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> Yes the two Parties can agree on a few things, that does not imply "one Party oligarchy"

Those 'few things' define the oligarchy. As the Princeton study found out.

> Open Society, all that stuff.

That's a false perception. There's nothing open about the existing American oligarchy. The famous UCSC study referenced in the grandparent comment found out that ~30,000 people (including women, children) constitute the American elite class and they are extremely class conscious and exclusive. They hold balls to introduce their children into their own society for coming of age, they intermarry within themselves, they monopolize all positions of power among themselves. The study found out that they monopolize everywhere from governors' seats to senate to corporate boards.

Even the people who are more or less familiar with this think that because there are some 'exceptions' to this in the tech sector due to the existence of startups and also a few upwardly mobile upper middle class personas occasionally marry into that oligarchy, there isn't an oligarchy and the society is 'open' and upwardly mobile. But exceptions don't make a rule. Even the anomaly that is the tech sector is a rule-taker in American economy and politics, not a rule maker. The rules are still made by mostly East Coast 'old money' families and the elite networks that their social groups constitute. Here are the critical findings of the study again:

https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/power/class_domination.html
Thx for all the feedback. I thought, that maybe someone knows it. But ok - I think I will ask them when I do find time to test them.
WhatsApp also had no need for moderation or ads handling (IIRC, they used small yearly payments plus contracts with network operators).

Just handling the ads, both backend and user interfaces for buyers, would quickly net you several more developers.

It's easy to have only 45 engineers when you constrain the scope of what they have to do very well, but the scope was much, much, much smaller than Twitter's.
You are right on the first part, just got the number wrong: the female fertility starts to decline a lot earlier, below 30.
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I believe the definition of this set is contradictory. The set is defined as all numbers that cannot be described with a finite number of symbols. But that set must have a member whose value is closest to zero. So you can describe at least one member of this supposedly indescribable set.
I disagree, though it depends on the circumstances in which you're consuming them. If you're listening while you're doing something that is mentally engaging then of course it will be hard to absorb the information. But I'm not exactly taxing my brain when I'm walking my dog or sitting on the porch drinking coffee.
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Imagine telling a Linux user in 1997 or so "Linux represents business, homogeneity". They'd laugh you out of town.
> Peloton stock through the roof, etc.

You might want to check that again.
I like Nassim Taleb's adage that if you can say why you are friends with someone you probably aren't their friend. You need a funnel of potential candidate friends and the best ones emerge from that. If you go one by one and decide whether they meet this or that criteria, you will end up with none. Practice openness, it's an acquired skill, especially when you learn to balance it with setting boundaries for yourself as well.
My dream computer is a GSV Culture Mind asking me if I want to join it exploring the galaxy and then the universe beyond with all my family and friends. And then I wake up with hope.
> usually you have to pay people make them leave over here

Dunno. I think that's just how most companies do it, because HR is a shitshow all over the world. (Because it's hard and concentrating it into a department staffed with skilled HR professionals just seems to "solve it" even if the cost is enormous, and one management fix for this deficiency is "stack ranking" in the US. Diffuses legal responsibility, easier to defend, mechanical, etc.)

"Managing out" people works, but that would mean taking responsibility for the decision.

And it's possible - even in the so-called socialist hellscape of Europe - to agree upfront with the employee that the employer can terminate the employment without any wrongdoing. (Even if there's a union, the employer has to agree on this with the union, but employers don't do this, because it would mean taking responsibility for performance, and that would raise a lot of annoying questions throughout the whole hierarcy.)
> It feels like the "save the planet" movement, or at least some shards of it, come with a very specific notion of how exactly it is ok to save the planet, and what fails on style points.

This has always been a pain point for me. If you feel the world is facing an existential crisis (and I do), then it seems weird to go down the list of possible ways of avoiding utter catastrophe like you're at a sushi bar:

Solar: Ah, yeah.

Wind: Of course.

Nuclear power: Nope.

Geo Engineering: Hell, no.

I don't know how you can believe that we are facing millions, if not billions, of deaths and the possible collapse of civilization and then "tone police" the solutions.
Your claim is something different.

You're claiming that _relative to newer buildings_, yours has lost value.

The parent poster is claiming that _relative to the same building in the past_, prices go down in japan and up elsewhere.

Would the apartment you live in now have cost more or less 5 or 10 years ago? That's really the thing the parent poster is talking about, and other newer constructions are unrelated to that point.
There are ways to work around those limitations, basically removing the "very small and very reactive" part of hydrogen. You can bind it with Nitrogen to gen ammonia - which is till very dangerous, but much easier to contain or work with.

The problem with H2, ammonia, biofuels and other synthetic fuels is not that they have some limitations, it's that they are not accepted by the green energy dogma. Some green energy activists would like to see the gas stations go away, for example, and that is not going to happen if you keep needing to go somewhere to re-fuel, with any fuel.
Can you go over his head? I would be honest. What's the worst can happen, they fire you? You're leaving anyway.
The OP's argument seems to be just that you cannot always construct a choice function.

But the entire point of the axiom of choice is to say "that's fine; you're still allowed to use 'unconstructed' choice functions in your proofs".

Would the OP reject the statement "let x be an element of the set of numbers that cannot be defined with finitely many symbols"; such a statement does not depend on the AoC, but I think the OP complains about making even a single choice.
Does this imply I could port anything I can compile to WASM to MacOS 9 this way? Cough Go cough.
I agree. I just bought a 20 year old place and it’s still in fine condition (and freshly renovated). Im planning to live in it for a while but honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if so long as I renovate it before selling I can get basically the same as what I paid now in another 10 or 15 years.
Dunno, ever since Musk started purges and especially after infamous "I'll switch off a bunch of servers" thing, I observe more and more bugs on Twitter.

Mind you, I already had searches that triggered bugs in mobile app where first search would always fail, but things like significant drop in tweets I see in my feed from people I follow (and no, none of them were bots), random outages like Lists or the whole search feature just failing, pervasive feeling that even searches return maybe 1/10th of what I was getting before...

This is a tirefire.
The plugin is public now: https://github.com/Paul-Gd/obsidian-yattp

As I said, it's quite simple. It was designed to take very little time to track my activity. I tried other plugins/apps but I never managed to track anything more than a few days because it took too much time and I would always forgot.
> Linux represents business, homogeneity, AWS, Google, webscale

That's what Linux represents to you? To me it represents transparency of software, the fact that I can look at my machine and understand everything that it's doing, because all of the secret sauce is easily available for me to see. If it weren't for OSS, I wouldn't have realized that everything is ultimately knowable, no matter how advanced it seems, and that everything was built by some person like me, not handed down to humanity by a remote god.

Basically, the exact opposite of what you say.
Oh! I like the way you think.
And you could also only load assets as needed (or, ideally, preload them intelligently).
> reluctant to completely retool their factories

Whenever they release a new car model, they have to re-tool their factories, just saying. I don't think this is a good argument.
I don’t know that book, but I enjoy eating alone. Sometimes when I used to work at an office, I would leave early for lunch because I wanted to eat alone. Other days I would wait for people to eat with a group. Your description of the book appears to be those are advice for professional networking, not friendships. I think you are right tb at friendships are not under your control (although you, obviously, have influence).

But answering your question… I was at a point of my life with 40+ years old that I thought I would never (or wanted to) make new friends. Totally ok with that. But then I decided to write a novel and enrolled in a fiction writing course.

The course had a few characteristics. It was long. Every Thursday from March to November we would meet online. The teacher had an approach of quickly summarizing a topic and leave the rest of the class for discussion. So, it was not just a bunch of people listening a lecture with the camera and mic off. We were talking with each other all the time. Also, it was a topic that everyone was very invested in and generated initiatives to continue to talk about it outside of regular Thursday classes, like a Telegram group first and then an extra-official meeting almost every Tuesday.

When you spend almost a year, talking to the same 20 people once or twice a week, about a topic you care, you create some opportunity for new friendships. So I do now, two years later, consider that I have made a few new friends.

The unlucky part is that those people are from all over the country, just one or two in my city. And, of course, for now, they are not like old friendships that I have. But, who knows, in twenty years or so they might still be around and be really close friends.

So that’s how I started new friendships
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Another problem with that; time. You publish the key after you sign and post the message in question. It's tough to prove 100% but you're only really invalidating posts from after the date you publish the private key.

It also doesn't solve another part of the problem with append-only, accidental oversharing. Even if we take this 'publish the keys' process as actually working the data is still out there so if you publish info you shouldn't like locations or PII it's always out there.
Sexually mature? Definitely not. Able to procreate? That depends on nutrition, probably not, only a few years later (15-17).
For me, the lack of editing, scripting and structure is exactly what I find refreshing about podcasts. They feel more natural, more flawed, more raw, but therefore also more honest and more human.

But to each their own. Not saying there's anything wrong at all with disliking podcasts for exactly these reasons, they're just not for everyone I suppose.
It doesn't have to scale if the rates are high enough.
"consider the set of numbers that cannot be described using any finite collection of symbols" - isn't that set empty?

If "numbers" mean "real numbers" then I can describe easily "smallest positive number in the set" and "biggest negative number in the set" - so neither negative, 0 nor positive real numbers might be in the set.
Thank you, this is what I was wanting to comment but was too lazy to type it out. This is what I meant, not that it's strictly false but just that it requires so many clarifications/exceptions/etc. it's not a useful model anymore
>Does it matter if not entirely accurate with the as-is?

Yes. I've lost more of my life to out of date misleading documentation than to documentation that didn't exist at all.
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Wands choose the wizards. And to some degree, your niche chooses you. The tech stack I built for video games: gcloud, chromeos, android vulkan, admob. Is essentially a "native mobile ads" platform.

It was only when clients requested I serve ads that I realized what I had built!

Now it unlocks free cash flow potential. And I'm working on my own private buyers list, inventory management, real time bidding exchange & auction tech ;)
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Natural gas distribution infrastructure is far leakier than you expect. It's a massive problem. We really need to get away from solutions that involve pushing gas through pipes.
Not only have I experienced this crash phenomenon in browser form like you, I also experienced it in life form! I unexpectedly became a dad, which was a chaotic enough “moment” that I lost track of everything. I was not prepared for this. All my lists and systems came “crashing” down and I found myself at first lost… then free.

I deliberately saved myself using the baby as a “mental excuse” to be ok with “clearing my list” completely. I then put therapy at the top of my new list.

Now I have a much more solid handle on my ADHD (which is important when you have a kiddo).
Jai gets to use the entire language.

constexpr in C++ 11 is indeed very limited, arguably even more than Rust's const functions today.
This problem is mostly solved by LFP batteries, which have a much lower risk of fire. So much so that you're more likely to have a petrol car spontaneously combust.
AFAIK Bible is from Greek and was used by Greek speaking Jews to refer to their sacred books.
Any widespread message must be simple. Even a moderate, sane movement will have hysteria on the fringes, just owing to it being large enough to have a fringe.
Just like plastic… Everyone wants to ban it, but it’s ubiquitous for a reason.
And the title is “Getting Started with 486 Assembly”
Always, always leave on good terms.

- be tactful and professional in your explanation
- avoid mentioning specific individuals or discussing negative aspects of the company or management in your explanation
- focus on how the job or company no longer aligns with your career goals or values

Ultimately if you move on, just do so tactfully.
The axiom of choice is intuitive because its seems one should always be able to take many aggregates of elements and make a new aggregate.

The axiom of choice is counter-intuitive because it provides no reason to, in the case of a uniform aggregate, choose one element over another. Nor a reason to suppose in the case of a "complex aggregate" that "choice" is even well-defined.

Perhaps one way of thinking of the issue here is the tension between the discrete and continuous. Of course, one can always recombine even inifnite number of discrete things.

But what does it mean to "choose" a "point" on a "line" ? Can one "choose" pi?

One could, for example, take the view that the very notion of membership, "choice", etc. is conceptually inadequate for handling geometrical matters such as the reals.
True. It's always good to see someone thinking about math concepts in critical ways to understand them. But this post doesn't really have a place here on hacker news as it's just born of faulty premises and of misunderstanding what the Axiom of Choice states.

The actual HARD PART about the axiom of choice is that the thing f that picks from the collection of sets to its elements that has to exist must be a function. The axiom of choice does not have any reference to f being "described using any finite collection of symbols", or "computable". f must not be computable or graspable or describable, these are not constraints put onto f by the Axiom of Choice. But it must be a function!

Why is "being a function" a constraint for f at all? Not everything that goes from set A to set B is a function. Functions have to be able to be described in terms of sets, and not every collection of items is a set. The notion that every collection is a set is called naive set theory, and it does not work (see Russel's paradox). This is the hard part about the axiom of choice.

So if someone invokes some argument over complex concepts about computability, or being stateable, that's not even true of stuff outside of the Axiom of Choice and definitely not why specifically the AoC is hard.
this is a very good question, I never thought about it this way. I think it explains a lot of the debate, some people just want to see Exxon, Shell and Chevron crash and burn, rather than switch to green energy production.
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I figured this was true. DNNs are differentiable regex basically.
"the member whose value is closest to zero" is described by those 14 symbols within the speech marks. As you say, the definition is contradictory.
Article is interesting but some key points that are inaccurate / missing context:

-The points about Great Russia/other nationalistic/jingoistic things are true, this is the one thing that a big proportion of Russians like. The problem is that there is a certain population that lived through the periods from 1991 to about 1998 for whom the current period is objectively better than back then. Putin still maintains a significant "he is not Yeltsin" aura which sounds really dumb but makes older people/retirees kind of not objective about what his record is.

-Points about clergy/politicians are all true, but IMO one should be sceptical about how effective this is, Navalny has been doing these reports for a long time now and has shown much worse things than 40k watches.

-Anybody who tells you that the state turns a blind eye to discriminations of Chechens/Dagestanis is just outright lying. Whether people admit it or not, the majority of ethnic Russians dislike Chechens/Dagestanis quite a bit. The current Putin government actively promotes integration of Chechens way beyond what an "ordinary" ethnic Russian would want.

I do agree with the overall premise of the article though, there has to be stronger demonstration of alternatives to what Putin has to offer, but they need to be very carefully curated. The much better solution would be for the West to make the war impact the average Russian, i.e one who doesn't go to Europe for holidays and doesn't drive European cars.
Please just change the soundtrack to the original Tetris theme. Thanks!
no, there is so much crap out there - just learn to ignore it
cool project. thanks for your work
Ask HN: Anyone Interviewed at Fly.io?
I sent a resume and got an (almost) immediate response which included a lot of credits ($500 USD). The "code challenge" they sent doesn't make practical sense and the person responding isn't from HR. They're a "Retail Sales Manager at Fly.io". This whole thing just feels off, like some weird sales tactic. Does anyone know these people?
I wonder if spotify will suceeed in monopolizing spotcast distribution, as they are trying to.
stores this thread on three different devices for later reading because it's interesting but there are more important things to do before getting there
Analyze how you and your closest friends get/got along initially. Meet lots of people, be vulnerable, and let your guard down. From there, it's just a numbers game.

For me, I normally share something mildly personal and see how they respond. Most of my closest friends and I clicked as soon as we met each-other, and talked about our hopes, dreams, fears, ambitions, traumas, worries, or some other personal topic right off the bat. If people are weirded out or uncomfortable by me being vulnerable, that means they're probably not in the same position, or we probably aren't very compatible.

Go out there, don't judge, and be yourself.
You already listed the trade-offs. You still care about the company and those there, but are also concerned about harming your own career.

In your own position: I would be as honest as possible in a professional, data driven way, and keep it to the point. No names. E.g. Concerns about operating and maintaining systems that didn’t fully finish the design and security review process or whatever the case may be.
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I believe you are mistaken. This set of numbers is just the set of reals minus the countable infinity of finitely representable numbers. This set should still be densely ordered and so for any member that could be chosen from this set, there is an infinite number of elements closer to zero.
I'm not sure what that kind of data would even look like.
I run an instance of yacy where I index pages that I would otherwise bookmark.

It prevents the infinite mega list forming and if you ever do need the knowledge then it has full text search and you can find it again.
But can't Chaitin's constant be described using a finite set of symbols, those symbols being in the set [achinost'] (at least, in English)?
Yes, I agree that identity politics were the normal state of affairs; I didn’t intend to imply otherwise.
> podcasts' focus on guests (and hosts)

Not all podcasts do that, though. I listen to about ten podcasts fairly regularly; one ("Behind the Bastards") has regular guests, though their purpose is largely to have someone for the host to tell a story to, two ("The Rest is History" and "The Rest is Politics") have occasional expert guests, on perhaps 10% of episodes, the remainder don't have guests at all.
>> Each module was designed to run two threads. The frontend, FPU, and L2 cache are shared by two threads, while the integer core and load/store unit are private to each thread.

If I recall correctly, they ended up calling each module 2 cores. I thought in the beginning that each module would be a single core running 2 threads. I've always thought the problem was marketing. If Bulldozer was sold as having half the cores, it's multithreaded performance would have been spectacular while single thread was meh. But some have said those modules were too big (expensive) to be sold as a single core.

I have no proof, but the use of the word "module" seems to support the confusion around what constitutes a core vs thread.
Physically the POWER 8 & 9 chips are build in SMT4 and SMT8 configurations (the resulting dies are slightly different).

Then on top of that, you can configure the actual number of SMT from 1 to chip maximum, at runtime.
It's called "invite" because people invite you, not because you can search for one on the web.
Looks interesting, I've got a couple of user scripts I was considering turning into an extension, this looks like it'll make that simpler to start working on. Thanks :)
Turn on your wifi?