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I agree. AI is simply an enormous escalation of power into the hands of humans which will use it for the same purposes we have always used power to achieve goals.

We are already somewhat in a techno dystopia and I only see AI pushing that further along. After so much buzz around decentralization, crypto etc to bring back some distributed control, I fear AI is going to bring about the opposite.

FYI - I've been writing about some of those topics here - https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-end-to-all-things
This is misleading enough it's a lie; to do this you need to use a function named `unsafe.Pointer` with a type named `reflect.StringHeader`, not just `[]byte` and `string`.
You're not buying the gigabytes, you're buying the systems engineering that carries those gigabytes.
There is only one real way to test, and the subject being CS, it is even more real: building things using those concepts.

For other subjects (and CS, too): demonstrate mastery with teaching others, producing something with the concepts learned and get feedback.

This way one can test true learning. And, even when tested this way, Spaced Repeatition really helps. I am speaking from experience.

When you are in a place where you can immerse yourself in a proper environment, like a college or work- where you hear terms and their usage regularly, learning becomes easier.

But when your environment is cut-off from the buzzing world, or everyone is doing ML and you want to do Cybersecurity, you can fake immersion using Anki. A good part of physical immersion can be replaced with using Anki.
It is my experience from providing cryptographic devices to end customers (paying ones!), that people tend to lose, destroy, wipe, brick etc. their devices quite a lot.

Loss and replacement of cryptographic tokens is an everyday occurence, and it is PITA to resolve.
Agree with you here. I typically had at least 2 classes a day and spent most of the time outside of class studying or doing homework. It was easily more than 40 hours/week. That was for an engineering degree though. Friends in other programs (e.g. business, kinesiology...etc) had to spend much less time on homework and studying, but even they were learning daily.
Any chance ReactOS (the FOSS clone of Windows) can fill in?

Or maybe use VirtualBox or VMware?
not really. the egg section did not look like this in the past. unless you shopped at a local farm you weren’t getting much more than organic cage free eggs at a grocery store.

now you go to a regular store and find organic heirloom pasture raised no corn or soy fed eggs from a dozen different brands
I didn’t mean that as a rebuttal to their point. I’ve been rather shocked with how much grocery store prices have risen.

My experience reading the article was just jarring as I would often get the opposite of what they intended when looking at the numbers. I’ve had similar experiences when people are praising ChatGPT for examples that seem terrible to me. Not that I think the article was written by a chat bot, but it was just the same kind of issue.
Remember the delusional, happy-clappy "helping" of #teamtrees?

Did they make a dent?

And let's completely ignore that trees burn and biomass rots because the message of "I'm better than you!" is more important than reality of anthropogenic global warming.

https://youtu.be/gqht2bIQXIY

Rake America Great Again!
I assume this is only usable by online applications? If your application doesn’t have an internet connection, you can’t use PaLM?
Great to hear that multi DPI setups work seamlessly on KDE Plasma. Actually that capability is what brought me to wayland 4 years ago. I switched from i3 to sway, using wdisplays and kanshi to control multi monitor setups... and it was glorious even then.

In 20+ years on Linux I've never been able to make my variety of environments "just work“ this seamlessly on X. It's one of my favorite things about Wayland.

Now that screensharing "just works" I've run out of complaints about wayland, though. Just that it's turned me into an insufferable snob about the blurriness and incompatibility of the X apps I still have to use in xwayland.

But then, I stopped buying NVIDIA more than a decade ago, and linux compatibility is a priority for me in my device selection. So I'm sure there are plenty of other users out there with a less rosy experience than mine.
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The Chromium dev who rejected JXL works on AOM code. The manager who commented on it also participated in some articles about the benefits of AV1.

JPEG XL could be twice as efficient as AVIF everywhere, and every blog on the internet could benchmark it, and I suspect it still wouldn't make a difference.
Ive come to agree with this. Say you have a struct that contains a name. If you limit the name size to say 64 bytes, then you can store it in the struct, otherwise you need to have a separate allocation and an indirection. This makes the code slower, more error prone and more complex to use. So think hard of when “infinite” is justified.
>It also grows the intellectual souls, exposing people to far more depth of thought.

This is a thing that happens to folks who attend school, but I don't think it is the school that causes this to happen. I think this effect is bound to happen to any young person who moves away from their home to live independently for the first time with a thousand other folks who are doing the same thing.

Just moving to a large city and working when you are young is enough to "grow the intellectual soul". Taking out loans and paying for lessons I don't think is a critical part of that development.
The developers have been using it as their primary OS for years, now.

It has 3d acceleration. It has a modern webbrowser. It has virtualbox, where you can run Linux to then run any misc program which doesn't in Genode yet.
It has always been my understanding that a Haynes manual is a third party disassembling the car to show you how to disassemble the car.

It makes sense that the people who built the car would have more details.

With that said, as somebody who occasionally does some work on his own cars, I’ve found them very useful for every car I’ve ever owned.
Sure if you know the operating domain, just hard code some sensible upper limit and move on. Not that this way is "better" in all cases. YAGNI and all that
My actual conversation from today:

"You sound strange and unclear. Are you drunk, or depressed?"

"I just had a tooth taken out and it hurts when I open my mouth too much."

Fortunately, there was no one / nothing to overanalyze my voice and make stupid decisions around it.
No the complaint is that “It’s a tyranny of meat-in-brown-sauce. As the rest of the world had begun to (re)discover their own cuisines and innovate, the French restaurant seemed to be stagnating in a pool of congealing demi-glace.”
I have to laugh though - it would be trivial for someone in the executive hierarchy there to walk off with them and cover it up. The whole thing is intentionally opaque.

And even better - that gold was mostly gold seized by the gov’t from private citizens when private ownership of gold was banned and all circulating coinage and other gold was seized!

It truly is an attractive nuisance for the corrupt.
You mean the party is allowed to influence the selection of the candidate that will represent them? And put their thumb on the scales against populist candidates from the fringe with rabidly delusional adherents?

One could argue that the GOP primary process would be better off with superdelegates in order to avoid the tendency to nominate fringe weirdos with absurd populist policies.
> what's really gone up is prepared food, even at cheap places.

My observation is that it has increased by the same rate on both sides, so DIY cooking has the same relative advantage. The absolute impact is simply larger now.

My monthly grocery bill is right under $500 today - just for myself. But, this is very nearly 100% of my meals. I will eat out about 10-20 times a year. I think meal prep is pretty much mandatory if you want to enjoy quality food without spending 4 figures/m. I find time in the kitchen is fantastic for unwinding from work or filling dead time between tasks.

I run 3 batches throughout the week, each usually good for 7 days. The system is sophisticated at this point with a "queue" in my freezer and color-coded containers. Right now, if I did absolutely no more cooking, I could enjoy high-quality meals for another week. Living with a reasonable buffer of food in your freezer will change how you do things. For me, the temptation to order a pizza is almost always negated when very tasty chicken-fried rice is only 3-5 minutes away and already paid for.
Somewhat of a Puritanical/ probably very American take on alcohol. Most European cultures have alcohol baked into lunch and dinner meals from the teenage years, and those countries seem to have better health metrics than Americans do.

Having a few drinks is not inebriation, that's all-or-nothing thinking.

Have a few drinks to reduce social anxiety except if you're prone to addictive behaviors (in which case there are a suite of things to watch out for).
pronounced as "loft heavy industries"
Used to work for a big payroll provider - eventually they bought their own bank.
C# is over 20 years old now. In the land of language design, it's not a young language
"participate" will very shortly mean "pushing an up- or down-arrow for every judge's question, and every counsel's answer."

Oral arguments are not a HN posting.
Father of 5 (graduated) FL k-12 kids here. FL schools needed some things more than others.

- To reflect the actual economic reality of most FL kids, high schools needed less 4yr college prep and more trade/job prep. Being ready for years of employment is better than being ready for years of impossible or debt-laden college.

- A school year that ends on Halloween and begins after the new year. Kids are better off in A/C during our 13 month summers and outside during our 15min of not-summer (when all the holidays are going on).

- High schools that start after Elementary and Middle - to allow needed sleep (a FL rep just intro'd a bill for this!)

Instead FL kids got leveraged into a culture war that they never asked for - all so Gov can select parent rights.
At some point someone will need to melt it down to use for industry, or for another purpose, or form. Say a comex bar, or smaller bars, or for alloying, whatever.

Anyone who thinks they might be that person, or thinks they might sell to that person, certainly cares! They’re the ones who will suffer the consequences of the fraud.
Business/psychology/criminal justice/communications degrees are generally considered the go to for easy degrees where you just want the status of having a Bachelors degree.

For schools, any smaller private school charging $70k per year that is not in the top 10 or 20 probably fits the bill. They have a license to give rich foreigners a way to buy into the US, and I doubt rigorous education is their priority.
Wow, I had no idea. Never mind Nadella, why does Microsoft's board of directors tolerate this?!
I drove a Rabbit Diesel back in the early '80s. It was not a luxury driving experience, but 48MPG highway! I didn't have much money and squeezing in a 700 mile round trip would let me visit my girlfriend over a weekend. Lots of miles in that car (mostly in the dark hours of the night, middle of nowhere, with Tangerine Dream blasting).

I doubt it would come close to passing modern safety standards, and I guess we saw how likely it would be for VW to make it clean enough for modern emissions… but it was an economical car to buy and operate. Here we are 40 engineering years later and all of the "New Small Cars With the Best Gas Mileage for 2022" have worse highway mileage than that 1980 Rabbit.
Because the bare value `nil` has no type. Typing it, e.g. `len([]int(nil))` works fine.
You get the point I'm making though, right? :) If you want to sell your product to 33% percent of kids, your product has to be very easy to consume.
Parents are buying the tablets because teachers - pushing shiny new technology in lieu of results - tell them it'll help. There aren't any studies showing the putting screens in front of kids helps in any way, and there are many showing it hurts - from fitness to mental robustness and socialization.

> Pretty much the one kind of safety I can guarantee kids have when using a computer is their physically safety.

I think you're remembering computer lab, or something, where there was a proctor because computers were expensive. Now schools won't expel anyone they label troubled, no matter how much they trouble other students, and they won't protect anyone or let them protect themselves.

> the only thing left to learn is being sociable which they can ultimately do best by experiencing whatever medium they will be sociable in as adults

I don't see social media being so complex that they need all the years of practice to keep up, but I do see forming deep relationships as being essential and social media doesn't do anything to help with that. They'll get there when they do, no worse for not having partaken.
Decivilising Russia
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g189154-Cascais_Lisbon_D...

I lived in expat-friendly suburb of Lisbon, Cascais, and commuted into Lisbon or airport as needed. Terrible rush hour traffic, though it was years ago.
0. Only 2 of 3 values are necessary.

1. Can 1 value be unspecified?

2. Can 2 values be unspecified?

3. Can 3 values be unspecified?

4. Are conflicting values interpreted as intersection of ranges rather than union?

Note 1-3. With 2 values, I believe x[:] is how to lift a sized array into a more generic slice type.
Loft.
regulated and science-based Forestry seems to have destroyed thousands of years of forest growth in less than a hundred years of English command, here in California. Nothing about it was 'commons' .. Secondly, the largest polluter of the Pacific Ocean has been the US Navy, on shore and off.. also fully 'not commons'

Let's ignore the politics and look with a science lense at what is really going on?
This is judicially illiterate:

"Common law refers to laws that are based on the customs and principles of society, which are used in court case decisions in situations not covered by civil law statutes."

Your post appears oblivious to the distinction between common law and civil law systems, to the role societal customs play when interpreting the law, and to the role SCOTUS plays in the judicial machine
As someone who didn't like the idea of learning a language at all but has to, I'm glad that Duolingo gave me a very, very easy way to get started with literally anything at all. It's simple and streamlined, meaning that it's easy to start and stick with it instead of getting hung up on how to find a good textbook, or figuring out how to use Anki "properly".

This also applies to practicing every single day: I find it easy to do a few Duolingo "lessons" as warm-up before delving into more in-depth practice.

Nowadays I would not use it for real "practice" at all. I use it to check my understanding for 5-15 minutes a day. If I make mistakes in Duolingo (eg. forming the plural, remembering the dative for a given grammatical gender) then I look these things up and study them.

I might drop Duolingo completely at some point, but for now I'm getting a non-zero amount of value out of it—I am increasingly looking into better options, though. I'm already looking Anki, and I'm sure there are some other language learning apps out there.
I think we will see local municipalities providing DNS resolvers similar to the other public utilities like the water supply and waste management.
Cell phone service is provided by the US government for qualifying individuals. Internet access is a human right.
So it follows that public resolvers will be provided by your local government.
I read a book about the cyber defense benefits of DNS as a public utility in 2022 and it made some solid arguments in favor of this low cost, high value service. On mobile now and can’t find a link.
I’ll update later if I can find it

If most of the public are already using public resolvers, why is DNS not a public utility?
Ohhh good analogy
Why the 1000?

If you've never owned an Amiga, you should be looking at Amiga 500 (most sold, most modern expansions, highest direct software compatibility).

Otherwise, get a miSTer and use minimig-miSTer core.

1000 being the first Amiga, there are a lot of limitations and annoyances relative to newer models. The 512KB maximum CHIP RAM is particularly crippling.
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/supermarket-supermerge...

https://www.vox.com/money/23641875/food-grocery-inflation-pr...
LLM's Are the New CPU's but Is OpenAI the New Intel?
That is the thing ... I don't recall best students doing flashcards all that much in cs, math and physics. I actually associated this more with groups of students who don't understand, so they memorize without understanding. When you understand the concept, it is also much easier to remember the thing.
Jprq – Minimal Ngrok Alternative
But the arbitrary-factual isn't they way people recommend using Anki. I really struggle to understand exactly what people are actually using it to learn. There are a lot of medical students and that makes sense, but that is... arbitrary-factual.

I've tried many times with other material, but I always get far more out of creating condensed notes and reviewing actual notes than quizzing random factioids in Anki.

I get that probably the idea is that creating prompts could guide me about which notes to review, but it seems easier to just review the notes. I think the people doing Anki are just putting the effort into making cards rather than into making notes. It would probably be nice if it were easy to convert notes into Anki but everything I've tried sucks and it just make taking each hour of taking notes into two hours of making notes and cards. I could have just reviewed notes for that hour. Closures are sort of okay but converting notes into closures is a bigger pain in the ass than it should be.

Maybe someone can make a LLM that takes some corpus of text and generates Anki cards of key points for review. Then I could just feed my notes in. But otherwise it really seems like a huge waste of time.
Lisbon is only 5h later than NYC (except right now when it's 4h due to DST change mismatch between Americas and Europe). If your office in NYC could start at 7AM, you would start at noon and finish an 8h day at 8PM, just in time, or maybe a little early, for portuguese dinner time.

But doesn't work out as nicely if you're trying to match a California time zone
Build Your Own Redis with C/C++
> Where's the gradient? Do they fly at the boundary between different wind speeds?

At the surface of the water, windspeed is lower than at higher altitudes, so that's where the gradient is. If you watch an albatross soaring over water, you'll watch it dive so low its wingtip touches the water surface, and then it'll climb in altitude, before turning to dive again. Here's a good diagram of the whole process: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sameh-Eisa/publication/...
>I simply do not see how that is going to result in fewer software developers.

One simple reason: demand.
If software developing is more than a hobby you need to get paid, and ChatGPT will be cheaper than entry level programmers, so it will be hard to get entry level jobs and the experience to reach the next level while getting paid.
3D Portable Holographic Display
To analyze and process the pushshift Reddit comment & submission archives we used Rust with simd-json and currently get to around 1 - 2GB/s (that’s including the decompression of the zstd stream). Still takes a load of time when the decompressed files are 300GB+.

Weirdly enough we ended up networking a bunch of Apple silicon MacBooks together as the Ryzen 32C servers didn’t even closely match its performance :/
Counterculture in general seems scarce, everything and everyone feels so hyper normal these days.
I am trying this approach right now. It is difficult to do it for big concepts because they take time to recall in their entirety and can't be reduced to one key idea to be recalled quickly. It may also be hard to estimate what interval to use, and bloated repetition sessions are killing the whole idea of spending some 10s of minutes a day, causing a sort of fatigue if not outright burnout.
Carroll did a great solo podcast about this last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B40PRvLtiec

Hard to summarize, but it's well worth anyone interested in this topic. There's a good bit where he ties the sleeping beauty thought experiment with Boltzmann Brains and consciousness; it blew my mind trying to understand the whole thing.
You can still have both: an algorithm that technically has no formal numerical limit, but have warnings or errors when it reaches some condition that is clearly outside the design scope.

For example, you might have a system that warns somehow if you start inserting items at the front of a vector with over a million items (when you originally expected the vector to be used for tens of items). If the structure is suddenly being used for something way outside of it's design scope, it's probably in need of a re-think.
What I can't wrap my head around is how one of the biggest companies in the entire world is willing to annoy literally everyone who uses their products, and slow down their browsing, in order to make a penny or two a day off of each one.

The only thing I can imagine is that they are making a lot more than a penny or two a day from each Windows user they sell down the river.

Otherwise the marketshare graph that concinds linked to ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35212328 ) would be treated as an existential emergency. The only rational conclusion is that they no longer GAF about Windows as a product with paying users.
I'm not. I'm a new user, and I notice that Duolingo kind of sucks, but I am getting some amount of value out of it. I'm very open to suggestions for better language learning apps, though.
Are modern colleges actually succeeding:
1) Exposing people to depth of thought
2) Teach people how to think

Maybe, at one time they did, and maybe some schools still do, but it doesn't seem like most modern colleges are really doing this very well.
Depends on how strict your definitions for those things are. The kind of person who works hard to not be sexist, racist, transphobic or smell bad is often very boring. A person who cares less about those things will have more interesting things to say and opinions, and about the smell thing a person who doesn't dare to smell differently will constraint their hobbies and activities.

For example, you have probably heard people say they don't want to do X since it would make them sweat. That makes them more boring than a person who would just do it without caring that they might smell a bit afterwards.
I sometimes have better luck with archive.ph.
All episodes are on youtube, it was spacerogue's show. HNNCast. https://www.youtube.com/@HackerNewsNetwork
Not really, look at doing FFI using Go. Its very slow compared to C# specially because of how Goroutines work.
How long did you trust the Minnesota Department of Health when it came to the PFAS discharges from the 3M plants? Decades? Do you still trust them?
I should make a bot that downloads the captions and summarizes videos
> The s&p 500 has many companies in it that are far riskier

Yes, "many" companies. But it's five hundred of the biggest companies, including Kroger.

There's no way around it - KR is a significantly underperforming stock, and a lousy investment.

If you think KR is a good investment, buy some shares in it. I'll pass, no thanks.
I learned this rule through, of all things, the children's series Animorphs. One book they encounter a colony of ants, who mention that "You are one, we are many" and count that way; any finite number is one, and infinite numbers are many.
A ping-pong buffer certainly seems like generalising to a ping-pong-pang-peng-pung-p(infinity)ng buffer would be overkill.