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> Walmart has observed a severe misalignment of incentives that has plagued the payments system in the United States for decades. Certain incumbents and large participants enjoy massive profits by stifling innovation in payments, ensuring that account access is limited to a small number of networks, and perpetuating barriers to entry for alternative solutions. Controlling this access allows the dominant players to extract rents from other payments system participants, ultimately resulting in higher costs for all consumers, particularly consumers who are unbanked or underbanked.

They say it how it is.
The little-known group setting the corporate climate agenda
you might be surprised what this particular single person is likely to discover on their own

one of jacquesm's previous personal rabbitholes was designing and building a wind turbine from scratch, down to cutting out the stator and rotor windings for the generator from sheet metal
The difference between quality in GPT-3.5 to GPT-4 is game changing. It's hard to explain without you trying it for yourself.
It is stealing if they change all the copyright notices
Whether the flow is push or pull is a fairly irrelevant implementation detail for a dataflow system.

That doesn't mean it can't have big effects, but if you're relying on those, or they do become relevant, you should probably ask yourself whether your system is really dataflow.
It's because you're so nasty and rude to it. Would you speak like that to a human?
Side note: Statements like that paragraph drive me absolutely batty. There have been tons of novels, novellas, movies, comics, YouTube videos, poems (yep) imagining all sorts of aspects of the singularity.

How fast it comes on
How this was no warning
How there was lots of warning
How we shoulda known
How nobody coulda known
How it completely takes over society immediately
About the long drawn out wars fought for it to take over society
How society splits between those under it's affects, and those not
How prevalent the effects are
How exclusive the effects are
How big, how small
etc, etc, etc

There are billions of humans out there right now, imagining all manner of things, and it's irritating to me to see all the hand wringing over the "Nobody stopped to think if they should". Lots of people did, and are, asking that question.
Was it the episode in which the Federation needed more time to evacuate a colony and the other party refused because the treaty left no room to interpret it like that?

If I remember correctly, the crew found a loophole using a rule that allowed them to ask for arbitration - they asked for an arbiter from a species that was currently in rather long hibernation.
Funny, this is what I thought as well. To be a conspiratorial…he has to have SOMETHING on all of these VCs.
“We go to many schools” and the decentralization of education
Sometimes I get the feeling personal accountability is becoming bourgeoisie.
Scholars from the middle ages wrote on the edges of their scrolls and codexes. Some of these notes are very interesting and useful to scholars. In elementary and primary school most are taught not to write in books because they have to be used for decades, but there is a long tradition of taking notes in books. They are very inexpensive now compared to the past and when you write in the you leave a little extra something for posterity.
You say that like it's a bad thing. We actually do protect our people from dangerous products (lead water pipes, asbestos insulation), dangerous medications (Thalidomide and friends), dangerous food additives, dangerous environmental toxins (Zoning regulations, environmental and industrial waste regulations), physical dangers (OHSA, hard hats, fencing, car and pedestrian infrastructure design). And from informational dangers (VBScript email attachments, et al). Why not from this also?
im sure nginx and whatever have way more elaborate performance features and integrations than apache, but i have never once used anything besides apache for production web serving. I've been using it for 25 years, I know everything I need to know about it, and for performance, since I'm not serving Google, there's never been any issue. I use the event mpm for static sites on Linode nanos (1 CPU / 1G virtual machine...tiny) and such a site has no problem with hacker news front page traffic.
I think the recommend approach is to use the tunnel option. [1] You will also want to host the javascript SDK yourself, or bundle the package directly into your release build.

[1] https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/javascript/troubleshooting/...
> What about the prosecution of the law enforcement who literally unlocked doors, shepherded people inside, and then led them into chambers?

Several law enforcement and active military participants and collaborators—acting before, during, and after the highly visible events of Jan 6—have already been arrested and charged, most recently the MPD intelligence chief, but your description is a false characterization of what actually occurred.

> If you think Jan 6 was anything more than a meandering of useful idiots by a conspiring state, you are the other useful idiot.

If you genuinely believe this, you are just an idiot (maybe a useful one for the people who organized, executed, and then attempted to minimize the attack, but definitely an idiot.) Yes, most of the participants may have been radicalized sheep inspired and directed by a narrower group, but they clearly weren’t “meandering”.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin wins NASA contract for astronaut lunar lander spacecraft
Better yet, start saying C/C++/C#/D/rust/java, and watch all of the above get pissed off.

\o/
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I worked in process monitoring and supply chain departments at a couple semiconductor companies.

There's an impenetrable culture of "best practices" that keeps the tech from catching up with the times. I eventually left because my career stagnated being on teams who couldn't update any of the internal tools because of this or that exec who was too scared to explore beyond the tiny niche they carved for themselves the past 10-30 years.

The last team I was on was using JDK 8 and Postgres 8. Vendor lock-in on downstream dependents, I guess. We finally managed to convince leadership after 3 years that if they wanted any ML in their systems at all they'd need to update their stack or make room in their fabs for a Python server on the intranet at the very least. So they gave us a Windows box with 2 cores and 1GB of memory because "that's all that will fit" and "we aren't a security company".
Then pay up. If the industry is so important and a ruined batch costs $30M, it's a disgrace if you can't pay the people six digits.
Yes the share based comp in 2022 was $1.7b which is a lot, but the losses on marketable securities were the biggest factor in 2022 ($7b). Some of that may have been on own debt though.
Why? Despite some of his witty remarks ("I have only proved it correct, not tried it" and others) he seems to be a pretty hands on guy. The lecture I attended was more of a workshop where he was showing his MMIX tools in a live coding session. Everyone got an MMIX assembly cheat sheet and he hacked everything himself in Emacs.
Wikipedia lists sources at least, in a way that makes it easy to quickly jump to them. It would be nice if ChatGPT provided sources by default.
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what i did / did not do in my free time, 15 years ago i do not want to talk.

is 20 year old tech hackable ? is not sourcable.
what is done to satellites is not really possible to source, people need to work.
and even bull is considered secret, proprietary etc....

for threat model:
hybrid war is "new".
" attacking infrastructure was considered war, full stop "
this changed for some reason.

american corporation have 4 pictures of "earth" everyday, in database, starting from 1996...
and still even today, you can point antenna up and capture geostationary satellite pictures, not in that resolution tho. ( NOAA / old russian meteo satellites - this was not in threat model. source is point antenna up)

im not talking about things like FLTSATCOM 7 and FLTSATCOM 8 which are known and covered by news.

im not confused about what is telemetry, control, data, transponder, etc

most nonmainstream things / themes are not "googleable". because hybrid war.
hobbysite from 20 years ago - cqham.ru has some articles about "downloading" nonencrypted traffic from satellites with for todays standard, primitive equipment
It was unclear to me the amount of difficulty in catching an eel and the value propositions 26,000 eels represents. From a full day of eel trapping, would I expect to bring home 10? 100? 1000? How many meals can I expect to make from a single eel?
Mosquitoes use your body chemistry to pick you for their next meal
Striking Hollywood scribes ponder AI in the writers' room
You don't need to carry liquid bleach. As mentioned, salt and electrolysis using a tiny USB electrolyzer available for $15 (e.g. "PWPAM Sodium Hypochlorite Generator") would do the trick. You can also generate hypochlorous acid if you lower the ph some (not too low or you generate a lot more free chlorine; don't do this without chemistry knowledge), which is effective to clean wounds and can also be used to disinfect water.

e: 2020 document hosted by WHO on some of hypochlorous acid's uses: https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/essential-medi...
A lot of the simulation software for PCB design is stuck in the 90s. The core of the simulation hasn't changed so it's not too big of a deal from a results perspective. However, it integrates terribly into the workflow so designers only simulate a small portion of a design and there's little automatic checks and things.
No that’s the problem. The riskiest bits stay risky forever if you tackle them before you understand how. Junior people or new problem domains require exploratory development before committing to a strategy.

In an 18 month or three year project, it doesn’t affect your deadline much if you do the hardest bits in month one or month four. Except in how much rework you end up doing to those parts that have already started to cement bad habits.

When we have a Rule of Three situation in the product backlog, I usually recommend one of two strategies. Do the hardest one second, or do it third and allocate very little time for the first two - you’re going to rework the whole thing when you get to #3 anyway.

On one project, no matter what order we did them in, the third one took the longest time. Even when we tried to take our time on the second. Took me a year to train them to stop doing that. I’ve never seen a team so sure of their abilities yet with such a low opinion of their product. Big ol’ echo chamber.
For many years I have been engaging with young-earth creationists. (Weird hobby, I know. The goal was to understand how people maintain beliefs in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.) It is astonishing how similar the experience is to engaging with ChatGPT when the latter gets something wrong and I try to correct it. The only difference is that ChatGPT will apologize before digging in its heels and repeating the same erroneous answer again and again and again (with variations on the theme of course).
A 1.5 ° increase is a 0.5% increase in temperature if you measure the temperature in Kelvin. There is hardly any discrepancy in scale. A 12x multiplier is not that surprising once you consider that oxygen and nitrogen don't have a greenhouse effect and thus we are speaking of 0.04% out of 1% of gases that might have a greenhouse effect.

Both the concentration and effect of CO2 are small but since human life has a limited temperature band, even a 1.5°C increase does matter.

And so far I have just been applying some commonsense to your number comparison logic. I didn't even have to understand the basic mechanisms of how it works, just that there might be some effect.
Try to apologise that much in Dutch and see how quickly people go "can you stop? this is incredibly irritating".
If he can keep getting billionaires to give him billions of dollars, I don’t see anything wrong with that. They’re supposed to be professionals.
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That's pretty neat. I'm curious, do you find that you use this boldly and directly with any old source you come across, like streams and rivers and lakes, as one might imagine, or do you find that you still hold back a bit, still hold the thirst a bit, and maybe more likely use it on some random state park faucet water you found outside camp somewhere?
GP might be alluding to the recent murder of a Mexican journalist, Fredid Román Román, who was shot shortly after (allegedly) being targeted by a Swiss surveillance-for-hire operator with Israeli connections[1]. As in, this is very much a thing that can happen to victims of (targeted) surveillance, and it was in the news recently.

[1] https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2023-0... (https://archive.is/A2qmD)
Is the medicine .50 or is the cost to find people and deploy it .50 all in? The article doesn't provide an easy call to action does it?
It’s interesting to me how people approach an AI with simple knowledge retrieval requests. We’ve had search engines for a while and being able to search for facts isn’t a particularly interesting use case. It doesn’t take anything like intelligence to regurgitate existing facts.
I tried doing something similar with my app, Map Buddy. The current iteration requires user accounts to create content but the previous iteration, Whisper, was entirely anonymous.
I have seen plenty of Erik's talks and certainly read Your mouse is a database a bunch of times.

What is "documented" there is the alternate history of all this coming out of fundamental insights into FP and dualities and all that.

But that isn't the case, it just sounds a lot better than "I found a really complicated way to map dataflow onto FP concepts".

But we as an industry just love complicated.
Almost all of this is just brand engagement with tech company marketing.
Hasn't there been several attempts at this? Vaguely recall firefoxOS and sailfishOS.

I believe the problem always came down to hardware, due to it being essentially dominated by Android (ignoring iOS due to how tightly wound hardware and software are) you always ran into trouble requiring Android in some way before being able to switch to that new OS, even if the drivers themselves were freely and openly available.

Which is a much harder problem to solve since there is so much upfront cost involved with hardware that most wouldn't dare bothering not prioritizing Android.
RFK jr. is a conspiracy nut and a disgrace to his father’s name.
“personal responsibility” has always been a refrain of the bourgeois to avoid, ironically, personal responsibility for the oppression of the system they maintain for the exploitation of the proletariat.
He also asked Stephen Wolfram some random Mathematica question that you can easily google or find in the docs. Like imagine emailing Tim Cook asking how to put your phone on silent.
I think you missed Macdonald's point. He's saying that "real life" is not simply the continuance of conscious existence, but "human thriving". If the man could achieve human thriving without health and without friends, then he'd be fine; it's precisely because he cannot achieve "human thriving" without health and without friends that that he says "I'm tired of life". Health problems, pain, and loneliness aren't life, but a form of death. So, MacDonald says, he's not tired of life -- he's tired of the continuance of conscious existence without life; he is, in fact, tired of death.
What is the obsession with treating ChatGPT like a human? Its not a human its a tool that was created to “reason” about large swaths of data. I don’t understand the backlash people have about some reason needing to be polite to the algorithms. It was be much easier to interact with just extremely direct, non polite language. Not sure why we care about this
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It could just as well be that he wanted to comment on the version that is accessible by everyone.
> We’re already in a post-truth era

Not really. There’s more truth today than any era of the past. I don’t seek the alignment of planets to predict if my crop will face drought. I can read and study on my own as I do not rely on an anointed class or caste to tell me the truth.
> The reason many people accumulate wealth is to spend it, not to stare at it insecurely

Yes and the reason many people accumulate wealth is to stare at it insecurely. What’s your point?
find a spouse that dreads the problems you've listed and you'll be amazed by how easily they can be solved
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Snowden is a national hero. Those who attempting to prosecute him for exposing violations of the constitution should be jailed.
Most businesses do not "make the world a better place". It was a mistake to ever believe that it's realistic that every business can do that and really only served the egos of those who have uttered those words. Most businesses are providing a service or a product, that thing may be useful, but there's a pretty high bar from that point to "making the world a better place".
I asked GPT-4 the sun over Japan question which GPT-3 got wrong, this was 4's response:

The sun is directly overhead (at the zenith) when it's at a 90-degree angle relative to the observer. This phenomenon typically occurs in the tropics, between the Tropic of Cancer (23.5 degrees North) and the Tropic of Capricorn (23.5 degrees South). These are the maximum latitudes at which the sun can appear directly overhead.

Japan is located between about 24 and 46 degrees north latitude. This means it is generally too far north for the sun to ever be directly overhead.

On July 4th, the sun is still moving northward from the Tropic of Cancer (which it reaches at the summer solstice, around June 21st). As a result, even in the southernmost parts of Japan, the sun will not be directly overhead, though it will be relatively high in the sky. In more northern areas, the angle will be even more pronounced.

If you want to know more precise details, such as the exact angle and time for a specific location in Japan on July 4, you'd need to consult a detailed almanac or a sun position calculator that takes into account the exact coordinates and date.

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It no longer hallucinates an incorrect answer, though I don't have the knowledge to know if it's correct in saying that there isn't one.
People need to stop drawing conclusions based on GPT-3. If you're seriously interested in evaluating LLMs you should definitely try GPT-4. Most of my issues in 3 are non-existent in 4.
Some games are positive sum, but they're still games.
This is a good approach. It is basically how all literature reviews are done in academia.
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The reply below explains well how things that were novel at the time are now cliches.

And to be clear I meant the entire MW campaign, from 1 to 3. The story makes little sense as a while. There are many plot holes. But scenes taken in isolation were very powerful. The missions in DC were amazing, the lat stand in Paris, etc.

Black ops wasn't bad on the front of coherent, well told story. It's just that you can see the plot twist coming 10 miles away and the big reveal is a bit ridiculous since you figured it out 2 hours earlier.
Minors gambling, scam giveaways, predatory practices, classism, etc, happened even before Habbo imposed any restriction, hence anarcho capitalism.

After Habbo imposed some minor restriction on gambling (forced by the swedish state), players went from "official" casinos to underground casinos, using tricks to bypass said restrictions.
Mainly because it's open source and has a ton of functionality. I can bring text docs, diagrams, spreadsheets, images, audio, and even video under one single pkm. Because it's an offline app, it doesnt have any of the drawbacks of the online proprietary solutions.
Almost exactly my experience, plus all the other bad experience mentioned in this thread.

I wish I could have seen this when I was in school.
> awful Apache prefork engine

Eh, the prefork engine isn't awful. It's not without limitations, but it's an excellent fit for some loads and a bad/terrible fit for others.

The main limitations are:

The child ramping behavior: you should set MinChildren = MaxChildren = StartChildren. Ramping children on demand sounds nice, but it's easy to run out of memory when all the children start or spend too much time on childinit instead of serving requests.

Anytime the child spends connected to a client socket but not actively working. Some of this can be mitigated. Turning off http keepalive (or handling it elsewhere) and setting large socket buffers allows the server to generate a response, give it to the kernel, and move on to the next client. If you're often waiting significantly for disk i/o, Apache pre-fork isn't a good fit.

Http keep-alive is a big deal for
some uses, Yahoo had a nice hack for that, which I don't think made it out: have sockets wait for complete requests in another process, and send those sockets to apache over a unix socket; after apache is done with it, send it back to the 'cheapalive' daemon. That adds a bit of complexity, and I don't know of a public implementation, so not super useful to people, but it's possible to build.

I personally think prefork apache + mod_php is simpler than some other daemon + fastcgi php. But that's debatable.

Edit: oh and one more... .htaccess is clearly a performance suck. Perhaps a useful one depending on your application, but there's good reasons nobody else does it.
I'm not endorsing bad professor games (which are real). But from my time in academia a lot of students have similar experiences about courses that just aren't for them.

For example, in a state school analysis course, almost half the class decides they just need to squeeze by to graduate and maybe 5 students will enjoy it and do graduate school.
How is AI impacting science?
> "Well this has been interesting indeed. Studying the task of
how to fake it certainly leads to insightful subproblems galore.
As well as fun conversations during meals. On the other hand, Gary Marcus's column in the April CACM brilliantly describes the terrifying consequences of these developments. [...] I myself shall certainly continue to leave such research to others, and to devote my time to developing concepts that are authentic and trustworthy. And I hope you do the same."

Oh he doesn't like it. These are some academically phrased burns.
Check out https://solidproject.org (If you want a short intro I recently gave a ~30min talk about it: https://noeldemartin.com/fosdem)