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> No need to bring diversity politics in IT.

Politics is just "how people think things should be". Therefore politics are everywhere not because people _bring_ them everywhere but because they arise from everything.

Your comment is in fact full of politics, down to your opinion that politics shouldn't be included in this discussion.

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> thanks to that universal language, I can express my thoughts to most people in India, China, Japan, South America, etc due to having 1 common language

Personally my impression is that native speakers just run circles around everyone else during meetings and such. Being _truly_ comfortable in the language, mastering social cues, being able to confidently and fluently express complex ideas, mean that they effectively take over the room. In turn that means they will hold more power in the company, rise in rank more quickly, get paid more, etc.. There's an actual, significant consequence here.

Plus, anglos usually can't really speak another language, so since they don't realize how hard it is they tend to think their coworkers are idiots and will stick to do things with other anglos rather than include everyone.

> Diversity is more complexity

In a vacuum I agree, but within the context of your comment this is kinda saying "your existence makes my life too complex, please stop being different and join the fold"; and I can't agree with that sentiment.
And science also has a meaning which has nothing to do with programming. What makes you think that most scientists use computers in this way?
https://www.codepublishing.com/CA/Seaside/#!/Seaside17/Seasi... D
Australian here. My 2 cents. For some reason I kinda like Trump in spite of his antics & theatrics. "Like" may be a strong word. In some respects I "like" Biden too, I've enjoyed some of his speeches, the coherent ones.

I recall Trump's 2016 election victory speech was actually good, well said. Read the transcript. He was sincere in his complements to Hilary, and he emphasised uniting everyone and repairing division which is exactly what leaders should do more often.

In my country we've had some shocker victory speeches from both sides of politics. Rambling egotistical diatribes feature heavily, or straight up reinforcing division and team-sport gloating.

This trial. I don't get it. $130,000 is nothing. NDA payments are legal, but we're told that classifying the payment incorrectly is some great crime? Give me a break, it's a porn star! Who cares if they had sex 20 years ago? Obviously a running president doesn't want a disgruntled porn star blabbing about old raunchy encounters, factual or otherwise. Enter the legal NDA.

America is funny. Bill Clinton lied about his affair with an employee while he was president. The Stormy affair supposedly happened long ago. Regardless of how much Trump is disliked, this trial and conviction is a circus. It confirms "lawfare" is indeed a thing, aimed at what looks to me like a crime no worse than jay-walking, relatively speaking. Good luck USA.
All of that sounds like, that torrent-based updaters/downloaders should be the absolute killer-app for environments like that.

Infinitely resume-able, never looses progress, remains completely unfazed by timeouts, connection loss, etc. - and the ability to share received update-data between multiple devices peer-to-peer.
> Research suggests, for instance, that about 700,000 litres of water could have been used to cool the machines that trained ChatGPT-3 at Microsoft’s data facilities.

> Suggests

So it’s a complete guess, cool.

> Trained

I… don’t care? That’s a one-time cost, talk about how much inference costs and also make me understand why that matters. The water wasn’t destroyed in the process.

I’m having a hard time taking this article seriously, so data centers had more emissions than commercial flights (I’d like to see the numbers instead of this person’s word given other questionable things they say, like above), data centers provide a lot more value IMHO so that’s not surprising to me.

The answer to high emissions from energy production used to run something is not to shut down the thing using power (if it’s useful, crypto is a different beast), it’s to change the source of the energy. What would this author have us do? Shut down data centers than run the internet because they use power that comes from less desirable sources? Absurd.
Struggled with the same thing. This is what I do now.

Build a side project and enjoys 0 user => you will know you're refactoring a piece of shit emotionally.
Can't both things be true at the same time?

* He is fighting an honest fight for the right to repair

* His business is benefiting from right to repair laws

For example when he supported the right to repair for farming equipment, I hardly believe he did that for his repair shop bottom line
The Matrix Simulacrum Bites
If you decide to research in $field, then you’ll typically need to keep publishing papers to keep your job
I'm not blaming individual people I am talking about emergent behaviors.
or is it cheaper to optimize a model to crush the competition on price?
Totally unrelated but did anyone check the author's CV? He has had multiple intern dev roles even though he had at least 5 years of previous dev experience
RAG and RAU: A Survey on Retrieval-Augmented
What I found interesting was the fifth section that describes the strategies to improve RAG performance. Basically:

1. Quality control. What documents to include?

2. Timing. When to query?

3. Pre & post processing. Improve LLM outputs based on retrieved data.

4. End to end training. Expensive, and data intensive but possibly the best long-term approach.

5. Controller. An interesting idea with similarities to Reinforcement Learning.

I wonder what are your thoughts. Which one is most promising? What has been your experience when building RAG apps? Also, is RAG the leading architecture for building applications?
I have been down this road, but the lessons I learn are not the obvious ones. My wife died in chikdbirth, so it was a double whammy. She was in some respects my soulmate, but she was also one of the most difficult people I have ever know. Had she not doed, I absolutely know that there is zero chance that we would still be together as a family.

We need to tell those we have lost that we have loved them. We also need to thank them and apologize to them. Here is Asia it is easier to talk with the dead, for which I am grateful.

However, I eventually learned to accept that we also need to know how to tell them to fuck off and leave us alone. If we fail to learn this, then we pass on their ghosts to those who we go on to love.
> Significantly more people voted for left-wing parties than the hard-right parties.

Is this really the case? I have not really tallied up the numbers but from a brief glance at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Israeli_legislative_elect... it does not seem to quite check out.

edit:

I found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-seventh_government_of_I...

> The right-wing bloc of parties, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, known in Israel as the national camp, won 64 of the 120 seats in the elections for the Knesset, while the coalition led by the incumbent prime minister Yair Lapid won 51 seats.[9] The new majority has been variously described as the most right-wing government in Israeli history,[10] as well as Israel's most religious government.[11][12][13]

But to be fair you said hard-right parties, and I think in this you may be right. Still, most people voted conservative/right-wing I think.
I saw a similar thing happen with ROHS and WEE. I was working for a hardware manufacturer when ROHS was implemented in the EU and we suddenly had to change all of our hardware to be ROHS compliant.

Because why maintain two manufacturing lines? Either we stop selling in the EU or we make all of our hardware ROHS compliant.

I suspect it really matters how big the market is that implements the regulation. The finance people come in and ask; Is it better to ignore this market or change our supply chain?
> (3) the money people figured out subscriptions were more profitable.

Subscriptions bring in steady money that allows for better forecasting and resourcing.

Releasing a Very Big Paid Update every year or two years brings in an unknown lump sum of money with a tail end that might or might not be enough.
You have to go to settings and disable everything non core browser related. Including their ad blocker. Then add unlock origin.

That more or less makes it a good standard chromium browser.
Well, in TFA, if you re-read the section labeled "Detailed, Real-world Example" yes, that is exactly what the person was encountering. So no hyperbole at all actually.
> Article 16 says only

They are referring to Article 16 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights in the union, not this directive.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
You can try https://gpt4all.io/index.html
Tab Groups are finally coming!

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/heres-what-were-working-...
Same thing that prevents you from declaring sovereign state on “your” land - the laws =)
The Galactic Vietnam: Technology, Modernization, and Empire in Lucas's Star Wars [pdf]
Nearly as accurate? I guess zero is close to zero.

https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112006855076082650

> You might be surprised to learn that I actually think LLMs have the potential to be not only fun but genuinely useful. “Show me some bullshit that would be typical in this context” can be a genuinely helpful question to have answered, in code and in natural language — for brainstorming, for seeing common conventions in an unfamiliar context, for having something crappy to react to.

> Alas, that does not remotely resemble how people are pitching this technology.
There's no mathematical reason why doing quantization after would be worse than training from scratch. That's nonsense.

There's also no practical reason. Training quantized networks is often harder! This is why people quantize after the fact or do distillation.

Nor is there any reason why we won't find some projection of weights onto the BitNet manifold.

If it was published by academics I'd believe the cost argument.

This was published by MS. They can run this experiment trivially. I have friends at MS with access to enough compute to do it in days.

Either the authors ran it and saw it doesn't work or they're playing with us. Not a good look. The reviewers shouldn't have accepted the paper in this state without an explanation of why the authors can't do this.

This is the question that determines if this work matters or is useless. Publishing before knowing that isn't responsible on anyone's part.
> But WASM is a virtual instruction set for the browser

Depends on how you look at it. WASM itself doesn't have any browser specific features (and on purpose), it's a universal bytecode VM designed with strict sandboxing in mind.

You can manipulate the DOM from WASM by calling through a Javascript shim with very little overhead, same as it works for calling into other browser APIs like WebGL, WebGPU or WebAudio.

It just doesn't make all that much sense since WASM doesn't bring any benefit compared to manipulating the DOM via Javascript. Any theoretical performance advantage is pointless because the entire architecture of the DOM is slow by design.

But if you still want to do it, there are helpers like the Rust web_sys crate:

https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-bindgen/api/web_sys/

Here's a simple DOM hello world:

https://rustwasm.github.io/wasm-bindgen/examples/dom.html
"A very comprehensive and precise spec": https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/25/a-very-comprehensi...?

Switch in "prompt" in stead of "code", if you will; still pretty much same thing.
To my understanding it's common to use evaporative cooling or discharge into a natural body of water, which would require full treatment again.

Though ultimately if a data center is carbon negative and water positive (which to be clear is not generally the case yet, but there is progress) I think raw energy/water usage numbers are less relevant.
Bookmarks are completely irrelevant as they require intentional curation and are mostly useless to me.
Great Stuff, I could imagine this being handy when looking for design inspiration.
> But any child can look at the sun (with eye protection :) and see that it is a disc, not a point of light. The disc is about 0.5 degrees, which is not so small.

Page 11-12 explicitly discusses "sun-as-a-disk", the resulting shadow penumbra and other sources of inaccuracies.
I'm not actually familiar with current DC cooling equipment...but I suspect they use a lot forced-draft, evaporative cooling towers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooling_tower ). That is far more efficient than "dry" cooling (so long as the outdoor humidity isn't too high). But the waste water from it (what hasn't evaporated) has too high a mineral content to be re-used. Unless you ran it through a desalination plant, which would get very expensive.
I wonder how many times this way of doing contracts was tested in the Supreme Court
No offense, but if producing a result within a time frame is causing severe anxiety I think a more.. holistic approach is warranted.

It’s not fear, it’s being real: can you do this, with the parameters given or not? If not, great, no problem, but don’t tell yourself you are a “perfectionist”. You might be, but who can tell if you never produce? You just can’t do it right now and that’s perfectly alright. Being honest matters IME.

You hit the nail on its head there: there exists the possibility that “your best” is actually mediocre. You better acknowledge that sooner rather than later if you wish to live in reality which I deeply suggest you want to at least attempt.

If you know wicked smart people like, say, T. Tao you will quickly develop the ability to accept you might just be mediocre and that’s OK.

Myself, I am completely mediocre and have a hard time hitting simple goals. There.
> The influence of the Dana Scully character on my generation of girls is known as the Scully Effect. We women who frequently watched The X-Files as teenagers were more than 50% more likely to study a STEM field in college than women who didn’t watch.

Good old "correlation is not causation" at play, I suppose: if you're scientifically inclined, you're probably more likely to both watch X-Files and go into a STEM field later on.
> I do wonder how they will feel after the first time you ask them, "Hey, why were you at place X, I thought you told me you would be at place Y?"

First, I have to say again that I'm not sitting there watching the map icon when they're running around.

But to your direct point, I'm very mindful not to call them out like that unless it was a very strong concern warranting a serious talk (which hasn't happened yet). I don't think that's wildly different than my parents not busting me for all shit they knew I was getting into, because they (more or less) trusted I knew right from wrong.
Windows is my main home and side business OS. I unfortunately use MacOS at work and dread it.

Mac doesn't rule the Metro areas. It simply rules in the West coast-centric, relatively wealthy crowd that is a high percentage of the HN readers.
The other cases will probably get delayed till after the election, and dropped if he wins. It's kind of odd he's been prosecuted for this odd not really a crime stuff but not for the more serious ones.
It's a shame that the public has to pay twice. Tax money pays it in the first place and then we have to pay for it again..
If your skills become common and accessible (YouTube) and the way to keep them profitable is through regulation, then something is wrong, wouldn’t you say?

We had many examples in history of gatekeeping a skill, most recently with taxi drivers.

Can you imagine similar restrictions imposed on software engineering jobs, say to require a computer science diploma? Not hard to imagine that in 10 years anyone with half a brain and ChatGPT and YouTube will be able to write general purpose, “does the job, good enough” software.
To be fair, German form such words just by writing the whole sentence without any spaces or hyphens, like "Amanwithaduckonhishead"
Agreed, but you have to be lucky to be not on a toxic team for that otherwise you are going to get a ton of comments by your peers in your Pull Request for trivial things that you left out even though you had clearly stated the scope before, just so that the peers can show that they are doing their job of peer reviewing. And later the ignorant manager questions you in 1:1 about the number of comments on your PR without actually reading them.
This is based on my recent experience.
Not exactly comparable but as someone who has lived all my life in apartments in Sweden have to say that people who grew up Swedish suburbia and moved into the city seems to be the most into deciding what others are allowed to do compared to people who have lived a long time in dense environments.

Could just be that are used to different rules but I would not say we have more rules in the cities.
They're not just videos "about repairing". He's teaching people about defects, finding them, and how to repair them. He's selling tools used for repairs, even though someone can start a competing business. It's like you're being sceptical of teachers because they're getting paid.
I loved the folder view! It really highlighted the shift to a modular design in Plasma and solved the problem of desktop eventually ending up as a garbage dump of stuff that at some point was relevant but now impossible to find by providing configurable views to files that exist elsewhere and can be adjusted to fit current needs.

The 4.0 release was otherwise painful though as it was a slow, constantly crashing mess of bugs. At around 4.3 it became stable enough to serve as the primary desktop but IIRC that took years and I saw a lot of friends adopting Gnome or XFCE.
We all get to pick which hills we want to die on but this is a pretty silly one IMHO.

You can fight the common usage of a word or you can accept it. Yes, of course there is still a server involved but not one the developer has to directly manage or even think about.

If you don’t manage the server directly AND you can scale to 0 (costs and compute, aka not be forced to pay for an instance for a managed service) then it’s “serverless”.
Cross platform apps with declarative UI; universal document format; filesystem permissions; cross platform, secure, C-speed VM; web has scooped OSes yet again.
I just tried some websites:

- https://web.whatsapp.com 11.12MB compressed / 26.17MB real.
- https://www.arstechnica.com 8.82MB compressed / 16.92MB real.
- httsp://www.reddit.com 2.33MB compressed / 5.22 MB real.
- https://www.trello.com (logged in) 2.50MB compressed / 10.40MB real.
- https://www.notion.so (logged out) 5.20MB compressed / 11.65MB real.
- https://www.notion.so (logged in) 19.21MB compressed / 34.97MB real.
Yeah, it's very very noticeable that WhatsApp is architected in a way that makes experience great for all kind of poor connectivity scenarios that most other software just... isn't.
> having $3,000,000

At no point in the story did the person "have" 3 million dollars worth of USD. They had Bitcoin worth 3 million dollars. The letters "$3,000,000" refer to the USD-denominated value of the Bitcoin. When they talk about "risking it", they refer to the idea of keeping the Bitcoin, as opposed to selling the Bitcoin and then doing something else with the money. It's not specified how exactly one might invest 3 million dollars, but no reasonable person would keep the whole amount in a bank account.

Nobody implied that holding 3 million USD in a bank would be a good idea.
https://longnow.org/ideas/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-an...

"It’s an idiosyncrasy to which we are dedicated."
The SCOTUS doesn’t define the concept of freedom.
what is the best time to do outdoor activities? morning? noon? evening? night? dusk?
EAP for life
Well, I'm working right now so let me check our daily "productivity" sites (with an adblocker installed):

- Google Mail: Inbox is ~18MB (~6MB Compressed). Of that, 2.5MB is CSS (!) and the rest is mostly JS
- Google Calendar: 30% lower, but more or less the same proportions
- Confluence: Home is ~32MB (~5MB Comp.). There's easily 20MB of Javascript and at least 5MB of JSON.
- Jira: Home is ~35MB (~7MB compressed). I see more than 25MB of Javascript
- Google Cloud Console: 30MB (~7MB Comp.). I see at least 16MB of JS
- AWS Console: 18MB (~4MB Comp.). I think it's at least 12MB of JS
- New Relic: 14MB (~3MB Comp.). 11MB of JS.
This is funny because even being way more data heavy than the rest, its weight is way lower.
- Wiz: 23MB (~6MB Comp.) 10MB of JS and 10MB of CSS
- Slack: 60MB (~13MB Compressed). Of that, 48MB of JS. No joke.
I'd like to believe this too, but given that medieval peasants and antique slaves worked more or less the same hours as we do I'm quite pessimistic. Whenever we automate something they just come up with a new bullshit job that adds nothing to the standards of living, instead of reducing the workload for everyone.
Even Manifest V3 ad blockers are still a lot more powerful than DNS based blocking.
I think this was little fucked up of Tijme Gommers at Northwave Cyber Security https://northwave-cybersecurity.com/ original author of this app i assume.

Things I get and appreciate:

- Before selling, great software, nicely working UI etc.

- Taking the risk to create this software.

- Wanted get some money out of the project.

Things that I don't get:

- Working for a Cyber security company and selling your "open source" project to some fishy company without really informing the users with big banners (or changing name of the app. e.g. Raivo OTP Mobime)

- Knowing fully the risks and importance of this kind of app.

- Not speaking out when shit hit the fan. (or helping)

There is no accountability here, only the social goodwill has been broken.

Lessons:

- Don't use automatic updates.

- All software is shit.

- Backup before updates.

- Trust nothing and assume it's going to break at some point.

- Go to the forest and never come back.
"Anti-pattern" doesn't mean having an aversion for patterns in general, nor considering some pattern the opposite of another specific pattern: it means (with significant linguistic abuse) one of the undesirable bad patterns as opposed to the desirable good patterns.
Do you happen to have any good references for GAR implementation?
Maybe the living will care, but maybe we should not care that they care.

After he died, the entire erotic oevre of the artist William Turner was destroyed by his family on grounds of taste. If they were half as profound and amazing as his landscapes, then this was an act of profound desacration.
I like Alan Downeys books Think Stats, Think Bayes. He introduces topics in Statistics using python:

https://greenteapress.com/wp/think-stats-2e/
https://greenteapress.com/wp/think-bayes/
I disagree, REST is still meaningfull even in the usual loosened sense, it still means that you are working with some kind of actions on resources
Their serverless Aurora was always terrible, even v1. It cost way too much and didn’t live up to the promise. I left them as they went to v2 (double the price, even worse features) for PlanetScale before then moving to Neon (I still like PS but it wasn’t a good fit for my business/tech model).
Digia actually spun it off and Qt again is an independent publicly traded company. I suppose KDE community is the place to start looking for Qt open source resources.
I think in a lot of cases, there are already solutions for recovering at least the heat from the water as energy. I'm not sure about the water itself, but I think OP's point is that there's not really such a thing as 'waste water'—it'll just go back into the normal water cycle, either being pumped out into a nearby river, or evaporated up into the air.

I think the key concern is the wasted energy, as a lot of energy is used to clean the water prior to it being used in the data centre.