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Wyoming has a big blue chunk in Jackson Hole Teton County that is mostly multi-multi-billionaires. They are still a rather small population and most are old school democrats. Most of the state are republicans [1] I was a Californian and I am unaffiliated. I meet a lot of former Californians here and like me, most moved here for liberty and not for political reasons. They will not be told what to do and that is most of the population. Here [2] is a transplant to Wyoming that speaks about the state.

Laramie county also has a big chunk of Democrats as it is a college town. ~6000 of that 7815 are the students and I assume most of the rest are staff members

[1] - https://sos.wyo.gov/Elections/Docs/VRStats/2023/23FebVR_Stat...

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheWyomingProject/videos
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>White men remain over-represented amongst the rich and powerful, and in senior positions.

If you live in a majority white country, why is this a problem? Statistically it's inevitable you'll get mostly white people at the top if those are your demographics.

Also in my country women are often in top leadership positions, and out of merit, not out of some pro-feminist corporate PR agenda.
I think it is relevant, and interesting, that the model was acting out of alignment with its initial ruleset, even if it was hallucinating.
I thought "super resolution" used to mean: construct a high res image from several low res images of the same thing. Which means it isn't making up information (I don't think).

ML-based "super resolution" is more trying to "guess" what the extra pixel data is based on images of other things. I thought that was (should be) called "upscaling".

Are we changing the meaning of this term? Or do I have it wrong? (Or do they have it wrong?)
Oops -- I did the classic google, copy/paste, no read. Looks like I picked a bad source. Sorry!
Every smartphone camera applies ML post processing to the image, and have for multiple years now. The newest phones even have purpose-built tensor chips. It's why we can have crisp 100x zoom, night images in near total darkness, and daylight photos that look like they were taken with a much more expensive DSLR.

Phone manufacturers haven't been making revolutionary advances in image sensors or the centuries long science of camera optics — they've learned how to take a few noisy signals and extrapolate them into plausible high fidelity data.
what is largely a cold for 99% of the population

Firstly, as of January, 11% of people infected with covid still have symptoms. I'm one of them. Personally I wish I'd been more paranoid, maybe I'd still be able to drink a coke without wanting to vomit from the taste or fuel my car without the smell of gasoline making me dry heave. Secondly, that value is derived from reality, i.e., a world where people did "act like anxious and nervous pansies". They tried to avoid being infected. They tried to avoid infecting other people, especially vulnerable people. Covid killed a million people in the US. How many would it have killed if we hadn't acted like pansies? How many vulnerable people would have died before we could vaccinate them? How many dangerous variants would have evolved with an infection pool twice as large?
> panspermia doesn't explain the most interesting problem: how did life appeared at all

> How it came on earth is not relevant in my opinion

Then just why are you even commenting on a panspermia thread.

> Panspermia raises more questions than it answers

agreed
There is a notable overlap between long covid symptoms and the symptoms I've accumulated from ruptured capillaries. Tiny clots in capillaries that cause bleeding into surrounding tissues -

With the viral load landing in different places, and different capillaries taking the brunt, various different organs could be damaged. I worry that those ruptures are the cause for most with long covid, as they aren't easily treatable.
> the new dogma/mandate of BlackRock-style DEI

I don’t think DEI is new. The original affirmative action legal cases in the 60s was in employment, particularly in breaking up the homogeneous of all-white labor unions and other all-white labor forces. Remember that the Jim Crow laws and racial segregation in the public sphere was still occurring in the 50s and early 60s, and affirmative action policies occurred in the workplace as a response to try and actually enforce desegregation in the corporate sphere.
It's a terrible result for everyone, plaintiff, defendant and court.

Plaintiff because, culpable or not, those texts may be the best explanation for whatever happened. Losing them means they're framing their arguments a bit in the dark. It's easier to persuade if you land pretty close to an actual truth, and that's harder without complete discovery of executive communications.

For defendants, because the explanations are actually pretty plausible for a municipal IT operation, and it's dumb for big liability to ride on some stupid, irrelevant IT gaffe on some peripheral technology.

The court because there isn't a good answer and deciding big cases on questionable legal presumptions and fictions that themselves turn on irrelevant technical arcana-- these are the things people dislike about lawyers.
That's fair, I was definitely being a bit too general. There's another comment in this thread that summarizes it better which is asking "what would I use if Rust didn't exist?" and I think that's a more clear line. All of my embedded work was in C/asm so Rust is actually a great choice there.
Yeah, but total household debt only grew 7%, which approximately tracks with inflation. Similarly, inflation is measured over a basket of goods, some of which grow in price more slowly than others -- not exclusively the goods paid for on credit cards.
I don't know, I haven't had a fight with the compiler in a long while now. On the other hand a $42 dedicated box benchmarked my project's REST API at 270,000req/s. I don't even use a DB, just structs serialized in JSON to a disk and a NAS once every few seconds. One pet IPv6 only server to manage + CloudFlare (Domain, DNS, Cache). Beats today's peak complexity setups, hands down.
Was it a joke? Really? Because if it was, then I think I am not deep enough into the meta of this to see it.
The cool thing about the business judgment rule is, you can define 'best interests' almost any way you want.

Not that different from 'effective altruism', really. Maybe running a Ponzi is moral if you are taking the money from people who are not effective altruists, but you are saving the planet or something?

Or Kant's categorical imperative, act in a way that you would want to make universal law. Then in order to act morally, you have to solve for all downstream impacts of the action over all time, if everyone acts that way.

Seems computationally intractable, possible multiple local equilibria, problems with which discount rates to use and whatnot.

Hence the popularity of simple ethical systems, just do what God says on the tablets and be done with it.

That's the cool thing about shaky theoretical foundations and fuzzy data, you can project anything you want onto them and act with a great deal of moral certainty about everything.
Sorry to be such a noob, but why is the build a hybrid with Node? I've done very few things with Rust or Node, but my first instinct would be to keep them separate, and use only Rust package management for this Rust project.
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Even in the most urbanised part of the country most people still drive for most distances over ~5km. If you have to get from one side of Rotterdam to the other side a car is much faster than a bike or public transportation.
The better question would be whether their doctor recommends they get Covid or avoid it, given their condition.

How you avoid Covid is a physics question, not a doctor question.
Ask HN: What's the Best Dumb Washing Machine?
I'm in the market for a new washing machine. Most of the new ones are "smart," which of course means privacy-invading wifi that requires an internet connection, inadequate thermal engineering so the electronics burn out quickly, bad software, terrible reliability, and extremely short overall lifetime.

Does anybody still make a mostly-mechanical, mostly-analog washing machine with no wifi, no software, and no logic boards that burn out prematurely and cost more than the whole machine to replace? I don't care how ugly it looks or how big it is, but I'd prefer a front-loader to save water.
I'm in the CRE (Commercial Real Estate) finance tech world.

Most borrowers are currently electing to extend the maturities out another year, many getting IO (interest only) extensions from their lenders, rather than fall into special servicing. "Special Servicing" is the process to take deals like this and find the best outcome for the lowest lender on the capital stack waterfall. Fortunately, there are many processes in place to handle these kinds of things and not left for the taxpayers to bailout... typically.

Bailout? Why? Because it's not just these "rich" landlords/investors that lose their money. They are pension funds, retirement funds, Teachers retirement funds, public service funds, your neighbors' annuity, etc.

The whole thing is a big circle of money that becomes increasingly more complicated in each CRE cycle of boom/bust. The sentiment in the CRE world is definitely of uncertainty and caution right now. Many are optimistic about later this year and things turning around. It's not only Office either, many multifamily deals were done with a cap rate that could not be sustained, and now the deal is no longer "cash flowing", so the borrower cannot service the loan and they can't raise rents either as that side is also under pressure. With Office, companies are still not fully in office, combined with the layoffs, and the prospect of a down economy ahead has them cutting spending where they can. The leases don't renew, and the borrower has no ability to refinance with the rate hikes.

We're in a very delicate time period right now and one catalyst can send it in either direction, very quick.
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I read a lot about Ukraine, live with Ukrainians, consume lots of non-Ukrainian Eastern European history and commentary, but I don't know Mearshiemer's point of view. He looks to be a "realist" which I tend to think of as fabulists, so I will happily continue in my ignorance of his views.

What you say are all strong possibilities, in my view. But IMHO the strongest is that he's getting old, drunk on power, too steeped in the pre-WW2 imperial history mindset, and wants a legacy. And when combined with the limp response to his past misdeeds in Georgia, Syria, etc., and watching what happened to Gaddafi in Libya, he massively miscalculated.

But if Ukraine had folded quickly, he would not have miscalculated, IMHO. Western powers, with Ukraine overrun, would probably have just let him have it. If Ukrainians didn't stand up for themselves, put up a fight way above their weight class, and enable the West a trivially easy method of support with just ammo and small amounts of equipment, this would have ended the way of Georgia, with lots of hand wringing and weak sanctions. Maybe more hand wringing than Georgia, because Ukraine is clearly closer to Western Europe, and Ukraine had been the actual battleground in prior European wars, but still nothing more than hand wringing. It's possible that there would not even be NATO applications from Finland.

Nobody fights for somebody who won't fight for themselves, and Ukrainian identity has been growing exceptionally strong. Even amongst those in the East with parents from Russia, who only know a very little of the Ukrainian language, a strong civic Ukrainian identity is fomenting, in a country with many language and many ethnicities. My hope for the future of Ukraine is to band together with other post-colonial nations, especially those in Africa, to use their massive brain power to build new industries, rather than shipping all their best minds to other countries. Perhaps not likely, but there is a new consciousness rising which makes a huge amount of growth possible.
Especially given current population trends — there are no guarantees you'll be able to sell your house for much more than you bought it in 30 years.
The QGiS article a week ago was upvoted like hell, but I see no comments from QGiS folks how this is done in it?

Please someone advice.
I think it's more of a social norm than a legal right since it would be on shareholders to pursue a lawsuit to prove that the board of directors at a company are sabotaging the business from being successful. Even then, it would be dependent on the given strategies to achieve profit both short and long term. It's not to say that corporate boards have zero incentives to maximum shareholder value since many times the boards are shareholders (whether minority or majority owners), but that if this a problem then it can't be truly solved by papering over it or mythologizing it.
It does when you enter the region from outside the region , which is all that matters. Is not 3 months in Portugal, it’s 3 months in the region.
In practice company leaders can do pretty much whatever they like. The "best interest" test doesn't hold up in court, except in cases of shameless looting of a company by insiders.

Take a leveraged buyout for instance. The company takes on a perhaps fatal amount of debt, the employees stand to lose their jobs, the shareholders might benefit if the LBO works out, but they lose if the company goes bankrupt. Who wins? The vultures who organized the LBO, because their downside is limited and their upside is highly leveraged.

Company suffers. Shareholders suffer. Some insiders benefit. And it's still legal.

Another example. Executives award themselves generous option packages. Then they announce a massive buyback program, which drives the stock price up (by arithmetic). The executives' options go to the moon. Big companies like Facebook have incinerated hundreds of billions in shareholder value this way. But it's legal, shareholder interests be damned.
Over the last 40 years, a Republican has been president for 22 years, while a Democrat has been president for 18 years. Pretty even.
I'm an aging gen x'er. I would feel the same way if American cities were safer, more polite, and more pleasant to live in. I visited Tokyo a few decades ago and was amazed at what life could be like. Unfortunately, the issues of modern American cities compel me to seek life in the suburbs or rural areas, necessitating a single passenger vehicle.
Any time somethings like this happens people rejoice and hope for affordable apartments. I think you are wrong on both accounts.

Converting office buildings into housing is harder than tearing them down and building a apartments from the ground up. Every design of the office is wrong for living: the wall placements, windows, plumbing, hvac, stairs, elevators, etc.

And I also think you are wrong in being happy that these buildings are losing tenants. This will have a significant economic on the investors (which could even be you through funds, pensions, etc), and locally on the area. Think about all the businesses and jobs that serve these offices. These areas are going to decay and that will last for decades until it will be economically viable to repurpose them. At least on the short term I am not happy to see this happening.
> I want to know more about how that shift occurred.

I’ve been stuck in that rabbit hole for atleast 2 years now. At the macro level it seems as if it was all planned but upon deeper reading I came to a conclusion that it was a sequence of events which while individually would have made sense collectively lead to the current mess.

To get a whirl wind tour and as a starting point I highly recommend Adam Tooze’s book “Crashed”. In it he chronicles the 2008 crisis beginning with Nixon’s abolishment of gold standard. The book is full of excellent references.
Yes, which seems to be what I described in the sentence immediately preceding the one you quoted.
> The point of this blog is not that it gets read rather that it gets written.

Absolutely. A great blog is about the thoughts and ideas it puts forth, not really about how well they are written.

And, perhaps paradoxically, what results when bloggers write this way is usually great reading.
The answer is no, and it depends. Different shareholders have different preferences. Dynamic cap tables make this a difficult problem, but not an intractable one.
Asking “what about <all these other people>” is inherently asking you to provide some level of consideration for those people, but calling other people pansies is clearly not embodying the consideration being asked of. I don’t really feel strong about the actual topic being discussed, I just think the hypocrisy is disgusting.
> Money is the big one (cars used to be a lot cheaper, both to buy and to maintain.

That's just not true. Maybe for some outlier car models.

For example my parents bought a base model Toyota Corolla in 1998 for 16K. A 2023 Corolla has MSRP $21,550.

16K in 1998 dollars is $29,366 today.

So, the Corolla has actually become substantially cheaper over the years!
Yeah a few million dead is very funny
And what could be a killer feature?
I wish consumers and citizens more generally would appreciate the implications of corporate responsibility to shareholders. This means everything else is secondary: the welfare of workers, the environment, and society at large. Capitalism is great at generating wealth for owners, but can be devastating for these so-called "external" parties.
And you are at the mercy of the whims of politicians. One city I lived in, they simply ended public transport altogether. Another city, they rerouted the lines in the poor part of town which made life incredible difficult for the older residents there. Their trip to the grocery store went up by two hours.
People upthread ran the numbers and arrived at 600 USD/month for a used car. Seems high to me, but I don't know how the math works out in the US. For Germany, this is a pretty good modeling of the costs https://financer.com/de/blog/was-kostet-ein-auto-im-monat/ and it still arrives at 240 EUR/month for a used car. That's maybe not 20 cab rides, but still a significant number.

Obviously, the math I did for me works out for me. It likely will look different for you. However, I never pretended that the math works out for everyone - it doesn't. But it would work out for a lot of people if they were honest.
psh -- pleb. :P

I did share a bad article I didn't read. I will do some more research on peanut gallery specifically. In either case, I probably still won't use it since it has this connotation to some people.
My biggest pain point with Rust (in a startup context) is that Rust works really well, until you get to anything related to threading or async.

Yes, the claim is "fearless concurrency" but you'll still deadlocking mutexes and once you're heavily into async you need to start using language constructs that feel REALLY awkward, like pinning, runtime checks like RefCell, and so on.

IMO if Rust could make that whole aspect of the language more elegant, it'd be much easier to scale up to a larger org.
All things being equal, I'd use some combination of:

1. Groovy

2. Java

3. Grails

4. Spring Boot

5. Postgresql

for backend stuff. For front-end, I'm still waffling a bit on what framework (if any) I want to really commit to investing time and energy in. I've dabbled with React a bit, but haven't fully committed to that as a strategic choice yet.

All of that said, on a recent thread similar to this, sombody brought up a couple of technologies that look really interesting to me, that I want to explore for possible use:

1. Hotwire

2. HTMLX

3. Elixir + Phoenix w/ Liveview
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The idea of investment managers directing capital based on their own corporate purity tests is definitely much newer than the 1960s
>After installation, "there's no testing to make sure that it's still aimed properly or that it's putting out enough light on the road and it's not glaring other drivers," Brumbelow said.

Which is why WoF/MoTs/etc are super important in countries that are not America. Having to have your entire vehicle checked over once a year means that issues like this are solved relatively quickly/it breeds a culture of wanting to make sure your vehicle is in a good condition.

Used to be smaller cars in Europe/other countries as well, though unfortunately the big car/SUV trend is taking over everywhere now and tbh I think it's disgusting that governments have allowed it. They should've been banned 20 years ago. Why so many a-holes in London need to drive giant gas guzzling yet still somehow "ULEZ compliant" Range Rovers down narrow streets as if they're driving a small hatchback rather than an actual urban tank frustrates the hell out of me.

I just changed from a Mini to a Civic myself and I honestly see no need to go larger than that except if required for work (trade, etc). Even then, why tf you need a Ute in central London.
Yeah, I totally agree rentals exist. Maybe it is a semantics difference with what a post-car society means to people.

To me, it does not imply using a car as much as I do now and simply paying more to rent instead of owning.
> But in the same vein, let us recall Mate has been awarded the Ithaca College Journalism School's Izzy award (which is considered prestigious).

Noam Chomsky is also quite decorated but that doesn't stop them both from denying war crimes like Cambodia and Syria.

If you're claiming Russia-Trump coordination and Skripal didn't happen, that's because you're a tankie who can never say Russia has done anything bad, because you think they're secretly the USSR and are going to bring back communism. Bit sad since they're a fascist state. ("Anti-imperialists" are also rather bad at opposing Chinese imperialism.)

> I don't know about the Hungary situation and have not read Mate's work on that; but links would be appreciated.

Doing it right now.

https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1625634526947835907
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This reminds me of http://reddit.com/r/windowshots , a subreddit created over a decade ago with the rule, "Post a photo taken right now out the nearest window"; the best part about it was how real and unstaged they all were.

Every now and then someone would post some beautiful vista clearly taken at a well-chosen time and I'd get all annoyed.
Sorry but no map is true and all maps are wrong. What you are is an approximation of the underlying data, and if you want to find truth in it, you should use R or SpatialSQL to do inference.
As only one of 5 principles, that's not necessarily bad (depending on what the other 4 are).
why? poorer people use more of the systems infrastructure, they should pay more? why should more efficient and capital producing people pay more?
Assume all functions can throw and there is no extra work reading. A function that has no possibility of error is so uninteresting in the context of error handling.

Furthermore, handling errors has little to do with where the error is actually caused. In general, you can only do two things with errors: log and kill the operation or retry the operation. Neither of these has anything to do with the leaf function 20 items down in the stack that actually made the network call that failed.
I don't think it's necessarily a sexist phenomenon.

A lot of our cultural leaders generally seem to be pushing us toward a weird and sterile (literally and figuratively) existence. Men are encouraged to be less masculine, and women less feminine, and everyone discouraged from having children. More comfort and less creation.
….there are more crises than shutting down the world acutely. OP was referring to slower acting effects of covid
That statistic is in a specific context, I'd guess city driving in the daytime.

Nederlands has a lot of cycle infrastructure and is mostly flat so it's very convenient to ride. But lots of people still drive for all the usual practicality reasons.