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I had an idea like this for a university design (Not really centered in design, more on design methodology and research) class. At first I thought of designing a fully customizable, plugin-based EMS (Like Moodle), then my teacher told me to try and make it bigger, so I designed an app platform where there's only extensions and the UI is fully yours, kinda like Notion Enhancer [1] or Better Discord [2], but without the base app.

[1] https://notion-enhancer.github.io/
[2] https://betterdiscord.app/
> We routinely widely deploy vaccines. The flu vaccine, vaccines for newborns and children, etc.

mRNA vaccines? Most of the vaccines widely in use prior to 2021 were quite old.

> I’m surprised it’s not very clear to you here that you are not in control. Rural areas were some of the hardest hit because of vaccine skepticism.

Are you more likely to get a disease being in contact with 500 people a day or 5?

> You get a vaccine and then you most likely don’t get COVID,

In my personal circle I know two people who didn't contract covid. One was vaccinated and one was not. The sheer numbers infected make me highly skeptical it did anything at all to stop transmission. mRNA vaccines never worked in the past, but suddenly they work under an emergency situation.

I'm not aware of any study comparing the vaccine vs lower mortality of new variants. Vaccine proponents say mRNA vaccination shows lower mortality and the numbers all things being equal make it seem it does. However there are new variants. Maybe the vaccine did nothing at all, but launder billions of tax payer dollars? Maybe it's just the new variants being less deadly we have to thank? Or maybe it's a little of both.

> Ok but what is puzzling about this?

The fact they chose mRNA, never widely used and even downplayed the immunity gained by contracting covid naturally. To the point people with prior infection were fired if they refused the vaccine.
Perhaps, but not sure you can separate gun owners from non-owners for such a study. Criminals do not always know beforehand which of their victims have a gun. The element of surprise creates hesitation to commit a crime.
Here’s your comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33497772

Those are some very strong claims. What specifically in this thread supports them? For example, we know that Twitter received these requests from both campaigns, whereas deliberate collusion would only have been with one, and the most hyped up claims are a handful of tweets which contained non-consensual nudity, which doesn’t exactly seem like it would shift the election.
> Even if Deno, Bun etc were to fizzle out, I am glad they exist to show the way and put pressure on Nodejs at bare minimum.

This is how I felt about io.js back in the day too, and about vim versus neovim; competitive pressure works.
The lack of self awareness in this piece was entertaining.

Writing about impotent pretensions to cleverness on on the Internet on a site on the Internet hardly anyone will read, quoting Seinfeld, Raymond Chandler, a vintage movie script, and Kierkegaard, and name-checking Oscar Wilde and Einstein, all under the modest tag "Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture" is... quite a look.
Gotta start somewhere. No one is laughing at Chinese cars any anymore
If to judge by SF passing the first round of voting on Police use of deadly force with robots then I’d say we’re doomed.

I just wish I knew who are these people that vote yes on these things. They’re completely foreign to me.
Are they serifs? On serif fonts the bars themselves get serifs. They are more like the bar on capital G or the cross bar on capital A.
And EdConf tomorrow! Conference season is among us.

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In retrospect I realized that it's missing not just the higher part of human consciousness but the lower one too (survival, approach/flee), which is what you mentioned. One wonders if perhaps it's not better if AIs do not have those circuits in the first place?

> It can also have scary goals that living creatures can’t - like try to grow exponentially bigger.

This is funny given this is what humans have done. I don't think you can calculate it but when you go from flying an airplane to flying to the moon in a lifespan then that's definitely steeper progress than anything that's ever come before. Population growth has only recently stopped being (truly) exponential too.
The gameplay is quite complex so that difficulties parsing enemies due to visuals just detracts from the experience and reduces that gameplay complexity. There are still situations where it's intentionally more difficult to recognize enemies, but that's an explicit choice made by map designers, not an accident, and requires you to learn how to deal with that in specific situations (while also adding to the decision space for the other side).
This was only required because they started selling very camo-like player skins which nobody wanted, and didn't even fix the issue very well. people just had to accept it, and I still regularly see some skins blend into the background way too well...
From your perspective it might seem weird. From the perspective of people who kill fish often, your reaction to the act would be weird.
And like virtually every system on the planet, there are false negatives. So external groups might send over things and say "hey, I think you missed this."
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> And it’s even possible to view the camera streams using VLC.

That sounds like RTSP to me, which makes the rest questionable.
I'm surprised the B2 was the part the nuclear triad the military decided to update. Using close-up manned bombers for our nuclear capability seems archaic now that intelligent long-range cruise missiles that can be launched out of a Stratofortress way out of enemy range are the norm now. It's not like the B2 itself is outdated either; I know a lot of talk has been made by other countries of radar able to detect them, but like all military propaganda those measurements are always in best conditions. It's great that you can detect stealth craft in a sky clear of clouds, smoke, solar interference, nuclear interference, jammers, or anti-radiation warheads, but war tends to be messier than that.

Overall it seems a better investment would have been to just keep blurring the line between missile and drone and creating a reaper/tomahawk/hypersonic hybrid that can accept aerial refueling. Having a missile that can patrol around in the sky all day before ejecting its cruise stage and making a mad rush towards its eventual target seems a lot more versatile in general than continuing development in planes who's only purpose is to drop things.
Dexterity without sight or sensation is pretty useless. Try finding a quarter in pocket full of change with gloves on.
>proves

Zuckerberg said it himself on Joe Rogan, it's been common knowledge for years now, only contrarians and stubborn shills claimed otherwise
This is far more impressive than the almost-blank screen on Firefox Mobile led me to expect.

It looks like it's mostly engineered this for personal use, but as somebody currently underwhelmed by GitLab Wiki (/Gollum) for enterprise documentation, some of the features here would be very useful in that context.
Good to know! For as much as I use Emacs I don’t really follow the Emacs community / ecosystem.

I saw version 29 was recently cut- is there anywhere I can get a good overview of “best practices in 2022”?

I wouldn’t mind dusting off my init.el and updating it. I haven’t had a good yak shave in five years or so :)
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+1 for SC's 7 habits

Early in my career, my manager gave me the feedback that sometimes my eagerness to participate outsized my ability to understand. I never meant to suck the air out of the room, I was just so excited to build cool stuff! He recommended reading up on Stephen Covey and suggested that when collaborating on designs/debugging/etc. as a team, to practice being the last to speak. Life-changing advice.
That is subtle but present, I agree.

I don't know about you, but when it seems that everyone else is meme-dropping and flaunting their exceptionalism (for which they are inevitably so croakingly thankful...), I chide myself momentarily for not being part of the scene.

But then I recall that narcissocial media is an empty barrel rolling down a monetised slope. ^_^
This is called the Peter Principle.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
See the bit where it says "Author", the person who wrote the articles you linked to (Charles Hymas) is a different person to the person who wrote the article posted by OP (Fraser Nelson). Viewpoint diversity exists, just because two people write for the same newspaper they don't have to share the same views. If you're a Guardian reader that might be a new concept though
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Progressives aren’t trying to “beat conservatives into submission”, where do you get that? Political violence is currently a big problem on the right, according to the head of the FBI (who himself is a conservative). Conservatives were the ones who lost in 2020 and attempted to literally beat their opponents into submission on Jan 6 2021, ending a record of peaceful transitions of power.
No it doesn't. Defense implies that you are planning to be attacked. Regardless though, it is free speech because the word can mean a lot of things. There are countless videos of Democrats like Pelosi saying we are going to "beat" Republicans. I guess those Democrats should be banned from national television for inciting violence.
Oddly reminds me of Emily Dickinson:

I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know!

How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
They would probably call for more "common-sense" regulation of Big Tech
Uhh how is that iphone Foxconn plant doing these days?
I agree with every word of this. I would also add that there's a third category, or maybe a 2.b: individual contributors in their 30s and 40s who look ahead to their future and say "well, I guess I better become a manager at some point" without having any particular aptitude or even an intrinsic desire.

Many organizations have quite intelligently created parallel paths for contributors to keep advancing, which somewhat mitigates this effect. However, in the past, this was a widespread phenomenon, and it's still out there to some extent. You find contributors who think management is easier, or more prestigious, or less prone to ageism, and so will switch tracks.
Maybe it's me but I wasn't shown a free ebook. I was shown a "give me you PII so I can spam you" trap website.

If you ask me to give you my PII then it's not free, is it?

Are you not aware how many "free ebook" spams are being sent around, usually from disreputable SEO people begging you to link them from your site? The fact that you registered your own domain is another deep red flag. Clearly there are ulterior motives here aside from "I want to help the world by putting our a free ebook".
Define "violence, disorder and criminality"
1 tribe is on a coast facing the Pacific. Two of the three tribes are located on rivers. Yet the headline lays the blame at the feet of 'climate change':

...have been severely impacted by the effects of climate change...
...ticking clock ... climate

The instance of the Pacific coast could be seen, in part, related to climate change. However, the other two, are facing what rivers have done since the beginning of time -- erosion. The headline is just a long way over-the-top versus the evidence described in the body. Moreover, the body of the article seems to speak ONLY of climate change being the reason for the payments/move, though it does suggest other, non-climate threats (tsunami, for example).
... That makes the code worse how?

I’m not going to stop using or talking about Jordan algebras, say, even though Pascual Jordan was a literal Nazi and a significant participant in the destruction of the centuries-old German mathematics and fundamental physics community (and the respective refugee-fueled rise of the American one). It bears mentioning, certainly, and subtracts from the scientific merit (among other things) of the person, but has nothing to do with the scientific merit of the notion.
That code that doesn’t exit the prototype stage lives in production by the way.
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I never wanted to be a manager until I experienced one of the worst managers I had ever run across and decided maybe I should revise that particular opinion.

I'm now a VP and I make it my goal not to be that kind of a manager. I do still sometimes wish I were just a regular coder though. There is a lot of stuff about being a manager I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
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Biden was expected to win the election, and therefore to become President, at that point.
This is hilarious. SIZE_MAX is at least as large as the largest string that you can put in your address space / memory anyway. Which is what the strlen() API already assumes.

That, plus you'd be a fool to store a huge string in this way anywhere (in or out of memory) in any case.
This is really a hobby of mine. I will sometimes go through articles and see if I can find suspicious edits. It grew out from this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30840671

But now, I realized I can 10x this stupid hobby with ipinfo.io

You can get company name and VPN detection from IP address. I work for IPinfo, so not plugging the API service. Use the search box on the homepage to check individual IPs for free.
Agh sorry, I'm not very good with computers... Fixed now!
You are correct, thanks so much!
Is that so unlikely? People commit treason for $100k. Here we’re talking about much, much more at stake.
>Our popular media are drenched in contrived knowingness and irony. And cleverness has become something like a currency online, where hordes of commenters and commentators compete for likes and subscribers with world-weary analyses and smug jokes. What should we make of this apparent degradation?

That those people are clearly not clever at all and most can’t think for themselves so they just parrot whatever they heard from others? Trying to feign cleverness and actually being clever are not the same thing.
Rishi Sunak pledges police powers to tackle illegal protests
Your grammatically correct use of the word "woke" as a non-insult makes my day bright and gay!
Not? They are still laughing at Tesla
Microsoft has an amusingly academic take on this idea here (PDF):

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
You should look at an even better string library. Much more functions and safety for split/joint/tokenizer/etc it's a fork of the plan9 string library bstring.

https://bstring.sourceforge.net/
Yes, it's possible. There are tons of rich people who are not famous. The owner of the company I work for is a billionaire many times over. It's a private company, he's not famous. Perhaps in his industry. But outside of that, 99.99% of people on HN will pass him on the street and not recognize him. So you are worried about the wrong stuff, go start a business. The hard thing is making it successful. With that said, some businesses draw attention and folks might want to know the owners. However, I bet many people on here can't tell us the name/founder or CEO of TikTok, Onlyfans, Lucid Motors. You have to court the press/fame to become famous outside of your bubble.
A similar find: I asked it to play a game where it responded to "oranges" with "strawberries". Then, in the next prompt, I said "oranges" and it responded "strawberries". I asked a few unrelated questions. Then I prompted "oranges" again. This time it responded that it could not recall previous parts of this interaction, which is ironic because that response indicates it recognized "oranges" was relevant to a previous conversation topic.
I don’t think the desire for structure is not ADHD. Structure helps everyone lower cognitive load
Mainly because they're nowhere to be found outside China?
> When I got vaccinated for various diseases, it gave long term immunity, not 4 doses over months to lessen the symptoms.

Which works for some diseases. Others are only effective for shorter periods of time and/or against specific variants. The flu vaccine should be a familiar example to most people, needing periodic refreshers that are most effective against certain variants and not others.

It's also worth noting that the diseases that are treated as a "one and done" are generally those where you're unlikely to be exposed in day to day life for a variety of reasons.
A consistent content moderation policy would accept reports of problematic content regardless of the source of the report.

To me, the bigger issue is the white glove treatment, and the appearance of preferential moderation.

But I think that’s where political realities come into play. I don’t doubt that these companies feel the need to make lawmakers feel heard or risk legislation/regulation that will harm the platforms.

I think this is touching on something much bigger, in that these kinds of government/company relationships are everywhere, and have been for decades.

The difference with the Twitter situation is one of public visibility and direct impact on individuals trying to do something as seemingly innocuous as post and share links on social media.

Which is absolutely not to excuse the behavior. If anything, I hope this wakes up more average Americans to the kinds of quid pro quo and shady handshake deals that have been going on forever.
For the former DataPipe employee’s at RackSpace: “KetanKetan” .
https://blog.phundrak.com/emacs-29-what-can-we-expect/ has some highlights.

eglot, tree-sitter are both very nice.

the sqlite integration is currently what i'd describe as "cute", but maybe not the most featureful.
And kierkegaards aphorisms are a master collection of witticisms
Interesting. I'll have to try that. And, yes, you are correct. It gave a short pablum answer that pretty much focused on the benefits of multiple cores.

The mistake in the original was somewhat subtle and gets into programming for large SMP vs. MPP/distributed systems. And it's actually true that parallel programming even on shared memory systems has challenges (and there was a lot of discussion at one point when multicore was coming in on desktops) but it's pretty much flat wrong to say that we didn't have large SMP systems primarily because they were hard to program for.
What do you mean by 'revealing edit'? Is that an edit that goes against a conspiracy theory? Do you have grounds for suspecting those edits originate on behalf of affiliated persons instead of someone trying to present a balanced viewpoint but whom you happen to disagree with?

I used to look only occasionally at edit sections for sensitive articles involving crimes by powerful players but stopped because I never spotted any suspicious changes.

(Also, if removing edits from page history on Wikipedia was actually common I don't believe no one in the editor community blew the whistle yet. Of course some people would claim such whistleblowers are tracked and eliminated by omnipresent evil illuminati before they go public... and at that point I can't take this line of argument seriously)
I buy so little that when I'm buying something (not food) it's because whatever I have is broken, and it's something I need. I may be in the minority, but when something breaks, I want (or need) a replacement ASAP. I've got enough stores within driving distance that I can usually replace something same or next day, but I'm far enough 'out in the sticks' that the only place that will deliver 'same day' is amazon (and that only started for my neighborhood in the past 6 months or so).
As a Swede, I say: Sweden needs to deal with the Chinese majority ownership of Volvo Cars for strategical reasons. Conflict is brewing between US/EU and China. It will be cheaper to deal with it sooner than later.

The newly installed Swedish PM has a strong hands-on understanding of the issues at hand - he spent years working in China. He's also strongly critical of China's policies.

(Geely is the majority owner of the now public Volvo Cars company. Volvo Cars AB is one of the largest Swedish companies in terms of number of employees.)
Same issue in progress here! I've been working for a few years on an editor(forked from Three.js editor) for my browser game bad.city and now I'm separating the editor, rewrote it in react and the current goal is making an easy-to-start-with game level editor with many assumptions. We'll see how that goes
It's not a private platform anymore when it colludes with government.
At Devoxx, one of the oracle people hid 3 spelling errors in the first slide, the oracle legal disclaimer. Nobody before paid attention to the legal fluff, until that day, when a whole room full of devs scanned every letter of every word.
This dimension is just called “existence”
> I am a US citizen and I can in fact freely criticize the CCP

You cannot criticize the CCP while living in China and you know this.
I completely agree with this. The best leaders are those who have proven themselves to be great individual contributors before moving into a management role. This gives them a deep understanding and appreciation for the work that their team members do, which is crucial for effective leadership. Professional managers, on the other hand, may not have the same level of experience and can sometimes struggle to effectively support and lead their team.
yikes. I'd recommed trying to be less judgemental. there is no reason others should have to enjoy an experience the same way you do.

conversely i think it's great we're seeing more people able to take advantage of what we all collectively own.
I read all the way to the end and concluded much the same.

The sort of cleverness that the essay is complaining about seems to me to be summed up in the phrase: "you’re so sharp you’ll cut yourself".
No this is a filter. It is the same reason why the wife of nelson mandela has millions to give. Any interaction after initial spam cost time and hence if there is no return it is lost opportunity. Best victims are the ones which are not aware that there is a scam at all. Overseeing bad spelling correlates with inability to read carefully which correlates with being with bad intelligence. So people answering very bad spam are in fact more likely very good victims.
I agree that this is possible, and definitely worth paying attention to.

But some hype cycles are "real", e.g., looking at the internet in early 2000, you might have thought it was about to crash or about to be huge. Either way, you'd be right. It was about to crash in the short term, but in the long term, it still made sense to "get into the internet" in 2000 because it was still a secular trend that ended up making a huge impact on the world.
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I’m counting executive branch, judicial branch, and congress as two because they each individually have their own mandated powers.

The conservative Supreme Court just unilaterally gutted fundamental human rights for everyone in the country. That’s serious power that not even the President has. It’s a joke to pretend conservatives have no political power in the face of that.

The third highest government official is the Speaker of the House, who will be a Republican in January, so it’s pretty hard to say Republicans have no power when they control the Speaker. It’s crazy how much power that is.

But to call the media a branch of government and to assign “control” of media to Democrats is really a stretch. Pretty hard to make that case with Fox News around.