skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most IT are cost centres and there is pressure from CFO/CEO to shift to a more cost-effective option when there are cost lines that are 7-8 digits long. Companies also regularly do the math on when the added pain of doing the lift and shift is actually worthwhile, compared to paying whatever bloated rate they're being charged at that moment.
I agree but would like to share an anecdote. There are some orders that I've found nearly impossible for humans to get right until I prompt engineered them.

"Two double quarter pounders with cheese" will either be two quarter pounders with cheese, or one double quarter pounder with cheese. With humans I have to order "a double quarter pounder with cheese", wait for them to enter it, then "another double quarter pounder with cheese".
You’d be surprised. Flights are expensive but spending time in lower COL places offsets it. The trick is to keep going to the next place you haven’t been yet, usually a short hop, instead of going back the way you came
I always appreciate these googler threads talking about all the Google internal tools.

Reminds me of all the impenetrable jargon around me when I was new
Ah, yes, best to just stay home forever, then.
AI is not a magic wand – it has built-in problems that are difficult to fix
But you are basing your assumptions on absolutely nothing.
It's an interesting text for sure, and even became a bit of a meme, but I think SICP has only contributed to the trend of overabstraction and increasing inefficiency in software.
How do you expect someone to come up with a good answer to that question with proper sources to back them up if this subject is blacklisted and no one can get grants or ressources to do the research? Maybe there is a pattern that can predict it, but we won't know if the people who have access to all of the data and knowledge are being told it will kill their career if they try to find the answers.
There is always nuance but I firmly believe FOMO is only needed to sell things people don't need and so is a very consumeristic sale tactic (that should probably disappear for our collective well-being).
> Is there evidence that Broadcom sold those chips to the foundation for less than their own cost? That’s the claim I find a little strong.

For me, its beaten by the more effective claim Broadcom sold it /at/ cost.
Are you making things up? The norm, if there's a bidet, is for it to be button controlled. Even a lot of public toilets have button controlled bidets at this point.

Some really old public parks will have squatters, and in the past these bathrooms would also not have had toilet paper (because the assumption is that you'd bring your own tissue paper with you - this is one of the reasons they hand out tissue papers with advertising). But nowadays basically all toilets have paper, and most have nice new bidets.
Or

10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
Also somewhat relatedly, XMPP tends to use URNs for the XML namespaces af the various stanzas, which in turn define the various parts of the IM message or what have you.
You don't think that GDP reflects national income, from which taxes are levied to pay for those things?

How do you think those things are paid for? Fairy dust?

And you call me uneducated?

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> the constitution states that no law can be enforced that is contrary to the ECHR

Yes, but the decision of what is contrary to the ECHR is made by the ECHR and they always give pretty ample margins to member states. The ECHR is supposed to be a lower limit on what protections are given. Not the ultimate authority on what protections should be given.

Maybe they'd rule these cases in violation, all I'm saying is that I wouldn't be shocked if they didn't

> the EU charter is basically the ECHR but with some minor additions and it's own court

No, actually it's completely different from the ECHR. The ECHR is a treaty which applies to all actions and legislation of the parties.

The EU charter is specifically targeted at EU law. It is a protection against interference originating in EU law and its scope applies only to EU law and its implementation.

So if your rights are violated due to an EU regulation you have recourse because of the charter, if they are violated due to how your country implemented an EU directive you have recourse, and if they are violated by your country because of how they are enforcing some legislation you have recourse.

However the member states themselves could pass their own law completely violating these principles and as long as it doesn't infringe on EU competences you'd have no recourse (well, you'd still likely have the ECHR)
> - The New York Times has 10 million paying subscribers for online content. A tremendous number. Many of their sales pages feature countdown timers and phrases like "Time is running out" and "Offer won't last."

I'm a NYT subscriber in spite of their sleazy sales and retention tactics, not because of them. The product is reputable and unique enough that they get away with sales tactics that would otherwise be a turn off.
A million years ago, I spent two cold nights standing on my head in the driver's side footwell of my E36 BMW, installing an inexpensive Wal-Mart-sourced CodeAlarm remote starter to make my then-wife happy.

It worked great. It could even operate the door locks and roll the windows up with the fob (none of which sounds very special for a modern vehicle, but my car was not equipped with remote-anything from the factory so all of this was very nice).

Over a decade later, the fob got destroyed in an unfortunate boating incident. I was bummed. Replacements were available to purchase and I hemmed and hawed about buying one, or maybe upgrading to a fancier system, or just getting over it and continuing to use the key in the lock cylinder (like some commoner!) to lock and unlock the doors.

And then I was walking down the street in Bexley, Ohio, and I saw a broken laundry basket full of discarded things ("illegally dumped" things) on the curb. It appeared to have all manner of random household trash.

But on the top of that basket of stuff was a plastic clamshell. And inside that clamshell was an identical remote starter kit -- exactly the same as the one I'd bought forever ago.

It was unopened.

A few careful slashes with my pocket knife later, and I had a new remote. Even the ancient tiny little 12V (A23) alkaline battery still worked -- and kept working for months. (I left the rest of the trash where it was.)

Sometimes the universe does provide for those who keep their eyes open.

(Pairing the new remote was interesting because it involved operating the brake pedal switch while the car was turned off, and the E36 turns off the brake light circuit completely when the car is turned off... But those are just BMW problems. I got it sorted.)
I don't know anyone doing good 1-5 day bootcamps, but I did recently do the multi-week live Kodeco (formerly Ray Wenderlich) iOS / SwiftUI bootcamp and really enjoyed it. I believe they also now offer an at-your-own-pace version as well.
OOP is imperative programming. It's just function calls where the first parameter is to the left of the function name, after all.

A better name for "non-OOP" programming is procedural programming, where you organize code in long blocks that go straight down, code duplication is accepted vs jumping all over the place, etc. Honestly underrated. It can be quite easy to understand.

Strictly-evaluated FP is also imperative. The only really different languages are the ones with different evaluation systems or that can do things besides evaluate - people like to say Haskell is the best here but I think it's actually unification languages like Mercury. Maybe even SQL with transactions.
> it just doesn't sync with what everyone thought they knew at the time.

Such as?
It only proves that those languages are the most learned because they are the most popular in industry.

It says nothing about what makes a language easy to learn.
> The Supreme Court, on the other hand, is trying to decide complex or arguably ambiguous legal questions based on a large corpus of past law, all of which is almost certainly included in an AI's training data.

Given an AI that is truly unbiased, and only considers either the intent at the time (Originalism) or the literal, textual interpretation of the law, I suspect this won’t go as expected for the Silicon Valley AI crowd since interpreting law based on the text would make the court far more conservative than it is now.

Progressives believe in a “Living Constitution” standard, the idea that the law can change based on 21st century cultural values, not the text as it was written or intended by the legislature.
that makes a and -a
Given that many seasonal sales are advertised with the exact phrase "Don't miss out", yes they are.
It's not that they're cheap cables - it's that they look like cheap cables (or better, middling expensive higher-quality ones).
Why do you assume that increased value comes purely from employees?

If Musk buys a robot that can weld a body 2x more efficient (installed and maintained by an external vendor), increasing the value of the company, which employee created that value?
I think you missed my point about trains.

Lasse Stolley has travelled >650,000 km by train in two years. A quick Google suggests it's about 35 grams per person per km, which is... 11 metric tons per year. Okay, not perfect, but he's literally living on the train, and so that probably accounts for nearly his entire carbon footprint, which puts him below an average American's CO2 footprint. If he "only" traveled between cities weekly it would be less.
Lisp did become popular.

Then the AI Winter killed it and people avoided it like the plague.
The article refers to a prior work where an ion implanter used mass-spectrometry to prepare an isotopically pure beam. I think it is common for ion implanters to have a mass filter to keep various impurities out.

The mentioned in the article silicon-based kilogram standard used centrifuge-enriched material. I think it was bought from some boutique isotope separation company.
I think you and the person above you can both have valid concerns at the same time. If someone said "~50% of theft is from <insert minority group> while they only account for 5% of my business, so I'm not going to let them in the door", assuming the absence of social and legal consequences which would realistically occur, it could be argued that it's the right move for their "bottom line" or whatever. Does that mean it's right, or good, or equitable?

Of course at the same time, if you hold yourself to a much higher standard than what's socially or legally acceptable, there's the inevitable fact that your competitors aren't. So it's a fine balance.
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I honestly it's just a "people skill" that's on the individual level. I just think it's in the devilery and it takes practice. I'm not really sure structural organizational changes can fix it - though maybe they can help a bit

In my own experience it's possible to tell people anything as long as you're friendly and strike the right tone. The key is to not get worked up or emotional. Even something extreme like telling someone you don't like working with them - there is a friendly way to tell someone that with a smile on your face

Every unkind "truth" can be wrapped in the right packaging. The usual crux is to not get emotional and not get worked up and to lay out the facts, no matter how painful, in a way that shows you're not boiling over

On a team level I'm not sure what you can do. Especially with a group of low EQ nerds :). Maybe if one or two people set the examples then it's easier for others to catch on?
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There is a built in memoryview. But it only works on bytes or other objects supporting the buffer protocol, not on strings.
> You save 15% but mcdonalds makes millions off all the data you consent to giving them by downloading the app.

People always talk about apps "selling your data," and I can understand it in cases like Facebook (and Meta platforms in general) and Google, but in this case, how would it happen that McDonalds "makes millions off all the data you consent to giving them?"
I'm sorry for my earlier responses. I was becoming ill, didn't realize it, and that messes with my temper. One day I'll learn not to argue with people on the internet when that happens.
>DEC Number #2 in computing during the 80's, bought by Compaq, bought by HP and now almost unknown. How the mighty fall.

Ken Olsen had a flair for being a bit over the top -- which makes the following quite amusing given how things worked out:

One of the questions that comes up all the time is: How enthusiastic is our
support for UNIX?

Unix was written on our machines and for our machines many years ago. Today,
much of UNIX being done is done on our machines.

Ten percent of our VAXs are going for UNIX use. UNIX is a simple language,
easy to understand, easy to get started with. It's great for students, great
for somewhat casual users, and it's great for interchanging programs between
different machines. And so, because of its popularity in these markets, we
support it. We have good UNIX on VAX and good UNIX on PDP-11s.

It is our belief, however, that serious professional users will run out of
things they can do with UNIX. They'll want a real system and will end up
doing VMS when they get to be serious about programming.

With UNIX, if you're looking for something, you can easily and quickly check
that small manual and find out that it's not there. With VMS, no matter what
you look for -- it's literally a five-foot shelf of documentation -- if you
look long enough it's there.

That's the difference -- the beauty of UNIX is it's simple; and the beauty of
VMS is that it's all there.

-- Ken Olsen, President of DEC, 1984

Source: https://motd.ambians.com/quotes.php/name/freebsd_fortunes/to...
those are not regulations
PSA: don't install apps for fast food places on your phones. That app collects huge amounts of data about you and they're profiling users including their "preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, or aptitudes." It continuously tracks your location even when you aren't using the app or haven't used it in ages. They use your credit card info to track your purchase history/spending habits and they try to determine how much money you have.

This seems like a great way to set prices according to how munch money they think you have or based on what you normally purchase. You might end up being charged more for the same items than they're charging the person who pulls in after you.

No discount on their shitty food is worth the intimate details of your life. They sure aren't collecting all that information because they want to make less money off of you. Stop giving them the valuable information they need to take more of your money.
The only thing which signatures / https provide is ascertaining the identity of the other side, it won't help you in determining whether the recording is fake or not.

For this to work, you need to have an already trusting relationship with the media. Like, ok, I can trust NYT, so I will trust videos signed by them. But another person distrusts NYT and trusts only Truth Social. In the past, we could at least agree on basic facts like January 6th actually happening, but I think this generative AI will make laying out the facts much more difficult or even impossible.
Suppose you plugged in your Phone/Tablet and it is not charging or charging very slowly etc. Problems might be;

1) The battery is dead and cannot be charged.

2) The cable is a non-charging one or internally damaged/dead or non-fastcharging or with limited fastcharging capability.

3) The charger is not capable enough to supply the max current that the device can use to charge itself.

To troubleshoot the problem, first check the Voltage/Current specs for your device, make sure that the charger plug/battery can provide the same voltage but same or higher amount of current. Then use a USB power meter to see what is actually being drawn (or not) to figure out where and what the problem might be. One key point to note is that for fastcharging all the links in the chain i.e. charger, cable and device should support it.
Tangential, who knows serious facts about job losses from AI? That research is rare IME and is drowned by headlines about, say, MS boasting of AI powered layoffs.
Regarding the similarities between Hawaiian and Japanese: There are theories among linguists that there is a connection between Austronesian languages and Japanese. These theories don’t seem to be infeasible, but are currently lacking sufficient supporting evidence.
I think yes, and so did Vannevar Bush (OK, not the game part). The first two chapters of Building SimCity are dedicated to non-computer simulations for this reason. Vannevar Bush and his analog instruments, like the differential analyzer, are the subject of chapter 2. Bush (and others) argued that good tangible models were excellent complements to, and sometimes superior to, abstract symbolic representations. For this reason he and his colleagues grieved the transition to digital computing.

For example, he writes in Pieces of the Action (p. 262) of "an example of how easy it is to teach fundamental calculus," about a mechanic with a high school education who learned calculus by working on the differential analyzer. "It was very interesting to discuss this subject with him because he had learned the calculus in mechanical terms ‐ a strange approach, and yet he understood it. That is, he did not understand it in any formal sense, but he understood the fundamentals; he had it under his skin."

I think this is fascinating stuff, and chapter 2 goes deep into the subject. Chapter 1 is about Doreen Gehry Nelson and city simulations made by school kids--it's all about games, simulation, tangibility, and learning.
Not sure what concrete advice you expect me to write here in a public comment. I'm not in Russia, only started learning about Russia 3 years ago, and know nothing about you.

I presume you're good with computers so have the ability to access (and distribute) information that others may not. There's historical precedent, research how people have fought oppression in the past. Many books and manuals have been written about how this is done.

You may be able to access forums where like minded people can discuss and possibly work together. Obviously stay as safe as you can.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history."

You're the best one to know what you can achieve - but I can tell you this, it's not nothing.

Anything that makes the mechanisms of oppression less efficient is a step in the right direction.

Every mechanism has weak points, leaky abstractions and incomplete assumptions. Find them.
> "Yes. I would prefer the US not support a side in an internal political conflict, just as I would prefer the other countries not support a side in an internal political conflict in the US."

It's not an internal conflict if the USSR is already supporting one side, is it?

> No, it's not the CIA's job to share intelligence with the plotters, which I believe it did.

Sorry, but "which I believe it did" holds no weight with me.

> f Chile was "teetering on the authoritarianism" then evidently it hadn't yet succumbed to authoritarianism.

When the elected leader is already violating the constitution, it's no longer a democracy, is it?

> Tell that to the CIA, which wrote in 2000 that it did get involved in the Chilean coup (for instance).

You're going to need a source for that. From the FOIA releases, the CIA states it didn't even think Pinochet had the ability to lead a coup. The CIA was basically an observer.

> That that would end up with a USSR-favored dictatorship is theoretical because it didn't happen. What did happen was that they ended up with US-favored dictatorships after the coups.

Are you suggesting the USSR would support a democracy? Do they have a track record that demonstrates that? I haven't seen it.
Working for a PE firm probably helps a lot
Strange, I went from buying an MPC One+ to making full beats within a month, way, way faster than I did learning Ableton. I found it very easy to learn from watching a youtube video series.

Are you a sample based musician? That what it was designed around. Perfect for hipho.

The OS does feel out of date, this current version of MPC OS came out when iPhone 6 was out, and there has long been talk of an MPC 3.0 upgrade coming soon. So it's hard to judge it entirely given its age.

A huge part of it is that many serious professional musicians use this as a daily driver for production and they are VERY set on workflow patterns dating to the 90s. So reorganizing stuff would come with big customer pushback.

Learning the MPC workflow and developing our own templates+flows is really critical to understanding it. Your experience with it is seemingly quite shallow but a bit understandable.

> Main should really be called "editor" and "menu" should be called "main."

Not really, Main is the mainscreen like your primary app view. Menu is like the start menu or a sidebar in a webapp.

Editor would be confusing because there's the midi screen. And you dont edit anything besides track names.

> No page has both save and load on it. Save is actually a disk so it's not clear if it saves or loads. "Load" is actually labelled "browser."

"Browser" is basically "sample browser", which was it's primary purpose. Then there's shortcuts you use for your projects directory. Or you load projects screen on boot prompt screen.

Otherwise agreed, File browser is probably the thing that could most be modernized. No support for renaming or deleting files either.

> The hierarchy of "tracks," sequences, and programs is tricky to remember.

Maybe but it's very logical when you learn it and works well.

> Randomly an annoying modal "save progress window" blocks my flow.

Because you put autosave on, which is optional and I dont recommend it for this reason. SOC is old af and slow. Just use proper backup protocols.

> And the main/menu/record buttons are so big and need so much force it's hard to get the timing right.

a lot of these critiques are quite bizarre I have to say... they are normal soft buttons on Live 2 (and shallower plastic ones on One)? Not hard push but at the same time I'd rather not hit rec and overwrite stuff accidentally either.
What do you mean by "post like this". I raised my concerns in good faith about the trustworthiness of this particular article and how it aligns with a broader geopolitical strategy by the CCP to influence western media.
Lisp became very popular, then died off rapidly due to association with the AI Winter.
Many McDonald's have 2 windows in the drive-true, one for payment and one for food & drinks.