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by scoopdewoop | 2025-10-03 03:53:22+00:00
This isn't an anti-science critique. It's a philosophical argument about how science actually operates. I'm not coming at this from a populist authoritarian angle! (Literally my views were influenced by Feyerabend, an academic and leftist anarchist)

The tobacco-funded studies that failed to prove cigarettes harmful? Those were scientists doing "objective methodology." Pharmaceutical companies suppressing unfavorable trials? Scientists. The replication crisis? Scientists following the same process.

These aren't exceptions. They show that science is a human practice embedded in institutional and economic contexts.

Acknowledging that science involves human interests doesn't undermine it. It's how you maintain critical perspective when bad actors claim scientific authority. Or should I trust the current experts that Tylenol causes Autism?
by YZF | 2025-10-03 03:54:02+00:00
Egypt doesn't want Gaza and Jordan doesn't want the West Bank. That's a total non starter.

So after 90 days we have the bulk of hostages still in Gaza. Hamas in total control of all of Gaza. Hamas doesn't want to exchange all the hostages, we've been there after the first ceasefire (24 November 2023 to 30 November 2023).

Look at Hamas' calculus. Surviving in any shape and form while holding hostages is a clear win. Increasing Israel's isolation is a win. Anything else is mostly a don't care. They have no intention of giving up control in Gaza or in ceasing future hostilities against Israel. They would love nothing more than to go back to the tit for tat where they make and fire rockets and mortars at Israel all day and Israel has some limited retaliation.

Ask Sri Lanka and the Tamil Tigers about whether force works or not. Or the Turkish and the Kurds. Or anyone who thought they could go against China. That's not to say that should be the default or the preferred solution, but more force works in situations where you have the power and the other side won't yield.

There is a somewhat stupid/joke saying in Hebrew. What doesn't work with force will work with more force. That's sort of where Israel is right now. Many Israelis don't think this can solve the problem but the government does. I think pretty much everyone would prefer a better/easier way out of this that includes security guarantees and the release of the hostages. There just doesn't seem to be one. It's a problem when fighting an enemy where their loss is their win. There's no leverage. Though in theory Hezbollah was also like that, until it surrendered. The difference in Lebanon/Hezbollah is no hostages and less mix of combatants and civilians.
by andrehacker | 2025-10-03 03:54:14+00:00
>> Patients tend to find it jarring if the lens is perfectly clear.

Yeah, funny. Light it up ! For.. reasons.. I only had one eye done for a bit and, boy, did the world look different with the old and new lens. Christmas trees, for example, either looked like lit with lemon lights or bright lights. I decided to do the other eye too and the world looks bright again... from both eyes.
by clessed | 2025-10-03 03:55:30+00:00
But that report misses the point that women's rights to single-sex spaces is about boundaries, consent and protection from male presence in intimate settings. By only surveying "transgender experiences" it's basically just ignoring women who object to this and implying that women's boundaries and consent don't matter.

Looking at crime statistics won't capture the discomfort and intimidation that many women will experience upon encountering intrusive males in female spaces, nor their withdrawal from public life as a consequence of this.

Also it focuses heavily on toilet facilities but this is just a part of the wider issue. Like for example there's a much worse problem in women's prisons where males are being transferred in based on self-declared gender identity, with sexual assaults, rapes and impregnation of female prisoners by these men occurring as a direct result of such policy.
by mac-attack | 2025-10-03 03:55:32+00:00
For-Profit companies have an outsized impact on our day-to-day and have the ear of the current administration. Citizens United allows their voice to be heard politically (where they again have an outsized impact). I'm curious why they can lobby to impact the lives we live and our access to information, and their CEO can donate a million to the inauguration but suddenly they deserve the right to fade into the background and stay out of it all?
by al_borland | 2025-10-03 03:55:39+00:00
I’m lucky my dad worked in IT and has kept up on things. He’s retired now and has started teaching classes through AARP. He’s done a few on the iPhone. More recently he did one on ChatGPT. The ChatGPT class was so popular they are moving to a bigger venue for the next one.

The important thing is to keep it focused on what people might actually use and care about. For the ChatGPT class, he wasn’t talking about generating code, he talked about how he used ChatGPT to help him understand results from medical tests, which led to getting bypass surgery 6+ months sooner than if he had waited for the doctors to call him every time.

I’ve found most people want to know the bare minimum to get what they need done. People are busy and they aren’t looking to be technology experts. They just want to know how to do the basics they used to know how to do without feeling lost.

These days, for someone who had issues with the complexity. I’d turn on Assistive Access[0].

There is also the option to refer them to Apple. That’s what my dad would do during his class if someone needed more hands-on help than he could provide when teaching a whole room of people. Apple offers classes at their stores, and people can call support. So he made sure to cover that to shift some of that to the experts.

[0] https://support.apple.com/guide/assistive-access-iphone/welc...
by SoftTalker | 2025-10-03 03:55:42+00:00
Not really. I write SQL in text files, manage them in version control (git these days, but in the past it has been mercurial or subversion, doesn't really matter) and execute them in psql via a SQLi postgres buffer (emacs comint mode that wraps a psql command shell in a buffer).

I haven't used (or heard of) dbeaver but took a quick look at it and I have tried other SQL tools that seem similar. Never really felt they gave me much.

I like keeping my tools very simple.
by protocolture | 2025-10-03 03:55:42+00:00
Hmm, I dont feel like this is a good use of traceroute.

Its already kind of nebulous, what with MPLS no-decrement-ttl and tunneling protocols.

Add to that geo ip is often fantastically wrong. Especially if the ISP has no need for it for its own troubleshooting. They might not go out of their way to update geoip correctly, relying on the routers hostname for information.

Blowing it up to display it on a map and pretend like the data returned from traceroute is aligned with reality rubs me the wrong way.
by 01100011 | 2025-10-03 03:55:46+00:00
If you're a keyboard jockey like me you probably have or are prone to have shoulder issues. You really should be doing 2:1 pulling:pushing, or even omit most pushing entirely.

Nothing helped me as much as learning this. Spend more time doing facepulls, rows, pulldowns, and any weird variation you can come up with which works your back muscles. I went from a hunchback to mostly not a hunchback and my shoulders are better for it.

There are few things that will blow up your shoulders as quickly as doing pressing movements wrong. If you want to embark on a pushup journey at least learn good form.
by preommr | 2025-10-03 03:55:55+00:00
> People said the same thing about so many other online services since the 90s.

And this leads to something I genuinely don't understand - because I don't see ads. I use adblocker, and don't bother with media with too many ads because there's other stuff to do. It's just too easy to switch off a show and start up a steam game or something. It's not the 90s anymore, people have so many options for things.

Idk, maybe I am wrong, but I really think there is something very broken in the ad world as a remenant from the era where google/facebook were brand new and the signal to noise ratio for advertisers was insanely high and interest rates were low. Like a bunch of this activity is either bots or kids, and the latter isn't that easy to monetize.
by somat | 2025-10-03 03:56:17+00:00
If we are voting on missing letters I want thorn(þ). My understanding is that thorn is one of the rarer sounds in the worlds languages, and it deserves to get it's own letter back.

On the topic of screwball spelling is this video essay on silent letters. The fun takeaway for me was that a lot of silent letters were never pronounced. it is just that when some of the first dictionaries were being produced, and the spellings decided on, they decided to introduce silent letters to indicate the origin of the word. the b in debt is because it comes from the latin debitum. but it was not spelled that way until the 1500's prior to that it was dette.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXVqZpHY5R8 (RobWords: Why English is full of silent letters)
by etchalon | 2025-10-03 03:56:20+00:00
The Red Cross does not target 1500 calories minimum. They allow for 1500 as an absolute minimum. In the event of a disaster.

From your own link:

"Sites should plan their menus based on available foods and must provide a minimum of 1,500 calories per person, per day. The Red Cross suggests 2,000 to 2,500 calories per person, per day."

2,000 to 2,500 calories per day.

Which Israel is more than capable of allowing into Gaza.
by YZF | 2025-10-03 03:57:01+00:00
The state of Israel offered Palestinians a two state solutions multiple times starting at its inception (and it also offered them a one state solution at its inception with them being equal citizens in a free democratic country). Maybe it wasn't the best the Palestinians were looking for but it wasn't unreasonable and it was very close to what everyone (other than the Palestinians) says when they say "two state solution". Where we are today is the result of them rejecting it and instead opting for the "one day we'll send all the Jews back to Europe" solution (despite more than half Israeli Jews being from the middle east and generally no place for Jews to go). This is still their plan today, they say it out loud, you just need to listen.

EDIT: I'd also challenge you to tell me why these two states weren't created when Egypt ruled over Gaza and Jordan over the West Bank and Jerusalem up till 1967 (the six day war) when Israel took those areas. Where were all those supporters of the two state solution then? Why didn't they recognize the state of Palestine then over those territories that Israel didn't control?
by jameshilliard | 2025-10-03 03:57:30+00:00
> The most basic principle in democratic government is that those subject to the monopoly of violence should also have a voice in how that violence is managed.

I'm pretty sure most democracies also have a right to decide who can become a citizen. Forcing a country to give citizenship to enemy combatants would be kinda crazy, regardless of whether or not the territory those combatants operate from is under a military occupation.
by Jtsummers | 2025-10-03 03:58:11+00:00
> It just goes to show how far out expectations have dropped

Those computers were vastly simpler, and many weren't connected to any kind of external network (or the networks were, again, vastly simpler). It's like the difference between a Model T era car (many people possess the technical ability to maintain them, even today) versus a modern car.

It's not that we expect less of people today, we've just produced something much more complex so what it even means to understand or use a computer has changed, because it's not the same thing as 40-50 years ago. If I threw an Apple II level computer at someone today, I'd expect as much from them as throwing the same computer at someone in 1980 (actually more, they'd have more foundational knowledge than a random person in 1980 would have).
by goku12 | 2025-10-03 03:59:09+00:00
> That’s your belief and there is a platform that allows just that.

A platform that's just about to take it away with user registrations. And that isn't just a 'belief' - that's what a lot of people do with their phones.

But the problem here isn't about an alternative. Apple platform is popular enough to make it a juicy target for tyrannical regimes. And when that happens, millions of people find their devices useless or outright hostile towards them, due to lack of user-controlled escape hatches.

> The fundamental problem here is not specific to Apple; It’s specific to a regime that is overstepping its bounds daily.

Would you have predicted the current situation two years ago? Regimes go rogue unpredictably all the time. That's why people argue against this sort of device lock down all the time! It's meaningless to shift the entire blame on to the regime after Apple failed to take precautions in the face these warnings.
by jackhelpcareai | 2025-10-03 03:59:24+00:00
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by komali2 | 2025-10-03 03:59:44+00:00
I just don't understand why people accept the sheer arrogance of the design of Tesla vehicles.

I don't need to worry about the programming of the computer controlling the door handle in a Honda civic - it's mechanical and will work in basically all circumstances excluding catastrophic mechanical damage - in which case there's 3 backups on the other doors or I'm crushed anyway and it's irrelevant. Meanwhile I hear story after story of various components on Teslas failing in all sorts of ridiculous circumstances - I recall cybertrucks having issues in car washes.

It's insanity.
by singron | 2025-10-03 04:01:26+00:00
I think it makes the most sense this way, but I've seen it accounted for in other ways. E.g. if free users produce usage data that's valuable for R&D, then they could allocate a portion of the costs there.

Also, if the costs are split, there usually has to be an estimation of how to allocate expenses. E.g. if you lease a datacenter that's used for training as well as paid and free inference, then you have to decide a percentage to put in COGS, S&M, and R&D, and there is room to juice the numbers a little. Public companies are usually much more particular about tracking this, but private companies might use a proxy like % of users that are paid.

OpenAI has not been forthcoming about their financials, so I'd look at any ambiguity with skepticism. If it looked good, they would say it.
by sidibe | 2025-10-03 04:03:29+00:00
You don't have enough credulity of wealthy people. Just imagine you didn't know anything about what he is talking about and you believe people's success is a good barometer of their expertise. Now what he's saying is amazing! You won't have to drive or do chores in a few years, actually a few years ago even! His stumbling over his words is just his big brain thinking of too many things at once
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-10-03 04:04:26+00:00
> Study hard, get good grades, follow the formula and ultimately merit wins

I don't think "winning" at school has anything to do with those things. That sounds like a waste of time. Winning at school is about building knowledge and relationships which further goals that you set for yourself, not that the school sets for you. Sometimes good grades are a side effect.
by captainkrtek | 2025-10-03 04:05:32+00:00
They weren’t a thing when I started this in 2020 (or at least I was unaware).

I’m not opposed to them (though I don’t take any). I used to be skinny and athletic as a teen so I knew my body could get back to that, but had I grown up and always had difficulty I wouldn’t have been opposed to trying it out, even if its just to get a kick start. It’s hard to exercise with a extra weight and low muscle, so getting some pounds off would be useful I think.
by pjdesno | 2025-10-03 04:06:21+00:00
I run into a fair number of good undergraduate students who are terrible phd students.

Same problem. They did well solving problems that someone already knows the answer to, applying concepts that were explained to them in class. Suddenly they face problems no one knows the answer to - otherwise we wouldn’t be trying to solve them. And they fall apart.

I think this is one part missing from the OP - some people just can’t seem to work without fairly rigid requirements. They do well in undergrad or a professional MS program, and there’s a place for them in a lot of big organizations, but there are a lot of jobs (phd student being one) for which they just aren’t a match.
by HackerNewt-doms | 2025-10-03 04:07:10+00:00
Wouldn’t the personal trainer be questioning his own relevance to your agreement if you were performing your push-ups correctly right from the start?

After all, as soon as he points out something you can improve on and tells you how to do it better, you receive positive feedback from him and the reassurance that you didn’t hire him for nothing.

And regarding push-ups themselves: isn’t it rather one-sided to train only those limited muscle groups with such a high number of repetitions, to the point that it leads to anatomical imbalances?
by gigatexal | 2025-10-03 04:07:14+00:00
yeah ... poly market and other makers seem to be betting that Google by year's end or sometime next year or so will have teh best gen ai models on the market ... but I've been using Claude sonnet 4.5 with GitHub Copilot and swear by it.

anyways would be nice to really see some apples-to-apples benchmarks of the TPU vs Nvidia hardware but how would that work given CUDA is not hardware agnostic?
by Agentlien | 2025-10-03 04:07:23+00:00
It should definitely be possible already using CUDA or computer shaders. From a theoretical view computer graphics is signal processing but with a signal consisting of up to four color channels across two dimensions. This is the view taken in a lot of papers and practical implementations. After all, a lot of computer graphics is about applying filters (post-processing) such as color grading, anti-aliasing, etc. to this signal.

So, in a very real sense, signal processing is exactly what the GPU is built for and primarily used for.
by pyuser583 | 2025-10-03 04:09:26+00:00
I’m one of the folks whose opinion of Israel has shifted. I don’t see them as a “genocidal terrorist state.” I see them as “just another middle eastern country.”

While it’s bad what’s happening, it’s still nowhere near Syrian or Yemeni levels, although that may change.

The best analogy I can think of is the Allied conduct in Germany at the end of WWII. WWII was a just and defensive war. But the bombing of Dresden and atrocities by the Soviet Army were unnecessary and dishonorable.

Israel is now engaged in unnecessary and dishonorable conduct. They’ve been demoted from impressive to embarrassing.

But they’re still a legitimate country, just like, say, Saudi Arabia.
by taurath | 2025-10-03 04:09:42+00:00
As a counter, you can buy a hell of a lot of brand for $8 billion dollars though.

You can give your most active 50,000 users $160,000 each, for example.

You can run campaign ads in every billboard, radio, tv station and every facebook feed tarring and feathering ChatGPT

Hell, for only $200m you could just get the current admin to force ChatGPT to sell to Larry Ellison, and deport Sam Altman to Abu Dahbi like Nermal from Garfield.

So many options!
by al_borland | 2025-10-03 04:10:03+00:00
Jobs seemed like he actually used everything himself, and he wanted a good experience as a customer. I don’t actually believe Tim Cook uses most of the stuff Apple makes, nothing beyond the basics, and he’s likely willing to compromise that experience to increase the stock price.

I’m still of the opinion that iOS 6 was peak iPhone. Say what you will about skeuomorphism, it was easy to understand, apps were visually unique from one another, and the friendly UI was a nice juxtaposition to the clean minimalist hardware.
by mindslight | 2025-10-03 04:10:15+00:00
ICE is abducting citizens and generally stirring up chaos to make pretexts for escalating federal occupations. Anyone would be an utter fool to voluntarily put themselves in the presence of the new "American" Gestapo. And since the number of citizens is much larger than the number of iLlEgAlS (regardless of what the fearmongering on boomers' TVs would have you believe), an app to help avoid the lawless thugs is in the same exact category as a VPN.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-10-03 04:10:31+00:00
Israel targets 3200 a day.

From my link, as you quoted, the Red Cross lists 1500 as the floor. Just like I stated. It's considered bad but the acceptable floor for disasters in the USA. 1500. Not great, but the floor to ensure is being met.

I see all this talk and am trying to understand what is going on. The only actual numbers I have seen are the CNN 1400 in one area at one point in time, so I tried to compare that to what could happen in the USA. My quest to understand started last week when people said Israel needed to behave like the USA in occupied Germany, that is the norm to be followed. When I looked up the numbers and pointed out Israel was, people said 'no, not like that'.

Israel targets 3200, above Allied occupied Germany. In some areas for some lengths of time actual consumption dropped to 1400, bellow but not that far from the Red Cross published floor in emergencies.

Looking at other war areas, Kenya has 800,000 war refugees that the UN just cut down to 552 calories a day, even though the UN claims they have enough food on hand to feed Gaza's 2 million, but aren't allowed to give out. The UN stated they have the food (but only for Gaza), and provide much less food in Kenya than Israel in Gaza (even though the UN says they have food for 2 million).

It's all horrific and awful that the government of Gaza chose to initiate a hot war, and that the people in Gaza are suffering because of their governments killing of over 1000, injuring/maining/raping/torturing of thousands more, and kidnapping of so many (including the apparently 6 year old girl that Gaza's government broadcast video to the internet of themselves kidnapping from her home). But from the numbers I can find it's not that far outside of norms, especially for an active armed conflict.
by sherry-sherry | 2025-10-03 04:14:36+00:00
The app doesn't do that.

It gives people a heads up that constitution-hating armed forces are in the area, forces that can search you and tear up your home without a warrant. This is happening now.

Armed and masked intruders who don't have to identify themselves should be forced out of cities. Those federal employees should be shunned for the rest of their lives for blindly enforcing the whims of a dictator.