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> Kate Bush's lovely "Cloudbusting" is about Reich, based on the book his son wrote about driving around the Maine countryside with WR and his cloudbusting machine.

If memory serves, I saw an interview with KB where she said the book was written by Reich's son when he was in a Swiss hospital recovering from a motorcycle accident.

I got the idea that the book was a product of withdrawal from painkillers. Making it rather like Naked Lunch.
the $500 fine was the max allowed. when i appeared in court, they presented me the with the max and threat of jail time in the hopes i would provide information in trade for a reduction. there's a whole lot more to the situation that i'm not going into in a public forum, so you can continue to ponder the situation like you know everything.

based on the max fines being $500 for the tickets i received, i would absolutely hope that some idiot throwing a lit cigarette to the ground in a national park would be hit with a maximum fine as well. at this point, i wouldn't mind living in whatever cotton candy land you live in where a lit cigarette starting a forest fire than burns down half the state is a "slight offense". "potentially life-altering for low-income people" means nothing to me in this regard when other people can lose their home or worse because someone can't be bothered to put out their cancer stick.
On your homepage https://www.openstatus.dev/ the Star on Github button shows 0. I think it should show the actual count 2.3k.
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Especially as long as it needs to send your data to the cloud to work.
Indeed. I’d love that with glasses as well - having perfect photographic memory of everything I see or hear, augmented by an AI that can correlate events, would be a real superpower.

OTOH, I also watched enough Black Mirror to imagine the societal consequences of that.

And yes, the subscription model indicates they’ll know a lot more about you than the ad copy discloses.

If someone does one that’s fully local with absolutely no strings attached, I’d seriously consider it.
This makes a lot of sense to me. I have a disorder of the sympathetic nervous system (CRPS) and a rare cardiac condition (Brugada Syndrome). The inter-relationships between exercise, cardiac arrythmias and nerve pain flares is very strong and complicated.

I take this as further evidence that exercise is dangerous.
This must be the hardest to parse headline I've ever read.

Doesn't help I've never heard of dish the company, but it's a fairly generic thing you would find in space.

Dealt can either mean give or receive.

Fine can mean ok, or a penalty charge.

Misparking is very similar to mis-sparking.
I got a good laugh out of it.
its funny how most people who complain about copilot dont really know how to leverage it. I NEVER use comments. I should record a video on some tips and best practices
My experience is a first implementation / novice programmer will write Julia code of a similar speed to python. But then an intermediate Julia programmer can adapt that same code to be of order C / Fortran performance, without stopping the novice programmer from being able to work on the code base. So it's this ability to iteratively improve and collaborate across very different skill sets that's really important.

This is quite a different situation to traditional scientific computing.
A bit like Ford naming their EV a Mustang. Hard to think of good new names. Recycle an old one, and leave work early.
I have never understood how can we, in the same breath, admit the horrifying death that await us all, and also parrot that Gilgamesh story or the like about how futile is to resist. Sure, the blood of the virgins doesn't work, but now we have incredibly good science and technology. For God's sake, we even have enough compute to run monstrous language models; I have an inkling that kind of compute would go a long way on simulating cellular processes. Shouldn't we all[1] just go a bit crazy and start trying to prevent our little, chaotic sacks of bio-molecules from going amok?

[^1]:"All", as opposed to just scientists and clinicians.
I'm building a flashcards app using Pouch / Couch DB at the moment. It's not done yet, but I wonder if making the switch to Automerge would be worth it?

Are there any resources to learn more about the differences it makes for a developer, when implementing a traditional Server-client architecture as opposed to a P2P approach? So far, I have only worked with server-client architectures, it's hard for me to estimate the pros / cons.

Also, is there an option for Automerge to sync via a central server instead? Any examples?
it's 9 years later if I jog for like 1 minute (which I can't really even do) I still have severe pain in my ankles and electric shock sensations in my feet. It never went away. Permanent damage.

I used to be able to just run forever and never have any pain. Just 1 week prior to Ciprofloxacin.
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I mean, sure, but that's not to be blamed on ML-anything. It's explicitly the human problem, because against all odds, it turns out that we have been the paperclip optimizers all along.

Yeah, it can go awry, but so far I don't see the problem. And while I appreciate that certain people will actually suffer for the fact that they get rationalized away, I'd rather superfluous workers get to live on a hypothetical monthly allowance (huh, wonder if we will get THAT right) and do whatever than not allow, say, quadriplegics and the other many disabled people around us to finally tap into their creativity and churn out art, speech, even experience a motor-sensory immediacy they have long ago lost any appreciation for.

The benefits so massively, so drastically outweigh the negatives, starting with more fulfilling artistic creation (at any granularity you want, people pretend like it's only text-to-picture or nothing at all, which is such a silly misunderstanding of what we will enable ourselves to do), round-the-clock therapy, tutoring, mindfulness instruction and help... you name it. Some foul fields and workplaces (yeah, it's not the AI revolution, it's all of humanity and their history with being pricks towards humanity itself that is "rotten to the core") will have to be demolished and cauterized before it can get better, but it's going to still be an overwhelming net positive. Of course, that is if it/we manage to actually amputate the gangrenous limbs of capitalism and bad incentives, bad workplace culture, atrocious treatment of fellow humans - just name it, chances are we have been doing it so, so very wrong.

I reserve skepticism, it's a huge gamble regardless. But just in case people are wondering, we're already beyond the point where this is just merely handy, at this stage, a Hail Mary is pretty much our only option... and there won't be another one like this here "rotten" ML-revolution.
Not to oversimplify, but Reich saw a direct connection between the urge to fascism and the failure to find a state of sexual contentment (for lack of a better word).
Maybe they consider that after destroying so thoroughly and completely a probably innocent man's life, it's just better to get the job done once and forever.
>fair working conditions

Ironic, considering that tech workers have by far the best working conditions of the working class.
> I can now have multiple sub interpreters running concurrently and accessing the same shared state in a thread-safe C++ library.

Can sub-interpreters be used to share a db/http/etc connection pool across multiple processes?
So far all my interactions with AI in production have involved me trying to figure out the right prompt to be able to talk to a real person who could then actually solve my problem rather than offer me useless text and no concrete action towards solving my issue.
Well I'm against death penalty, and surely some things seem to have gone wrong in this court case, but the case is not as clear as the Guardian makes it look.
When you read a bit more about the case, you find for instance this:

> At trial, witnesses also testified that Roberson had a bad temper and would shake and spank Nikki when she wouldn’t stop crying.
Still not having heard of clouds, eh?
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I thought it’d be polarising, but when you think Lisp Machines essentially had Emacs and a REPL for their shell, it’s not completely absurd.
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The death penalty isn't the problem here. We arguably still have an innocent person wasting away in prison, which is hardly much better than death.

The problem is a judicial review system that's extremely hesitant to consider exculpatory evidence following a conviction... and here we have an edge case where the conviction was gained by discredited scientific means. Science adapts quickly to new evidence and new methods, and quickly discards old ones; the courts don't work that way.
The majority of papers are also garbage that add nothing to scientific progress, and are just there to satisfy some departments publication or project deliverable quotas.
Sure, not in the traditional sense. Since it does not make small standalone libraries, even though possible, I would not make a native extension with it. But juliacall works fine for Python and R. Quite seamless.
How do CRDTs work with blobs / files?
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>For instance, there are allegations of Steam harassing devs who charge less for games on storefonts with fees cheaper than Steam's 30% cut

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Isn't it in the steam guidelines?

Or it was for steam keys sold outside steam iirc
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> Most other countries seem to rely on direct customer to customer for most transactions

Realtors are everywhere.

In the Netherlands selling a house is mostly exclusive to realtors, and there are good non-realtor alternatives available at a fixed fee for more than a decade. But the consumer wants a realtor. Note that in NL the realtor agreement is exclusive, meaning you cannot use multiple realtors, contrary to many other countries. The result is a much lower realtor fee or appr. 1.5%.
Alternatively you could ask and post the numbers.
You've provided a pretty good synopsis of his book "The Function of the Orgasm". Cheers!
> I guess no URLs with funny characters then. "GET /profile/renée" => 500 error, woohoo.

That's not really a slam dunk. Lots of sites don't let you have your name in the URL at all, and the average person's experience is that their name would be taken by someone else before they signed up.
Often early detection does very little to change when people die. It will mean that 5 year survival rates get better, because you have earlier detection which means more people know they have cancer for five years before they die, rather than finding out they have cancer 3 years before they die.

For lots of people this means they'll get lots of testing, lots of treatment, lots of harm caused by testing and treatment, and some of them will die early, and some of them will die at the same time, and some of them will have their life extended by all this testing and treatment.

It's really complex for the general public to understand this because it involves probability and statistics and these are both things that are very tricky for people to understand. (See eg Monty Hall or regression to the mean or anything involving percentages).
Why is it ironic? What does you comment aim to achieve? It's a statement of a fact, are you implying that should we aim for shittier conditions for tech workers? Really sometimes I wish people would activate braincells before writing
Of course the skeptic tradition is strong here at HN and the article title invites this.

But I think he could possibly be right.

Windows is in a terrible spot. IOS brought a clearly superior computing paradigm that brought billions to the market. Microsoft missed the mobile revolution almost entirely. And while the company still dominates the workplace and has been successfully iterating its decades old products, it’s been clear that gen z, raised on apps, iPads, and chromebooks isn’t blessed with the computer savvy of the millennials.

At the same time, the information overload has hit the workplace too, with mountains of emails, endless Teams meetings, Sharepoint sites packed with decades of files, and databases packed with terabyte of data.

I think increasingly, the human mind is the bottleneck. I personally don’t think LLMs are on a path to AGI, but I do suspect they are going to simulate one, because the thing they are so good at predicting is not what token comes next, but what the human does next. A masterful human predicting machine could be AGIish just enough for Microsoft.

And at any rate, it’s been impressive to watch Bill’s old dog being to learn new tricks at a frantic pace. I have to give them points for risk taking and execution.
Welcome to the wonderful world of function names being translated to the installed language.

My first language is Norwegian, and except for a few that I recall, I constantly have to refer to a website like this[1] to figure out what the hell they decided to call a function in Norwegian.

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Just wondering, is microsoft.com is running on wordpress?
I think yc applications require a linkedin url now! (I read this a short while ago on Reddit, so cannot confirm nor deny)
Yes, but it was a higher end model and didn’t run Amiga native software.

In many ways the native OS was more sophisticated than the unixes that existed back then, but it’s also one of the dead ends in the evolution of computers.
That's quite the reach. Morals are more general than that. This isn't high school debate club.
Its most likely some skeleton building based on distance from skin, probably with some ML model based on trained datasets.

Animation looks like basically figuring out which part of the model moves the most based on training data ( legs for humans, wings for anything that has wings, 4 legged vs 2 legged), and then there is some gradient applied based on dynamic relation of mass with body parts reacting to the movement.
Illinois had to abolish its death penalty after they discovered that they likely executed a dozen innocent people.

Arkansas executed an innocent person. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/us/ledell-lee-dna-testing...

By contrast, someone innocent where DNA evidence was available but untested for 21 years and was left to languish in prison. If the death penalty had been applied, there's no "undo" button.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/l-man-wrongly-imprisone...
You don't have to reinvent the wheel. You just have to use a library instead of using a library and paying someone lol.

There are hundreds of auth libraries out there that you can use. Not one of them charges you per user lol. We been doing this for decades. Why are we now paying companies to do it for us?

This can be said about mailing, logging, and databases. I spent decades building web application not once was it hard to implement these features using libraries.

In fact it easier than ever with the tooling with have today.

No wonder 99% of starts up are losing money and going out of business. They are giving all there money away to the few that survive lol.

I guess the typescript people don't appreciate frameworks like Rails, Django, and Phoenix that implement all these features for you lol.
And now it has been China's turn too. A superpower affliction perhaps.
AI barons.
The solver only has to enumerate every optimal solution.

If you found any optimal solution, you already have the optimal upper and lower bound and therefore you're just iterating through the tree and comparing against the problem relaxation at that point. The worst case scenario for finding multiple solutions is that every solution is optimal but the worst case for a single solution is that you cannot save any work and must check every solution. In other words: the worst case never changes. The algorithm does not get worse in terms of complexity.
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Well, he was only two letters off from ozone.
hard disagree. Extracting information is much more costly (fetch data, feed data (which might be huge) into the model).

Embeddings work really well to store semantic meaning and are great for searching. Or, at least, a 1st stage of searching to filter out the non-relevant content.

I'm working on my own "notes" app, based on embeddings because I 'm tired of never finding what I need due to bad search/tagging/categorizing
max-content/min-content/fit-content already exist, they aren't invalid.
Has anyone utilized multi agents in production curious the use cases
The core of the issue is somewhere else - it's the jury system. It's crazy to me that so much of the American "justice" relies on juries where they are free to ignore any scientific evidence and just vote the way that seems right to them. At the end it's a matter of which side can build a more passionate argument to sway the juries, rather than what evidence is actually presented and its rational meaning. So yeah of course the American judicial system is not willing to review past convictions based on scientific discoveries, because the convictions were rarely made on that basis anyway.
Are there any request that are actually just criminals of various levels covering up their crimes? Since the right to be forgotten exists I've been hearing about this misuse of this right but never have I seen one case been presented to show how it is being misused. If you don't know of such a case on what is your opinion of this right based then?
Guilty until proven innocent VS. Innocent until proven guilty..
> Latency might be okay.

Nope. Not for real-time gaming which is the topic at hand. Certainly not at scale. Certainly not at the kind of volume of events that gaming produces.
That's circumstantial evidence.
Yes and no. It might be faster the first time, maybe not so much the consecutive times. Especially when the AI assistant is not doing what you intended.
This article has been quite the inspiration for many projects and progress on this front. I think we're seeing more and more developments around CRDTs and local-first frameworks / applications.

I'm working on a few projects in this area:

- https://www.typecell.org - Notion meets Notebook-style live programming for TypeScript / React

- https://www.blocknotejs.org - a rich text editor built on TipTap / Prosemirror that supports Yjs for local-first collaboration

- https://syncedstore.org - a wrapper around Yjs for easier development

In my experience so far, some things get more complicated when building a local-first application, and some things get a lot easier. What gets easier is that once you've modeled and implemented the data-layer (which does require you to rethink / unlearn a few principles), you don't need to worry about data-fetching, errors etc. as much as in a regular "API-based" app.

Another interesting video I recommend on this topic is about Linear's "Sync Engine" which employs some of the local-first techniques as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo2m3jaJixU
Genuinely interested to know why - without being present - you think this would not have provided some sort of measurement of this. While it wasn’t scientifically devised it also wasn’t just “play a couple of things”.
Debian, for example, has an opt-in telemetry. Would you apply that to Debian?
I'm not sure .. I think multiple people on a project can be a really good thing. Will definitely be interesting to see if new art forms develop off the back of this though.
Ask HN: Pain in thumb when using MacBook Pro's touchpad
I have started to feel pain in the muscle at the base of my right thumb. This is due to using the built-in touchpad of my MacBook Pro.

I have no problem with my left hand, so I believe the keyboard is not the problem.

Does anyone else experience that? Most of the material I can find talk about wrist pain, but that's not my issue.

I've been trying to make changes to my posture. I've realized that I was keeping constantly my right thumb in a slightly elevated manner, maybe to avoid having it touch the touchpad. I've tried to correct that by forcing myself to let my right thumb rest on the touchpad, but this feels very unnatural, and I feel it actually also puts strain on my thumb.

How do you guys position your right thumb? Is it resting on the touchpad or the frame of the mac?
As somebody who rates well within the top 1% of the population in applied math and top 10% of the population with a 4 year degree, as determined by the GT component of the ASVAB, bad math performance is the least of education’s problems.

The much larger problem is the complete inability to communicate in writing. I see this in adult software developers and it’s absolutely mind blowing, like completely astounding shocking.

I learned to write essays and research papers when I was 9 in Texas public schools (3rd grade). There is no magic there. The magic pattern was an introduction, 3 supporting paragraphs, and then a conclusion. Finally, list some citations if any. It absolutely blows my mind that so many adults with a 4 year degree cannot even write a few sentences into an email. WTF!
> keeping honeybees is actually adding some strain to local ecosystems

How does that compare to intensive agriculture and pesticides? Seems like the honeybees impact would be marginal then?
The Guardian's original article before the appeal was denied covered this I think

>Its argument cites testimony from Teddie, Roberson’s estranged girlfriend, who said he had a bad temper and would yell at Nikki and hit her. Roberson’s legal team counter that Teddie was not a credible witness. Her own sister testified for Roberson, insisting she had never seen him mistreat Nikki and telling the jury Teddie had a problem with telling the truth.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/24/texas-death-ro...
For the claim to be right, not only do AI assistants need to be revolutionary, it has to be microsoft's version that is the breakout star. And that's a lot to get right all at once.