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When it comes to piracy the nose of the law isn't very long. Get a good VPN and don't worry about it.

No idea why people want to pay money to be scammed by these media companies who see you as a number in a spreadsheet and nothing more.
> What exactly is the issue with proprietary drivers?

They break. I have a GT730 card which came with my office PC. This card’s support has ended with the 470 driver series, which is one of last (if not the last) release for the previous generation of NVIDIA drivers.

Now, the drivers still ship, and the kernel module is still maintained, but the surrounding GLX drivers are static. As the desktop Linux improves and moves forward, accelerated stuff tends to get migrated to newer technologies, or its GLX use is getting refined. This causes drivers to lose compatibility over time.

This means more and more of your applications fail to start or break in mysterious ways. Also there’s Wayland support issue, which is the elephant in the room.

I had to buy an AMD card which works better, because all the software ecosystem around that card is maintained by volunteers, and the card is architected for working with open drivers well. AMD redesigned its silicon to allow open drivers to work with every unit on the GPU without revealing sensitive information (like HDCP keys) while allowing open drivers to access video encoders and such on the card.

After I got that card, all my problems have just vanished.

So, I’ll never use an NVIDIA card on my computer for the foreseeable future.
Geocities at least is archived and fairly easy to torrent the whole thing.

There is definitely the desire to memoryhole a lot of this though. I'm surprised motherless is still around but i guess it's just a porn site now (was it always?)
On top of what everyone else said about how they make money, lots of climbers at this level live outrageously frugally and so can easily save up. Marc-Andre Leclerc lived in a stairwell[0], and their dinners are rice and beans or "what was on sale at walmart". Think stereotypical startup incubator of bunk beds and ramen, there's only one goal and it's not day-to-day comfort.

[0] http://marcleclerc.blogspot.com/2012/07/dreaded-first-blog-p...
lets not weaken the term 'child labor' in that manner.

There's a world of difference between growing up on a farm and 'child labor'. What you're doing is the equivalent of calling someone a pedophile for sleeping with a 17 y/o. It may or may not be appropriate but it sure as shit isn't the same as sleeping with a 10 y/o so lets use different words for them.
This is why it's difficult to have discussions about this. Pretty much anything that's bad enough will be countered by a "well, this is just a toy strawman", and status quo will prevail.

Well, here's some production code from a previous project which I happen to have authorization to use for educational purposes, with entity and fields anonymized as courtesy of ChatGPT.

https://pastebin.com/wLk5bRqE

This is by no means a rare thing in Rails world, and I have seen this in pretty much every Rails project I worked, save for one.

Every single time: newcomers would complain about it. Even senior/staff engineers. Only the people building it enjoy it.
“Every version” probably means 20-30 MB for each GPU series that can potentially appear in the PCI-e slot after power on (if still supported by the driver). Or the user has to juggle the firmware before hardware change (or the driver has to implement the juggling instead).
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https://archive.vn/DAjWT
I'd suggest that anyone coming into a comment section with vague anti-democratic platitudes is not worthy of a good faith discussion over their precise meaning. If they're unwilling to state their position outright, I think it's entirely fair to chalk them up as a dog-whistling fascist in the current climate.
> halfheartedly in the market for contractors myself

The good news is, in most towns, you only need to do this once. From there you can rely on referrals.
West African here too. This is too simplistic, and a problem can have multiple guilty parties. There is enough blame to go around.

> we, not they, commit these boys and girls to these activities, of our own volition.

We can judge people's choices without taking in consideration the context and the options that they have. The alternative to not sending those young people to work is them starving, or not going to school.

> if child labor is bad, we don’t need mars and the rest of the world to tell us so. we should be civilized enough to get ourselves out of the ongoing era of barbarism and brutishness that has plagued the continent. fuck!

Child labor is the best solution within a see of worst solutions to a complex problem. Having talked and knowing people in similar conditions, every parent naturally wants they kids to have an easy and better life. That's not being civilized it's just being human. Saddly those parent can not afford the luxury of giving that to their parent.

> it’s a fucked up society that looks to hold an external party responsible for ills within itself.

The economical situation in African countries is complex and multivariate. And yes the governments are usually corrupt and ineffective. But the failed policies of international bodies such as the IMF or world banks, the complicity of european banks in money laundering. The meddling of international companies that are happy to support which ever dictatorship du-jour suit their needs best are definitely not helping.

> it’s not the business of mars (m&m makers) to ensure that no children are exploited during the production of the cocoa beans

They made it their business by participating in it.

> americans shouldn’t eat their chocolate with some trepidation that they might be eating the body and blood of a 5-yo.

No... It's a personal choice. If some people can become vegan out of compassion of animals, we should be able to avoid chocolate out of compassion our fellow human beings even if they happen to not be from the same country.
For the designer do you need US time zones or is ~5 hours overlap with Pacific Time close enough? I know someone who’d be a good fit if so…
Thank you. A comment that puts some half-invented "factual" opinion into perspective with genuine and sourced details is always appreciated. If anything, most people today have more leisure time than was remotely the case in Einstein's youth, but they often fill it with a complete surfeit of blandly trivial distractions, and in some cases, evade responsibility for this detail by claiming that they're somehow suffering excessively under corporate wage slavery.
When a lion takes over a pride, job #1 is killing any kid who's not his. This is not uncommon in the animal kingdom. One way, or another, the goal is to create an environment where your have a reproductive advantage.

So the base is genetics, but also you have to remember that humans and chimps understand timelines. So if you see a strange redhead by the watering hole, you slink back home and get the lads, gonna need to make an example out of him. After all, you only speak your tribes dialect, can't talk to him, and if even you could, what would you say?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al9ITeP4fUA

I see, another Wunderwaffen coming from the West, they never learn.

I've also Ctrl+F-ed for Lancet on both this thread and on the dupe thread posted earlier, nothing, so, yeah, people here are living in a different reality when it comes to modern drone warfare. This [1] information posted by an Ukrainian guy now actually fighting a war drone is a lot, a lot more interesting and on point than whatever this SV money-grabbing vehicle is up to.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/178npo...
A medieval Gothic monastery built using CAD / CAM
> They wrote "previously purchased Discovery content". Should I believe you or Sony's official statement? ;)

You should believe that Sony is trying to scam you. :-)
nah. just because it uses math doesn't make it stem adjacent. economics is not a science.
Might be a reference to ISO-5 mixed up with BSL (biosafety levels)
From the ages from about 5 to 18 American children are forced to do office work for 7 hours a day five days a week in conditions that approximate a minimum security prison followed by often several hours of more work to do at home.

Is the only reason you think that isn't "child labor" because no one is directly paying them for their work or that the work is "good for them"? Plenty of kids would argue picking fruit was more valuable than algebra homework.

Having kids working a little isn't necessarily bad, it is the conditions under which they work which is important but more subtle issue. In regions of extreme poverty it isn't even the conditions that are often the root problem but the foreign exploiters of the extreme poverty failing to pay a fair wage for human work.

>"I feel sad. I want to be, like, a medical doctor," Munira said. "But my family doesn't have money for school."

It's much easier for corporate overlords to focus on cheap issues like child labor and then make the appearances of trying to do something about it... when the causes of child labor are more like "you pay my family so little I can't afford to go to school and nobody else either so the nearest school is an hour away". If you give people the opportunity to barely stay alive they'll fix these things themselves.
https://archive.is/W7wxj
I beg to differ. The industry existed only so long, and while some people have been (rightfully!) saying this since the early days, the market opted to push a shitty solution to its limits, and only now we're starting to feel the pain of pressing against those limits.
Gray Matter Thickness and Subcortical Nuclear Volume After SARS-CoV-2 Infection
I don't get why this has to be in the initrd. Just run in legacy text mode until the root partition has been mounted and then load the firmware from there.
Are you looking for this? https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=scopeofwork.net
so is counting to 50 going up 5 at a time. that doesn't make it STEM. It's not a science.
The "death zone" starts at 26,000 feet. The peak of the mountain is about 1,000 feet under the death zone so supplemental oxygen isn't a requirement.

That being said the effect of lower oxygen is you go slower. It took them a week to ascend 10k feet, and if you'll allow me to assume a spherical cow then a hypothetically similar climb at sea level could probably be done in a couple of days going by how fast top climbers climb El Capitan.
Eh maybe it does: https://archive.nytimes.com/well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/2...
I don't quite believe the dice roll metaphor tells the whole story. It is not all or nothing, it is not how it is done. On that subject, I recommend reading the book by Ed Viesturs [1], first American to ascend all 14 highest mountains (summits > 8000m) without oxygen. His take is: to do all 14, you need to come back alive every time. So knowing when to give up on an attempt and turn back is key. Above 8000m (reasoning impaired by lack of oxygen), when the weather is still good, when you are so close to the top, and knowing you will have to wait years perhaps for the next opportunity it can be really hard to make that decision correctly. And picking a partner with not just all the skills bit also the same risk tolerance is vital.

[1]: No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks (October 2006)
hoping to normalize the 4DWW - Four Day Work Week. Could you include the 4DWW tag in the description as well?
I'm a bit younger than the average commenter here, but not young enough to be in the "skibidi toilet" demographic. But looking at both skibidi and the older type of YTP and idk the talking orange videos for example, I just don't see the difference. Maybe it's because I was too young to grow up watching them a lot but yeah. And that's saying nothing of the much more ADHD type of videos that were also common back then.
Oh man, I absolutely love his stuff. Every once in a while that Fever the Ghost song gets stuck in my head, even a decade after that video debuted. He's definitely got a very psychedelic and surreal style that is 100% Felix Colgrave. And I think that he certainly deserves the title of weird as much as anyone.

Especially his earlier stuff very much has that old school net sensibility about it. (Although he's talented and polished enough that it's not _quite_ the same amateur vibe of those early Newground days).

Another source of phenomenally cool and interesting "content" is the Adult Swim Off the Air series, which also has a very psychedelic vibe to it. The series collects a wide variety of really awesome animations (and also lots of silly stuff).

Probably my favorite thing to ever come from the Off The Air oeuvre is the animated music video for Dan Deacon's song When I Was Done Dying[1]. They also did a 20 minute special episode featuring Dan Deacon's music which is extremely cool[2]. I was exposed to so much cool stuff via Off The Air, the first episode is still one of my favorite ten minutes of weirdness[3]. There are so many other great episodes, too, if you like this kind of thing.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59QBOO6m210

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X4fYP9bqqw

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59QBOO6m210
It's got some sense to it. It's like, there are "objectively right" numbers, so why commit yourself to any form of craft if a computer can just find better numbers?

There's a reason you can't copyright songs constructed through combinatorial algorithms. Human authorship plays a role in creative pursuit, by law.
Pretty sure they are going to have to refund everyone. That has happened with these kind of B2B disagreements in the past, google stadia was the last one I think.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-get-your-google-stadia-re...

Although there is probably plenty of others.
How does that make it STEM? If I study social science and use math does that make social science stem? Or does it mean you used a lot of modelling in a non stem subject?
News outlets turn to Reddit as Musk's X descends into chaos
Isn't it one of those things that's potentially useful for further research... but doesn't really have an apparent practical application? unfortunately we tend to prioritize things by what they can produce
Still perceived as 'geeky waste of time' and 'unhealthy obsession'. Just an economically successful one.
https://archive.ph/JhDY0
Push hard for humans who identify as parrots, so capital can be raised from The Gender Equity and Equality Action (GEEA) Fund.
[video] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Really need one for [social] (Twitter etc)
Well, if the board shot Altman or forcibly put him into suspended animation, I think it's fairly likely that he wouldn't be CEO now.
Can you please make your substantive points without swipes? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

If you know more than someone else, that's great, but in that case please share some of what you know, so the rest of us can learn.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Smear of Fear on Long Peak’s Diamond? Do you live in Colorado?
Yeah "Run Stable Diffusion locally" is a weird pitch since that's already easy to do tbh.
Do they give you the ability to query history?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38488237 ?
Wait, you mean kids in developing countries work in order to help their families survive poverty. Oh my word, we should stop buying chocolate. Or wait, then nobody is making any money. Seriously, haven't we learned from the "Chinese sweatshop" hysteria throughout the 2000s that if people want to work they are often digging themselves out of a whole rather than being forced into one?
Many of the child slaves in Ghana are trafficked. They're not working on the family farm to help grow food for their next family dinner, they're being forced into slavery and made to work for farms that sell their product to billion dollar multinational corporations.

The solution to ending slavery is to make laws which ban the practice and then strictly enforcing those laws. Once that's done it won't matter how profitable farming is because anyone who uses child slaves will suffer instead of profiting. Exceptions can be made for people farming their own food for their own tables which would still prevent the trafficking of children just so that Mars Incorporated and The Hershey Company can stuff their pockets with more money.
I beg to differ.

Regular human beings would die 100% of the time. Not 80.
> Anyway, never buy content you can't crack (make it drm-free) or even better, buy drm-free stuff from the start

I agree entirely (in principle), but this isn't an option for certain platforms like the iOS App Store, or download-only games consoles (and I've been burned myself: most notably by EA removing their older games from the iOS App Store: not just them removing the ability to purchase old games, but even for people who had already paid for them to reinstall them (and who actually saves their IPA files? Is it even possible to install IPA files from a PC now that iTunes is dead?)

This is something that can only be done by law or something - IIRC, the recent pro-consumer legislation coming from the EU doesn't address "getting-to-keep-what-we-paid-for" - I'm hoping they'll get around to that soon, along with getting protections for data-sovereignty: it's kinda shocking how many popular Apps/SaaS services out there still don't let you export your data.
It was also a rarely-used classic way to deal with variable references that changed in a loop:

var values = [];
for (var i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
values.push(function() { console.log(i); });
}
for (var j = 0; j < 3; j++) {
values[j]();
}

This would log 3, 3 times. The usual fix (before the variety of modern ways) was to use an IIFE in the first loop:

for (var i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
(function(i) {
values.push(function() { console.log(i); });
})(i);
}

Alternatively, this works:

for (var i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
with ({i: i}) {
values.push(function() { console.log(i); });
}
}
This scenario does seem like something that would be cacheable to me though. Really its a matter of where you're doing the caching -- on the server, or in the client. It's easier to manage cache invalidation (and state in general) on the server so that seems like the preferable option to me for most things.

In the context of Rails specifically, something like Solid Cache helps a lot with this too. There are other similar approaches for other languages/databases as well, although most implementations are based on Postgres instead of MySQL.

If the specificity & complexity of the query is the barrier to caching, it's also possible that breaking the query up a bit could still net better performance if it makes it easier to cache.
> I will limit myself to saying that more thrust without control just means you're going faster when you crash.

Correct.

Note that the problem specification talks about flying, and says nothing about the landing or surviving it.
I once did this with a calorie counting app. Even with hundreds of thousands of foods in the database, the app took much less space than most media apps or games.
Yes thank you good lord. IDK if it's the ritual contrarianism or what but HN consensus is extremely tolerant of or even flat out pro- child labor. Unreal.
Not saying existant frameworks are the ideal, I just think there should be a reasonable middle ground between corporate intellectual property hellscape And corporate we steal all your work to feed our ai sausage machine hellscape.
HTML and CSS aren't too horrible as foundational tech. CSS needs a little work, but both allow for a lot of good abstractions. They may be some of the best platform we've ever had.

They are bad at just being directly programmable targets.
Got it: neuroscientists don't know about action potentials, and high school education is enough to appraise any research paper.

Between one Jira issue and the next, try to read some actual neuroscience preprints and come up with a few reasons why that piece of research is good, and a few why it is bad.

Take this one [1], for example (Cerebrovascular disease drives Alzheimer plasma biomarker concentrations in adults with Down syndrome):

> Main Outcomes and Measures: We examined the bivariate relationships of WMH, Aβ42/Aβ40, p-tau217, and GFAP with age-residualized NfL across AD diagnostic groups.

Are these biomarkers specific enough? Did they miss any? Why did they limit the investigation to bivariate relationships?

> We [...] examined whether
1) GFAP mediates the relationship between WMH volume and p-tau217 concentration, 2)
whether p-tau217 concentration mediates the relationship between WMH volume and NfL
concentration, and 3) whether p-tau217 concentration mediates the relationship between GFAP
and NfL concentration.

Why did they test these three hypotheses? Did they miss anything interesting? Why did they choose that specific method for mediation analysis? What limitations does it have? Are there alternatives?

> Two specific percentile thresholds were computed: [...]. These thresholds initialized a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) and expectation-maximization algorithm within the white matter segment of the FLAIR images, using two components to represent hyperintense and non-hyperintense voxels.

What do you think of their method to quantify white matter hyper-intensity from the MRI scans? What percentiles did they use, and how sensitive is the analysis to these choices? Is a gaussian mixture model appropriate?

If you were a peer reviewer, would you think that this paper is ready to be published? What feedback would you give to the authors? What is the significance of these result, and what future research do they support?

See you in a one day or two max, cowboy.

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.28.23298693v...