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A highly competent government in America has been a massive contributor to our success. The conservative opposition with shrinking government and making it ineffective is profound error that will make it harder to start and grow businesses, invest in innovation and compete on the world stage. We should be working to have the best government in the world not the smallest.
Surely that depends what your hiring them for?

The nice thing about the website load question is that it touches every part of the stack. You could talk for an hour about rendering on screen at the OS level, or network protocols, or server stuff, or web client stuff, or data center stuff, or …

Really to answer the question in its full entirety would be the equivalent of that “Everything that goes into a pencil” essay. You could build an entire college curriculum just out of that question.
You can use Q and E
Unless the red tape is expensive. The trick is to be smart at striking the balance between reining in spending while not having a paperwork system that costs even more. Setting the limit to $1 doesn’t seem like striking any kind of balance.
Would need category tags for each post, but actually would be an awesome feature applicable to all sorts of posts.

For instance AI speculation threads are really, really tiresome. It's easy to get tricked into reading such threads because the discussion is often off topic to the linked article.
I watched like 2 minutes of this and I don't understand what this is supposed to be saying about the current debate. There's a guy lecturing the audience about how there are 30 filesystems in the kernel and not all of them are going to be instantaneously converted to Rust. But gregkh and kees aren't suggesting that any of them be converted to Rust!
Given what universities charge, they should more than be able to cover comfortable salaries for all researchers so they never need to worry about going broke. Tenure is a very useful tool!
That uses git to sync, mine uses the GitHub API.

This way it works both on desktop and mobile with no issues, cause you don't need git.
Except:

- Even in the best of cases, if this is your approach, you need a plan for how to add back the stuff that you learn is critical. DOGE haven't demonstrated that minimal level of competence. Firing National Nuclear Security Administration staff and cutting them off from their work emails meant that when those staff were quickly discovered to be critical, it wasn't possible to quickly bring them back. This is amateurish.

- But further, this principle works with designing rockets because you expect to build multiple rockets during the development process, and failing on one rocket doesn't destroy your ability to iterate. You don't do this with a rocket if you're in the rocket. If we crash the US economy or start a war, we impair our ability to just pick up the pieces and carry on as before.

- And this works with something like rockets b/c no one is actively trying to blow up your rocket, or take advantage of its weaknesses. The US has adversaries, and the current administration is destabilizing agencies in a pretty public way which those adversaries may take advantage of. A crappy way to discover that the NNSA is critical would be if, e.g. some reduction in global monitoring meant that we didn't notice some movement of fissile material to countries we aren't friends with, etc.

Maybe the tactics that work at Tesla and SpaceX aren't universally applicable and governing requires at least a somewhat different approach?
The role of Quant in blockchain interoperability
> Once you fire me, I'm not coming back.

I am, my salary is now higher. Much higher. And I no longer give a f' about the TPS report.
Firstly, comparing government to private companies is already a a bad premise. The point of a private company is to make money. They make cuts to try and save money. Cutting credit cards is a sign that they want to reduce traveling and decrease efficiency by counting every penny. Instead of discounting microcharges as that and just bundling them up later on to handle at once.

With that said: someone claiming efficiency would not resort to penny pinching, especially with a budget in the trillions. It's not efficient in any metric

>just think I've been through private downsizing events and I don't really know why the public sector shouldn't occasionally have similar occurrences.

They do pcc. It's just a meticulous process becsuse government jobs are not at-will employment. But generally the country is growing so of course the government grows with it. That parts no different from the private sector.

Also keep in mind that this downsizing, outside of its legal dubiousness, is not in any way planned. It's not performance based and there's been no audits on what they are trying to reduce costs on. It's just a wrecking ball and Musk's tried and false method is to try to pick up the pieces afterwards. That's not how you want to treat people with access to a country's money, nuclear technology, taxes, and weapons.
I think the worrying part is the debt/GDP ratio where the US is among the top 10. Also there's a high amount of private/household debt.

I'm not from the US but I'm worried. The economic signs are worrying and a US that is overloaded with debt has been historically devastating for the global economy.

All the political uncertainty and questionable economic policies don't help that either.
Look up my other responses - I decided to call you names _later_ . Other people also pointed that out to you. I'm sure you would thick twice before asking your 'gotcha' again (the question is fine in general but not as a gotcha).
I give a bit more color in the twitter thread https://x.com/fulligin/status/1892685973731061937
It’s a shame your post didn’t garner much attention. I guess I’m lucky to have seen it. My siblings and I have been enjoying it these past two days
For a 7 year old, I would not start with coding. Start by showing her the dev tools in the browser. She'll have a blast changing the text, colors, and layouts of web sites. If she is like my kids were at that age, she will laugh at everything she can change, while also gaining the knowledge you said she enjoys - understanding how things work.

If she is still interested once she understands what a web site really is made of, then teach some basic coding. There are plenty of resources for that, code.org being a decent one that has already broken it down into age-specific lessons.
I would find trying to solve such problems with known people in known environments to be somewhat stressful too.
Sure, you want to be thoughtful about disclosure and unintended consequences.
Wow surprising, do you have any console errors? I tested extensively in Android chrome. To dismiss the modal you can tap in the margin.
It works on any Cloudflare site I think.
It's one thing when the changes are obviously designed to damage competition, like Microsoft's embrace extend extinguish strategy, but in this case, the breaking changes seem to be pretty obviously motivated by a real need, and there isn't anything preventing so called "S3-compatible" storage services from implementing this new feature.
Your game doesn't test what you say it does, but someone else already covered that.

I'm not saying people have an inbuilt moral objection to the idea of killing, I'm saying most people find hurting other living things emotionally difficult.
Are you looking for self (child) directed or nah?
Organisations are like rockets, with lots of complex moving parts, lots of uncertainly about performance, and lots of decisions made out of conservative thinking.

Stopping things by default, and then fixing what is worth fixing, cuts through all of that organisational inertia. It’s a ground up, zero based model, that allows you to quickly assess what is actually important rather than guessing.
Part of the effeminacy is they get what they need now not some time in the future. The old school requisition systems where everything had to be approved in advance and the purchase handled by a purchasing agent was slow and inefficient for small orders. Which is why organizations give their employees a card with a spending limit.
Because this isn't about efficiency.

Last weekend the Washington Post published some internal DOGE memos showing this is absolutely true. What's happening has nothing to do with efficiency. It's all about ideology.
I always wonder, where was this automation before ai if it is so easy to do.
EAST (Chinese) and WEST (French) are under the ITER umbrella. Showing your notes is baked in.
Are you going to ignore their stated political platform that I shared with you?
I agree and would add that people aren't machines either. The concept of 'fire everyone and rehire who is essential' seems to lack comprehension of human psychology. It seems analogous to 'cheat on everyone and marry the person who stays' in that you are settling for the people who have the least self-respect and/or the least amount of options outside of their current position.
Seriously, after decades of nonsense coming out of Musk's mouth (he's the 'pedo guy' guy after all), why isn't the default to assume Musk is not credible or constructive?
What is it that you think your characterization adds that I missed?
Thoughts on this? The former ISS mission commander called him out for spreading misinformation.

https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1892584783064052114#m
I find this attitude baffling.

In my time at tier one companies I have worked with the best engineers I have come across in my entire career (even the worst engineers were more than competent) who were working on deep issues that could affect the revenue of the entire company because they’re laser focused on providing value to the business, instead of doing engineering for engineering’s sake. I have grown by far more in these kinds of roles than I have anywhere else because the kind of problems you encounter at such a high scale just don’t exist elsewhere. And most of them have been there for at least five years if not longer you don’t make those kind of contributions to accompany without a long tenure.
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I appreciate how wonderfully simple and dependency free this is. More often than not people just want to write a compiler of sorts without bison or yacc, or LLVM, and just convert expressions into assembler or vm-like instructions that _just run_. This is a great starting point for that, and I wish I had something like it 10 years ago.

(Crenshaw's Let's Build a Compiler is an excellent source too if you want to go one step lower and go standard library free, focusing only on function call stacks:
https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/)
Especially once people stop caring about things actually working and go into CYA mode (stop begging).

"We wrote the memo that we don't have enough peope to check drinking water toxidity, guess leadership is okay with not testing for that anymore"
The government was on life support because of the same people killing it now. If you want to shrink the government, you first break it, then say it’s broken and must be reduced as a result.

The alternative was followed from the 30s during FDR until arguably the 80s…make the government effective, and it was immensely successful.
Little faith in the government it didn’t get to pick, like when hysterics were blaming Biden for everything wrong in their lives for four years?
From a profit maximization maybe.

But the government employs people. And in most of the civilized world, employing people comes with responsibilities over those people. For starters, the responsibility of not firing or changing terms that effects them on whim just for the sake of efficiency.
The overrepresentation of autism spectrum in programmers is interesting. Maybe the extreme hierarchy of code fits well.
And despite looking for them intensely, we have never found any evidence of the existence of radio waves, or been able to send a signal to a radio ourselves.
I'm arguing that the 6.1" screen and 6.3" screen both represent the same form factor since they occupy the same slot in the iPhone product matrix.
Plus rankings like lmsys use a known fixed system prompt
More conventional mesh-based photogrammetry options include:

- https://maps.google.com (satellite view)

- https://earth.google.com (also in browser, possibly better camera controls for what you want)

- Bing Maps (3D flyover mode, more stale data in my experience)

- Apple Maps satellite view (only on macOS/iOS)

- Google Earth VR[1] (requires a Windows PC and a VR headset that can connect to it)

- Microsoft Flight Sim 2020/2024 (requires a beefy Windows PC, uses Bing Maps plus a lot of other enhancements and rendering goodness. Most lifelike "feels like I'm there" but not true to earth)

I'm not aware of splat-based city photogrammetry aside from one-offs like this but I'd love to learn if there's any such projects!

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/348250/Google_Earth_VR/
>Not unless someone is suicidal

There are plenty of examples of rulers suddenly becoming suicidal once the walls start closing in on them.
"Pick up anything: Figure robots equipped with Helix can now pick up virtually any small household object, including thousands of items they have never encountered before, simply by following natural language prompts."

If they can do that, why aren't they selling picking systems to Amazon by the tens of thousands?
On the other hand, we are providing on object lesson in how not to avoid authoritarianism, so there’s that...
I spent a long time trying to figure out who he could have been comparing himself to every time he was in the media for decades, until I was watching the Simpsons and realized Krusty had always been there but was no longer the worlds most beloved clown.
> Douglas Adam's Zaphod Beeblebrox timeline

At least the galactic government had the good sense to make the President of the Galaxy a figurehead. (Or, uh, figureheads?)
"Economics" in the sense of "blathering on about nonsense opinions", yes.

"Economics" in the sense of "any sort of understanding of how the world works", not so much.

Drain the rot from your brain. Ew.
Problem with autocomplete=off is some morons think they should use it on their login form for "security" or whatever, cause forcing users to type in passwords is "secure". So browsers wound up having to ignore it for actual security.
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I was working in UCL-CS when the first Cisco router arrived. Prior to that it had been a fuzzball/imp and then a BBN butterfly, which were large pdp11 size boxes. This was a small wine case sized ice cream coloured rack mount.

It was the single most noisy cooling fan unit in the machineroom. It literally screamed. We could hear it over two vax, and a pyramid. It also blew air the least performant direction, for rack cooling.

Jokes aside it was a very cool device, but the jokes about engineering pre release quality were large.

This may be the unit in the science museum London.
Possibly with your code but a lot of work was done to speedup python3.11+ especially to compensate for the single thread slowdown when they finally remove the GIL (3.13 has nogil but only if you explicitly enable it). By most measurements those versions are signficantly faster then earlier python3 releases.
And then the person dropping this load of nonsense moves on without ever having to defend their point.

How do you combat this kind of bad-faith propagandizing? How do communities maintain some level of connection to reality and decency? It seems to infect every online space I visit.
The world can remain irrational longer than you can remain alive.
Yep. They've made a decision to pay premium price for your service so you know you're worth more now.
Like any other "algorithm" feed, if you dislike what is engaging the masses then switch to a chronological view and sip from the feed as you will.

ie: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
Now workers will have to spend $100 of their time filling out forms to buy $50 worth of office supplies.

Sounds like my company.

It finally got rid of the travel agency contract, so for my meeting last week I ended up spending $600 in salary hours making my own arrangements so the company could save a $50 commission to a travel agent.

Penny wise and pound foolish.
Important: If you've received a text from a wrong number, this article describes exactly the Pig Butchering scam that you're being set up for. Have you received a random text like "Shall we grab a coffee soon?", "How have you been lately?", or "Let's go to the new restaurant." You'll find that an attractive, professional woman texted you by mistake, but she thinks you're a friendly person and wants to keep talking. After a few weeks, she'll tell you about all the money she made through investments and offer to help you invest. As you put in more and more money, you'll see huge returns on the (fake) website. When you eventually try to withdraw your fortune, there will be a small fee, followed by a tax payment, followed by more fees. Worst case, you end up like the banker in the article, frantically trying to borrow $18 million so you can recover the mythical $47 million.

This is an extremely common scam; the group https://reddit.com/r/scams is very interesting, with many stories of this scam and others. Key takeaways: it's easier to get scammed than you'd think. Never spend money to withdraw money. Don't respond to wrong-number texts. Anyone who wants cryptocurrency (or gift cards) is scamming you.
What about the very similar sounding EuroLLM[1] project mentioned elsewhere[0] in the comments? If that is indeed a different project, why not pool resources? EuroLLM has already delivered some models, they are up on Hugging Face[2][3].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43119913

[1] https://sites.google.com/view/eurollm

[2] https://huggingface.co/utter-project/EuroLLM-9B

[3] https://huggingface.co/utter-project/EuroLLM-1.7B
My mental model of backyard chickens is that the owners will behave like pet owners. A sobering thought. Granted, most pet owners behave responsibly, and most chicken owners will too.
I don't really think it correlates with political spectrum at all. Similar to how "hard on crime" has a pretty weak correlation woth partisanship. It really comes down to upbringing, influences, and education on how you perceive data privacy.
> These ripples were imaged by Curiosity on Sol 3684 (Dec. 16, 2022). (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)

The caption on the second image of this space.com article is misleading. This photo does not show ripples, it is showing the particular ripple-bearing thin laminations in this sedimentary rock, exposed here as "edges". The journal article shows this photo [Fig 2. C] with an annotation line identifying the particular strata containing the ripples. The ripple-bearing unit is 15cm thick and is the thinly bedded strata below the piled sand.

If you're interested, the actual paper is predictably much more informative than this shallow space.com article:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr0010
You seem to have the karma to vouch for it? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43119836
Supply chain attacks, I'd reckon.

Get malicious code stuffed into Cursor (or similar)-built applications -- doesn't even have to fail static scanning, just got to open the door.

Sort of like the xz debacle.
The problem with folding phones (2018)
Worked ok for me on Android Chrome. Pixel 7
Perhaps they are in the process of doing so?

Perhaps it's possible to grip them but not to pack them?
Nice and efficient. Get the same work for more money.

Actually maybe less work for more money because the employee now knows how vital they are but at the same time knows you don't give a shit about them so why should they care more than they have to about you.
I have mixed feelings. It's a potentially great manifestation of zero-trust and insider risks, and why you should collect less data to begin with. Or maybe not, idk. Could see interesting discussions in theory, but I'm not sure I have so far.
> The list of absurd spending makes me super angry; I never voted for climate change grants for Sri Lanka, or funding operas in Columbia or research in to Vietnamese bathhouses, or supplying birth control to the Taliban

I suggest you save your anger for real problems you actually understand. It will save you a lot of stress.
I did vouch for it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43121049, to no effect. That is why I submitted this. I would gladly discard any points from upvotes, those are meaningless.

After I submitted this, my comments less than a day old were downvoted multiple times. I think we all know what is going on here.
It's the exact opposite of "brilliant", it's extremely stupid and destructive. It shows they are absolutely incompetent at what they do and have zero understanding or even desire to understand how things work.
Not sure how true it is, but a few housing focused accounts I follow(that are admittedly more doom and gloom) are claiming house prices in and around DC are taking a beating as a result. It makes logical sense, but it's not something I would have immediately connected.
> It’s the same with firing people and hiring them back. Performance metrics are unreliable, but firing and then hiring back who you miss isn’t. It shows you who is really critical.

No, it's not. They're not running a test to see who is missed, they are realizing they've made a huge mistake and fired the people who look after the nukes and the people looking into bird flu. Knowing whose job is important doesn't require leaving nukes unattended or bird flu to run rampant.
Trump just won a major election. If there was evidence he did something improper people really should bring it up instead of vague claims that he did something, but we don't need to look too closely. Saying there is evidence but only these 12 people need to see it isn't really meeting the necessary standard. What is the evidence here? It looks like 3 friends agree that something happened around 30 years ago and they should now be paid millions of dollars.

That, and I'm being blunt here, isn't plausible enough to take seriously. I can point at people who think Trump is a fascist who must be stopped at all costs; he's even been the subject of 2 assassination attempts. The idea that 3 people might make a false change is just too plausible. Particularly in New York. A lot of the lawfare that has been unreasonably targeting Trump is happening there.

And if anyone ever accuses me of assaulting them, just saying, I feel a reasonable expectation is that they work out what year it happened.
Sometimes people react because you’re way off target.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Nijmegen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_incidents_in_Switzerlan...
You don't smell particles, you smell volatile compounds, mostly organic, aka VOCs. These are in their gas phase.

This is true of anything that smells. Food, flowers, the forest, breath, body odor, rain on dry ground, your car...

Many ingredients used in modern perfumery (scenting your detergent is still perfumery) are novel compounds, like galaxolide, but traditionally and still often enough they are naturally-occurring chemicals, although still synthesized in a factory from petrochemicals a lot of the time.

Article seems to be about a chemical reaction of terpenes with ozone, and the result is particles. Terpenes are a specific but large class of aromachemical, both natural and artificial. There are many others.

Even products marketed as unscented tend to be scented, to mask off odors from their functional ingredients.

Just adding some context.
I assume we have to start with the physical action of typing in a url and everything involved in that? Then how the physical keyboard works? Then how the OS handles the input from the keyboard? Then…
>Has hiring ever really worked, anywhere?

yes. Best place i worked at - we hired only by internal references and only people from our University. Up until the company grew around 200 people. We didn't do technical interviews, just a short talk. And we were among top employers, including salary-wise.