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The article and comments focus on writing and forgetfulness. But IMO Socrates also makes a second deeper point - about writing (and reading) and the illusion of knowledge.

> SOCRATES: You know, Phaedrus, writing shares a strange feature with painting. The offsprings of painting stand there as if they are alive, but if anyone asks them anything, they remain most solemnly silent. The same is true of written words. You’d think they were speaking as if they had some understanding, but if you question anything that has been said because you want to learn more, it continues to signify just that very same thing forever. When it has once been written down, every discourse roams about everywhere, reaching indiscriminately those with understanding no less than those who have no business with it, and it doesn’t know to whom it should speak and to whom it should not.

An eloquent writer or speaker may give the reader or listener the mistaken impression about the depth of his knowledge or of the validity of his assertions. But we can't know for sure unless those ideas are challenged in debate or in experimentation.

Similarly, someone who reads a book or two on C++ may come away with the mistaken impression that they know everything necessary to program well in it. Likewise, a person who reads Newton's works may think he has the requisite knowledge to be a scientist like Newton. Or that by reading all the great works on philosophy one can become a philosopher on par with the great philosophers.

Such thinking ignores all the hours and years of dedication and experience needed to attain true knowledge and understanding of a subject. Its starts out with reflecting on the problem of interest and coming up with solutions and then applying those solutions. When those ideas are inevitably challenged by ignored or unforeseen sub-problems - One must focus on and address each of those sub-problems. And so on and so forth in a feedback loop of continuous reflection , application and refinement. Lot of that context is lost when transferring the final end report into writing (or any other medium). As philosopher Alfred Korzybski remarked, "the map is not the territory" and "the word is not the thing".

When reading Socrates criticism of writing, what's scary is not about how laughably wrong he was in hindsight. But that (as history has proven) even though the advantages of writing far outweigh the disadvantages, it still doesn't invalidate his original criticism which still stands today.
I used to be competitive athlete in sports. Judo and Wrestling. Until my 28s, I tried to be extraordinary in the sports. Then I did the transition to full time software developer and I didn't bring this competitive spirit with me. I found my peace, I work in the stuff that are interesting to me and bring the money that I think i deserve. But maybe to be able to perform well, make my money, provide to my family and enjoy the time together with them, and without them, makes me extraordinary too, since not everyone can do it and many envy my life style. It is very unusual or remarkable, which are one of the definitions of extraordinary.
Additional premium features around the "article library" aspect of the extension. So for example an account to access it from mobile devices, AI topic classification, additional customisation etc.

I think it's hard to make money from reader modes alone, with so many free alternatives. But you know more about that topic than I do. Any suggestions?
Well, there is the slight matter of how we weren't around for the previous N mass extinctions. I would say the possibility of us, or at least our civilization, going extinct warrants action.
> I suppose the "novelty" is the existence of compilation to WASM target in more and more compiler toolchains

Which ones?

AFAIK WSAM runs only "C-like" language properly.

Everything else is a major hack and slow as hell.

When it even exists of course. Because to my knowledge there aren't much languages that compile to WASM besides C/C++/Rust. Because WASM lacks features for VM languages (and that is the big majority of languages). Did something in this regard change lately?
I love Atiyah & MacDonald’s “Introduction to Commutative Algebra”. I was always impressed by how it manages to be so extremely terse and yet so crystal clear and easily readable.
The decisive thing is always going to be cost. Thus far, reducing capacity has made nuclear plants faster to build, but the outcome was more expensive per MWh [1]. This then forced future plants to again increase in scale, but it again made them too slow and expensive to build, with huge budget overruns. We're now back to small modular, but if the electricity they produce is again even more expensive, it will offset any other benefit.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275673955_The_forgo...
>Once you read it it's scary how many things you start to notice that it would solve

0. It would solve 0 things. It'll just give the US govt for example, more money to bomb our villages and our people.

I can't believe grown-up adults can be this naive.
I use this category of tool all the time, and I've tried at least a dozen of them.

Based on about an hour of usage, Unclutter is my favorite -- nudging out my current tool-of-choice (Tranquility!). Great job.

I would obviously like for you to continue development. Having said that, I have no great monetization advice. Nor do I even have any burning desire for new features. While I would expect to make progress on the latter, the money thing will be tough.

Some thoughts on money: Since I'm a power user of this type of software, I might pay $10/yr or so for Unclutter. But I have been told that such a low price do not a business model make. I think that your tool is squeezed between the "it's a vitamin" and "lots of good free options exist" pincers. As a sidenote, social features don't appeal to me.

Whatever you decide, I wish you luck. I'm on Firefox/Mac BTW.
> In California, regardless of what wholesale electricity costs, the retail cost is something like $200/MWh more than could be considered reasonable.

$200/MWh is $2/kWh. California electricity prices are around $0,27/kWh (https://www.energysage.com/local-data/electricity-cost/ca/). I guess you mean $200/GWh?

Also, why do you find PG&Ek’s pricing unreasonable, given that it required a “phenomenally large capital investment” (and, I expect, quite a bit of ongoing maintenance) to be able to provide customers with electricity?
Not just. It is for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge users, and I suspect that other browsers use it too. Google doesn't react to the reports. OOP talks about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33728767

Also the websites are reported on Google Search, and the malicious ads too.
How could this be changed?
Strang's "Introduction to Linear Algebra". This book is a friend!

Garrity's "All the Math You Missed". Brings you up to speed fast, and has great references.
There are all sorts of scenarios where ccache is a major accelerant. “make clean && make” is the easiest way to force a rebuild all, with relink, and ccache will supply the object files quite fast. You may also be switching back and forth between debug and release builds; again, ccache keeps the penalty low.

Finally if you run configure scripts, all those “checking for printf…” messages are the configure script generating and compiling tiny C programs invoking those functions to make sure the compiler can find them. ccache can therefore shave a significant percentage of time off running configure scripts, which is welcome.
Trying to be second best in a large group will also destroy you.

But okay, let's say 95th percentile to make it more achievable. Well, a normal person can reach 95th percentile in several things, but that's out of a list of hundreds of things or more. Being 95th percentile in most things is not going to happen, let alone all things.
Already done!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_directly_imaged_exopla...
I am grateful for my above average health, a well paying job, a fortunate housing situation, and most of all my energy and focus. I have the means to be creative during the weekend in cafes and inspiring places.
Something I have realized: it’s easy to lose yourself in lifestyle and social inflation, giving the impression that you’re doing just average. In fact, you’re probably doing very well.
Foxconn offers $1,400 payout to quell protests at China iPhone plant
there are absolutely forces who are actively weakening both social interconnectivity and also technological interconnectivity. leaders say this out right.

it’s much easier for them to control and build personal wealth/power when isolation is rampant. lock in—or metaphorically, when wings are clipped.

one of graeber’s three freedoms is: the freedom to move _from_ one situation _to_ another if you feel it will measurably improve your life.

we currently see example after example where someone with influence—monied or political—is actively trying to limit our abilities to change situations. and of course as you pointed out, this is heavily applying in technologies as well.
No. afaik all the main books you see recommended are between 2.6.0 and 2.6.20.

Pick a subsystem you're interested in and start reading the code. Learn introspection tools like SystemTap, perf, bpftrace, etc. Lurk the relevant mailing lists. If you see people doing something you're interested in, learn from them and watch what they're doing, offer to help if you see ongoing work. Keep in mind most of these people are being paid to do this, it's their job.

I've heard the staging tree is extremely friendly to newcomers submitting patches. If you can't find any work to do, have a look there.
The generated music didn't match my specification. Style wrong, instruments wrong.
The issue is curation. Many awesome-* lists are just the kitchen sink, with no regard given to quality or stability.
What's the potential of using this for image restoration? I've been looking into this recently as I've found a ton of old family photos, that I'd like to digitize and repair some of the damage on them

There are a lot of tools available, but I haven't found anything where the result isn't just another kind of bad, so if the upscaling and inference in this model is good, it should in theory be possible to restore images by using the old photos as the seed, right?
Why would you assume untrained personnel? These would still be regulated by the DoE.
Tell me you’re not a C/C++ developer without telling me you’re not a C/C++ developer.
Yes the view layer will be introduced in 2.1. We have hanami-view ready but we need to build hanami-assets and hanami-helpers + add integration code to the main hanami gem.
The code is open source, the model is a data file that the open source code operates on. It's similar to engine recreations for old games (OpenRCT, OpenTTD) that use original, proprietary assets to play the games with their open source engines.

Similar to those games, anyone is also able to distribute their own open data files if they so wish
It's unlikely anyone actually will start training an open source AI model from scratch because doing so costs insane amounts of money, but the same can be said about the many hours of work recreating game assets can take for open source game engines.
Can anybody explain the daily life of a mod and the ROI on paid mods?
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That's a good point!
But how can the technology develop if no one would invest in it?

Do you know anything about the whole life cycle of solar energy? I would be really interested to know more about it.
There is evidence of a lot of mass extinctions. The Big Five is just the biggest 5 we know off (all of them feature atleast 75% of all species becoming extinct on a relatively short timeframe, with the quickest being the KT which lasted at most a thousand years, the biggest of them, the PT event, making 95% of all species extinct). For smaller extinction events, Wikipedia lists about 30 of them. But those aren't nearly as interesting because they didn't have that much impact.
> At my previous job, I was so frustrated and the work was so pointless I was literally throwing things in my house. It made me so angry how stupid and useless a waste of time. We were working on a product which was entirely fake and everyone in the team knew it, but it was generally agreed we would all fake it together.

Sounds like a lot of startups I've contracted for TBH. I'm stumped how people are willing to throw away money at obviously dead end ideas. Not like 1/12 chances of succeeding more like 1/100. And not that great upside if they win either.
There are good VPN providers such as mullvad that accept payment in cryptocurrencies, but HN said those were useless... They also accept cash in an envelope if you are extremely paranoid.
No one is suggesting anyone take the first image out of a model without any human-based filtering.
I appreciate the scale of it, greed has no upper limit.

I didn't buy any, because the whole thing smelled like a scam to me.

There is nothing behind crypto. It's all smoke and mirrors, and playing not potato. The dollar is backed up by the strongest country in the world and by 330 million Americans who use the dollar. Nothing is 100% secure but the dollar has to be in the top most secure.

There are very limited uses for crypto.

You can't use it at stores, you can't use it anywhere.

I foresaw the collapse of all the crypto a long time ago. I'm not a sage, it just was obvious to me. Many others said the same - Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger of Berkshire, for example, said crypto is horrible. Munger famously compared it to rat poison.

“To me, it’s just dementia,” Munger said Saturday during Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska. “It’s like somebody else is trading turds, and you decide you can’t be left out.”

People are greedy and fall for this type of thing all the time.

It was the same in the housing market crash in 2009. I forsaw that also, I read at the time that people were getting loans who had no job, only put 2% down, I knew people who did it, it was no secret. I thought that was crazy and new we were in a housing bubble then, or at least very scary. And again, I was not the only one. And all these people who bought homes and then lost them...it is the same thing. Greed and lying on the buyer's part.
> …because if it’s just learning techniques, generic public domain art should be fine right? Can’t you just engineer the prompting better so that it generates “by Greg Rutkowski“ images without being trained on actual images by Greg?

Is it fair to hold it to a higher standard than humans though? To some degree it's the whole "xxx..... on a computer!" thing all over again if we go that way
Or if you never switch branches in git, or never rerun configure, never switch between -O0 and -O3, never run make clean, never…
The M1 on the Mac unintentionally killed iPad as laptop replacement for a lot of people.

Around 2015-2019, Macs were terrible. They overheated, theottled and had loud fans. At the same time, the iPad Pro was dead silent, lighter, faster and had better battery life.

Today, the M1 MacBook Air gets all those goodies and you get a nice keyboard and a capable OS. The battery life is also twice as long as an iPad Pro.

Apple needs to pull a rabbit out of the hat to pull the iPad ahead again.
Readers please note that sccache isn't just for Rust, and isn't just caching!

It has a number of features, combining capabilities of ccache/distcc/icecream for C, C++ and Rust...along with some unique things that I've not seen in other tools. My comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25604249 has a summary.
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You already forgot the rest of the discussion?

FTX !== crypto.

What they did is fraud regardless of the cryptocurrency aspect, and plenty of people in crypto warned against centralized exchanges for decades now because of this exact reason, with MtGox and FTX being the most prominent examples because CENTRALIZED EXCHANGES WILL RUN AWAY WITH YOUR MONEY.

Because ->CENTRALIZED EXCHANGES<- ARE SCAMS.

BTC had NOTHING to do with it, it was just what gullible people fake traded in the exchange. If BTC was used properly and implemented actual Proof of Solvency as per the discussion we're currently having, this whole discussion would not be taking place because the ledger is public. The whole fiasco has taken place because the entire circus operated on "trust me bro we have your money, look we have been audited by a certified auditor ;)", which, in case you haven't noticed, is exactly how the rest of the financial system works.

How many more FTX disasters do we need until we've decided not using crypto as a public ledger is clearly the worse option?

Oh and BTW good luck next time the US doubles the circulating money supply again, but I guess that's ok because they have lots of big ships lol.
Law enforcement personnel are not the law. The police makes "unlawful" requests and demands all the time, it's common for investigations. The desire to not cooperate unless forced to (by law) does not make you a criminal, that should be perfectly clear.

"No" is a fine and acceptable answer to many cooperation requests by law enforcement.
I think a bit the same as you, an email account is a bit like an utility. But i don't think it will ever happen, a right to an email account, a right to have paypal, a right to have an youtube account.

I think just the EU has a right to have a basic banc account.
Windows 11 adds other features that are useful though. I agree, Windows 10 is sufficient but if you know what policies to use then Windows 11 feels pretty much like Windows 10 with some new features.
Bazel, anyone?
Kiwifarms. And my "political agenda" is not wanting websites that don't violate the law being taken down.
At least in my University, in 2010, they were very adamant to let us know in our first month there that Freud was quite wrong and that this is not what modern Psychology is like.

If you think Freud is well-accepted you might be getting your views on Psychologists based on TV shows, or at minimum are vastly overgeneralizing.
This is business, not ethics, though. They just don't want the negative attention, that's it. And because this is a business, time matters, same as DRMs. Almost all DRMs get defeated, yet the work, because they hinder the crackers, even if for some time. Same here. While Stability is not under attack yet, they can establish themselves as the household name for AI in a safer context.
Very much this. If someone goes out and trains a model on actual photographs of abuse, then holy shit, call in the cops.

If someone is generating sketchy cartoons from a training set of sketchy cartoons... well, gross, but there's no victims there.
I use this with Poudriere to speed up my FreeBSD pkg host building multiple Sets of ports https://github.com/freebsd/poudriere/wiki/ccache
I wasn't being careful with my language. But we're basically looking at a continuation of the Emscriptem "hack" with WASM, meaning that you can run CPython in the browser and have a lot of third party pacakges work (much better than GraalVM's "PoC" Python interpreter).

And yeah, I guess we're able to run things in the browser with WASM. One could say "well why use it on a machine outside the browser", to which I reply the obvious thing: hell of a lot easier to just use one VM rather than two.

I think there are also social dynamics at play when it comes to _anything_ related to Oracle, which does poison the well. It's unfair to the GraalVM people's serious work, but it is what it is.
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Yep it's weird. From the title only, it look like Liu et al. made a discovery, when the main protagonist is in fact Lei Yutian, the descendant of one of the disciples. Thanks must be made to his masters for preserving this recipes during 52 generations.
True, but consider that most of southern Asia, Oceania, Africa and central America the sun is abundant. That covers a lot of people.
No, it's not a choice. It's mostly subjective and up to them to judge, but it's a judgement based on the merits.

Writing is hard, and there are very good reasons people work with experts to make things about themselves.

Related, have you ever seen this clip? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4Y6zimxi-Q
Why does it have to be large organization? Why can't it be many small businesses.
There still is.
It seems like it is remotely controlled by human

Cool
Not sure relying on unintentional colouring behaviour of the syntax highlighting is really a "hack". More like an incidental result which just happens to work today.

Also self-submissions are supposed to be a Show HN. Please edit your title.
Specifically, once a semester the lab systems would become the build nodes. The gfx/opengl class always used a textbook that was written around libvtk. Each new version had a new set of minimum versions for its long list of dependencies. This allowed for building the entire system to the same dependencies (vtk was very concerned with the version of libjpeg/pcx/etc whereas the rest of the system (eg x11, gnome) were happy with whatever vtk dictated.

Ccache only requires r/ssh access from the controller to any remote build nodes and the ccache program. I've never heard of anyone using this program as a shared cache source. That would be, well, kinda dumb. :/
Feynman & Hibbs was a joy. Physics rather than mathematics, but very enjoyable.

If it wasn't because it's a text introducing a somewhat niche approach to quantum mechanics that didn't gain broad traction, this book would totally have been the Kernighan & Ritchie of quantum mechanics.
At least ublock tags vlc.de as a "badware" risk.
How do Soundraw know for sure the auto-generated music is original and therefore royalty-free? So not close enough to an already released, copyrighted, piece of music.
Zettelkasten is the opposite and usually considered genius. :-)
I've spent too many hours there myself, but I haven't seen any AI CSAM, and it's been many years since I witnessed trolls posting the real thing. Moderation (or maybe automated systems) got a lot better at catching that.

Now, if you meant gross cartoons, yes, those get posted daily. But there are no children being abused by the creation or sharing of those images, and conflating the two types of image is dishonest.
Spivak's Calculus. Excellent first proof-based math textbook for anyone interesting in self-studying math.