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PoW (minus bitcoin, which is bad anyway for many other reasons) contributes an incalculably insignificant amount of energy to the atmosphere. It's much, MUCH more important to protect the free internet.

Sorry it's hot there but this is absurd virtue signaling and should under no circumstance come into view as a reason to not do PoW.
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No, I think it makes the the experience strictly better for normal ("real") users. On phones it might burn too much battery, but on desktops or plugged in laptops dedicated users can configure their user agent to send in difficult proof of work submissions, getting closer to the front of the line. The actual problem starts when each individual request coming from the botnet starts submitting more proof of work then the real users can tolerate (due to taking too long), and that's where it's pretty much the same as before the DDoS protection system existed.
They might not be acted upon, but they could still be sent, up to a "gatekeeper" brain segment.
The thing is, you can literally buy time.
Pay for someone to clean your house. Pay for someone to clean your meals. Pay for someone to do your tax.
And eventually, if you have enough money, working at all becomes entirely optional. If you have 10 million dollars, you don't _have_ to ever work again to live a good life. You can choose to work more, either because you enjoy your work or because you want your life to be lavish instead of merely comfortable, but that's purely a choice.
If you find the time scale interesting, see also the “Long-term nuclear waste warning messages” wikipedia page[1], elaborating on semiotics in this context.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warn...
We really should say "a human genome". Reference genomes serve as a Rosetta Stone of genomics. So we can take DNA/RNA sequences from other individuals and align (pattern match) them to the reference as a way of understanding and comparing individuals.

It is not perfect, as a references can be missing or have large variability in DNA regions. The goal of the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium (HPRC) https://humanpangenome.org/ is to sequence individuals from different populations to address this issue. We are also working to develop new computation models to support analysis of data across populations.
IIRC, snapdrop does compress/process pictures. Anecdotal evidence is receiving .jpeg's on my PC after sending .heic's from my iPhone.
It should be my choice as the consumer to ask an independent repair person to install a cheaper or refurbished part in my device. I think it's great that Apple warns users that a new part was installed and whether it's a genuine Apple part of not. But it should be my right to accept that risk and move on. I don't give the most minuscule damn about how Apple having to deal with "broad hardware quality and compatibility". Let the trillion dollar company figure that out.

> An older laptop is quite often not worth to fix with genuine parts (that are expensive in part due to quality control)

A huge lie. Older macs would usually be worth the fix with genuine parts, which don't exist because of greed. If parts were expensive because of quality control, Apple products would cost 10x more. If Apple gets regulated to provide parts for non-exorbitant prices, their devices wouldn't necessarily have to change price.
How do you build a bundle for Linux from macOS? In my experience this is only possible with Docker, and is a huge weakness of the Python ecosystem. Would love to hear solutions.
if a user uploads a graph of information, it could validate parts of the edge conditions and return all the incorrect edges to be resolved. previously you'd have to return an errors list around you kept appending during processing.
And while you mention one article with a negative experience, tons of positive article came out too.

GitHub copilot is really good and useful.

All demos I saw which use LLMs were spectacular.

The ai race started this year for everyone which means we will continuesly see progress.

And while you only mention LlM the whole ai space is crazy.

There is a high chance that the architecture from LLMs will change.

And we haven't even touched all possibilities with multi modal LLM models.
What Website did block ChatGPT? I created a Chrome Plugin for that
This extensions checks if a website blocked ChatGPT or ChatGPT Plugins for accessing their content.
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>If being unable to support themselves is the concern, why not make that the actual requirement to stay...

That's a good idea. That's how it is here in Japan: knowing the language is good, and gets you some points on your visa, but it's not a requirement. If you have a high-paying job offer from a sponsoring company, and a good educational and professional background (or other factors, like if you're in academia), then that's good too. They figure you'll learn the language on your own in that case.

If you have no education and no way to support yourself, and can't communicate with anyone, why would they want you? Unless it's to exploit you. I don't think we should be promoting exploitation.

>Versus of an indirect and error-prone language requirement set by what are probably a bunch of old white monolingual men in Washington, DC?

US doesn't have a language requirement. We're talking about Canada, so you mean a bunch of white bilingual (English/French) people in Ottawa.
No, he's just observant. Historical periods change how culture operates and what parts are relevant. There hasn't been a counterculture for some time, including there not being one when most of us here were young. The last throws were in the 80s.

There are structural and cultural reasons that make it difficult to have one now (the internet's total immediacy and transparency of everything, post-modernism which means nothing is ever really new now, just recombinations).
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Haha, tactfully put there -- and a very good point!

Well, OnlyFans might appeal to male audiences, I suspect it won't appeal as much to female ones!

Additionally, there's plenty of people who also don't want to watch 'live adult content' be it for lifestyle, recovery, moral, personal or religious reasons. Eg. men pursuing NoFap.

I do also believe insomnia reduces sexual libido.
if you don't know your worth, you're entering the job market in a position of relative weakness, and no amount of third grade negotiation tricks like "not telling the first number" will make up for it.

what do you think, that by witholding that number, they'll start negotiating from the upper half of their budget range? that's wishful thinking, at best. no, they will offer whatever they think they'll get away with, and it will pin your salary discussion to a number they decided

I have no idea how people think that that is a good outcome.
I have a bunch of things I want to use them for. amongst them

* tutorials and other show and tell type stuff.

* troubleshooting: have a collaboratively-authored runbook that queries APIs, loads/aggregates data in some way and allows people to interactively examine response data (like a debug terminal sort of thing but with graphing etc)

I think they're really exciting.
> A deliberately stretched example. Apple laptops are claimed to not need camera privacy shutter, because the recording light is hardware controlled,

Hardware controlled is either a physycal switch or a hardware circuitry linked to the start of streaming from the camera which is difficult to implement (you need to decode the stream in hw).

So i really think that Apple is lying here.
What about caching the database itself on the application server?

Is there some kind of SQL client library that can somehow cache records from the DB, and P2P cache with other application servers, but then make sure everything is synced with the main server?

Wouldn't it be ideal to have just the parts of the DB that each user needed kept close to that user?
I appreciate the brevity, but my brain seems to function way better on a healthy dose of white space.

I need to practice some of these alternative methods.
It would not necessary be possible, because it's incremental instructions on how to make the hardware, but based on already existing, unspecified and very complex, hardware. So the first instruction would be something like "take the stuff you have on your left and fuse it with the stuff you have on your right", both stuff being unspecified very complex protein assumed to be present.
The government does not require any assistance in being incompetent.
“Build first, find a market later” mindset will kill your business
> The most obvious failure is linearly polarized light output.

That's not a failure of the display module per se, but a dealer handwaving "suitable substitute" without authority while failing to satisfy a performance requirement that's observable but not abundantly obvious.

In other words, third parties without privileged design knowledge tend to operate on a naive "it's a suitable substitute because it fits" paradigm, which is good enough in many cases, but the risk of a repair based on this model being met with dissatisfaction tends to increase with the character/complexity of a replaceable component and/or sub-assembly, which may not be independently discoverable or even documented.

As a trivial example, you may independently observe a simple 470-ohm 0805 SMT resistor in my design, and you could certainly purchase a quality replacement on the market that "fits"...but the unacknowledged risk in doing so is not knowing with certainty whether my design intent surrounding that component depends on other salient characteristics, e.g. composition, power rating, tempco, operating range, endurance, etc.
How did you dig? With a shovel? Or some other equipment? How many rings did it take?
Apple likely discovered that with minor modifications (like the right to prominently discredit "unlicensed" spare parts) they can:

1.) prominently "devalue" parts where Apple is not earning money, apply the "Licensed by Apple" model from accessories (which comes with annual member fees, steep certification costs and per-unit revenue share) to component manufacturers, which then charge a premium for components to not trigger the "non-genuine part" alarm on the device...

1.) create an UBER-like business model for "Apple-recommended" repair shops, where Apple has even less obligation than now, with all costs of compliance to their blessing covered by individual shops, and Apple earning revenue-share from every Apple-customer related transaction in those shops (by only allowing use of licensed parts)...

After all, if Apple moves to USB-C on the iPhone, and the EU regulation has no loop-hole for them to only allow "Apple-licensed" USB-C cables, they need to compensate for that loss of revenue...
I'm curious how many people here actually don't get support from their employer for learning skills that are needed? Personally I've never had a problem learning things required by work, at work.

The extra learning that I do outside of work hours is all for me, keeping my skills up to date means that I've got a lot more options available if I need to move jobs.
so, what would be your db choice for OLAP?
What good does it do to have upvotes and downvotes on a site, if you have no tools available to discriminate between them. When most comments turn out to be obvious, redundant or repetitive, a tool that identifies the pertinent portions of a discussion seems not only in good order, but becomes an imperative for growth at some point. Asking every participant to make these discernments is a giant waste of valuable people's time.
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Destroyed and brought back by Stalin.
I'd go further and claim anyone benefits from trauma therapy, which is basically about healthy boundaries between you and the world, how nobody but you yourself are responsible for your feelings, how to regulate and enjoy every emotion, how to accept and welcome death, nonviolent communication, trauma-sensitive awareness of your own thoughts and (re)actions, how to tune your own belief systems more towards your own enjoyment and the benefit of those around you, the power of stories you tell yourself about the world and the power of rituals, etc.
>wfh

Spearheaded because of huge pandemic "extreme condition" measures, with more to come.

>automating away exploitative labor

And relegating of pesky ex-workers to slums Soylent Green / Ellysium style.

>intentionally not having kids/imploding nuclear family as the norm

Massive demographic collapse, with societies full of older selfish adults, Children of Men style.

><50% in US are convinced god exists

But 99% still worships money and the rat race as god.

>local AI/ML threatening copyright rent seekers

And non-local AI killing the livehoods of artists and creatives, for the benefit of AI corporate overlords.

>online retail impact on brick and mortar

Consolidation of consumer market on a handful or corporate behemoths, Robocop style.

You say all those things as if they're good...

(And the fact that "steam/proton" even makes the list as something of similar importance is cherry on top)
> We can already provide all of that for very cheap if people are willing to accept standards from some decades ago. But they aren't. They want the expensive stuff.

The three main things which have skyrocketed in price since the 70s are higher education, healthcare, and housing. On top of that, over-credentialized jobs now require bachelor’s degrees for things which used to require high school diplomas. This fact alone has meant that young people today start their careers significantly poorer than their parents did.

Point is, it’s not just about the prices of sneakers and pasta. For all of the most important costs in life, things have gotten much more expensive.
"Business founder" is very different than "startup founder" though, at least as it is understood on this forum.
i wish people would just call autodiff (or at least describe it) as numerical chain rule, because that’s quite literally all it is (plus a few tricks for not explicitly computing the jacobian for certain operations), it’s a lot more clear that way
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It might be, but a light hearted joke shouldn’t be looked at as a bad/offensive behavior, if you don’t like it, ignore it, someone else might like it, we are not the same, something for you maybe is a no no to joke about, for someone else it isn’t so why gatekeeping the conversation? I do agree on not overdoing it since after all that’s not what I’m here for.

>but I think overall the community agrees (through up/downvoting) that humor on HN should be fairly rare.

I disagree with that from two perspectives, for one, the majority of the site’s users are lurkers (I’ve been lurking since 2007ish, first account I made in 2014 and barely used it to comment, and made this mainly to engage a month ago), and these up/down votes only account the users who engage in the comments. The second side is, I believe it’s a different personalities, the ones who engage in comments up/down votes are mostly the intense ones who comes out usually as condescending, since being that after all might get them some of these kudos, and the ones who don’t engage in up/down voting are the relaxed personalities who don’t mind to have some humor from time to time, hence the comments in here saying they don’t favor humor will get more votes than the others, because they are the ones who engage and care about these votes to start with, but that’s my personal observation only.
It means that they are trying to find a baseline from which they can eventually clone a human being.

Let's not pretend that this is not an end goal. It always was.
I also became one among the 10,000 just now.
I wonder if the GPTBot web crawler respects robot.txt.
A counterculture with corporations, millitary, CIA, countries, munipalities, universities, and so on, flying the flags?
> I feel like this anti car sentiment comes from people who already don't have access to a car and have already molded their lives around public transportation and of course then it is easy to say we should get rid of cars.

Are you sure you haven't been indoctrinated by the car industry that pushed you into this car dependency? It was the car industry that bought and destroyed the US street cars, that made jaywalking illegal in the US (no other country has those laws in such a strict manner) and lobbied quite hard to make cities are place for cars rather than people. If it's a war on cars, then it's just the long overdue counter offensive against cars.

In all seriousness, I don't have a car (there's a car sharing in my city, but even for heavy loads I borrow a cargobike) but I also don't see the need to get rid of cars.

It's just two points: Restrict the public space they take up in our cities and give people the choice to pick an alternative to the car. If you walk out the door in the morning and have options for your way to work, be it your bicycle, public transport or because you need to carry something large this morning, a car sharing vehicle, wouldn't that be a true freedom?
wasnt futex one of the biggst security holes ever found in modern Linux?
If you meant with irony that the message is so pressing to do continuous learning, fight depression, prevent vascular damage, put material success in its own merit, prevent pressure issues, prevent cholesterol issues and be socially active...
1. Find a problem

2. Make sure it's a common problem

3. Check that it is a valuable problem - lots of people forget this!

4. Solve the problem

5. Reach all the people with the problem using Sales and Marketing

6. Profit!
It’s actually not. You can be sure that there will be manufacturers out there who will skimp on quality to make some money at a lower price, and repair shops will buy that stuff to grow their margins.

There are plenty of things (e.g. phone cases) that are sold on the open market, but they still get knocked off, and those knockoffs sell because they are cheap.
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This is equivalent to people fretting over using plastic drinking straws when certain industrial uses are exempt from environmental laws. The vast, vast majority of aquifer depletion is for impractical crops that should never be grown where they are and wouldn’t be if our water rights laws made any sense.

You tapping in one of these wells means very little in the context of this important topic.
We built a OS (compiler) on top of our OS(windows) on top of our OS(web broswer) on top of our OS.js
Even if that was true, that is still an OS problem that allows an experienced user to get a system to that stage unintentionally with no obvious cause or way to stop it.
While you are correct, the differences between different people's DNA is tiny, less 1% at best. So this information is still very valuable. This article is talking about the first time in finishing sequencing one person's Y chromosome's DNA.
You could swap 4 and 5? Or parallelize them?
If you're interested in 64k intros, check out https://64k-scene.github.io/ (I've just created it and shared it for the first time yesterday).

One goal is to make 64k demos more accessible: for people to discover demos, and for people who are interested in the technical details. This will need some more iterations.
Would be nice to be able to centrally manage subscriptions through your bank. Or perhaps better yet, to roll them into taxes, which would avoid some issues going through banks would cause, and offer a nice symmetry to how one-time purchases work.

To me, all those subscriptions have a management overhead that's often greater than their sticker price. Here, $30/month is actually better than $3/month, because there's only so many $30 things that will fit into my "I like it but it's not a strit necessity" monthly budget. But that same budget will fit 10x as many $3/month subscriptions, and the amount is small enough that it's easy to ignore, and it's easy to lose track of all such subscriptions (and then tracking them down and re-evaluating whether you need them feels like more effort per subscription than that $3 or $1 or whatever).

The bigger overhead, however, is relationships. Each subscription is a business relationship, and one I do not want to have. This is where the tax angle, and aforementioned symmetry with one-time purchases, would come into play: for regular one-time payments for goods and services, I do not need to establish ongoing relationships with the providers, because government does it for me. It rolls them all into a neat package by means of generic consumer protection laws, which allow me to not care or remember about any particular vendor if all is right, and if something goes wrong, all I need is to have a standard proof of purchase (receipt or invoice), and a set of standard keywords to put into an e-mail ("warranty", "non-compliant goods", "GDPR", etc.), and things magically right themselves most of the time. Worst case, I need to also remember which form to fill to get courts involved.

That's such a huge win, that most people don't even see it. Whenever you go to buy your daily bread, or get a haircut, you do not need to stick to the same vendor, or sign a contract with them, or otherwise care about ongoing relationship. You can, if you want, but you do not have to, and that's despite the vendor very much wanting you to. The relationship exists, but it's managed for you, centrally, by your local regulator - making purchases O(1) with respect to number of vendors. Whether you shop at one place or a thousand, the overhead is the same.

I would like that to extend to recurring services too. There is absolutely no need for a random SaaS to force me into having a relationship with them. I would prefer to have a standardized process of billing and resolving disputes that lets avoid having to study everyone's individual ToS, or dealing with vendors' dark pattern bullshit. I want to focus on making use of the service, not on who provides it. That's the symmetry rolling subscriptions into tax system would provide.
Nobody has any clue what "competing with Hashicorp" actually means now, or what it might mean in the future (what if Oracle buys Hashicorp?). It's vaguely defined deliberately.

Most businesses don't like to take vague legal risks.
oh, ha. yeah, that was sort of the root of the joke. companies like Celera, or whoever had the money would write a (large) check for big iron.

smaller organizations were realizing they could get slower computers power pretty cheap, and they could get a whole lot of them. There was a little flurry of activity with flocking algorithms, objective-c had a little renaissance due to swarm computing. probably the most famous and lasting was map-reduce, from alphabet, but they were called google back then.

there were a bunch of clever little tricks, like channel bonded network cards to make multiple cards look like one fast card, so you could double or triple bandwidth.

The beowulf cluster joke was kind of the spirit of the scrappy, make something cool out of junk approach while calling companies like sun, hp, compaq dinosaurs. and it continued for a while with people building stuff like this - https://ncsa30.ncsa.illinois.edu/2003/05/ncsa-creates-sony-p... I think there was some weirdness with export controls of ps2's for this kind of stuff.

I don't remember what pc chip was the new hotness back then, it was a good 20 years ago and my memory is dim.

but that, I think, captures the gist of the meme.
It's countered by not making the assertion and not being able to make conclusions. You only need a lack of confidence for that. It's orders of magnitude easier to not have knowledge compared to having it.
I think it's older.
I don’t want my phone stolen and disassembled for profit. If you steal my phone, it better be as worthless as a rock to you.