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> If you only have 64K of RAM, you had better make it work!

Hah, this brings back fun memories. I worked for a spell at a large company producing smartphone components. One of their primary products was a do-it-all embedded chip that handled many disparate functions, which eventually grew to rather massive proportions; rather than optimizing the resulting bloated software, the company just petitioned their chip supplier for a special part with way more flash memory than a standard part would have. IIRC it had something like 16x the Flash memory compared to the largest public part.

The code quality was awful. People were churning out C++ monstrosities with zero concern for code size. The final product was the result of linking together modules from dozens of teams, none of whom really cared at all about code size; I’m frankly surprised the CPU didn’t fall over from all the excess code it had to run (the RTOS was, at the very least, very good at prioritizing…). But: I’m sure it saved a lot of engineering effort that went into shipping flashy features instead.
> But if there’s a reliable & scalable way for vigorous, systematic management to reward the spontaneous human drive towards efficiency instead of punishing it, I am yet to see it.

This is the gist of the article, it has nothing to do with software architecture
I’m begging everyone on HN to understand that Michael Levin’s work is not the beginning and end of biology. This is not meant to disparage his research, it’s really quite cool, but bioelectric signaling is just one piece of a very complex, very large, and very interesting story.

I only say this because he is invariably mentioned in any story related to biological research. I think this is partially because his work is cool, he has been on Lex Fridman’s podcast several times, and he’s very good at talking about his research. So, again, not knocking his work, just don’t forget there’s a lot more bio research out there that’s equally interesting.
I googled around for a while, and found pioneersolarenergy.com. Super helpful, good shipping price, etc.

As well as the 10 year interest free loan check if your province has any rebates. The "Greener Homes" grant gave me $5k (So I only have $8k on the loan). It just made 1000 kWh in June, I'm super happy.
>We had cable modems back in 1994.

The first residential availability of cable modems was by @Home Network in 1996 and served only the San Francisco Bay Area. By the end of 1996, @Home Network had 20,000 users.

I highly doubt you were one of them but I suppose it's possible.
>> Small teams are effectively one-pizza teams, as opposed to the two-pizza teams idea popularized by Amazon.

They don't know how much pizza I can throw down, especially when the company is paying.
I think “this isn’t my job” is generally a bad mentality (sure there are some times it’s ok, but those are like 1% of the actual times it’s used)
...go on? I've been using Posthog for a few months now and it's been a nice experience.
Similarly, injecting the word "just" into a description of the problem space doesn't make it true, though at scale it can make it seem that way.
The opinion of an expert in the article directly contradicts your cynicism.

> The push for nutrient-dense GMOs is a recent trend, says Kathleen Hefferon, a microbiologist at Cornell University. The first wave of GMOs were for staple crops that were easier to grow.

> "There was a real push of trying to achieve food security for a lot of populaces in developing countries and usually that involved making these staple crops that grew better, such as rice and corn and wheat and things like this," she explained.

> A transgenic papaya was introduced to combat a virus that was destroying the crops in Hawaii. It's largely credited with saving the industry on the islands. There were also crops to increase nutritional value for populations in developing countries. Golden rice was developed in the late 1990s to have more beta-carotene to combat Vitamin A deficiencies. Because of practical and regulatory issues, the crop never took off.

> The trend now is for biofortified foods, like the Purple Tomato.
>Maybe a combination of all three.

Likely. How big each "slice" is would be good to know. I wish someone would study it in depth, if it's even possible to fairly analyze.

I don't necessarily think your analogy with MS word is a fair or correct one, FWIW, only because once you build something the functionality is able to be distributed and replicated.

Employees require active up keep in a way that software really doesn't.
I install most tooling, including Jupyter, using pipx. The only thing I then need to install in the project venvs is ipykernel (which I add as a dev dep), and then create a kernel config that allows Jupyter to be run using that venv.
If you look at the world's must successful military initiatives, many of them practiced "maneuver warfare" in which individuals were given broad goals and the ability to use their initiative to attain them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneuver_warfare

Decisions should be made by those with the best information. Sometimes that person is not the leader, and opportunities should just be seized by someone at a low-level. When this happens, leadership should back these initiatives. My favourite example of this is the Battle of Arsuf during the Third Crusade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Arsuf

Richard the Lionheart of England spent weeks slowly marching down the coast with his heavily armoured cavalry/infantry, getting harassed by Saladin's faster cavalry. His army of 10k men could not attack and break formation, since Saladin's cavalry was faster and could pick off Richard's men.

Richard's goal was to wait until Saladin's horses got tired, and when that opportunity arose, charge and catch him while he was slow.

After a few weeks of nothing, suddenly one of his units (the Knights Hospitallier), led by Baldwin le Carron, started to charge on Saladin. Richard the Lionheart had no way of knowing if this was a good idea (to this day we don't know why Baldwin made his decision) but he immediately backed the charge with all 10k of his men and defeated Saladin's army.

This wasn't being lazy or poor management. Richard understood that he did not have the information needed to execute his strategy, so he delegated it to his officers.

When Baldwin le Carron made a decision Richard didn't understand, Richard didn't ask for a Jira ticket or a design doc, so he would have more information to make his decision (as a "good" manager should). He trusted his subordinates and won.

I believe software engineers are getting the wrong idea about a company being in "war mode".

If one reads military strategy, a proven tactic for leaders is outlining strategy and trusting your subordinates to execute it, because feeding information upwards takes too long.
Every one of Peter Thiel's opinions is a dark provocative secret. He's very predictable
It's a problem for medical research. During the covid pandemic, I read a lot of post here of preprints about miracle drugs like ivermectin and tried to find the error and make a comment. In most of the cases the level was very low with obvious errors.
Yeah it is a heavily flawed argument too. You really can't have a rational argument where someone accepts falsehoods as legitimate. Those people are inherently blind.

The people who were massacred at Hue would likely attest to the falsity of that fact if they had somehow survived.

The general story is the VC (communists) took Hue during Vietnam and their leadership had information that had been collected by the Russians on who spoke with Americans as dossiers.

Once they took Hue, they went door to door clipboards in hand and killed every single family that had an American connection.

Even today, the death estimate is not solid as they burned a lot of bodies before a count could be determined after-the-fact.

That massacre largely wouldn't have been possible, or as targeted without information gathering done beforehand. Any covert information gathering is an openly hostile intention and act. Its a necessary pre-requisite for any successful attack on your person.
IANAM (Not A Metallurgist), but my understanding is that "bulk hot metallurgy", like smelting aluminum, has major efficiencies both from large scale and from running continuously. With fixed costs, labor, etc. - a small & part-time plant probably would not be economically viable, even with "free" electricity.
Heh, it was a small startup. And then there was a $x0 million seed round and suddenly we became a much larger startup. When we hired a bunch of business/management-type people who had all worked together at another organization they imported their broken culture. (We were able to hire all of them because their previous organization had had a significant layoff... and for the record I had nothing to do with their hiring, they all just kinda showed up one day)
Esports World Cup: tournament in Saudi Arabia causing division in the industry
Which verdict?

The case against the police for doing something they had no right to do, or the seperate case that what they did was a violation of the US third amendment?

https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/judge-po...

Police taking over your home to setup base for observing and taking out a neighbour with no warrent or permission is something that should be illegal and not require casting local police officers as Federal soldiers to whom the quartering restriction applies.
I think we are applying the wrong model here. We should not try to force-fit an app store model. A more applicable model is that of a decentralized internet and intranet. As in the case of intra-net, even though there were no visible benefits to the end-user, it did help the business itself improve margins by making information broadly available. Then just like the internet I would see these AI optimisations to work with one another Ex: It's totally possible that a model from Amazon and DHL talk to each other to optimize package delivery given a constraint like a truck parked on a loading dock and unable to move.

#1 Just like the intranet there are a lot of productivity gains that firms like Tesla, Meta, Google and Amazon can gain internally by optimizing their own workflows. That in itself should justify the investment. Granted some of these optimisations will use their own chips instead of Nvidia, but Nvidia will get a lion-share of this.

#2. Then there are other verticals - pharma, oil and gas, logistics who can optimize their internal workflows to gain productivity. It just helps them improve their margins. No end user benefit may be realized and that’s fine.

#3. Nation states are buying GPUs too. Ex: Falcon2 was trained on a cluster owned by a middle eastern country. Nation states see something larger at stake here than just releasing an app. This does not have to even be a profitable endeavour.
Direct political donations are already limited in amount to a fairly small amount.

Where things get messy is trying to limit contributions to “independent” groups making political comments. We obviously don’t limit donations to groups making a movie or publishing a newspaper. How do you propose doing so? Would you limit the size of a donation to Wikipedia?

I personally don’t like the outcome of the citizens united case, but I can’t argue with the case itself.
~/GitHub/<repo>
Curious to know what app you are using to get boundaries and layers, OnX?
Maybe if we can't agree we shouldn't be amending the social contract?
~/src/projectname/ for things I've written, patched, or am contributing to.

~/build/projectname/ for things I've downloaded/cloned for reading or compiling.

I generally consider ~/build/ to be ephemeral and it gets deleted whenever I build a new PC or start running out of disk space.

~/src/* gets moved to ~/src.old/ roughly once every five years, just to keep things fresh. Both are still backed up.
> Magic doesn't exist.

This itself seems a bit magical.

Do atoms exist?

If so, when did they start to exist?
Actually conda creates hardlinks for the packages that it manages. Found this out a few weeks ago when I tried migrating my envs to another system with an identical hierarchy and ended up with a broken mess.
Its interesting how your example perfectly illustrates reductionism in action. There are so many things that can go wrong, which is why cancer is such a heterogeneous group of diseases. There are many mutations that can happen which can lead to cancer growth and they have nothing to do with electrophysiology.
It tells people what some of their rights are. We have an entire Amendment to make it clear that the enumerated Constitutional rights are not intended to be read to mean that no other rights exist.
Nice synchronicity — I just reinstalled Brood War last week.

Does anybody know the current state of Battle.net emulation for the older non-Remastered game? The bnetd drama was twenty years ago at this point and I would like to be able to play online without the Microsoft-Vivendi-Activision-Zenimax-Blizzard Borg having any say in it. RE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bnetd

I prefer to patch only up to 1.15.x to keep network compatibility with the Classic Mac OS version of the game :)
I'm familiar with API Platform, it's the bees knees. Documentation could be better though.
In 1994 it would have been common for people to be using the internet and not using the web at all. Email, Usenet and FTP were common, while the web was still something of a novelty.

It was also an era where Windows and other desktops were still fairly new themselves, and some people were still just using DOS and maybe dialling into Unix machines.
> when there exists middle management

That was the most interesting thing about this. I still reported to the CEO directly, but some of his tasks had been delegated to finance and project management teams. So the project management folks were running their MS Project models and I had to keep them updated weekly on where everything was at, and if I spent money out-of-pocket without having it pre-approved by finance my expense claim would be denied.
Not quite what you're asking for, but Microsoft (my employer) has a free tool for checking web and Windows apps for accessibility best practices: https://accessibilityinsights.io/
It's a remnant of the 1996 “orcs in space” version of StarCraft where the minerals were floating space rocks and Vespene didn't exist yet. Check out this early screenshot with a harvesting Drone for example: https://tcrf.net/images/f/fa/SC-WCII-2.GIF
> The problem is that it’s hard for a well-run place to get people to fix non-showstopper bugs.

This is why mature products work so much better as open source- at some point you just want someone to care about the sharp edges instead of upselling new SKUs.
Being tribal isn't beneficial at scale. Requiring universal agreement would halt all societal progress. Sometimes folks need a nudge to adjust.
This is some brilliant interpretation. Wish he would take a look at both the origin of task switching and the Xenix boot loader.
Not seeing much limiting at: https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/biggest-donor...

Wikipedia is a non-profit organization, not a political action committee.
I love Web Development and have been doing it for the past 20 years. Your post makes me wonder if in 20 more years I might still love web development but hate the new thing that will take over like web development did.
There are no doubt groups against all GMOs but Monsanto definitely deserves some credit for linking GMOs with awful business and ethical practices.
The document has very clear instructions for updating it, so go nuts. Probably better that it’s rarely done.
Remember that he's only proven this statement correct, he hasn't actually tested it. ;)
I wish! Yes, the better you get at riffle shuffling, the more it will approximate a faro shuffle (meaning less "clumps" and more singles alternating) in some parts of the deck, but it's the repetition that makes it random. If you have accidentally mastered a perfect tabled faro without deliberate practice, I'd like to shake your hand and read your book (or video) on the technique!

Perhaps we can caveat that the person is not cutting perfectly at 26 every time and performing perfect out faros, then we can assume they'll be mixed enough. :-)

It's been a while since I've read Persi Diaconis' paper (who coined the 7 shuffles thing), but I believe all your main concerns were addressed. Not sure about the sleeved deck thing, that wasn't probably a consideration.
Check out https://github.com/jonnadal/fibril
Maybe we know, subconsciously, we’ve already fucked this one?
I honestly don't remember this ever being the case. There were always large groups of people who hated the president and blamed most of society's woes on him and his entire party.
> Another requirement for this to work well is that management (e.g. the CEO or other leaders) are able to lay down a broad strategy for the people of the company to execute on. If the leadership has no strategy then tactical decisions can not be made properly. They also need to make sure there's coordination and structure.

In my experience this isn't a core requirement so much as the ability to discern if a proposed strategy is good or not based on first hand experience. In other words, the ability to spot very well written bullshit yourself without relying on anyone else's perception of it being bullshit or not. If you need to rely on other people's opinions or the way a proposal is written or something else then it will not work. It's very rare for this to be the case at a larger or public company. Even if the CEO has this ability if the board doesn't then it will be the same.
Your argument - "[t]his is a deeply imperialist, Euro/Anglo-centric viewpoint" - is deeply lazy. You should be easily rebut the their points if the article is bad.

If anything - your arguments actually reinforce the article's point of view because resource heavy areas get pilfered by others and the victors often place or leave extractive institutions in these areas, thus leading to poor economies. Countries that have winters have incentives to colonize resource-rich areas for the reasons you cite. If these resource rich areas have the advantage of having resources... then why is it that these areas are often colonized instead of the other way around?

Also - the article presents these arguments because they're simply sourcing arguments from Daron Acemoglu, who is a labor economist from MIT. Therefore, it will be written from a developmental economics point of view, not from political economics.

>In a just world, Spain, Portugal, the UK, France, the US, and the Benelux countries would collectively be forced to pay reparations amounting to about five to ten trillion euros/pounds/dollars per annum to their ex-colonies, slaves, and exploited peoples until the latter returned to a semblance of development with everyone above the poverty line, and with reliable electricity, sanitation, food supply, housing, and Internet access.

You're not wrong for wanting reparations but this argument has nothing to do with the article at hand.
Never been more passionate about coding than I'm right now, after 3 months of being laid off. Coding for myself and the productivity boost I'm getting with ChatGPT really made the difference for me.
I'm an "AI engineer" as I've seen others loftily describe it: meaning a traditional full stack who works on an AI first code base. I am a heavy user of the OpenAI and Gemini APIs... But I just don't understand what purpose these "AI frameworks" solve. It's almost to the point where I feel stupid for just not getting it.

You write words. Merge your context in. What possible need is there for any library?
Yeah, that definitely played a part in it. I was employee #2 and had built an absolutely amazing culture in the team that I ran. I stuck it out in large part because I loved how well we worked together. The project was cool, too, which helped, but not wanting to abandon the team of fantastic young engineers I'd pulled together was the thing that kept me fighting.

I semi-jokingly-but-not explained to them what a Shit Umbrella was and that while all of this was going down I regretted not being as available to them as I had been, but that I was doing my best to give them an environment where they could keep doing the amazing work they'd been doing without getting dragged too much into the bog with me.
It's worth reading an article about "just asking questions" as a bad faith debating tactic if you haven't heard of it before. Here's a random article about it: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions
Yup, same with drawing lines on a rainbow.

The concept (and definition) of red, orange, etc. is important and useful. A great many things would be impossible without it frankly. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectroscopy]

Applying it in real life in some situations sometimes has a fractal like quality. Like measuring a shoreline.
and sometimes that's ok. I don't need 2fa on my twitch account. The important part is that I am back in control.
But then they assume the code is authored in Typescript... Who is authoring in Typescript and then simultaneously writing their d.ts manually?? It makes no sense.
Ha, not even China does that these days.
It's not just ethics. Biology is just plain complicated. It's a science which tries to reverse engineer the results of billions of years of natural selection.

A human body belonging to a lucky person might live the better part of a century, all the time which it grows, heals itself when injured, processes food into new resources, hosts an example of the best known thinking machine in the world (the human brain), and literally has the machinery to produce one or more additional human beings. These are capabilities which are incredibly difficult to replicate artificially, so much so that producing a robot that could do even half of these things remains firmly in the realm of science fiction. And it wasn't designed, it was evolved, so it's about the worst mess of spaghetti code you could imagine. It's simply a hard problem.
I challenge you to find a dictionary that doesn't include "elevation above sea level" in one of the definitions for altitude.
People rallied behind Bush Jr even though he was a rank idiot and was surrounded by crazy neocons (most of who now are part of Democratic party). In many ways he was worse than Trump.
> In reality, it was meant to be a living document that evolved with the times, not an immutable ledger of all our misdeeds and misjudgements.

The motte of this sort of claim is the essence of English common law, in which precedent and interpretation of the written law is the responsibility of the courts.

The bailey is the premise that judges who dislike the law should disregard it, and rule the country by proclamation of new law which they have claimed to discover within the law as written and understood before their inventions.

I support the first of these, not the second. If you don't care for the law we have, there are mechanisms to change the law of the land. Yes, some of them are difficult. That doesn't give the judiciary the right to cheat the process.
LOL, sure, blame Osho’s Michael Cohen. Did he not approve the members running around with machine guns and bussing in homeless people to astro turf the town election? I don’t have to do anything to call out evil cults, but yeah, I have been strongly anti-Trump since 2015.
Did you have any side effects from rizatriptan?
Nice, I'll bench server.cpp as well
Does this comment have a purpose?

If they're still rolling out new manufacturing lines, they are clearly still kicking and have investors who believe they have a viable product.

Did they have to move on from one technology? I mean I've never heard of them before but if you say so, that's not really that surprising with how fast with battery technology is evolving.
No it is not. The minority can be forcibly removed, shut down etc.

It is much harder, requires much more bloodshed to remove tyranny of the majority.
I asked this about the other recommended drug above to...

Any side effects you got from Metagelan?

Any idea how/why it works for you?