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HN is strongly inclined towards "unreflective instrumentalism". From "Three Kinds of Anti-Intellectualism: Rethinking Hofstadter":

> A third type of anti-intellectualism implied in Hofstadter’s analysis
may be termed unreflective instrumentalism, defined here as the devaluation
of forms of thought that do not promise relatively immediate practical
payoffs. In its narrow conception of practicality, instrumentalism suppresses
questions about the ends toward which practical and efficient means are
directed...

> ...The hostility of an instrumentalist business culture toward intellect expresses not only an impatience with ideas that are deemed impractical or
utopian but also a disdain for purely theoretical inquiry as a valuable activity
in its own right. Theoretical scientists, for example, are called upon to demonstrate practical applications of their work, and esoteric research is held up to
public ridicule with the award of the Golden Fleece. Scientists are sometimes provoked to argue for the value of their research on the grounds that it may eventually yield useful outcomes that are not immediately apparent, producing in their own behalf testimonial examples from the history of science. That such defenses are necessary in the competitive struggle for research dollars is indicative of the power of instrumental criteria to define the direction in which scientific and other kinds of knowledge will be allowed to grow...

> ...Likewise, liberal education is increasingly defended on instrumental
grounds. The liberal arts graduate is presumed to possess skills in analyzing,
synthesizing, organizing and communicating complex ideas, skills that are
(as we now say) marketable in the corporate environment of the post-industrial society. The phrase “ivory tower” has become an almost universal term
of contempt. Beyond the ivory tower, it seems, lies a university-industrial
complex in which intellect is seen principally as a useful problem-solving
tool.
Kind of a straw man. I keep seeing this comment, but haven't seen a single person say that there is something wrong with paying developers to make software.
Maybe I wasn't clear enough: JPEG -> JPEG XL -> JPEG is not lossy, you get exactly the same bits back, but the JPEG XL file is 20% smaller.
Can happen but I suspect that it's unusual for someone to completely suck at every aspect of their chosen area of work. Probably 99% of the time it's mismatched skills/interests.

Even in these cases though, firing people is good for them. Maybe they should find something else to do in a different industry. It must be torture to suck at your job every day while simultaneously depriving better suited people of that role/opportunity which you occupy... All while there may exist better opportunities for you in another industry where some other low-performing fool just like you is occupying what should have been YOUR dream job.

Of course this is assuming a functioning free market. If the market is overly manipulated, you could find yourself locked out of opportunities which you would be really good at while some mismatched fool has your job and gets paid your salary (which they use to pay a shrink to help them cope with their impostor syndrome...)
There are still costs though: streamed talks, presumably AV people, the university presumably pays people to clean up. Maybe some of this is volunteer labor but there are still some costs that presumably the university or the department is picking up. There are free events at universities in general but that's just the school picking up the costs.

Even FOSDEM (held at a university in Brussels for free) has sponsors as does Devconf.cz.
What is the balance then? Must people have common ground for debate in a society where influence moves all? Two sides radically differing without debate might become echo-chambers with catastrophic collision at some point. They both certainly have followings.
Have you tried churning out random numbers that start with 35 to see if the hit rate is similar? Also, how many times did you test it?
I appreciate the specificity, especially on a forum of tech-inclined users and collapsible comments.
Some actually do use something resembling an actual RISC core --- the VIA Alternate Instruction Set (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_Instruction_Set) basically exposes the uop format, and if you look at the documentation, you'll find that it's like they took a MIPS core and stripped out irrelevant instructions while adding other ones more useful to x86; even the opcode map and encoding is identical for the instructions that remained.

IMHO the RISC vs CISC debate was never about implementation, only ISA. Even the 8086 uses a combination of microcoded and non-microcoded instructions (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35939168).

Also, calling it a "legend" in the title is rather clickbaity.
Other side of the problem: I've seen a vendor which moved their infrastructure to Cloudflare ask us to whitelist Cloudflare's entire set of IPs on our security platform.

They were politely told no. (Telling people no politely is a significant portion of IT operations, as it happens.)
The problem isn't really with designers per se (tho they played a role). The problem is with the web as an application delivery platform - it was never designed for this.

Windows, or MacOS, both have design guidelines that was produced, and they expected native apps to follow. Most native apps do (the few that doesn't have either good reason, or were unique enough that their customers don't care - think photoshop).

With the advent of the web, such a guideline for software no longer mattered, because the controls and UI elements are all custom - since html is not an application GUI library!

So every man and their dog has a different UX and UI interaction built for their own app, because the web encourages it. The designers are also at fault for not standardizing on a set of common UI widgets, but i cannot blame them as this isn't the easiest path.
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I did see those comments, but that seems more like a good reason to tighten processes and consider if a different volunteer might be more suited a particular sysadmin role. Fuckups happen and more so in a community run project. I'd rather be hosted on something that had a major incident in the past and they've communicated how they'll move on than a project that has not yet had an incident, unless it was quite mature and proven.
I have to agree here. The author, I would argue, does the topic a disservice by not presenting the details of the state's arguments and evidence against Bouldin, and not more clearly distinguishing stories of two methods here.

The "abandonment" form and negotiation, sounds quite a bit like legalized bribery. But with Bouldin, given the evidence (to what you quote, the supreme court summary [1] adds that his prior conviction involved twelve pounds of marijuana, and that his car had a vacuum sealer and boxes of vacuum seal bags) he was, more likely than not, on a trip to smuggle marijuana.

But rather than being something to be hidden in discussing the case, that Bouldin was more likely than not to be planning on smuggling is, I would argue, an example of one of the major problems with civil forfeiture: it subverts the justice system by moving cases from criminal standards of beyond reasonable doubt to civil standards of preponderance of the evidence. The American justice system is not built on convicting people who are more likely than not to be guilty, nor on declining to even prosecute them, which might be much less profitable to the county, in favor of just taking their money.

And at the same time, that it uses civil cases is what makes it harder to combat. It doesn't seem like the courts here had to be willing participants in this behavior, or accept ridiculous evidence, they just had to apply the law and civil standards. The money was more likely than not to be for the purpose of smuggling marijuana. With those standards, it doesn't seem likely that Bouldin had much of a case. The problem is that those are not supposed to be the standards, and that the process seems to create very problematic incentives.

Without taking an opinion on drugs themselves, or laws around them, a cynical view here is that civil forfeiture used in this way actually makes it in the interest of the county to encourage drug trafficking through their jurisdiction, and to avoid catching traffickers with drugs, or catching them too often. How much more convenient it must be to simply take some cash, without the need to actually arrest and prosecute anyone. And how much more profitable, rather than imprisoning a trafficker, to let potential traffickers continue on their way, their cash seized, to continue trafficking and thus have some chance of being caught and have their cash seized again. And surely it would not be wise to take money too often, or make trafficking too difficult, along that route, in which case traffickers might choose to take their business elsewhere. It seems to make the process more like a bizarre and adversarial tariff scheme rather than anti-drug enforcement.

So, in those senses, even if it is mostly, or even only, taking money from likely traffickers, it is still extremely problematic. There should not be a need to hide this when discussing it.

[1] https://supremecourt.nebraska.gov/state-v-eighteen-thousand-...
> Because capitalism is the only system

This is what largely I am arguing against. I think the benefits of capitalism have been proven, but the negatives are largely brushed aside. I think this form of capitalism is dangerous (and I should have been more explicit about that in my original comment). My original comment was to get rid of publicly traded companies and remove wall street altogether. Private companies can continue to exist and compete but the profit motive to solely deliver growth and profit to public shareholders has distorted the whole system into pro-forma income sheets at the best and to outright devastation and exploitation at the worst. Private companies would be largely in check because they wouldn't grow unchecked by raising capital they don't have by going public. In so doing, they wouldn't be "in debt" (overloaded non-technical sense of debt) to shareholders. This would lead to more sustainability and less growth over everything mindset. The knock on effects I mentioned would contribute to a more just and fair system.

That said, I am not an economist, but I would like to see this world exist for future generations. And this economic system isn't it.
Gen X here. I like the Internet, I hate social media.
Keyclock is a great project. Much welcomed by all my friends from bloody enterprise caused 1. it’s written in Java and 2. well tested by their cyberops teams.
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While my experience is not from the 90s, I think I can speak to some of why this is. For some context, I first got into neural networks in the early 2000s during my undergrad research, and my first job (mid 2000s) was at an early pioneer that developed their V1 neural network models in the 90s (there is a good chance models I evolved from those V1 models influenced decisions that impacted you, however small).

* First off, there was no major issue with computation. Adding more units or more layers isn't that much more expensive. Vanishing gradients and poor regulation were a challenge and meant that increasing network size rarely improved performance empirically. This was a well known challenge up until the mid/later 2000s.

* There was a major 'AI winter' going on in the 90s after neural networks failed to live up to their hype in the 80s. Computer vision and NLP researchers - fields that have most famously recently been benefiting from huge neural networks - largely abandoned neural networks in the 90s. My undergrad PI at a computer vision lab told me in no uncertain terms he had no interest in neural networks, but was happy to support my interest in them. My grad school advisors had similar takes.

* A lot of the problems that did benefit from neural networks in the 90s/early 2000s just needed a non-linear model, but did not need huge neural networks to do well. You can very roughly consider the first layer of a 2-layer neural network to be a series of classifiers, each tackling a different aspect of the problem (e.g. the first neuron of a spam model may activate if you have never received an email from the sender, the second if the sender is tagged as spam a lot, etc). These kinds of problems didn't need deep, large networks, and 10-50 neuron 2-layer networks were often more than enough to fully capture the complexity of the problem. Nowadays many practitioners would throw a GBM at problems like that and can get away with O(100) shallow trees, which isn't very different from what the small neural networks were doing back then.

Combined, what this means from a rough perspective, is that the researchers who really could have used larger neural networks abandoned them, and almost everyone else was fine with the small networks that were readily available. The recent surge in AI is being fueled by smarter approaches and more computation, but arguably much more importantly from a ton more data that the internet made available. That last point is the real story IMO.
Well it does because it shows there are people willing and able to take over without being paid, therefore your comment about not having enough money because they cannot pay seems redundant.
Unclear about your business model, but it seems the product (list of bootstrapped side-projects) generates leads for your productized service (brainstorming call - $125 for 30 min). No pricing for listing a project, so assuming it's free.

$1K/mo / $125/call = 8 calls/mo.
Is it just me or there are others who find discords handling of threads terrible?! I mean Slack is far from my favourite but at least they treat a thread like a thread where I can see the entire conversation in one place instead of visually parsing questions and replies while frantically scrolling up and down.
This is hacker news, we're allowed to look at the source code here if we want to.

If you view source, you'll see

<meta name="generator" content="Gatsby 2.15.26"/>

If you view your network requests tab and look at headers, you'll see:

server: cloudflare
i don't think op was referring to a legal definition but rather how things de facto are seen. I'm technically salaried too but i can't say I'm really valued based on my output
What puzzles me is that I think titanium dioxide was already widely used as a pigment for paint in the 1950s, which would make me think it was widely available here.
not the author, but when I was facing the same issue with customization, I came across: https://www.keycloakify.dev/
It’s telling how every single response entirely ignored my suggestion to investigate the trades (or alternatively any decent office job for that matter) where jobs are plentiful and do pay a living wage, at least after a couple of years. What are they even fighting for? The ‘right’ to sling coffee for the rest of their life? <smh> Roll up ones sleeves and develop marketable skills. There is plenty of opportunity in the US for those willing to apply themselves.
This is certainly a good set of points. The phone number thing always bothered me, I wonder what a good solution is?
Your statement assumes they need to pay someone to keep going, which as the previous poster points out is not true if they can find new unpaid volunteers, as indeed seems to have happened.

And since we're talking wikis here, please https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith when people comment on what you've written.
There are plenty of critics proposing alternatives

I get a monthly magazine called Jacobin that is filled with bough criticisms and alternatives

Trying to find people who aren’t either fundamentally greedy or barely hanging on is nearly impossible so it’s just mostly people exploiting each other.

I am personally trying to build a cooperative that is mutually owned by employees, and it’s structurally really hard because the legal system doesn’t know anything about how to do that. The entire system is built on the assumption of profit maximization. You don’t go into a banking situation, without telling them the type of business, and the type of profit that you expect. so in every single aspect of attempting to do commerce in the United States, or worldwide today, the default functional system, which everybody uses, because there is no alternative system to use, makes it effectively impossible to do something else without totally building it yourself from scratch.
This is all true and thoughtfully written; the only wrinkle I want to add here are that the shift, from the "preponderance" civil standard to "reasonable doubt" criminal standard, is corrected here not by waiting for Bouldin to actually get caught trafficking, but by charging him under Nebraska attempt liability statutes; in other words, we're in some sense rooting for Bouldin to lose not only his money but his freedom by rationalizing the law.
Ah, I've seen these clauses too. The link above says for the rights of a patent or similar IP to be assigned there needs to be "consideration" which, they're not paying you when you're at home. So theoretically in MI you could fight something like this if it became a problem.

Doesn't stop them trying to bleed you dry through a lawsuit though.
> Maybe it makes sense inside the Apple reality distortion field

This is not Apple specific, and not what HDR is designed for. No implementation works as you expect. Linux doesn't even support HDR at all. When I plug in my non-Apple HDR monitor into my Linux desktop the brightness remains capped at SDR since there is no hardware support. Even when Linux does eventually support the hardware, it is unlikely that any UI will use HDR by default. The UI would need to be redesigned for HDR specifically. It is way too bright for sustained usage on a UI. Uncomfortably bright to the point where it may cause damage to eyesight with prolonged use. It is intended for dynamic scenes that are occasionally bright in some parts of the image, as in TV and movies. I would never use that as a default global brightness level.
There are generally TWO things going on, and we use one term. I think that’s because generally displays do both so it’s just easier.

One is that HDR displays can usually get MUCH brighter. An iPhone 5 could do 500 nits. An iPhone 14 Pro can do 1,000 - 2,000 nits.

That’s what’s used here. You get all the same colors as before, but max brightness is way brighter.

The other thing is color gamut. The standard we had for a long time was 24-bit color, so ~16.7 million colors. Instead of having 8 bits per channel, screens may now have 10 or 12 bits per channel. I can’t find just how many a modern iPhone has.

This means there are more shades between black and 100% bright red. There are more variations between blueish green and greenish blue. Gradients can be smoother. Objects that are mostly one color (yellow corn, a red apple, etc) now have more options the can use to provide definition and details.

In a very dark scene, there are now more dark shades to show things with. When looking at bright clouds, they don’t have to be all white and washed out.

And combined with the increased brightness a scene can show definition in both dark and bright areas without having to wash everything out.
Wikipedia is ~100 bigger than the Encyclopædia Britannica

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia
I’m not sure if it is entirely a hoax, but I had to get quite a number of fillings to the sides of my teeth where I believe the acid damaged them. I didn’t notice any positive side effects.

Also, I tried to correct the capitalisation but it auto correct again, and I couldn’t be bothered to fix it ;)
I as wondering about the exact same thing. Sad to learn it’s just not an option anymore.
Change sems to seems in the intro paragraph.
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Yeah I used to run a monthly industry night. Very easy to get space on a Thursday night. They'd give us our own room that would otherwise be unstaffed on a week night. Tech nerds are very easy patrons. Not rude or unruly.

Like you said, just talk to the manager and say "hey I've got 50 people that want a place to hang out and order beer. Can we do that at your place or should we go somewhere else?". Easy win for everyone.

Running a conference is harder. Hotel conference rooms are way over priced. The AV prices are morally offensive.

If your attendance is under 100 you can probably do a restaurant. It will cost food and beverage but you likely just need to hit a $ minimum. Fees should be minimal. If you need conference space for over 100 I don't think there are any "good" options. And definitely no good options if you get into several hundred.
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I'm sitting in front of both a 2012 Macbook Pro (no HDR) and a 2020 M1 Macbook Air (HDR), and I'm expectedly seeing the difference in brightness between the QR codes on the newish Air, while they look the same on the old Pro. But what's interesting is that both of the QR codes on the old Pro look just as bright as the big bright HDR QR code on the new Air.

Basically, the only observable difference I'm noticing between the two laptops is that the non-HDR QR code looks dimmer on the HDR-supporting machine. I'm sure this is some kind of optical illusion, but it's certainly not doing much to make me value the existence of HDR.
> they secretly sell drugs to America to make them useless and make society unstable

That is quite a non sequitur. Who is being forced to take drugs or listen to extremist propaganda? Those are deliberate choices made by people with low impulse control, and China has nothing to do with that.

The instability of American culture is currently seen as an intrinsic virtue. China is not causing any change. They're just apparently exploiting what was already the dumbest part of America. Even America's allies do this. If America finally grows up it would be a good thing and the only way that will probably happen is more self-inflicted disaster.
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You have to study the US political landscape for 5 minutes to understand why this will never happen. Police departments across the country, states benefiting from such practices as well as the US Congress are all dominated by the republican party. They are not going to legislate away their own power to transfer money from citizens of liberal states.
Sadly, a nontrivial portion of the scotus doesn’t give a shit about the 4th and will happily let police steal from people because drugs.
I would love for this kind of thing to return to the web. I could see it being a fun way to search for new io games.
Compiler output is not a good way to show off the best of an ISA (which is more an indictment of how bad compilers actually are at optimising for code density). Look at the demoscene. x86 can be an order of magnitude denser than lame compiler output.

RISC-V wasn't around when this paper was written, but it's close enough to MIPS to disprove the claim that "RISC-V code is significantly smaller": https://web.eece.maine.edu/~vweaver/papers/iccd09/iccd09_den...
I find it baffling that the “option” key is not labeled “option” or simply “opt”. WTF Apple?
I'm working an a product doing just that. MVP should be ready by end June