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Are you aware of any software developer unions? I’ve never encountered any in my 9 year career so far
They're the most respected / most surprising?
I work on a project with a decent ratio of engineers:designers. A good designer is not just "ideas people", they are fairly technical without getting into the nitty gritty.

If one side gets too much power then it can land in situations like you describe (design makes unrealistic requests, or engineering over constraints the product). When the balance is right then working becomes quite amazing, nothing better than seeing my work (engineering) used to make stuff I couldn't even think of and I can see the appreciation of helping design make their vision come true.
OSS does not mean anyone can contribute. It means anyone can view source
I personally have zero interest in streaming soccer games, but the process involved here does leave me wondering just how resilient 1.1.1.1/9.9.9.9 (which I use with https-dns-proxy because I basically don't trust the business side of my local telco/cable monopolies as far as I can throw them) really are in practice. I'm starting to feel like someone should bring back ORSN and throw some (cryptocurrency-free, old-school cypherpunk) Merkle tree or DHT magic on top of it or something.
Re 1: We have stacks of excel workbooks and worksheets documenting all assets,
will you be providing templates where we can plug in these values and it gets imported
Re 2: Same we consolidate all daily usage reports available from the cloud vendors
Re 3: Would your tool consolidate data as a CMDB, then it would be good
Re 4: Suggestions is fine, access to directly modify/delete NO
> not going to make America great unless you take America to mean only the top 0.1% and all his friends

This assertion runs contrary to the lived experience of 2016-2020 for the overwhelming majority of Americans.
Discussions:

55 points, 2 days ago, 91 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40669866

36 points, 2 days ago, 61 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40670191
The only provider here who is stated to have said they will be complying is Google, right? So not only is singling out cloudflare incorrect, the title itself is incorrect. “French court orders Cloudflare, Google, and Cisco to poison DNS to stop piracy block circumvention” is the correct title for the article contents, possibly with an addendum of Google saying it will comply.
That's not really weird at all. It's enough time to gain some experience and wisdom in the world before being endowed as Commander in Chief of the most powerful military on earth.

A maximum age is dumb though. There really is no telling what developments in tech will lead to in terms of human lifespan.

I'm more concerned with people staying in politics for too long. Yes if someone entered Congress at 25 they should certainly be gone by 45, but if they started at 65 I see no reason to boot them out based on some arbitrary age restriction.
Couple of major companies like Adobe, Apple, Google, Mozilla use it in their products. That would add up quick.

https://www.sqlite.org/famous.html
Same! I use ollama a lot, but when I need to do real engineering with language models, I end up having to go back to llama.cpp because I need grammar-constrained generation to get most models to behave reasonably. They just don't follow instructions well enough without it.
The majority of these SQLite use cases that the article is celebrating are... as the internal data store in an app where it is locking up user data in a proprietary, closed, gate kept wall garden.

This irony has layers. Like an onion.
Looking at photos on Google Images, it looks like the pagers in question have just two pins on the top, and two more mating pins on the bottom.

Obviously, that's for power delivery: They stack to charge.

But it seems like data must be sent (in one direction) through the stack at the same time that charging happens -- to set IDs, and to let attract mode work.

One way I can conceive of to allow this to happen is by reversing polarity: Send power with one polarity for a 0, and in the opposite polarity for a 1.

Once a pager has some data, it can pass it along to the one stacked above it by doing the same thing -- in a manner not dissimilar to how things like RGB LED strings do.

Charging can happen at the same time as this data is received (and potentially modified) and then retransmitted by using a bridge rectifier in each unit for the charging circuit, so that (as far as the battery bits can see) the polarity remains constant.

(This sounds complex and slow, but using things like diodes and MOSFETs is cheap at mass production PCB stuffing scales, and the data rate needn't be fast. It may even be cheaper to do it this way than a more complex assembly with dedicated data pins.)
> Trump is easy to hate.

The mainstream media has instructed the hatred. There is plenty to criticize about Trump in a dispassionate manner. For example, he is no financial reformer, and offers no specifics about reforming much of anything.

Were Trump's detractors interested in offering a sound reform platform, they would watch the MAGA crowd drop the Donald like a bad habit.

Yet that reform platform is nowhere in view.

Curious.
That is the newer generation who are a generation or two from power yet, this generation is even being delayed since leadership changes come during presidential changes, and Xi, the last leader to come of age during the cultural revolution, is holding power beyond ten years. Xi literally came in after Hu and said he wanted to make things more like they were under Mao, and not to make Mao a dirty word like it was under Hu. Also, Xi was the first monolingual president who never practiced as anything other than a politician (Hu, Jiang were foreign educated and practiced as engineers before going into politics, they could also speak English and/or Russian, Deng was famously intellectual). I don’t think people can appreciate just how much of a step back Xi was in terms of technocratic leadership for China.

China started its hawkish transition as soon as Xi became president, not during the Biden or Trump administration. Where we are right now was a result of gradual aggression increasing since 2012.

Top that off, Xi is the first (hopefully last) princeling president who brought in a lot of other princelings as well into senior leadership positions. I’m surprised this didn’t implode, and maybe either the technocrat approach had problems (not enough red family support?) or they are somehow coasting and building on achievements during Hu (probably a combination, Hu was really weak because he didn’t have red family support).
Hilarious how the article mentions the domain names at the end. It's like Google showing links of DMCA-striken lists, so you can easily find out the actual places to pirate.
Who is going to bother? Classic worse-is-better software has taken over. I don’t hate it and having the big cloud providers embrace it makes my life a lot easier than rolling my own janky version.

There has to be hundreds of articles written by somebody who just discovered the underpinnings of docker and feels compelled to share their fresh insight on a very boring topic. We know you can write a bash script and just discovered chroot.

What they don’t understand is the work that went into setting up the whole ecosystem.
Sqlite is not open for contributions.

Amazying piece of code whatever you look at it.

I'd also probably win test to code ratio contest.
Well that could be considered a pretty useful list
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In the EU, e-bikes are limited to a maximum power output of 250 watts - anything over that is a motorbike. That's basically the same power output as a decently fit cyclist. A mid-drive allows for sustained high torque even with limited power. Water ingress issues aside, mid-drives also tend to be more durable in off-road applications where the rear wheel is subject to severe shock and vibration.
Well, this is easily the most insane post I've ever seen on this site
Gonna be reversed when AI extends life beyond 200 years.
I'm trying to understand this sentence: it seems to suggest that PHP is only popular because of Wordpress, which just... makes no sense? Wordpress uses PHP because PHP existed, and was good enough to build Wordpress on. And it's certainly not just clinging onto life, hanging around just because Wordpress is built on top of it, today?

So it's hard to understand which similarity you're asking about, but SQLite is popular because it does one thing, and does that one thing really well, and that thing also happens to be a perfect fit for complex file formats.
Doesn't matter if it's rare, it's a bad law if it restricts people arbitrarily. Just do term limits.
In the last decade Tech has become part of the establishment. They are one of the dominant controlling forces.

The blackout was _not_ about preserving free speech, or any other moral high road. It was purely about control. Tech hadn’t yet cemented their position as a dominant player and didn’t want to cede the control they had.

Now that they’ve embedded themselves in the ruling class they don’t care as much because they already have control.
the funniest part is where we assume everything stays the way it is. Centralized systems are more efficient but have poor reliability. What if they just stop supplying power? What if a kwh costs $10?
There is already precedent of careers in aviation having required retirement ages. In areas with high stakes, it is not unreasonable to have age limits.
Berkshire is pretty well known for being led by executives that have very long term strategies. I doubt them having to show quarterly numbers affects that, at least as long as Buffett is in charge.
it's just an observation that has held true for two centuries. pointing at consumption-based energy usage in a cherry-picked group of countries is special pleading; neither worldwide consumption-based energy usage, nor overall energy usage even in that cherry-picked group of countries, is falling. furthermore, the link doesn't show that even that cherry-picked measure is falling

the jevons paradox certainly isn't an immutable law
Lit/Web Components. Now WC are good enough to build once and run on every frontend framework so I'm sticking with the faster and simpler.
A Minecraft neural network made with just redstone [video]
Agree. MEI vaguely defined and not objectively measurable, so it serves as a rationalization rather than hiring criteria.
The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era
grid-scale batteries have already almost entirely eliminated the duck curve in California, and the costs of batteries continue to fall
You're misunderstanding darpa and its role in defense acquisition.
How would you go about measuring that, or determining what's important?

Huge SQL for servers is just a different use case.

Someone's temporary browser data or settings for my android alarm app could be just as important and sensitive as an average record on those big servers.

Fortunatelly, SQL fits the role of a small transactional engine very well to support those small use cases for a large number of applications. It deserves the good reputation.
Take a hard look at the news you’re consuming, who it’s coming from, and what their motivations are.
Seems like a huge amount of capital to invest in something most people are already perfectly fine without. If I were in this company's shoes, I would build a SaaS and sell the hardware as an add-on. The venn diagram of people who need this type of VoIP/chat service but don't have an existing SaaS solution is small, even smaller if you also limit it only to people who need hardware and are willing to pay for it.

At least if you did a dual SaaS/hardware offering you'd cast a bigger net.
If one does it, then other has no choice to compete for the best drivers.

No, I don't believe they're raising wages by striking a deal. I think they're colluding to put a ceiling on wages.
I would agree with you, except that I would say the reasoning problem itself not only utilizes language, but in fact hinges entirely on the language.

There's a bit of spatial knowledge involved to understand that you're walking in a circle around the north pole. But the reasoning needed to get the answer to the question is based on the language.

Specifically, the language tells us that our starting point is at the north pole. Then the language of the 4th point states "to pass your starting point", which has two meanings - to cross over the starting point (as in passing the finish line in a race) or to pass by it off to the side (as in passing a store as you're traveling along a road). But since we're walking in a circle around it, we'll never pass it in either sense of the word.

Had it used different language like "How far did you have to walk to complete a circle around your starting point?" then the answer would be quite different, as would the reasoning.

But that wasn't the language used. So the language completely determines the answer and the reasoning involved, including whether you even need to think about distance.

One could also argue that all four of the answer options are wrong, partly since 1km is not a very far distance, and therefore you were always close to your starting point, depending on your ideal of 'close'. But more specifically simply because the language saying you "never came close" to it would be nonsense because you started right at your starting point, and of course can't get much closer than that. So again you don't even really need to account for distance. The language alone determines it.
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That kind of bug happens under the "everything is a string" software paradigm. Abstractions that have more than one string representation inadvertently end up treated as different.
For whatever it's worth (perhaps not much!), I more or less stand by my answer from 2011[0]: Sun lost track of the fact that it was (or should have been) a systems company. As for Apple: it came within a hair's width of perishing in the Amelio era -- and surely would have capsized had they not purchased NeXT; it's harder to endure that it might look!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2287033
well maybe work on that "re-election advantage", understand and curtail it instead of instuting blanket (and imo insane) bans?
So you’re charging twice for the grid tie? Because the reason for installing batteries would be 1) to not grid-tie, or 2) to grid-tie along with a renewable energy source, which if it is a commercial site, is already grid-tied.
This is the right line of thinking. My interpretation is slightly different - I think the tech companies have run afoul of various norms when it comes to things like the privacy of customers, anti-trust, taxation, etc. Because they are now reliant on these unethical ways of holding onto economic power or growing their economic power, they need to not get into trouble with governments. This means playing nice with them so that they do not become subject to legislation that will rein them in.
the winter has plenty of sun and few clouds.
The World According to Woz from Wired Magazine September 1998
Is it okay to die?

Are we each so important that we need to extend our life with technology, beyond the low-tech solutions of exercise, sleep, nutrition (can get enough exercise just meeting this need), warmth, purpose, and love?

What is the role of culture and generational bonds in all this?
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Firstly I meant conform btw, not confirm... Unfortunately it's too late to edit!

> Are our cognitive processes not included in reality?

Ah, this may not be productive, but I'm really just trying to tease apart different things.

Of course our cognitive processes exist in reality, however I would say there's nothing that requires that what they produce must materially map to reality.

We do not for example treat dreams as evidence, even though they run on our cognitive processes.

> It's tiring to hear Chomsky's ideas parroted despite no empirical framework to stand on.

To be honest, I had no idea I was doing that...

> What ideas could we be lacking?

I'm not claiming a lack of any specific ideas, I'm merely pointing out that considering that we do know that we invent terms for phenomena that we experience and I doubt that we have been exposed to even the majority of all phenomena, it seems unlikely that we can casually refute the existence of a universal grammar.

Absolutely, proving it does require evidence, which is in short supply and if I was pressed, I would suspect that it's existence is unlikely, but not impossible.

Now just to be clear, I don't mean that this is kind of reasoning can be useful for much else, but with regards to attempts to find some complete unification such as a universal grammar. In those specific cases things become a little fuzzier and reasonable people can disagree.
Ah alright, I gather that particular dimension 2^{5-1}-1 should still be helpful at some point..

Here's a ... my response to that as a theoretical engineer
https://youtu.be/v5ev-RAg7Xs

(1:10 Every property a feature! (See comments for less obvious takes with regards to your coalescence hierarchies))

Your geneticists?
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

EDIT: ahhh missed that it's already frontpaged

PEE: looks like the usual nonconfrontational juxtaposition of the tribes ("they use our words but not our theorems")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40693845
> The issue is not electing people... it's re-election advantage.

The fix for that isn't age limits, it's term limits. Which would also help with many other issues that are caused by politics being a lucrative career.
Welfare for lawyers, with as blatantly unconstitutional as this is.
Lol yeah u read his wiki
Is there some decentralized anti-censorship technology that can prevent this type of action, where ISPs and DNS providers and other points of centralization are forced to implement things on behalf of other parties (like Canal+ or a government)?
unless, of course, you use (gnu)

ls -D

and the application for which it was specifically earmarked. I am consistently amazed at how hard it is to mess dired up.
The problem is real voters don't really determine who to elect.

If they did, Biden and Trump would both not be candidates.
Thanks for mentioning this doc. Just watched - it was fascinating and bittersweet.
'In Nigeria, a tyre never quite dies': reinventing the wheel in Lagos
It’s not just okay, it is necessary. Otherwise, old ideas won’t die and give room for new ideas to grow, like a forest burning so that the saplings can get sun.
If you’re old enough to retire and collect old person benefits you are no longer fit to lead not because you are might be incapable but because you are simply not generationally relevant. The office of president has term limits for effectively the same reason and nobody calls those insane.
I work in a job where I'm waiting to be fired for a similar reason.

I spend my day building/running scripts for PowerBI and emailed csv reports used operationally across the business. Some of these scripts can take 30 mins to an hour to run as our databases are compiled from gaffa tape and hope. There's no option to shift my scripts etc. to a central reporting server or anything either, so I essentially AM the reporting server. Not efficient. But not my choice.

Often, I'd have a bunch of scripts and BIs refreshing at the same time and it can be easy for this ancient machine they call a laptop to reach its limit and I sit there for an hour scrolling my phone. I have to keep pressing the space bar/moving my mouse to stop the laptop from going to sleep or Teams chucking me into Away so everyone thinks I'm, well, scrolling my phone.

When I'm in the office, I have to keep hunching over my laptop pretending I'm doing something or peeps get snarky and think I'm not doing anything productive.

There's some days where I'm constantly working on refreshing of large reports for adhoc "urgent" requirements, and I might not do much more than click a mouse a couple of times and then hit space bar every 5 mins.

I'd prefer to be judged on whether I do my job than how many times I touch my keyboard. Because, sometimes, my job is just that simple. But I constantly build automation and scripts so it can be.

I might be paranoid. But that doesn't mean they aren't out to get me...
The test suite is (partially) proprietary. Good luck maintaining a fork for a DB without tests.

https://www.sqlite.org/th3.html see bottom
For niche uses of database I am sure this is true. But if you are not in that niche, then Postgresql is usually a much better choice. For example Firefox uses SQLite, because it wants to store lots of application specific data. It is good for that.

Personally, I find the tooling, documentation, familiarity and quality of Postgresql makes it my choice even in situations where SQLite might work.
So don’t vote for young candidates then? Why do you need these limits?
Chrome's use of SQLite for history, cookies, and local storage would probably put it in first place on its own. Its extensive use in iOS and Android just guarantees the "win".
Very true, but it isn't really that much of a leap from where it's been at for a long time—especially since face altering "filters" became the norm.
AI does help speed up development! It lets you completely skip the "begin to understand the requirements" and "work out what's sensible to build" steps, and you can get through the "type out some code" parts even faster than copy-pasting from Stack Overflow (at only 10× the resource expenditure, if we ignore training costs!).

It does make the last step ("have a piece of software that's fit-for-purpose") a bit harder; but that's a price you should be willing to pay for velocity.
I’m represented by an agency that handles marketing, customer vetting, legal/contract, billing and payments, etc.

I communicate with my customers by email or phone call unless they have a system they ask me to use (Slack, Jira et al).

Most of my customers have told me the last freelancer/shop they worked with stopped communicating, or took days to answer emails, or tried to force them to use some ticketing system. So I always answer calls and emails right away. No big secret, just show some respect for the customer.
Look into Espanso as well. Works great, and is cross-platform.
It's the same thing: the inverters and support electronics needed for batteries currently cost, per watt, about the same as LiFePO4.

You can't run "bare" LiFePO4: you're either forming a grid, or you're connecting to one. Both involve BMSes and inverters.
The article is about number of installations, instances across all types of devices
"No one over 60 should take this job" - Dwight Eisenhower, age 61 at his first inauguration.