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> But, as the fine original article basically says, that doesn't make it wrong to want to redistribute the wealth. It won't replace other things, like a more equitable distribution of income, but it sure helps.

Show me the math. Redistribute it how? Help who, and help them how?

> The problem is equity. Not only in it's economic meaning, in its social context. We don't really need equality, we need an equitable outcome. And there is no way that Musk being paid $54b for his actions in control of his companies, is equitable, no matter how legal, proper or permitted in law it is.

If you mean equity in an economic sense, then it's perfectly equitable for a company with >=$54b in assets to transfer <=$54b to an individual. That individual will then pay income tax on said transfer, further funding the development of the society.

If you mean "equitable" as in "fair", then that's a value judgment - something is equitable because people feel it is equitable, not because of any objective measure. Even me personally, whatever wealth I have today I only have because I happened to be born within a particular country's borders and not another. Is that equitable?

We'd get farther as a society focused on solving the real problems in people's everyday lives, not focused on the people who have things we don't have.
> The idea that critical communication infrastructure must be (directly or indirectly) supported by advertising interests is certainly not obvious

I think the problem is more that the trend over the last 5-7 decades has been to privatise things. The EU (for instance) has rules forcing (e.g.,) privatisation of train companies and postal services. This has caused previously government-owned services to be privatised.

In this day and age, I'd be surprised to hear of any successful case where a non-public good was made public in a Western country. (I'll restrict my surprise to there because of insufficient familiarity with other countries to make such sweeping statements.) Whether it'd be web browsers, water treatment facilities, energy-related, healthcare-related, infrastructure-related, etc.: if it's currently privatised, it will emphatically not revert to public; if it's currently public, it might be forced to be privatised.

You might think about "privatised-but-with-strings-attached" variants, like in California with "carrier-of-last-resort", or in EU with public transport concessions requiring also services that operate at a loss to service small population centers / unpopular hours. Typically, these impose restrictions on the market parties on what they must deliver in order to be granted the concession. That seems like a way to guarantee the kind of service a government would deliver, but by market parties. And it is! But once you encode rules, you can start eroding them. Every new concession tender going out, you can try to dilute such conditions. A bit is enough - every step gained can be relied upon in future negotiations ("you're asking for more than last term"). And, of course, every small step can be argued by increasing costs - because cost will always increase anyway.

The TL;DRR (didn't read the rant): the public commons has a tendency to erode in favour of privatisation. There is pressure to do so, and no real counterpressure to reverse, only to not go too fast.
Here is the direct link to the exact bidding: https://www.evergabe-online.de/tenderdetails.html?3&id=69646...
I hate the "search on <whatever>" statements.

1. It triggers my "AOL Keyword" yuck response immediately.

2. It completely ignores the concept of search bubbles. The results you and I get when searching the same term can be wildly different.

3. URLs and hyperlinks are right there. Instead of trying to make me do extra work you can just link me directly to a thing. That way I can see your exact reference instead of wading through a bunch of reaction videos to the video you wanted me to see.
Good reflections. It kind of remind me of the big data era where everything needed to revolve around big data.

However, what happened is that it became apparent that not everything needs to be big data. Business needs will shine through as they always have and dictate what is truly important.

I'm not afraid of the wave of gen AI. Think of it as the new power tool that just came out that everyone's currently talking about. You'll add it to your toolbox because you don't want to be obsolete. It'll blend into everything else once the hype wave is over.
The airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow is roughly 20.1 miles per hour.
“I’m sorry, I can’t let you do that, Dave.”
I'd be curious how many of those spaces were open to the public 100 years ago.

J. Draper uploaded a remarkably interesting video recently about railings and green space in London.

https://youtu.be/JHvKvOUSor4
Since ACs are pretty far from 100% efficient, they turn electricity into heat. There's also heat generated along with the electricity because generation isn't perfect either.
In most cases, this attitude is a competitive advantage.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chesterton's_fence
I run it without any modifications from the default and it has been working quite well tbh. I'm pretty far from being a "power user" of obsidian though, it's literally only a note taking tool for me.
Really glad there is still a solid group of people who recognize the significance of his work. It's hard to explain to someone who doesn't resonate with it, but it's the most important fiction of my childhood and still to this day.
And then go begging for disaster relief and emergency funds from the federal government, so the rest of the country gets to cover the costs. Privatize the profits, socialize the losses.
Or the state government could implement a regulatory regime that ensures its citizens have reliable electricity. A feat the other 49 states seem to have mostly accomplished.
That makes sense. Control over the developers workstations with preconfigured IDEs that are centrally managed sounds like something many corporations would backflip for.

I personally hate it because I think subjecting artisnal crafts to taylorism rarely produces excellent results, but I know their sentiments and the vast majority of programs need be merely sufficient.
I would have just used some sticky tape, but what do I know.
no, of course not. Especially not disney. they need every shred of everything, for liability's sake. If someone brings something to HR, they need to be able to tamp it down. They keep receipts of everything, all the time.

I know a lot of these types of entertainment companies employ things like keyloggers or remote screen viewers in case an employee is working on a writing project or drawing/painting a picture during their lunch hour, because if they are, everything they make, write, sketch or even jot down belongs to disney exclusively... and if they, say, bring that script to prospective publishers outside the company a year later, or try to sell a print of the artwork they created, they can intervene and stop you.

if you take a shit in their staff bathrooms, that turd belongs to them too.
Do you have proof that you are omniscient?
The floppy is just a visible artifact of a system that works, but is no longer easy to modify. Old systems often didn’t abstract away the implementation details of a floppy drive, so it might expect not a block storage, but rather something that actually behaves like a drive. It’s worth noting that current state-of-the-art emulation of Commodore 64 drive is still not perfect and fully compatible with all software.
Yea but I didn’t find the bug. My buddy Jim did.
This is news from June.

Related:

Change Healthcare hackers used stolen credentials and no MFA, says UHG CEO

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40209894

Single Citrix Compromised Credential Results in $22M Ransom

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40221925
I’m sorry but sometimes it’s not money, it’s employees who are malevolently careless. Yes, you can spend huge sums of money locking up their computer so much that it would require 5 or 10 people to do the job of one because they only have a text editor, but we should also get into law that installing a remote desktop incurs liability on the employee side. I won’t say get the company off the hook, but employees are actively malevolent.
There's a lot of responsibility there resting on your superiors because they weren't following "best practises". Sure you fucked up, but if they had backups, it wouldn't have been such a disaster, and if you had a Dev environment to test against, it would have been a non-issue entirely. Straight out of Uni, you shouldn't have been expected to know that, but I bet you grew as a consequence.
AVX-512 has been ubiquitous on Intel server CPUs for a long time. Most people don't run high-performance throughput-oriented codes on consumer-grade CPUs with no ECC, which is the primary application for AVX-512. AVX-512 is a markedly better ISA than AVX2, aside from being wider.
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> I'm not sure I even believe that part of the story. This was either a very disfunctional company

The first sentence of the article tells us it was "a Social Gaming startup" and with that as well everything we needed to know.
Somewhat related, I fell in love with a pretty obscure philosophy lecturer who uploaded his old Princeton lecture series to YouTube, dr Micheal Segrue. Genuinely the best overview of various philosophers I’ve ever seen. Highly recommended. I left a comment on a video with 4K views and he liked it.

Two weeks later a message was posted on his channel by his daughter that he had passed away.

We need to listen to old folks a bit more than we do. The latest isn’t always the greatest.
To be fair, most of that criticism was also applied to "the cloud" and most AWS services that weren't reserved EC2 instances back in the day.
every piece of writing, every sketch and illustration, and a lot of discussions about the process or development of shows/films/books/games/etc are copyrighted and under NDA.

Have you ever worked in entertainment?
(Not an expert, but try to follow climate science as part of $Dayjob. It’s always hard to write quick summaries in Earth Science, because the system is very complex.)

We have to be careful about what is meant by “these events”.

According to the sources I was able to find [1,2], sea level rise (SLR) is perhaps the dominant driver for the increasing damages from tropical cyclones (TCs). Models show some increase (I’m not finding any support for 2x or 3x though!) in the number of high-intensity TCs, and TC intensification is expected to be more rapid.

But the underlying SLR will make even smaller TCs more consequential - even if the number of storms of a given intensity does not change.

[1] specifically says this. And if you look at the consensus report [2], they spend most of their time discussing SLR, in effect as an amplifier for all the trouble a TC can cause. Only in one sentence in a very long discussion do they claim that TCs are themselves worsening, and the statement is quite nuanced:

“For example, hurricanes are intensifying more rapidly and decaying more slowly, leading to stronger storms extending farther inland with heavier rainfall and higher storm surges…”

So if you interpret “these events” as “high dollar damage TCs”, you are correct. But not in the raw number of TCs of a given intensity.

And you are right that the situation is quite dire already:

“Annual frequencies of both minor and moderate coastal flooding increased by a factor of 2–3 along most Atlantic and Gulf coastlines between 1990 and 2020” [2]

The same source says models predict a 5-10x increase in flood events by 2100, which is truly staggering. The recommendation of the GP commenter (“If you don't like it, move somewhere else”) seems to be poorly informed about how important adaptation will be.

[1] https://science.nasa.gov/earth/climate-change/a-force-of-nat...

[2] https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/chapter/9/, and expand out “key message 1”.
Where have I heard this “level” thing before. Oh yeah that’s right. Musks Tesla and self driving cars.
https://youtu.be/GELhFB-f8hQ?feature=shared
"Mandatory MFA option unveiled by Snowflake" sounds like they made it an option for an organization to decide to make MFA mandatory within that organization. But that conflicts with TheRegister headline - Snowflake's PR machine seems to be in overdrive.
Wasn't that just because it was tiny (0.026 square kilometre) and a population of 35,000? I think for a discussion about "most densely populated square kilometres" we should actually be talking about square kilometres?
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It's Kentucky in the early 1930s, driving up unarmed would be noteworthy in itself. It's tempting to make the story more interesting but is "local gas station owners get into a gunfight and one goes on to make KFC" not interesting enough without feeling the need to turn it into a blockbuster plot about a fast food gangster?

I hadn't heard Claudia was Stewart's daughter-in-law before though. I mean I'd believe it, if you've never been there Corbin isn't a particularly large town, but I also can't find any actual reference to it either.
I'm just going to say it: Gen AI is a complete and total nothingburger.
Well, they claim "linear time". Constant time would be impossible.

But anyway they achieve that by being much more restrictive than just "not Turing complete", e.g. you can't define functions.

It certainly sounds like an attractive feature, but how much benefit is it really to restrict a language so much that it will probably run quickly enough compared to just setting a timeout or computation limit? The only advantage I can think of is that you get some kind of computation constraints that don't depend on the data... But this is a pretty niche requirement.
I mean, Bombardier was selling the planes below cost, which is the technical definition of dumping.

Part of why they had to do it is because they had so many testing issues and delays with their new design that people were not willing to bite the bullet on an unproven design.
I never liked that interpretation of copyright much. Clearly the person publishing the data ought to be the one liable, if someone obtains the data they should be allowed to do whatever they want with it in private.

I think at least some legal systems agree with my interpretation, but the U.S. is insane.
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> I suspect if they put the drone budget into lifeguard pay, they'd find quickly they no longer have a problem recruiting.

The problem may be Management-Class people who think it is unethical to pay above the bottom quartile in pay or to accept less than the top quartile in talent.

I believe the Management-Class is the cause of most of our problems.

I define Management-Class as people who yell at and fire people whose jobs they could never do.
But the city was much smaller than 1km², so doesn't qualify
You can have images alongside text in VS Code extensions too. Yes there's still bloat but you may already have VS Code open.
I think in-n-out is pretty good. It seems when the founders died, the formula wasn't changed afaict.

That said, they haven't spread far from their original locations.

I also remember going to five guys and there was something on the wall about the ingredients never frozen. Five guys is lots more expensive though.
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> embarrassingly wrong, unsafe, or otherwise unusable.

You might know the difference as an SME, but if you're not, and it passes terraform apply, it's getting used.
https://archive.ph/3mhzR
Yep, been adjacent enough to a couple large ones through my career to see the details and been up-close to a few that this is the right way to approach it.

Did the person know they screwed up? Did they show remorse and a willingness to dive in and sort it out? They likely feel like absolute shit about the whole thing and you don't need to come down on them like a ton of bricks. If that much damage could be done with a single person then you have a gap in your process/culture/etc and that should be addressed from the top.

One of the best takes I've seen on this was from a previous manager who when confronted with a similar situation as the article(it was a full DB drop). The person tried to hand in their resignation on the spot, they instead(and I'm paraphrasing here) said: "You're the most qualified person to handle this risk in the future as we've just spent $(insert revenue hit here) training you. Moving forward we want you to own backup/restore and making sure those things work".

That person ended up being one of their best engineers and they had fantastic resiliency moving forward. It turns out if you give someone a bit of grace and trust when they realize they screwed up you'll end up with a stronger organization and culture because of it.
I haven't personally seen this particular case either but I have no doubt it could happen. I've seen orgs where a blameless type culture isn't natural, and I've had to explain to the leadership that publicly humiliating (in jest) someone for getting caught by the phishing tests or posting private data to a pastebin type service is a bad idea.

And I've interacted with plenty of people who externalize everything that goes wrong to them, naturally some of these folks will be in leadership positions.
> I simply cannot imagine ex. 2000 Apple/Steve Jobs falling for this.

I wouldnt be so quick to assume that. Let’s not forget that Jobs bought Siri and then integrated it into every platform they sold.

AI has been a buzzword for literally decades. It’s just exploding in popularity right now because the capabilities of GenAI have recently exploded.

It’s a little like how VR and AR has been around for decades. It’s just taken this long for the technology to make mixed reality a possibility for the masses.
> CTOs see productivity multipliers

The CTOs are hallucinating as much as the LLMs are.
Copy-pasting the title of the ticket into the commit title is not much. Or editing the title of the ticket at commit time when everything is clearer.

But indeed, you could imagine some script that fetches the ticket title / content from the ticket number and commits. Nice weekend or hackaton project.
sometimes. I remember trying a pizza from an US chain in mexico and it wasn't like the US version (not as good).

Of course it was fast food pizza, so you get what you get.
That a human collaborating with an AI, will generally lose to an AI playing alone.
We used to call this “imagination”. I guess in the digital age this is something that is lost :3
Do you have a link per chance?
You cannot compare states to cities.

>Compare those cities to traditionally Republican run states

The South was traditionally ran by the Democratic Party.
If you were trying to convince a german to abandon old/bad process, what would be a convincing / resonant counter-statement?
Skip to the end if you want to see the numbers.
Before visual studio code the laggyness of eclipse always pushed me to use notepad++. Which in turn pushed me away from Java.
Is Bow E3 - Wiley - Topic what you meant to link?
Of course server CPUs can run all cores at 100% indefinitely, as long as the cooling can handle it.

With 300W to 400W TDP (Xeon Sapphire 9200) and two CPUs per typical 2U case, cooling is a real challenge, hence my mention of water cooling.
I'm not sure why this article got posted, but I'm happy to share my favorite resource for dietary supplements, examine.com. They're one of the few that doesn't have any associations with mfgs/vendors and are solely dedicated to the science of the ingredients they cover (they do sell memberships for advanced information)

https://examine.com/supplements/chromium/#research-breakdown
The $43M Veterans Affairs simulation hospital where doctors pilot new tech
Good! Hopefully Chinese people distrust their government more and more and overthrow communism!
No need to guess, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_proper_by_popul... puts Manilla at the top of the list.
You might find this interesting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40948221
If you don't have the new guys practice taking them apart and putting them back to together, how are they going to lean how to fix them?
Hi, I was one of the authors of this! I think we briefly mentioned this in a footnote somewhere (a lot of things got cut or moved to footnotes since it is already so long & wanted to focus on the ML parts that aren't described elsewhere).

But yes as @Flobosg mentioned, for protein chains they use jackhmmer to search 4 of the databases (except when searching Uniclust30 + BFD when HHBlits is used instead) and for RNA chains they used nhmmer to search then hmmalign to re-align these to the query chain.

Hope that helps!
Warframe saying 80% of crash reports come from affected CPUs is horrible. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/warframe-dev...
Oooh, now I want this in a browser extension (or hey, even a system-wide audio filter) to automatically censor profanity in e.g. YouTube videos.
I feel like philosophers were better before social media and the internet.

Nowadays people like this philosopher would have gotten sucked into the time vortex of Twitter, Mastadon, Reddit, etc and wasted their lives away.

But back then they spent all their time in libraries actually reading important stuff. Much better for the brain and intellectual development. Not just the brain development of children but adults too
If someone were to offer me $436 million to replace some 8 inch floppy disks, I could probably use $435 million of it to build some pretty interesting products that have nothing to do with floppy disks...
Fax is still widely used in the American healthcare system for the same reason.

It's social reasoning rather than technical reasoning, combined with being excessively liability conscious and catering to the lowest common denominator.

If you communicate confidential data by email, or really anything that's electronic and remotely accessible, it's only a matter of time until someone with poor judgment opens up their work laptop with confidential data plastered all over the screen while sitting in the middle seat on an airplane.
So much this.

There is a great book which I think should be on a table of every single person (especially leadership) working in any place which involves humans interacting with machines:

https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Understanding-Human-Error...
If AI is a factor at all, then more likely on the hackers’ side.
i asked an ai to think of some jokes, and it came up with several categories of humor

> Nostalgia and Size Jokes: "Why did the Wang computer refuse to go to the party? Because it was afraid of getting stuck in the crowd with its massive 8" floppy disks!"

> Modern vs. Classic Tech: "Why did the Wang computer take up so much space? Because it couldn't fit in the tiny pockets of today's smartphones."

> Cloud Storage Comparison: "Did you hear about the Wang computer trying to upload its files to the cloud? It kept saying, 'I'll just leave these here on the table, they're too big for the cloud!'"

> Physical Strength Required: "Why did the Wang computer never go hiking? Because it couldn't handle carrying around those heavy 8" floppy disks."

> Compatibility Issues: "Why didn't the Wang computer ever play hide and seek? Because its 8" floppy disks were always too obvious and easy to find."

> Storage Capacity Humor: "Why did the Wang computer always carry a spare battery? Because its 8" floppy disks took forever to charge!"