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> Am I physically touching your painting when I copy it? If not, then your attempt at equating physical property to thoughts is nonsense. We both believe in physical property, however arbitrarily invented it is. Only you believe in intellectual property, and I’m willing to bet you aren’t even consistent with it. Should you be fined for saving an NFT?

I want to hear you respond to this, as I'm about to respond to you. I see no reason to continue if you're just going to avoid anything I say while yourself trying everything to see what will stick.

It's not alien that I believe property excludes thoughts, as you're trying to make it seem. Most people agree with me, until it wouldn't benefit them to do so. Again, I demonstrate this with your presumed support of IP for artists and opposition to IP for NFTs. You would argue against IP for NFTs the same way I'm arguing against you right now, the only difference is that I'm consistent.

IP addresses are not property. Neither are trademarks. We can argue about the slightly related topic of whether they deserve government protections anyways, but it wouldn't be because they're property.

No, copyright and contract law have little to do with each other and you're making a giant leap of logic. Namely, I can find a way to obtain your copyrighted content without making any agreement with you, and still be held legally liable for it. Torrenting copyrighted content someone else broke the rules to seed is one such example. On the other hand, I can't be punished for listening to you sing for someone else in exchange for food, even if I didn't give you any food myself.

Yes there's plenty of things that we don't explicitly agree to and I'm in favour of keeping that list as short as possible. I don't agree that some of the things you listed should be implicit. Nobody is perfectly consistent, but at a baseline I'm far more consistent than you are.
> The other thing I learned is that Big Pharma/FDA does a horrible job of listing medication side effects. I say that because "causes sleep apnea" was not on the list of side effects for carbamazeine

Having designed and run clinical trials, I think your assertion based on a single experience is unreasonable.

Companies are very interested in unexpected events, particularly bad ones (called “adverse events” in the jargon). Viagra was “discovered” because of an unanticipated side effect of a drug being tested for a heart disorder.

That long list of side effect warnings? The companies love that list because it reduces legal risk (and marketing risk: doctors will tell patients what to look for and/or will avoid giving it to patients at risk of effect X).

While it seems plausible to me that sleep apnea could be a side effect of a drug like carbamazepine (though it’s not a benzo) it was not reported to any statistically significant extent.

since you have to report all AEs, the FDA will, in some cases, zero in on one that was reported at a minor level for additional study, because someone in the review panel thought worthy of investigation due to some scientific issue in their specialty. Drug companies hate that of course, but that’s one reason why there’s a review panel rather than a single reviewer.
A Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for Biases
This is why their new load balancer variants are insidious, as they require you to have instances in multiple availability zones :/.
The Founding Fathers of the United States were directly inspired by the Roman Republic. The notion that the Republic would ultimately devolve (or evolve, given your perspective) into Empire was not a foreign notion to them.

I don't necessarily think that they understood the extent to which the acquisition of land, power, and resources by corporations might mimic the destructive influence of the latifundia of the late Roman Republic, but still the end result will likely be the same: land reform by a populare (i.e. Peace, Land, Bread).

Under the Julian land reform program, Caesar proposed to:

* Distribute public lands to poor and landless citizens: Caesar proposed to distribute public lands to poor and landless citizens, who would be allowed to cultivate the land in exchange for paying a small rent to the state.

* Restrict the size of private estates: Caesar proposed to limit the amount of land that could be held by any one individual, in order to prevent the accumulation of vast estates by the wealthy elite. This would help to ensure that there was enough land available for small farmers and other citizens.

* Create colonies for veterans and landless citizens: Caesar proposed to create new colonies in Italy and other parts of the Roman world, where veterans and landless citizens could be settled and given land to cultivate.

Given the current crises in housing, climate, self-confidence, and employment amongst the proles, a similar platform is likely to emerge. Unfortunately, given the same stridency in those with wealth and status, similar obstacles are also likely to prevent the pressure valve of nihilistic desperation from being released, with likely destructive results.
Open contributions?

> This organization has no public members. You must be a member to see who’s a part of this organization.

What is really needed would be a hardened sqlite, to rip out the many openssl-like insanities and insecure defaults. My https://github.com/rurban/hardsqlite didnt get far.
Part of brilliance is being succinct.
I just tried some last night, in a side-by-side comparison with real Erdnussflips. Bamba have a smoother/softer texture (less crunchy), and the peanut flavor is weaker.
Their argument isn't that the republic continued on into the empire, but that it was already dead to other things. For example, if a system where an unelected triumvirate holds all the political power is a republic, basically anything is a republic.
The moment you switch from C# to e.g C or CPP or other dev unfriendly tech is the moment you realize how c# lang design team and std lib API design teams outperformed
> I'm up for AWS bashing more often than not, but I don't get what this post is proposing.

The discussion topic is about anticompetitive practices.

AWS charges a premium on intra-region traffic, when other cloud providers do not. The thesis is that these arbitrary charges are designed to force users to consume their managed services which further leads to vendor lock-in.

Can these arbitrary intra-region traffic charges be interpreted as anticompetitive practices? I believe there's a good case to be made. Don't you agree?
I'm flabbergasted it's been an hour and there has been no "System76 is just an expensive Clevo" post. HN isn't the same on Saturdays!

Joking aside I also have one and am satisfied with it. In my experience it is the Linux laptop with lowest power consumption/longest battery out of the box by far.
Oh, there's no chance in hell I'll ever use Edge personally. Learned a long, long time ago not to trust MS.
> Smaller customers get the benefit of a stellar network with elasticity in the Tibps plus range for a small $/GiB fee.

Are you AWS sales? This seems unrelated to the discussion to me.
I would assume there's a group policy to disable it
He's not a mommy blogger, usually his stuff is worth reading. This one is a bit more of a story though, rather than an investigation.
Come on, it’s still a fun little article, not a serious one.
Let me explain how it relates.

The comment advocated that scientists should profess to be philosophers. Why? Presumably because they are engaged in a field of study that philosophers have claimed. Furthermore the author is bothered that they don't. Why? Likely because if scientists acknowledged their status as philosophers, that would raise the status of philosophers.

And so the meat of my comment was illustrating by anecdote that the fact that philosophers have claimed a field, does not mean that they contribute meaningfully to it. Nor that people interested in the field should pay attention to philosophers. Nor that they should call themselves philosophers. Therefore, despite the claim that philosophers lay to topics like "epistemology", scientists SHOULD NOT profess to be philosophers. And anyone who claims otherwise should be laughed at.

Now why did I make my comment?

It is because I saw the comment as being part of the genre of people who attempt to raise the status of their field by laying an unwarranted claim to the accomplishments of others. This offends me. Philosophy and philosophers do not deserve credit for the accomplishments of science. And should not demand that scientists give philosophy that credit by relabeling themselves as philosophers.

With all that said, hopefully you'll better see how I saw my response as responsive to the comment. And hopefully you'll understand why I did not find it a good comment.
The Onion's recent "ChatGPT Starting To Think Journalist Could One Day Be Capable Of Independent Thought"[1] is a good reaction to these sorts of unsurprising "old news" articles repeating what other journalists have been reporting on repeatedly.

[1] https://www.theonion.com/chatgpt-starting-to-think-journalis...
> you could probably send a weaker signal from mobile devices and drown the air with signal from anything plugged into a wall socket.

How exactly is your mobile device going to ACK those received packets? The mobile device needs to transmit as loudly as the AP for its ack to be received.

Boosting the transmit power higher than your receiving device can transmit leads to very bad wifi links, where the mobile device is receiving a good signal but it's own messages are not received back.
AWS spawned off with Amazon realizing the value of dog-fooding, which is using their own products to build other products, and to sell all the steps. That is, the base premise was Amazon Retail being a client like any other of AWS. It is not a stretch to imagine the same goes for many AWS manages services to be built atop EC2. There are many products that are prime candidates for this: API gateway, Kubernetes, Lambda (which is likely built atop the managed kubernetes), etc

Heck, you can look at other cloud providers, and in some cases they are very open about stuff "being build atop public compute". One example that comes to mind is the VPC interconnect of GCP to get reachability between serverless and the rest of the VPC: it uses plain old compute to route the traffic; you can even pick which type and how many to provision.
There's an interesting book about how things were headed south long before the events everyone knows about:

https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Before-Beginning-Roman-Republic...
Free offerings?
> Side note, it seems like this thinking that we need to have peer validation gate-keeping the publishing process is part of the reason for the reproducibility crisis; the reason nobody dares writing reproduction papers is because it’s so hard to get them published. Could help if journals accepted these by default?

I think that's also where their distinction between significance and rigour comes into play. Reproductions might not be "significant", but if they're rigorous, they can still get that stamp of approval.
> But I read about the major fails of either macOS or Windows more or less on a daily basis in the news… I really don't understand why anybody would use those systems therefore.

When the install base is over two billion of users, we're bound to hear issues. Just bitrot alone can cause some % of issues.

We're not hearing from 99% of the users, only those that have an issue and took the time to say something. There's no reason for the news or even people to go on the web every day to say Windows/macOS/Linux still works fine with updates with no software issues.

I'm not saying OS are immune to issues but there's no evidence that Windows updates is causing billions of devices to break or brick on a constant daily basis here. Yes, some software may break, some incompatibility issues but Windows is pretty decent with its updates. It's also fairly easy to rollback by uninstalling the previous Windows update.

Plus, macOS with Time Machine is an exceptional backup mechanism (Linux with TimeShift is great as well). Windows is...questionable. I use Reflect but I doubt most people know how to back up properly.

However, I can't say that I speak for 99% either, all I can report is from people around me. I work for an employer with over 900 employees and most are on macOS, I can confidently tell you that it is not an issue at all. We rarely have an update issue. Altho, we do inform people to wait a few days before installing an update, mainly to make sure our custom stuff is working fine first.

> So in my experience even a perpetual "beta version" of Debian Linux is more stable than "regular releases" of other systems…

Considering one of the most popular distro is Ubuntu, which itself is based on the Debian Sid branch and a huge number of distro is based on Ubuntu; it's already safe to say that Debian is stable usually across most of its update channel.

Debian is nice but I struggle to get it to work on my laptop with nVidia GPU. Some of its defaults was odd as well.

I can say Debian stable is extremely snappy, it honestly shocked me. I just wish it would work out of the box on my stuff without me spending hours to figure it out. I gave up and switched back to Pop_OS; nvidia and Wi-Fi chips didn't work at all.

Hopefully, that might improve over time as I hear Debian 12 is going to be more flexible with "non-free" binary firmware and drivers for its images/installer.

> I don't use any exotic hardware, don't buy the most shiny stuff right away, and I only use Debian Testing

That's the thing, as long as we do that, it'll be safer and less likely to break. We have to work harder to find the right hardware for the right linux support. Casual users are just going to buy whatever's configured for them.

For me, if I want to get the best Debian experience, I have to find a laptop without nVidia chip, an older Intel or AMD Chipset and hope it works out of the box. Don't get me started on Wi-Fi chipset as well.
What you're talking about is trivially within reach of GPT:

Automatic programmer: GPT-4 powered Github Issue solving with Pull Requests
Project

I've created a tool that reads Github Issues and creates a Pull Request to complete it. It uses GPT-4, of course. There are a bunch of reasoning steps the tool does, but it can be much, much better with better steps and prompting. It's just a Proof of Concept. I haven't even added Langchain, yet.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/11upow0/automatic_p...

And here's another: https://github.com/irgolic/AutoPR

You can keep shifting the goalposts if you want - "but the code will be buggy", "but it can only do simple stuff, doesn't understand the broader systems architecture" - but all indications are that, on a plug-and-play level, GPT is able, to at least some extent, to do what non-techies think of as "programming".

It seems you are also underestimating what non-technical managers can do. Yes, some are utter dunces and technophobes. But most are not and can run basic shell scripts and even know what "files" are.
Did it ever occur to you that sometimes the structure of people's face makes it harder or easier to breathe through the nose exclusively?

Unless you're a doctor, you should probably stop giving unsolicited medical advice on the internet.
Yes, I've been following similar recipes and my sleep improved noticeably (after initial ~2 weeks or misery, when my body was getting accustomed to the new sleep schedule)
Soil carbon [1] is related to soil health everywhere. We really should look more often, beyond forests, to how our built environment and conventional agriculture are hindering carbon sequestration on a massive scale.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_carbon
Automatic programmer: GPT-4 powered GitHub Issue solving with Pull Requests
A tip I got on a previous HN thread was to set HKCU:\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer\DisableSearchBoxSuggestions to 1 so that when you type something into the start menu search box it actually returns installed applications and files on your hard disk instead of internet search results. That's been a huge productivity boost for me, and reverts the behavior to what it used to be a couple years ago.

Also from this thread I have now added HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Dsh\IsPrelaunchEnabled to 0 to stop Widgets.exe from executing on startup. Unfortunately it still starts up if you accidentally swipe the touchscreen from the left.
Got a Thinkbook 13s Gen 4 running Ubuntu and it's been solid. Excellent specs for the price, battery life is the only thing that's mediocre but I'm plugged in most of the time. Oh and it tries to turn itself into a nuclear reactor occasionally while sleeping.
Good background here:

https://slate.com/technology/2022/09/internet-archive-nation...

I have this suspicion that the college textbook publishers in particular want to block CDL.
Someone has had the idea to plug all that into GPT? Like "please take those data and tell me what's the average price of our customers' basquets"?
Yeah, there’s a ton of overlap between what different tools can do. Gatsby is just more centered on those usecases.
I mean, if you are building it yourself but on top of their cloud, why does it matter to them? And, if you are building it yourself and you aren't using their cloud, then you are already being charged egress bandwidth fees as your awkward differentiator (which is an entirely different issue).

Like, the premise of these offerings has absolutely no need to try to compete with stuff running on AWS as they are clearly barely taking any excess margin over running it yourself. I would always have said the goal of these offerings was to make it easier to use AWS so you didn't have to build it yourself (and some of this stuff is complex to get right).
The ratio of cranks and weirdos to normal people is 9:1 with ham radio. It’s usually the other way round with other hobbies.

The thing that gets me with ham radio is some see it as a social responsibility even here in the UK where its totally unnecessary from an emergency comms perspective.
Then don't use the software, you can't just sign a contract and then back off because you didn't have time to read it before you signed it.
do streamlit
Thanks for taking a look. I think the problem you signal is already present in peer review as well, unfortunately: the politics also influences reviewer's accept/reject recommendations. With Plaudit, at least, the endorsements are public, which we hope will mitigate phenomena like review rings.
> Some cloud providers charge a round zero for intra-region traffic

That's likely a selling point to attract people to the competition. "Look, our bandwidth is free!"

Also there is quite a lot of cost for internal, inter-zone, traffic. You need all the routing equipment and the fiber links for that. And such traffic does not go through the same links as the public one, because you'd be paying the cost of public bandwidth trough transits or peerings. You want your own backbone, but this has a cost that needs to be amortized. Furthermore, properly designing such a network has a cost in engineers.
I only have one kid. Having to wake up and calm her down (or, "fuck it, no sense falling asleep since she's gonna wake me up AGAIN in 30 minutes") is probably the one thing I remember very distinctly in the last three years. COVID-19 kinda smooshed everything else together and made it bleak. My sleep deprivation stands out.

I want to forget, but can't.
Analyze ELF Binaries Using SQL via SQLite Virtual Tables
Quite impressive to just go out and raise $500M "in a hurry".

As other commenters said, it was probably under unfavorable for terms for them.

That's bad but if I were an investor w/ them I would be fine with their actions, history could've been different and this same thing would've been an amazing feat. to keep Rippling afloat after "losing" $300M.

Great leadership, I think they'll do well!
That seems like it would be a simple thing to change.
I am skeptical that this will happen but if it does it seems to me it will still be a short term situation. I don’t believe the world’s need for software, especially high quality software, is anywhere near met. There are many problems waiting to be solved with software that just aren’t due to cost or time of implementation. The outcome will be more software and more complex software, you may as an individual engineer be expected to manage and produce more software then before but the demand for software engineers will not be reduced because all of the sudden there is much more software in the world.
If only they invested as much energy into spellchecking. I expect these come stamped "99.99 per cent gold".
It also surveils politicians, higher end public servants, and other law-involved decision makers who you'd think would have a problem with it.

Maybe there's a blackmail and bribery department looking at what those people have been writing? (/s)

Lets see if that "backlash against big tech" thing actually goes anyone. One can hope. :)
it's almost like assassinating people doesn't solve problems.
I don't know what the situation is now but I do recall, circa 6 year's ago, a Dutch colleague being very impressed with my cheap laptop and asking where she would get one.

I remember searching various Dutch retailers to show her how readily available these things were and not being able to find one.

Also, at the same time, Dutch amazon only sold books?
Yep. I know so many people that joined google from other places because of the culture and perks. I certainly chose not to leave because of those things. That calculus is clearly changing.
Anywhere to get this kind of pie in Manhattan?

(also, Kenji is great!)
This was also part of the original Max Headroom TV series, except in this was it was a television you couldn't turn off.
I think you want something like https://tmandry.gitlab.io/blog/posts/2021-12-21-context-capa.... The Rust maintainers have expressed interest in this possibility, but I don't think there's anything concrete yet.
There's two things you want:

1. To know that every feature of the laptop should work out of the box.

2. Ongoing hardware support.

You don't have to keep the supplied OS if you don't want to but what you want is support.

As long as it comes with Linux pre-installed the manufacturer will put resources into ensuring it works or you could return it. That's not the case if you just buy a Windows laptop and wipe it.
The Holocaust shouldn't be a catch-all metaphor for hate
My 3990x is almost 500w. My last dual socket Xeon workstation was closer to 750w.

That's before you add on a GPU. My 3080 uses 350w under load.
Still fleshing out the domain model (would love some contributions) but feels nicer to use than readelf or objdump
Well I have an EULA in my living room closet that allows everyone who wants to complain. If you don’t agree you can find my closet and write your name on the exception list. You must use Cyrillic letters.