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Semiosis: On Meaning in the Human and Machine
Debatable. I think it's to playful. I really like more clean, flat designs. E.g. tags waste a lot of space. If I add more than like 5 tags, they seem to use a lot of screen estate.
Seriously just learn how to use and store a password hash and generate, store, and send a session id by cookie.

Kids are turning to services to do for them what has been a basic practice for decades.

Passwords are never going anywhere. Users are confused by passkeys, and they’re a terrible idea and terribly implemented anyway.

Edit: Learn how to use scrypt, learn how to execute `INSERT INTO users …`, and call a session library.
Zero distractions is a nice thought, but I’ll settle for fewer.

My main issue with Scrum is that it’s designed to boil often complex tasks down into tiny pieces, such that anyone can pick them up and do them. The administrative and mental overhead with slicing tasks up (and holding meetings to do so) is significant, and frustrating. In a high-performing team where you have specialists, let people do what they’re good at. If someone doesn’t know Terraform, jumping into a complicated task involving it isn’t a great idea; instead, have them take on things they can do, and occasionally shadow the expert doing it to pick some knowledge up.

I’m also a big believer in gating off chunks of your day explicitly for learning. Your manager has to be onboard with this obviously, but dedicating an hour to increase your knowledge pays dividends over time (now there are two TF experts, etc.)
"apart from buying batteries" - that is imo precisely enough. We are nearing a time, where a battery that would flatten the avg household demand curve costs under $2000 (without installation costs), and that might be quite enough to change how electrical production works.
I would rather have the extra keys on the thumb as an alternative to today where the pinkies are overloaded. The thumb only has to hit the space bar.
Was really hoping that Passkeys would already be in the comments, so I'll throw that into the mix myself.

Passkeys.
More than forty years to amortize the renovation. Ouch.
I think is not a novel idea: there are various vendors here in EU that offer "thermodynamic VMCs", meaning dual-flux ventilation system [1] with a small heat-pump between the to air flows, sucking heat from the outgoing air, heating the incoming flow in winter, in summer to avoid injecting too humid water they passively exchange outgoing fresh air with the incoming and the heat a water tank for sanitary water, cooling as needed the incoming air after the passive exchange, for instance https://www.broferpura.it/en/products/Domestic/compact06.htm... this reduce the number of compressors a home need in mild climate and new homes.

For me I simply run the main heat pump at full power during the day on p.v. reducing the grid absorption for some hours in winter and for sanitary water almost zeroing it since 300l @60-65℃ (140-149℉) suffice for a whole day, at least when I have enough p.v. a day after another.

Honestly I doubt it's possible to store enough heat with current tech to compensate the home heating needs, it's possible for sanitary hot water (except for a swimming pool) but no more. However for mild climate for some months might be enough to significantly reduce the grid absorption. The sole issue here is that heat pumps now, without any specific reasons, have skyrocketed in retail price enough to make them far less convenient than just few years ago... So the economy is still not much.

[1] an image should be sufficient, I do not know their common name in English, sorry https://lacentrale-eco.com/images/blog/fonctionnement-vmc-do...
Are there any open source STT solutions that also handle speaker diarization? MacWhisper has promised this for a long time without delivering.
It’s older, but here is another alternative https://github.com/robrohan/lib-loopy
Let me paint you a scenario where this is possible: you leave home at 9 AM, and the A/C stops. The house slowly gets hot, maybe 95°F. You plan to arrive at 9 PM, so you program the A/C to get the house to 76°F, which the thing thinks it can do in 1 hour at full blast. But the energy price between 8 PM and 9 PM is the highest of all day: you just programmed the A/C to the worst.

Instead, now you leave it keeping 76°F, and the thing can do it working at 10%. You consume more energy at the end of the day, but the consumption is spreaded through the cheapest hours in the middle of the day, and only a small fraction of it is consumed in the expensive hours from 6 to 10 PM. This is how freezers work, cooling intermitently as the thermostate goes off limits.

I would test if it is worthy money wise, not energy wise, to put the A/C at full blast in the cheapest hours. Say from 4 to 6 PM (the cheapest here in Spain), to get the house as cold as possible, and then try to play with A/C at maybe 5% letting it rise until reaching 76°F at 9 PM.
It’s not just the software, it’s the hardware too. Too many companies got good at speeding up VM deployments but ignored theory of constraints and still had a 4-6 month hardware procurement process that gave everyone and their dog veto power.

And then you come to companies that managed to streamline both and ran out of floor space in their data center because they had to hold onto assets for 3-5 years. At one previous employer, the smallest orderable unit of compute was a 44U rack. They eventually filled the primary data center and then it took them 2 years to Tetris their way out of it.
I met my wife on ICQ. There were a bunch of filters you could apply to random chat function (age / location / etc) and then you could just randomly chat with someone. I met a lot of people that way.
This is false. I am one of the co-founders of Jam. We hired 3 engineers who applied to us because they saw our post here. We don’t post here for advertising.
consider* putting endpoints on a private overlay network in which network access is cryptography-gated (e.g. x.509 cert based).

then, a misconfigured endpoint (or a zero day etc.) can't be exploited by any_actor_on_the_internet - actors need to first complete the provisioning process you choose to enforce to be authorized to use the private overlay.

*not one size fits all, e.g. bad option if endpoints need to accept requests from unknowns.

however, many endpoints only need to accept requests from known (identified, authenticated, authorized) endpoints, and the added friction to id/authN/authZ get use the private overlay is not a business impediment.

there is a stigma here due to the horrors of NAC on private enterprise WANs. but NAC goals can be accomplished without that baggage via internet overlays and modern cryptography.

to be clear, i am by no means advocating to abandon traditional methods of endpoint auth - this it is just another layer which recognizes that single layers are rarely airtight (e.g. what just happened to Authy and Twilio).
At $125 each, that's $1.25 million in shares of one company. I like to think I'm doing well enough for myself, financially, but damn. Her and her husband's net worth is north of $100 million.
Per @quickthrowman recommendation I can add that this is the way to go for an electric hot water heater having installed many of these Intermatic time clocks. The old ones were analog and one can hear a clicking but they do make them digital now, YMMV.
I'm on team magic links. Security can be greatly improved with 2FA, and for those who hate magic links/2FA, passkeys are a nice alternative.
> I can’t remember the last time I talked on the traditional phone network or received a legitimate call

Social services are another example. Many services are county-administered and thus don't have a centralized online platform. As always our most vulnerable populations suffer the most from techno-greed. Not the families of software engineers who built the system.
I'm not sure what part of that is supposed to be a pain. The sans-io equivalent would be:

handle_input(buf) -> Result {
if len(buf) < 4 { return Error::IncompletePacket }

len = toInt(buf[0..4])

if len(buf) < 4 + len { return Error::IncompletePacket }

packet = buf[4..(4 + len)]
return Ok { packet: packet, consumed: 4 + len }
}

where the semantics of `Error::IncompletePacket` are that the caller reads more into the buffer from its actual IO layer and then calls handle_input() again. So your "while not received required bytes: accumulate in buf" simply become "if len < required: return Error::IncompletePacket"
Most of the important resources we have extracted are sitting around on the surface. When the steel rusts, it turns into some of the best iron ore. Most of the stuff we threw away ends up in landfills, mining those will get lots of resources and knowledge. That would be plenty for pre-industrial civilization.

The big problem is used the easy energy for industrial civilization. Solar mirrors and wind would be possible, but low density until more advanced. We assume that our energy-heavy industrial civilization is the only way, but it is possible that low-energy or low penetration industrial is possible. There is also possibility of biologically developed civilization.

Lots of current knowledge would be lost but there are tons of books from current and earlier eras. If those are preserved, there would be plenty of knowledge for early industrial civilization. In fact, the main problem would be finding anything or getting caught looking at past. One thing we could do today is make more durable books, and then reprint the important things like practical knowledge.
Get a Vizio tv instead. Vizio is roku-free.
To ensure any piece of text is "far center" (= unbiased), check out https://biasscanner.org - if text you paste in does not change after pressing the green button, it's unbiased, otherwise biased sentenced are highlighted in yellow, and hovering over them gives you an explanation, about which of 27 bias types was discovered.
Not to encounter the “paradox” of R2 being low while a real effect is identified
We have the same semantics. The incidents that are on the infra-log and not on the status page are things that didn't affect devs/users in any way. A good example: we have clusters of edge servers in every region we serve. They're servers, part of their job is to occasionally throw a rod. When that happens, we pull them out of service and stop advertising them. That's an internal incident, but it's not a status page incident. Preempting a response here: no, I don't think users would be better off if we status paged stuff like this.

Every week, we go through the incident management system, and all our incidents, whether or not they had user impact, get written up here.

One thing you're probably running in to, which is not on you but rather on us, that we are aware of, and that we are grinding steadily away at: as the platform has stabilized over the last year, an increasing share of problems users run into aren't "platform" issues (in the sense of: things going wrong in our API or on our cloud servers) but rather bugs in `flyctl`, our CLI.

We have two big reliability projects happening:

* We've finally landed our "white whale" of being able to move workloads that have attached volumes between different physicals. I'm writing a big long blog post about how that works now. We've been doing it for about 9 months, but we're at the point where we can do it automatically and at scale. Really hard to express how much not having this capability increased our degree of difficulty.

* We're taming `flyctl`; in the immediacy, just doing a better job of reporting errors (it's a Go program, we love Go, but showing "context deadline exceeded" to a user is, obviously, a bug, albeit one we didn't recognize as such until recently).

I don't have a way of addressing these kinds of concerns, which are valid, without just being clear about what we're up to and how we're thinking. I wrote a sort of "once-and-for-all" thing about this mentality here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39373476
This actually looks amazing!
Not really. What happens when you run a cloud on top of your cloud is that you don’t get to use any of their differentiating features and that winds up costing you money. Plus you have to pay for your own control plane when that’s already baked into the cloud provider’s charge model.
Haha, this is why I always Google whoever the author is to articles posted on HN before commenting. More than once I've thought "this person is an idiot" only to Google their name and find out they are a famous person in that field. Then I go back and re-read their article and realize I missed something more subtle going on.
> don’t tell me

You are the one initiative here.
That's what an UX researcher will do with your NPS questionnaire. The score is bullshit, the "why" answers are the gold.
I understood that you were referring to the prisoners dilemma, but I dont understand or agree with your idea of living in a quadrant. Everyone lives with the same game theory, difference arises from individual incentives and indivdual intelligence/rationality. But ultimately everyone seeks the nash.

Donating money? Volunteering? Even donating a kidney can all categorically be understood in terms of individual gain.
You cannot use Wikipedia as a source, everyone knows this.
There is an inherent flaw in those algos - they can be played by bots that scan for the best orders, while workers without bots and customers with smaller orders are left hanging. Better to just pay by the hour - you agree to deliver any order thrown at you during your shift.
How does a chest freezer/fridge have increased chances of repairs?
I was super excited to see this comment, but I don't seem to have those cmdlets, even though I'm on Windows 11, fully updated. Are you sure you didn't install something extra?
> Stable Diffusion, where the best models are freely downloadable

Stable Diffusion 1.6, Stable Diffusion 3 Large & Large Turbo, the model(s) — originally an SDXL Turbo-based finetune, but explicitly stated to be planned to evolve over time and potentially eventually use multiple models — used for the Stable Image Core service are all not publicly released under any license, and SD3 Medium under only a restrictive license.
sigh yet another victim of pop-sci.....I've edited the OP with an explanation.
Other than the algorithmic aspect, isn't that basically exactly how the employment market works?
met my wife from another country on a free penpal website some 25 years ago. wasn't a dating site, just sign up with your email, write a short introduction, and wait for someone to write you.
They definitely exist. I never had one and my understand it was they are generally not as great as the gas equivalent.

https://www.supplyhouse.com/Tankless-Water-Heaters-1060000
Do you have a link to literature review?
So, can the president order the army to commit war crimes or genocide and not be prosecuted if it is set as an official act?
Yes, You can buy an electric tankless but just be extremely informed of the large amperage requirement to instantly heat your selected gallons per minute flow.
If I reduce the cost of something by 1x it becomes free...
> but amazing for builders (ironically).

Could you expand on this? Who are "the builders" here? You mean the model developers? I don't see how this situation can be "amazing" for the builders - developers will just get a wage out of their work.
If you enjoyed Williams's Augustus, do give Stoner and Butcher's Crossing a read. I "enjoyed" them even more than Augustus. Enjoyed is in quotes because they are both emotionally devastating -- Stoner more so than Butcher's Crossing. I didn't feel like myself for a week after reading Stoner and a decade later I still often think about it.
They self-evidently are. Profits are at some stage related to fulfilling a demand. No matter what, in the end the corporation has given a group of people what they wanted. If you think there is any scenario where that is worse than consuming all the matter in the universe to make paperclips, you must not be human.

Just to clarify, I do mean what I say. Even if the corporation produces for the most reprehensible people you can imagine, how is that worse than everything ending for no reason?
The head of the pig in the cave is such a nice "friendly pink pig" cartoon of a modern breed that I do feel like it would be more appropriate to call it "drawing of a creature that happens to look deceptively like a drawing of a pig" instead of "drawing of a pig". Far more appropriate.
But then you'd be an employee, rather than an independent contractor; and that would break the business model. No value judgment there, just facts.
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The giant investment is a prerequisite for a genuine technical leap, but not an assurance of success. There are plenty of smaller fusion reactors in the world, such as JET in Oxford, UK. None of them offer a credible pathway to energy-positive fusion.

Would you have also objected to LHC, Apollo program or the ISS? They also cost dozens of billions, yet delivered a step change in their respective fields. Hope is that ITER and DEMO will deliver the next. It is doubtful yet another smaller-yet-nimbler fusion project would deliver what ITER promises.
The idea of using the square is due to Carl Friedrich Gauss when calculating the orbit of Ceres. I suspect he was familiar with the idea of absolute value.
2 centuries? Yeah no. 20 years? That's more likely.
Holy shit why is this even a question?? You. Write. Tests.

You build into your testing framework/library a mechanism that will craft sessions across your range of authentication-levels - unauthenticated (no-session), authenticated but unauthorized, etc. You mandate new endpoints must have permissions test in code review.

Simple, straight forward, and absolutely the bare minimum of competency for any endpoint returning personal data.
applied Game Theory in real human history a.k.a. wealth-building, has shown that the biggest empires with the most wealth and the best armies are built with slavery. So slavery did win, again and again and again. I don't think most modern people have any idea how deep and wide the history of slavery is ..

Game-theory is fun when you get good at it for designing markets and products, but let us not lose sight of the crucial discussion.. human beings with real lives are not equal to economic parts.
You're not switching cloud providers. Amazon's not going to suddenly decide to jack up rates for EC2 instances on you. So the extra complexity just isn't worth it.

There is a hypothetical "but what if we honestly actually really really do", but that's such a waste of engineering time when there are so many other problems to be solved that it's implausible. The only time multi-cloud makes sense is when you have to meet customers where they're at, and have resources in whichever cloud your customers are using. Or if you're running arbitrage between the clouds and are reselling compute.
The era just prior was even better IMO. BBSes were the best - bulletin board systems. Basically they were locally hosted servers, mostly ran on dial up connections. So they were almost entirely local, and usually with no more than one or two people on at the same time - though some hosts went crazy. I remember one guy had a 16 line connection! Games, chat, file sharing, and all of the best parts of the internet, with none of what it's turned into. And all 100% local. 'Hey guys up for a BBQ this weekend?' was a thing.

It also had a way better sex ratio, for reasons I don't really understand in hindsight. It was at least ~30% female. Many a match was made on those sites, not just hookup stuff, but people actually forming real relationships.
I like Oauth, I like x509 even more. I don't like Passkeys, which are an attempt to decomplicate x509 by hiding them under layers - The abstraction is by necessity leaky enough that passkeys are more complex for users to understand, and they're a combination of too many different technologies and modes.
I’ve seen it used well in a small (3-4 team) dev shop.

But its value was almost entirely in managing clients, not developers, and it required absolute buy-in from the whole org, owners down.

If our clients had been above us in the org chart, it would have fallen apart, or at best just slowed things down while making everybody more stressed out.
Up until not too much ago we also extracted musk essence from the anal glands of white belly musk deer. Another interesting thing is oud. It's a resin produced in aquilaria trees when infected with a specific fungus, and it can cost tens of thousands of dollars per kg. I think one of the first famous commercial Perfumes to use it was m7 by ysl, you can read an article on it on fragrantica: https://www.fragrantica.com/news/Yves-Saint-Laurent-M7-Revis...
I have multiple reports from people who applied and didn't hear back. Can you share some data of how many applications you received and responded to?
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No, it’s bizarrely poorly written, even for an LLM.
There's quite a bit of evidence that Homo sapiens, denisovans, and floresiensis might have coexisted in Sundaland (the land mass containing much of Indonesia before the oceans rose and created the SEA islands) at the time but the cave art is more consistent with Homo sapiens in the rest of the world than either of the other two. That's the default conclusion until more artwork conclusively belonging to other species is discovered.
> I’m not convinced society would be able to recover after a collapse.

Like ever? Or do you have a time frame in mind? Our current state is evidence enough that people can get there eventually. This is all fun imaginary speculation, of course, but I’d wager that even if we lost all written/stored information and the scientists and engineers, just knowing what was possible puts the remaining people way ahead of where we were in the past. We didn’t know what was possible the first time through, didn’t know what to look for. Having memory of what existed and even a child’s understanding of how it worked, passed by word of mouth, would probably be enough to dramatically accelerate progress compared to it’s natural development.
Yes, poorly worded from me. I meant more households can't really do a huge amount about load shifting without batteries. Not that batteries are a bad idea or not workable.
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The Composable Data Management System Manifesto [pdf]