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> Notice that you are also taking the author at his word when you say he literally compromised live systems.

Technically true. If this happened as described, it's criminal behavior. If he's lying, it's maybe not.

FWIW: explicit threats are not and never have been a requirement for prosecuting extortion crimes. I'm not sure where you are getting that.
You seem to misunderstand the use of \ in LaTeX. It's not a separator, it's used to introduce a keyword.

Everything stems from the need to tell apart the text from the non-textual information, or structure. For example you don't add phrases like "the next word in italics" to mark parts of the document, because the reader will not understand if those are part of the text. Instead you must use either symbols that one wouldn't find in the text, like "*", or well-marked keywords, like "\em" or "<b>". Markdown prefers symbols, which look prettier for pure text, but unfortunately in maths nearly all symbols are already taken. LaTeX opted for keywords and chose a leading "\" to mark them, plus some rarely used symbols like "{" for grouping.

Asciimath uses neither uncommon symbols nor well-marked keywords, but rather words like "int" and common symbols like "(". I find it really confusing. In this way if you read "int", you don't immediately know if it stands for an integral sign or a function called "int" or the product of 3 variables called "i", "n", and "t". And when you find a pair of parentheses you don't know if they are part of the formula or if they were added just to group a subexpression.

I think this is called in-band signaling.

Asciimath does have some good points, though. The use of " to mark elements that must rendered as text and not maths is simple and effective. I tend to use it quite often for things like e (2.72), i (imaginary unit), d (differential) that are not variables and thus should be rendered with an upright roman font, not slanted or italics. LaTeX is worse because it forces you to write {\rm i} or \text{i}.
Is there a word for “bad-pattern” when it comes to some applications that will make us dumber and lazier?

On one hand git seems to be confusing and hard to grok.

But on the other hand I think once you get it it helps to enforce good coding practices, small working commits, good commit msgs, helps to understand the codebase better. I think all of the side effects of git are better in my brain than having a slightly better abstraction layer to make git do more magic for me.
Yeah, that's exactly my point. Even if the worst violent crimes are down (murder etc.), if general incivility has gone way, way up, that usually doesn't show up in crime statistics.
this is incorrect -- many large income earners in California pay tons of taxes. And also, many low income earner pay tons of taxes. In a famous experiment, a dozen professional tax prepares were paid to do their best with some (hypothetical) tax situations, and their results were significantly different. IIR the IRS itself was asked to calculate the tax, and it was different again.

Computer programmers in particular might be forgiven for incredulity of these tax systems, but here we are in 2023.
Exactly, these types of things _are_ written for the dumbest people. Cause while we here a so cultured and educated (implicit sarcasm), the range of human intelligence goes at least as low. Insert anecdote about designing trash cans for State parks.
>> The disadvantage is that users can’t control how the structs are allocated

Yeah, that usually kills that plan for me. I also try to avoid heap allocation wherever possible (which is usually pretty easy), and that solution ends up with an everything-is-heap-allocated nest of pointers, which I really try to avoid.

I typically do a request-response thing where the user code asks how big something is, then they do the allocation, and pass the allocation into the library. Windows does this a lot and, while Microsoft products are generally a giant garbage fire these days, I think this is one pattern they really got right.
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>The only components he bought were the power supply and RAM, which came out to approximately $120 in total

Alternatively he could of simply brought an old work station off eBay.
Is it just me or do other people read things like "covariance on a mutable generic type" and just want to get stuff done?
Maybe it's because nowadays I do solo or small team projects but this is why I fled to Elixir, it's mostly dynamically typed and you can gradually get into types when you want it, Elixir is cool with that.
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I think your point about USA benefiting from a single big market is a strong one.

Consider for contrast Canada, also a single language market, also geographically isolated, and sharing many of the inherent benefits of NA that America has. Canada though, not often considered a real economic dynamo in the same way as the USA.

Well one big difference is that Canada is a relatively small population spread thin over an enormously large area.

In Canada there's a natural and easy North/South transportation and trade links, but East/West nature of the country breaks that. I read somewhere that prior to Canadian Confederation the Maritime provinces did thriving business with the North East United States trading easily using sea links, but after confederation tariffs ruined this trade, and trade with Quebec and Ontario was more expensive and not as viable. The Maritimes never really recovered their pace.

It would be remarkably simpler for a Vancouver company to expand into Seattle and Portland for example, but keeping within the Canadian borders the next natural expansion point is all the way over in Calgary, dramatically far away and a (surprisingly) remarkably different politicial and cultural environment.

Some of these problems for Canada mitigated after NAFTA in the 1980s, but still one can see here how the USA is in a better position with its huge and spread out population.
In Tokyo, it's fantastic in my experience. It tells me exactly which exit number to use from the station (and some Metro stations have many different exits), it tells me exactly when the train will leave (and when the next one leaves in case I miss it), which car to sit in for the most efficient transfer, etc. It tells you if there's an incident and your train will be late, etc. It does everything you complain about here.

Perhaps this is a problem with local teams (or perhaps a lack thereof)? Tokyo has 2 large Google locations so all the localization work is done here.
I’ve started to mainly focus on games that have Ana drive community years after release - often indicated by an open source implementation of the engine. Thing the various source ports of Doom, OpenWM, OpenTTD, etc.
SD base models can't really be used to imitate style of other artists reliably, because the datasets that they were trained on are a huge mess. Caption accuracy is all over the place. For example - Joan Cornella's work and Cyanide & Happiness comics are in LAION5B, but if you prompt SD to make art in their style you'll get something completely different. Try prompting for a "minigun" - you will also get something weird.

In order to copy style from other artists reliably - you have to make a LoRA yourself. That involves a lot of manual work and it can't really be automated if you want good results.

Artists can opt out of future SD base models (which doesn't matter), but they can't opt out of someone making a LoRA of their work (which actually works).
Almost no company will take on that risk these days. You can still claim expenses within IR35 too the only difference is that you have to use an umbrella company for PAYE to cover the NIC liability.
> Using AI as a tool to create art takes nothing away from anyone who spent time learning a skill or craft that they use in their own pursuit of expression.

Except all those artists’ art being used without their consent to train these models that subvert the exclusivity of their style, or obviate their work altogether. It ingests their literal effort and eliminates other humans’ need to put forth a similar level of effort.

I’m all for cool new tools, but this is very much like the invention of digital sampling, and models should be required to “clear” all the works that they “sample” for training.
As if you can cleanly define "what you create". Or "you". Or "create".

Back to the philosophy playpen, John G.
> Some of the language is unnecessary, scolding even. Look at this one, which appears if you hesitate on the check-out page for just a few seconds

Going against the grain here, but I appreciate these messages.

In evaluating the website, I ask: "what would an awesome human do?".

If you were at the physical front desk of hotel making a booking on a busy weekend, the hotel only had 3 rooms left and they were being booked fast, you'd really appreciate the human helping you giving you a nudge and saying "let's get this done super quickly for you so you don't miss out!"

The caveat is the nudge must be honest. If the urgency is abused it loses its meaning and becomes noise.
But we have to weigh probability of success. We can’t spend trillions on dropping ice cubes into the ocean just because the stakes are high and we need to try something.

I could be wrong but I haven’t seen anyone suggest that there is a path to creating a hydrogen charging network that will be as efficient or effective as a direct EV charging network. More money doesn’t change that.

I reject the premise that there is some conspiracy or avoidance to spending money on hydrogen vehicles. Tons of money has been spent and is being spent, with less useful results so far than other battery types.

Every vehicle credit, infrastructure plan, or fleet emissions target I have read already calls out hydrogen alongside EV as qualifying.

For use cases where the technology fundamentally makes sense, such as Aircraft where infrastructure only needs to exist at major airports and the energy density requirements are much more significant, there is active investment and development with a solid path to useful results.
> I guess the seashell had nothing to do with the lake...

Maybe it could have?
Open source people a notoriously terrible at naming thing, Mastodon is a prime example of that.

Too many syllables, too much negative phonetic connotation and any focus group would tell you there's about 3 people that know what a Mastodon was. Should've gone with Mamood or some such romanticized version of an elephant thingy.
Is it a game mercy suitcase or a movie tie in? That could change the outcome, as future value is roughly tied to nostalgia + rarity.
A microsecond of 1e8 or 1e9 year nanoseconds, is... a night sky without galaxies (observable universe is a coalesced Local Group)? A millisecond, a sky of stellar remnants? A second... black holes and ejected remnants?
they'll cut anything they can't put an ad in before they figure out the days of silicon valley being ruled by adtech are over.

surveillance-based adtech is, and has always been, the absolute lamest tech paradigm of all time.
I always viewed Canada as a similar blend, except with frigid winters, more snow, moose and yet still unpleasant summers except on the southwestern and southwestern coastlines.
The dog picture is really nice, but then it’s hung on the same wall as 20 other crowded pieces of (in my opinion) dubious quality.

This would have been much better standalone.
djamn that's the separation of concerns I have not considered
It was a formal system.

There were restrictions of all sorts.

A native could not sue someone or sign a contract, for example. Legally, they were comparable to a minor.

Interracial marriage was not allowed, and the offspring would have fewer rights.

There were political positions that were only available to europeans born in europe.
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People say they want public transit, but public transit is half the story. The other half of the story is high density housing. The push for high density housing is neglected. When housing is highly dense, it means public transportation can run every 3-10 minutes, without highly dense housing, public transportation can run every 30 minutes or more. Planning your day around 30 minutes ± 45 minute bus schedule is downright awful. A lot of public transit shuts down at midnight, which makes it painful to use if you want to stay out late. This is all further exacerbated by using the already in place transportation systems (roads) making the public transportation itself a worse experience (busses).

So the focus on getting public transit before there is focus on high density housing results in public transportation that kind of sucks because it is not predictable or dependable or immediate.
While there is evidence direct cash payments are typically the most effective and efficient form of support, it will likely work equally well as similar attempts to nudge behaviors in SK.

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/19/1163341684/south-korea-fertil...

> South Korea has invested heavily to stem what is now a seven-year decline in the national fertility rate, but it hasn't made much difference. President Yoon Suk Yeol said in September that the government has poured more than $200 billion into programs to support new mothers in the past 16 years alone, only to watch the fertility rate drop more than 25% in that time span.

Cash handouts don’t fix some societal problems.
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Then why is Germany emitting 6 times the CO2 per kWh than France is?
I haven’t seen any company that will take contractors outside of IR35 at least in London for more than a year now.

The risk falls completely on the company these days. IR35 is a very nasty piece of legislation it’s difficult to even hire remote contractors outside of the UK with it without going through an established firm.
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> "The Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District paid for 18 of the 21 trucks to be used at the South Sacramento bottling plant with $4.5 million in grants, said Alberto Ayala, its executive director."

> "PepsiCo received a total of $15 million in state and local grants for the vehicles and charging infrastructure in both Sacramento and Modesto, plus $40,000 per vehicle from the federal government"

The taxpayer paid for that?
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This is actually the plot behind Larry Niven's Ringworld! A gigantic civilization has created a Ringworld (a rotating wheel artificial world), until a superconducting plague (https://news.larryniven.net/concordance/main.asp?alpha=S#sup...) destroys the material that enables room-temperature superconductivity, thus reducing the entire Ringworld to the dark ages...
Eh, there might be a market for AI art. As long as the artist is guaranteed to have made only a single one of every piece.
Lots of money has been spent on this front already, and it has gone nowhere. There is no magic way to suddenly make hydrogen a nicely-behaved, high-density storable fuel. Military and space applications, who are willing to work with much more troublesome fuels, have tried to improve on hydrogen on-and-off since the dawn of rocketry. The only practical improvement on LH2 is liquid methane.

And guess what, that's exactly the same story with terrestrial transport. Around the world, natural gas powers a lot of vehicles. It is a great storable means of distributing hydrogen - safe enough and well-understood enough that much of the developed world is content at piping it directly into their homes. What it is not is carbon-emission free.
Sure, but the compiler at least needs to know it's size, right?
> (fact) Americans are ambitious to a fault.

All 350 million of them?

And if you mean 'some of them are ambitious', surely you will have to accept that there are people in other countries who also share that property?
VR has been “the next big thing” since the 80s.
Back to front is better but not there l that much more efficient. You really want to board outside in. Window seats then middle seats then aisle. I think there was a study down that showed random boarding was best
The Federal Reserve is rolling out FedNow in July[0], which should enable instant payments, so instant transfers between accounts will be possible as more banks adopt it and more systems prefer it over ACH / wire. It still requires exchanging ACH credentials (routing and account number) so you won't see things like card terminal payments using it anytime soon.

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Places that don’t follow this pattern struggle, and struggle, until someone finally decides to change the project whether management likes it or not.

Functionality that is split across organizational boundaries is very slow to deploy and difficult to get right. So even if someone doesn’t fix the structure, the number of features that fall within team boundaries quickly multiplies while those that aren’t so lucky grow more slowly.
Taxation should be done by government not utility companies. I’m deeply disturbed that such a thing could even be proposed

And handing out subsidies for electricity/energy usage is the last thing global warming needs.

And this is huge subsidy to high energy users from those who are saving and reducing their energy usage.
Good luck with never-bacteria foods. It's impossible. 100% no parasites chicken/pork is also hard but you can live without them.
Mate, let's go back to where the conversation started:

> In terms of measurable outcome, what does "catastrophic" mean?

Does "catastrophic" mean that launch thrust is higher? Does catastrophic mean that the sound is going to be higher? Does catastrophic mean that Starship will have 10x the power? Does catastrophic mean that the approval process hasn't been used?

I mean, if the answer is that "catastrophic" was referring to one of those, then I think it's pretty clear it's hard to care right? From my perspective, having more power in a smaller size is not a catastrophic thing. That's what engineering is: doing more with less ("any fool can build a bridge...")

It's perplexing to me that you have quoted things that are complete non-sequiturs to the question and then started giving me this "not in the spirit of HN" crap. Come on. I know Internet arguments require that you double down, but I think it was pretty clear from my very first sentence what I was looking for and it's pretty clear this blog post has none of it.
The problem with southwest is people tend to board from the front to the back.
Long term incentives are pretty much stock options plus a bonus “top up” where X% of your bonus for the current year is paid to you again after Y years (usually 2 or 3).

Stock options are usually available at most large traded companies, bonus top ups are usually for directors+ or senior managers in FAANG or other large US companies that tend to have more grades than UK ones.

Then there are ofc various retention bonuses and allowances, but these tend to be pretty much just a pay increase without the social contributions liabilities to the employer.
LOL. I coded all of those. It was horrible. Not one of those companies gave a damn about the product, they just wanted a revenue share for putting a link in their stores or on their web sites.

The startup that I was working for was OD2, half-owned by Peter Gabriel, who is a very nice guy. He got us meetings with every label guy we needed to speak to. He gave me his iBook, bless him. OD2 eventually got swallowed by Nokia which of course got swallowed by Microsoft. The snake ate its tail.
They are not children. They are not designed as our children, let alone as humans. They would be a result of our experiments, but that doesn't mean they have the evolutionary drive of children/humans, or carry our genes.

And even if they were, the impact of digitalization of human consciousness is extremely unpredictable, and should not be allowed unless extensive research has shown it is safe.

Digital consciousness with human like motivations could lead to massive proliferation of such consciousnesses, resulting in massive overpopulation, making conscious entities 'cheap', and pushing the value of their/our labor to close to zero.

>>If there are existential risk in the process, those risks will be most effectively managed by a combination of us and other AIs

The existential risk is that they take over the economy because they are orders of magnitude faster at solving problems, and at reproducing. That is not something that can be managed.

We have a duty to our own species' survival and none of these sentimental feelings should get in the way of that. We should treat conscious AI humanely, but we should not allow it to interact with our civilization. It can live on its own, far from us.
They talk about this in the article. There's a fee that you pay, and apparently it isn't as simple a process as depositing cash into your fintech bank account via CVS/Walgreens/etc.
That's an off-site backup issue, not a "who might start censoring?" issue.
It's true the US knows how to succeed. The top x% is doing really well. The mid is doing well in terms of being able to acquire everything they need to live at a reasonable level. The big question is how do we get the bottom percentage to have a life where they don't have to struggle to find a place to live and making sure they never go hungry?

Success can never be success if we have homeless encampments in our cities. What do we do?
> America operates on the principal that it is better to fail quickly and rebuild than it is to defend what’s not working to preserve the status quo for as long as possible.

It says it operates on that principle, but the stranglehold that establishment industry has on the country says otherwise.

Consolidation of capital and political power is exactly what we're seeing in banks, fossil fuels, mega-agri-firms, retailers, insurers, and healthcare providers. All of it results in a nightmare that is 'not working' for the public, but works very well for the people at the top.
That was after. That was closing the barn door after the horse has bolted.
Random is mostly the fastest. But I find think southwest is exactly random. As most people tend to sit in the first seats, so southwest turns into a front to back boarding.
One thing nice about southwest is orderly lines.
“Casta” seems to be pretty standard Europe-colonized-Americas (no matter which colonial power) racial discrimination; calling it “caste discrimination”, even if the Spanish name literally means “caste”, doesn’t really seem to be helpful, especially in a context that suggests that it is somehow similar to Hindu caste-discrimination and the way that is not covered by generally-existing US anti-discrimination law requiring additional law if it is to be addressed.
which is why they are doomed.

they can't imagine a world where they aren't allowed to spy on everybody, but regulations are starting to have an impact there.

they can't imagine a world where ads aren't the way to make money, and have 25 years of failing to find a new way.

for all the "moonshots" they are still a one trick pony.
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I had this problem with Boost Mobile for phones. Apple Store and various podcast sources seemed ultra-throttled and often wouldn't even want to load at all.

Eventually switched to Mint and problem went away. Maybe a fluke, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was some shaping BS