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> Good luck replacing the first-stage bootloader with something non-proprietary.

I mean, that's been hard for decades. It's mostly about the complexity of initializing the massive amounts of hardware.

You can certainly install Libreboot on many machines, but it's a relatively small hardware compatibility list-- thanks to the terrific amount of variation between computers out there.

Or there's a few manufacturers that will sell you a machine with CoreBoot onboard.
Never cared about psychedelics, but if it's only "marginally better" than antidepresants, and has less side effects, that sounds like a huge win.
That's because their job isn't really to write code, it's to do something else. But if you can get a PhD you can probably learn how to leetcode. A lot of them don't really care much about being able to write good code.
Not quite that level, but plenty of people seem fine with Bridgerton swapping the race of its characters, which I believe is otherwise a standard period drama.
Perhaps the casted person was the best choice? Ian McKellen was an excellent choice for the role of Gandalf. Whether the same is true for other actors and roles depends on a case by case scenario. I couldn't care less about his skin colour.

We in the West allowed foreigners and people of colour into our culture. We deal with it by being inclusive in 2022. Deal with it, simple as that. You don't like it, you don't watch it.

I live in a country where a bunch of people have decided to hang their flags upside down. I don't like that and if I see a business doing such, I don't do business with them. Simple as that as well.
> Anyway, we might know how to reduce recidivism, but society sure doesn’t seem interested in taking the steps to invest what’s needed.

The current "justice" system is a huge jobs program all around, and it is predicated on a persistently large mass of criminals who scare the crap out of the public. If they go away, so do cops, lawyers, prison jobs, and all the ancillary positions which feed off them. Society needs to own up to this fact and figure out what to do with all those people, especially the ones who live in rural areas which are completely dependent on prisons. I really feel the economics are what keep mass incarceration going year after year, no matter how many stories get written about it, or how awful everyone agrees it is.
When people are dying, red tape can be trimmed down a little. COVID is nothing if not proof of that.
that is stupid, which is what im saying
I have another funny one: on my Debian install I use transmission. I installed Deluge because Transmission still mixes destination dir from one session to the other. Now when I right click open folder for a torrent it launches vs code with that folder as a workspace.
Nope. You missed the point. I said the opposite.

If your training data have any absolutely innocent children pictures at all and also NSFW content with adults then model will be able to generate NSFW content with children. It's that simple.

Also even if you remove any children completely from training model will still be able to generate CSAM-like content because a lot of legit porn include jailbait models.
Expected value doesn't mean jack shit if the game can only be played once.

> Expected value (also known as EV, expectation, average, or mean value) is a long-run average value of random variables.

If you can only press a button once - you should take the guaranteed money in almost all circumstances (assuming you have finances that look like most Americans - if you're already a millionaire... do what you want, this game doesn't matter much to you).

Basically - This is a dire misunderstanding of how statistics works in general. The population at large might be better off pressing the 50% at 50 million button (because then you are running this game many times and you will likely achieve the expected value) - but as an individual, who can only roll the dice once, you are much better off just taking the immediate and guaranteed win.

And that's not even accounting for the drop off in marginal value of each dollar as you accumulate them - that first million is far more impactful than the next 49.
Linux Mint (2,056 hits) has more page hits than Ubuntu (1,183) or Debian (911) on DistroWatch.com.

If anyone knows a more authoritative source of distro popularity, please reply.
Strange, to me NASA looks like they take security seriously like professionals do
This is before employee's taxes but after employer's taxes. OP explains

> Net in France means after the taxes your employer pays but before the taxes you pay on your income. I know it's confusing!

https://twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1564875547792080898

The benefits would have to be really, really sweet to consider making half as much a "worker's paradise."
What is interesting? It’s just review bombing.
Yes, it seems a far more apt comparison to union dues would be government taxation.
Ask HN: Are You in Love with Bash?
Please describe why. Also if not then why?
Wow. That goes a level deeper than I had thought through myself.

The place where I've always wanted to see this is on my phone. I would like to be able to deny apps network access, location access, contact lists, etc. This should not be a series of continuous pop-us ("let us scrape your data or you can't use our app"), but simply return a sandboxed empty contacts list (which the app can manage), a sandboxed storage for photos (which the app can add / remove photos from), and a random set of GPS coordinates.

Firefox has errors, but no hostile code. Most apps seem to have hostile code. It's almost impossible to tell how hostile that code is for which app. Even when I do want to grant access, it's almost always too much. Many apps which have valid reasons to e.g. take and store photos, but that doesn't mean I want them to be able to copy and analyse my personal photos.
Not comparable.

This is fueling tons of cryogenic propellant using systems which haven't been used many times end to end.

Hydrogen in cars is compressed gas, and operations happen at a much higher frequency. A lot easier to work out the kinks before going for the real deal (rocket launch vs consumer car refueling).

No comment on hydrogen as a car fuel overall, but compressed hydrogen and liquid hydrogen have completely different in handling requirements.
I’m reminded of this paragraph in the following article:

When the Lockheed team stored hundreds of gallons of liquid hydrogen at the Skunk Works a visiting scientist warned them "My God … you're going to blow up Burbank." Later, they were reminded of this prophecy when a fire broke out and nearly caused a massive explosion that could have demolished the top-secret facility, the neighbouring airport and Burbank itself.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220316-the-epic-attempt...
Think a QR Code on the server, scanned by the glasses. Confirm and then have a connection to this machine. That’s part of the future I have been waiting for.
What people say they will do on a hypothetical is not the same thing as what they will do if actually faced with the decision.

The way I've been able to deal with this personally is by thinking "what would I do if this was Monopoly money?" and then reconcile that with my emotional decision.
> and hope that it's what the author wants and has time

Yes, that's how "this isn't mine and I would like to have it changed" works. You're free to want things, you're not guaranteed to get them.

> What if I can't do better? It's unfortunate I can't learn.

Then no one still owes you anything, and the fact that you get to use this software for free is still a miracle.

As for the "needing internet access": what an absolutely ridiculous thing to say. If you need a great offline image editor, just download one. There are plenty, Gimp, Krita, etc. all work perfectly fine if that's what you need, but it sounds more like you're upset about the fact that THIS particular one isn't also free for you to do with as you please, and that's just ridiculous. If you need a good offline image editor, you already have options unrelated to this amazing web offering that the author has zero obligation to make free, let alone open source.
I made an asdf-vm installer for it that I've been keeping up to date: https://github.com/smashedtoatoms/asdf-sbcl

If you don't want to use it, it installs from source, so you might be able to look at the source to see an example of how to build it yourself. It works on intel and arm macs.
Networking is critical. My clients are mostly in fintech, so I network in fintech, but you should seek out in whatever field you're most comfortable in and have loads of expertise with. If you're good at what you do and produce excellent results, you only need to hunt for the first few clients, and then you'll get a lot of referrals.
1) This is nothing compared to when Prozac® was introduced in the 90's. The idea that Prozac was going to cure Western mental health ills was quite popular and viral. It was a dawn of a new age according to some. Now SSRI's are still used when appropriate, but no one thinks they are a cure all for depression.

2) There's a distortion at work here. Many people, including myself, thing that natural growing mushrooms or other plants containing hallucinogens should not be illegal. The problem is that it appears the only way to legalize at the current time is to force them into a doctor/patient therapeutic relationship. This is causing people to twist themselves into a knots trying to explain why this small step towards legalization should be allowed. Many exaggerations and false claims are being made. And who wants to always have to do their trip with a doctor sitting by their side?

My hometown of Santa Cruz California is on the right track. Decriminalize for personal use and move on to more important issues.

Santa Cruz decriminalizes magic mushrooms and other natural psychedelics, making it the third US city to take such a step

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/30/us/santa-cruz-mushrooms-psych...
Sure there were lots of devices doing subsets of the features of iPhone but the feature set and execution of the iPhone was in a completely different class.

The fact that the same fundamental design still dominates 15 years later shows how remarkable a feat of product design it really was.
with Amazon Prime raising rates routinely, they want customers to engage with Prime Video, which is really a loss leader that's meant to keep consumers renewing Prime membership.

Amazon boxes is premium real estate and it costs them nothing to advertise. Its helping drive awareness, as you recalled the ad and specifically where you saw it, which is a strong signal for advertisers that want to infiltrate your mind.
Wait wait, is it really possible to get that big of a seed round WITHOUT an MVP??
Because SpaceX doesn't make errors? SpaceX rockets don't blow up?

Finding am error before lift off is not a bad thing.
They are still in your mind, just locked in a little dusty room.
Hmm. I think my mental model is more that it should be "randomly" enforced. The probability of getting caught is higher than some certain threshold, but that it's not necessarily bad if that threshold is lower than 100%.

I can't think of any resonable society that have taken actions to show that they want the probability to be 100%. I would even argue that the most harsh dictatorships probably have the highest enforcement, but that laws were/are very selectively enforced in the favor of e.g regime officials.
On prem is starting at $25/mo/user. This tool includes chat, wiki etc, so you want to bring business people too. Suddenly it's couple grands per month + hosting fees, and you're still hostage, as despite using own servers it will stop working as soon as you miss scheduled payment. Since Spaces integrate half of functionality your company needs - of course you will pay.

Compare that to other Jetbrains products, where you pay similar amount once and you can use it forever and you'll see how huge step back it is.

I'm happy for everyone in this thread, that it's trivial for your organization to budget $100k+ (realistically, for mid-size org it's something like this to fully integrate and then pedal back from solution of this size if suddenly you are out of the money - eg. Atlassian estimates 9 month+ migration for its jira instances), however for me it's still kinda big bet :-)
> Even building a von Neumann probe has a so close to zero

Why do you say this? Could you expand on it? It seems to me like the cost of these sentient, self-replicating factories would be marginal.

I'm worried about them sending a von Neumann probe that constructs a series of asteroid deflection ships that would put impactors on a direct collision course with us.

Or some smart, self-replicating nanobot that can out compete our biological systems for energy while being metabolically undigestable.

Or some kind of energy weapon.
If you allow unions to consolidate and exert unlimited political power, companies need to be able to self-organize to ensure their interests are represented. Full stop.

Does that work as well, or is this one of those "one way street" deals in your mind?

When have companies "consolidated and exerted unlimited political power"?
Did they end up facing "anti-trust" laws? get broken up as a result?

> All of the things you complain about happen on the business side of the table.

Are you sure about that?

here's the head of the UAW being placed on leave for fraud:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/uaw-president-leave-corrupt...

Let me guess, the "business" made him do it?

I have no idea what point you are making with Azure?
An honest benchmark would include the non-snap startup times for each of their test platforms.

That said, the performance issues aren’t as bad as the fact that it’s unusable on machines with NFS home directories mounted with root_squash (as documented [0] by someone at another institution).

We’re a University CS dept with a few hundred lab machines and have been using Ubuntu for the past decade or so, but fighting against the increasing snapification every LTS is frustrating. Next LTS we’ll probably just switch to another distro. Most of our users don’t really care which distro they use - they just want Linux with NFS home, a browser, JetBrains, VS Code and a Bash shell with access to our standard compiler and tool collection Our HPC team recently switched from Centos to Alma - though I’m more inclined to stay with a Debian derivative (or more likely Debian itself).

[0] https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SnapsVersusNF...
Git-diff-explorer: A Git diff explorer written in bash utilizing fzf
> If you look at their budget, NASA’s funding has rarely been reduced

Apollo 18, Apollo 19, Apollo 20, and the orbit repair of Skylab have entered the chat.
Welcome to the tail end of the Dunning-Kruger curve.

Everyone experiences this eventually, but not everybody realizes it at first.

Now that you know your capacity I recommend doing an annual round up of the things you still remember and can confidently put in your CV.

Also take note on how job interviews all but ignore this phenomenon.
For sure, but that boat has sailed. Right now cutting them off as quickly as possible is the right thing to do.
Damn right it's effective when you want to blackmail someone because you have extra time.

If you were prioritizing your life then I came and tried to rob you, what would be the chance that you prioritize my angle of attack?

Unions are literally built to prey on that cost that a company IS prioritized and by distracting it with legal hell it becomes slower and risks losing its position in the marketplace and thus potentially vulnerable to negoitations that are unfaorable because of exploiting what would otherwise be prioritization. Your example is just that the vampire sucked too much blood, and has a clear boundary of policy.
What about the dumb harfoot moms who aren’t white? I think you’re seeing what you want to see.
I don't trust patents anymore.
If only they'd had 40 years of experience with the same tech (just shrunk a bit).
> So: they had the money, and they had cause to spend it, but they chose not pay you for your service, and as a result they likely paid more in the long run.

That's one possibility. Another, and one that I think is more common with startups (majority are people using their own savings and family/friends, not raising millions from seed rounds) is that they really didn't have that much money up front, but paying a cheaper way allowed them to minimally get a product out the door until they had enough revenue to "do it right."
I think a common reply to this would be that it’s hard to change laws when an oligarchy has so much power, and siphoning the money and power from the oligarchs has to come first. Unions are one approach to attempt to do this. Unions are the workers that join them, and one of the more positive developments lately is the push to have more democratic unions. The teamsters even just changed their leadership drastically in this direction.
This is where Tesla’s lack of a PR department will eventually bite them. They should be actively marketing their service and quality rather than trying to sue criticism out of existence. The market won’t buy everything they put out forever.
Just to add a small sample of mainstream media (Wired, NYT, NPR) running similar articles:

https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/10900807581260759...
This is not from Mozilla. The "Mozilla team" here means "the people maintaining Mozilla related packages".

(I work on the Firefox install/update system, and previously CI & release systems.)
In Europe, many things are provided by the government and at high quality. This means their quality of life is better, even if they don't earn as much. They don't "need" a high income to have a nice life. It's really not that useful or relevant to look purely at numbers, it's what you get out of your current political system.

In the US, you need to make good money because everything is out of pocket. If you don't, your quality is life is poor. This is also why whenever Americans compare their life to Europe, it's always numbers based. It's all we know: big numbers, better life.

Not to mention things that are not easily qualified by pure numbers, such as work culture, vacation time, public transit.

Europe has vastly more progressive and people friendly political, economic system and cultural setup. This is speaking as an American in tech with a relatively high income.
There is a documentary about the psychology of financial decisions (behavioral economics):
Mind Over Money: Nova (2010)
https://moviewise.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/mind-over-money-n...

"Emotion may lead you to make bad financial decisions. For example, people who feel sad will pay more, sometimes four times more, for a consumer product than those who do not feel sad."

The "Nash equilibrium" also delves a bit into the psychology of decision making:
https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1tc80g/is_the_explana...
I think the point is that in a theoretical society in whcih there are no bad actors, and there is no cost to prevent fraud, the optimal amount of fraud is zero. That is, there isn't a reason you would want to encourage fraud, because a little bit of fraud is good. But when you also consider the cost of reducing fraud the optimal state for the system as a whole will have a non-zero amount of fraud. And of course, bad actors do exist, so in a real system you want to accept some amount of fraud.

The difference is significant, because if you discover a way to significantly reduce fraud for a low cost (including cost of freedoms and similar), it will be worth implementating. And there isn't some point where you say "we are already down to x% fraud, we don't want to go any lower than that, even if it doesn't cost us anything".
I suppose it's where you studied.

My alma matter focuses on undergraduate education emphasizing real-world applications.
Venture Capital and FANG pay obscene money because their business models can afford to, they just happen to be powered by software. The actual work of software development isn't somehow worth more to society than your average white collar job, at least in my opinion. It's just another job, and it would be better for the world if the pay came down rather than everywhere get inflated, so that software could thrive in other markets, not just the tech bubbles. Perhaps not the right forum to be preaching for that, and it's certainly not in my best interest either, but that's how I see it.
The argument that if you can suspend your disbelief for dragons and magic you can suspect your disbelief for a diverse cast is a dumb argument because you could use it for basically anything.

Most fantasy shows that are in English use British accents. It’s what we expect. But why not use a heavy southern U.S. accent? If you van accept this world with dragons and magic why can’t you accept a southern accent?

If it deviates too far from our expectations then it just seems like a bit.
This analogy makes zero sense. How is this analogy even supposed to work?

CEO = homeowner

Union = HOA

Employees = Grass on your lawn???
They still do sometimes .. and it may become more common as the edit button is rolled out.
Even in the remotest corners of Europe we had absolutely romping 3G coverage.
Some of those aren’t analogous. Your Covid example: there’s also the cost _to others _ of you catching and spreading it, even if the risk to you is lower.

Speeding is another example: the cost (or risk) might be acceptable to you but not to the person you have an increased likelihood of hitting and doing serious injury to.

At a societal level, it holds, which is why we invest in measures to increase the cost of doing the wrong thing (speeding tickets, removing licenses).
I'm glad for you, but the researchers involved in this story did an actual RCT with a cohort of patients and measured the effect, and the benefit of psilocybin was shown to be marginal. The study is linked in the first paragraph of the story.
Ah, my bad. Hadn’t read all the way back to the beginning of the thread
> that first million is far more impactful than the next 49.

This is in fact the reason you should take the million.

How many times you get to play the game is irrelevant. Your whole life is filled with potential but uncertain payoffs, and you should maximise expected utility every time (where utility is not the same as dollars).
> HOAs are a way to exercise power as a group against individuals in the group.

s/HOA/Union/ and this statement is still true
> Your average citizen in India, China or many other places is only going to see egg on Uncle Sam's face here.

That's a prejudiced view.

As somebody from one of those countries, I'm curious to know why you felt that way.

Rest assured that average citizens in India don't give a damn about whether or not America launches a rocket.

Nobody here has any doubt that the US is fully capable of handling this mission.

It's a good thing that they caught the flaw early and aborted the mission before anything catastrophic happened. They can now look into things, make corrections, and try again.

(And besides, thoughts about "what will others think" should be the least concern of anybody actually involved with this project. It's an indication of small minds.)
Too pessimistic. They launched JWST and put a helicopter on Mars this year. Last year, we touched the Sun. They're doing insanely great science work.

Rocket tech lags because it competes with the private market, which the people with money don't like.
Please keep going, it’s worth trying to compare all compensation and benefits, and we both might learn something.