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What does the -1 part of your comment mean and how does it relate to the rest?
I'm waiting for it to stabilise a bit more, but I'm quite pleased with UTM + a Linux VM. Hopefully we'll get more ARM support in Linux distros, I really hate snaps but otherwise Ubuntu works the best so far in my experience.
It can be useful to put feelings aside, consider that horror stories are exactly that, and look at data:

https://electrek.co/2022/06/15/tesla-tops-list-most-satisfie...
> Why is it so hard for me to find a single, precise location on my phone with an enumerated list of every command Siri or Google can work with?

The likely answer here is that the engineers who work on such products would scoff at the idea that their work amounts to a simple list of commands. In their minds, they’re working on a natural language virtual assistant, whose understanding of user input is “intelligent”, and it should know what you want regardless of how you phrase it. Want to do something? Just ask! Treat it as if it's a person! The possibilities are endless!

Never mind that its actual functionality (y’know… the things it can do when it understands you) is embarrassingly finite and boils down to a “list of commands” anyway.
How are we going to encrypt that?
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I was replying to this:

> A bunch of PhD traders lost their wealth

That is, the only reason the losses were limited to them was because of special intervention. Otherwise, it would have caused losses for many others.
Is it a phone? Is it a phone + camera? Is it a phone + text device?

Of course the answer was not design, but electronic engineering (to get all the parts into small form factor) and software.

Who knew?
FTX supposedly collected 0.1% commission on $100B+ volume per day.

Why couldn't they just get a loan to cover their losses?
The secret is that regulators can only have a fairly limited effect, and retrospectively. As well as the inherent jurisdiction difficulties in operating out of the Bahamas. Mind you, that's something crypto investors wanted: freedom from government!

There's a real "accountability overhang" not just in crypto but so many other things. Justice is slow and getting slower.
I read a German tech blogger, who is more of a troll than actual news reporter, but I read it because its a) entertaining and b) an alternative perspective, and I have written a scraper that grabs the news every 20 minutes from a prominent German tech news outlet, but without the tracking and ads.
And then I read Tagesschau but I'm disgusted how much propaganda there is. However it serves as an overview of trends that are currently discussed mainstream.

I was thinking of doing a quick 10 minute YouTube video of me reading the news from different sources and commenting on them. One Twitch streamer has a lot of viewers with his political news streams, so I think that could work. After all many do the same and have huge ass businesses and many viewers/readers doing that.

But I can't deal with the bullshit on a daily basis. I hate it when I read obvious bullshit but they try to label it as the truth.

Edit: and HN as a meta news source
The default line height is defined by the font (and the browser may influence it in other ways too?), but it’s distinct from the em. (It’s easy to try in a browser. I see values like 18.78px and 19.33px and 21.67px on my 16px text.)
Kemal is an Arabic word. And its a loan word in Persian. And from the influence of Persian & Arabic its used heavily in Turkic and Indo-Aryan languages (Turkish, Urdu/Hindi).

It was mainstream even before Ataturk in India/Iran (Fars territory).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Kemal
I discovered the 12 hour walk from a podcast (https://12hourwalk.com/) where the idea is to really contemplate and analyze your life by walking alone, without any music or distractions, for 12 hours. I've yet to try it, and am thinking maybe doing a shortened version at first (3 hours maybe?).

But I could see how it would be a way to wrestle with your thoughts.
(Slightly off topic) If you click in the "RoberDam.com" link that appears when you scroll a little bit you get redirected to "http://localhost:8080/".

It seems to only happen in the English page. In the Spanish version of the post the link works well.
Yes.

That's what he meant.
>this is exactly what happended at FTX/Alameda. A bunch of "smart" guys [...]

No, they're different situations.

The current details trickling out of the FTX scandal is that CEO Samuel Bankman-Fried secretly used customer funds to prop up Alameda which is unethical and criminal. This is fraud.

In contrast, the LTCM guys lost billions honestly and transparently via flawed math models based on overconfident assumptions of price spread behavior. That wasn't criminal fraud. There was no illegal transfer of investor funds.
There is a better way: don't make the discussion mandatory and pervasive, and certainly don't invent tendentious reasons for doing so. The most likely consequence of doing these things is to persuade otherwise sympathetic people that your concerns are not to be taken seriously.
In my early 20's, I briefly considered getting a new car, or maybe leasing.

Insurance would have been more than the monthly car payment, and when I expressed that $400/mo wasn't awful, but $1,000/mo for a car was a non-starter, the guy was seriously like "Well, do you want to eat food, or have a car (with lighted cup holders) to get to work?" and "If you can't afford rent, you can sleep in the car!"

That's still one of the dumbest conversations I've ever had.
eyes on the road, gershy! :P
These are all opinion articles from people who disagree with the political stances of the Spectator.
Well yes, but this is a much cheaper option. Instead of having many smart gadgets you only need one. The mobile phone or some other microphone but that is the most obvious option.

Instead of paying hundreds of dollars for all these gadgets that have to be charged and kept safe you can buy cheap variants and still have basically the same benefits.
The irony of this reply is not lost
Very cool idea, the only question I have is how fast does this not drain the battery of the mics?
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The vulnerability allows remote code execution. You should update to the latest version ASAP
It's crazy how well this comment aged.
There probably isn’t. There’ll be some hard coded “if this, say that”, but there are a lot of trained responses in the models that won’t be as simple as that.
You could install NixOS on your Mac. I've installed Debian, some use Fedora; you just use the Asahi installer to repartition and install the kernel, and after that you can isntall your distro of choice (not super easy though).
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How would this work with other voices, like a coffee shop, would it hear those simultaneously, and interupt a command?

Also, how do you handle using OpenAi whisper, seems like they do 30 second intervals - would that be an issue if your command is cut off mid word?
Virtually every dealer, for the Japanese brands I am considering, is 2 to 10K+ over MSRP (“market adjustment and dealer adds”) in a 300 mile radius (multiple big metros). These markups are for vehicles they won’t have in stock for months also.

Car dealers have discovered they can make huge profits by exploiting the inventory shortage. They’ve also kept some of the most arrogant sales staff (“closers”) who are guaranteed big pay days for every sale.

While this isn’t always the case, the days of paying below MSRP appears to be a thing of the past
You can invest in Ark Venture Fund which has some stake in Twitter, but is run by Cathie Wood so it is basically like throwing money away (though most would say that about Twitter anyways).

Otherwise Twitter exceeding expectations might bleed into Tesla share prices because the opposite is definitely true, but it wouldn't be a long term effect since mostly it's because people are scared of Elon having to sell more TSLA
Since our designers use the language of pixels and we have the time to develop different breakpoints thoroughly, we tend to use that as well in our code. But I get a lot of value out of using ems in more local styles, in situations where I know the font size will be changing and I want certain things to scale with it.

One easy example is line-height on headings; font-size will change between breakpoints but you can usually pick a line-height so that you don't have to redefine that every time. Same with letter-spacing.

As to the accessibility concern - I've read it, but I've never been dinged on an audit for it. That's not some kind of conclusive non-happening because audits have problems of their own, but...I don't know, I guess I'd be interested in people talking about their experiences here, if they've had real-world situations where rems made things better for disabled users.
The same is very true in VC investing. Because any individual partner does not make that many bets per year, and the time frame to exit is long, it is very difficult to distinguish skill from luck (including being in a long-term bull market like the last decade).
Be aware of the dangers that cortison can do to your bones though. Defeat asthma today, wrestle with a half disolved spine tomorrow..
...how do you know that doesn't work?

Sometimes surprising and interesting things happen when you experiment. Maybe goat piss with hair of a virgin seems weird, but burying shit in your backyard for awhile, digging it up, and mixing it with burnt wood seems pretty odd too when you think about it.
Doesn't this break wiretapping laws (depending on the user's geographic location) and possibly GDPR/NDAs(if left on while at work)?

Ethically most people probably wouldn't be happy to find out that you recorded a conversation with them.
Yes, is there a list of every command a human can execute or can work with?
Lol. FTX’s investors were a whose who of “seasoned venture funds and experienced crypto investors”.

Sequoia, Third Point Iconiq etc. Coinbase Ventures gave them money. Blackrock was an investor.

If you want to see FTX as an indictment of the entire venture industry I think there is an argument to be had there. But picking on OTP is just a lazy rhetorical device. They made a similar investment to other funds in the industry they are in, that was a reasonable size of their portfolio in an investment style known to be risky.
Yes! I wrote about my experiences with running and listening to audiobooks here, and we got a nice discussion about spatiality:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26596690
I'm not sure paying more will help. It looks like greed can be boundless, so as long as power converts to money malicious actors will keep abusing it.

Perhaps we should make power unattractive to such types instead, making it not lucrative so that only crazy* individuals who are content with good enough clean salary seek it out of dumb* desire to make the world better.

* In a good way, obviously.
In your example, why does the INSERT in second row use the unqualified value (1), but the UPDATE in third row uses a wrapped value as crdt_set(2)?
Does this apply to his books too or just what he says online?
Spring does not need to infect your codebase. You can use the container without importing anything from Spring in other than one class (the one bootstrapping the system).

If you want to use Spring classes in the implementation of your clases then yes, you will need to import them. But this is no different than any other library.

If you just use XML configuration files (or use @Configuration) you don't (shouldn't) use @Inject, @Autowire and all other abominations. Or at least you didn't need, last time I checked a couple years ago. All your code is clear, free of any Spring code (unless you use some of the libraries) and fully reusable, testable, etc.

Why everyone moved to annotations for "dependency injection" (that crap is NOT DI!!!!!), not only in Java, but Python, Typescript, etc. I just can't understand. It can't only be the convenience of doing so by saving some keystrokes, but I just can't get it. We solved the modularity beautifully with Spring (and other DI engines) and then we proceed to throw away the solution and recreate the problem again? Get off my lawn...
Good catch. There seem to be several "http://localhost:8080/" strings in the page source. Leftover code from testing?
Reflexive antiregulation is the empty ideology that keeps us in a cycle of boom, bust, and bailout with banks. We neuter Glass-Stegall and within a decade we had 2008 now the regulations in Dodd-Frank meant to keep guard rails on the banks has also AFAIK been thoroughly neutered but this time it lasted less than a decade and banks have already reinvented and rebranded the same financial instruments that blew up in '08.
That isn't how CRDT's work though. In the example of mutating a bank balance, there would be addition operations and subtraction operations. So /eventually/ all nodes would arrive at the same balance. It's a bit like event sourcing but lower-level.
Equality is only equal if everyone starts off at the same level
How is the battery life on Asahi (eg 16in MBP)? I'm debating this versus the HP Elitebook 865[0], which has 64GB ram, top spec Ryzen, and a 72whr battery. They claim 22h battery life, and 13h of youtube playback.

[0]: https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/mdp/hp-elitebook-865
I mean I think it helps put things in context. It sort of feels like you’re lied to if you’re told all the good things about Euler and can grow up idolizing him and not know that IRL he was a piece of shit.
I've had no issues with his on ubuntu on my previous lenovo x1 carbon or on my recent dell xps 15. (Nor on my desktop)
What do you mean? If I upload an image of myself to the Astro’s API, it can be used ins deep fake?
You might want to check the new ThinkPad Z13 and Z16 models with latest Ryzen CPU. You get similar performance and battery life as you'd expect from an M1.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-Z13-laptop-rev...

No need to change the CPU architecture.
It's complicated, but you can grok it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_dat...
Yes, actually, here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English

If one were to take the 25,000 word Oxford Pocket English Dictionary and take away the redundancies of our rich language and eliminate the words that can be made by putting together simpler words, we find that 90% of the concepts in that dictionary can be achieved with 850 words.

The shortened list makes simpler the effort to learn spelling and pronunciation irregularities. The rules of usage are identical to full English so that the practitioner communicates in perfectly good, but simple, English.

We call this simplified language Basic English, the developer is Charles K. Ogden, and was released in 1930 with the book: Basic English: A General Introduction with Rules and Grammar.

Even Includes 200 picturables: http://ogden.basic-english.org/wordpic0.html

"A widely known 1933 book on this is a science fiction work on history up to the year 2106 titled The Shape of Things to Come by H. G. Wells. In this work, Basic English is the inter-language of the future world, a world in which after long struggles a global authoritarian government manages to unite humanity and force everyone to learn it as a second language."

- Sounds pretty close to Siri and the other digital assistants to me. Ever watch people from none English countries use their smartphones? Not all of it is implemented yet but this is almost all you need to run an empire.

Here it is deployed in favor of much needed disciplinary action for two Scottish people:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOUTfUmI8vs
> It does not change the fact that the USSR and Nazi Germany were allies in 1939 and through 1940

That's in my opinion simplistic. They weren't "allies" in the standard sense of the word; they were outmaneuvering each other and gearing for war, which both parties understood was happening eventually. Remember they already had had their bitter proxy war in the Spanish Civil War, where Soviets and Germans had already killed each other. Yes, they cooperated with materiel and military tech; they also had to compromise geopolitically. The situation of both countries more or less required this. And yes -- with hindsight -- this backfired on the Soviets catastrophically.

But consider this: in the UK and US, businesses and politicians were at times sympathetic with Nazi Germany, at least before the outbreak of the global war, after which maintaining open sympathies for Germany would have been traitorous. But only the USSR was under actual territorial danger from Nazi Germany, so the compromises to be made were different. The USSR also had in its recent history a civil war where the Western Powers had intervened against them, so they were very wary of who to trust, "surrounded by enemies" so to speak.

From Wikipedia:

> The establishment of the [Molotov-Ribbentrop] treaty was preceded by Soviet efforts to form a tripartite alliance with Britain and France. Fearing encirclement by hostile powers, the Soviet Union began negotiations with Germany on 22 August, one day after talks broke down with Britain and France, and the Molotov–Ribbentrop pact was signed the next day.

How many people, when claiming Nazi Germany and the USSR were "allies", know that the USSR first tried to form an anti-German pact with Britain and France? And were refused! Not many, I suspect.

> [Germany and the USSR] cooperated in Poland, signed a treaty to partition eastern Europe

Again, consider that at the time, the UK thought having colonies was acceptable. Churchill, lionized in the West, was a staunch supporter of the British Empire. So yes, it's bad that the USSR tried to partition Eastern Europe (unlike the UK, they were in full paranoid mode, trying to create buffer zones to protect their homeland), but remember some Western powers like the UK and France also believed in partitioning the world according to their needs. Empires were more acceptable back then, it wasn't just the USSR.
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In that case you don't have a one person team. You have a distributed team with effective communication and well designed systems that a single individual execute with minimal coordination. Which is the ideal but calling them one person teams is a misnomer.
> Does it make sense to allow representatives from various industries access to members of the legislative branches of government?

Yes.

It does not make sense to allow those industries to influence elections or the decisions of those elected by making political donations, though.

> Should there be federal laws related to cryptocurrencies?

Increasingly I think prohibition is the only option. Even if it's very leaky. It's far worse a mind virus than, say, TikTok. At least if it's illegal there won't be superbowl adverts for frauds.
> To auto industry veterans, the company’s jaw-dropping achievement isn’t popularizing electric cars. That may have been inevitable as the consequences of climate change began to hit Americans.

I find this so fascinating. I think there comes a point where an achievement is so monumental, that people stop comprehending it as a person's achievement and instead view it as a historical event. Then the achievement becomes "inevitable", because it was the march of history pushing the achievement forward.

Being the CEO of a successful car company is an achievement. But revolutionizing the car industry itself is "inevitable".
FTR, GPU support is very close now and if you really want to you can try it yourself. Basic OpenGL and all desktops should work. (https://vt.social/@lina/109346469312488886) but yeah - definitely not working ootb yet.
I am not supporting or refuting either claim, I'm offering data. Speaking personally, I will say that overturning Citizens United would be a good start at keeping this money out of politics, which, as of March, was an effort that appears to be sponsored exclusively by one party: https://schiff.house.gov/news/press-releases/congressman-sch...

> Are there some other donors who gave crypto money to Republicans?

I can only speculate as to the sources of wealth for many of these people and their motivations. That said, we do see Peter Thiel with a $32M donation to republicans, the same Peter Thiel who headlined the Bitcoin 2022 conference this year:

'Taking a break from throwing cash into the crowd, Thiel accused the three finance moguls of facilitating a system that harbors institutional and political biases against Bitcoin.'

'"The central banks are bankrupt. We are at the end of the fiat money regime," Thiel declared. Thiel believes Bitcoin is the ultimate alternative to the entire traditional financial system.'

https://decrypt.co/97251/peter-thiel-unleashes-ethereum-warr...
Unfortunately they don't support near the number of devices that GrapheneOS supports. I'm using a Pixel 3a.
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A bit like how "anyone who performs the cultural stereotypes of femininity is a woman" is now apparently a progressive viewpoint, rather than the regressive misogyny it used to be.
Some girls I went to university with were expelled and effectively had their medical careers ruined at 19 because someone (without their knowledge) filmed them singing a Kanye song at a party and not sufficiently self-censoring. They were on track for med school and never came back to formal education, the DEI student group that lobbied the school for their expulsion was certainly happy though. This was back in Ontario where we now consider the province to have a doctor shortage, ironically.

People can be ghouls and will absolutely use frameworks like this to bring down their peers, I’ve witnessed it with my own eyes.
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> Why it is hard for a mature company with legacy systems to create a new operating system is a difficult thing to explain

In general, the hardest problem for such companies is backwards compatibility.

In the case of Apple, it was doubly so: they tried to build a pre-emptive multitasking operating system with memory protection that was backwards compatible (both for applications and system extensions) with an existing OS that had cooperative multitasking, did not have memory protection, and had OS support for patching system calls (a feature that allowed third parties to develop of such things as Switcher (https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...), After Dark, Adobe Font Manager, and RAM Doubler).
I'd argue that morality and objectivity are orthogonal. Morality is an expression of values, which are subjective, never objective.

I value human life. If another human values human death, there isn't a sense in which my value is necessarily more objective than theirs.
Selfish? Maybe, but my mental health matters far more to me. I’m not looking for approval or saying what I do is right, I am merely answering the question.
Privacy.com has virtual one-off cards for this exact purpose.

Revolut also followed suit and is available all over Europe. Wise has virtual cards but you need to regenerate them yourself.
If it were called "Bob", students would inevitably read their profs' handwriting as "eight hundred six", leading to all sorts of hilarious confusion.
There isn't even an enumerated list of all the features of the Google search engine (i.e. quotes for full expression, minus to rule out words etc.) And this might be the most popular web service in the world!
I used to think like you. Then I realized, it's perfectly fine not living and breathing code every waking moment of your life. As I got older my priorities changed. Why is it that I need to do this stuff in my off hours as well? I'd like to ideally be a balanced human being with various interests, physical fitness, a good social life and romantic life. Isn't that better in the long run not only for a company but for society as a whole?