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If you enjoyed this essay, I would recommend reading Why the Culture Wins: An Appreciation of Iain M. Banks by Prof. Joseph Heath (https://www.sciphijournal.org/index.php/2017/11/12/why-the-c...)

Among other things, it compares the Idirans—who have what we consider a more traditional, modern-day culture—with the Culture. For example:

"The war between the Idirans and the Culture is peculiarly asymmetrical, since the Culture is not an empire, or even a “polity” in any traditional sense of the term, it is simply a culture. It has no capital city, or even any “territory” in the conventional sense."

I also love Heath's criticism of Dune (I appreciate the series, but now can't help but notice how often sci-fi series use regressive social structures).

"In fact, modern science fiction writers have had so little to say about the evolution of culture and society that it has become a standard trope of the genre to imagine a technologically advanced future that contains archaic social structures. The most influential example of this is undoubtedly Frank Herbert’s Dune, which imagines an advanced galactic civilization, but where society is dominated by warring “houses,” organized as extended clans, all under the nominal authority of an “emperor.”"
Don't and can't are two different things.

Furthermore, Great Danes and Chihuahuas are of the same species. And while there may be no direct genetic mixing between the two ends of that spectrum, you can have Chihuahua - Beagle - Labrador - Great Dane mixes (with the '-' being a mix) ... and they're all the same species.
Yes, you are right that Wikipedia is inappropriate in academic settings.

But, this thread has discussed the reliability of Wikipedia.
This is so cool! "Dissecting" a processor like this could be a fun educational activity to do in schools similar to dissecting a frog, but without the animal rights issues.
There are open-source PDKs[0] for education, research, and R&D - but they extremely rare and decades behind state-of-the-art.

Nobody wants to give away trade secrets, so everything remains proprietary and behind an NDA until it has become completely obsolete.

[0]: https://www.skywatertechnology.com/sky130-open-source-pdk/
> where the eventual aim was to make resource allocation unnecessary,

... unnecessary through what? How? I think those are important details ...

PS. Honestly asking. Interested in how you further interpret Marx ...
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Consider Phlebas was my first book too, I liked it enough to read another, but I neither remember much from it nor loved it.

I really liked Player of Games, and I'd like to read a few more books in the series. I also read the Wasp Factory, and while his writing is brilliant, I wasn't too captivated by the story itself.
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Oh, nice! I recall Reddit did support RSS at one point, I didn't realize they limited it. rss2newsletter is only ~300 lines of code right now and I'd prefer to keep it more on the minimal side of things. But, that's definitely a cool feature to have.
The reason people use an actual IDE instead of Jupyter web is because it allows you to jump in the libraries source code
The internet is already over (2022)
I mean, it's been happening for a decade now. They only take Metal as a GL, for instance. Their architecture is conforming to IOS.

Without any intervention, it's a matter of when instead of if.
I find it misleading how so many of these articles talk about dial-up Internet at home, as if it was typically a person's first exposure to the Internet. For most people in the 90s, their first exposure to the Internet was on a public or company computer. The heat from a couple dozen CRT displays packed into a slightly too small room, was an integral part of the experience. As was "Downloading... (134 B/s)" while a couple dozen instances of Netscape all tried to cram their request packets over the 128 kbit/s ISDN line that served the whole campus.
In Europe, LeBron is definitely not a household name. Maybe if you are into sports. Ronaldo and Messi on the other hand, are someone most people will know.
nteract (https://nteract.io/) supports windows and linux.
He literally has the whole world at his doorstep and can just ask them.

It would be awesome if Zuckerberg pulled an "Apple U2" moment and posted on Facebook, in some special way that it appears on all 800 million active accounts: "What are your thoughts if I were to run for U.S. President someday?"
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I am considering building an app for iOS, iPadOS and macOS and want to know what other developers think about the Apple developer experience in 2024. I built an iOS app about a decade ago and it wasn't the best experience.
> it was on par, or even faster, than java.

This is rarely the case outside of very simplified cases.

Golang prioritises compilation speed over optimisation. Unlike Rust/C/C++ which either use one of the heavily optimising IR compilers (gcc or LLVM) Golang uses neither, preferring to implement piecemeal the optimisations that work well on relatively simple code - in order to keep the compiler very fast and simple.

Java is the opposite of this. It has multiple compilation stages, the first of which is the bytecode compiler javac but then also the runtime JIT compiler, both of which favor peak performance (i.e optimisation).

Golang can appear faster on many micro-benchmarks but for any highly numeric load or remotely generic code using interfaces etc become involved then Java is going to come out on top and it won't be particularly close.

This isn't to say you can't write very fast Golang code, you can. If you understand (or simply inspect generated code/profile) what the compiler can and can't do for you you can coax it into making fast machine code but you need to be vigilant and modifying tight loops can be more troublesome than equivalent fast Java code.

I have written very fast stuff in both languages and if I needed to pick a language for peak runtime perf it would be Java out of those two every time.

Note this is completely ignoring the very weak throughput of the Golang GC which is another easy way to get into very bad performance problems with Golang that can be hard to resolve.
Thank you for attempting to use swift first. Electron apps are bloated and overused.

Excited to play around with this!
Non-expansions... (and a bunch of exceptions you list, but are not limited to).

Seems like a pretty blurry line in the sand. Even blurrier when price 100% has an impact on perception. Skins are an exception but if I told you some skins are $60, would that be predatory?
You said this above:

> They can log in to your password manager, but since they don't have access to your TOTPs, they can't login anywhere (or anywhere important, if you do what I do). This means they can't breach your Apple/Google account or 2FA either.

This is wrong. TOTP apps like Authy have no authentication. Open the app and the codes are just there, visible to anyone without having unlock it.
I'm not sure I agree. Searching and summarizing are excellent uses of generative AI. It's very good at understanding meaning and intent- making it especially useful for detecting actors plotting against the state.

That said, even such defensive uses do require a loss of civil liberties so that the generative AI can read our data and infer intent. Like all warfare, AI warfare will take a toll on humanity.
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> Feature factories are a thing for a reason.

If anything that goes against the parent comment, how Apple has more revenue per engineer while not being a feature factory by any stretch

In any case, taking both of the comments combined kinda prove my point, that higher revenue can be attributed to many things completely outside how many products/features was shipped:

- Pricing strategy

- You can have a monopoly with a single shitty product

- You can be middle man/broker with no product to begin with

- You can be running a Ponzi scheme or committing fraud

So it doesn't make sense to use revenue (or revenue per team member) as a way to compare teams between different companies and furthermore possibly across completely separate markets and industry
Agreed, that's a big one. I'd love to add that capability to Satyrn too.
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> as if it was typically a person's first exposure to the Internet

Because for many, it actually was.
Not yet! But I'm working on this :)
It is somewhat humorous to read a 20 year old paper on sexuality without hearing about trans people.

For instance, do transmen exhibit the same arousal characteristics as men assigned at birth?
Maybe try the T key for theater mode!
Personally, I think everyone should try opening up a chip. It's easy (if the chip isn't in epoxy) and fun to look inside. You need a metallurgical microscope to examine the chip closely, but you can see interesting features even with the naked eye.
Plate tectonics provided evidence and made predictions which can be tested. The pseudoscience of panpsychism can't provide evidence, nor experiments to prove or falsify it. Saying that everything is conscious is a huge claim, it can't be accepted just for the goodness of our hearts.
There's no such thing as free energy though. "Less resistance" is not "no resistance", there's still drag on that 2nd plane and it's going to cost the 1st plane more energy to pull it. I think the extra energy to pull a 2nd plane would be greater than putting a longer body on the 1st plane because the air wouldn't need to flow over another nose and set of wings.
If we define a computer in very broad terms: a system used to emulate/simulate another system, could we call a wind tunnel a computer? It is a system that is used to infer what would happen high up in the atmosphere or on the race track. Taking it a step further, do animals used for drug testing count as computers? They are used to infer any potential adverse effects in a human body.

Although quite specialized, I think these things would still classify as a computer.
I'm not convinced that moving transistors around freely would break the machine. How could that possibly happen?
Yes, generally people are adverse to change and like routine. Going to a new location requires figuring out how long it takes to get there, where do you park or get on/off transit, where is the building entrance, where within the building do you go, etc.

It is important to have consistency in time, location, and consistency to build a thriving meetup.
Modeling out of control monoliths with Claude 3.5 Sonnet
I suppose we could meet at Lovejoy's tea room and talk about our favorite parts of the paxos paper
My hardware engineering job got a lot of daily faxes. Folks from machine shops put documents/drawings in their big printer scanner, type our fax number, and the .pdf appears available to everyone in a network folder. Honestly it's cleaner than dealing with email and attachments. Less steps involved. They are high quality pdfs, so I wouldn't be surprised if it skips the phone call tech entirely somehow.
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Fair point :) Well actually in my experience they were called a "Delivery Manager" or "Scrum Master" but behaved like a Project Manager, if you see what I mean. And as for Sprints in Kanban, yeah, well Jira kinda works like that and it seems helpful to have some bi-weekly ceremonies and review stuff while only having to do "ideally most of the stories that were asked for" because the ones that were put into sprint are important. In other words, truly Agile (or so it seems to me ;) ) , without being fundamentalist.
Social media is increasingly a battleground for bots. Real humans ironically become a voluntary force in this, as the bots only need to propagate an idea so far before people believe it enough to make it part of their identity.

One idea is a social media service built on strict identity checks, but I'm not sure people actually care that much whether they're talking to a bot or not.
Yes, and solving actual problems is a great way to frame a goal. People often equivocate between "optimization" and "improving things", so I don't blame you for it in particular. Optimization, by definition, requires that something be "overdone", that an objective function is maximized or minimized. Organizations with human decisionmakers aren't incapable of assessing other factors, what priorities not captured by the optimization objective might be relevant, but by framing decisions as optimization, especially throughout an organization or an economy, the pressure against that kind of sanity check is implied and grows the more "competent" an organization is
Not merely socialism, communism. I suspect this is why there isn’t a TV series for it yet.
I’m pretty sure that’s the case for France, too.

However, I’m only familiar with the emergency phone call use case, for which voice is enough. I’m not familiar with any legal obligation to provide data service, so I guess that if you need that, it’s up to you to negotiate SLAs or have multiple providers.
That contribution to Zed from rgbkrk looks awesome.
I don't know about this at any detailed level, but doesn't designing standard cells for leading edge nodes involve a lot of trial and error? Is a lot of the issues that can occur even well understood to the level that it can be simulated?

With the approach you mention, would it involve creating "custom standard cells", or would the software allow placement of every transistor outside of even a standard cell grid? If the latter, I would have trouble believing it could be feasible with the order of magnitude of computing power we have available to us today.
I think you're misreading this. I'm not saying "you are wrong". I'm saying there's a common trap that a lot of people in tech (and therefore a lot of people on HN fall into), where they believe that they can solve any problem from what they know of basic tech problems.

> What features of the scientific method cannot be achieved through the composition of existing technologies?

^This statement, sums up the above trap perfectly. "I know how to create a workflow, therefore, I know how to create a workflow of the scientific method, therefore I can replace a scientist with an AI robot."

But okay, how do we know what quantitatively, is a significant result? R=0.05 is the most common cut-off for this, but like, that's a number we picked, and isn't even agreed on.
How do they land these gliders? Do they detach before landing, so each can land independently? I guess that'd lessen the requirements on the airport. I don't know how you take-off though, you'd probably need a slightly longer runway at least.
I didn't know there is such a thing as a metallurgical microscope. What makes them different from biological microscopes? And what is there primary purpose? I am assuming they don't make microscopes just for dissecting chips.
I agree! At the very least I can port this to Tauri to make it have a smaller footprint.
In one of the books Banks explains that the Minds were created with a bias to be helpful to humans, and that whenever they did try to create a “neutral” Mind that didn’t specifically care about this, the first thing it would do is fuck right off (to another plane of existence.)
Poor parts of every county or city are going to have more similarities to other poor parts of every other city or county than compared to the rich areas that may be nearby.

That is one aspect of the multi-dimensional fractal nature of culture that I mentioned. Poor/rich is just one dimension to be considered. So are political leanings.

However, when you consider all the other dimensions, you will find that DC and the surrounding suburbs have more similarities to each other than they do with the corresponding areas in and around Baltimore.

Making them up to be the same CSA is just the way that the federal government gets away with paying cheaper wages in the DC area, because they can now lump Baltimore in there, and obviously by that new federal standard, federal wages in the DC area are not out of line with the overall CSA.

It’s just a lie that the federal government is telling you. And that they told me, when I lived there.
Yeah, I don't buy it. I think he's among the most well known tech guys, but not overall.

I have to imagine sports stars like you mentioned, or singers like Swift or Adele, or even movie stars are more well known than Zuck.
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After a month of diving into Next.js for the first time, I built a cool app that helps SaaS founders connect with users, tweak their offerings, and boost revenue. You can easily add feedback forms to your website to gather and analyze customer feedback whenever you want. It has a 30-second setup, requires no coding, and is compatible with WordPress, etc. Tell me, guys, what do you think, knowing I'm just a beginner?
> pay-what-you-want-$5-minimum for my app

> I currently sell about 60 copies per month (same average across the last 4 years too).

I'm guessing the median is $5, can you share what the average is?
Hes not an engineer anymore. that's MBA math. it checks out.
Good point, any country at high lattiudes will need this during the winter.
How long is your resume on paper? Should be 2 pages at most. How many positions have you had in that 20 year span? What makes you believe it is ageism? In the US, workers 'over 40' are in a protected class for their age. If you have evidence of ageism, you can bring it to your local Dept of Labor/EEOC.
Most women don't care about this at all. It's way, way down the bottom of the list of sexist bullshit in this industry. Complaining about it is more performative than anything. It's a way to pretend you're doing something for women.
I think they mean the general study and refinement of culture and knowledge for its own sake--the kids who go to college/university for language arts, fine art, music, theatre, history, philosophy... these classes are widely attended, but have a reputation for not being useful for gainful employment. (Plenty of famous writers, poets, artists, actors, musicians, and journalists have such an education, but the rest of their classmates probably did not end up employed in the same sector.)

Side note: it's not just the far-right that disparages higher academia as effete elitism. The far-left has done so as well, notably during China's Cultural Revolution, and within Soviet Russia, Pol Pot's Cambodia, etc. Being an academic at the wrong time in history means you have a good chance of ending up in a gulag or concentration camp.
You mean to say that the metrics are applied post-hoc. I.e. you reward last month's efficiency this month.

Otherwise, you incentivize poor performance all the time, so that I can show massive improvement on this month's "efficiency push", next months "productivity (lines of code, completed stories) push", the "bug bash", etc.
To be frank, I don't see any additional features of the app over VSCode, other than it starts up faster, which does not matter much as VSCode starts up faster than the import cell of any notebooks I have. Also, one big reason I use VSCode for notebook is to get the Python LSP.

Good luck to you though, I do think the demographics of scientists who find VSCode confusing is actually sizeable.
I don’t think there’s any real cost to failure in this case - the worst case scenario is a high school student does a bit more extracurricular mathematics before going into a different field, where they will likely still benefit from that extra mathematical training.
The short answer: yes.

For organization using biased software to make hiring decisions, there is a necessity to tailor fit your experience and abilities to 'thread the needle' into an actual human decision making level of the hiring process.
If an HR department is unhappy about this process; which will yield overqualified and adept professionals, a change to those biased systems to accept truly competent staff may become the obvious remedy.
Every country tries to attract foreign investment. It’s a major component of GDP. And the difference between Canada ca. 1986 and 2010 versus 2018-2024 is… monetary policy! (Though admittedly 2010 looks pretty similar to 2018, house prices were already starting their insane run up).

It’s monetary policy. Housing prices are the fault of governments of various levels (constrained supply at the municipal levels, easy credit at the national levels). It isn’t foreigners, at least not in Canada, NZ, England, etc. and I’d bet money it isn’t in Portugal either.
Sure. I 100% agree. But I wasn't arguing as a customer, I was arguing as a potential studio making a storefront on the console. Would I support that store for 5-10+ years for 3rd world countries? Would it even be profitable given exchange rates?

The 1st world customers wants to keep advancing to the next generation. 3rd parties want to make money and mostly get it from 1st world countries.

>artificially shorten console lifecycles by cutting off supply of newly-manufactured older consoles and new games for those consoles. It's textbook planned obsolescence.

Planned obsolescence isn't to stop producing a product you no longer want to sell. If there's one thing consoles are good at, it's supporting repairs well after the next gen rolls end. Nintendo just stopped supporting the Wii U (their worst selling console) repairs due to a lack of supplies, and that is about 6 years after they EOL'd it in terms of software support. Phone/PC manufacturers should take notes.

Meanwhile, hardcore gamers have been complaining about the switch performance for years. They are disappointed there was no mid gen refresh. Consumer demand very much wants companies to keep making better hardware.

>There's no reason for gaming consoles to be an exception.

Personally, I just don't see gaming consoles as general computing devices. They could be, but they way they are presented/marketed aren't. So I have about as much desire to reprogram on my PS4 as I do my smart fridge (which probably is running some variant of Linux underneath, albeit embedded).
according to IMDB the movie is done, just no release date
Diagnosed celiac here, though a fairly mild case - blood test detected it 16 years ago, age 48, but I don't know if I've been hit with gluten, though celiac explains why I'm several inches shorter than my brothers and have bone density issues.

Anyway, I love fresh cilantro leaves in food, though it was an acquired taste. So probably no relationship to celiac.

One interesting off-topic datapoint about my diagnosis. I love asparagus, and remember I used to smell "asparagus urine" when I was young, but hadn't for decades. After going gluten-free that typical smell in my urine returned, leading me to believe my celiac diagnosis was accurate and my gut was repairing itself.
Battery storage systems generally provide 4 hours of full power output per daily cycle not minutes and are specifically designed to exploit the most typical daily demand cycle which has a 4 hour peak.

You're mixing up the use of batteries for grid stabilization with their use for storage.
And it only costs 75k a seat per year per developer, with free bi yearly license compliance audits, a million in ops and hardware to get near prod and all the docu is paywalled. What a deal!
I think there is a wide consensus that Consider Phlebas, though first, is not the ideal starting point for Banks' Culture series. The plot is meandering, and compared to later books, it is clear that Banks had not yet quite found the form that would be so impressive later on.
I usually recommend The Player of Games, or alternatively, depending on the reader, Use of Weapons as starting points.

It is however a good idea, having read other Culture books, to read Consider Phlebas before beginning Look to Windward, as there is a connection between the two.