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They're talking legacy and heritage.

“It’s the family name that lives on. It’s all that lives on. Not your honor, not your personal glory, family.” — Tywin Lannister
Until they do stuff like CA Prop 13 so the folks who have been rich for a while continue to pay very little property taxes, while the burden rests with anyone trying to buy a home in the past 10-20 years.
Fruits and vegetables will still be affordable, as long as you don't value your time and are willing to limit yourself to a handful of varieties.
> it will leak, and everyone will be able to read these messages.

Again, do you see how this is not a technical argument? It might be a good argument. But its not an argument about the math or the computer science. "We can't trust the police" is a social argument, not a technical argument. A math or CS degree will not help you understand this argument.

Anyway, why would the decryption key be in the hands of "hundreds of thousands of police officers"? Especially when the decryption key itself is useless without access to the encrypted messages themselves. If this were implemented, its much more likely that the police would build themselves a web portal or something through which they could access people's WhatsApp messaging logs. The crypto could all be handled on the data portal backend.

A much stronger argument against this sort of thing is the governmental slippery slope argument. If the UK police gains capabilities like this, you bet every other country will (reasonably) demand similar access. Apple / Meta would have to decide which police / security departments to work with, and thats a very complex problem. Who do you trust? Hungary? Bulgaria? Russia? Iran? Egypt? China? Brazil? Where, exactly, is the line? And should access be revoked after a coup, like in Niger?

Its much easier to just refuse all governmental cooperation. It protects your brand. And makes it much simpler to justify refusing access to police departments who you don't trust.
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The comedy writes itself.

All of the complaints listed here (hot weather, shit-tier public transit, etc) were true of Austin prior to the Great Migration.

Everyone wanted in though because Austin is the first place people think of when they think of Texas, it's the only major city in Texas with rolling hills, it's perceived as the only non-conservative city in Texas (it is not), 6th St and Barton Springs are fun, and Texas has no income tax and cheap real estate.

Now that real estate prices in Austin are significantly higher than they were in the past, a self-induced problem BTW!, and the Real Texas Heat™ has finally come, folks want to move back. (Property tax rates in Texas have always been high, and they only go up every year.)

Austin was always a small town with Texas government and a huge school with a huge American football team (UT Austin). I don't think it was designed with the explosive growth that it has seen in the last 15 years.

Its road design is proof of this. US Interstate 35 cuts right through town and it only has one partial ring road (TX-130). It also has the MoPAC (TX-1), though that expanded and, consequently, became a partial toll road.

Compare this with Houston, where I live. It has three huge interstates going through it (US I-10 east-west; US-45 north-south; Texas I-69/US Hwy 59 SW-NE), one huge and constantly problematic interstate beltway (US I-610) and two state ring roads (TX-8; TX-99). It is designed to accommodate and move a significant population (or significant freight, which it does also).
Austin has always been overrated IMO.

Houston is way bigger, more liberal and diverse (in every dimension, not just race, but it is extremely racially-integrated) than Austin has ever been and has a world-class food scene but gets 1/10th of the hype because...actually, I have no idea why?

Dallas is also way bigger than Austin and actually has a tech scene of sorts (though it is old and enterprise-y) along with more moderate (but still hot) weather but didn't boom like Austin did. Why?
Why guess when there are installation instructions for various platforms on the README at https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher#installing?

Also, although it may not be easy to remember, is this really a problem in practice given the installation count in most contexts is one? If there's a context where it's installed regularly, that's a one-time addition to an install script, Dockerfile, etc. in my experience. Do you have a situation that isn't amenable to that?
I don't understand. In the case of a national security incident, the US gov/military would have popular apps cracked open ASAP.

We live under a global survelliance network and somehow the gentlemen's agreement on keeping end-to-end encryption in place, is the only thing keeping our chat apps private?

One would hope for a concrete privacy that doesn't depend on multi-national corps and nation-states to agree that it should be kept private.

Something else has to be going on here, because nobody could commit to keeping dangerous secrets on whatsapp, after assange and snowden.. right?
The reviewer has issues using a full-color viewfinder for B/W photography.
I don't think there's an answer in one place, but various reasons have been given in many namespacing megathreads:

• Some members think squatting is not a problem, let people take all names, and then people will invent creative ones, like nokogiri in Ruby.

• Adding of namespaces only moves the squatting problem from squatting crate names to squatting namespaces. People like nice namespaces too. What if someone grabs an official-looking namespace like "aws", and what if that's a legit project?

• Using usernames for namespaces makes typosquatting even worse, because many usernames are odd and hard to remember correctly (would you remember digits in winapi's owner handle? Is it BurnSushi, BurntSushi, BurnedSushi?)

• crates.io relies on GitHub for identities, but GitHub usernames are not permanent. Crate names must be permanent. Letting the two out of sync creates new problems.

• Crate names map to Rust identifiers, and there's a bikeshed about separators and ambiguities.

• There's already a ton of non-namespaced crates, which must be supported. Having both namespaces and non-namespaces creates another bunch of bikeshed problems.

• Having anti-squatting policy is laborious to enforce, and handling of disputes was a terrible drain of resources for npm.

• crates.io is understaffed and can't deal with this right now.

• people also proposed different approaches, like UUIDs/hashes/git URLs. There's a current RFC to use existing crates as namespace prefixes for projects.
Lots of people have responded to this with similar strategies to what we used. Keep in mind, my wife was 35 when she went through this. We had a 1 and a half year old, she was breastfeeding and was in decent shape overall. For the first few treatments, she was able to fast for a couple of days before. She did a fairly strict keto diet for a few treatments as well, with her ketone levels being 1.5 millimolar or higher. She did take metformin for a little while, although she quit taking it after a while because she just forgot and was overwhelmed.

All that being said, she pretty much abandoned all of the additional about halfway through her treatments. She had to have half her liver resected, and she had a HIPEC procedure at the same time. When they did the final biopsies on her metastases in her liver, it was 100% dead. She's now been NED (no evidence of disease) for a few years now. I don't have delusions that it will never come back, but I can hope.

I don't know if anything she did helped the chemo do it's job. It's not exactly something you can A/B test. I think it's possible, but I also think her being so young and in good shape to start with made the biggest difference.
It has cheap(er) resources to be able to employ lots of people to work on tuning a large LLM.

Hypothetically thinking only.
Lessons learned on language model safety and misuse
SoftBank's Arm aims for over $52B valuation in biggest US IPO of the year
I don't know where you live but even in my European country you should be anxious when interacting with judicial bureaucracy. Kafka's "The trial" is still relevant today.
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I think it's news worthy because he's the first, not because of who he is.

However, I don't think it's hackernews worthy. There's nothing relevant to tech about this.
Nice back compatibility thinking!
A much simpler theory is that people still value relatively trustworthy entities even if they might not be absolutely trustworthy.
Yes, the planet will live on. But what we’re invested in is that it lives on to support ten billion humans demanding an ever increasing amount of resources per person.
It’s not particularly fragile (it’s gone through things much worse than humans in the past.) But the specific conditions of the Holocene that have been supporting us so nicely are a historical aberration. The ability to support so many people and their livestock (that latter part is not to be underestimated) is much more fragile.
Educate more girls as fast as possible.
You often see "made with 100% juice" which means at least one ingredient is all juice, but there's other stuff in the product as well.
The existence of PoA chains, which have existed for many years, does not disprove my point about the special security of blockchains - those chains lack it, they rely on trust and are fundamentally closed. The special security I refer to is a system which anyone can participate in which has objective and significant costs for revision.
Geezer* Perspective...

[*If not in the USA, read "Old geezer". Credit: Aachen]

Many varieties of "I really regret that I [did|didn't] do X when I was younger" occur in older humans.

The stereotype of young men wanting to avoid all the work and commitment of setting down, marrying, and raising children is older than the pyramids. It is obviously not true of all young men, but there's very seldom been a shortage. Sure, their feelings may change as they grow older - but a young man whose main motive for marriage is "so I don't regret not having kids when I'm old" strikes me as a young man who the young women should avoid.

In some cases, I get the sense that "I really regret not having children" is mostly a way of articulating "I am old and socially disconnected and feel lonely and depressed". In the modern world - where kids generally grow up and move far away for jobs - having had children would probably not help much with that.
Blockchains with zk proofs fix this tho.
Not really. I agree with the statement.

It's applies for many programming groups. Those like to live in their realm, one where that their language is the greatest and thou can't be spoken negative about.

Just try mentioning C++ to a bunch of Go programmers or Python to a bunch of Rust programmers.

Not to say there isn't crossover but it's all ironic really, as most languages were crafted from C.
A good person - may he RIP
This is the paper the post is based on:
https://earth4all.life/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/E4A_People...
Yeah Northern Virginia trapped themselves with that thinking. They can't stop building Datacenters, less they lose tens of thousands of jobs in the region. And the Datacenters know this, that they can beat concessions out of politicians for it.
That's 500 4-hour days of gaming. I imagine a large number of gamers would easily do more than that over a few years of console ownership, so I imagine a large percentage of devices did use more power than the embodied energy.
Very interesting! I used to create some abbreviations in Office which saved me a lot of typing, but usually only for very simple words that I typed very frequently. Never occurred me that I could do sit for a few more words and even phrases.

But I'm wondering if I would be able to learn all these shortcuts. There would be a lot of time invested, and I don't know how stable a solution this is - ie will I be able to use it everyday for the next five years?

I'm betting on the capabilities of LLMs right now - I think they can predict a lot of my typing and save me enough time and, if msft is smart, they will soon enough be present everywhere.
It will absolutely occur. Men who take their kids to the playground by themselves are often confronted (by moms of other kids).
At some point things are so obvious that not many people are going to bother finding a peer reviewed study to cite. Maybe they should but they won't.
While reading this, noticed how Shipwreckworld.com has plenty of content. I'm not sure if NPR or The Guardian added a ton of value.

However, I am sure they spend more effort on capturing impressions. In this context, I sympathize even less with advertisers.
I still maintain that the current (hopefully slowing) unprecedented industrial population explosion - it increased fourfold in just the last hundred years! - was orchestrated by empires to have enough bodies to throw into meatgrinders of total war.

There's too many people. This is insane. Why isn't everyone freaking out. Slow down.
All of the above applied pretty much equally to Fujifilm at this point, though.

I’ve heard it said that Fujifilm is the Leica of the 1970s, today. I think I agree with that.

I love my X-Pro3. It’s 100% a choice I made for the joy of photography, not practicality. I considered Leica. I could afford it, but they just didn’t offer anything Fujifilm didn’t outside the brand itself.
My impression when the IBM PC came out, is that they intended to create an open system. They published the schematics. They encouraged anybody to create hardware and software. Their BIOS was copyrighted, but others came out with compatible BIOS's that were not owned by IBM, and that's what triggered the flood of clones. By the time that PC's reached the 386 level, IBM wasn't driving the bus any more.

The Apple II was an open system, but creating a compatible BIOS that wasn't a copy would have been impossible -- even for Apple, because of widespread software that made creative uses of the variables and entry points in the firmware. the Mac was intended to be a closed system.
It’s explained by the next sentence.

> Instead, he said: “There’s this mistaken belief that men are fertile across their lifespan, so there’s no imperative to get on with it.”
Is this not the case for pretty much any field outside the hard sciences?

https://xkcd.com/435/
In a lot of countries people still think farmers are stupid. Because of that a lot people think that even amateurs can do a better job, as long as they are not a traditional farmer.
Mixed feelings, obviously. Bram Cohen is known for BitTorrent (1), so what he's doing now is of interest simply because of that.

On the other hand, "on-chain gaming" is a poor and uninteresting choice.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen
It's becoming more and more common for single men to adopt children. But yeah, expect some scrutiny. Otherwise we failed as a society.
The article cited a statement by Cuba's government, a Russia's ally. You can't find a more Russian's friendly source.

Remember it's still an "special operation" (despite heavy cost, 500 days and going), resemblance of normalcy at home must be maintained. They used Wagner's fighters who are mercenaries. Use inmates. Use conscripts from remote areas or minority ethnics. They also try to recruit from Central Asia:

https://thediplomat.com/2023/08/russian-military-recruitment...
The new economics of higher ed make going to college a risky bet
Everything from genetic onwards makes sense, but “Game of Thrones”? I’m coming up with nothing too. I can think of familial incest, strife, dysfunction, etc. but no examples of a guy wanting to have kids comes to mind.
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> the entire game is written in C

My apologies, that was clear from your original post but I misread it as saying you were porting into C to use SIMD in Wasm.

Thanks for the stats, that's good data to know.
Ouch! All I want for mastodon is something that removes images that are mostly text: for some reason the angriest of the angry people can’t write their angry toots in text but have to share screen shots, image memes and other crap. I’d pay $9.98 for something that filters images and makes them all go away.
Tour guides are mandatory IMO if you plan on sightseeing.

Otherwise, I like just walking in a direction. I'm not sure if it's the best approach. There are places that are incredibly welcoming to tourists - youth hostels, museums, religious buildings, the occasional barber. I try to visit a barber or some grungy restaurant in every new town, outside a tourist district. It's a good sample of the locals.
There are some specific technical issues with replacing DOM/CSS within the context of a web browser. I worked through a lot of them as a fun mental exercise some months ago, but didn't get all of them, and ended up concluding that you can't fix it because it's against the incentives of browser makers. You could make a new web-like thing though:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oDBw4fWyRNug3_f5mXWdlgDI...

Some of the outstanding issues still to figure out:

• Autofill. Users want browsers to be able to autofill/autocomplete things, but without that leaking personal data to sites unexpectedly (i.e. the content needs to look present but can only actually be present from the API perspective once the user has confirmed they want it).

• Secure composition/iframes. Essential for anything with ads, social buttons and some other use cases. Yes, you can define ads as being out of scope but then a lot of people won't bother to learn your new framework because it will be less general.

Ultimately, the technical problems are severe enough that WASM frameworks will be of limited use, quite possibly forever. It's just not in the interests of browser makers to disintermediate themselves like that. You can get a long way by blending DOM widgets with other stuff though.
At-home mail-in voting is also where the biggest fraud risk is. One of the very rare UK electoral commission cases involved illegal registration and fraudulent postal ballots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlam_v_Rahman
For example, they are also doing it in Berlin.
What data do they have that supports this argument? The consensus is for a peak a bit higher. Given that 6B, 7B, 8B were all hit at consistent/decreasing intervals of ~12 years, it would be surprising if the intervals didn’t get longer before suddenly stopping altogether
I think it’s perfect.

It’s semi modern, it has everything a modern system has, only less of it. (Except a GPU.) It’s nevertheless very simple, and it’s thoroughly documented.

This means you can treat it as an embedded target and code it without any operating system, or you can take advantage of the OS. (AROS m68k if you are putting together a course, rather than the original proprietary ROM files.)
I missed completely that you were discussing just a wrapper and not touching the original ZFS. Completely my bad! Obviously some of my objections become quite moot in that light.
detach yourself from what you are building
Explain how the blockchain will be operated, funded and reasonably/securely perpetuated without involving either cryptocurrency or a central funding authority.

A blockchain funded and controlled by a central authority or group is just a slow and unnecessarily complex database --- wholly built around trust and easily implemented to better effect with less effort/cost by traditional means.
> It enables isolation, decoupling and modularisation and clarifies the system interactions.

That’s what Spring claims but the truth is that using interfaces enables those things. Dependency injection might encourage the use of interfaces, but it also inserts an abstraction between tests and the things you want to test.

In my experience dependency injection frequently obfuscates system interactions and invalidates any assurances you might get from good unit tests.

Dependency injection is just a tool. It can be useful but is often misused and doesn’t perform magic.
How does that relate to Game of Thrones? I’ve only seen the show and can’t think of any examples of that. Is there a character in the books who waits too long to have kids?
To be less dramatic and more realistic than this headline: there is a small set of economics papers which make use of an inaccurate estimate of populations way in the distant past.

Seriously the fraction of papers in which you see these data used is in my personal experience 0. As a fraction of the total amount of economics research produced annually is probably 10^-6 or smaller. It just isn’t necessary in 99.99999% of papers to make any reference to any national or regional populations 2,000 years ago or more.

Also maybe ask the authors of these papers how seriously they take the estimates OR how much weight they ask the estimates to bear in their papers?? “Not very” and “not much” are the most likely answers.
Model code here: https://stockholmuniversity.app.box.com/s/uh7fjh52pvh7yx1mqf...

Interesting kind of model, I would be interested to see how it performs hindcasting. I don't know much about this type of modelling but I suspect it is much too simple to have any real predictive power.
I hope the solar system is someday home to a trillion people. We need more minds working on the problems the universe presents to us. If humans won’t step up to that challenge then maybe our silicon offspring will.
> Strange how there are ads in magazines, on billboards, TV, and radio, without tracking.

But are they?

Magazines are dying, and ads placed in them do their best to make you hop into digital realm, where you can be tracked - think QR codes, "visit https://...", etc; billboards likewise. TV manufacturers are forcing "smart" TVs down customer throats, proper radio is a thing of the past - to the point that people get away with calling web streaming "radio", as if that bore any relation to broadcasting EM waves. Entertainment is generally consumed on-line, and legacy media are either dying or are retrofitted to be mere shells of legacy experience around the on-line core.

It's a subtle thing, really, that people too often miss. Yes, the leaflets are still the same dumb, analogue paper they were 30 years ago. But that QR code on them, should you scan it, is what plugs you into the surveillance economy.
This is a very rosey interpretation of Al-Fayed and glosses over vast swathes of fraud and misrepresentation. A more balanced view can be gained from the Guardian, itself no fan of the British establishment: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/02/mohamed-al-fay...
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> orchestrated by empires

What does this mean? Birthrates were not higher in the last hundred years than previously, We just got better at keeping kids from dying. In fact these days governments are begging people to raise birthrates and failing quite spectacularly at doing so.
will definitely have it in mind, thanks for the input. btw any other tools do you know that doing it?
I feel like most young men have always wanted to extend their youth and avoid the responsibility that family life would bring. However, until recently (with easy access to birth control, abortion, and proper education) this wasn't really possible. You would accidentally have a child and be forced into the lifestyle you were trying to avoid. And most of the time things worked out and you were forced into a situation that's probably better for you rather than delaying it until it's too late. Now that we have 'choice' things are more difficult because you need to actually commit to something life changing. For most people it's impossible to know the 'right time' to do that or for them to have the courage necessary to take the change.