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>but the current social media trends are pushing people toward thinking laziness is a virtue, or that working hard on anything is for suckers.

Laziness as a habit that damages your life or ruins it for others who depend on you isn't a virtue, but strategic laziness in the sense of not wasting your precious time on idiotic make-work or needlessly difficult things is indeed a virtue.

We have one single precious life with however many unpredictable years there are to it, a quantity of time that we can never in advance know the length of, and we should make a philosophy of spending large parts of it working hard on things we don't enjoy just for the sake of doing so?

If someone wants to work hard regardless, despite all the above, they always can, but it's better that they should do this once they first arrange their life so that the hard work in question is freely dedicated to what they take satisfaction from.

I disagree entirely with the implicit emphasis you place on the work aspect of "finding gold". If success can be had more easily, it should be pursued that way and is no less deserved as a result. The time we have absolutely should be spent actually doing as much as possible of what we want to do while maximizing the benefit of any work we have to do.

How many generations of authority figures have preached a dogma of "working hard" for its own sake, for the particularly cynical reason of wanting to keep another under their thumb, for their benefit.
Every layer you create is another public API that someone else can use in some other code. Each time your public API is used in a different place, it gathers different invariants - 'this function should be fast', 'this function should never error', 'this function shouldn't contact the database', etc. More invariants = more stuff broken when you change the layer.

So let's say you have some 'User' ORM entity for a food app. Each user has a favourite food and food preferences. You have a function `List<User> getListOfUsersWithFoodPreferences(FoodPreference preference)` which queries another service for users with a given food preference.

The `User` entity has a `String getName()` and `String getFavouriteFood()` methods, cool

Some other team builds some UI on top of that, which takes a list of users and displays their names and their favourite food.

Another team in your org uses the same API call to get a list of users with the same food prefs as you, so they loop over all your food prefs + call the function multiple times.

Amazing, we've layered the system and reused it twice!

Now, the database needs to change, because users can have multiple favourite foods, so the database gets restructured and favourite foods are now more expensive to query - they're not just in the same table row anymore.

As a result, `getListOfUsersWithFoodPreferences` runs a bit slower, because the favourite food query is more expensive.

This is fine for the UI, but the other team using this function to loop over all your food prefs now have their system running 4x slower! They didn't even need the user's favourite food!

If we're lucky that team gets time to investigate the performance regression, and we end up with another function `getListOfUsersWithFoodPreferencesWithoutFavouriteFoods`. Nice.

The onion layer limited the 'blast radius' of the DB change, but only in the API - the performance of the layer changed, and that broke another team.
I can't find the drowning child. The comments for the youtube videos are even disabled. Some more tries, but then I'll give up.

.. there is a description below the video, which seems helpful, if you ever want to spot drowning children

edit: at the end of the video a lifeguard swims to the drowning child
I don't have an opinion on the health effects of sweeteners, but as I noted in a longer comment on this page, multiple sweeteners are commonly used together and aspartame is far from universal in the mix.
Roads are frequently built on the expense of the many to the benefit of the few.
yes, I immediately thought that the pronunciation was Auschwitz...
> If it flies and delivers stuff into the space, even at higher prices, its a huge success.

Why do people keep repeating this nonsense. The goals of the project were outlined in 2014 when the project was greenlit. If anybody back then had suggested that

'If it flies and delivers stuff into the space, even at higher prices, its a huge success.'

They would have been laughed out of the room. It directly contradicts the whole rational for the Ariane 6 that made it politically viable.

If what you say was true, then Europe would be flying the Ariane 5 ME and developing a reusable launch vehicle of the future right now.

You are just repeating ESA and Arianespace PR spin, when around 2020 it was clear their 2014 justification were nonsense, the just changed their PR and everybody just repeats it no matter that it directly contradicts the actual rational that was outlined for Ariane 6 in 2014.
200$/TB/month for raw RAM, not RAM that's presented to you behind a usable API that's distributed and operated by someone else, freeing you of time.

It's not particularly useful to compare the cost of raw unorganized information medium on a single node, to highly organized information platform. It's like saying "this CPU chip is expensive, just look at the price of this sand".
> I don't quite see how it can be architecture independent if it doesn't do register allocation. Does it use a small fixed amount of virtual registers which work on every target? Or does it spill virtual registers to memory if required?

This is pretty common in low tech compilers as well. Basically you assume just a few registers, and have some templates for various code sequences that compute a result and push it onto a stack, or that sort of thing. The code you get is way less efficient than an optimizing compiler would produce, but it beats most interpreters. GNU Lightning is a similar sort of JIT compiler.
I do miss the ability to fix thing easily when crontab -e breaks. Oh, but systemd never breaks, okay.
I’m yet to learn something that I never ever use. If not directly, it fleshes out my mental model of the software engineering field which is incredibly valuable (but usually, everything I learnt has been pretty directly useful at some point)

As a rule of thumb (not quite _always_ true), if you couldn’t implement the lib yourself you will be showing some skills gap in some way or other
> that two defectors have started a new great game

There was never the "Great Game". Look into Russian archives, they never played something like that. There was no great plan to capture India. It was all self inflicted paranoia and projection of UK colonial elites!
> We were leaving some of the best products of our labour in the 1800s and early 1900s

And also all of the mistakes of the industrial revolution...

Including pollution, horrible living and working conditions, deadly workplaces, child labour, exploitation and oppression of the workers, unfair distribution of wealth etc etc

See the construction of the Paris underground or the grim consequences of using asbestos in buildings.

> I think you're misunderstanding the point of tech fading but infrastructure staying.

I think you are moving the goalpost

"We're leaving the maintenance of poorly build infrastructure to our kids" like we always did.

Medieval Bologna was full of tall towers, only a handful of them survived to this day.

Because they were poorly built and even worse maintained.
Ariane 6 exists so that European countries can get independent access to space between now and 2030s.
The launch cost is almost 2x the cost of Falcon 9. Both platforms can lift 22t to LEO.

6-10 years from now Ariane Next/SALTO will aims replicate Falcon 9 efficiency and the design will be very similar: reusable, RP-1/LOX, Prometheus engine is similar reusable open cycle engine as Merlin with lots of 3D printed parts.
> Google doesn't need any extra help to track users who are browsing Google sites in the Google browser.

I would not be surprised if there are cases where this would let them track users they otherwise couldn't. Like someone running two isolated Chrome instances with separate network connections but on the same PC.
Portkey does that with configuration. You assign a base model, then add more models with weight to load-balance.
The writing is not good; I gave up part way through. It's weirdly elliptic and almost autistic in its focus on details and an almost complete absence of a big picture. It could do with some kind of proper context-setting introduction, at the very least.
Free speech and all that.
I wonder when is the right time to do it? Probably in your early 20s. I expect if any of them are revived they will be the decrepit state they were in before, though almost certainly worse.
| Nevertheless, it had several passengers on board.

"passengers" → "payloads", I assume.
I really don't think it would, because investment follows the money. After the first couple of cases, businesses will adjust their practices. Again, see DMA and Apple for an example of how it's very possible to make businesses do things they wouldn't do on their own.

Let's say the US instates this. Will everyone suddenly stop investing in Apple? No, because the chance that they run foul of this would be so tiny as not to impact the RoI. For most companies like Boeing who commit this kind of gross negligence, the act in question only provides a small boost to their market value, if any.

If this still somehow shows to greatly reduce investment, there's an obvious way to alleviate this. All proceeds of the stock sales and fines, the government immediately reinvests in a basket representing the market of the country.
You could also check out Quarto [0]. It is maintained by the people behind RStudio. It offers a hassle-free blogging option. You can update Quarto via apt-get, and not worry about manually updating Jekyll or Jekyll-based static site generator.

I used beautiful-jekyll before, but I got really annoyed with manually updating the generator, so I stopped updating, so I later moved to Quarto.

[0]: https://quarto.org
I’m happy it exists but it’s incredibly disappointing how non competitive it is. There was a lot of hubris in the project in the beginning and now it’s clear that they are years behind. Which in turn makes future funding a challenge I’m sure.

I really hope they don’t give up and manage become more ambitious.
> Be aware that the templating language is a bit difficult to learn if you're not already a Go programmer

I didn't find it difficult coming from Jinja, but it's not something trivial, I agree.

However templating isn't something you need unless you go into more complicated topics - most themes cover the basics pretty well, and there are a lot of resources online to guide you.
Okay, so I have no idea what to do with that web. I copied one of the complicated policy JSONs from AWS, now where do I paste it? What's there to upload? In zip?
yeah, the country went to hell in a handbasket just as the orange man came into play, was a shining example of greatness just a few moments before him.

The reason the country is where its at is because of hyperpartisanship like what you exhibit here. Other side bad, my side good.

Hate to break it to you, but you are a pawn, NONE of these parties cares even the slightest bit about you, and if it would enrich them even 1 dollar they would kill you and your entire family in an instant. AND throw poison on your grave so now flowers could ever grow there.
the irony being that if something should not be high frequency, it is trading
> your argument about slaves/other people had slaves too/we can be rich again

The point is Britain had slaves. But so did other powers that it dominated economically (and occasionally militarily). Slaves didn’t make “North England’s economy as a whole…among the strongest in Europe and thus the world”; slaves merely made it rich. Britain is already rich. Its future prosperity doesn’t need to come from exploitation.

Like, Britain also had trees. And mailboxes. And black pudding. But trees and mailboxes and blood sausages aren’t why it had one of the strongest economies in the world. Similarly, yes, Britain had slaves, but slaves weren’t why it had the strongest economy in Europe, a continent with several slavery enthusiasts.
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https://archive.is/Qyj8S
Even Newton knew that party trick. The centrifugal force has to at least equal gravity when the glass is upside down, so F/m=w^2r=g. If r (the distance from the axis of revolution is about a metre, then w (the angular velocity) is roughly sqrt(10)/second. In more familiar terms that's about 30 rpm. Anything rotating that fast will be able to keep all its water in the glass.
Ask HN: Does ChatGPT/AI enable anyone to code?
I'm non-technical and have never written code. There's a lot of talk on Twitter how AI means anyone can now easily code and build products and stuff.

Since a lot (most?) of HN is about technical stuff, I'd love to find out from y'all - how true is that?

Do you think that software engineering will go to a place where anyone can just say "help me build an app that does these three things" and I can just deploy that?

Or will a baseline of skill always be required?
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Checkout my machine learning library, which is a raw implementation of combining pytorch with scikit-learn.
Why did I make this project?
I made it as I saw problems with pytorch, there weren't any data analasys featurues, some more algortihms could be implemented, better support for sparse tensors with scipy, use of cupy, easier creation of cuda kernels.
A view to simplify, use a lot more of python, create better support for cpus and MacOS.
Can be installed with `pip install okrolearn`.
Can be used like this
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It does not work on Windows ARM because it is a game that was develop for a regular Windows and consoles. It is not the "app".
There is a good technical essay (by experts) on why it's not possible in practice.

https://www.latacora.com/blog/2020/02/19/stop-using-encrypte...
As long as it doesn't interfere with supporting normal, non container builds, sure.
The "why" was covered in a parent comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40923030
By then, startship would have lowered cost even further.
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Moissanite also looks prettier.
So. The infrastructure is simply not ready, as expected. Instead of building more chargers to fight deficit, they will limit users.
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No it does not. Firefox does by default. But then again, you would need the user to install your cert. Good luck with that
The main difference was that MiG-21 wasn't pushed as low-altitude aircraft with strike mission, like what was involved with F-104G.

It had quite explicit history related to the Uragan project (networked interception system with ground control against US bombers), but while it could be pushed into low-altitude attack role, it wasn't really sold as one.

A lot of the remaining issues were essentially shared across both sides due to how early the technology base was, not just on the fighter jet, but for example because you might have to land a high approach speed plane in low visibility using only 2xNDB system (which essentially just gives you correct heading, you have to use dead reckoning for altitude adjustment - an ex-21 pilot said that landing without visibility often involved prayers till you felt tires hit the runway).
They are? Generally fiber length determines how tough a given composite will be. There's a reason why clothes are made out of cotton fiber not wood.
Funding hard to lose when the end result is needed and is a strategic objective. Not funding it would make the EU depend on others and knowledge would be lost.

Interesting to think about a way how these perfectly connected people could be exchanged to some new, pragmatic generation.
You're quite right, but for apples-to-apples you should compare to NASA rather than SpaceX. "Move fast and break things" is an attitide that only relatively new rocket builders can have.
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"a flux of African immigrants who in turn have families with 6 to 10 kids. And insignificant new housing. But they choose to bother tourists because it's cool."

Would you have preferred "xenophobic", "nativist", or "bigoted" instead?

No non-Moroccan African countries were even on that list of immigrant populations in Catalonia.

I checked with https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racismo_cultural and indeed even in Spanish "racism" does not specifically require "race":

> El racismo cultural, también denominado «neoracismo» o «racismo diferencial», es una forma de racismo surgida después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en la que la identificación de los grupos humanos no se basa en sus rasgos biológicos (en la «raza», un concepto deslegitimado después de 1945) sino en su cultura, estableciendo una jerarquía de culturas «superiores» e «inferiores» como en el viejo racismo científico.
> The launch cost is almost 2x the cost of Falcon 9.

I bet it will be a lot more than that.
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> ts oversubscribed as many users share the same link at some point and that link is not big enough to allow all users to use all their bandwidth at the same time.

that's a definition of oversubscription.

> around 70-95% utilization depending on link size.

2/3's with dumb queues, <100% with the computational tradeoff of sqm
feed all the text into chat gpt and ask it for a ten sentence summary. put that on your website and delete the rest.
Even though this is not impressive compared to SpaceX, it is still essential that we have multiple actors building rockets. The competition makes sure that SpaceX needs to push the boundaries. Our future as a multi-planetary species is not dependent on a single actor.

I'm hoping for some space race. It would be great if the United States would transfer a part of MIC funding to space exploration.
GPT4 regurgitated almost full NYT articles verbatim. It's strange that this lawsuit seems to be so amateurish that they failed to properly demonstrate the reproduction. Though of course it might require a lot of legal technicalities that we naively think are trivial but they might be not.
An Anton Piller order is a form of provisional injunctive relief that provides a complainant the right to search a defendant’s premises and seize evidence without prior warning.

Wow, I had no idea such things were possible. A private entity can petition a court to grant them power to search another's premises and seize things? That sounds insane!
> wonder just how relatively valuable copra and cocoa bean were

Profit is revenue minus cost. Cost of colonisation is vastly reduced if the target nation is infighting. Cocoa was absolutely valuable, but Samoa’s attractiveness may have also been in its inability to defend itself. (Particularly against European weapons.)
>isn't going to cause issues due to its hardness if my finger swells (titanium or tungsten are very difficult to cut off in those situations).

You're overlooking a huge benefit to a titanium ring: if you're trapped in an undersea mining rig that's flooding and the automatic door in front of you is closing, you can stop the door using your ring.
Unfortunately the mission didn't perform smoothly as intended at the end, there was an issue with the auxiliary power unit and it wasn't able to de-orbit once deployed the cubesats:

https://x.com/AndrewParsonson/status/1810794808828641546
This is very useful for laboratory science but not too much for computer science research for example.

You can typically make nice prototypes in a weekend and try out ideas. If one or two of these work out, you get a paper after a bit more work polishing it.

Of course you have to be competent and able to build prototypes, which is something I have seen about half of the students lack. In that case, you can typically also get a PhD by basically doing minor tweaks on existing tools and putting a lot more effort in benchmarking and story telling. Both are useful to science.
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I disagree when it comes to the UK. Healthy food; fresh fruit, vegetables and meat is significantly more expensive than processed food.

There are/were plenty of British YouTuber's doing "how cheap can you eat" meals through COVID and the cost of living crisis, they started at ~£1 for a bare-bones meal for one, they were at ~£1.50 last I looked; that's hopefully improving with the recent falls in inflation, but still and issue for many.

Of course the same demographic who can't afford the ingredients to cook their own healthy meals can often also not afford the time to prepare them either; due to working long hours, not being able to afford care for their children, etc.

Food banks are very much on the rise in many parts of the UK[0] and we have millions of children in poverty[1], a significant and heart breaking statistic for such a country.

[0] https://www.trusselltrust.org/news-and-blog/latest-stats/end...
[1] https://cpag.org.uk/child-poverty/poverty-facts-and-figures
Its anti-Israel rag. They openly employ Hamas sympathizers like Gideon Levy. It has zero circulation in Israel.
What else are we supposed to do with all these massively multicore CPU's and gigabytes of RAM?
In most videos, there'll be a whistle-blow that marks the point where the life guard in the video reacts to the drowning person. Upon clicking the right location, you are "graded" based on how quickly relative to the life guard you reacted. You get the "answer" by looking at who is getting rescued.

In my case, it started with a video that appears to be broken (?) the video just ended without any life guard reaction, but you can hit "Play Another Video" which appears afterwards.
paste it to the IAM Policy JSON input or zip your json files and upload the zip.
You seem to be quoting the highest figure from the article out of context as-if that is their pricing, but the opposite is the case.

> $3600.00/TB/month (incumbents)

> $70.00/TB/month (turbopuffer)

That's still 3x cheaper than your number and it's a SaaS API, not just a piece of rented hardware.
You are taking the plaintiff statement as is, which is wrong. You can blame the media that didn't made it clear that it was a statement from the plaintiff.
I have been discussing IAM with a couple of AWS engineers from that team a few years ago. I have tried to convince them to implement something actually sane non-corporate developers, because IAM is complicated way beyond a point of being usable. I have seen so many people just slam the root credentials into config in order to never touch IAM. And yes, me included, and yes, it's a shameful practice, don't do that. Take a day off, go on a hike, watch the sunset, meditate and embrace the inevitable: yes IAM is incredibly bad and there is no way around.

(I was heavily using AWS since inception, way before IAM was invented).

My speech fell on deaf ears, because IAM is clear as sky to its inventors and they fail to see what's the problem in it and corporate customers are happy to employ one or two people solely dedicated to learning and managing IAM.

Anyways. There is no way around IAM. And just like with systemd you better embrace it and learn it and it turns not that terrible.
> Also, why not fine or ban products that cause problems rather than requiring certification

Because people could get hurt or killed in the meantime. See the 737max for example.

Now it is a dramatic example, but think about any device unwillingly emitting too much electromagnetic radiation potentially being harmful to kids or messing with people pacemakers.
Is the cost difference mostly due by design or also due to much higher production volume and launches for Falcon 9 ?