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> This plays into the worst fears of the product manager, that you are engaging in resume driven development that benefits you, your sense of fun, and your personal growth, over what is best for the product and the company

I saw someone do exactly that - the problem to solve was simple, but one of the goal of the tech lead was to be able to do a tech talk about the solution, he was just in the company to deliver this project so unsurprisingly it ended up being massively over engineered and a difficult to maintain. To add an attribute in the response of an API you would unironically need to edit 10 files, and this is for a small service.
I never thought about UBI and copyright - but as soon as you say that, it is immediately obvious to me that when we have some kind of UBI, copyright should be dramatically reduced.
Maybe it's the norm, but it's a dysfunctional company if you have engineering that only cares about "doing things the right way", product that only cares about "get the next feature out as soon as possible", and corporate that just thinks "minimize software development costs". And on top of that, you have arbitrary regular deadlines that dictate the flow of work.

That points to everyone being focused on their own goals rather than working together to deliver the product that will satisfy customers the best.
Yeah, I was a kid who was always told I was no good at drawing, that I should focus on stuff I'm good at

In my early 30s I sat down with a sketchbook and a mechanical pencil and watched YouTube videos on figure drawing, practiced a bunch and I'm actually decent at it now.

I wanted to be able to draw and design characters. I can draw figures and gestures decently now but I'm really stuck learning the stuff like hair, eyes, faces in general, clothes, costumes, props like weapons... It's a lot of stuff

But I can draw nude faceless figures, even hands and feet, decently

I think its really a matter of practice and study
I'm no chemist, but according to wikipedia, cuscohygrine is found in belladona plants and it metabolizes into hygrine. So that could be what he's referring to?
Remember when companies were doing just fine on productivity when huge swathes of industries (that could) allowed work from home because of the pandemic and now suddenly we’re asked believe “trust me bro” CEOs more. It’s all about the power play and keeping middle management happy because they won’t stop crying over not being able to call incessant meetings and “walk the floor” lording their power over the underlings.
Does not change the controversy. AFAIR he quit soon after this PEP was added.

Adding it was like making python dirty, like abolishing indentation in it.

Saving few keystrokes and sacrificing readability. Who even came out with such idea?
Brew has always been dogshit. Nobody runs macos in production. Please stop using this.
An actual news report would be helpful from any of the 15 other submissions OP:

Indian tycoon Ratan Tata dies aged 86

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjd5835mp4ko
The self-driving car taxi service Waymo is another Google division that could do well in terms of being a company and having a product.
Arbitration is not as bad as everyone thinks if you are smart and know the law. First it allows you to talk to the other party in a way that illuminates you are willing to go far enough to seek remedy to your grievance. Secondly, it does not oblige you to make a deal. In fact, a no deal finding will help you when you sue in court after. Many arbitration agreements suggest you give up this right but that is an illegal clause. You can always sue. Just not in a class action. But for the most part, if you go to court they will likely (knowing you know the law) offer you a settlement.

Remember contracts can be changed by you for any reason at any time. And any contract that removes your rights is by law, unlawful and void. You can even sue them for the denial of rights under the color of law. If you have the time.
Bad ads?

No, that is horseshit.

The goal of blocking ads isn't to only allow in "good ads".

It's to block ads. Not some ads. Not a few ads. Not just malware delivered via ads. Not just Google's competitors.

It's to block ads. All of them. To stop the relentless harassment of the advertising industry claiming other peoples' screens and time as their own.
> The fact is we have states to provide a level of autonomy and independence to geographically separate groups of people, so they can live with more freedom.

On this specific point- do you contend that unitary republics, such as France, are inherently less free than federal entities? How are provinces less free than states? Is Canada less free than the U.S.?
Presumably “desktop environment” e.g. KDE plasma or Gnome. You don’t really want to be containerising those.
This line at the end of the article triggered me:

> You can invest [your spare time] each week towards something bigger like a pub/sub system so that you can pull a new microservice out of your monolith.
Another part of the reason is that in every company I have ever worked for some SEO dude insists we need to add literally 10 different tracking scripts and insists they need to load first and consume megabytes of data. At my last gig the landing page was 190kb of HTML, CSS and JS from us, 800kb of images and literally 8mb in vendor scripts we were mandated to load as early as possible. Of course we fought it, of course nobody cared.
I agree. "Everything" matters when it comes to these applications: complexity theory, heuristics, constant factors, quantum error correction overhead, qubit quality, improvements in classical algorithms, CPU and GPU improvements e.t.c. Doesn't make sense to put too much stock in just one of these components at the cost of others.
The Goal audio book is included in Spotify premium.

It’s surprisingly well done, in that it’s more like audio theatre with different voice actors, sound effects, and so on, as opposed to a single voice actor doing different characters.
TIL that .co is for Colombia. Goddam. I was about to buy a .co domain. I guess I'll have to shell out an extra $50k for .com just in case any more geopolotics happens in my lifetime :/
One of the greatest entrepreneurs in the world. I hope they make a movie on him and his life.
Curious why it ends up causing cancer..
They're not buying the company though, just a bunch of cars as I understood it. At least several other people have bought Fisker cars as well, perhaps that's where the issue arises.

At the very least, it sounds like a problematic privacy and legal issue for regular Joe to have his car suddenly send data to some "random" third party, without his consent.
Only 10 files? Must be nice!
The issue is that most people are not cross-functional thinkers. Those who are not generally fall prey to the “if you have a hammer, every problem is a nail” fallacy. Engineers want to engineer, PMs want to add features, managers want to “manage”, etc.
Ditto.

Company of a friend of a friend had an intractable problem with an impossible deadline, like, literally, less than a day.

Don’t remember the details, but I fixed it. Deadline next morning, problem solved, saved the day.

It’s midnight, on a status call, wife is sleeping in the next room. The IT guy, his Russian contractor, and “Management” (folks who called me in) are on the call.

The IT guy is SCREAMING at me because I hadn’t checked the code into his convoluted VCS. That thing was a mess. I told them early on that doing that kind of bookkeeping was not a priority. We could deal with it after the crisis had passed.

He was having none of it. At high volume. In the middle of the night.

I simply told them “You know, I don’t have to be here.”

This ][ close to just saying “ok” and hanging up the phone.

Good times.
Ok, argue for a smaller middle class all you want
When we talk about Rust being a reasonable choice for things like (say) a CRUD app, memory safety is already table stakes; every mainstream high-level language is memory-safe. Why would you ever pick Rust over Java? The answer to that question will be an even better answer to why you'd write a game in Rust.
I doubt it, but I do believe that without Sam, OpenAI would be lost fighting "theoretical safety demons" with Ilya, as opposed to being an instrument of accelerating technological change.
> Baseline Tcl's biggest challenge, in my opinion, was providing mechanisms to write modular code for larger programs and data encapsulation.

I don't know if something about tcl's design precluded lexical scoping and a normal "var" keyword. But "upvar" definitely seems like a smell.
"I'm going to need you to stay late this weekend, we're developing capabilities for a scenario where you've all been laid off."
Depends on the age of the kids.
> Chrome already ships with its own adblocker which blocks bad ads.

No it doesn't, because I define all ads as bad, so Chrome's ad "blocker" is does not even remotely meet my needs.

> You just can't programmatically decide which resources to filter

That "just" is doing a ton of work there. Declarative ad blockers aren't terrible, but they're not great either. And I don't want my browser fetching ads (which could also be malware) at all. Downloading them and then hiding them is insufficient.
It's also what all technical consultants do.
> Yea.. that sounds like a non-starter for use.

I'd also wager that a FLOSS binding to a non-FLOSS framework with steep licensing fees would also kill this option for most.
You won’t find it. All you’ll get are “trust me bro” from the management.
I'm not fucking with you, and there's nothing to help.

I'm living my life happily surrounded by people I cherish and appreciate - and who cherish and appreciate me.

I pay taxes. I have a lover and children. I hang out with friends, and we all have a good time.

I can't see your viewpoint as anything but being inflexible. Contrary to popular belief lies are an important aspect of the human condition. We lie to others and ourselves.
Sounds like they'd be (hopefully) working on better targeting of the gene insertion for the next iteration of this.

Without the off target gene insertion, it sounds like it'd be a winner.
They use bcrypt and I always use a really long password so I’m not gonna freak out over this one for once.
> Not in the US they don't

I'm not sure in what world 42% isn't huge when it comes to market share. iOS having a majority isn't really relevant to this point.

And regardless, GP didn't say "in the US"; globally, they are far ahead of iOS. Sure, this anti-trust action is a US matter, but a break-up would absolutely affect Google globally.
Clearly the lesson here is that no-one should try to be a global website. The US version can allow only English and Spanish. The Canada version can allow English and French... However it would be interesting to figure out what they do with e.g. Portuguese written in sound-alike English words (is that possible?)
Thanks for that nugget of advice! I probably already know it deep down inside, but seldom remember it, and seldom act with that mindset. But yeah, so true. Don't try to make someone give a shit about something that they have no reason to give a shit about. Instead, tell them what's in it for them, then negotiate so there's still something in it for you.
If anti-trust action in the US results in the break-up of Google, it affects users worldwide, not just in the US.

Regardless, 42% (in the US) is still a huge market share. Huge doesn't have to mean majority or even plurality.
Aria: First Open-Source Multimodal Native MoE Model
Recent psychology has been suffering from the replication crisis.
I just love Nintendo. It's such an amazing feat that a modern, listed company is able to release this.
In case it shouldn't work out, I never had any problems with MacPorts.

I will have a look at devbox. I always found Nix on macOS too much hassle, maybe the situation has gotten better?
I'm learning how to paint. I started when I was about 30 and I'm now 41. I started with abstract colours, the kind of thing you might do as a kid. I mean, I started by doing it with my kids, and that was very enjoyable. I was OK at drawing already and I felt I could get a lot better with practice but I don't find the end result that compelling... I guess I like my colours.

To begin with I was really doing it as a way to get away from depression/anxiety. I found it was distracting enough. Now I do it for enjoyment. I like the process from start to finish. I don't rush, takes me a long time to produce a painting - a month for a small one, more for a large one, although I have done a portrait in a 2 hour sitting.

There's tons of learning material, just find someone you like on youtube. However, there's a a large part of it that you only learn by doing - colour theory and mixing, layering, tinting, those all require experimentation. Brush technique just takes time. Videos can help with tooling though, canvas prep is harder than it looks, and more worthwhile than you think... but it's also OK to not bother, I mean you're in control in the end.

I've got a few paintings now that I really like. I haven't put my stuff "out" there, or tried to put it in the local gallery, even though I think it's good enough to do so. Partly as I don't want the attention or don't want to have to try marketing myself, and also because if you put a piece up there you have to sell it.

I've thought of doing prints. I did one for my mother to buy https://fineartamerica.com/featured/crane-bird-jeremy-wells.... but it's probably not worth it for the money (not much), I didn't like the colour reproduction by those print sites, its pricey to do it with the local graphics company, and I mostly like to paint on large canvases now, which would require a photographer as they don't fit in a scanner, and that's a lot of money in one go to digitize.

I'll echo another thing others have commented - since doing this I really look at other art a lot more, think about how it was made, give it more appreciation. Or I'll be about in the world and will see something and think "that'll make a nice painting, how would I make that work?"
I'm confused. What does space travel have to do with this?
Perhaps that behavior wouldn't be illegal in a scenario where Google has been broken up, and Chrome and Google Search are separate legal entities.
Possibly a greater benefit to Google is the influence it gives them over web standards.

For example, if google didn't control the most popular browser, they probably would have had to say goodbye to third party cookies a long time ago, but since they do they've been able to delay it for quite a while, at least for a considerable portion of users.
Or marry someone born outside of India, which lots of people are doing.
You can recover a distance metric from the cosine similarity of unit (i.e. normalized) vectors by taking their Euclidean distance, which can be written as basically a square root of the complement of cosine similarity. Or you can just take the complement and forget the square root, which isn't technically a distance metric but might be good enough. Or you can invert cosine similarity to get angular distance, which is a true distance metric but might be too expensive.
Thinkpads, Dell XPS or Precision.
From your reply you haven’t actually lived in either Europe or Japan. They generally do not have people die on the streets and you enjoy some excellent infrastructure. It would be nothing short of amazing to get half the services or protections people in other developed countries take for granted.
> BBC Weather’s homepage is a content-rich page. Users have a reason to be looking at it and to be looking for an extended period of time.

Most of that rich content is obstructed by them bloody cookie warnings, on first visit.
That’s not a very convincing simulation of “I’ve been looking at this page for the last 5 mins!”
IMHO, one of the most useful free resource to begin and improve your art is Drawabox[1]. (Its lessons teach much more than just drawing a box.)

[1] https://drawabox.com/
I learnt to draw long ago but I started dancing at the age of 45 and got decent. It helped a lot that I'd learnt a few things about how to learn:

* give yourself permission to suck, you don't know a goddamn thing yet and you know this

* if you notice that you're terrible at doing some part of the work, don't keep making excuses to avoid it - dive into it, embrace the suck, watch closely to see what you're doing wrong and try to not make the same mistake the next time

* keep doing it, find a way to make it a regular thing

specific to drawing:

* you have a few major tasks: install a simple 3d renderer on your brain, learn to break things you see down into simple shapes and build them back up on the paper, and learn to move your body so as to control your favorite mark-making device (pen, brush, stylus, sponge, spray can, etc)

* the first two tasks carry over to any medium but the last one may not - I've been experimenting with paint lately (after 25y of working in Illustrator) and I have absolutely no real idea of how to efficiently use brushes and other objects to put paint where I want it, so right now I have a few canvases that I'm much more concerned with experimenting with different ways to make marks on then I am concerned with making a nice image on. that said, pencil/pen on paper is a great medium to start with, it's easy to get a decent array of marks out of them without much practice, plus you can easily carry it around in your bag and take it out wherever you go with very little hassle

* study masters, think about what they're doing, copy/work over their stuff - trying to make your hand move the same way as someone much more skilled than you is very powerful, if you know enough to make some guesses about how they made the marks you can see. "How would [master artist you love] handle this image?" is a great question to be able to ask yourself when you're stuck on something.

I hear drawabox is pretty good for the "install a simple 3d renderer and some basic models on your brain" part of this task list. Me, I mostly learnt from the Preston Blair book on Animation, Bridgman's Constructive Anatomy, Loomis' Figure Drawing for All It's Worth, and a life drawing class with a teacher who was largely following Glenn Vilppu's Drawing Manual. That last took me from "you seriously want us to start with 10-20 second poses to start each class?" to "noting down enough of a pose in 10s to turn it into a full drawing later is a blast".

also, take care about ergonomics, you can fuck your wrist up badly, learn to "draw from your arm" instead of "drawing from your wrist", once you do it will let you draw faster and larger, and it will help you keep the Carpal Tunnel Fairy away from your wrist.
> We have seen small ISPs get LibreQos running in under an hour, which includes installing ubuntu.

Slapped together as a PoC is different than something production ready. Unless those ISPs are so small they don’t care about uptime, a single Ubuntu box in the only hot path of the network is no bueno.

> We're pretty sure most of those ISPs see reduced opex from support calls.

I highly doubt this. As someone who worked in an ISP, the things that people call their ISP for are really unrelated to the ISP (poor WiFi placement, computer loaded with malware, can’t find their WiFi password, can’t get into their gmail/bank/whatever). When Zoom sucks they don’t even think to blame their ISP, they just think zoom sucks.

There is a tiny fraction of power users who might suspect congestion, but they aren’t the type to go into ISP support for help.

> Capex until the appearance of fq_codel (Preseem, Bequant) or cake (LibreQos, Paraqum) middleboxes was essentially infinite. Now it's pennies per subscriber and many just a get a suitable box off of ebay.

These tools have been around for a while now. My point is that the ISPs that haven’t done something about this yet aren’t holding out for a cheaper capex option. They are in the mode of not wanting to change anything at all.

So this attitude that you only need to tell them “there is an open source thing you can run on an old server that will help with something that isn’t costing you money anyway” is out of touch with how most ISPs are run.

The ones that care don’t need their customers to tell them. The ones that don’t care aren’t going to do anything that requires change.
Related question from a few years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26360349
> - I pay Google for access to anyone searching for ‘red bowling shoes’

You pay to show your website to people searching for red bowling shoes.

> However, to argue that no data was sold is disingenuous at best.

No user data has been sold.
I really do question how much of Mozilla's financial backing would really be needed to keep Firefox development going. There are plenty of open source projects that are independent and run by foundations, but are funded by various corporations. A browser is certainly a complex piece of software, but I don't see why it couldn't be run the same way.
Exchange rates are often not perfectly aligned, even if for a short periods of time. This is where arbitrage comes into play and levels the market.

With that we can go back to the example:

"A" = 2.0000 "B"

"B" = 3.0000 "C" -> "A" = 6.0000 "C"

"A" = 7.0000 "C"

If you notice this happening in the real world, you have the opportunity to:

1. buy 7 "C" with 1 "A"

2. buy 2 "B" with 6 "C"

3. buy 1 "A" with 2 "B"

4. keep 1 "A" profit

But it's rarely that simple and it often involves 3 or more currencies
I started learning violin about 4 years ago. I used to play saxophone, but always loved classical.

To say that the beginning was rough is an understatement. Violin (and any string instrument, really) is just difficult, plain and simple.

But daily practice, private lessons, and I’m able to play pieces that I’ve only heard recordings of. Sure, it’s not professional, but it brings me immense joy to be able to have my hands and fingers know what to do on instinct now.

Private lessons for me were the key: accountability and expertise at every step. Self-learning would have been so much slower.

The more you learn, and I’m sure it’s like this with any art, the more you realize there’s so much nuance to it and that there’s always room to improve.
Yes MacBook pro with a glass fibre connection with a ping below 10 ms to the server.

I’m usually on an old copper line (16 ms ping to Amsterdam) in the Netherlands (130 ms to San Francisco).

Some sites are just consistently slow. Especially GitHub or cloud dashboards. My theory is that the round trip to the database slows things down.
Dave Clark is poison.
solution: MFA
Just because they're good for you doesn't de facto make them good for society.

I utterly despise how so much of the Internet has been gentrified and sanitized to appeal to advertisers at the expense of communities and culture.
Zoxide has forever improved the way I navigate in the terminal [video]
And power limits.

And bumper height compatibility.

And guardrails that respect motorcyclists body integrity.
This is hacker news, we're all either founders who have 2 billion dollars in (illiquid) stock options, or FAANG employees making 600k/year, what else are we going to do if we want email?

Sure, you could pay fastmail $40/year for this, but that's not really the hacker news spirit, and no one on this site knows how to count as low as $40.

The real justifications you can give yourself:

Shared VPS hosting pretty much all bans email, AWS, DO, etc all have ToS that say "no email" as anti-spam measures.

Shared IP space will go straight to spam due to people having spammed on it in the past. Buy a /24 to ensure you don't go straight to spam.

Rackspace ensures you actually own your email, at least moreso than with other shared hosting, and owning your email is important.
It’s a joke ! You can run an email server off your phone