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>> Now we know how few gates it takes to do arithmetic, and understand that, in a fundamental sense, it's simple.

There is no context in which arithmetic can be done, or understood, without a human mind, though. An ALU doesn't understand that it's adding two numbers anymore than a car understands that it's rolling down the highway. They're both still machines that do things that humans want them to do, for reasons that humans want them to do them.

Bottom line: it's still the case that only humans can do arithmetic; whether by hand, or Pascaline, or by modern ALU, it makes no difference. Arithmetic is a human thing.
Stupid question time: if I don't have a Librem phone, does it work with anything else?
I outright look for alternatives for something when the search comes with something written in python; the well-accepted strategy for deploying Python seems to be "abandon all hope of deploying it yourself in a way where updating is easy and hope docker container someone did that dealt with this mess will be enough.
>The human impact is real, but how is it different from how carriage drivers felt about the automobile, or how typists felt about the word processor?

it's probably different in the way that the parent poster described, that artists found drawing an emotionally satisfying process whereas people typing probably didn't think setting styles in MS Word made them complete.
> I wish more people understood this.

Please provide a case history.
Adding to your observations, I recently realized that if you want an AI to pass the Turing Test you basically just need the AI accurately predict what a human would say/might have said. And thus in a very real sense being able to "predict the next word" (an expression often used to downplay the significance of GPTs) really is all that to it.

There are of course objections to using the Turing Test as a measure of intelligence, but most of them seem to revolve around the issue of whether the would-be-AI has "subjective" experiences/consciousness/understanding, rather than objecting to the fact that the exhibited behavior is intelligent.

(it's also quite interesting how people seem to not realize these philosophical topics have been discussed to death in the past few decades...)
> You might expect if I were to pip uninstall requests that I get back to a clean system, right?

Why would i expect that? If one day I install A and another day I install B, which depends on A, I wouldn’t expect to lose A of I were to uninstall B.
I use Python for research. If I need some package, I simply want the latest version; pip install is usually fine.

If something depends explicitly on the fixed (old) version, that's when problems happen and I grudgingly remember how to use pyenv. But I like to use the most recent versions and most recent Python, and I like packages that share this bleeding edge approach.
What I do is cool down in the fridge over night, skim the solidified fat, and then freeze. I'll often get a portion of the skimmed stock and reduce it to a demi glace before freezing, often just to save space in the freezer, since I try to make at least a gallon at a time.
But we've got decades of data from health insurance before Obamacare. It isn't like things were peachy before that.
I've been a happy user of pipenv for several years (at work, in production) and still recommend it. You lock the versions you want independently of the requirements.txt so you can update just the packages you want without worrying about sub-dependencies. 10/10 recommend.
Indeed the CEO of Nvidia and AMD are both from Taiwan and about the same age, I was told they are actually good friends, so yeah they might not want to fight that hard. I will call them the cousins, maybe they can first crash Intel together.
Artificial scarcity in sneakers is their design decision. These shenanigans should have zero impact on browser policy.
> linked letter to share holders by Palantine

I think of Thiel and Karp that as Palpatine and Vadar too. ;)
Almost unrelated, but I also learned what was capital efficiency and payback period after playing Monopoly for the first time in years.

Long story short, when the properties were eventually sold out, I burned my cash flow to buy more of them to other players, at a high price, when they needed money (it would also allow them to play longer)

My logic was that by owning the most properties and by building houses and hotels, I would have the most revenue on the long run. And had the game been endless, I would have won.

However, the chances of someone going on your property isn't even high in this game ! You can sometimes wait for several rounds before this happens.

Unluckily, I stumbled on a rent I couldn't pay, mortgaged some properties. It happened again, and other players would only buy my properties at a price to cover the rent.

And my empire (i had the most properties by far) was on the verge of collapse when I had to run to go to the station.

So yeah, consider the payback period, even in the simplest models of the economy. Monopoly is economy taught to children, yet we adults can overlook its lessons.
I don’t think I understand what you mean. There are certainly fringe leftist groups in the world and in Switzerland, but this [1] is not one of them.

[1] fbschweiz.ch
One of the interesting questions for me is how long this adaptation will take. I think there are a bunch of things that could make it pretty laggy. E.g., the fact that so many execs have spent so many years in an unsustainable capital environment. Or the amount of VC money still sloshing around waiting to be applied. Or the number of VCs who basically built their careers on these kinds of unsustainable businesses. How many will be able to admit that their special genius no longer applies, and was in fact the cause of a lot of problems in the long term?
Why has every product person I've worked with been obsessed with controlling teams and communication rather than obsessing over the customer and the market?

Friends say the same thing too. It makes me roll my eyes whenever someone retorts "you just need to hire the /good/ PMs"

Even my worst sales/tech colleagues, I've never had as much conflict and annoyance as with product people
GP is making a point about the relative scale of the problem in one vs the other, not that the problem doesn't exist in both.
The riskier an investment is, the higher the return must be to justify the investment. Lowering returns across the board means nobody is going to invest in long shots.
Prediction #1: Once enough ChatGPT output gets posted online, it will inevitably find its way into the training corpus. When that happens, ChatGPT becomes stateful and develops episodic memory.

Prediction #2: As more people discuss ChatGPT online, by late 2023 discussion of Roko's Basilisk exceeds discussion of ChatGPT. (half /s)
0% Interest Rate Phenomena. Much of the funds come from extra capital sloshing around the system, looking for returns. Once bought out, some companies incur more debt (easy because of 0% interest rates) much of which goes back to the new owners as special dividends. Finally, once stripped to the bones, the company goes public again.

I can't wait until this vulturous business model gets smacked in the face by tighter financial conditions.
Police Academy isn't meant to be a documentary :D

And it wasn't the depiction due to the time period the Indy film was set in that made it racist, it's the depiction of Indians as primitives who eat monkey brains and all that rubbish. It was just a trope in the '80s. If they aren't from the West, they must be primitives, etc.
> these other mechanisms do not use a node_modules directory,

Once you've landed on a package manager that does use it, wouldn't you continue to use that?
As someone who likes to pay for things I use, I'm in the target customer/user group here. Couple of questions -

1. Is it only for FB or across all Meta services (FB, IG, WhatsApp, Oculus etc.)
2. Are ads going to be shown to verified/premium subscribers?

2nd point is particularly important. Especially if key value prop is about security and privacy. Looks like ARPU for Meta is $40 annually. So financially they can afford not to show ads to verified subscribers (annual sub of $100+). However, for verified subscribers it's only about "blue badge" I doubt there will be huge uptick unless it has other "sweetners" like "no ads" like youtube premium.

Overall - this is a great move by Meta. As it gives them ability to diversify revenue streams from ads where they are dependent on 3rd party platform privacy policies. YouTube premium has shown that social platforms can thrive with freemium model and they have roughly 80M subs ($1B+ revenue). Meta is trying to replicate same success with their brands.
To me there’s no mystery. Just use pip and then when you hit a specific problem see if any existing tools solve it.

The game of, “blank project immediately needs 12 different tools I read about on a blog post” is silly.
CRAY X1 Multi Chip Module – Monster CPU with 8 Cores – Teardown
If you have a polling queue, as the number of workers grows too large, the overhead of maintaining connections from (worker) -> (stuff in the middle) -> (db or whatever keeps queue state) becomes too high. In the extreme case, you can get into a point of diminishing returns, where adding more workers hurts both throughput and latency in a bad way.

That is - initially you can decrease latency by sacrificing utilization and just adding more workers that usually sit idle. This increases throughput during heavy load, and decreases latency. Until you can't, because the overhead from all the extra workers causes a slowdown up the stack (either the controller that's handling messages, or the db itself that's got the queue state, or whatever is up there). Then when you throw more overhead, you increase latency and decrease throughput, because of the extra time wasted on overhead.

It depends on a lot of different variables.

If you have work items that vary significantly in cost, it can add even more problems (i.e. if your queue items can vary 3+ orders of magnitude in processing cost).
Ironically, it seems that fan would fit perfectly as a bureaucrat in a Soviet Republic.
They can reject the motion to go private, can they not?
I haven’t, and interesting to know that C++ is used there!

I’m referring to systems software (operating systems, browsers, runtimes, backends) where formal verification is not normally used.
I'd gladly take $1 worth of storage over venv/pip mess.

> Compare this to my GOPATH/GOROOT which is insanely full of mods...gigabytes...

Go apps are self-contained blobs. You can just... not install it ? `go build` will just leave you with binary blob in root dir you can put whenever.
Why couldn't they just use a software TPM?
In a real-life scenario, the server can access the key and collect it back (just farming location.hash)
I’m currently waiting for a flight. Isn’t airport is a kind of queue that buffers people over time then delivers them to the sky at steady, fixed intervals?

This airport seems busy but the planes seem full, how can we improve utilisation?
> Unless I’m misunderstanding you, this is trivial in every stack I’ve used (.NET, Node, Rails, and Go). I can’t imagine why this would be difficult.

It's trivial in Rails because the middleware mentioned handles it.

Forms only allow GET and POST if you submit it from a browser without JavaScript. That means you need to do things like introduce a hidden form field such as _method with the real method you want to use such as PATCH and then your framework's middleware level needs to understand how to translate that to call the correct function to handle the request. There's all sorts of edge cases around dealing with files and detecting if the request needs to be translated, etc..

With Flask this is a huge clusterfuck, https://blog.carsonevans.ca/2020/07/06/request-method-spoofi... has a breakdown on how it's anything but trivial. Sure there's https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.2.x/patterns/methodov... but this involves setting a header which implies it's submit through JavaScript or another service over an API but in our case we want to submit it through a browser without using JavaScript.
What would your goal be in calling it out? Admin mandated ethics training, so it is either going to happen or it is going to "happen".

Professor is not getting grants to make research ethics slides, so he's not going to do it. The group needs a volunteer, but everyone else is already busy with assigned tasks. Would you volunteer to run the ethics training and do it properly?
In a white supremacist society, who is going to stop whites from sticking together?

It sure is convenient if you get to be the one deciding who is an oppressor and who is oppressed. You can place arbitrary moral limits on the oppressor's behavior, while that same behavior is justified for the oppressed.

Even when it doesn't make a lick of sense. Whites sticking together maintains oppression (I guess Ukraine, being ~99% white, is the most oppressive of all), but people of color sticking together gains them freedom. But those are the same thing. If all the people of color gather on one side of the room, away from the whites, then both whites and non-whites will, by necessity, be sticking with their own.
Mixing pip with another package manager has always seemed weird to me. You're just asking for things to conflict and break.

I noticed with Homebrew that there was no way to untangle packages installed through pip and ones installed through Homebrew. After dealing with that mess once, I now make sure to use pip install --user. It can still cause things to break, but if that does happen it's at least easy to nuke the packages installed to my home directory.
I mean, that's the case for literally every technology that improves on what comes before. If you follow that logic you can never rewrite anything... which, granted, might be a decent idea, but not one that has anything to do with Rust.

On the other hand, "a new kid in town" is not a good reason to declare a rewrite a failure. Did it make your life better? Did it reduce bugs with a reasonable amount of effort? Maybe it was a good decision after all, given what you knew and what was available at the time.

Meanwhile, delaying a decision indefinitely just in case better options appear later is probably a road to death. Again, Rust doesn't come into the question all that strongly.
Inflation will remain ‘sticky’ for a decade because Gen Z and millennials
I hope instead of accepting a settlement when lawyer boy starts to cry uncle they take it all the way to the end and bankrupt and disbar him.
Your comment is dead because it's unsubstantiated nonsense, and enough people downvoted or flagged it. (Reading someone else's unsubstantiated nonsense doesn't count as "research".)

The comments naming _The Transgender-Industrial Complex_ by Scott Howard aren't flagged/dead, just like the comments linking the major American book retailer with the book on sale, or the original publisher.
Hilarious. You pay for the fact that they can track you better, build real life dossiers and charge advertisers more.

Sometime ago it was "if it's free, you are the product". Let's change that to "you are always the product".
that's the first time I've ever heard labor being referred to as 'wealth creators'. that's a term usually applied to capital.
Funny little project, though the days where "lol" meant something was truly funny have long past. The way we use the word today is actually very important to conveying tone over text, and so I don't know if I would call an "lol" without laughter inauthentic as much as it is reflective of a relatively new kind of communication.
IPO at 1B, valuation drops to 200M after 1 year

Buy back shares at 1/5th of the price
I wrote what I wrote in an unclear way:

"you're not correct about Spamhaus and being forced to use Google / Apple"

What I meant is that you weren't necessarily correct about Spamhaus, nor correct about being forced to use Google / Apple (which I thought was a reference to the fact that 98% of the world use Google's browsers and Gmail and/or Apple's Safari and/or Mail).

I see now you were referring to using a mainstream browser to communicate with Spamhaus. Yes, that's uncool. And yes, I wholly agree that the email address to request unblocking should not be filtered like it is.

Sometimes we worry so much about the symptom that we forget about the problem. Perhaps it'd be worthwhile to just ask someone else to forward an email requesting removal to Spamhaus' removal address.
This is easier said than done, though certain frameworks (like Microsoft's Deepspeed) try to do this "automatically"
> But if they have the money, how could they lose the power in the first place? If money=power it should be impossible.

I don't see why this should be true. If money=power, surely that has nothing to do with whether you can lose it or not? Generally, when you have something, you can lose it sometimes, no?
Neat! This does seem like it should work!

Semantic quibble: it's less "proof of work" and more "proof of hardware+work". Or, as they call it, hardware-bound proof of work. The reason you can't offload the challenge to a more powerful device is that they rely on identifying stable differences for each device class that ultimately trace down to the hardware they're running on.
about:discards is almost this. (Chromium desktop)
Wait until you get to 40 and you've seen enough beginnings, middles and ends of things that you have a greater understanding of how the world around you isn't forged in bedrock but is in a constant state of change. How you've been lead around by Madison Ave in a fear of missing out.
There is a joy of missing out that come in at middle age. You can honestly say to yourself that something isn't worth wasting your time on. Not out of a close-mindedness but because you been to those dungeons and they have been picked clean.
So if you're rich and have the time there may be consequences, but ultimately since anyone can file a false DMCA notice, there's really no assurance that you will ever get your own lawyer's fees back let alone damages (even if they were awarded).

Perjury is a pretty terrible mechanism, frankly. The whole law was and is poorly conceived.
That project and the parent do exactly what you wish:

- run encryption locally

- do not upload anything

You may not realize that’s the case because it’s a web form
Yep. I spent a good hour trying to generate some stuff with DALLE. I then asked a friend that works in media and he was able to give me ideas for a prompt that worked almost immediately.

AI art is fun and _sometimes_ it can replace some things but at the end of the day, I don't really want to mess around prompting over and over. If I pay an artist $100 for something, I couldn't care less how they make it. I feel like AI can be another tool. I'll even make a bold prediction. In 10 years, we will still have "Graphic designers" and "digital artists" the ceiling will just be raised similar to how it was when photoshop became more commonplace.
I can't wait to verify my account with Govt id!

Then I remember my account is blocked because I failed at the opportunity to do this for free.
Perhaps neither. The post indicates that it's rolling out in Australia first. Australia has been, for years, working toward tying social media use to authenticated identity.

Imagine paying for this...
wow, i had no idea the old headless was a reimplementation. congrats on landing the new one
In practice, there are so many things to write to make even a simple language useful that the transition time can be fairly long: libraries (especially non-trivial ones like date&time), tooling, best practices...

There's a lot of overhead that can't really be reduced.
Very nice idea, and nicely implemented. One of those things that seems like it should already have existed, especially with how many headless CMSs there are out there, having a personal CMS of sorts just makes sense.
They don't shift under any load, as far as I'm aware. Maybe Rohloff's are different but IME, you need to stop pedaling entirely to safely shift without damaging anything.
Aren't pledge/unveil precisely preparing for unknown bugs? Also they seem to be much easier to use than doing AppArmor chops.
Ehh, there are legitimate use-cases for a shortening service. One example is SMS messages. We can complain about how antiquated SMS is all day long but it's still one of the best ways to reach people if you don't don't have an app or have a low install base. In SMS length still matters and so taking:

https://mydomain.com/path/to/resource?maybe=with&some=query&params=included

down to:

https://mydomain.com/s/X3s5321

Both makes a difference and hides ugly urls. I agree using a different domain is a danger if you let it lapse but if you use your main domain then I don't see an issue.
Health insurance diverged from free markets back in the 1940s when health care got tied to your job due to the way it was taxed.
Why? Can overwrite it and even if couldn't making a new venv is just a `python -m venv venv` away.
Here's the Suntour one, mentioned in the article:

https://www.disraeligears.co.uk/site/suntour_xc_derailleur_3...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjdHSPKfiig
Private equity isn't a new idea. "Leveraged buyout" is the old term for it. In the bad old days, the LBO company would issue tons of long-term debt, which the company would have to pay interest on. To be able to do that, they'd have to lay people off, close unprofitable businesses, and otherwise go on a starvation diet.

For these newer companies, the market cap probably isn't that high, so maybe the big bond issue doesn't happen.

>Grill maker Weber Inc. WEBR ... agreed to go private last year for $8.05 a share, well below its $14 IPO price less than 18 months earlier.

So, they collected a lot of money at $14, then collected more at $8, and in a few years when finances are better, they'll IPO again at $14. Nice business, except for the people who paid them $14 at the first IPO.
I'm not sure, where are you getting those figures from? I can't find solid figures for either but the rough figures (guesstimates) I come across seem to indicate time theft is a larger problem than wage theft.
At some point the responsables will want to travel abroad, visit some other country or even move from Russia to another country. As recently as a few months/years I read about war criminals from WWII being condemned, some of them in their 90s. Nobody will go after the current war criminals in Russia from outside, but maybe, in 10 - 20 - 30 years Russian people will decide they want to live in a democracy and apply the rule of law themselves.
I totally had this happen. When I was growing up we didn't have much money, and I've always tried to be really frugal. I tend to agonize over minor necessary expenses like gloves or shoes. When I went from a couple hundred bucks in the bank to almost a million I felt strange. I tried to ignore those feelings, so I could live like a normal person. It only took me about a year to...

I mean... Well... It goes pretty fast and things are pretty much back to the way things were.

I did not understand at all how people who win the lottery could blow through it all so quickly. Growing up, the limit on my spending was availability. When that availability went up, I didn't really have the right tools to change my internal spending algorithm quickly enough to maintain a comfortable level for a longer time.

It truly didn't fix as many problems as I had hoped, and it turns out a million dollars isn't nearly as much as I thought it was.