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Yes. Some of the opportunities exist in odd corners of the software universe.

To offer just one example, I'm aware of a software company that does nine figures in ARR making high performance computing software for very large financial institutions. There's basically no chance you've ever heard of them. They're very low key. The company hasn't grown headcount much in the last decade, and their employees don't really leave. But some of their people writing really low-level code are certainly making multiples of representative peers at FAANG.
The first link alleges that Cyberstarts pays kickbacks to CISOs who buy their products. Is that legal?
My amnesia is somewhat intentional. Like some of the commenters here, I'm doubtful if I should really take it everyday. Just seems excessive? Did it during pregnancy ofc, and it's not like the early days of breastfeeding when you're making almost a liter a day (kiddo is 2.5 so while still BFing, it's not an important source of food), so idk. My grandmother had like 10 kids, breastfed them all and never had bone issues. My mother breastfed us v little (<6 months all together) and got osteoporosis. I'm not at all sure how well-supported this recommendation is.

I try to eat more yogurt/kefir instead.
This is what VCs are for.
Google Pixel 'Satellite SOS' support may be free for two years
NixOS also has out of the box support for zfs auto snapshots, where you can tell it to keep 3 months, four weeks, 24 hourly, and frequent snapshots evert fifteen minutes so you can time shift your home directory, too
>Who said anything about petroleum storage tanks?

Repeating myself: before the 700 Kuwaiti oil fires, the most influential scientists warning about nuclear winter, like Carl Sagan, relied heavily on petroleum fires to make their argument.
Yep. I'm pretty sure just the C suite made this decision unilaterally.
It's not the size. The main view contains bits from so many tables and in situations where the context decides how to calculate other results. Compression is cool, but it can't solve running a chain of queries.
Honestly, I think it would even be acceptable to punish UBI "freeloaders" with, like, austerity. Like they get slow(ish) internet, a 10x10 foot studio apartment with a toilet, a stand-up shower, a counter with a mini-fridge and a hotplate (or premade food rations, whichever is cheaper), and a single window with a shitty view. Nutritious food, clean water.

And then, if you have proof of another habitable residence, you can get the cash value of all that instead.

The tricky part is that the austerity absolutely cannot reduce anyone below the minimum actual needs to live a full human life. You absolutely need to be giving them enough and healthy enough food, and water. The apartment can be claustrophobic, but it needs ventilation and sound insulation so people can actually sleep. The bed can be boring, but tall people can't be literally cramped when they sleep, and it needs to actually support their weight so people don't get back injuries. Health care needs to be fully adequate. Basically, minimum needs are 100% covered, so that if anyone ever wants to get working they don't have any immediate barriers. Don't take away anything that will make it harder for people to work.
not by patent
Iran has some ultra tough concrete. I question if even our best bunker busters can penetrate them.
Air traffic control definitely depends on software. Just not enterprise checklist checking junk software.
Pretty sure the namespace thing was in C++17
Wonder what Linus has to say on this. Dude knows how to rip into crappy Intel products
> The hitch was that I was going to design really cool sites, with all kinds of animations, huge text, have really cool navigation menus, etc. In short, I had a very romantic idea that I would dictate some incredible design to my clients. I thought I was like the Frank Lloyd Wright of design and whatever I showed people they would swoon and then go with whatever uber cool thing I showed them.

hmmm... That approach is anathema to every other UI designer or UX person I encountered in that field. The core of UI design is 100% about clarity-- letting the user focus on exactly what they need to solve their problem. The core guiding principle of UX work is designing based on empirical research, and then iterating based on user testing... even if it doesn't work out like that in practice, it's still laser-focused on helping the user achieve what they need.

Did you transfer into the field from a non-web-design background? The people I've seen approach web design with the intent of making some sexy website that's flashy for its own sake were a) front-end developers that thought the technical know-how was the hard part, b) branding and identity designers, or maybe print designers that never had to consider designs that people actually had to do stuff with, and c) small-org IT people that were sick of IT and were charged with maintaining the organization's website so they figured it would be an easy switch.
in retrospect? sure. at the time? radically different.

just ask your average sv startup employee if they think options and RSUs are the same
In the future, computers will not crash due to bad software updates, even those updates that involve kernel code.

100% BS. Even if they don't "crash" they will "stop functioning as intended" which is just the same. It's absolutely disgusting how this industry is now using this one outage as a talking point to further their totalitarian agenda.

It reminds me of how Google went after adblockers with their new extension model that also promised more "security". It's time we realised what they're really trying to do. In fact, I wonder whether this outage was not accidental after all.
I had removed Analytics from my website/blog quite a while back and I don't know who read, or what happens to my website anymore. It is a pleasure not knowing. Cloudflare does do the basic Analytics that comes built-in and I rarely see them.
This obviously doesn't work. Maybe you can try refactoring a console emulator that uses its stack switching primitive millions of times per second to use threads instead and let us know how well it runs.
There is a reasonably lengthly roundup at: https://corabuhlert.com/2024/01/21/the-2023-hugo-nomination-...

The entries supposedly eliminated at the behest of the Chinese government are in many cases published in China, and there's never been any evidence that they were eliminated by anyone other than a secret committee comprising the guy who writes the closed-source voting software, which he refuses to let anyone audit. Moreover, there is clear evidence of anomalies and outright vote manipulation (with some winners having more votes allocated than were cast). Much of the vote manipulation appears to have been in order to override popular votes from Chinese fans.

The "oh it's just the evil Chinese government" appears to be as much a deflection to allow one or a few people to rewrite the votes to a slate of winners who they prefer, as anything else.

From : https://corabuhlert.com/2024/02/15/the-2023-hugo-nomination-...

"There are a couple of other landmines in the report, namely that several Chinese language works were apparently removed for alleged slating before they even made the longlist. Note that Dave McCarty was also the Hugo administrator in 2016, i.e. one of the Puppy years, where slating very definitely took place, and yet found himself unable to remove any of the slate finalists from the ballot. And while I have no idea what We Live in Nanjing by Tianrui Shuofu and the other Chinese novels which appear on the eligibility spreadsheet but not on the ballot, are about, they can’t possibly be worse than such literary gems as “If You Were an Award, My Love” by Juan Tabo and S. Harris or “Safe Space as Rape Room” by Daniel Eness, both of which Dave McCarty allowed to make the ballot in 2016."
The problem is the people running the show don't care if it's sustainable. They just want to get theirs and get out. Earn enough money and you can insulate yourself from consequences

There's far too much of this happening across all sectors, including government
In embedded development it's impossible to use any allocation strategy other than the language constantly calling a global malloc on your behalf?
Yeah, as I said in my comment, the primary way to pay for it is to adjust marginal rates so that it's (mostly) a transfer from rich to poor. If you're rich, you'll get a $1k UBI and also pay $2k more in taxes (or $4k, or whatever). Probably for those at the median income it would be roughly neutral - but with the benefit that if you ever lose your job, or want to leave an abusive marriage, or want to try starting a business, you still have that $1k coming in.

Medicaid and Medicare being wholly replaced by a truly universal plan unrelated to UBI is probably a prerequisite for a UBI for a bunch of reasons. Social security would probably be unaffected, at least initially, and SSI/disability would likely either be reduced or gradually phased out, depending on the amounts.

I know the other various benefits aren't huge in the budget, but they add significant bureaucratic burden to both the state and the individual. Eliminating that would be a big benefit of UBI.
The post you responded to leaves out that supply of housing can increase - in the US, we stopped building to meet demand decades ago and are only in the last few years showing signs of reversing that trend in some major metro areas. We also have a "missing middle" of housing density that can be further built in.
I see levels.fyi has a good list of "top paying companies"[1]. Is that helpful?

Side note: The difference at Staff Eng is slightly more wide. Eg. IBM Band 9 pays TC ~$250K while Meta E6 is ~$640K.

Side note 2: From what I understand, Big Tech often brings in Staff Eng from smaller companies to a Senior Eng role. Reverse is also true, Sr Eng at Big Tech are often able to join Staff roles at smaller companies.

[1] https://www.levels.fyi/leaderboard/Software-Engineer/Entry-L...
Look for organizations that have very large amounts of money, where software is critical to them continuing to make that money (or where their money was given to them to create something that in turn someone believes will be worth large amounts of money). Generally follow the money.
Well, it was initially covert, and he stalled both the results and then the votes, both under pressure around the "clean up" he was doing.
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They say this in how you simply are limited in what you can pass and control when using OIDC Vs SAML.

SSO -> token that works only for specific role, where the specific user is supposed to be able to take many roles, is very hard to do with OIDC unless you can mangle OIDC tokens properly, whereas it's way simpler to do with SAML
> Personally, I don't want to have children because the risks and downsides aren't even remotely close to the benefits.

I'd say that the risks aren't worth the benefits to you. But my weighing of the benefits is different. To me, my kids give meaning and purpose. It's honestly hard to imagine not having them.

I think different people are just different. To some, having a purpose in life (to raise your kids) is really meaningful and more important than worries about the risks, all of which seem minor in comparison. But to others, it's a burden instead of a purpose, so it doesn't make any sense to have kids.
The Importance of 'Soft-Skills' for Professional Practice in the 21st Century
Educators today distinguish between “hard” and “soft skills.” Hard skills are the technical skills required for a job and learned through formal education and experience. These skills are specific and typically can be quantified or evidenced by experience or a certification showing you have completed a particular course or gained a qualification. Examples of hard skills include: computer programming, data analysis, copywriting, foreign language ability, marketing, etc.
> LGM-118 Peacekeeper

> MIRV ICMB produced and deployed by the United States from 1985 to 2005. The missile could carry up to twelve Mark 21 reentry vehicles (although treaties limited its actual payload to 10), each armed with a 300-kiloton W87 warhead. Initial plans called for building and deploying 100 MX ICBMs, but budgetary concerns limited the final procurement; only 50 entered service. Disarmament treaties signed after the Peacekeeper's development led to its withdrawal from service in 2005.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-118_Peacekeeper

So, that's what we had been doing for a couple decades. The most crazy ass nuclear cluster bomb.

Now we're still trying to replace the LGM-30 Minutemen ICBMs we have had since 1962: Northrop Grumman's LGM-35 Sentinel. And it's taking forever & costing an unbelievable sum ($200B, $210M/missile including ground systems, although they're back to the drawing board to try to get costs down). https://www.defensenews.com/air/2024/07/08/pentagon-keeps-co...

This is after Minuteman was ~$7m/missile, a super-cheap cast-solid-fuel design, with McNamera shutting down efforts on more expensive & fancy Atlas and Titan missiles. Weighing 1/9th the weight of the monstrous Soviet R7. One persistent dude (Hall) convinced everyone we didn't need fancy we needed a survivable competent second strike capable missile swarm. Minuteman is wild. There are some great submissions on it; the communication network submission from three days ago was fabulous & shows very much a Paul Baram of RAND/Arpanet style network resiliency idea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-30_Minuteman https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41019604

Also of note, Minuteman's original D-17B computer is also quite the thing. There are some great submissions on it. It uses an early hard-disk like thing as working memory. It uses diode-resistor logic (DRL) since diode-transistor-logic (DTL) wasn't reliable enough yet. Incredibly stunningly built guidance computer that was core to a reliable totally cutting edge inertial guidance system.

Anyhow yeah, we built them decommissioned utterly crazy multi-warhead missiles. And are trying and having trouble going back and building a new single warhead ICBM.
> many women do minimal to no strength training because they're worried that muscle tone will make them look masculine.

I've observed this as being a very widespread belief too, and it seems like we need to be giving women a better biology education or something, because holy shit is it wrong.

I guess it's more a misconception among the general non weight training public that this stuff is so easy you can basically develop a muscular, masculine body on accident.

For all but the youngest and most genetically blessed males it takes years of very specific diet and exercise regimes. Or steroids.

Whereas just adding some weighted squats into her routine will have immense health benefits for most women as well as making their body look more feminine and attractive.
This is so true. It's socially isolating. We don't have the support structures we had even back when I was a kid, let alone 20 or 40 years before that, when society was really built around families having kids.

I can only wonder what it will be like in another 20 years, when my children are grown up.
Because it's 2024 and we're not yet living in the world of WALL-E.

I agree it would be nice to weight 300 pounds and float around on a levitating lounge all day doing nothing but sadly we're just not at that point yet.
and nobody beats them!
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This is also my take.
I used to work at such a place. Contracts with places large as BAML and other places you e never heard of…

Unless you’re the low level wizard you’re just going to make an industry standard salary, maybe a bump but nothing special.
Microsoft made a market for these snake oil products because of their incompetente to make a secure operating system. Not because of governments. Things such as Defender wouldn't even be necessary (well they are still not necessary today, but people believe they are and you can't disable Defender anyways).
SSBN stealth could be at risk by mid-century if current technologies continue to advance in surveillance and information processing. That would be enormously destabilizing from a grand strategic perspective but is still very much a future worry not a contemporary problem yet.
This looks awesome! As a developer, I've always wanted an easy way to turn my open source projects into a business. Gitwallet's tools for setting up paid services, promoting them, and finding customers are exactly what we need.
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No I think he literally means IR losses. ie voltage droop V=IR

Modern VRMs also reduce output voltage when the CPU draws more current. That way when the CPU later draws less current, the voltage doesn't inductively spike up and damage the CPU. Overclockers call this LLC (load line calibration), but don't google that because electrical engineers don't use that term and most articles and reddit threads explain this ass-backwards. Google "Active Voltage Positioning" instead to find correct documentation.

If your VRM is close to the chip, voltage droop will be ~0 and LLC can be ~0. This allows you to undervolt more and save power without instability. This is probably why most server CPUs have voltage conversion inside the chip (FIVR, Fully integrated voltage regulators)
"Hey, bro. I noticed you haven't been working or paying your bills. Don't know what's up with that.

Feels bad, bro. Must be rough.

Anyway, I went ahead and turned off your lights at the meter and posted an eviction notice on your door.

You've still got two weeks to turn it around if you can find a way."

--life and landlords
just like every other RTO vs WFH article
Don't forget Atpik. great for migrating a system to a new distro.
The system breaks down when people get to democratically vote for their own UBI. Why work extra for a cool car or nice vacation when you can just vote for more benefits?
As a completely serious question, what about the non-influencer scientists, the ones doing actual detailed physical modelling, what were they saying?

As I recall from the time there were three camps on this:

* pro MAD cold war political scientists who stressed that world ending Mutualy Assurred Destruction scenarios were essential to peace keeping,

* antinuclear horrified scientists, Carl Sagan, Betrand Russell, et al who wanted disarmament and peace through understanding and stressed the world ending horror of nuclear weapons and nuclear winter and wrote a lot of papers light on detail.

* actual working geophysicists modelling the world who seemed largely undecided about the actual threat of nuclear winter .. very much in the maybe | maybe not camp.

ADDED: I just read through the wikipedia Nuclear Winter article and seems (by my recollection) to have been culled in the decade since I last read it when (by my recollection) it referenced a great many more papers that fell on the probably not catastrophic side. It now appears to emphasis only papers that agree with the nuclear winter hypothesis.
it simply stores objects as files on the disk. Then it distributes the chunks around the place (so you need to reassemble it when reading) and lastly, when you read the file, it's not O(1). There is some "discovery" process to locate the objects where the servers chat with each other rather than have the location stored somewhere and be O(1).
> What is "assisted 100s of millions of people in many billions of tasks"?

Let's assume 180M users for ChatGPT, each user using the model just 5 times in a month. You got the 1B tasks. If one task uses up 1000 tokens - you have the trillion interactive tokens. It's all based on public data and guesstimation.
Isn't the core of it mostly radio communication?
> Expand that out into larger purchases, which then imply you're a criminal unless you provide full KYC.

Well yeah, that's the whole point isn't it? Like, the business doesn't want to be getting paid out of ransomware ransoms, they want money in a clean currency, and so at some point someone has to exchange clean money for ransom tokens, and if you offer to do that without verification then you're essentially part of the ransomware industry and people will treat you accordingly.
Does that confirm the size of the black hole, or is it just a "strong hint"?
"negative brackets" is a truly great idea and would help many affected by poverty.

but that's not what adherence to UBI is about. UBI is about chasing an impossible utopia and burning ourselves in the process so that we have greater net inequality.

Stick to the plan. Call out anyone who tries to make UBI work by watering it down from our idealized end-goal as nay-sayers. Clutch to random hypothesis'.

It's the only way we can bludgeon them through democratic or revolutionary means.
I've created a Docker image for it and onboarded it into my tool called insta-infra[1]. You should be able to run it via:

./run.sh maestro

[1] https://github.com/data-catering/insta-infra
Well, mass shootings are increasing as well

That would seem to qualify as "boiling over" to a certain extent to me
Free on Apple forever, right?

Why would I pay for this feature? It seems so cheap to actually market since it’s so rarely used.
Even ChatGPT's domain for quite a while used to be chat.openai.com, which only recently redirects to chatgpt.com.
I believe that the waters may be muddied enough that they wont have to do a full recall and only if you 'provide evidence' the system is still crashing.
It's all an edge case. Nullification isn't an intended right, it's an unavoidable loophole. It's the necessary consequence of a system where no one is allowed to tell a juror how to vote or demand that they justify their decision: there's no way to maintain those requirements and also punish jurors for ignoring the law completely, so we just ask them to pretty please not do that.

And that's fine. It's certainly better than letting anyone legally pressure jurors. Democracy and freedom are all about compromise. I'm just saying, it's not corruption for judges to prefer jurors who don't ignore the law.
Plus Suncor, the brown cloud, auto emissions, etc. It’s not new, talk to anyone who studies public health around here. Childhood asthma in the inverted L is and has been elevated for years
Ok, that doesn't change the fact that all that is happening is that they are losing more and more lives, military power, and are suffering significant economic damage.

Thats the point. They are taking nothing but losses. All for some land that is now worthless after the war.
Depends on what % of the company is put on the market. Could Google buy every available share if they are willing to spend enough money? Sure. But if there are not enough shares on the market to give them a controlling interest they still can't hostile takeover that way.
What I meant is

1. LLM generates an idea and

2. the user responds positively or negatively or

3. the user tries the idea and comes back to continue the iteration, communicating the outcomes.

For example the LLM generates some code and I run it, and if it fails I copy paste the error.

That is the (state, action, reward) tuple which defines an experience.
I had this even in the 1990s. But now it really is different.

Last week, I let my 7 year old go by herself to a Dollar Tree store by herself while I was with her siblings at another store in the same shopping center. A bit later, I went in to the Dollar Tree after her, and got a real talking to from the cashier about how unsafe it was for me to let her go to the store by herself. She said the world isn't safe any more and I'm putting her at risk. The cashier was an elderly woman! I would think she was raised in a time where kids were allowed to leave the house on their own.

I try to teach my kiddos independence. I send them out on their in ways that I think are safe. But the amount of judgment I get is just crazy. And I fear that one day I'll have child protective services knocking on my door.
The Groupon of 2024?
Cause their founders are already Billionaires.

Can you imagine Billionaires reporting to the average corporate robot at large corp?