skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a long battle, "Sophists did, however, have one important thing in common: whatever else they did or did not claim to know, they characteristically had a great understanding of what words would entertain or impress or persuade an audience."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophist

To many an audience, that's all that matters. I have a persuasive essay due tomorrow night. Part of that is transferable rhetorical strategies removed from the actual specifics. On the flip side of your argument, just presenting a list of facts is not persuasive.
Cool. Well I wish you every success. I may suggest a feature for you all.
Depends on your demographic, I guess. My 8-year-old desktop was built with 16GB and that was middle of the road even then. Only a 64GB SSD at the start, though. I didn't see laptops really take over from desktops for a few years after that.
Again I don't understand your point. Obviously it's possible to live in a city without a car and with kids and some percentage of people will chose to do that for a variety of reasons. Nobody is disputing that.

Both US and other counties have cities where you can live without a car and some people do that. If that's all you are claiming then sure I agree.

My point is simply that the likelihood of someone wanting/needing a car goes up as they have kids. Are you telling me that the likelihood of a Parisian family moving out of the city and/or getting a car doesn't statistically increase with every incremental child? I'd find that hard to believe.

I would also bet that there are very few Parisian families having 3+ kids while it's more likely outside of the city, same as in the US.
And of note . . . the majority of the US military comes from the middle three quintiles of income. It is literally a middle-class institution.

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/demographics-us-military
Yes, in Shenzhen.
not really. its littered with interfaces, in some cases many levels deep, which in Go is an anti pattern. original author clearly came from Java or some other deeply OOP language. also:

> super-specific use-case

uh, "git diff" is specific?
I’m not sure I’ve ever heard it used as a term of endearment so much as a way of describing someone as strange or atypical while purposefully distancing yourself from them. It’s not flattering, and it’s overtly marginalizing. I don’t take much offence from it, and I don’t find it remotely endearing either. I can’t speak for all people on the spectrum, but I doubt many actually like it.
But you need a computer to receive Miracast for you. Motorola just has a DP video output to a dumb screen.
How to support the tools your projects run on?
It's a reasonable question; I don't know the answer. It might require damaging the device too much to return it to the consumer at that point? Or maybe they can't due to contractual reasons? It might be worth asking them on Reddit.
There's some irony introduced at the end of your post. You became that which you deride.
In Late August (2013) [pdf]
Sea life in that area is very used to hot water temperatures in July and August. [1]

[1] https://www.seatemperature.org/north-america/united-states/k...
Maybe it's my job, but I don't see a lot of Go code treating errors as anything but strings. Errors I get from Go programs are similarly vague and redundant and lacking context. ("error from RPC: failure making from call: couldn't complete operation: 7 is not a valid flag" ah thanks, so much better than stack trace)

Also it's the weekend and I'm just bitching.
Not to mention, the ones doxxing prostitutes also have a good reason to do so - perhaps creating a smokescreen around their own pedophilic closet. We already saw this in various ways, including the campaigns against gays and drug users.
We got K-pop, K-drama, and now K-sci--with K-drama pan-chan. It's a little sad that people act this way, but hey, the public has made it VERY clear that they do NOT value dignity, they only value winning.

I think this kind of back-biting and drama is precisely why cultural norms around virtue, dignity, and respect are valuable. I suppose the alternative view is that this is all small beans, and the important thing is that a major discovery was made no matter how messily.
If only there were a modern code editor that supported variable-width tabs that would maintain vertical alignment with variable-width fonts...
Achieving 60% yield on the first GAAFET node in the entire industry is a pretty big accomplishment for Samsung.
Actually, it is likely the libreboot person is in the wrong, she has been involved in a lot of drama
I agree with you. But what do you think about organizations that use a facade of taking down child sex traffickers to cover up the fact that they use virtually all their resources to doxx self-employed adult sex workers?
In financial / crypto trading subcultures it’s quite popular. I don’t control what becomes slang.
I don’t have time to look up tuitions for each state, but that’s highly dependent on where you chose to live. Something that your children have no control over.

I certainly did not have a “very good public university” with $10k tuition. My state flagship (Rutgers) was over $20k per year. Other states public universities were often even more expensive, Berkeley would have cost more than any private university I was accepted to.

If you live somewhere like CA, Texas, or Michigan then more power to you, your kids should have great options. But it’s not advice that transfers. And again, the government is of the position that that 40-60k is your responsibility. I don’t agree with the way higher education is managed either but you’re not opting out of it, your just passing the costs to your kids.
It’s time to be realistic. The technology is so easy, so fundamental and so accessible that we have to accept computers can in the mid term, extract any concept in minutes and that’s how it’s going to be because you really can’t legislate technology like this into a box. You can’t outlaw matrix math because the tradeoff is to give up all privacy and security or generate massive barriers of entry to protect an entire profession (you can only do art if you keep the receipt of every ingredient used which allows gatekeepers to emerge - fundamentally destroying art). 6-10 images is enough to lora anything on a consumer GPU or macbook- you can’t legislate that reality away.

Just like gunpowder, a simple enough chemical compound that was never containable changed warfare and wiped out entire professions, we ain’t ready for it, we’ll wail and gnash for what is lost but it’s done.

Copyright was not made to apply here - it explicitly does not protect style and it’s funny to see the industry trying to get there now (see adobe congressional suggestions) in order to be able to colonize plots in latent space and rent seek them.

Copyright exists to make art work with capitalism - the bigger issue at this point being extraction by rent seeking platforms and monopolies - the technology is not the issue, neither the random schmucks on the internet that use it - the issue can be perfectly seen at Hollywood level now: If consumer products involving art can be made without artists, publishers will do it. Legislate that.
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I don't know about past actions. But my understanding is she didn't create "another GNU Boot," she made a GNU Boot release of Libreboot to allow them to rebase their fork off something that wasn't from 2021.

EDIT: To be clear, I'm not saying the C&D was wrong. Trademarks must be actively defended and I'm not offended that they did so. I just remain unconvinced that Leah Rowe was trying to create another GNU Boot project.
The ability to desolder without damaging a board is an underappreciated skill . It's not a disorder man. You're a geek and there's nothing wrong with that.

Happy to have bumped heads with someone who found something they love. Best wishes.
I believe I'm successfully mocking God, but am I not just a part of it?
Even though it's fundamentally flawed and the author failed to own up to it, I like that paper because it's simple and intriguing. So I'm not mad that the author will keep the CV entry.
Or Tomacco in The Simpsons?
If you have everything you need, why did you complain?

And insults do you no good here. Would any of the hateful words you wrote above mean anything at all to you if I wrote them?
That's totally irrelevant. I didn't say that it didn't exist.

Even if it WERE being advertised openly, there'd still be less of it around than plain old adult prostitution. And as you point out it's NOT being advertised openly. So it is in fact relatively hard to find.

Therefore these guys go for the low-hanging fruit, because as far as they're concerned all prostitution is human trafficking (one of them says exactly that in the article). In their propaganda, it's in their interest to talk as if they were going after children in bondage... except, of course, when they give a count of their cases. That number is going to include everybody.
No. The better question is, why didn't FSF contact Leah before trying to publish their own Libreboot releases at libreboot.at? Why did they try to impersonate Libreboot?

Whatever you may think of Leah publishing an unofficial GNU Boot release for them to rebase off of, she didn't try to impersonate them by buying a confusingly similar domain.

Compare her single reference to an "unofficial GNUBoot release" to this: https://libreboot.at/
I have an opinion on this based just on my own experience trying to climb the ranks of the corporate world.

When someone is promoted to manager, I think it’s an important prerequisite to be competent and know the job your employees are doing. When you are new to management, it’s very rewarding to be able to teach and mentor.

In this environment it makes it easier to pick up broader management skills. It allows you to add value right away while you develop a broader set of management skills.

As you broaden that skill set you can start to broaden your scope and start learning how to manage people where you no longer can directly do what they do.

This approach isn’t always feasible for multiple reasons - sometimes the people that are highly skilled in their job don’t always make the best managers. The converse is true is well - sometimes people that aren’t highly skilled at their job end up making great managers.

Management is an interesting subject and I try really hard to learn and be a good manager. Along the way I’ve developed my own opinion of what makes a great manager, and beyond that a great leader. This doc definitely has some good tidbits.
The problem is that with Apple, when anything needs calibration, that's used as an excuse to serialize the part. Apple doesn't release calibration tools to the public, nor can you program it yourself because there's public key crypto cancer everywhere.

In a world where Apple wasn't trying to dynamite the repair industry, they'd have a website with all their calibration tools and low level format documentation on it. Things that actually need to be paired for security reasons (e.g. fingerprint sensors, TrueDepth cameras, the angle sensor, etc) would have a click-through notification saying "hey, if you didn't get this part fixed someone might be spying on you" and simple tests to verify that the new part works, instead of just permanently disabling the associated features (Touch ID, Face ID, the ability to put your MacBook to sleep).

The phrase "undue burden" is probably going through your head. The problem is that Apple wants you to think it's an undue burden for them to make their devices more repairable. Their process for locking out repair shops is to find a plausibly deniable reason to do so - i.e. security - and then half-ass everything associated with that. So the actual security rationale gets implemented but all the 'ecosystem stuff' Apple is normally very good at just... isn't there.

Releasing calibration tools for this sort of thing would be a rounding error in Apple's accounting. And it would improve people's perceptions of their products, too. The thing is, I already knew about this problem despite not knowing there was a calibration step involved. /r/ipad would regularly get posts once a week about people whose iPads just couldn't draw lines straight, and I just assumed I'd gotten lucky with my iPad Pro M1. Turns out, they all had gotten their screens replaced at one point or another, and there's ZERO indication that doing so will fuck up your Pencil digitizer.

People assume Apple's actions are anti-consumer because Apple - and, as you pointed out, the entire industry - has eroded their own trust by gaslighting users. No buddy, it's for your safety and security that we fuck up your pencil and break Face ID if you get a screen swap.

The users might as well gaslight Apple back.

> Don't get me started on how superior the lightning connector is for daily use - predominantly charging

USB-C as an ecosystem is hilariously poorly thought out but charging is the one thing I can reliably do with it. The only problem I've had is getting USB-C cables that will carry video or charge at high voltage. That last one miiight sound like a point in Lightning's favor except for the fact that it's only a problem at laptop charger levels. Apple switched their entire laptop range to USB-C back in 2016 and the only iPad that still charges with Lightning is the last-gen model. If Lightning was superior for charging Apple would have used that on their laptops instead.

You can get dodgy Lightning cables from the same people selling dodgy USB-C. Both will be uncertified knock-off garbage made by people who probably aren't paying royalties to anyone - neither Apple nor USB-IF.
Maybe the goal should just be to try to make sure no one falls below the floor.

This approach widens the achievement gap between rich and poor.

- If you're unchallenged at school and have rich, college-educated parents, they can pay for tutors or teach you at home.

- If your parents are working two jobs to make ends meet, your SOL.

The public education system is meant to give opportunity to everyone, not just the rich.
If it turns out all you need to make STP superconductors is a furnace (granted, a good lab furnace) and some lead and potassium, there are thousands of foundries across the world that will start making it and its variants with no regard for IP rights. Semiconductors regularly use similar processes during production and they're not the hard ones, so it seems like good news if it's just the recipe that needs to be copied.

It's pretty great for humanity if it turns out to be real and relatively simple to produce.
> So take a function that returns a random shuffled deck of cards with 52! possible real number vector outputs.

that is not a function in the (mathematical) sense that the article is talking about. a function is a mapping from a set of inputs to a set of outputs, and the same input will always map to the same output. (in programming terms it's what you would call a "pure function")
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Right, these concerns are predicated on apps built natively on FedNow gaining market share to rival Venmo enough that these transactions are no longer opaque. If everybody uses it the same way they use ACH, there's no difference to the state of the world today.
How is it better than Tor?

Can Nym tokens be mined from nothing by participating, or must they be purchased first?

Is there any technical reason why the network needs a native token and incentivization can't be made via e.g. lightning payments or similar?
This is highly personal, and it is pretty sad that the GNU project name is being involved in this drama that doesn't have much to do with them.

They (GNU Boot) don't want her help, and I understand why they don't like her. The fact she is making more drama from it is more proof that she is not trustworthy.

EDIT: I was wrong
But this isn't really a C&D letter. It's just a request to stop using their name. Feels like Rowe is assigning it the C&D label, probably since it makes things sound more dramatic, when it really isn't.
Notably, Lightning is designed to do the opposite. Whoops, the 1 cent connector broke, time for a new iPhone.
"string together strings of characters" = "manipulate symbols", no?
I think we both agree that A did something wrong and that B followed the locking algorithm correctly. "Falsely" refers to a matter of fact: A is not dead.

You're right that A could try to stop, but I think it's more complicated than that. A is calling a third party API, which may not have a way to cancel an in-flight request. If A can't cancel, then A should refresh its claim on the lock. A must have done neither in the example.
> I would not be opposed to a world that incentivizes continual work for everyone

Should my parents never have been able to retire? My mom retired at 53 after working on the school system for 30 years because her pension was invested in stocks. My dad retired at 55 based on stock in his company - he was factory worker. They are now 80 and 78 and have four checks deposited in their accounts every month - social security, a pension and an annuity.

> Or VCs instead of software developers

I hope to retire one day based on my investments as a software developer based on earnings I made as far back in 1996
with something else (clever appeal to authority and personal attacks)

One thing about personal attacks. Some people take sides on an issue based on their political alliance. That means many times their arguments are contradictory. Pointing this or hypocrisy out is a personal attack but it also shows their arguments are disingenuous.
Micro-USB had the opposite problem: all the wear would go to the female socket - i.e. the part you had to fix with a soldering iron. It's possible that they're just not aware that USB-IF fixed this design flaw.
> Now, a vector really is just an arbitrary function

Not really grokking this. Seems to come out of nowhere.
One good development is that if you buy a Microsoft Surface Go 2/3, you can easily install Linux with Gnome, it works great and you can get rid of both Windows/iOS dependencies at the same time. It's also easy to glue a metal Linux sticker over the Windows logo so you won't even notice MS underneath. PineTab2 is impossible to use due to a missing WiFi driver (!?)
You could always use free format COBOL.

https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io/faq/index.html#do-you-have-a...
You must not take them out and try and use them somewhere cold.
I think the ultimate question for me is, does increased tedium demand/imply/require "attention", or does it just create a new opportunity for mistake? If devs are so frequently writing these "check()" style functions, are they paying attention to or ignoring errors?
I'm not a revolutionary/anarchist and never have been. Does that answer your question?
It's a pretty complex and manual process. You need tons of space, and it's usually built with composites. It's pretty challenging to inspect them for flaws once they are built too.

Afaik, they are built in dedicated factories but usually on the same continent (at least!) as where they are going to get installed.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2017-01/msg00001...
Check out this guy https://twitter.com/staticmaker1

He recently started https://boringcashcow.com/
> Passive voice over a completely open system

??

What does that even mean?
Two hours with a transfer to fifteen minutes is a bit much (not that I doubt such poor public transportation options exist), but the mental toll of driving, even just fifteen minutes is not to be ignored.
Historian Tim Snyder

https://archive.li/IV4Xt

The Yale professor on why the west got Putin wrong — and what the past tells us about the war in Ukraine

“The war in Ukraine is horrible, but the fact that Russia wasn’t appeased is a sign that I’d like to think we have learnt something.”

In other ways, however, Snyder laments western policymakers’ long and still tortured reading of Russia — a problem that beset Barack Obama, and still afflicts Germany and France.

“Our misreading of Russia is deep. Very deep,” Snyder says.
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If you look at the web page in question:

<https://web.archive.org/web/20230719185342/https://libreboot...>

then you might agree that GNU Boot may have a point that the web page is (or was) using the name “GNU Boot” confusingly. Accordingly, they asked it to be changed, albeit somewhat confrontationally and brusquely.
TSMC was "conservative" transitioning to finfet and such, and this caution served them well.

But maybe the particular decision to wait on gaafet is biting them in the butt.
Don't make a cut you aren't happy with either side of.
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I've heard many times from many places "the military produces so many extraordinary leaders, I wonder how they do it". I don't know what your experience has been, but my experience in the Navy was that they "create" leaders the same way a blast furnace "creates" purified iron; by taking in vast quantities of low-quality ore and burning and discarding 95% of it. All of the programs I completed had attrition rates of 70-90%. I always got the impression military training programs knew how to select people who already had the skills required, and typically had no idea how to teach someone who didn't already know everything. But that's just my experience from the programs I completed. I certainly hope other people had different experiences.
I don’t really care and just use code as shorthand. I’ve never worked in the past 30 years where there were programmers and then low level coders doing stuff. We were all the same.

There are people who can code and people who can’t. And people who code are sometimes good and sometimes bad.

For me coder == programmer == developer == engineer and should just mean you can create software.

I’ve always found people who argue over this stuff pedantic and ran into people who thought “programmers are lowly, I’m a X” usually sucked.
> I could just as well as chosen to work for a company that paid me up front in cash my market.

That's not how it works. Which non-equity jobs have a significantly higher base pay than the BigCos themselves who do offer equity in addition to paychecks?
> If you have everything you need, why did you complain?

Because it’s a forum for discussing technology? Why critique anything with that logic. You must be trolling.
Could you please provide evidence of a 90% tax rate? I don't believe you.
Not a big drinker but I find that I have a hangover from wine (sulfites?) and beer (carb overload?) but not tequila or mezcal. If I want to have a celebratory drink with dinner, mezcal is the no-regret-tomorrow choice at least for me. Plus being well hydrated.
Yes. I have a friend who works at Geek Squad and had to service someone who got their iPhone chop-shopped. Someone had stolen the phone, swapped out everything with knock-off parts, and then left the phone behind. The victim flagged the phone as lost on Find My so they at least got a free warranty replacement.

The fact that chop-shopping is a thing with phones now does not excuse Apple's parts serialization shenanigans.
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