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Microsoft accelerates retirement of Time Series Insights to 7 July 2024
Reminder for everyone that is using Azure TSI and is working towards the original deprecation date of 31 March 2025 [1], you should know that this has been accelerated to 7 July 2024 [2].

At my current company we are close to finishing our migration, so this has negligible impact for us.

P.S. If someone from Microsoft leadership is reading this, pushing this deprecation notice on a Friday, that only ~5 weeks remain instead of ~10 months, feels a bit wrong. Although the original deprecation notice was over a year ago, so thank you for that.

[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/we-ll-retire-azure...
[2] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/we-re-retiring-azu...

[EDIT] Links were not working.
I'm not sure what the goal is. Pythonista already exists on iOS for scripting.
> I’m not smart enough to figure out what the regulatory regime is that would ban most of what private-equity does and tilt the playing field in favor of resilient lifestyle businesses.

When I discovered a polity full of SMEs and resilient lifestyle businesses, I immigrated here.

Some vague thoughts from a few decades of trying to figure out specifically why it seems to work so much better than the Old Country:

Resilient family farms: that is indeed hefty regulation, as well as willingness to forgo the last percentage point or two of economic efficiency.

Resilient lifestyle businesses: the apprenticeship system plays some role here, and I bet the same consideration to efficiency applies?

I guess part of it depends upon who's making the investment decisions:

- Owners are often happy to shave off a few percentage points in favour of intangible benefits.

- Workers (here, the term includes outside management) are less happy, as they're agents, and a few points for the owner may be 20-50% of the agents' vig.

- Finance types run at full efficiency or nothing, as their entire business is built around picking up nickels in front of the steamroller, you can't expect them to leave nickels around that are only in the path of tricycles.

Final thought: if you want a lot of new businesses, fast, you're going to get "late capitalism" and the goods & services equivalent of row crops.

If you've had your economy for some time and are just fiddling at the edges for growth, you can have a bunch of lifestyle businesses, the goods & services equivalent of orchards.

(I once lived in a neighbourhood in the Old Country that still had corner stores, because it was older than the automobile, and although "late capitalism" prevents corner stores from arising in new neighbourhoods it's more or less neutral towards existing ones)

EDIT: for exact identities, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39861369 and my comment history more generally, or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Scarry#Personal_life_a...

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reuJ8yVCgSM (2017)
Amazing that you just created another problem instead of actually solving one.
Why can't we just use goals? What is so wrong about using the word that everyone understands?
Luckily it's not one or the other. You can fine tune and use RAG.

Sometimes RAG is enough. Sometimes fine tuning on top of RAG is better. It depends on the use case. I can't think of any examples where you would want to fine tune and not use rag as well.

Sometimes you fine tune a small model so it performs close to a larger varient on that specific narrow task and you improve inference performance by using a smaller model.
The kremlin said that Ukraine invaded russia. The rest of the world said russia invaded Ukraine.

If you can’t see which one is right and which one is wrong, then yes, there’s no point in you replying, to anyone, about anything.
Hanging out in mates' rooms at uni, listening to and copying tunes, talking about music and software, smoking weed. This is the ultimate music discovery experience.
Do you have an alternative? Genuine question. We‘re also using OKRs and I’m dreading it, but it’s better than nothing. Hoping for everybody to magically on their own align with company goals doesn’t work either.
I liked how you could add songs to your friends' queue, that was a great feature.
It's very much not an overloading issue. This always happens, even at 3 AM.
Or more about boundaries, like in less Monoliths, and more micro services and container deployments including cloud functions like AWS Lambda and Azure Functions. And "coupled by less strongly typed schemas" is more of a fact statement, but is it really a good thing?

Software Engineering will not progress into real Engineering, until it starts building on the past instead of throwing away past lessons. OO was about many things but particularity about code reuse. Is that also a bad thing?
You stopped reading at "(unless Apple says I can)"
Neutralizing encryption is real; it is not about forbidding websites and clients using TLS, it's about getting in the middle.
* at least FF dev tools get unusable with enough variables (and in general, it's not a fun experience to debug which one out of a thousand others is wrong)

* efficiency (one less hash lookup, less bookkeeping for the browser)

* works on older browsers (or mine ;)

* you become a member of the exclusive club of devs that don't believe in turning CSS into a turing-complete language (old fashioned, I know)
UK has passed that law before EU. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023
But it can't trust the storage. Maybe you are in incognito. Maybe you are not using your own computer etc. Not particularly likely it will ever sync again.
Just my experience, but people are more inclined to ask questions in person. Beyond this, you get cues from body language as well as facial expression.

For me personally, I can see a white board better at 15-20' than I can see a monitor 30" away.

There are ways to digitally cope... But it's just that. It's far less natural if an interaction. I can understand the anxiety and autistic resistance to it. But that's relatively easy to with through.
Ah, this is a useful distinction. Thanks.
You are right, power usage concerns and SSDs have done wonders in making some operations seem instant. But on the other hand, there's much to complain about how invasive web tech has become as online apps replace native ones. You don't launch office anymore, you connect to it, making a lot of local optimizations moot.
Do they use plastic bricks there? I've heard about such things existing, but ours are molded concrete at least. And the pattern is quite unobtrusive as well.
This looks like impressive work, but I am guessing that this is not strictly speaking legal?

And then throwing a license of your own on top is also kind of questionable. All of a sudden a part of the web belongs to one entity who wants to be attributed for it all!
Why not integrate a Lua LSP instead of reimplementing all that language support?
Ikea sofas can be underrated. My wife bought a Grönlid loveseat at a consignment store (read: it wasn't even new) for $100 and we enjoyed it for almost 9 years. No sagging or falling apart, it remained comfortable until the day we sold it or gave it away - I don't recall now.
Lol what... Haven't heard of this quote but i just had a weird dream two weeks ago about a robotic dog that was with me all the time. It started to keep me from working (own company, alone in the office, a lot of jumping between software & hardware tinkering). It stopped me by being cute & playful. It was a very intense dream. in general.

I interpreted as coming from my inner conflict of being a father (6 months old) while also now being at the point of having the chance to work on great things. i have been working to have this possibility to work on for a decade every day pulling 12h-15h or all-nighters regularly... and now struggle with accepting the feeling that all of this is pointless & only my child means something to me. Because that would mean, all of the invisible effort i put in, will stay invisible & i will be the loser that i must look like from the outside.

Thanks for the quote, i already forgot about that dream somehow. Back to dealing with that.
> Be glad that you still get text instead of pictures.

Even that isn’t a given. I’ve seen banks using emoji in their notifications. Companies are using ML to predict which emoji to change your text to. There are emoji domain names. Etcetera.
> When I need a sofa, I want to be able to “just” get a sofa. Simple and predictable. If the sofa is good quality, even better.

So, how often do you eat at McDo?

(whose entire value proposition is "just" get some calories, simply and predictably)
iOS is for the most part backwards compatible. Sure, they can remove APIs and make your life miserable in theory, but in practice they usually don't–at least, not on purpose. macOS is far worse at this actually because it started from a place of promising the world and Apple slowly realizing they didn't want to do that, while iOS has mostly come from "you get nothing" and every year you get a few new things.
There is a pretty obvious difference between a) schoolchildren (esp. minors) cyberbullying their classmates/ex-BFs/ex-GFs/relatives/teachers with still images
vs b) AI apps/porn sites/ advertisers with $$$ budgets for AI creating lifelike deepfake porn videos of celebrities or user submissions, for profit, intentionally, as a business model.

You'd expect the full weight of the proposed Australian law would be used against the latter not the former. Depends how they implement it.

Here [0] is a US Politico article on both the explosion of this happening in US schools, and the very fragmented state-level legislative and police response to US cases ("20 states have laws... who gets [/doesn't get] disciplined, how minors are treated and who is responsible for taking images to the police — varies widely depending on the state.")

Also, there are obvious civil-liberties privacy considerations (just like the long-running CSAM debate) about who [in Australia] will be mandated to scan users' images: telecomms companies, tech companies, the police or all of these?

[0]: Politico: "AI is shockingly good at making fake nudes — and causing havoc in schools" https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/28/ai-deepfake-nudes-s...
I know it’s a snarky comment you responded to, but I’m glad you did. Those are great resources, as is your excellent article. Thanks for posting!
Do people outside of the weird zoo that is SF do that? Everything I read online that is anti car is also pro density.
> How would we get there from here? I’m not smart enough to figure out what the regulatory regime is that would ban most of what private-equity does and tilt the playing field in favor of resilient lifestyle businesses.

One good way is to pay attention to the details, learn how things are made (YouTube helps with this!) and not be impressed by shitty work, in general. I buy plenty of MDF-built products but I also know the difference. There are just so many people who have no idea.
See https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
The challenge is how to get lots of people of varying aptitude and ambition to do things you consider useful. All the tools for that are pretty rubbish.

Say you're running an organisation if a few thousand people structured as a rough hierarchy. The goal is to move the stock price over a period of a few quarters. How should one do that?
macOS is POSIX. iOS is clearly not (though it provides many POSIX APIs).
> Start by revisiting your organization’s mission (why you exist) and vision (what you want to achieve).

This is the root of where every company I’ve worked for gets OKRs wrong. They always have some flowery statement for mission and vision and build their goals around that. However in the day to day work when decisions are made it becomes apparent that the mission is to make money and the vision is to make more money. And that’s how my OKRs always become divorced from reality, having been derived from the flowery bullshit that rolls downhill.
If you are in the business of selling SMIME clients as a service to other people, then yes, you would need to implement this if the law passes.

Maybe there's an unintended upside to all this regressive business legislation. With all the focus on the "platforms", then maybe, just maybe, this will be yet another nail among the thousands of nails needed to finally kill them off.
Of course they do! They are terrific when other people are paying most of the costs.
Or the automotive way, giving reviewers a full vacation in Tahiti with all things included that happens to include a test drive of their new car somewhere, making sure they're ahem all relaxed so they can give a completely fair and unbiased review.
If you are talking about Williamstown then even though it is spread out it looks fairly cyclable. At least distance-wise.

There is even a big shared carpark for the built-up area so individual shops don't need to provide parking.

Whereas in North Adams the aerial view shows the (I assume mandated) carparks are pretty empty. I'll bet a few landlords would love to have more buildings and less carparks

Remember when you say "our modern infrastructure has eliminated the practicalities" you pretty much mean everything is designed for cars.
The point is that a larger sample size increases precision: the confidence you get rejecting a hypothesis depends on that and the size of the effect. If I tell you I've sampled a process and gotten the values -2, 0, and 15, you can reject the hypothesis that the process is a gaussian process with mean 10000 and standard deviation 0.1 with extreme confidence. Sampling further will almost certainly not change that (in fact you would need an impractical number of samples in this extreme case).

The reason you need to tighten your bounds for an early stop is to deal with the fact that you are effectively running multiple experiments: it's possible by chance that you are stopping at a point where the data seems to show an effect by random variation, but because you are not repeating all the samples so far, there's a lot fewer possible outcomes, so the tightening of the bounds that you need is not so much. (p-hacking is simply not applying the appropriate correction for this).
> What do they do if I send: AFBC67CEDA7AD?

If this sort of surveillance stuff gets accepted, in time, you're gonna get noticed, put into database, and maybe called for questioning. Why are you using encryption, people that have nothing to hide do not use it.
These “AI will end all jobs” takes never seem to understand that a significant portion of the economy is driven by hype, celebrity, social pressures, and competition. People do not follow certain content creators because they are the most economically efficient and provide the “best” information, they follow them for largely human reasons. And as long as putting in more work leads to being more successful in this realm, jobs will continue to exist.

Ergo I think the large shift will not be from jobs to no-jobs, but from jobs to entertainment-based jobs. In a world where everyone’s basic needs are met, the result is an attention-driven economy, not no economy.
Yeah, UK left because they thought EU wasn't draconian enough.
Sigh.

There's one thing though. "ample availability of Russian crude, which continues to maintain a price advantage over Riyadh’s oil" means the Russians are selling below their long-term cost, if rumors from friends in the oil business are to be believed. Russia does not produce at costs comparable to Saudi, and (this is rumor:) the only way to maintain such low prices is to skimp on maintenance. Skimp a bit to make sales possible at all, skimp more if profits are needed.
> In computing, the specification is the gold standard, followed by documented, committed implementation behaviors.

Despite what the ever-so-important solution architects will tell you, a specification is just a theory; its implementation is the practice.
This would be for people embedding Python into their apps.
When I was a kid I had a mug with my name on it that was gifted to me. My mother broke the ear off at some point and decided to glue it back on. A week later she handed me a steaming hot cup of tea and the ear tore off and I got severe burns on my leg as a result. Not great. As a result I am a bit wary fixing stuff meant to contain hot liquids
To which places are you referring?
>attention-driven economy.

yuk
Sure, perhaps for organizations of thousands of people, that may be needed. For startups with less than a hundred employees? OKRs are a waste of time.
>The only way forward is to not participate and/or burn it all down and start from scratch.

You can't honestly suggest that. From where? "village or small community" level?
Nor the dog to distract the man! Perpetual motion discovered; nothing shall ever break or change in this factory

Strikes me as odd. Why have either? We're clearly in a fairytale - I just lack context. Probably a complaint with some creative color
They should. The only way to make these platform disappear is to ignore them for open source project.

To me the mistake of open source software is to make programs compatible with proprietary operating systems, this way people that use these OS benefit from the open software, while people that use open operating systems cannot benefit from proprietary software that usually is exclusively for Windows or macOS.

Beside that, this adds a lot of work to the open source community, work that could have been better invested focusing on open source and not wasting time ensuring compatibility with the latest Windows or macOS release working around crap and restrictions that these companies impose to distribute the programs in their platform (e.g. all the signing requirements, paying fees in case of Apple app store, etc.)

Not that the user of open source software cannot run it on iOS or Windows, he can, but it has to port it there themself, no official support from the developers shall be ensured. Just distribute binaries for Linux and Android.
In most places OKR, SMART, etc, just pops up around performance-review time. During other times the ACTUAL goals and priorities drift and rearrange like deck chairs on the titanic. As long as one can finagle the rhetoric to make it seem like there was a coherent narrative where one has done the things they wrote down they were going to do last year-- nobody cares.

But really, now there's "pre-work" for setting OKR's? Like it's not enough busy work already to just devise them.
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I call it the "billion dollars or bust" mentality. The attitude that a <1% chance of making it really big outweights a near 100% chance of a comfortably profitable business for yourself and a modest number of others.
The absurd and useless vantagepoint of a 25 year old living inside the apex of a world unique privilege bubble. The false utopianism echoes of a Brave New World playing itself out again in real time.
Scientists develop cheap and quick spit test for prostate cancer
A am an amatur, so most of the stuff I have is from carefully filtering the HN feed (hence I assume you have it too)

My only "new" observation is that websites hosted by universities have PDFs better than $200 dollar textbooks. But I don't know how to search for them at scale yet.
From my experience most people have no understanding of how road maintenance works. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard people say they refuse to pay more taxes, after all they won’t even fix the potholes in our roads!
Where's my flying car?! ;)

The universe is an interesting place. Certainly won't complain if there's more time in the day to get lost in its details.

There's still so much to do, however. Fully open to the upside of artificial intelligence, but cautiously so. I fear it is invoked as a kind of deus ex machina. In my view, it is a multiplier and not a substitute.
Yes. OKRs for us (a mid-size? company, 150ish people) have been a disaster. They pit teams against each other, instead of aligning them with the business, by making them focused on their targets and nothing else. It's been a lot of "this isn't in my OKRs, why should I work on it?", making it both hard to adjust course ("why would I work on this important thing when it's not an OKR?"), and to get the teams to help each other ("why would I work on their target when I have mine?")

Right now we're trying a combination of company-level objectives (not KRs) and Kanban, where the teams just work on the next most important objective they can.
It looks like Pythonista is meant for running Python on iOS inside Pythonista, not for building complete, full-featured apps with Python.
teal is for the command line only though afaik, you can't embed it, but would be pleased to be proved wrong.
Also, it's hard for proponents, often those in AI companies, to avoid coming off as either buying into their own hype, or otherwise just pushing the marketing for their product. The AI person is so convinced that AI will be so good that it might end work as we know it? Maybe, but it's also good for pushing the bull case for his company.
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Exactly. I bought my couch and chair $4400 (CAD) on sale (about 40% off list) in 2008. I recall some people thought I was insane for spending so much money on a couch. I thought the price was fair after doing a lot of research, and the sale at the time was awesome. Also, a 20 year warranty on the frame.

Today, buying a couch and chair on sale for $6300 sounds like a lot of money, but I imagine I'd need to budget at least as much. Not from the same company though, they now sell shit couches for $2500 and people complain the quality is garbage and capitalism is failing. Or.... maybe you are just a cheap SOB.

I still have the same couch and chair, now super comfy, though it took years to break in. Leather is in excellent condition.
Or use fabric instead of leather, which is both cheaper and doesn't feel like you're sitting on rubbery plastic. I honestly don't get the appeal. Actual plastic (i.e. synthetic fibers) ironically feels so much nicer.
This Is The Way.

Bonus: you get a real keyboard.
All metrics like this either immediately or eventually become targets to be gamed [0].

If you’re part of the execution apparatus you’re just caught in the crossfire in trying to make some old fart’s powerpoint presentation green when showing it to other directors.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
A few really big steps.
They can be held liable or accountable for interpreting the details of the law incorrectly. This way the only thing they can be wrong for is misquoting what someone else said.
This is a software company. Reducing their (amazing) work on design, upsampling and CRT emulation to “marketing tricks” is small-minded and uncalled for especially given this is a passion project, not a corporate mandate with a budget.