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Ha, kind of makes sense though. I can’t remember where I heard it but there’s a quote about him being the greatest scientist the average person has never heard of or something like that.
Having been around when one of these was written, it could be:

- this is a very difficult time emotionally for the author, so they aren’t thinking entirely rationally

- the author is exhausted

- the author is ashamed/embarrassed about having lost money for all their friends and family

- they don’t want to expose themselves to liability

- the message was vetted by a risk averse lawyer, aka a lawyer

- the message has to satisfy a bunch of different audiences, so it is generic

- it is almost an afterthought amongst all the other stuff that has to get done shutting down the business

And most importantly, they may not explain why the business failed because they don’t really know. If they knew why they didn’t find product market fit, the business wouldn’t have failed.
I'm an atheist and am very much anti-religion in that I think it's a net bad and imaginary in the worst ways, but I do think, just like any group of like-minded people, that it does support a social network. Religion provides a common ground and shared set of beliefs. It's the same way expats find each other in countries because there's some commonality, or how you go off to school and can find "your people".

As much as I'm not a fan of religion I can admit there are some good things about it and plenty of good people who practice it.
Progressive left are liars and should not be trusted. Their actions are opposite of their words. We need to vote in people who have and use their brains, instead of activists and idealogues. Otherwise the entire nation will collapse. Johnson is a clown and clowns too are the people who voted him in, assuming that any actual voting takes place in Chicago.

Some students are brighter than other students. Some students will out perform other students and therefore they deserve better and more opportunities. Get over it.
> So even in unskilled positions, you are going to need huge increases in labor productivity.

Or you could tax the excess profits that companies are earning from eliminating jobs through automation and AI, use that money to pay for healthcare and cover subsidies to bring the cost of food and other necessities down. Then the cost of labor goes down and you don't need to torture people for more productivity.
Ok thanks for the info. That case seems to be about if you can be charged with a crime if you refuse to reveal your password with a search warrant. While the case for this article seems to be about whether refusing to give a passcode when questioned by police can be used in court against you.

My “of course” comment above was about refusing police questioning (Miranda rights). not refusing a search warrant. That does seem like a much trickier issue.

Edit: added the clarification about Miranda rights
It costs the Zulip org a lot of money to develop Zulip
Yep! Also uncropping a photo and zoom and enhance.
Pretty sure he's done all that in front of a PC.
The vibe check is for pro tho. I want to see how ultra is benchmarked.
A complete but incorrect understanding is just an incomplete understanding with some extra confusion.
> the vendor has a huge amount of power to move a feature you need to their Enterprise plan that costs 5x as much

That sounds a bit like being forced to move to any plan at all (x infinity price) for a feature that you need (mobile notifications).

Except that you don’t even have the option of running an old version.

The problem here being that the cost feels way out of proportion for the service being provided.
The problem is there's no way to measure it in actuality.

If there's not enough energy in the universe to make the measurement, then there's no making the measurement no matter the theory of what would happen if there were more energy.

We could discuss the theory of what happens to a virtual photon going down a split path between Everett or another interpretation, but if we can't ever actually measure the virtual photon, then it's just theorizing around an unanswerable question. Which is part of what leads to "shut up and calculate."
Thanks. Do you usually Google every question you ask in a forum?
This is garbage path compared to controlled quantity.
In 2008 no one would have countenanced this for good reason.
What is the reason now?
And service became even worse
I haven't used Discord in maybe 3 years now (I think longer?) I was one of the early, early adopters, with my own first name as my username. But I found it to be a rather suffocating, rather than liberatory, place, which simply reproduced the very social structures I experienced in the rest of the world; often, if it was the nexus of a certain social life, the extreme power which moderators weld to totally socially exclude someone was sickening, and the kinds of sexual exploitation that happens on the platform is merely a symptom of that, a symptom of a much wider social ill which birthed the platform as a whole--an overriding resentment for real-world sociality for being based in exclusionary institutions, transformed into an exclusionary architecture infinitely grander and more severe the further the users were separated by regular social institutions and geographic location, thus increasing the power of both the moderators, but, also and more essentially the owners of Discord, who, by establishing such an architecture sought for nothing but Absolute power--this, all, now just for profit of the VCs.

However, such a severe system of domination has, at its core, just one single problem, the problem which we are seeing today: a mass outage, like this, must, by its nature, affect every user of the service. Mastadon, to note, does not have this problem--but even Mastadon, like Discord, relies on the electric grid and the system of production from which such a service is produced, which at all levels seeks to continuously generate and regenerate itself in all its social functions.
> She decoded messages which were encrypted by German Enigma machines using Bombe machines invented by Alan Turing at Bletchley Park.

I like Turing, I've read his papers.

I like William Thomas Tutte and had the opportunity to talk to him in Canada many years past.

The Bombe machines were scaled up parallel rack mount versions of the Cyclometer created by Marian Rejewski, Jerzy Różycki, and Henryk Zygalski who cracked the Enigma code and designed the machines that automated the process.

Turing, Flowers, and others built on their work to bring it to industrial scale, which was a feat worthy of note, but the cracking and original invention happened in Poland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclometer

https://blogs.bl.uk/european/2018/01/polish-mathematicians-a...
This is why the tyrants would go a step further to try to ban private education so that you can only be educated by a state. They openly say this is what they want.

It is very interesting how their worldview is claimed to be better yet it cannot compete on a level playing field and must instead force its way to the top by making things worse for others and taking away their opportunities. It's crabs in a bucket politics.
Good. While privacy's great, I'm just happy it won't autosuggest an address of a store I looked up 11 years ago, taking me to the wrong side of city to some hipster consignment shop I barely recognize instead of the bar my friends are at.
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what's troubling is that "your associate" might be, apple.

For example, when I add an account on my mac - not related to apple in any way - the computer will send information back to apple. Every time. I have cloud stuff turned off.

As far as my phone - most of this stuff is not only hidden, but apple doesn't let me run software to know who it is talking to, and what is being sent.
Securing the Fundamentals: Our Support for Log4j
This was interesting to see after having read the following earlier in the week. https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/11/log4j_vulnerabilities...
Iraq had ~400 SCUDs/ballistics. Iran has ~4000 ballistics, with 30 years more development. Not leading tech, but accurate enough CEP (10s of meters in case of attacks on US bases in Iraq), and large enough numbers to satuate regional missile defense. Which realistically means all of MENA energy infra will be destroyed before US can hunt down Iranian launchers. 1/3 global oil and lng exports. Which is bad for region and US alliance like EU, JP, SKR who depends on MENA energy. US as large producer can't fill this gap. MENA energy exporters with US basing knows this, and will unlikely allow US to use their territory. That basically removes chance of coalition efforts unlike gulf war since most US allies don't have carriers, and the few that do have limited capabilities and barely add to sortie rate. Which leaves US carriers, of which US realistically could only commit 5-6, and at maximum surge rate can't sortie enough simultaneously to preempt/diffuse threat of Iranians missiles. Not to mention risk to 6 carrier groups. What happens if they somehow got hit. How PRC will react to losing their oil imports, and realizing most of deployable US carriers can't reinforce IndoPac. Or that if you take off 1/3 of global fossil fuels, most developing countries will be outpriced in the ensuing scramble. The short of it, is Iran can (on paper) mess up world as much as US can mess up Iran.
Again - is the copy quoted saying that paragraphs of simple tasks and demos will be able to be coded and only larger complex software can't be written by description?

Because it really seems to be saying that no software at any level of complexity can be written from paragraph to working code by deep learning.

We should be careful not to move goalposts post facto.

And given the trend so far, it is likely that paragraphs of software with greater complexity will be able to be successfully coded as time goes on and models and infrastructure around those models improve.

So let's also be careful not to assume the status quo is the end of the process to be evaluated rather than a stepping stone between the beginning and the theoretical end.
Even hardware layer is not truly immutable, but lets say that it is.
Having another immutable layer (ie secureblue) on top means less flexibility to interact with the hardware layer, and the requirement of putting another layer under the immutable software layer (eg the sanboxed OS one actually wants to use.

Why do we not just go to an OS baked into hardware? Because we value updates. The rolling bug-wall that is Linux is a feature, because every OS ever created has holes and flaws and lacks features. It is a nice idea that we could all be on the same system that works flawlessly, but it is not an achievable reality.
So while immutable may be the future, it will always be in the future.
> The switch away from pensions also seemed to make IBM way less attractive for new hires.

Total comp is what matters. A meager DB pension is worth less than RSUs from a competing tech company earning tons more profit.

I vastly prefer 401k and mega backdoor Roth capabilities than any DB pension. But IBM’s problem was not just getting rid of DB pensions, it was not paying competitive total comp in the first place. And also not having offices where their target employees would want to work.
Cool trick is to type a comment for future you as a plain text right in the source code. This way IDE will yell at you and the code will not compile. It will be clear next morning where to start.
We always appreciate well-written bug reports!

But for what it's worth, we're including support with Zulip Business, not consulting. Consulting is building custom features or whatnot that are just for a single customer.

Support is a guarantee that when you have a problem, you can ask for help and a human will investigate it and get back to you with what to do. It sounds like you've already received free support from us in the past.

Most of the issues that one helps a customer with in a support context are not unique to the customer -- but the support is still essential for the customer to actually have their problem solved, and investigating, debugging, and deduplicating reported issues responsively is effectively support work done by our (small!) team of people who need to make a living.

As noted in our email to customers, if you are seriously considering leaving Zulip because of this pricing, we'd like to hear from you. This pricing is intended to be very affordable as a cost for team chat for a business using it for their paid team, and the full price is intended primarily for that class of customer.

But without context on how you're using Zulip, I can't comment on whether your organization would be eligible for a discount or our community plan, but see https://zulip.com/plans/#self-hosted for several documented situations where an installation would not pay full price.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38660799 may also provide some useful context.
Tuya is so hilarious in this regard. The protocol is just TLS over TCP, but the app happily sprays your Wi-Fi password to every STA in the area every time you add a new device.

(It's how pairing is done - the app blindly broadcasts packets to 255.255.255.255 and the target device (lightbulb, power outlet, et al) just sits in promiscuous mode. The packet contents are protected by WPA2 et al, but the packet lengths aren't, so the protocol sends a bajillion tiny packets with each packet's length set to the ASCII byte value of the next character in the setup handshake. I believe it sends it multiple times in a row. This is why pairing takes 2 minutes then always abruptly stops before the counter reaches zero.)

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Yes, but a lot of the cool, new DBs use LSM trees. The post we're currently discussing also spends more time explaining LSM trees + WAL, than it does B-trees.

But your point is still valid. :)
I'd be able to answer more specifically if I had more info on your experience and startup, but I can also answer higher level and hope it's useful for you.

Experience - are you deeply familiar with the problem you're trying to solve and the current options for solving it. Have you lived this problem? Have you been a consumer of the solutions? Why do you care about it? Why can you solve it better than anyone else?

Story - the answers to the above question will naturally help create your story. Friends can vouch probably won't hold up.

Bootstrapping - not everyone can bootstrap, but investors want commitment. If you signal any lack of commitment then it will tank the perception of the investment opportunity.

Pilot - do you mean MVP? At seed stage or pre-seed you don't need a product, but having a working demo or something tangible helps make your ideas more real for other people. Having some traction helps them place it in the real world.

Generally fundraising isn't so cut and dry. There's a spectrum of outcomes ranging from getting a great deal on great terms with a great fund that will probably get you in tech crunch, to raising a fine deal, on ok terms, with a 3rd rate VC fund, to failing to raise at all. The probability for better outcomes depends on how well you cover the bases of what VCs actually want to know, but also on how much they believe that you, specifically you, are the right bet for this type of solution/category.

When they invest in you it means they can't invest in other solutions that are similar (they can but they shouldn't and good VCs mostly don't).

Often VCs will already have a thesis or belief about the market you operate in. It will be high level, but they're going to have some opinion about the way the wind is blowing. They take a position on a macro trend and then find the best possible exposure to that trend in a great founding team and vision.
The most interesting detail my grandpa shared was that they all had English/Latin typewriters but the messages were all in Cyrillic, so they taped Cyrillic letters onto all the keys and used numbers and/or special characters (can't recall which) for some of the letters since Cyrillic has 7 extra letters.
Are you nuts? This would start a world war.
These two companies have pricing models that I just absolutely hate.

On one end of the spectrum you have Supabase - a very Vercel-esque "developer platform" with tiered offerings that ensure that you're paying more than you're using.

On the other end of the spectrum you have Fly - a very Lambda-esque offering with hyper-specific per-second per-memory per-cpu pricing where you'll probably end up paying too little and getting performance hits.

I really do not understand why people would do either when things like Cloudflare Workers (et al) exist. Why do people still want to worry about scaling?
it's not as ridiculous when you install your DE as a bundle of packages
> To make this hypothetical even more fun, imagine this decision is reached using the same legal reasoning as in Roe. What could six conservatives unconstrained by the constitutional text do? I wonder what’s lurking in the penumbras of the tenth amendment?

To go off on a bit of a tangent-what's really "conservative" about originalism? I come from Australia, and mainstream Australian constitutional law is (on the whole) rather "originalist" by American standards [0] and yet in an Australian context that "originalism" is coded as politically neutral as opposed to "conservative" or "right-wing".

Wouldn't a truly conservative jurisprudence be something more like the natural law theorist who believes that the Constitution should be read so as to support and further adherence to natural law (as the natural law theorist understands it to be)?

Or, getting closer to your particular hypothetical, which is more conservative - originalism or "right-wing living constitutionalism"? [1]

[0] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/596ef6aec534a5c54429e...

[1] https://lawliberty.org/adrian-vermeule-unwitting-new-origina...
Not far afield at all. That’s another rabbit hole I’ve gone down pretty deeply, and I’ve found it an incredibly useful set of ideas for thinking (or not thinking) about the world. It cuts through a lot of the stuff we tend to get stuck in our heads about.

On this tangent, I’ve found mindfulness meditation to be one of the most useful tools when navigating the harder feelings. In that mode of observation, you start to notice these things just unfolding in the space of consciousness.

It made a lot of the ideas I’d been introduced to in therapy actually become real experientially, e.g. the idea that I am not my thoughts sounds nice, but while meditating, I begin to experience this as thoughts come and go like waves, and eventually just stop. But I’m still aware. It was the first time I could really feel the difference between “me” and “a thought my brain is thinking right now”. Getting that separation makes dealing with the harder thoughts significantly easier.
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It's not unskilled labor which will preserve, so much as it is labor that is difficult to automate. Plenty of skilled jobs, like being a therapist or surgeon, would also be difficult to automate.

McDonalds is also at the far end of the spectrum of "human service jobs that are less-skilled but difficult to automate". There is plenty of demand for higher quality versions - requiring a higher degree of skill and creativity - of the same general type, like fine-dining.

Truly creative (in the sense of it having a high degree of novelty and quality) work is not at risk of being automated any time soon. What is at risk of being automated is the category of "creative" work that requires some skills but is mostly assembly line. Category-defining or truly novel art almost by definition can't be produced by existing AI in any form, because AI can only remix the content it's seen already. "Generic rock song" or "clip-art like picture of a guy yelling at a computer" are at risk of going away, but I hardly think that means humanity will no longer flourish - producing that kind of stuff is romanticized as a cool, highish status thing to do, but functionally I don't really see it as any different or more worth preserving than obsolete skilled labor of the past like carriage-makers or human-computers.

I also think people tend to make the "Lump of Labor" fallacy when thinking about this stuff - economically speaking, if human workers are no longer needed to produce some high-value output, in the long run the excess labor/"talent" that gets freed from that task finds other value-producing tasks to do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy. Long-term unemployment and underemployment is completely a solvable economic problem; both can increase due to short term shocks like technological development and shifts in supply/demand, and in some cases underemployment is more a matter of "wrongly skilled", but long term they're both a matter of ensuring there is enough money, liquidity, and capital deployed to drive demand for marginal increases in both jobs and quality-of-jobs (without ruinous inflation).
You’re so cynical. And by cynical, I mean absolutely right.
What if they present a phone you have never seen before and claim it’s yours. Or if you truly don’t know your own code for some reason.
We are talking about a US navy that’s got a solid reputation for unnecessarily ramming ships into each other. It doesn’t beggar belief that the ball could get dropped.
In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice your sense of life to an enemy... that would claim your precious mind. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration... for the life you deserve, but have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is yours.

- John Galt
Obligatory "The REAL Reason McDonalds Ice Cream Machines Are Always Broken": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrDEtSlqJC4
Good question, actually. Thanks for asking.

I initially kind of assumed that most people would know about it, because it is a somewhat famous one, or at least, I've read it in many places. But your question made me realise that may not be the case. So, here it is, from the top of the above Wikipedia article about him, just below the header:

[ Santayana is popularly known for aphorisms, such as "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" ]
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Did they communicate any ideas or did they just make sounds at each other?
I can talk to my cat all day, and even if he responds you can’t really call it a conversation.
A conversation would require that we know what the sounds mean to the other. It’s unclear from the article if that is happening.
I mean, I disagree about fossil fuels. I don't believe we make the necessary advancements without incredibly energy dense fuel. Everything you listed required a base of energy dense fuels for the process in some fashion. It's very hand wavy to say. Well we would've just figured it out. I'm not convinced?

So if we were the first large life to form on the planet, and there weren't any fossil fuels, I think we'd be screwed. I think we would've stalled until something burned us as fuel.
It is not legally stealing whatsoever. Zero laws that cover "stealing" are applicable to copyright infringement.
The art that's being disrupted is "give me a picture of a guy riding a bike through our downtown in an impressionist style" (for a brochure or some marketing material). I'd call that artisanal more than creative - it certainly takes skill to produce something that meets those requirements of an acceptable degree of quality, but I don't there is much humanity loses out on having computers do that.

People simply romanticize that kind of work because of its loose association with highly-prestigious creative work. I don't think we lose out on Picassos if we lower the number of graphic designers or caricature artists.
What is objectionable about AdGuard?
Google aphantasia MRI.
For any shareholder, this graph qualifies as failure:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/IBM/ibm/market-cap