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I've always been conflicted about competing open source projects that do the same thing. Why not just join forces and improve one project?

But on reflection, the reason why open source has been successful is all the duplicate projects. You pick the one closest to your needs and get your thing done. The ones that survive were simply meant to survive, for all sorts of reasons, but the least of them being cooperation for its own sake. Most successful open source is just somebody scratching their own itch.

So I'm wondering now about how you could encourage more of these one-off pet projects. What if all open source projects required a one-time lifetime license fee? The first time you use some open source project, you pay $1, and you have a license for life. You can adjust it for inflation, salary, cost of living, etc. But just imagine if every project were implicitly funded by everyone that used it. That would encourage more projects to appear, and incentivize them to be easier or better for the user. Plus the projects that are really popular yet have no funding, would finally have some.

Imagine if that idea grew to the point that a majority of software in the world were written by people who just got paid to write open source all day. A global economy of open source software. More software would become implicitly compatible, in order to deal with the deluge of competing software.

And so less expertise would be needed to combine different software into "a product". Companies would no longer need to spend as much time or money building up world-class engineering organizations just to kick out a CRUD app and take payments. Instead, companies could hire "integrators" to basically connect the unlimited array of "new apps" via "new pipes". A lack of expertise needed to make new products a reality would enable faster building of products, more reliably, with less expense.

Obviously, the more software that is used, the more we'd be paying for licensing. To deal with that, programmers would begin to merge their source trees together, to build more complete solutions, to lower licensing fees for users. More turn-key software, supported by more devs, that does more, for less money. Making it easier still to adopt the software and turn it into new products. In the end, programmers join forces to improve one product. But maybe that's just me scratching my own itch (˙ᵕ˙)
> Leading up to the 1990s, IQ scores were consistently going up, but in recent years, that trend seems to have flipped. The reasons for both the increase and the decline are sill very much up for debate.

Interestingly, you could substitute "homicide rate" for "IQ" here and the statement would still be accurate. Ignorance is bliss?

>The study, published in the journal Intelligence, used an online, survey-style personality test called the Synthetic Aperture Personality Assessment Project to analyze nearly 400,000 Americans. The researchers recorded responses from 2006 and 2018, in order to examine if and how cognitive ability scores were changing over time within the country.

Presumably the testing scores collected between the 1930s and 1990s weren't online tests. I wonder if the drop is explainable by people not taking an online IQ test very seriously during the golden age of the buzzfeed quiz.
Of course there will be unintended consequences. The question is how likely they are to make this policy net negative. The answer is not very.
OK ok so maybe the free needles thing isn't working. The problem is that while the needles may be free, the drugs are not and how are you supposed to get money for drugs if you're on drugs? So I think what we should do is not just make the needles free, but pay people to take the needles so that they have money to buy drugs. This will reduce harm because people won't have to exert themselves by collecting cans or menacing tourists or stabbing asians to earn money.
I tried to get ChatGPT to answer some very simple legal questions and it was the most incompetent legal advisor I've ever seen.

Sure, on the surface it seems like it's correct, but the content is all wrong. And content is what matters.
It works exactly the same way. There is an engineer of record associated with all the plans. The design-build contractor says they were told to build it this way in the contract. The Port of Seattle disagrees. This dispute is over what the Port actually contracted for. It's not reall a matter of shoddy engineering.
> To give one example, I now believe non-Abrahamic religions (or a lack thereof) should be entirely illegal.

If you actually believe something is true, trying to compel people to believe it is a very counter-productive measure, because it doesn't convince people to believe it – they may outwardly pretend to believe, but inwardly they'll rebel against the compulsion; compelling people to believe something is sending the message "my arguments are no good which is why I have to resort to force". I remember my mother trying to force me to go to Mass as a young teenager – it did nothing to endear the Catholic Church to me, and to the extent I have any sympathy for it nowadays, that's in spite of her influence not because of it

You see this in Iran – the government makes it a crime to leave Islam, with the result that only around 40% of the population really believe in Islam any more; most of the remaining 60% will pretend to believe (to escape persecution) but in private they don't. [0] (Tolerated religious minorities–Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians-are less than 1% of the population.) While I have no doubt some of the decline of Islam in Iran would have happened anyway, for similar reasons to secularisation in the West, I think the Iranian government's attempts to force Islam on people (and a very authoritarian interpretation of it at that) have likely accelerated the decline of Iranian Islam, and it would probably be in a healthier state today if the 1979 Revolution had failed

[0] https://theconversation.com/irans-secular-shift-new-survey-r...
You are aware that this book was published in 1981, and is largely a history book on scientific racism? I brought up this book is because it justly categorizes IQ research among other pseudo-scientific practices such as phrenology.

You should also be aware the Arthur Jensen is one of the scientists which Gould is criticizing, and that his reputations hasn’t gotten any better since 1980. This source of yours is hardly an impartial one.
Fwiw both your links are the same.
I think it is an older saying but I don't know who said it first. The version I heard was from scientist and the rule is to first buy the cheapest tool that does the job, then when you need something better, buy the best that you can afford.

For soldiering, I'm still at the first stage.
my assumption is that "war on drugs" is naive. gotta treat it like an illness
You could pass the device into a VM that either lacks a network interface or which otherwise has no viable route.

Extrapolating a bit (regardless of whether or not this is a hoax), we may soon live in a world where GPUs won't compute certain workloads unless they're able to phone home via a connection associated with a registered identity.
Fantastic explanation. My doubt was half cleared by skrishnamurthi. You cleared it entirely. Thanks.
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Compare these to reading comprehension tests on the SAT. Many of those questions ask “why did the author write x?” And all answers are valid insights to the whole piece, but only one is derived from X. It has to be learned to read questions literally imo. It’s not intuitive that questions are as dumb as they are. You must explicitly silence intuition, outside knowledge, social norms towards more impressive seeming insights, awareness of the bigger idea, etc.
It is the 21st densest city in the US, but most of them are small. NYC and Paterson, NJ (150k) are both denser.

I have no idea which way density argues. It means that cops are denser at the same per capita numbers which means their proximity to the highest priority should be closer. So faster emergency response. I don't know why a denser area would need more police, but I could be very wrong on that.
The amount of events in such system isn't going to be too crazy, unless it's some massive enterprise with thousands of principals, I would imagine...

It also seems cockroachdb first, but I'm glad i can use postgres. One fewer database to deploy and manage, and for my use case (basically myself and occasional friends and family) that's perfectly fine.
Only they don't write like Stephen King. And if an AI was trained to do it (by obviously using SK books), Stephen King would probably sue.
It's fascinating how doors and windows in a house interact with air pressure. The way doors act when a window is closed versus open, how a half-out-of-frame door will open when a door to the garage on the other end of the house is opened, active central air holding an ajar door against it's frame, etc.
The article said “NLLB” had been “open sourced”, not “NLLB code”.
Isn’t recycling a myth? I have seen the production of EV batteries. Layered with tons of glue and components to manage the heat.

In other words, it’s not just lithium in those batteries. Got to process it, make sure it’s discharged properly, remove non-recyclable materials, then you can start the recycling of the raw materials.

Whether this process is more cost prohibitive vs using new materials is what I want to know.

As we all know, the O&G industry introduced a petroleum byproduct known as plastic and flooded the market with it. Big promises were made about their “infinite recycle” potential. Not to mention a shit ton of recycling facilities built to process it.

Fast forward to today, plastic trash has invaded our entire food chain, polluted the ground and oceans, ruining water ecosystems. Most of the recycling facilities that were built in the 80s and 90s are defunct with responsibility pushed to local municipalities to process.

Seems like we are repeating history
That's a solid advice.

> promptly being swamped by reviews and giving up

I faced Anki review hell even with small decks, So I had to create an always-on Anki e-Ink review system[1] which sits on my desk and shows me cards all day; Now I can choose to review the cards through out the day during small breaks without overwhelming myself with a single review session.

Due to the small real-estate (screen), I have to condense the information to what's really necessary and the act of doing it (on Anki desktop) itself helps me with my learning.

What I'm doing might be heretic to Spaced Repetition folks, But it works for me.

[1] https://memoryhammer.com/
58.7043,14.1289128

Seems a bridge to me [7]

[7] https://www.google.com/maps/@58.7043,14.1289128,3a,37.5y,115...
So they don't understand that logic gets rid of the "reality thing". OK. A lot of people don't get it.
Its behavior when given particular prompts is arguably an emergent phenomenon.
Intriguing, but I think if that were the case, you wouldn't see the relatively homogeneous and very cold background radiation we see.
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The modern work is even worse than the old in many respects, which is impressive to be honest. It doesn’t stop those self assured of their own genius from picking signal from noise of course. So much ink spilled for nothing.
> I don't understand the appeal of trying to strip the Linux kernel down, then introducing additional specialized code like nolibc

The appeal is you can eliminate every single dependency. Linux is the only kernel with a stable user space interface. It's the only system where you can do this.

With a single 6-ary system call function, you can do anything you want on Linux. There's no need for anything else.

> What's the upside of using the (relatively large and complex) Linux kernel for this?

The kernel's massive amount of features and drivers for one.

> I doubt it's reliability, since the kernel in this particular configuration is essentially untested.

This is not a kernel configuration though. User space is completely separate from the Linux kernel.
Organizations are tied to domains, but yeah, that part is more confusing than the rest...

Instance also has a domain on top of that, but there are plans for a "simple" mode, assuming single org.
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Grew up in the area and lived in SF for years. I, too, hated all those good paying jobs coming into the city bringing in all those people who were annoyed by our crime and shit-on-the-street ways! We really need to keep anyone out if where they currently live has inferior economic opportunities, amirite?

On the real though, this pining for SF's old status quo because it fulfilled some weird grunge fantasy is just getting old. Yeah SF was a grimy, shitty, somewhat cheap place to live filled with equally shitty art and crap bands. It was shitty all the way from the 1960's until the early 90's when a homeless guy wandered in the TV repair shop we were at in the mission and pulled a knife and me and my brother while my dad was at the counter. Maybe it was great before then and maybe a lot of the people there want it to be better. Sorry if you don't get what you want.

Bee Tee Dubs, bro, people from or who live in SF don't call it San Fran.
yeah maybe that's why it's cheapest adjustable product, but not very accurate temperature isn't much matter for hobby.
Adapt or die.

Not actually, of course. We need a social safety net that lets people adapt without fear of starvation/homelessness/etc. But all of this bitching about "oh no, things are changing" just comes across as "oh no, this newfangled horseless carriage threatens my livelihood as a buggy whip manufacturer". Posts like this just make my eyes roll:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35492730

We're headed towards a future where all of the drudgery is automated away and we can be free to pursue all of the hobbies that we never have time for because we're too busy working on shit that doesn't really matter.

Accept it. Love it. It's happening even if you don't, so you might as well.
I lived at Trinity Place when it first went up a decade ago and I was far more afraid of 6th and Market than 8th and Market.
https://archive.is/yZLX9
If that was applied to the financial world, we wouldn't have had the 2008 recession and subsequent inflation.
Wanted to chime in with this. Agreed, it's not a bug. Just a UX decision that was made to prevent people from hitting Enter over and over and constantly launching/navigating stuff.

I often accidentally rename files in macOS Finder (hitting Enter activates rename).
For me Sun Tzu is the first man who told something atheistic. He told that no god can predict or help in the combat. Very impressive as for 500 b.c.
> And because the majority of people have a better experience, I dismiss your second option of other factors being at play.

That's fine, though the point I was (clumsily?) trying to make was that there are different factors here that allow multiple things to be true at the same time: power users routinely feel like search result quality is going down, and I think you can pretty objectively show that to be true in many cases.

Simultaneously, though, the barriers for "normal" people to do decent searches have dropped dramatically - there was an accessibility hurdle that was previously challenging for a lot of people and it's incredibly better now vs just a few years ago. This too, I believe, can be shown to be objectively true in many cases. (anecdotally as well - just last week I watched a number of very un-technical senior citizens get what they wanted out of Google and I didn't see much evidence that it was because of their skill at crafting good search queries).
You forget that the fine is paid by all shareholders chipping in to present a portion of their shares to the FTC in the form of a burnt offering.
Go move downwind from husab and then get back to us on the lack of air pollution.
That might be tough on Linux since it's a binary blob in kernel space

Presumably that level of access supersedes any kind of userspace access controls
“What kind of slime would I marry?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9QiYuErgvE
> I find it helpful to remember that lipstick-wearing is highly heritable despite zero genetic determination

I don't understand what is being claimed. Are you suggesting that twin studies show (or would show) that children inherit lipstick-wearing behavior from their parents, even when raised apart from them?

If this behavior is inherited, but is not genetic, what is the claimed mechanism by which it is inherited?
You can also make UIs by chopping up an image and making some of them links. Check out my profile, the buttons are clickable: https://github.com/veggiedefender
Your comment is totally irrelevant to this thread and moreover you are engaged in ad hominem attacks which you are advised to layoff. Your petulance simply affirms your intellectual bankruptcy given that i have dismissed your comments in other threads which you seem unable to grasp and come to terms with.
> Wouldn't it be easier to just use a simpler POSIX-like OS to begin with?

It would be simpler, but harder.

The point of the linux kernel is that it's familiar. Many developers know it from inside, many wrote device drivers or file systems, its network stack is well-understood. There's plenty of reference and expertise.

POSIX is an ancient standard, which, while still useful, does not give you enough to be able to just switch to another compliant OS. Say, io_uring is not POSIX, and EBPF is not POSIX, and both can be hugely important for your embedded system.

With that, you can still run multiple threads with that highly minimal nolibc (not pthreads, but clone() is supported), AFAICT, so you can use a complex architecture. I didn't notice if cgroups are surfaced; with them, you'd be able to add defense in depth.

This is on top of Linux's superior tooling, compilers, a collection of drivers for nearly everything, and other creature comforts, usually FOSS.
let's see, if I was fined more I would see what one of the recent judicial appointments from the last 5 years thinks of the FTC's very charter.

I think this is the right amount to avoid that question.
>>A white man in a turban or a giant crow costume will attract no attention anywhere.

Funny you say that. There's an interview on YT with retired Delta Force Sergeant Major nicknamed "Shrek". He mentioned how he used to do solo reconnaissance missions in Afghanistan, dressed as a local. When asked how he pulled this off, being a large white man with a weak command of the local languages, he replied: "Pretend to be a retard, and just grunt/mumble responses when stopped at checkpoints. You'd be surprised how NOBODY wants to deeply interrogate and anger a retard carrying an AK-47."
The article goes into some detail about different reasons you might want a minimal userland -- test harnesses, recovery environments, and pseudo-embedded environments. I do something similar in the test framework for https://github.com/jmillikin/rust-fuse -- to perform an integration test, I boot Linux in QEMU with a tiny custom /init.

More generally, the Linux kernel has a lot of code in it that is of generally reasonable quality and has received a lot of benchmarking/testing from well-resourced users. Sure, I could run some unikernel with a third-party network stack and SCSI drivers and ext4 implementation, but Linux already has all that stuff and it's ubiquitous. Why would I care about the extra ~30 MiB of RAM or whatever that it takes?

And that's before we even get to the topic of sharing code between environments. I can run the same unmodified binary on my desktop and on a minimal kernel-only Linux, which is not generally true of most alternative kernels.
I just watched a video where the guy touches on GPT-4 limitations and one of those is simple math. He asks it some order of operations question and it outputs the correct answer but only if it does it step by step. It then apologizes and says its original incorrect answer was “a typo.”

Video: https://youtu.be/qbIk7-JPB2c
The first time? Again, news from San Francisco is written by Tim Powers...
Rigor in modern non-STEM academics is extremely abstract at best, and clouded with clique-derived "registers" of language that only the in-group shares. This language spills out into some drivel like the following I found the other afternoon:

This article utilises feminist technoscience studies' notions of bodily 'materialisation' and 'ontological choreographies', offering a cyborg feminist account...

And it goes on.

Modern academia outside of most STEM programs leads to things like this. I've seen a few English 101 professors that valiantly try to get their freshman past a 5th grade reading and writing level (to some success) and to actually think critically. But once you enter the hallowed halls of academia and begin to learn the language and methods of reasoning, which are lacking. I can call out one such methodology (it has a name that I've long forgotten) that allows one to make claims and assertions about the contents of a text without considering the authorial intent at all. It is essentially a codified method of casting aspersions. So-and-so becomes a gay lover, such-and-such is an allegory for communism, and so on.

I'll go ahead and blame 'process philosophy', the rejection of the absolute, the rejection of the spiritual, the obsession with a mechanistic existence, and the blind faith that -- somehow -- humanity is getting better all the time.

Where our reasoning faculties are now has been centuries in the making, even the founding fathers of the United States argued about rationalism and its rejection of the divine.

But the rationalists prevailed, and after them Marx, Lenin, Freud, and others.

And now we're here.
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Curiously, this is where all the early techbros who couldn’t afford SF moved to and bought homes.
There is still a specific “logic puzzle” mindset you need to have.

Out of context, a sentence like “there aren’t penguins in Texas”, could be synonymous to “penguins aren’t native to Texas”, at least to my ear.

It takes some familiarity with these kinds of questions to know that you’re meant to interpret these premises as axiomatically true and then derive a conclusion purely from the premises.
The ftc gets keep the money they collect. They can't collect anything on chinese companies so best to go after American ones only. I was shopping for outdoor fireplaces on Amazon and looking at the reviews. Interesting that the reviews were for slitherin house harry potter banners rather than the fireplace I was looking at.