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I can not understate how much I agree with parent comment.
The opposite of move fast, build a shitty prototype and iterate is a deliberate problem solving approach undertaken by the highest caliber of engineers. The actual challenges to be addressed are effectively addressed right at the design stage.
The result is a thing of immense beauty and elegance.
I will forever be grateful for the opportunity I had to see this magnificent piece of engineering in action.
As a not-lawyer, non expert, I welcome this ruling. The strongest argument I can make in favor of this come from the dissenting opinion by Justice Kagan:
> This Court has long understood Chevron deference to reflect what Congress would want, and so to be rooted in a presumption of legislative intent. Congress knows that it does not—in fact cannot—write perfectly complete regulatory statutes...
> It knows that those statutes will inevitably contain ambiguities that some other actor will have to resolve, and gaps that some other actor will have to fill. And it would usually prefer that actor to be the responsible agency, not a court...
In other words, Congress can not get its shit together, but someone still has to do the work of figuring out what rules we should all follow. Congress would much rather play politics and make speeches and theatrical high-drama hearing rather than doing the hard work of legislating laws.
It is obvious that Congress can not get all the details right. Neither can the regulatory body. The only advantage of delegating the work of rule-making to regulators is that the iteration times are faster.
Why are the iteration times faster? It has more to do with the Congress being a dysfunctional body.
When incompetence is rewarded by reduced work loads, incompetence is amplified.
Yes Congress can not get their shit together. But that’s way more visible to voters when their incompetence translates to visible inaction.
This is the way the system should work (in my opinion). Feels like a positive ruling to me.
> We assume, as stated earlier, that electrical fire is a common element, equally shared among the three mentioned individuals before any operation with the tube begins. Person A, who stands on wax and rubs the tube, transfers the electrical fire from his body into the glass tube. Since his connection to the common stock is cut off by the wax, his body is not immediately replenished. Person B, also standing on wax, passes his knuckle near the tube and receives the electrical fire collected by the glass from A. B’s connection to the common stock is also cut off, so he retains the additional amount received. To person C, who is standing on the floor, both A and B appear electrified. C, having the normal amount of electrical fire, gets a spark when approaching B, who has an excess, and gives a spark to A, who has a deficit. If A and B touch, the spark between them is stronger because the difference in their electrical fire is greater. After they touch, there is no spark between either of them and C, as the electrical fire in all three is equalized. If they touch while being electrified, the equality is maintained, and the fire circulates continuously.
> This has led to new terms. We say B and similar bodies are positively electrified, and A is negatively electrified; or rather, B is electrified plus, and A minus. In our experiments, we electrify bodies as plus or minus as needed. These terms are used until philosophers provide better ones. To electrify plus or minus, it’s essential to know that the parts of the tube or sphere being rubbed attract the electrical fire from the rubbing object during friction. Once friction stops, these parts are ready to give the received fire to any body with less. Thus, the fire can be circulated, as Mr. Watson demonstrated, or accumulated or subtracted from any body, depending on the connection with the rubber or receiver, while cutting off communication with the common stock.
Specific red flag signals:
1. Dominated by Windows
2. Too many people in formals
3. Nobody wears badges (and other indicators of a lax security policy)
4. Old/worn out office furniture
5. Low resolution displays
6. Old laptops
7. No evidence of people collaborating or chatting at a microkitchen etc.
It seems good enough for how I use it. I wouldn't conduct chemistry experiments using this as an instrument.
I live in a place that's generally cold for a large part of the year, so I have all windows shut for most of the time. I've discovered that tracking CO_2 levels is a very good proxy for general air quality, and a good measure of both when to open windows and for how long to keep windows open.
For my apartment, I was surprised that the amount of time I needed to keep the windows open was 5x longer than what I initially assumed (I assumed 5 mins would be enough. Data shows that I need about 25 mins to get CO2 levels down to around 500ppm). I was also surprised to see how much more rapidly CO2 builds up when I have just 2 additional people at home.
Good insight :) I'll leave it at that.
Indeed, it started with the Eisenhower Matrix, but the problem for us was that everything is Urgent in some sense. Things that aren't urgent don't usually make it to the top of our list.
On the other hand, we needed a mechanism to track things that we couldn't actually make forward progress on, despite it being urgent. These are the "Not actionable" items - usually because they're blocked on something else.
The final point I'll make is that the most valuable part in this exercise is actually reaching consensus on what quadrant to put an item in. It's superb at getting alignment.
Slide 1: To do list.
Slide 2: <Fill items from the todo list into this 2x2 matrix>
| | Not important | Important now |
| | now | |
|----------------|---------------|---------------|
| Not actionable | | |
| now | | |
|----------------|---------------|---------------|
| Actionable now | | |
|----------------|---------------|---------------|
Over time, this has proven to be incredibly powerful at focusing us on the things that matter while not losing track of how everything else are evolving.
I don't have an answer for you. But I want to recommend this talk from 7 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLGFriOKz6U
That alone convinced me. Apple knows what it is doing when it comes to device security. Today, I trust them with my most sensitive data and sleep peacefully at night.
1. The Mom test - Rob Fitzpatrick
2. Never eat alone - Keith Ferrazzi
3. The Tim Ferriss podcast - Episode #717 with Noah Kagan
4. Crossing the chasm - Geoffrey Moore
5. Competing Against Luck - Clayton M. Christensen
This actually made me hold off on spending $10k on a computer that's last-generation technology. I suspect I'm not alone - a lot of interest in OpenPOWER is probably waiting for Power11 and Talos III or whatever permutation that can ship a real product that isn't 5+ years old.
Previously you weren't getting any revenue from torrents. Now you're monetizing a fraction of the population that likes to torrent but wants to not feel guilty about doing so.
Ok, for us the lazy, what is mother fucking the point of GEB? A single HN karma point from me is on offer for the honest answers.
I will build a torrent streaming site where the torrent file costs some reasonable amount of $$ per download, for fully licensed content, with zero DMA protections.
If you have IP that you are willing to share on this torrent site, I will take 10% of revenue after subtracting costs, you get the remaining.
My email is on my HN profile. If you own IP and are interested in licensing it this way - shoot me a mail. I need a minimum amount of interest from IP holders before I put in any real work building this.
Your move, Hollywood.
First, you will not have bluetooth. Second, it is slow in ways that will matter. As in, you will feel it, but not be annoyed by it (Especially with a web browser). Third, KDE plasma support is a work in progress (read: most people do not get KDE plasma on an OpenBSD installation today, although it won't stay like this forever).
With these disclaimers out of the way, I can heartily encourage it. I love having an operating system that I can trust. Things work, things are well doccumented and things are very very clean.
Assume you collect some kindergartners and top NBA players into a room and collect their heights. Now say you pass these to two hapless grad students and ask them to perform K-means clustering.
Suppose one of the grad students knew the composition of the people you measured and can guess these height should clump into 2 nice clusters. The other student who doesn't know the composition of the class - what should they guess K to be?
I understood the GP's comment to refer to the state of the second grad student. How useful is K-means clustering without knowing K in advance?
This is (a) set in a fantasy world (b) has zero bearing in any real archeological or anthropological evidence and (c) is meant to be entertaining fiction more than an investigation into how early hominids might have lived. And yes, there are lots of magic and dragons involved.
However, the creators of this world were field archaeologists and anthropologists and their instincts for telling stories spanning evolutionary time scales is absolutely unrivaled.
But also, for the past few months, I’ve completely stopped searching the internet. ChatGPT-4 does the job way more effectively and I don’t see why I would go back to searching the internet (assuming the chatgpt experience doesn’t get nerfed in some way).
> ... I, Joseph R. Biden Jr., do hereby grant a full, complete, and unconditional pardon to all current United States citizens and lawful permanent residents who ...
> ... This pardon does not apply to individuals who were non-citizens not lawfully present in the United States at the time of their offense.
In the first of the above, it specifically states that it applies to citizens and lawful permanent residents. In the second, it says it does not apply to people who didn't have valid immigration status.
So, what happens to someone who had a valid immigration status, but was not a lawful permanent resident? For example, someone on a student or a tourist visa?
Can anyone with legal expertise shed some light on how such things are usually resolved? My naive expectation would be that it still would only apply to citizens and lawful permanent residents. But then, why specifically call out that it doesn't apply to this specific group out of many other groups that aren't covered under "citizens or lawful permanent residents"?
Over time, I’ve learned that my success rate at achieving big important items within one or two years is negligibly low, but over a 3-4 year span, it’s higher than what intuition would suggest.
The interesting consequence for me has been having to pick the big items carefully - if it’s going to happen over the next 4 years and by then it doesn’t matter as much, it’s not really worth it.
Thinking long term is really hard. I suck at predicting what I would want 5 years from now. I’ve resorted to using a heuristic of “Will this matter irrespective of when I can get there?” as a substitute.
For example, wanting to live closer to my parents and spending more time with them seems like a better pick than wanting to learn how to train an LLM from scratch.
This camera tracking a goldfish to pick stocks is AI by this definition:
Update: A coin toss meets this definition.
I purchased a thinkpad without any operating system on it and installed openBSD. I would not recommend this to someone coming from Windows land, but once you’ve been around the linux side for a while, you should come check openBSD out. It’s really really nice.
1. Do you work on really large codebases every day?
2. Do you type as fast as you can think and frequently need to wait for the UI to catch up with what you just typed?
3. Do you have a large codebase sitting on a remote computer?
4. Do you have to ssh into random computers or embedded devices and quickly edit or modify something inside?
For me, the answer to all 4 questions is yes, I’ve been using neovim and vim before that for most of my career. I can strongly recommend it.
You had me till this.
The conspiracy theorists actually make very good points. They’ve been vindicated by discoveries at Gobekli Tepi and others that basically demolish the strongest argument the Egyptologists had against a significantly older Sphinx - that no other megalithic structure had been found till then.
This is one of those situations where the conspiracy theorists make a far more convincing argument than mainstream, and entertainingly, all the recent discoveries in archeology have only strengthened the positions of the conspiracy theorists.
I would look at them again with fresh eyes. The younger dryas impact hypothesis looks especially convincing.
You all have arrived. Wishing you decades of prosperity and good fortune.
I am a former C and C++ programmer who lived calling into pthread almost every week for a decade. I use async rust everywhere now.
I don’t get the hate that async gets. In my opinion, everyone should be using async for everything. Including stuff that’s seemingly single threaded “simple” stuff.