It's likely a joke, but it sure stands out. Could also be transcription error. The letter itself contains a typo ("if you will privide") which is fixed in the transcription. (It should have been transcribed as is with "[sic]" added to note the original typo.) Too bad there's not an image of the reply.
BTW, the letter was shared to reddit 7 years ago and a redditor replied that it was his uncle Andy:
Also curious that the letter was from May, before the start of the 1984 hurricane season. Per Wikipedia, 1984 did go on to have the highest activity since 1971, while 1983 the lowest since 1930. But 1983 caused more damage with Hurricane Alicia crossing Texas.
I misunderstood this comment initially, thinking that there can't be so many comments on HN. But then I realised each comment can be misunderstood more than once. Seems plausible. Pleased to have done my part.
I appreciate your perspective and share and interest in clarity of thought and expression. I originally thought you must be being sarcastic due to the implausibility of calculating a discrete number of potentially possible misunderstandings of comments when whether something is misunderstood or not is largely subjective and may simultaneously be both understood and misunderstood depending on the reading of a comment as serious or unserious, or both.
I thought for moment of asking you to show your work to derive your answer, but opted for a more lighthearted literary device.
Concepts like death of the author complicate matters. You may feel that a comment misunderstands your point, but your position as such should not be too privileged as a reader, and it’s possible to both say more and less than intended.
We also shouldn’t take for granted that we are understood, and being sensitive to potential misreadings are sometimes a useful device for playing with the actual ambiguity of reality itself.
The letter looks like pretty typical republican playbook:
It implausibly overestimates the scope of problems, then claims that the private sector / volunteer organizations have more capabilities / funding than the federal government.
I’m hoping it was self-parody and not just a canned form letter response.
From what I've been able to find, there were never any actual pictures/sonar scans of the debris field released. Does anyone know any particular reason to not be releasing that to the public?
1. Generally photos from active investigations aren't released until the investigation is completed. These are active records, and could potentially become part of civil or criminal hearings, so the agencies in charge of them tend to keep them close until they've finished the report.
2. The US Coast Guard is a part of the Department of Homeland Security; the sonar and pictures they take could reveal capabilities they deem important to US national security (ie how good the sonar is, resolution of photos, etc.).
3. It's generally considered poor taste to post disaster photos before the families have had funerals. Naval institutions tend to be more tradition focused than other entities.
So the next "adventurers" can learn from the mistakes made, have a think about it and stay on dry land or wear seatbelts if they insist on a recovery of their bodily remains...
That had the added benefit, something which feels very strange to type, of not sinking in international waters. It's significantly easier to restrict access in that case.
It is somewhat surreal that a historically short amount of time must pass before people can visit these areas without it being taboo. Some of them, in my opinion, are extremely important to humanity such as Auschwitz and Choeung Ek, and the latter happened during my lifetime.
Sigh. Shea and Wilson conclusively documented [0] the primacy of Leviathan, a direct continuation of the Ugaritic sea monster Lôtān, one of the servants of the sea god Yammu defeated by Hadad in the Baal Cycle.
Ex-Ericsson engineer here, I was at the company for 13 years. Regarding the size - lot of people don't realize because it hasn't been a front-facing company since the collapse of its phones business, but it really is invested in tech right across the board - from developing its own real-time operating systems to its own massive-core chipsets used in base stations, to its own ML platforms. Just the research arm of Ericsson is huge in itself, I think they have around 60 000 patents granted, and are doing everything from fundamental RF research, to quantum machine learning. Not to mention a huge managed services business that helps telecom operators run their networks.
Regarding the lay-offs - telecom industry is essentially a sinewave. The "good" period (e.g. from 5G prototype to complete network migration to 5G) lasts approximately 5 years. The way contracts are signed means that you sell X number of network nodes (base stations, core nodes, etc) and some kind of support contract to go with it. After that, there is nothing. Very different from public cloud providers where you pay as you go. Ericsson and most telecom vendors still haven't figured out how to monetize this.
If this was true then we would have seen similar layoffs between UMTS(3G) and LTE(4G) and between LTE and 5G. Is there any evidence of that? Also Telcos around the world are still rolling out 5G and much of the tech's promise of Edge Computing have not yet been deployed or realized.
>"The company faces mounting competition from China’s Huawei and Finland’s Nokia as well as weak emerging markets and falling spending by telecoms operators with demand for next-generation 5G technology still years away."
The layoffs are attributed to three things:
1. Competition
2. A slump in investment in emerging markets.
3. Falling spending(it's not clear from the press relase if that was just spending for Ericsson's gear.)
Additionally there was no global Telecom industry slump in 2016. Just in the US alone it was something of a boom year with lots of activity. See:
They make the software that runs mobile networks and part of the hardware (as in radio towers, even chips in the past), various special purpose hardware used in the past is also still in use. They also operate these networks as a service to telecom providers. The goods and services they provide are spread pretty wide.
Does manufacturing account for a large portion of those 100k+ employees? Ericsson is not a fabless semiconductor firm, after all. They need to produce things like enclosures and PCB's (perhaps that is done by 3rd parties).
Yeah that surprised me as well. It would be interesting to get a ‘tech company ordered by headcount’ list but it would make me nervous the listing would result in some executive deciding they should layoff more people.
Why? Ericsson has always been a back-end networking and telecommunication company.
Erlang was created, at Ericsson, for a telephony switch.
It's shuttered the consumer side entirely (Sony Ericsson was a joint venture, not a group), it's one of the lead developers in mobile telephony, as well as the lead IP holder in the domain.
In Europe also a large player in the broadcast space, though Red Bee Media (formerly Ericsson Broadcast and Media Services): BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Canal+, as well as Channel 4 and Channel 5's VOD. RBM is also a huge provider of closed captioning, signing, and audio description worldwide, by far the largest in europe for more than 15 years (after they acquired Mundovisión and Titelbild).
If the parent was typing the above message on a phone attached to their telecom network, there is a high probability their user and control plane traffic was going through Ericsson systems.
I didnt expect that Ericsson even had 8500 employees to lay off. Kind of disappeared from the radar after the mobile phone era. (Yes i know they still make equipment)
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I used to run Autosummarized HN, which would summarize Twitter submissions as something along the way of: „Twitter has detected that JavaScript is disabled in the browser, and asks the user to enable JavaScript or switch to a supported browser.”
Requested Twitter and get basically the same same:
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GPT doesn't browse or make HTTP requests at all. This bug is because the author of wtfdoesthiscompanydo.vercel.app isn't executing JS when they scrape the content, before they submit it to GPT. They're probably just making an HTTP request to the provided URL rather than loading it in headless chromium.
Dang I completely missed that. I assumed this was USB-C and pencil 2 and planned to order one for my wife once I figured out which color/model to buy, but I guess I’ll hold off a bit more :(
The charging mechanism for the second-gen pencil probably conflicts with the landscape camera. Also, they don’t have enough differentiators to the iPad Air.
In the original proposal for the ARC reactor, they were proposing making the magnet separable so the top and bottom of the reactor could be separated and the vacuum vessel removed. (See pg. 5 of https://library.psfc.mit.edu/catalog/reports/2010/15ja/15ja0...)
It doesn't look like they are targeting that here. Does anyone know if that is ARC (not SPARC) specific, or if that has been abandoned?
The demountable magnets for ARC are so the blanket and vacuum vessel can be swapped out as a whole unit for replacement during maintenance. SPARC has no blanket and will only be used for some thousands of ten second shots or the equivalent of a week or two of continuous operation. The magnets being unshielded will probably fail before the vacuum vessel does.
CFS will be building a lot more magnets, not only for SPARC but for other customers, physics experiments and medical equipment, so I expect they will be working on many additional features including demountable joints for ARC.
One of the early tests they did of the VIPER cable at the SULTAN test facility in Switzerland involved a joint formed by clamping the ends of two cables to a copper bar. It does show that resistive joints are possible with HTS cables, unlike LTS cables, but the actual configuration of a joint for a large magnet is obviously a different matter. Luckily they will have a few years to work on it.
The article says this is from an "MIT-CFS collaboration" which is "on track to build the world’s first fusion device that can create and confine a plasma that produces more energy than it consumes. That demonstration device, called SPARC, is targeted for completion in 2025."
Yeah, they are definitely building SPARC. I had just been under the impression they were trying to do the separable magnets in SPARC, and was curious if I misunderstood their plan or if their plan had changed.
Since there is no actual use planned for any power released in this gadget, no maintenance will be performed. When they finish playing, they scrap it, pocket the money, and go their separate ways.
No commercial reactor will ever be built, so this is just for showing off.
The only real good to come from these efforts is employment of plasma fluid physicists. I just hope non-military work can be found for them when this stuff fizzles. Solar Physics is fascinating and important, but has limited budget.
Yelp is so annoying on this front. Click on a review and you have to scroll past a full page suggestion to open it in their app. Then to read reviews they have a "Read more reviews" button, but if you click that it takes you to the app store to install their app. If you click "close" you can actually read reviews.
Yelp is now in the position where I won't even visit their site, but only scan previews from maps/google/etc. So they went from showing me an apparently low value web ad to showing me no ads.
Yes, it is horrible. I have started to populate and use Google Reviews for this reason. If I am desperate enough to need to read Yelp reviews on my phone, I enable 'Desktop Mode' and then Yelp shows the reviews without trying to coerce me into installing their app. So sad.
Also, according to the article there is only double redundancy. I thought critical systems like this always employed triple redundancy. It doesn't help too much if you detect a fault during launch and have to reboot both systems...
genuine question - how come when I submit an after hours trade through my bank it says "trading is closed, your order will be submitted first thing tomorrow" ?
It could be your bank just doesn't offer it. For most retail brokerage accounts you have to specifically request an extended "time in force" if you want to send orders outside of the core session.
It's your brokerage. For example, Tradeking allows trading from 8:00-9:30 ET and 4:00-5:00 ET. Some other brokerages, like Interactive Brokers, allow trading to 8:00 PM ET.
Just an FYI, if you trade after hours remember to set your price (buy or sell). As it's after hours, there is no market price, and therefore if you offer to buy 100 shares another party can sell at any price they want. Same goes for the sell side.
