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by dhana_27 | 2025-10-02 21:21:39+00:00
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by dfxm12 | 2025-10-02 21:22:01+00:00
I always thought the sharpest declines were around steroids and the 94 strike.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/4735/sports.aspx

The data shows that the biggest drop was around the 60s. This is probably due to TV. The strike looks like it had some effect and the steroids era not much.

I think baseball needs more national stars. People like Ohtani and Judge, but they are not on the level Ken Griffey, Jr. was in 93-94. None of them reach the level of Mahomes or Manning either.
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-02 21:22:14+00:00
> But AFAIK there is no way to then tell the linker to rename symbols to match (e.g. -l foo/module.o as foo -l bar/module.o as bar).

Renaming symbols is done with objcopy. From objcopy(1):

--redefine-sym old=new Change the name of a symbol old, to new. This can be useful when one is trying link two things together for which you have no source, and there are name collisions.
by Hikikomori | 2025-10-02 21:22:46+00:00
Netanyahu supported Hamas, classic divide and conquer strategy. "Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas... This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank."

Hamas changed their charter in 2017 and supported the 1967 borders. Israel does not.

This entire situation has been engineered from the start by Zionists to take over and ethnically cleanse the area. This plan goes back to Ben Gurion.
by MontyCarloHall | 2025-10-02 21:22:50+00:00
>It won’t be cool or hyped again until general purpose quantum computing becomes a reality.

Which, to be clear, could be never. Aside from factoring numbers, solving certain optimization problems, and simulating quantum systems, there are very few known applications where quantum computers even theoretically outperform classical computers.

Of course, it's possible that as quantum computers become more powerful/robust, it will inspire discovery of new classes of problems/algorithms that they excel at. But I'm not holding my breath.
by oceanplexian | 2025-10-02 21:22:52+00:00
Is it weird that I have a totally different perspective on this? Then again I dropped out of college at 19 to start working in Big Tech (tm) after exiting my startup and have been there 15+ years now.

It doesn't matter how fast you spin your wheels working on things unless those things are aligned with delivering value to actual paying customers. Politics also doesn't really matter. Well, it matters to idiots, there are certainly a lot of those out there, and there's some truth that if you piss off the wrong idiot you're likely to be kicked out to the curb. But at the end of the day the times I or anyone else I know has created real business value, it has been heavily rewarded with promotions, money, etc.

The problem I see with a lot of academics is, like you mentioned, even if they are smart and spend a lot of time on interesting and hard problems, if they can't draw a straight line from their project to whatever business problem they are actually solving they don't last particularly long.
by stackskipton | 2025-10-02 21:22:58+00:00
Depends on raise terms but most raises are not 100% guaranteed. I was at a company that said, we have raised 100 Million in Series B (25 over 4 years) but Series B investors decided in year 2 of 4 year payout that it was over, cancelled remaining payouts and company folded. It was asked "Hey, you said we had 100 Million?" and come to find out, every year was an option.

Alot of finances for non public company is funny numbers. It's based on numbers the company can point to but amount of asterisks in those numbers is mind-blowing.
by pndy | 2025-10-02 21:23:16+00:00
At least cataract surgery once done won't be likely repeated. But there's also the age-related macular degeneration that goes by... AMD acronym. The treatment method for wet form involves intraocular injections, which basically means a series of shots in the affected eye, up until a "pocket" seen during eye tomography scan sizes down and vision improves.

My mother is going to have 8th shot this year and 13th total since doctor decides to test her. She describes the injection as "potent hard pop". All patients gets the anesthetics and some moisturising-softening agent so needle could get in easier.

Seeing the queues many times I can tell this problem concerns senior women, less frequently men and people of both sexes below 60. Tho, I once saw a guy who was around mid 40.

It's surely not fun to get a needle into your eye month by month but mum and all the other people in the clinic are beyond that already.
by bdangubic | 2025-10-02 21:23:32+00:00
every single training I attended (30 years of hacking) has always been all about the instructor. I have attended myriad of conferences and take myriad of courses and there is 100% common thread for ones that I stuck with and were useful and were ones I’d pay shitton of money again - instructor/teacher.

I am not sure how that can be “translated” into AI-generated content but I wish you all the best!!
by jcul | 2025-10-02 21:24:15+00:00
To add to that, leaving something in a very obviously broken unfinished state really helps to jump back into the flow the next morning, or whenever you come back.

I actually find it very hard to do this, to walk away with some code that isn't compiling or a test that isn't passing. It feels like leaving something unfinished.

When you return it's an easy jumping off point, with a tangible goal and helps bring you back into the context.
by witrak | 2025-10-02 21:24:25+00:00
>> What matters is domain age, IP, and compliance with DKIM/DMARC.

>Maybe it was my IP, but I cycled a few with my hosting provider and none of them made a difference. If I am unable to reliable obtain a 'trusted' IP, what good does it do?

That's true. I have a Class C IP range and a domain registered for 30 years and yet Gmail still started ignoring my email server a couple of years ago...
by 9rx | 2025-10-02 21:24:47+00:00
> How long did it take for 9 out of 10 of those rail lines to become nonviable?

Records from the time are few and far between, but, from what I can tell, it looks like they likely weren't ever actually viable.

The records do show that the railways were profitable for a short while, but it seems only because the government paid for the infrastructure. If they had to incur the capital expenditure themselves, the math doesn't look like it would math.

Imagine where the LLM businesses would be if the government paid for all the R&D and training costs!
by legostormtroopr | 2025-10-02 21:24:59+00:00
> walking towards slavery

Modern slavery is a massive problem. There are more slaves today than there were at the peak of slavery in the United States.

It is a strange side effect of US-exceptionalism that projects a shameful-pride that US slavery was the biggest and the worst slavery and they are the heroes for ending slavery, when none of these are remotely true.
by manquer | 2025-10-02 21:25:03+00:00
Stock compensation is not cash out, it just dilutes the other shareholders, so current cash flow should not have anything do to the amount of stock issued[1]

While there is some flexibility in how options are issued and accounted for (see FASB - FAS 123), typically industry uses something like a 4 year vesting with 1 year cliffs.

Every accounting firm and company is different, most would normally account for it for entire period upfront the value could change when it is vests, and exercised.

So even if you want to compare it to revenue, then it should be bare minimum with the revenue generated during the entire period say 4 years plus the valuation of the IP created during the tenure of the options.

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[1] Unless the company starts buying back options/stock from employees from its cash reserves, then it is different.

Even secondary sales that OpenAI is being reported to be facilitating for staff worth $6.6Billion has no bearing on its own financials directly, i.e. one third party(new investor) is buying from another third party(employee), company is only facilitating the sales for morale, retention and other HR reasons.

There is secondary impact, as in theory that could be shares the company is selling directly to new investor instead and keeping the cash itself, but it is not spending any existing cash it already has or generating, just forgoing some of the new funds.
by pelzatessa | 2025-10-02 21:25:06+00:00
It is possible for them to say that they deleted the messages without actually deleting them though. One has to trust a pretty big company in order to not worry about the messages actually not being stored anywhere.

I'm not aware of all techniques that Signal uses to somehow make the message anonymous even when if the encryption would have been broken, but sealed sender seems to be one of them:

https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/

So at least there's that. Unless the encrypted sealed sender messages aren't somehow being fingerprinted by the IP address of client and the timestamps of connections. Signal probably also says that they don't log these, but with self hosted mailserver I wouldn't have to trust them on that too.
by bedman12345 | 2025-10-02 21:25:18+00:00
> You claim things as being inherently hard to read and understand.

I don’t.

> But this is a matter of one's personal context and experience. There are things that I'd find hard to read that you would not, and vice versa.

Obviously.

> Just because you don't like something doesn't make it universally bad.

Not my point.

My claim is that most people who want to be good software engineers can spent their time better than doing functional programming. I’m trying to disprove the opposite claim. That claim being that you’d learn something important from doing it or that functional programming offers something important to the programmer. I’m simply sharing the result of my journey through it so that others don’t have to make the same mistake. If it’s fun to somebody they should of course do it. What upsets me is that I was caught up in this delusion that functional programming is worth spending significant time on.
by mvdtnz | 2025-10-02 21:25:41+00:00
I won't comment on the validity of patents or legal stuff because I don't know. But Strava is playing a very dangerous game here with their user base. I would hazard that a very large segment of their users are far more enthusiastic about Garmin than they are about Strava itself. Do you really want to anger your own users?

Even if Strava wins, they lose.
by al_borland | 2025-10-02 21:26:02+00:00
If everyone got UBI, jobs went away, and everyone spent all day posting on social media, then people would absolutely criticize AI online. Without purpose, a significant number of people will turn to drugs and alcohol. It won’t go well for them. For a lot of people, their job gives structure to their life and a reason for getting up in the morning. Without that, they’re lost.
by artdigital | 2025-10-02 21:26:26+00:00
I’d say GPT-5 is the best in following and remembering instructions. After an initial plan it can easily continue with said plan for the next 30-60 minutes without human intervention, and come back with a complete working finished feature/product.

It’s honestly crazy how good it is, coming from Claude. I never thought I could already pass something a design doc and have it one-shot the entire thing with such level of accuracy. Even with Opus, I always need to either steer it, or fix the stuff it forgot by hand / have another phase afterwards to get it from 90% to 100%.

Yes the Codex TUI sucks but the model with high reasoning is an absolute beast, and convinced me to switch from Claude Max to ChatGPT Pro
by spwa4 | 2025-10-02 21:26:55+00:00
Except autism, or as it was called then "autistic psychopathy" is anything but a condition or discovery https://archive.ph/nOH4z (note: it's a nature.com link)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43820794

Autism is exactly one thing, according to its discoverer, Hans Asperger: a diagnosis to remove the mentally undesirable from society to safeguard the genetic purity of the noble aryan race (translated from the paper by Hans Asperger)

Note: by removing he meant killing anyone with the "diagnosis", child or adult. Hans Asperger signed the orders to kill at least 5 children, probably many more.

In other words: the "discovery of autism" was nothing other than an excuse to massacre children deemed to be a burden on families for whatever reason. If you were diagnosed with autism and weren't hyperintelligent, you were sent away to be killed. It was the absolute opposite of neurodiversity, of tolerance, of neurodivergent people and it was never meant as a real diagnosis of a real condition. It was an excuse for murder.

Of course, psychology sees no problem with this little part of history and still revere Hans Asperger as a hero, as opposed to someone who should have been hanged at Nuremberg along with his colleagues. Psychology has a history of doing this. If you check what happened to Freud's patients, especially the women, you'll see that he was a seriously disturbed person as well. He made (in today's dollars) billions testifying in court that women who accused rich Austrians, often their own family, of rape they wanted to be raped and should be locked up for this deviant behavior ("not" to protect and satisfy the desire for revenge in their rapists). Oh and in a few cases, that male victims of murder by their own family were guilty of their own murder.
by fragmede | 2025-10-02 21:27:12+00:00
If we accept ChatGPT telling me that there are approximately 200k common nouns in English, and then we square that, we get 40 billion combinations. At one second per, that's ~1200 years, but then if we parallelize it on a supercomputer that can do 100,000 per second that would only take 3 days. Given that ChatGPT was trained on all of the Internet and every book written, I'm not sure that still seems infeasible.
by whitehexagon | 2025-10-02 21:27:33+00:00
Thank-you for the advice. So far it has been mostly SoC stuff, and I recently got side-tracked learning some armv8 assembly, which reminds me somewhat of my 68000 days and has been good fun.

I did try QEMU for the first time last week, but started thinking I'd need some way to mock out all the hardware, and I only got as far as UART. But now that you mention it I'll take another look. There is a lot of multi-core mbox? IRQ stuff I'm about to tackle next, and I dont see why I cant develop all of that independent of the hardware.

I seem to be learning the hard way. I spent the first 12 months debugging via the only thing I could get working, an onboard RGB LED.
by mvdtnz | 2025-10-02 21:27:38+00:00
> Strava literally only exists because of Garmin [and Apple, others] data.

Largely true.

> They offer no value, contribute nothing, and pretty much just monetize the fact that Apple and Garmin haven't shared data directly between their platforms.

Massively overstated. Strava adds a ton of value for serious users.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-10-02 21:28:36+00:00
Obvious smear hit piece.

But what are the delivered value of G&T programs to students? I never saw anything material from CA's GATE in the 80's-90's. Is NYC's program different? They seem like (probably not, but it's a risk) smart people inventorying programs but more likely they are bureaucratic money pile movers.

In a bigger picture of something perhaps different, shouldn't we offer investment in the top ~1-3% of kids with alternative schools that don't hold back their potential that will likely ultimately benefit us? If we're not committed to developing, attracting, and retaining brains, then we're setting up a brain drain.
by jph00 | 2025-10-02 21:29:01+00:00
Hi all - Jeremy Howard from Answer.AI here. Really excited to share with you all what we've learned over the past year about how to work with AI in a way that's entirely human-centered.

Whilst most folks seem focused on how to remove humans from the loop entirely and make AIs do all the work, we've concentrated 100% on how to make humans part of the loop in a way that makes us more and more capable and engaged.

I've enjoyed building and using our tool, "solveit", for the last year, and do basically all my coding, writing, reading, research, etc in it nowadays. I use small fast iterative steps and work to maximize my learning at each step.
by TwoSixTech | 2025-10-02 21:29:04+00:00
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by serf | 2025-10-02 21:29:34+00:00
nice pictures. that fire proofing around all of the wires is neat, as is that bldc design with the integrated heat-sinks and the huge compute unit with the copper piping to external heat-sinks.

very nice equipment before it was smashed to smithereens.

it's rare to get a glimpse into this stuff internally. Similarly I wish Doordash would show what the Dot looks like under the bonnet so I don't need to wait for the inevitable collision pictures.

The technical side of this emerging consumer-facing robotics thing just fascinates the hell out of me.
by skybrian | 2025-10-02 21:30:14+00:00
Thanks for the link. I skimmed through the report that the article is based on. It tracks rising activity in quantum computing R&D in several areas. But at least in the executive summary, I didn't see anything about commercial applications one way or the other. It doesn't seem to make any predictions?

So, it's odd that the article summarized it that way.
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-02 21:30:16+00:00
> to see one company owner paying themselves out equally to their employees.

Depends on what you mean. Getting the same pay, the same pay per hour or the same pay per hour averaged over a long time? Bosses often have a higher pay, but they are also more likely to "work" at home during the family meeting or at night, without it being clocked in anywhere. That's kind of the deal with being the company. They also don't see any money in when the company is in a rougth situation. Often they also don't have a salary at all.
by csb6 | 2025-10-02 21:30:25+00:00
Yes, airdrops are only done with permission from Israel since they control Gaza airspace (they have for decades). But airdrops are not an efficient way to feed millions of people (and the pallets have killed multiple people by landing on them). Shipping by truck allows a much larger volume much faster, and the UN has experience doing so, but they have been largely blocked from doing so for months by Israel, which runs its own much less efficient aid operation with many fewer distribution points guarded by mercenaries who regularly kill aid seekers who often have to travel long distances through dangerous areas.
by flyinglizard | 2025-10-02 21:30:36+00:00
What an interesting historical stretch to call Jews "invaders" in Israel, when the entire place is riddled with Jewish history and artefacts dating back thousands of years.

While Rhodesia and South Africa were colonial experiments by people with no prior connection to Africa, that's not the case with Israel. Since the onset of told history there were Jews in that area.
by jonathanstrange | 2025-10-02 21:31:34+00:00
AFAIK, it has the same security as before. Perfect forward secrecy means that if someone starts recording encrypted messages in transit and two years later obtains an encryption key, they cannot use that key to decrypt the messages they recorded earlier (because of re-keying).

On the other hand, if an adversary captures one of the group participants' phone and breaks device security, and the chat was recorded on that device, then they can access all recorded chats. By the same token, no cryptography can protect against a malicious group participant who records messages.

In the same scenario, cloud backups seem to merely imply that the same adversary can obtain the cloud backup key and therefore decipher the cloud backups if they get their hands on it. They won't need that, however, since the group chat history is already stored on the device. If no chats were recorded on the device at all the situation would be different.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-10-02 21:31:53+00:00
Concerns about general policy need to be handled separately from individual cases. You needed to play along, advocate for your position, explain your position (e.g. demonstrate how your processes eliminate certain classes of errors; or find some objective way to measure QA problems and present the stats), and push for a holistic process change that supports your use-case. That process change would need input from other people, and might end up very different to your original proposal, but it could have happened. Instead, you've burned (and continue to burn) bridges.

Linus's job is not to make the very next version of the kernel as good as it can be. It's to keep the whole system of Linux kernel maintenance going. (Maintaining the quality of the next version is almost a side-effect.) Asking him to make frequent exceptions to process is the equivalent of going "this filesystem is making poor decisions: let's hex-edit /dev/sda to allocate the blocks better". Your priority is making the next version of bcachefs as good as it can be, and you're confident that merging your patchsets won't break the kernel, but that's entirely irrelevant.

> If Linus can't figure out which subsystems have QA problems and which don't, that's his problem, not mine.

You have missed the point by a mile.
by gengstrand | 2025-10-02 21:31:54+00:00
I agree. Permit me to rephrase. From this learning adventure https://www.infoq.com/articles/architecting-rag-pipeline/ I came to understand what many now call context rot. If you want quality answers, you still need relevance reranking and filtering no matter how big your context window becomes. Whether that happens in a search that is upfront in a one shot prompt or iteratively in a long session through an agentic system is merely an implementation detail.
by Alupis | 2025-10-02 21:32:08+00:00
Aid did get in, and Hamas did steal it. The media ignored it, so the narrative continues status-quo.

Israel has no reason to support Hamas and their efforts here. If Hamas wasn't stealing all of the aid earlier in this conflict, perhaps aid would still be flowing into Gaza.

It doesn't seem so absolute/cut-and-dry like you try to make it.