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The writer is 42. As someone approching to that age in a few years, these are standard "mid-life crisis" thoughts. I get them when I feel like shit.

Bottomline:

- These thoughts don't serve you

- You have more effective/productive years ahead of you then before

Figure out what you want, and grind at it. The rest is noise.

Speaking of which...
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That sounds like 'modern monetary theory', which is neither modern nor monetary.

But it is both novel and correct. As in it has both novel and correct parts.
So, you want to write an unsafe crate
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Precompiled headers eliminate some of these issues, if the usage is right. At one of my former companies any available build optimization stuff had been added to the code base over the years by the DevOps guys without any thought about how the thing would work together, and it just got slower and slower. At the end, the initial 5-minute complete build time increased to about 35 minutes, of which about 10 minutes could be attributed to the various refactors and extremely high amount of templating, but couldn't find a cause for the extra 20-minute increase. It was about 15 minutes to test just a single change.
> Obviously, its not a good idea to bet your business on the courts not enforcing an EU fine

Right. Plus it might hinder your ability to travel freely in those jurisdictions as well which I'd like to avoid.
So... you're nonplussed about why people would pick up new words from casual usage rather than from books?
I get what you're saying, and I agree this sounds like operator negligence to me.

But the article does say that investigators had to get another aircraft set up with the same modifications and fly it around with bits of wool all over it in order to understand the stall characteristics.

So I assume this plane setup isn't so widespread that its stall behaviour is common knowledge.
> There are way too many disadvantages, not least of which is the fact that that only your computer has your weird keyboard.

Meh. I can type fine on both my weird layout and on a regular one (either Swedish or English layout).

Your point about speed I agree with, but I'll say that the point of an alternative layout shouldn't be speed, it's about comfort.
"Move to where you can do this if your local environment is too expensive or restrictive. Move to a new country if needed."

Sounds like typical American arrogance.

Everything you mentioned about building up a piece of land from zero, is predicated on a stable legal and economic framework, that protects and values private property. And every country that has that framework, tends to have high land prices already. Try this in some non-developed country, and you'll soon see why the world is considered unjust.
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The only problem is that the super computer keeps outputing "WANT TO PLAY A GAME?"
I learned that “peruse” meant the exact opposite of what I thought when I got my GRE vocab study guide
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It's more likely to be system-provided config files like bash-completions.
I can't imagine anyone from r/homelab has an SGI 8600 E-cell laying around that they could slap these blades into.
Yup. I liked my 2017 iPad Pro, hardware as decent and I mostly enjoyed the UI at the time but a lot of my work was simply impossible to do because of Apple's arbitrary software bullshit. I tried working around it by logging into my desktop at home but that was flakey and annoying for a number of reasons (sometimes WiFi networks would block the ports, sometimes I needed to see something not viewable over text, etc.).

The iPad accessory ecosystem is also just ridiculously overpriced. $200+ to $300+ for a keyboard/mouse combo that will if you're lucky will maybe work on the next model you upgrade to and only works with a single device is insane. Then the stylus is $130 more. They make the MS Surface accessories look cheap.

I don't want OS X on the iPad. I genuinely think that would be a bad experience but they do need to not cripple iPadOS.
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The core tool being offered here is allowing experts to focus more on checking work than solving work. It's way faster to check if a Sudoku puzzle is correct than it is to solve the Sudoku puzzle.
Fractional reserve banking does not work like this.

You still need assets in fractional reserve banking. Those assets just don't need to be reserves.

Ie 90% of your assets could be diamonds in the vault, and 10% could be reserve cash in the vault. That would be fractional reserve banking, but you still have 100% assets. (In practice, you have more than 100% assets. The excess is your equity cushion.)

If your liabilities outstrip your assets, that's when you are bankrupt. Fractional reserve banking doesn't help you there.
Regulations are for companies incapable of releasing features that regulators don't understand.
Whether they are or not they presumably speak English well and are familiar with anglophone culture if they’re living in the UK.
This is happening a lot in Australia, very dodgy builders resulting in illegal (from the building code) houses. Some are unsafe, others are failing apart way quicker due to the shortcuts taken.
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Third paragraph:

"We believe that the same way mobile payments leapfrogged credit cards in some markets, and mobile phones leapfrogged desktop computers in developing economies, AI too will (at least initially) leapfrog more legacy technologies that don’t have a “good enough” palliative (I mean alternative) in place."

>Leapfrogging by falling behind isn't the great example the article wants it to be.

It doesn't really matter if you end up with a better solution anyway, it's really the point of the article.
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> Without quantitative expectations of performance and safety trade-offs, the actual argument being made here is that a doctor can spend infinite time on a single case and never be reprimanded.

Woah, hold on there, false dichotomy.

It's NOT a matter of "Infinite amount of time" vs "quantified expectations with reasonable trade-offs".

It's a matter of "a doctor putting in the time to be careful" vs "being pressured to take 2-5 minutes of to make LIFE-CHANGING medical decisions".

At the end of the day Cigna cares about hitting their numbers to squeeze every last drop of profit while the doctors are being forced to live with the possibility of making a grave mistake being rushed at "burger-flipper" (or "call-center") time scales.

I am on the side of the docs for this one.
> But you should be able to 'separate' your professional and personal life, even as an entrepreneur.

Why? In case of success, you have the personal benefit from it. So why should other people and society take the bill in case of your fail? Or how exactly is this supposed tor work?
Here's an "AI" summary of the article:

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> we choose the much simpler, much cheaper way of the web.

Once the beancounters at the rent-seeking companies (Apple, Microsoft, …) have figured out that web development is where all the money is, this will change rapidly. Google has already started gatekeeping the web via Chrome.
No you’re not. I too am able to handle interruptions. I find this discussion to be largely exaggerated. Flow / zone are documented but to the extent young developers belabor their prima Donna needs it becomes more of an identity.
How many times are people going to reinvent, rename and resell a database?
To me that reads like gibberish. Common Lisp is used in large-scale commercial and industrial applications, why isn't it "as popular as" Java?

Pharo and other Smalltalks are used in ERP and similar systems. It's attractive if your business requirements change a lot and you either don't want or can't afford to employ a legion of Java developers. You could write to https://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/products/visualworks/ and ask why those logos are at the bottom of that page, now that Smalltalk isn't as popular as it would be if it was any good.

As a CTO I don't really care whether a programming language and toolchain "sells today" or whether it is "competitive" in some general, presumably universal, sense. I want tooling that fits the problem domain really well, and sometimes niche tools outperform general tools by a large margin for certain problems. They might require fewer developers, allow faster development or better scaling than e.g. Java.
You can find them on their github repo [1]

[1] https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv?tab=readme-ov-file#playlist...
Make:Electronics by Charles Platt. Is an excellent book, steps you through dozens of experiments to teach you why electricity behaves the way it does and how we’ve turned that into electronics.
What are you even comparing (and what are you even implying that my point is)? Sounds like you're comparing an automatic stop system to an ideal autonomous driving system. I was comparing stopping in a controlled way to what would happen if you don't have a system that control the car when you fall asleep at all. Obviously driving the vehicle like a human being would be the best option...
This gives them an incentive to make you unhappy.
I'm long-term bullish on AI, but tired of reading about the things it will one day do. It's way too close to all the hype around blockchain and web 3.

Show me actual results today, not tomorrow's promises. At least TFA cites some results.

But I have a hard time extrapolating that out further. I suppose I'm not cut out for thought leadership. :)
Ask HN: What do you use for custom domain emails?
I'm currently exploring options to create an email with a custom domain for a project I'm working on, but not sure what direction to go with.

I'm aware of google workspace, but it seems a bit of an overkill and I would ideally prefer a free option since all I'm looking for is a single email to send and receive from.

My domain is on Cloudflare, so I'm thinking of using their email routing service, which is free, and just route emails to a gmail account. But then there's the sending problem, which I don't think Cloudflare handles.

Should I just bite the bullet and go with Google workspace? I've also heard some good things about using iCloud for custom email domains.

Any insights would be great!
Does anybody here use the number repeating thing and feel like it's faster? I could _never_ make it faster, doesn't matter if I have relative lines or any other combination of settings. I've spent some time deliberately practicing and just gave up. I set my repeat delay very low and repeat rate pretty high, and just end up holding j/k, {/} or some other movement operator.

Maybe I suck at reading quickly, but by the time my eyes move from where I'm reading code to the line numbers, register what the relative number is, and type it (say 15) I could have just held j or } to get there faster. Same with something like d5w. I can't count 5 words, I'll just ctrl+v to get into visual selection and press 'w' until I'm happy and call it a day.

Pretty much the only time I do counting operations is when I'm doing writing macros, at which point I've slowed down enough that counting this doesn't feel that bad.
I'll just say, I did thirty seconds of research to find that jpeg. There seems to be much more out there.
Not in the sense of an architect actually building a generative AI blueprint. But transformer ANNs are simply incapable of designing physically plausible construction plans. Theoretically, not being able to solve graph connectivity seems like a big issue. Empirically, not being able to count is a fatal flaw.
I like your answer and a great example of the limitation of knowledge/semantic graphs. Personally, I'd put a knowledge graph on top of the responses to expose it to LLM as an authority & frame of reference. I think it should be an effective form of protection against hallucination and preventing outright incorrect / harmful outputs in contradiction with the facts known by the graph. At least in my experiments.
>That feels like someone decided that implementing a resilient business continuity plan wasn't worth it (which it may as well be, the impact is great but the likelihood low), e.g. manually making phone calls to verify the needed information, having backup paper copies of documents and so on.

When you wake up one morning and you're under a cyber attack and no longer have network access, how easy do you think it is to just start manually phoning in prescription information?

This may come as a shock to you, but the internet has greatly increased the efficiency of business over passing paper around and making phone calls. You can't just flick a switch and go back to the old system.
It's also way easier, and much less responsibility, to miss a mistake than to make one.

"Oh, yeah, that was a fuckup but the AI did it, not me! What, I was supposed to catch it? Well, I blame the AI!"
This is probably the correct answer, thanks
I find this post super confusing, like I can’t tell if it’s satire or just super strawmanning.

The problem clearly isn’t that “you can delete prod” — the problem is that you can “fat finger a command line and accidentally delete prod”.

You can absolutely make it harder to delete prod—since this is something few people are doing regularly—by requiring some kind of confirmation. That’s the process change being discussed, and is the smart response.
Fastmail. It's way easier to work with than Google Workspace IMO.
Young Americans' wealth has soared since the pandemic
I'm not saying what self-driving cars should do I'm just saying that a dumbed-down self driving system is safer than not having one.
While I disagree with somewhereoutth and mostly agree with you, it is true that banks can create money.

However banks don't create money out of thin air. However they can create it out of assets.

As a silly thought experiment: if your bank has a vault full of valuable assets, like diamonds and deeds to houses in prime real estate, stocks etc, they can in principle create loan/deposit pairs (ie make loans and credit the borrowed funds to the borrower account).

When people make withdrawals, especially when they make more withdrawals than the bank has reserves, they just sell some of their assets to cover the difference. That's all pretty normal and boring.

Customers think of their deposits of 100% like money and economically behave as if that was true, but in practice they are backed by 10% money, ie reserves, and 90% other assets.

(The percentages are for illustration only.

Also we ignore minimum reserve requirements and other laws here. Many countries don't have minimum reserve requirements anyway.)
Basically no channels work, either DNS issues or requires creating accounts/payments.
> need to make a coverage denial take an order of magnitude more time and effort than an approval

More difficult or more expensive. A random sample of denials being sent to a public board might do the trick, with a mandatory per-review fee charged to the insurer, and the sample size increasing as a function of reversed denials.
Twitter isn't 4chan, it's not even close. The medium is completely different, and that matters. The users are different, and that matters.
In a more fair world, corporations would go to jail (cease all operations for set number of years) just like the humans they share free speech rights with
And as usual, 'modern monetary theory' rears its ugly head, too.
"Household wealth for those under 40 in the U.S. is up 49% from its pre-pandemic level..."
I would definitely advise creating a cheat sheet. But probably not want for the reasons you are thinking.

Custom/mechanical keyboards are a rabbit hole and you might end up with a few of them, each configured slightly differently. You might want to know how to come back to them (especially if they have blank keycaps or extensive layers).
Look, the denial created at least one extra job! Cigna is out there creating jobs, and it only cost you the very real fear that you could have your life ruined from a broken leg!
Cool story bro, but you're going to need to actually have some products to demonstrate for that to be real.

Push button legal contracts, great, we have those already, they are called templates. The problem is not the contract, its the litigation that follows the contract.

> Generative AI is an instantaneous push-button solution. It generates a legal brief or construction plan from scratch. Interacting with software is like chatting to a friend. You don’t have to re-learn your whole process – you simply remove tedious tasks from your to-do list.

Ok ok ok, but thats a could. I mean I can ask a chatbot to make a contract for me, but is it legal, does it have a back door in it that allows something stupid to happen?

Same with Visas, the hard part isn't the form filling, its getting past the burdens of proof.

Where Legal chatbots might be useful, some day, is flagging for odd clauses.

_eventually_ I can see that "AI" will help automate a bunch of legal stuff, but its out of reach of current LLMs, as their inference of implications from text is sketchy at best. Moreover, new laws/contracting terms have less training data, which tends to bias the output in the wrong direction.
It's not possible to live a life of modern conveniences, cost and time savings without technology and specialisation.

Youtubers who grow their own farm can only do it because it's their full time job. Or all their time is spent on the farm. Growing food is not easy, and would cost way more home grown.

Not something to romanticise. Nor would going out to the woods help, the carbon footprint would be so much higher than being able to have a expensive house with mega efficient everything.
Looks like it's back now. IIRC HN automatically removes "Why" at the start of a title - at least I didn't consciously remove it.
Yes, let's all do business like it's 1980, just in case the internet goes down.

All of this is possible, it takes a lot more time. That's why they are moved to "emergency only" business.
Is anyone really shocked about this? This is how capitalism works! Everything is just a means to an end.
Give it a try - you might like it. Thank you!
Unfortunately so far Qualcomm was hard at work avoiding making an open platform ARM-based laptop/tablet - to the point of squeezing around MS rules on that through special drivers etc to make Windows think it's dealing with EFI-compliant hardware.
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We're 16-158 years away from the collapse of easy orbits.
I wonder how many other companies are (quietly) guilty of the same thing.
Yeah, I thought I'd like & appreciate AI. But of course it's been perverted and twisted by the bigcorps to the point it's just a useless gimmick for making rich people even more money, while making the life of normies much worse.

Can't wait to never be able to contact a company again because they want me to talk to their ai shitbot that's designed to trick me into going away and not bothering them.
I'm not saying this as a direct 1:1 link between the two. I'm using AI as an example for advancing technology. And by the way, advanced technology like smartphones and social media and the internet are all basically required for modern life. As much as I'd like to enjoy living on a farm in the middle of no where, not many other people would enjoy that either and therefore I'd be (mostly) alone, defeating the entire purpose of a neo-Luddite lifestyle - to get back to being a human in an increasingly alienated world.
It was never a temporary 'fix'. The product eventually spun off into a new company and was recently acquired by a PE firm.

But yeah, creating software - or any kind of process actually - results in maintenance. If something is used a lot -> too many people depend on it. If the number of consumers/users isn't documented -> you don't know if you can turn it off, but for this problem you can inspect a year's worth of log files :)
But then I'm only a name change and a lab accident away. And a name change isn't that hard...
By default most insurance policies (in the US, at least) cover incidental occasional use of drivers you permit to use your car that don’t actually live with you. They have to be licensed to drive, but that’s essentially the only restriction.
It doesn't mean emerging markets don't use desktops or laptops. It means they won't be frozen on old tech.

Think mobile payments. South East Asia has mobile payments with 0% additional fees. Meanwhile the West is shackled to cards, adding 2-3% for what? Yet stuck with cards for a while due to not starting with mobile.
What I mean is: if we're sending undesirable things like garbage into space, why do we want it on the Moon? Why not just launch it out of the solar system, or into the Sun? There doesn't seem to be a good reason to favor putting it on the Moon.
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> At no point do banks create base money.

This is true, and most of the rest of what you are saying is also true.

> The only entity that creates money is the central bank.

This is not true. Banks really can take arbitrary assets and turn them into money. Just not base money!
>So, let's say I'm a diabetic who needs his insulin and was planning on picking it up today. What then?

You go to your pharmacy and they'll give it to you and make a note for repayment. Or you go to one of the other 500 pharmacies in the Province.
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This goes beyond open source, though. Someone doing this would act the same way when working in a team in a closed source project as well. I'm just saying that it's unacceptable in either case.

Open source is about fostering a spirit of sharing and collaboration. If developers don't align with those ideals, maybe open sourcing their work isn't for them.

"Open source" is abused too often these days as a marketing term, or something to fluff up your CV with, when it should be anything but that.
Because the real role of managed care organizations (MCOs, health insurance companies) is to take the heat for government leaders for having a tiered healthcare system where individuals get access to healthcare based on their socioeconomic position.

If you are a government leader and you offer healthcare to everyone, you are now clearly responsible for any failures. But with an MCO in the middle, fingers can be pointed all over the place.

Different formularies and prior authorization rules can be set for different populations. For example, reimbursement can be lower for Medicaid patients (poorer/younger people), so they end up with less access to doctors, and higher for Medicare (older, likelier to vote), so more doctors are available there. Senators can get their own plan, and the military another, and the tech company employees yet another, and fast food employees, and so on and so forth.

This system benefits all the leaders, so it is not going anywhere. In fact, I would bet UK and Canada move towards this.