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Politicians should be all tax paid. There should be some entry requirements based on skills and abilities rather than connections/tenure/etc same as everything else.

Campaigns should be paid for with tax money with a strict limit for every candidate and harsh penalties for any under the table bullshit.

Corporations that would nominally donate can just not. And we can fucking tax them appropriately and stop them and their C levels tax dodging at every available opportunity.

The way things are at the moment, democracy is really just a corporation/business, isn't it? Pretty sure all of this is driven by apathy though, the average voter doesn't really care enough about these issues + humans are too easy to manipulate into race/class/etc wars to divide voters and distract them from thinking about the real issues - but the only reason they're so easy to distract is because we're all so self serving; people don't care so long as they can vote for the "team" that says they hate the people they hate.
Yeah. Similarly, the HN convention of removing the number from a listicle doesn't stop them from being listicles, it just means users are more likely to click on them in the mistaken belief that they're a reasoned piece written by a subject matter expert.

And the idea that the worst thing an author can do to grab your attention is stick a number in the title seems quaint in the context of the modern internet. Meanwhile, most of the actual ragebait makes it through unscathed...
Jon Fosse (this year's Nobel Prize winner in literature) - "Septology" I-II, a dreamlike maze of thoughts written in a way I haven't seen before. A hypnotic, meandering stream of consciousness slowly unfolding into an intriguing story.
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Jokes hurts peoples ability to change their mind in my experience. People who make jokes about Trump or Obama and therefore start to make friends and connections based on those thoughts will basically be impossible to reason with.

So the lack of jokes on HN is what makes debates here possible, if we had more jokes we would no longer have debates.
The main problem is bad people, people who put shareholder value above all else.
However, another big problem is good people leaving when bad things happen.
At some point only bad people remain at a company and this will be the fait of Google at some point.
Maybe I misunderstand the wording as non-native speaker, but I prefer making myself happy, and then happiness spreads on its own further, no real effort required. Also its the easiest person to get happy since I know quite well what I want.

I've heard my share of unhappy comments from mothers that sacrificed their life completely for the kids without thinking about themselves at all, and its not coming back.

In similar vein as in plane losing pressure - first help yourself and then help the others (kids in this case but I still like this comparison)
Signalling value is real and not related to gullibility. (There is a lot of costly signalling by animals as well.)
This is a lot better on Apple products, since the default browser and default screen capture tools offer OCR.
at $DAYJOB we get multiple beg bounties a week, it's a massive waste of everyone's time and it's literally never been a real issue.
Marrying is irrational to begin with.

A man that relies on rational thought should avoid marriage; the cons absolutely outweigh any advantage.
I remember my first calculus exam at the University: I made a lot of explanations and justifications based of physics. Of course I did not pass. As I asked why? It was all correct, right? The prof. said “is perfect reasoning, but this is the math department, physics is one floor below”
genetic algorithms were stolen by the latter from the former
Dupe (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38233040)
> Best option would be church but I feel like a charlatan there as I not a religious believer.

It might be worth a try. You could just say you're not looking for anything but would love to attend for a bit. It requires a little courage, but you'll find somewhere decent.
Threat of prosecution can come even without breaking in. Vengeful and ignorant people will always be a thing. [1]

Missouri's governor threatened legal action against a reporter who found SSN were being leaked on a public web page accessible simply by clicking "View Source". The reporter "followed standard protocols for disclosing and reporting on the vulnerability, the governor is treating him as if he attacked the site or was trying to access the teacher’s private information for nefarious purposes" .

This pisses me off on so many different levels. The reporter told proper authorities and gave them time to fix it before he made the information public but MO's jack-wagon of a governor tried to pin blame on the reporter.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/14/22726866/missouri-govern...
In this case the ex-poor wifes bought by rich men will have a jewelry to sell in the case of a breakup
Or get her a pre-owned and/or lab-grown diamond which are insanely cheaper. While the cost of diamonds is pure marketing, I wouldn't want to pay thousands for something that is physically identical.

If the fact it's been on someone's finger before bothers her more than the potential conflict, slave labour, manipulation and underhanded trading, then I don't think a little white lie is a bad thing. Spend the money on something else
Strange error, why does it say "illegal instruction at ffffffff" but then the dump shows CS:EIP as 71a3:000056e5? Shouldn't the EIP part be :ffffffff or what am I missing?
All of those things are rational.

- Religion brings some people comfort and peace.

- Sports speak to our tribal nature evolved over millions of years.

- Sports cars are fun and exhilarating to drive and a status symbol or wealth and success, which help to attract mates.
> There is a bit of a cultural signaling to your future wife to say you are financially competent/stable that you were able to buy a diamond ring

In modern cultures I would assume the couple already knows each other and their financial situation before marrying. So why waste money on richness signaling especially if you are not rich?
> "Both fields embrace a sort of masochism and active desire to keep knowledge impenetrable b/c it acts as a mechanism to feed out the dummies. The system acts an an informal IQ test - that maintains the prestige of the departments. If you're pigheaded and clever enough to get through the masochistic torture is that their undergrad textbooks then you're probably pretty clever and so the prestige of the degrees is maintained."

So true, in many areas.
I know a couple of young people that got destroyed by this kind of meat grinding machinery.
Typically applies to every medical studies in France, where many kids (with parents that have the money to pay) are going to Spain, Romania or Belgium to study in a less oppressing environment and better teaching methods.
Carmack and Abrash optimized the heck out of Quake making use of a “quirk” in the Pentium where you can overlap integer operations and floating point DIV to eke out every last drop of performance.

Unfortunately the trick doesn’t work on early AMD K5/6 nor Cyrix CPUs - although Cyrix CPUs probably had other more serious problems.

https://youtu.be/DWVhIvZlytc?si=DBE9zpTLj_16-GAt
That was probably down to having a Blitter, rather than mathematical performance. This was a memory copy function in one of the support chips (Agnes), that massiveky speeded up things like sprite and window movement and line drawing.
Google provides value but its monopoly provides less value than what would have been created by a multiple of companies freely competing in an open market.
The idea of "bot" interfaces like this (as opposed to what's termed "direct manipulation" UI) go back a long time, and are subject to quite a bit of debate in the field of usability. The issues are summed up here pretty well, but it will be interesting to see how long the issues persist as (or if!) AI gets better from now on: https://eagereyes.org/blog/2016/the-personified-user-interfa...

I think as with most things, there is probably a complementary relationship which depends heavily on the context of use. Whether the context in the case of a resume for a hiring manager is any good I'm not really able to say.
I would guess the "actively hostile" part had a lot to do with all the time and effort to get the compiler to make good use of Itanium. Hard to focus on developers without that foundation. And they never got there.
If we're at anecdotes I know people from former Communist countries and their experience were worse than that, with many deaths within the family intellectuals in one case. As a result they tend to be staunch pro-capitalists, to a fault.

Under tyrannical regimes some people manage to live fairly reasonably well while many suffer. I don't doubt that but it doesn't invalidate a clear general trend.

During a long time under a capitalist regime academia was a refuge of smart and freethinking people.
The "real socialism" sounds like a "true scotsman" fallacy. Why wouldn't you apply the same standard and consider that the time academia was working prerry well in capitalist countries was "true capitalism" and the current state of failing academia (to a degree) is a symptom of a "false", degenerate form of capitalism?

I think your comment can be interpreted in different ways, but if I was to go with the more measured version I think you should agree with Godelski's points more.

In particular there isn't even really one example of a communist country that evolved with the political stability that democracies did. I'm not sure that if such a thing had happened, it wouldn't have devolved with the same bureaucratic tendencies --which goes back to my first point: given the level or brutal instability metric hacking could not arise.
Pinning in nix is rather easy; either `nix registry pin nixpkgs` or explicitly `nix registry add nixpkgs github:NixOS/nixpkgs/925b70cd964ceaedee26fde9b19cc4c4f081196a` does the job. For specific packages, flakes and flake locks manage this fairly automatically as well. Do they not suffice for you?

For grabbing a package from another version of nixpkgs, its quite straightforward to only use that specific nixpkgs for one package and nothing else. NixOS also keeps old generations around in case the new configurations break anything, so I'm not very worried about the OS being rendered unbootable in any case (although I've never managed to break my NixOS, so I can't attest to having made use of this personally).
absolutely. And they did. But I don't understand why they chose to do so
The whisperX project has most of it covered they are integrating the new v3 model waiting for a ccp GGUF version also there is a workaround for the latest speaker diarization but it has an active user base working on it

https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX
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I'm sure you've heard of TrackIR, which can do head tracking with some head-mounted reflectors. But without mounting anything to your head, the tobii eye tracker can do both head and eye tracking completely passively. It seems like adding hand/finger gesture controls, and peripherals like stylus, mouse, etc... would be an obvious next step, but it doesn't look like they or anyone else is doing that.
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The thing is it's not the culture or tradition of the US. It's just a brilliant ad campaign that lasted way longer than it should.
Once again by newbie test. I have installed it and generate code. Now how to run the code is my problem.

The doc tells you to use one of the many simulators. But which one I wonder. For example there is a 6502 simulator generated code. Which one I should use? Not telling. And saying one should know is not that helpful. Just one more example link it would be all good.
"Lead poisoning kills millions annually. One country is showing the way forward."

Extremely ironic and deceptive title, considering Bangladesh was also one of the only countries who's created a culture completely fine with defrauding and poisoning its own people.

Not weighing cultures against one another. It's just dumb to praise a country for fixing a problem when said country is the sole creator of it. It is the bare minimum not to poison people. We don't need to be giving pats on the back for adhering to the bare minimum.
I'd wonder if they're messing up cause and effect a bit here; these beliefs tend to be less common in highly developed stable democracies, which also usually have long life expectancies.
In general most psychoactive substances should only be tried once you are a stable person. While your brain and mindset is still in early development it may cause harm.

This is especially the case if you have a trauma hidden. I have seen people who got abused as a kid, and then in their early 20iers tried LSD, and absolutely weren't ready for their brain to suddenly bring up those memories.

OTOH: I'm going to large rave festivals often. There you see the ambulance cars mostly unused. If you go to Oktoberfest, there is constant activity and people getting hospitalized. And people look really fucked up, throwing up everywhere, etc. Overdosing alcohol is more common than with any other drug.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Rational...
Some thoughts from a mineral collector. There is considerable variety in naturally occurring diamonds. Colors, such as yellow, green, brown, black and famously a few blue and pink ones. Plus many crystal forms (Cubic, Octahedral, Dodecahedral, Tetrahedral, Trapezohedral, Tetrahexahedral,Trisoctahedral, Hexoctahedral, and some triangular Macle forms). An appeal of natural diamonds to some mineral collectors is the interest their unique crystal forms. These are expensive and tiny: a niche that I don't have in my collection. However, I did purchase a large cluster of what I think consists Moissanite crystals, not transparent; it looks like some failed industrial experiment.
Sorry, I think you'll need to walk me through this step-by-step.

1. User enters their IMAP credentials into desktop web app.

2. Web app transmits credentials to the backend where it is used to sync e-mails between Azure and third-party IMAP server.

3. Somehow the credentials leak to some untrusted third party.

4. User is murdered.

This feels like some rather important steps were skipped. If your threat scenarios include "being murdered because someone got access to my e-mail account", yeah, maybe just use Thunderbird to begin with.
Not much, production cost is closer to that of RAM or a CPU than to a graphite pencil, as it's usually produced in the same way as semiconductors are.
Same reason that French people don’t have equivalent rights to British people in Britain.
This might work well for knowledge/IC-based attainment. There are still other groups, who are possibly the majority when combined:

Some people are there for "the experience", no matter how much it costs, nor how little benefit it results in. They will still be paying $80k for an experience that qualifies them for nothing, even though they had that qualification already before they started.

Some other people are there for the network, and/or will learn leadership skills in that environment. They can't build/learn those things in an online environment.
If you're a halfway attractive employer, reducing the number of candidates is the primary problem in recruiting.

Resumes and cover letters are in theory basically a proof of work check to ensure you're interested enough to spend time on the application.
Yes, HN's automated title mangler strikes again.

I complained about this just a couple of days ago on another submission. Dang continues to defend it, and I continue to hate it.
Also applies to wine, audiophile grade gear, and similar kind of goods - most people can’t tell the difference.

Then there’s designer brands, which openly sell products of inferior quality. And with success too.

I guess diamonds are similar to both.
A good leader will ensure they take the ideas of the non talkers and bring them to the forefront with appropriate attention.

Some people dread speaking in public; I don’t think it’s useful to put a spotlight on those people. Even if you do, they won’t be able to sell their ideas because their presentation will be weak.
No, I think people in many EU countries would report a very satisfying experience with online forms from their state offices. It’s only the in-person visits that suck. The nightmare you describe of having to call a number and wait on hold may be something you have experienced in America, but it doesn’t sound familiar to me at all. Again, if are in a faraway country and you don’t actually know anything about the context of the current discussion, it would be wiser to refrain from pontificating.
Particularly
https://www.righto.com/2019/09/a-computer-built-from-nor-gat...
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I have a rack with a few old Dell PowerEdge R710 with dual Intel Xeon X5650 processors (6 cores 12 threads per CPU). I use them to test the changes on my chess engine in winter and they help keeping the house warm. They are very cheap.

The slightly more recent Dell PowerEdge R720 can have CPUs with more cores and use a bit less electricity and noise but they are much more expensive where I live.

I've been on the lookout for a more modern platform with more cores per $100 but couldn't find any yet.
I saw this type of ad only once, in an old Bruce Sterling novel. I found it funny (it referenced the story in a clever way) and thought it was some new innovative approach to advertising which hadn't caught on. I didn't knew this was actually an old thing for Heyne.
only in node.js, it's a waste of electricity.

in other language, formatters are pretty damn fast. never heard anyone complain about gofmt or cargo fmt
As a designer, the absolute warmest take I've seen towards Comic Sans is "It's fine, not good, but fine. But it's so overused and misused that it's become slightly radioactive."
Indeed, the PDP-1 (1959) another one I'm familiar with - it even had video games!
It’s the combativeness masquerading as deep, wise analysis.
Vela incident (1979)
What's the problem with a good book, age? Baby Rudin's first edition is 70 and the latest one is from 1976. It's still widely used and will be for a while.

Honestly your problem was that you didn't know any Classical Mechanics yet and you were assuming that the volume of recent developments made old books obsolete. Maybe in Biology, in Physics getting to recent developments would mean that you're familiar with Goldstein, Landau's Vol. I... Abraham-Marsden? Arnold? Those are old.

Often newer editions actually worsen textbooks and then only a few contemporary books become references in the long run. It's always been like this, there's tons of great books from the 70s that aren't used today and could definitely do. At least they're not ~1,000 pp. of waffle, which is what you usually get for your first textbook on anything nowadays.
The early VGA chipsets were very slow. They also didn't have any of the sprite & tile features that Amigas had.

On a generic 286 you could swap out the stock ISA VGA video card for a Diamond SpeedStar and the improvement was crazy.
Go did not have the goal of the best possible performance, it was targeting good performance with amazing compile times. It still targets this. It was also developed by some of the most productive geniuses in the world (disclaimer: the go team used to report up through me)

Getting to 70 percent of llvm will be relatively easy for zig and like all others, they will congratulate themselves and pretend it validates their choice. They will then discover the other 30 percent happens 0.1% at a time, because there are no silver bullets. This will take them 10+ years because it always does.
I just can't help but wonder if RFC9420 has had enough time to mature enough to offer sufficient features to be adopted by/replace say Signal (Whatsapp, iMessage) and similar solutions. The group key security sounds nice, but the lack of end to end authentication or message integrity/sender signing does not feel very reassuring.

It feels like some design decisions and compromises have been made in order to optimize the use-case for large group chats at the expense of some safety aspects that exist today in current protocols.
Engraft
"Poro’s advanced capabilities with European languages like Finnish descend from how it addresses the core challenge for low-resource languages: training LLMs requires enormous amounts of data, but for low-resource languages like Finnish, sufficient data is simply not available. In general, Poro addresses this by cross-training low-resource languages with high-resource languages. This takes advantage of a cross-lingual signal that allows the model to achieve higher performance for the low-resource language than training a monolingual model, and has the further advantage of teaching the model basic translation capability."

I wonder how this cross-training affects the "overall quality" of the LLM for the low-resource languages? Any scientific papers to pinpoint?
I’m no developer I just interested in technology in general but I do like tinkering with computer and comfortable with it. I have basic knowledge in programming just a script kiddie I would say. Before LLM I would struggle to build a complete either script / app. Now I could confidently say everything I face I could ask LLM, it just like a Steve Jobs meme “there is an app for that” to “there is a minimal boilerplate to that”. Someone might said LLm bring people to the average, and for a lot of us below average that is a net positive I guess. Instead I also curious for 10x Engineer how they see the tools, how much gain they could have.
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It is probably true as far as retail engagement rings and certain smaller jewelry etc. is concerned, but rich and powerful people liked and valued diamonds way before that long marketing campaign.
You replied to many top level comments for a period of time the same period of time with almost the same text. Telling people to disregard this one persons tech content because of software-politics views. Does he not also have the right to call out IBM/Red Hat?
And especially since we can now make cameras small enough that you'd never know they were there. Even OVM6948 is commercially available, the size of a "grain of sand".

I've always said that privacy is an illusion, the usual example I give is: "You're lying in bed with the curtains drawn, you see a shadow fall across the curtains that looks like a person standing outside. Do you, or do you not have privacy?"

If the shadow turns out to be a person peeking through the curtains, then you don't. If the shadow turns out to be primal brain + tree shadow then you do. Schrodinger style.

Privacy is probably best described (as it sometimes is) as a "sense" of privacy I guess.
I don't think you need seat suspension for bicycles to beat walking. On the kinds of surfaces that foot traffic naturally forms, am average commuter bike is gonna perform very decently.

I think the only qualitative difference would be that modern roads are usable all year whereas natural tracks are generally gonna get unusable when it rains a lot.

It's incredible that we have machines that can take that kind of a beating, while also having precision components on them, and also being light enough to pick up in 1 hand, and being affordable to the poorest members of society.
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