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I don’t follow Canadian politics, and I don’t know that much about Trudeau, but having the capital full of honking, mad truckers, holding the government hostage for their demands to be met in a time of crisis sounds like an absolute nightmare.
You're also not the person I'm replying to, nor do you appear in any of this comment chain, so I've definitely not implied you need an intro to inference, so I'm even more confused than you :)
It's like you decided to completely disregard that the successor of MacWrite ended up completely eating all the use cases for making documents outside of the large-scale professional uses.

MacWrite begat Microsoft Word 3.01, which is when Word overtook MacWrite on Mac and became truly competitive with WordPerfect on DOS.
>but when nothing else works sometimes you have to get out the big guns.

Isn't that why you have the police, army, etc? You use force to remove those people breaking the laws, not go after their families. That's some USSR shit.
It could be in principle. EYG was developed along with the editor so that has effected the design of the AST.
Ideally if a useful/powerful/pleasant/intuitive structured editing experience was found for EYG (and it's minimal AST) then it would be proven to work and so putting the effort into doing for a program with a more complex AST would be worth the effort.
Not worth it to me to sell an occasional ~fifty dollar item. Would rather leave on the sidewalk or throw in the trash if need be.
As a former freelancer, I have a couple of questions because I struggle to see the value in validated ideas (perhaps it’s just me, and you’ve conducted a significant number of interviews for research):

Customer Health Scores: How would these scores be tracked? I feel that, at some point, freelancers naturally act as salespeople and already have a sense of the state of their relationships with clients. However, I don’t fully understand how this function would work. If it’s simply a matter of manually noting it down myself, I fail to see the advantage of this feature.

Various Optional Payment Methods: I already use a basic payment system, as do many freelancers, such as PayPal, Payoneer, and Wise (I’m based in Europe, so this is my go-to options). Another question is about freelancer platforms with integrated payment systems, like UpWork or Fiverr. I believe there’s a strong need for integration with such platforms; otherwise, it may not be convenient for regular freelancers.

Overall Complexity: While you describe this as an invoicing tool, it seems a bit overwhelming. I’m actively searching for a tool like this, which is why your post caught my attention in the feed. Perhaps it’s just my preference, but I tend to enjoy simple tools that serve their purpose effectively. For instance, I’ve researched similar products and tried a few free trials: https://turbodoc.io/ and https://bookeeping.ai/en. You might consider looking into tools like these, as I believe they meet invoicing needs quite well, though companies may still need time to refine them further.
My 2FA is my face…

So the people who are too lazy to check their app are okay with going to an ATM?

If I start overspending, I get alerts both when my balance gets low and when money is deducted from my savings account used as overdraft.

I rarely get to that point and even when I do, I catch it before the offending transaction posts.
Sweet mercy I don't know how I didn't find that or how to thank you enough!
False moralizing arguments only have to feel true for a split second until you discard the stream of thought.
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I just fundamentally don't believe that most people in most companies have an understanding of the company's priorities that is worse than what an OKR encodes. In fact, my experience is that most people in larger companies believe, and are correct in believing, that they are forced to intentionally make worse decisions because better decisions have negative impacts on their measured performance.

I've been part of an extremely effective 200 people company that got acquired by a 4000 people company. We all understood why we were acquired, we built a platform that solved a fundamental problem the larger company had.

After the acquisition, this larger company's OKR and measurement system was implemented for our teams.

We initially all ignored the system and went on as usual, starting to implement our platform. Initially, things went well, we made steady progress and started migrating legacy projects to out platform.

Then, the annual stack ranking firings happened. Some of our best engineers were fired. Seeing this, many other top performers started looking for jobs immediately. The ones that got hired elsewhere started poaching even more top performers. The ones left started playing the numbers game to avoid being fired.

Within a year, most people went from trying to solve the larger company's problem to optimizing their numbers. Within another year, the platform initiative had completely failed and was abandoned, with most of the remaining people being fired or integrated into other teams.
> Every single time an element of human activity is reduced to a metric, you lose something

Also, metrics eventually become the goal and are gamified.
It depends on the quality of the image. It's most accurate for a square head-on photo, like a passport photo, and can be wildly off for occluded or angled photos. It's more accurate for people under 30, for older people it often underestimates age.
I'm much more interested in how they do at lower mileage but over longer periods.

Say I'll only drive maybe 5000 km a year. Can I expect an EV battery to still have most of its capacity after 25 years of that?
We think differently. In PWCT2, we believe visual programming is more attractive in the age of AI and large language models (LLMs).

This video demonstrates how to use LLMs to generate code that can be directly used in PWCT2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx--dNZvncc
> The Canadian dollar has collapsed VS the USD.

The CAD is sitting at about $0.70 USD right now, which isn't really outside of it's typical range, and not really unexpected given the difference in interest rate now between Canadian & US interest rates. If you look at historical prices it looks more like business-as-usual, the CAD usually bounces between 0.70-0.80 USD.
Why not hand over power immediately to the next person in line? Doesn't preclude the party choosing someone else when they get around to it.
The Duchess of Alaska is a "moderate" only insofar as her first and overriding loyalty is to the what the permanent Federal Civil Service in DC wants. She'll agree with anyone of any ideological stripe so long as she knows the will of the bureaucracy is being carried out.
Well, https://www.tweaktown.com/news/102333/steam-saw-close-to-19-... says "In 2024, Steam saw a 32% increase in PC game releases, totaling 18,965, with 79% classified as "Limited Games" due to not meeting sales thresholds for community features." That's an average of 52 new games released per day that you'd be competing for attention with. Then you can look at the estimates for the distribution of revenue for the lifetime of the game at https://gamalytic.com/blog/steam-revenue-infographic which are very grim. Building and publishing a game may be easier than ever but the odds of making money from it are no better than an actual lottery.
I mean... The gold rush ended about 200 years ago but if you really think Dawson City is worth fighting NATO for, then I suppose that's a choice you can make.
What are use cases for such long cables?
A credit card or debit card doesn’t require batteries either…
Quarters and dimes used to be made out of silver so a quarter had to be 2.5x the volume of a quarter so their metal values matched their face values ratios.

> I find both constantly cluttering up my wallet.

The majority of Americans do not have an ongoing problem of having too much cash in their wallet, even if you consider single dollars to be practically irrelevant. Most people would rather have their money in aggregate take up an inconvenient amount of space rather than having there be a risk of losing it because it's so physically small.
Or the ones in Coutts with guns and a pipe bomb.
> Canada uses a first past the post system for federal elections, which usually boils down to a two party state equilibrium

To be fair, that two-party equilibrium is the thing that keeps every minor political crisis from causing no-confidence votes and failed governments because all of the special interests involved break the coalition.

Other Parliamentary governments that don't have this kind of equilibrium end up with minor political parties holding massively outsized influence and concessions just to keep them in the coalition. See Denmark (this is pretty much the subject of every season of Borgen).
Yeah, they've been a bit slow on LLMs, but "machine learning" has been one of their buzzwords for years now.
Can you name a similarly wealthy country that is actually better today than it was on the date he started as a PM?

I can't. Seems like something else has been going on. Potentially you could name Ireland, by becoming a tax haven, screwing over everyone else instead.
I did. I used my mom's typewriter, which she typed her thesis on in the 1950s, and switched to word processing on a college owned TRS-80 before getting an MS-DOS machine of my own.

The big breakthrough was editing. WYSIWIG didn't solve a problem in that space. College papers didn't need different fonts, and it was sufficient to let the computer take care of formatting, like using Markdown.

I'm not dismissing the Apple, but it was priced out of my reach in 1984.
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They’re not obviously trained on encrypted data that Apple can’t decrypt.
It means it is suspended.

(slightly off topic: I have no idea why tf my comment got down-voted. I'm not even expressing any personal opinions about Trudeau or politics. I'm just answering the question as factually as I can from the point of view of a Canadian who is observing what is going on.. I have data and sources for everything I said .. including how low Trudeau's approval rating is as well as the polling... the only thing I wasn't sure of is how his rating compares to that of previous PMs. Thing is, I even know people who have voted Liberal their entire lives, and plan to in the upcoming election regardless of who the leader is, and even they can't shut up about how much they despise him. So regardless of your partisan affiliation, I don't think I even said anything that most Canadians would find the least bit controversial).
There are still companies making new pinball machines today. The mechanical parts are pretty similar to what they've always been. Energize a copper coil, make a piece of metal move. However, the "brains" have come a long way and are basically just modern computers. Also, everything is far more modular. Old pinball machines were a rats nest of wires. Modern pinball machines just use standard computer cables / connectors.
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With Trudeau leaving, I suspect that at least one of the other parties will give them enough time to elect a new leader before bringing down the government. The government may even last until the required election date of late October however, nothing of any importance will likely be passed in that time
There is a reason I do _extensive_ editing after the fact, here's the draft for Soylent Green is people [1]: https://gist.github.com/Xe/3fe0236412c1ce16389bfcd6c6562d7a The differences I added in editing are _vast_ and really transform the work from a ranty mess that approaches readability to something that's worthy of publishing.

I have another article about AI coming out about how we could use generative AI to make art that we've never seen before, but it's mostly used for AI slop. I'm in the middle of ranting it out into the typewriter. It's bad currently, but I make it bad first so I can remake it better later. Here's an excerpt of the intro that I'm going to be rewriting. This is the "raw clay" that I mold in editing.

> I like creating things. There's a lot of joy in being able to sit there, think about a thing, and then make that thing come into existence. This is something I really enjoy doing and I'm blessed to be able to do that as my job in DevRel.

> One of the core conflicts that i end up having with the stuff I create is that I am a bit more artistically minded than people would expect out of the gate. I mean, I get it. Tech isn't really known for *art*, it's a lot more known for being the barrier between you and artists you want to follow.

> Howeever I've ended up seeing kind of a disturbing pattern with AI tools that are meant or at least intended to aid people in the creation of art: they're almost always used to create infinite slop machines without a lick of art in the process. Today I'm going to talk about this fundamental conflict between two categories: art and content. Art is that which conveys, inspires and tells stories. Content is what goes between the ads so that media moguls can see their profit lines go up. I want to argue that a lot of what AI tools are actually being used for is content that is gussied up as if it is art.

If you want to see what the entire writing process looks like after it festers for a while in my head, I wrote out the holy grail article on Twitch: https://youtu.be/N_KNpVujAL8

[1]: https://xeiaso.net/blog/2024/soylent-green-people/
This works when people can compete on something measurable. But when you have teams split into feed, messaging, and ads, something else might be needed to measure value.
>I don't get why Apple fans have this obsession with pretending Apple invents these things.

This is entirely tangential and probably a pointless gripe in this thread, but...

For some reason, it's always really annoyed me that Apple took MP3 players, called them an 'iPod' and suddenly everyone ate them up like they were the second coming of christ and we'd never had them ever before.
Have you tried the Alemany Market? It is the best by far.

Of course, when you're trying to get by on $3/day, you can't be picky: you can't demand organic produce, for example.
I think it’s worth noting that the weekend before this, local residents of Ottawa had basically “stormed” one of the trucker convoy camps to unblock a road. There were genuine concerns that the residents of Ottawa were ready to take matters into their own hands, and it would be a bloodbath. Not to mention the blockade in Alberta where they were found with guns and a pipe bomb, with their communications indicating they were planning to murder the RCMP officers on site!

Declaring the Emergency acts was overwhelmingly popular in Canada and remains one of the most popular things Trudeau ever did. The moves to restrict access to banking affected less than 20 people (and I think they were generally funnelling money from international propaganda groups or committing similar financial crimes).
> This distresses people who feel like such moderates are very far from their own views

It pisses off people who don’t understand compromise.
Do you think all dairy cows need calves to create milk? I don't care if someone disagrees with my posts I agree that they engage in conversation. Downvoting without explanation is my complaint. Finally the comment that whey production results in dead calves is pretty simplistic and not based on any analysis that I can discern.

If HN is about the struggle for truth I expect a certain amount of intellectual rigor in comments.
Waiting for those people who post the "how do you use LLMS for X" questions on HN to come here and explain how this is a good thing.
My biggest problem with node-based programming interfaces is the absurd number of nodes required for even fairly simple expressions, e.g `b*b-4*a*c` is 9 characters in most textual languages, but it would require 9 nodes in most visual scripting systems.

I imagine you could have an arbitrary "expression" node with N inputs and a textfield, but I've never seen it done and it still feels like a bigger hassle than punching out the expression in a textual language.
That is far too generalised for my taste. There are just as many people which tend to spend all the cash they have in their wallet because it isn’t on their account anymore, so it’s ”spent already anyway“, and vastly prefer keeping the tabs on their banking app, which provides a proper overview of their finances—no calculations and counting necessary. Maybe it’s just an age thing?
And during the severe thunderstorms in Florida when everyone was coming to Orlando, places ran out of gas. We had an EV and charged at home.

Are you going to get an EV too? Yes we keep some cash because we travel a lot and use cash for tips.
The performance is focused on correctness and the APIs work with individual images. The underlying models can be run with batches, but you need to extract the architecture code to run directly. As a result, while I started with DeepFace, I mostly just used the models.
The people who thought up the Chinese Room argument were almost right - they just didn't realize it would be the human who didn't understand anything.
It's incredible to see such capability on such a tiny board.

The LA9310 has incredible specs, too, what a beast.

Have you done anything with its Network Listening feature? I'm curious if that's frequency flexible or if it's limited to a specific handful of common bands.

How have you found the NXP SDK, is it reasonably decent to work with?
your first instinct was a military operation?

the US has acquired territories before from a couple people in those territories realizing it was a magical way for unrelated tariffs to disappear.

history gives you the blueprint, the writing is on the wall
Right, but even if the US actually wants to annex Canada, Canada would have to allow that to happen. That's what makes it insane. Russia wanted to annex Ukraine, and it didn't go so well. So playing the tape to the end, what do people think Trump is actually proposing? A war? A "special operation"?
Huh? What ‘external guarantor’?
My pre-teen kids love pinball, too.

I think there might be something inherently attractive about a game that has relatively simple rules but a lot of depth to the gameplay. You get that in some video games like Tetris and board games like Go, but pinball adds a unique multi-sensory element. You can feel the whole machine vibrate as parts move and the ball rolls around, and you can influence the game by physically nudging and bumping the machine.
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At this rate, people will just accept AI Overlords without any battle or revolution.
Spend 5 minutes in Toronto Union Station during commuter hours and you'll never describe Canadians as polite again.
What do you call banner ads?
A couple of recommendations for those who've just found that they enjoy virtual art galleries:

Occupy White Walls - https://www.oww.io/

Museum of Other Realities - https://www.museumor.com/

VRChat also hosts a number of worlds that function as galleries. Strange Pear recently had a stall at VKet (https://www.ozpearsall.art/strange-pear).
Yeah, FB marketplace is the worst for that. I end up putting up with it, though, because it also has a lot of legitimate buyers and no fees.

I usually just give folks my home address and a time I'm going to be home anyways, and ask them to send me a message once they're on their way. Then I generally forget about it until I get a message from them. If they ghost me, oh well.

I don't take the ad down, and if anyone else asks, I just tell them to ask me again after the scheduled time.
If this is true and Canada has not arrested O’Leary then they’ve already shown how weak they are to naked sedition and it’s only a matter of time before something terrible happens.
It is OK, they don't have to. It's a free market.
> If so: why, and what for?

A huge amount of important existing software is written in C. If the code is already written or needs to inter-operate with other pieces in many languages I typically write C. There are a also lot of things that can be easier in C because that modern safer languages would stop you from doing foot shooting things that C won't it's quicker sometimes to write or prototype in C.

> If not: why not, and what do you use instead?

A not insignificant part of my career has been fixing bugs in C code that's been around forever. It's almost always the same class of dumb bugs that wouldn't exist in other languages. This is not anecdata the research agrees. No new projects should be started in C there are better tools.
There are a very large number of steam games that were written for Windows. There are similarly large numbers of commercial products with value for particular companies.

Could they be emulated? Sure. Maybe not 100% (see Linux), but mostly yes. But then you have to make that work, ensure that the emulations keep working, etc.

That is the real wall around Windows. Office has similar walls -- large numbers of spreadsheets, for example, many of which are critical and which do complex things. There are lots of programs that can read Excel spreadsheets, but perfect compatibility is difficult.

And there are lots of people who know these products -- re-educating them is a secondary wall, because it represents a lot of work for the customers.
I don't think the moral intuition of "you should let people do what they want, unless they're hurting other people" is real in the first place. I often see people try and make the claim work, but in even the most basic scenarios, it requires transparently motivated reasoning to dismiss some kinds of hurt as fabricated or illegitimate. "My mother says it genuinely pains her that I've gotten a tattoo, but that can't be true, since I have a right to get a tattoo if I want."
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Yes. It's pretty normal in the Westminster system and more generally in Parliamentary systems.

Was it expected? Eh - kind of. In the last few weeks much of Trudeau's cabinet has resigned or voiced their disapproval. NDP has signaled they would support bringing down the government.
I'd argue a lot of current programming definitely is.

How much foundational technology is actually being created? How many new OSes have there been in the last 30 years? Almost everything that's currently being built is built on top of many layers.

And why is this a bad thing?

When I was in university using R to solve economics problems I wasn't thinking to myself, "This is too easy, I'm just using a scripting language, I need to rewrite everything that's in CRAN myself". No, I was happy that so much foundational tech is already there to make our lives easy.

And when someone ships a game in Unreal or Unity they're probably happier to ship than regretting not writing their own engine.

Also, being in Canada, I can't legally call programming "software engineering" lol.
Prorogued means parliament will not meet, and so cannot hold any votes. Right now it is purely being used to prevent such a vote since there is a majority in parliament that would now vote against the government in such a situation, which in turn provokes an election.

During his delusional ramblings (and that is no exaggeration) Trudeau said that the GG was persuaded to prorogue to the 25th March because of the no confidence vote held back in December which he survived because the NDP supported him. The NDP no longer will support the Trudeau gov (announced in writing about 10 days after the last vote), coincidentally just as their leader qualifies for a nice parliamentary pension scheme.

The whole thing is a horrible exercise in the worst stereotypes of champagne socialism.
I also saw an article on here that to me that seems to support your statement:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42609948

I also have a relative going for a PHD, he says many times for the classes he teaches, students are using AI for their homework. He has brought that up may times to his superiors but the response tends to be "oh well".

Sad world we may be heading towards :(