and follow.

> are often incredibly verbose and definitely not easier to read than a well written bash script

define well written -- getting into no true scotsman here.

bash is fine for what it was and what it did, and i'm glad to know enough sed and awk to be dangerous, but it's a PITA unless we're forced to use it
Right, but that's part of the problem - just being able to build more houses isn't going to solve problems for, say, NY or LA where it's not an issue of how many units but an issue of pricing
Hopefully they can turn Standard Notes into a product I’d be willing to return to. I like the company ethos, but the product was too clunky. The configurable editors all seemed to be of a poorer quality than opinionated competitors.
Unfortunately the most aristocratic art has the most concussions -- horseback riding.
> Employers have far more resources at their disposal than individual workers typically do.

But how does that help them?

Suppose a corporation needs a mechanic to service their vehicles. There are a thousand such corporations and they each have a billion dollars. Meanwhile the individual mechanics have no resources whatsoever. But what they do have is a thousand different employers they could work for, so they pick the one offering the best compensation and working conditions.

How is a corporation supposed to use its billion dollars to gain an advantage here? Anything they do to make themselves less attractive to workers would just cause the workers to pick one of the other thousand prospective employers. To do otherwise would require some kind of deception or collusion, which are illegal.

> Maybe what you mean is that we need better unions.

This is like saying "maybe we need better corporations". The reason the cable company sucks isn't that their leadership is uniquely malevolent -- I didn't even have to specify which cable company it is. The reason is that they aren't under sufficient competitive pressure, and that's what happens then. Unions are not exempt.

Meanwhile the remaining "good" things a union is supposed to do can be served just as well by e.g. hiring an agent or buying certain types of insurance, which anybody can do individually regardless of what anybody else is doing.
> She -credit's her books account $20 and her net worth goes down by $20.

Stupid question maybe.

Is net worth an account too? Where does the debit side of Alice’s credit go?
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The book is primarily good at introducing the basic concepts of functional programming. It’s also one of the best for that in my opinion.

You wouldn’t use the quicksort from your textbook in production because it’s an example designed to teach specific principles. A complete tour of the literature on just that one story and all its variants and implications be a decent sized book all by itself.

Likewise, the examples inJS Allonge are vehicles to explore functional concepts.

I’d also note that there’s a PDF available for free.

http://raganwald.com/assets/javascriptallongesix.pdf
this is the kind of error humans make because we generate text letter by letter. LLMs generate text in whole words or meaningful fragments of whole words (tokens). unless 1986 is unusually statistically similar to 1968, an LLM is unlikely to make that mistake.
I was being sarcastic, sorry for that. Critical thinking might work for a few people in higher education, but it surely doesn't work for all of us.
Yes it might. That one item can swing the whole spectrum from "free on Craigslist" to "$14,950 OBO" depending on how motivated that one seller is, and how motivated that one buyer. One way or the other, its price will have little correlation with how much it previously transacted for. The buyer might even be a knowledgeable antique appraiser who picks it up for free and flips it for $15k the next day. Whereas when there are a whole community of sellers and many buyers for some item (say, a used video game console), the prices tend to change more smoothly and gradually, in smaller increments.
In my experience with Suno ($40 spent so far) sound quality is worse than the cherry picked examples from Udio - especially the vocals - but everything I've heard from Udio could best be described as the elevator music equivalent of their respective genres so that's probably why it sounds so good. There seems to be a real quality vs originality trade off in the state of the art.

That said, I've only had the chance to generate a few songs with Udio and they have all sounded like they were recorded by a prison band in an overcrowded cell (I create mainly instrumental/orchestra/sound track music).
Nowadays anyone that isn't far-left is called far-right and extremist, those words are meaningless.

Only the supporters of Lula are supporting this narrative that the STF is only applying the law. I don't think they realize the danger of authoritarianism. Tides inevitably change.

Where you also pro judicial activism when operation Car Wash arrested hundreds of corrupts and recovered billions of taxpayer money? Or are you only in favor of judicial activism when it's used to release your political idol from jail and to persecute his political adversaries?
There are several sets of rules of kickboxing variants that do not allow any kind of head strikes, but they are not popular. I agree that such rules are the only acceptable with the exception of the matches between professionals who are fully aware of the risks, but who are willing to risk their health against an appropriate compensation.

Among the sets of rules that allow head strikes, traditional boxing is the worst.

It is much more dangerous than any kind of kickboxing or MMA, because the boxers have few methods to defend themselves and few other means of winning, except by a knockout that is easiest to achieve by a head strike. Even during the Greek antiquity, pancration (i.e. MMA) was considered to have a much lower risk of injury than pugilism (i.e. boxing).
No, I think actions should have consequences.

I'm frustrated that being born into money can make you functionally immune to most of those consequences.

There are two sides to freedom of speech. You have the freedom to say dumb shit, and I have the freedom to not associate with you because I don't like the dumb shit you say. If one of my employees started expressing pro-Nazi sentiments at the office, I would fire them, because I have a right to do so and because I believe the rest of my employees have a right to a safe working environment where they don't have to put up with people who think they are inferior just because of their race or cultural background.
This is like optimizing a horse and carriage for modern era. The price is nearly that of an iPad mini with vastly fewer applications.
Lack of budgeting controls (the DoD has never passed a comprehensive audit), lack of competitive bidding, cronyism...

I'm not saying these things don't exist in China, but there seems to be an alignment of incentives that doesn't happen here in the US.

Also, the transition of ARPA (strategic) into DARPA (tactical) took away truly transformative research and left us with less risky and less expensive but more short-sighted advances.
Not for me. Suno voices sound distinctly robotic/metallic.
> Or just incompetence.

Oh there is likely plenty of that too. But I think there was at least some malice in being forced to follow through on his overvalued purchase offer, in the treatment of "blue check" verified accounts, in the treatment of laid-off employees and those who remained or tried to stick it out, and in the destruction of the Twitter brand.

> Assuming just because he is billionaire that he's competent at everything related to any company and the reason for failure is something else is silly.

Yes, that part was tongue-in-cheek.
I never pretended to have anything else, and “motivated” is a weird word to use here. I have no skin in this game, and from what I can tell neither do you. If Twitter survives, great. I guess some of what you noted could be an interesting lesson, but I don’t think it’s going so hot so far and I’m not willing to call it yet.
No, more like something new on X breaks every year. The site is simple enough that that the engineering is mostly focused on optimizations and there's little more I or any other active user would even expect from the platform, outside of growing to new areas like YouTube-comparable video.

I find it quite bizarre how some people still try to push some narrative about the site being broken. It's not more broken it was before the takeover outside the odd Spaces dropout (which is a new feature so doesn't really count), but is now better serving its actual mission as an actually unbiased speech platform, radical as that is in the current day. Now X just needs to stay unchanged for ten years to overcome any competition.
Google Pixel phones not receiving phone calls after March 2024 update
> "When the scale of these things is so large in a single firm, and only comes to light after 2(!) whistleblowers, it is hard to imagine that it is an isolated incident in the industry."

Why would it be an isolated incident when the penalty is so small?

KPMG's global revenue for 2023 was around $23 billion per DDG.

When your fine for doing business the "wrong" way is around 1/1000th of your revenue, it's hard to see that as a meaningful punishment.
Same here. Please consider a higher quality option.
>Electric cars where already gaining traction by the time Tesla got their production in order, so if he had an impact there, its only in marketing a product you could only buy from other companies

I'm as cynical about Tesla as anyone, as my comment history will show. I think they played fast and loose with financial data when celebrity and anything tech put you above the rules. If he had the enemies he has now, I don't think they would have made it.

But...Elon Musk is a force. I was skeptical of him in, maybe, 2016, but the guy has managed to continue to do stuff no one else seems capable of, even in the face of haters. There's no way pre-Elon Tesla does what he did, I don't believe it for a second.

Even Twitter; yes he fired too many people and it's a bit of a fiasco (and hard to kill, apparently). But the fact that he's using it to explicitly push an agenda is wild. There's no one else like him.
I had such doorbell to know when packages and food is dropped off. Not worried about it being stolen or house being robbed.
It's certainly less weird in official contexts now though. The brand was OK but not really "scalable" without sounding like something right off Idiocracy in some contexts.
At least those are generally accepted as a terrible accident, and not an expected and accepted part of the sport.
It's inspiring.

When I consider how Naoya Inoue fought 11 rounds with a broken orbital socket I am profoundly inspired by the heart he demonstrated and his will to win - his focus and his skill to change strategy mid fight.

It's easy to handwave his ability to fight through pain thanks to adrenaline... until you try it for yourself.

It's inspiring to know just how much we can overcome ourselves if we want something enough.
If this were the future that would be kinda depressing. I think the best, truly catchy songs and those that truly connect with people will continue having a significant human element. I see this as similar to the invention of Photoshop except even easier for normal people to start getting into.
Still, when you have a 20-25 year replacement cycle being 10 years behind is pretty significant. And that's assuming their estimate of needing another decade is correct. Which seems doubtful considering they don't have a contractor, they don't have the money, and the previous system probably took a decade to develop considering their choice of 5.25" floppies (3.5" floppies overtook 5.25" floppies in sales in 1988).
* Android version was last updated April 10 2024.

* iOS has had some issues, I actually had to remove myself from the TestFlight due to a bug but it is actively being worked on (the beta version). I'm assuming they are waiting on the iOS beta to be stable before another release but I'm not part of the team.

* Proton Drive for Mac was last updated March 29th.

Just because a team is having an issue with one piece of their software doesn't mean it's abandoned or unsupported. Again, there is a lot of hyperbole here.
Many Google Pixel owners globally have had issues receiving calls and texts after a March software update to the phones. Incoming calls are either directed straight to voicemail or callers receive a "not available" message. The Pixel phones show full bars, but never ring.

I just got a new Pixel 8 a couple of weeks ago, and I have already missed a handful of important calls. It's really bad that the most basic functionality for a phone has been broken for weeks.

Google has not acknowledged this anywhere.
This is a nice reminder that symmetric cryptography is PQ-safe, but barebones kerberos does not solve the initial authentication problem - the exact purpose of a TLS handshake.

Kerberos relies on the client and kerberos authority (KDC) having a pre-shared password; the KDC uses it to send encrypted messages to the client, and also for giving the client a message encrypted for a service the client wishes to talk to (these are kerberos tickets). In that sense, Kerberos does look a lot like a trusted third party facilitating a TLS handshake with all-symmetric cryptography! A very neat analogy.

It would be ludicrous to require all clients to have a pre-shared secret password with the CA, and to require the CA be an available participant in every handshake in an uncacheable way. Still, it's fun to imagine this.

Anyway, some notes for completeness: there does exist a PKINIT extension for Kerberos, where an x.509 certificate from a trusted authority authenticates the kerberos authority (KDC) for the clients, and authenticates the clients without a password. This relies on a signature system, so that's out of scope if we're talking about ditching TLS in a PQ setting. I suppose one could imagine distributing kerberos keytabs instead of certificates.
I probably didn't state that all that well. If I had really wanted one I'm sure I would have been provided one. It's equally quite possible that since they had to be obtained from a veterinarian that it never occurred to me to ask for one.

OTOH, I did destroy a couple of old radios to get the speaker magnets. If I could go back in time I'd grab those old radios before I'd have a chance to destroy them. Back then they were just that--old radios--with no value and certainly not worth fixing. Sigh...
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> "4K 120 FPS" - uh no, you're not getting that on an iGPU

You are not going to get that from many dGPUs either. You might get that from the high end in the last or previous gen, but not from the midrange or 2-gen-old models.
It's interesting that they are not separating training and inference.
Fun fact about RealPage that's not mentioned in the article: Jeffrey Roper is the guy who created RealPage's price setting product (YieldStar). Jeffrey Roper's previous professional experience was building a similar product for Alaska Airlines. Jeffrey Roper left that position when the U.S. Department of Justice indicted Alaska Airlines for price fixing and collusion using Jeffrey Roper's software. The feds even seized his computer as part of the investigation.

RealPage saw his resume and said, "Yep that's our guy. We want price-fixing software and we only hire the best".
Found this article that has some info: https://unm.wsrjj.org/spelling.pdf
Of course "normal" is always relative, but in the context of a transcontinental road trip, it's difficult to imagine that anyone has ever driven from London to Lagos in a smaller vehicle than a Peugeot 107!
Are these browsers still required to use Safari behind the scenes?
I'm from Southport, NW England - not in the South and not even a port
> My problem is that your alternatives don't just change the words, they change the logic.

No, they don't. They just change the words you need to express the logic.

> The invariant of debit/credit is that they need to balance out.

Sure. So? If I give you a dollar, that's going to balance whether we call that a debit to me and a credit to you or a credit to me and a debit to you. The labels don't matter.
Sabre (the wrong decision now beats the right one later) would be more air cav?

I think the Air Force would prefer epée (full court press: first mistake loses).
can't wait to see third party android e-readers with that tech
In a real world example you would be correct. This would fall under the “equity” of the accounting equation assets = liabilities + equity. The equity part can be confusing but is where many of the non obvious second entries end up.
It sounds like your accounting instructor may have focused too much on implementation details (left/right), and too little on accounting principles.

The terms debit and credit have meaning independent of their columnar position on a traditional ledger. I could create a ledger with the columns reverse or (shocking!) use a computer program with a data structure that doesn't encode the concept of left or right.

I think about it like this:

CR / Credit / Creditors -> what the business owes
DR / Debit / Debtors -> what the business owns

A CR entry is an increase is what the company owes (to creditors or shareholders), and a DR is an increase in what the company owns.

A common objection to this is 'what about income and expense accounts'? But those are just equity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39991837

I wrote more about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32498992
> "Wow. I mean I thought we were moving on to AI. So why are we doing floppy disk," said Katie Guillen, SFMTA passenger.

This naivety is not Katie's fault. We who work in tech are to blame for constantly pushing our half-baked experimental garbage as if it was "engineering" on par with civil or aeronautical systems. We can't blame people for occasionally believing the lies.

The tech-washed version of this quote might go something like "wow I thought everything was moving to the multi-cloud serverless kooberneetus now, why is it still running on a computer?"

> It is easy to run a secure computer system. You merely have to disconnect all dial-up connections and permit only direct-wired terminals, put the machine and its terminals in a shielded room, and post a guard at the door[1].

This is the kind of thing I want running the trains. Give it ECC RAM too, please.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Morris_(cryptographer...
From the man who aimed COVID was 100% about leftists control, who says DEI is also about racial hierarchy. Recent thread, https://bsky.app/profile/romancingnope.bsky.social/post/3kpl... but one can search his name on any social media to get a taste of what he's about. Haidt is insufferable.
Haidt can be right that we need better for our kids. But this satanic panic scapegoating shit is crazy. There's massive economic uncertainty, a crazy world, we are short on worthy role models, the environment is going crazy, capitalism has consolidated enormous power, and much closer to home truths that there are so few shared spaces, 3rd places where one can be a free youth. Social media is portrayed like such a crafty monster, but we rarely delve into the other whys of it, are too busy demonizing convenient to snap at companies to recognize how amazing it is to tour the world & get such a great perch watching humanity.

Dragging red meat postings like this into HN greatly lowers the discourse.
I'm an electronics guy too (if you count firmware :P), and I've always found the spring contacts on TRS jacks to be hit or miss. It's a big receptacle with lots of room for lint to get into, the plug rotates, and it can experience some big forces on drops or cable tugs.

Most jacks do just fine, but having the springs eventually wear out on some device or another wasn't uncommon for me 6+ years ago. Not having to worry about whether the jack is going to suck or not on a given product suits me just fine. Having it attached to an adapter means I can easily swap it out if it wears.

That said, some of the sibling comments are reporting wear on USB-C receptacles when used while running... The mechanical design of the Apple Lightning connector seems to me like it'd be more durable, since it's tapered and doesn't have that center alignment thing. But maybe the contact springs of Lightning wear out faster as a result? I haven't seen any data on this, just speculating.
The changes introduced by bacteria were certainly not adapted to by all flora and fauna, as you go on to describe. But here we are.

Had the bacteria said “hey guys all this Oxygen we’re making is seriously disrupting the environment and killing a lot of stuff, we should limit our productivity in order to ensure that doesn’t happen, after all we’re the greatest things that will ever be on this planet so we have to make sure it’s well suited for us and only us forever and ever and ever”, here we would not be.
It's not a fact, it is your opinion and you should really learn the difference.
Speak for yourself. I made no mention of humanity.
Thanks, now that I think about it that makes sense :)
> There is no consistency at all between electron apps.

No, there is not but there is consistency between platforms of the same electron app. Something that's much harder to do if you write a native app.
Basically, NVidia is the bar. Ambitious to me implies at least challenging NVidia. AMD makes competitive GPUs in certain arenas (and for Linux is the main choice due to drivers), but for me no definition of "ambitious" involves even thinking about AMD.

Well, 4k 120 from an iGPU ... you're saying THAT is ambitious? There's the bar!

Historically Intel has about every 5 years started to rumble about getting serious in the discrete markets, and they make some marketing fluff, but nothing even remotely competitive outside the iGPU "meh" range ever comes out.

So if I hear Intel being "ambitious" and then read an article that basically pretends (I'm not accusing you of anything) NVidia doesn't exist, well, seems like a failed premise to me.

I'm pretty negative on Intel over the last decade, you'd think I was a spurned contractor (I'm not, never worked there). Intel is definitely in the "prove it" mode. They've so massively failed/squandered opportunity at smartphone chips, SSDs, memory, graphics, and then finally screwed the pooch in process tech and CPUs. So clearly an engineering company that was hijacked by finance MBAs are driven into the ground, and it is HARD for companies to come back from that poison, especially when they had about 30 years of near-unchallenged monopoly dominance in the marketplace.

I didn't want to imply "author sux Lol" the article was pretty in-depth and information depth, but it remains the basic premise is flawed, because the source marketing/press release by Intel is about an 80% chance of being BS or "same story, different half decade".
one of the most fascinating and mysterious things to me are subterranean or exclusively cave-dwelling (mega)fauna. the earth's crust is a very big place