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But we are talking about programming languages today. The article in question is "Nostalgic for VB? BASIC is anything but dead." The article details alternatives you can run today, such as FreeBASIC.

The commenter you're replying to argues that BASIC no longer has the advantages it had in 1963, which are unrelated to the language syntax, and that Python offers a closer alternative in that it makes programming accessible.
WiFi is working for me even if I mostly use the Ethernet card.

lshw tells me

description: Wireless interface
product: Centrino Advanced-N 6235
vendor: Intel Corporation

I'm using the iwlwifi driver.
If you want to stay in the Debian land, then Debian itself is also a worthy choice.

Debian 9 has moved to archives very recently, so you get ~6 years of security support, for free.

We use CentOS and Debian Stable on our production systems. We're moving to Alma on these CentOS systems slowly, since it has more enterprise support as far as we can see.

If you want something for Desktop use, try Fedora or Debian Testing. I'm using the latter for ~15 years IIRC (Installed 4.0 when it was testing, and continued updating it ever since).
Deploying bots to plump the valuation of Tesla to a ludicrous PE.
How is the standard deduction stopping non high income people from making tax free charitable contributions?

I thought all charity is deductible from taxable income.
This sounds EXACTLY the group to have an outsized representation.
I doubt that AI generated PRs will ever be as bad as (some) human generated ones.
Winning Strategy to Create a Startup: Key Tips for Success
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One key to creating a winning startup strategy is to have a clear vision of what you want to achieve. This includes identifying your target market, understanding your competition, and defining your unique selling proposition. With a clear vision, you can create a roadmap that outlines the steps you need to take to achieve your goals.
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sounds cool, but I'd much rather be able to set it to, say, 3 months rather than a max of 30 days.
Does this mean the Marvel trash might finally slow down? They should can whoever does the Star Wars stuff too because it’s so bad. It’s turning our society into bigger morons than they already were.
The FTX bankruptcy trustee will charge $18 million in fees to claw back that 10 mil
For the guy that asked, IC means integrated circuit. No fucking way they would give that money to a meatsack.
You’re right that it’s a double standard, but to an extent, when I buy an Apple device I know what I’m getting into. Lots of people buy Apple because of the integration. Not many people are forced into using macOS, but many many people are forced to use Windows thanks to Microsoft’s anti-competitive policies.

Windows is also adding this bullshit after decades of being bullshit-free, and even when you do sign up for all their services the overall experience of using them sucks ass compared to the Apple implementation.
IC being internal consultant?
Do you think it's normal or expected? If so, why?
Thank you for this advice. Upon some self-reflection, I think I realize now that I've fallen into this exact trap. The few movies I've recently watched have been the kind of formulaic drivel that I know I'm sick of, and yet I've never felt any desire to watch genres I'm not already familiar with.

I seem to get some perverse kind of satisfaction from reinforcing my nihilistic view of the current state of things while doing absolutely nothing to challenge or improve that perception - and all the while I'm longing for some nostalgic idea of the past.
It's capitalism. Nobody actually cares.

I'm very happy with my personal X1 Carbon, too. I'm very much NOT happy with the Librem laptop.
It's a coincidence. One is a cybersecurity product that allows browsing the web securely. The other is a ML model :)
It really is impressive. Knowing that made seeing that the Amazon has approx 13x the flow rate kinda blew my mind.
A Penetration Tester's Guide to Web Applications
From user endpoints to web applications, pentesting assesses any area of a network to minimize the risk of a data breach or unauthorized access. This article focuses on penetration testing for web applications, providing a comprehensive guide on everything you need to know.
I don't know about trends, but might also have something to do with non-native English speakers. In at least some other languages clearly distinguishing between to give and to gift is very common.
7B is a sweet spot where you can do something with limited resources both for training and inference. Going beyond that you spill out of an A100 without tricks. We will continue iterating on this with other models.
> "it also mostly only affected rich people in Democrat led states"

Please could you explain why? (Assuming it's not just that Democratic states have more wealthy people?)

edit: thanks for the replies!
>If the customer's identity can be verified or if a regulated crypto provider is involved, the transaction would be allowed.

I'm not sure that's that bad. I've got some crypto wallets but the stuff has got there by me transfering fiat to Kraken, with KYC, passport scan etc and then the USDT or whatever to the wallet so it's easy enough to trace it to me.

If you allow fully anonymous stuff to interact with the regular financial system it does kind of leave it open to all sorts of tax evasion / illegal activities.
IC means integrated circuit.
It seems weird that they could us a property constrained like that to secure a bail.
I mean many modern people also live with constant gastrointestinal problems, and I'm not talking about teens eating taco bell and mountain dew every day and wondering why they have bathroom troubles, I'm talking about average people eating a varied and healthy diet with IBS.
That would be something I'd personally consider out-of-date with modern chains. Apparently that makes me a "Lazy, careless cyclist" as I would never use grease on a chain. Nor would I ever follow this insane method of cleaning a chain.

Guess I'd consider myself to be an efficient cyclist, which may be construed as "lazy" by some.

edit: reading onward, he claims "Serious cyclists, who value performance..". I wonder what he considers "performance", because it sure appears he didn't consider or measure drivetrain efficiency.
At no point in your rambling, incoherent comment were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on this site is now dumber for having read it. May God have mercy on your soul.
Democrat led states have higher state and local taxes. Some of it due to policies that redistribute wealth, some of it due to mismanagement of the state.

Edit: also, Democrat led states have higher land prices, so generally, percent based taxes like property tax will be nominally much higher and hit the SALT deduction cap quicker.

It disproportionately punishes richer people in states with higher taxes (usually Democrat led) compared to richer people in states with lower taxes (usually Republican led), giving more incentive for richer people in states with higher taxes to either vote for lower taxes in their own state (i.e. vote Republican), or move to a state with lower taxes (a Republican led state).
These statistics are almost useless for determining rates of mental health issues. They measure mental health as reported by mental health professionals. Of course groups which are antagonistic or dismissive of mental health will be underrepresented. Folks who receive counseling for mental health issues at their Church will also not be represented in these numbers. That doesn't mean these other groups don't have mental health issues. It means they don't seek help for it or get help via resources that don't report these stats. All this tells me is that young liberal women are the most likely to seek help for themselves from professionals.
I think it’s not a weird change of pace at all, the SALT deduction was mostly enjoyed by people with high state and local taxes, which are mostly blue states. A policy that gives wealthy people in Texas and Kentucky loopholes while raising taxes on residents of California and New York seems fairly partisan to me.
Show HN: SPXP: New approach to social network focuses on sovereignty and privacy
Sure, but isn't zooming out to that 'big picture' perspective a very different skillset from the focus needed to write functional code?
But typically only when they were elderly
US, Russia stop sharing nuke data
I despise the recent sentiment that a war with China is imminent and unavoidable. Have we truly tried everything short of banning TikTok and preparing for an invasion of Taiwan?
Because executives don’t actually perform labor or work hard. If they did, Elon Musk wouldn’t be able to hold down 3 CEO jobs.

The biggest myth in the business world is that top executives work long hours.

It’s funny, if it was public knowledge that I worked two other engineering jobs, they would all fire me.
Or a grug brained engineer https://grugbrain.dev/
Some things I found to be 'new'...

Harold Lloyd Safety Last is a comedy silent film that I sat with 2000 other people to watch about a decade ago. There was an orchestra in the pit playing the music that was composed for the film. Talk about laughing until you cried. Magic evening.

Nitin Sawhney has written and performed new music for silent movies from India and Japan. Again performed to full concert halls producing quite a novel experience. A throw of the dice was quite something.

Philip Jeck and Gavin Bryars' The Sinking of the Titanic played with a small 1917 style dance band. Projected visuals cut from contemporary newsreel film of huge ocean liners and crowds playing against Jeck's turntable based improvisations. A magic and elegiac evening.

The common thread for me is performance I think.
Because you're better off taking the standard deduction so you have no tax incentive to make charitable contributions.
because of casual engrained sexism

there's no beating around the bush with this phenomenon

see comment above if you want links, not pith.
From the article it seems like there are two separate things:

* root shell accessible using UART header -> this is more or less fine as you said. Because at that point you might as well solder wires to intercept communication between RAM and CPU, unsolder flash memory chip containing firmware and connect it to a dedicated reader/writer, or possibly use the CPU debug port. It would be a bit more difficult than using serial connection over UART, but not different from the perspective of overall security model. Note that a physical serial port with shell access is not the same as SSH.

* SSH server listening on ??? network interfaces. Using the UART shell author was able to recover admin password, which might be usable for connecting using SSH over network. But it wasn't really confirmed whether the SSH server is configured to accept passwords and on which network interfaces is it listening. If the SSH server is really accepting hard coded password and listening on all interfaces by default then it's very bad. But the article after getting admin password jumped to completely unrelated stuff of modifying firmware downloaded from manufacturers website and uploaded using the firmware update feature in web interface.
I was frustrated seeing more and more local businesses or media companies moving to closed social networks while letting their open websites become deserted. Interesting information became not just harder to find, all my interactions are now monitored and analyzed.
Ideally, social networks should just be "like the WWW".
There are multiple proposals for decentralized social networks like Diaspora, ActivityPub, AT Protocol or SSB. Interestingly, all of them are using either a federated or a peer-to-peer architecture, but none so far the IMHO obvious approach – like the WWW.
SPXP instead uses a client / server architecture and radically pushes power into endpoint devices, giving users and content creators full control.
If Visual Basic is supposed to be for beginners, it's surprisingly complicated.

It has both value types and reference types and both can be passed either by reference or value, giving four ways of passing parameters compared to Python's one way.

It has both early and late binding, compared to Python which again has only one kind.

It has "default properties" on objects, which lets you sometimes use some objects directly in place of some of their properties but sometimes not.

It has different syntax for function calls in expressions and statements, combined with a completely redundant third way (the "call" statement) that confuses matters further.

And in addition to being both statically and dynamically typed (with "Object" declarations) it's also both strictly and loosely typed (with Variant values).
Maybe legally permitted but I can't imagine wanting to be in something like that on a major thoroughfare full of Hummers and Rams...
> In April 2017, Perlmutter was categorized by The New York Times as one of the "Clubgoers" among twenty people whom President Trump consults "outside the White House gates". He "has been informally advising ... on veterans issues [and] ... has been a presence" at Mar-a-Lago, according to the account.[29]

> In August 2018 non-profit news organization ProPublica reported that Trump had informally authorized three members of his Mar-a-Lago club to direct policy at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and issue instructions to Secretary of Veterans Affairs Peter O'Rourke. Perlmutter was named among the three, collective known as the Mar-a-Lago Crowd.[30] The author of the article obtained "hundreds of documents" through the Freedom of Information Act that show the three were in daily contact with the agency, "reviewing all manner of policy and personnel decisions" and that "they prodded the VA to start new programs, and officials travelled to Mar-a-Lago at taxpayer expense to hear their views."[30] VA staffers have claimed that the three men got control over the department as "spoils" to reward them for their support of Trump. Their influence over the VA, including VA staff traveling to Mar-a-Lago to meet with them, carried on into 2019.[31]

Huh (Wikipedia)
I tried blinkist, I liked it in theory but I realized that I only listened to the summaries while busy with other things so I wasn’t really absorbing the information.
That was kind of my point, McGill is one of the most prestigious universities in Canada/North America/the world and most Americans would have never heard of it
You're looking for "high meat" and it's already a thing.
They did similar studies to determine the looks of an ideal romantic partner. The resulting look was very close to the average of all available romantic partners. However, that doesn't mean that individuals don't have different preferences. It is the same if you do a study of people's favourite colours. The average result will have little to do with people's personal preferences.

These designs are not people's preferred designs, just those that everyone least dislikes.
What is clickbait here ? They found new vulnerabilities, reproduced old ones, across various products, and crafted an exploit.
How often does a seller need to modify the product category from Dog toys to Electric toothbrushes? Needing to go through a review, or losing previous review juice for that seems reasonable to me.
Got any tips for optimizing for attitude?
The monitor can be any size you want it to be. Thats the best part, it's entirely virtual and customizable. It's really not much different than a physical one except for the hardware buttons and individual brightness/contrast settings.
It's funny. Somehow I don't think the standard of evidence[RCTs] we get calls for in nutrition studies(for example), will be applied equally here. It's an epistemological double-standard that's rarely given serious consideration.

I wouldn't give correlative studies much thought. It could be just as likely that people who were more anxious or depressed were found to be mobile phone users or any number of other things causing both anxiety and depression and increased mobile phone use. Critique of causal errors should be no different here than any other conclusion made from correlations.
I went to McGill as an American and I think it was a great choice. I mostly applied on a lark since, as you said, it was very easy to apply. Also as you said, tuition was a lot cheaper than comparable schools in America. Living in Montreal felt like I'd moved somewhere more like Europe, but it was still easy to visit family in Philadelphia.
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How they work is the most critical piece of that puzzle.

It isn't a mystery at all. LLMs implicitly model every pattern they can find in the text they are given. If the pattern aligns to language, humans categorize it as a feature. If it aligns to desired behavior, humans categorize it as a feature. If it aligns to undesired behavior, humans categorize it as a limitation. What humans categorize as features and limitations do not align with what the model is. A truth and a lie are structured with identical text patterns. The LLM can't categorize the two separately.

The only risk here is that people continue to personify LLMs, and place trust in their relatively limited ability to fulfill a human role. It's the same category of risk as bad security practices. The potential to make a mistake itself is not a danger: making the mistake is.
snapd 2.58 is available as an update recommended by default on Ubuntu going all the way back to 18.04. A standard "apt update && apt upgrade" will give you it. Unless you've gone out of your way to turn updates off.
C++ vs. Fortran (2011)
Ah, yes. Thank you - sorry for assuming on that one. I tend to get lazy when replying on my phone...
I asked GPT4 to summarize the article's most important information into bullet points, which I find more useful than one paragraph summaries:

> 1) The initial belief that technology would help filter out irrelevant information and prevent overload has not come to fruition; instead, people are overwhelmed by content they genuinely want to read.

> 2) The problem lies in the fact that our filters are too successful, causing us to face a daily influx of interesting content (referred to as "haystack-sized piles of needles").

> 3) Many aspects of life also involve "too many needles," where we struggle to allocate our limited time and attention to numerous important tasks or interests.

> 4) Conventional productivity advice, which emphasizes efficiency, organization, and prioritization, falls short in addressing the challenge of having too many significant priorities.

> 5) The proposed solution is to treat the to-read pile as a river, selectively choosing items to engage with while accepting the inherent impossibility of clearing the entire backlog, thus leading to a more liberating and realistic approach to information overload.

The downside of doing the above is it's more generic and loses the punch of the prose. Always the main issue with skipping the reading to get to the meat. Obviously easier for non-fiction than fiction.
>A 'counter claim' without giving examples of refuting mine can be dismissed without any further explanation, since my point still remains un-refuted.

What point, that LLMs are good at nothing other than summarization? That's not a claim arrived at via logic or evidence, it's a poorly thought out opinion that happens to be wrong. There's nothing to refute.
>if lab-grown meat is proven to be a safe and cost/energy/carbon efficient alternative to raising and killing animals, then it would be insane to not pursue that

Sadly, it's not. It requires growing tumors based on animal cells, which need to be pumped full of antibiotics to prevent infection, because a clump of cells has no immune system.
I was surprised to read recently that Metformin has been a helpful therapy for LC. It's also an old drug (not as old as Aspirin of course!) with a surprising number of therapeutic use cases.
Yeah for most of us, ethics is more of a “know it when you see it, don’t get to close to the line” sort of thing. Although there definitely are hard ethical question out there, so the study of it is good, they just don’t show up that often in day-to-day life.
Orb, which helps B2B companies price their products, raises $19.1M
Do you think that's likely to work?

If China doesn't even respect its own citizens (see Xinjiang, heavy censorship if you need evidence), why would they respect talks with other countries?
Correct. But they will be a. much higher in volume and b. would not look bad at a glance.
IIRC, Microsoft "borrowed" the design from Apple Macintosh, which in turn was based on Xerox's technology. So no, they weren't the pioneers.
> manjaro

Is Manjaro really that noob-friendly? All I know about Manjaro is that it's based on Arch, which I always understood as being the LEAST noob-friendly distro besides LFS.
I will include some parts of the HN commenting guidelines here for my sibling commenters who disagree.

> Avoid generic tangents.

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.

> Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.

> [irrelevant] ... too common to be interesting.

> [irrelevant] ... it makes boring reading.

Do as you wish.
> So every company should cease all AI development for an indefinite period of time

The letter quite clearly asks for six months.
compared to other radio solutions, being able to do more digital analysis on the raw signal lets you do cool things that were previously impossible

at one place, we replaced entire banks of traditional radio scanners using a single SDR

a scanner could only dial into one frequency at a time, but an SDR let us capture entire swathes of the frequency spectrum and extract concurrent streams from multiple sources simultaneously

I'd love to sit down with my Lime and end-to-end my own cell base station... one day
Because blue states have both the highest state/city income taxes, property taxes, and home values. The changes reduced the ability to subtract those things when determining federal taxes.
Emphasis on "high level".

An org of a few hundred people at a big tech company many only have a couple of Individual Contributors making this much money.