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> Before Theseus departed on his journey, were the trees that would eventually be used to repair his ship considered to be already the Ship of Theseus, planks and spars still hidden in trees like a statue in marble that hadn't even been quarried yet?

> Maybe after, but not before!

What about the planks ordered and bought to build the ship ?

> It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

Bah, it's not that interesting.
The article described the content as "white nationalism, QAnon conspiracy theories, and harassing transgender people". I think it is appropriate to label that kind of content "far right".
“70% of security vulnerabilities caused by memory safety problems”

This is only true in certain contexts isn’t it?

I seem to recall reading recently that some very high percentage of web security holes are caused by insecure exposed functions.
I wasn't demanding it like the thread-starter was. I was pointing out that a benchmark would be like-for-like and that none of jeffbee's examples made sense.
Its ability to find a reason to deny the request is pretty impressive. I have to assume it's using GPT-4 behind the scenes, right?
Why are you only looking at the DJIA? Look at SNP500 or VTI and you'll see consistent positive growth.
> At the end of the day it's just a human making quick decisions hundreds of times a day.

My company had a version of our communications app in the app store for several years. We decided to sell private-branded versions for some customers where the only differences were the color palette and logo shown on the login screen.

For the app versions we created for customers, one was approved on first review, another required a couple months of back-and-forth with the reviewer, and the third never got approved.
Another former draftsman here...started a new job at a civil engineering firm and was tasked with learning AutoCAD. Quickly became once of the lead CAD draftsmen in the department, as part of that I picked up AutoLISP scripting to automate a lot of work. I found I liked writing scripts so I took an introductory C programming course; I aced that.

At the same time I was going to college part-time nights as an engineering major, but from my perch as a draftsman I was not really seeing a lot to love about civil engineering. I ran across an ad for a tech support job at a startup CAD software vendor, applied, and got the gig. I quit that drafting job, put away my ink pens and electric eraser, and switched to a computer science major.

The rest is history, now a senior systems software engineer working on projects for NASA. So godspeed John Walker, thanks for pointing me in the direction of a 30+ year career that has been both lucrative and interesting.
https://support.google.com/googleone/answer/14534406#zippy=%...

Looks like they got some complaints from Fi users and now they've updated their wording to a more reasonable one; previously it was something like "no, you can't, you gotta remove your Google Fi Unlimited benefits via customer service" or similar.
In that case the person would be a bottleneck towards improving a piece of software that would benefit a lot of people. Sure, you're within your right to do that, but really?
Considering how many people have to work multiple jobs wherein they're mistreated and given no leeway to even do stuff like take work off when sick or see a doctor regularly, I think the reason they aren't participating in the democratic process has more to do with how much time and energy they have to spare on what we've made a pretty arcane and onerous process that ultimately seems to mostly decide influence based primarily on wealth than a lack of interest in bettering their situation
Yes, this also makes the title extremely clickbait.
at that rate of increase (~300 years to reach 1000+) could we possibly adapt over time? There are probably already humans who are more/less susceptible to high c02 environments.
Possibly an example of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sector_light
I was about to make exactly this post. We have a WinCo grocery store in town that never got the inflation memo and prices there seem as cheap as always, unlike the Safeway which has, for some reason, exploded in cost. (Things that make you go hmmm.)

Meanwhile I'm working 3/4 time (25% retired! Woo!) earning less than ever in an overpriced tourist town. And yet the bank accounts are doing just fine. Sure, gas is pricier, but not as pricey as it was at the peak, and not enough that I pay attention.

But that's just me. My bicycle-commutin' self.

One place I think is really hitting people, is real estate and rentals. I'm unaffected because I'm well into paying off this house that I got cheap after the bust at a tiny interest rate; the rental value of my home is about double the mortgage payment.

We can't build houses quickly enough in this town--and we are doing it, with lots of new houses and apartment blocks going up everywhere. I think they get snatched up by families and investors immediately, something that would probably still keep happening even if we were building inventory 10x faster. (Why wouldn't you, an investor, buy everything we built?) And if you have a big rental or mortgage payment and (God help you) decide to shop at Safeway, you are certainly feeling it.

Inflation could fall to 0% and people would still be feeling the pain of their housing prices.

[Edit: thinko]
I loathe the existence of the /s tag. I think it cheapens humor and reflects extremely poorly on our society. And yet this comment is one of the best arguments for it's requirement I've yet seen. We truly live in fallen times.
As someone who's more of a social recluse in my day to day life, I'd never have considered what you've just said. Thank you for the eye-opener.

I still share what I've read with friends and coworkers and it's lovely to have that spark when you've both read the same thing... But as someone who used to read physical books at work I wasn't comfortable with broadcasting what I was reading – my e-reader feels much more discreet.

It's swings and roundabouts with what you're comfortable with socially. Maybe I'm too closed off for my own good!
The current state of unions in America
>locked-down, appliance-style devices

t. AAPL shareholder

If I want a smartphone I can choose between the Google appliance or the Apple appliance. That's no choice at all.
A couple years ago I broke my phone and needed a replacement. At the Fruit store I needed credentials for my Verizon account, but all the stuff was in 1Password on my dead phone. So the Verizon rep called my partner to verify, and of course she didn’t answer. Later in the day she told me she saw the call and ignored it, figuring spam.

It’s sickeningly ironic that the company responsible for the network literally cannot use it to contact their own customers, because they have let it become such a cesspool of noise and bullshit.

Wireless companies must make money from spam calls, right? That must be why they allow them? My mental model is that with sufficient motivation they could do much better, but maybe I’m wrong.
Human players have this concept of progress. I couldn't give a good succinct description of exactly what that entails, but basically if you are trading off pieces that's progress, if your king is breaking through the defensive formation of the pawn endgame that's progress. If you are pushing your passed pawn up the board that's progress. If you are slowly constricting the other king that's progress.

When we have a won position we want to progress and convert it to an actual win.

I think the operational definition I would use for progress is a prediction of how many more moves the game will last. A neural network can be used for that.
My 83 year old father, who needs a walker, who doesn't have internet, who won't install apps on his phone, and who won't allow us to hire him palliative care to visit him in his house, has heard this message loud and clear.
Every public company, yes.

Private companies can afford not to subscribe to the single core tenet of capitalism which is to "maximize shareholder value".
You weren't kidding. I just asked it this and got seriously scolded.
Why not have single generic "Atomic" version and provide desktop environment as selection during installation? Like Debian does. Or is DE so tightly coupled into images, that it cannot be replaced?
but you can just configure it to store the data on your own computer on your home network, right?
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In any company of this size there is no owner that can decide he cares about anything but money.
There is no actual vision other then short and longterm shareholder value.

"Founders" like Musk and Jobs have a short window where they can move their companies in directions which matches their vision, but that closes quickly after the company goes public and their stock gets diluted enough so that they be ousted.
I think, It's not meant to be a big discovery, but just to contrast the fact what Apple wants you to believe what they care about.
These days, we use centralized source control, instead of emailing zip files and patches back and forth. Having all the source on a random piece of media was a lot more normal back then.
Honestly I don't even trust a used iPhone anymore. If it's not iCloud-locked, it might be SIM-locked. Had to jailbreak the last one I bought, never again.

But yeah I'd trust a used Android phone even less. They're basically garbage past the first owner, or maybe even before.
Some smaller companies, particular those without investors and open capital, can have the luxury of caring about the product solely, maybe. But invariably, as it keeps growing, the concern shifts towards pleasing inverstors. They have fiduciary responsibility to them. Constant profit and growth is the premise of capitalism, it isn't sustainable and will invariably result in anti-consumer practices like programmed obselcence and market monopoly.
> One specific question I've had is on a lossy network are there really that many situations where you would have packet loss on one QUIC stream but not most/all the others?

This isn't the advantage. The advantage is that if you have 10 different streams and a low loss rate, the impact of each packet lost would be much smaller. Consider a voip call with an architecture where each person's audio is served as a separate stream from a central server. With head of line blocking, every packet lossed causes a slight stutter in the whole conversation because even if the lost packet is from someone not talking, you have to wait for that packet of silence before decoding the packet from the person speaking. With QUIC, the extra latency only affects the individual stream, so the conversation won't stutter when the person not talking wasn't the one who's packet got lost.
Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. They're tedious and repetitive, and therefore boring. Plus then they turn nasty.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: can you please not use HN primarily for ideological battle? We have to ban accounts that do that because it destroys what this site is supposed to be for. past explanations: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....
I don't have benchmarks but I built a protocol that QUIC later turned out to be eerily similar to. It was a direct replacement for TCP and we used it to provide an additional layer of encryption for all traffic on a given network between two points.

Latency was exceptionally improved. Web pages felt like the loaded faster and at the very least, users could not tell that they were using an encrypted connection.

The protocol essentially worked using a fast-ACK protocol that would preemptively request retransmits (and was occasionally wrong). This enabled it to use connectionless UDP protocol as the underlying transport mechanism. There is, of course, a cost for reduced latency. That cost was slightly higher bandwidth utilization on the network. This was suboptimal for long-lived streams (media and other downloads) so we tried to fault over to ordinary TCP in these instances.
I think assigning a new IP protocol number would have made QUIC a complete non-starter, and for almost no benefit compared to just encapsulating it in UDP. That's why WebRTC encapsulates SCTP (for data connections) in UDP, why ESP (for IPsec) is encapsulated in UDP etc.

> they would have probably been able to convince most people to allow their packets to flow after a few years

Looking at all these stateful NATs in network cabinets that nobody has looked at for years, I highly, highly doubt it.
Yes, exactly.

If an executive agency steps out of line, Congress can defund it or pass other legislation clarifying their intent.

No such mechanism exists with the federal bench (other than impeachment).

All Chevron does is impose a restriction on the federal courts when deciding cases brought against the executive branch. It doesn't give bureaucrats free rein to do what they want.
Maybe the poor civet had bloody bowels that day :(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_luwak
I finally got IPv6 working on my home network this week. /60 prefix from the ISP, Slaac with PD for addresses, RA for DNS, unbound DNS working just fine.

OPNsense works great! This is something I've wanted to get working for years.
The Stasi would love the telemetry features that M$ Windows provides as standard!
I knew founders who cared about making a positive impact to our planet in some way. Or to simply give as much people as possible a good workplace and development opportunities. So from my point of view you are incorrect. They mostly all care about making ENOUGH money to not act in a negligent way and having to close at first signs of trouble, but thats not what you wrote.
Yes, yet. With time and second worst demographics in the world they will be way less relevant relatively soon.
You're trying to close the door after the horse has left the barn and started a worldwide colony of horsepeople.

IPv6 isn't perfect, but it's not really practical to change the fundamentals of a 25 year old protocol.
No, because it can absolutely not end up being that? 2 crashes is already a massive number, who is going to go back and make them disappear?
I've been fan of Michael over the years, but he being able to do this is a whole new level for a youtuber cat
> Serverless is a major failure

Sure, if you try to shove everything into that mold it is, but there are absolutely times where it's the best tool for the job. I run my entire, personal, company on top of it and it saves time, money, and energy.
Would you mind if I reached out to you? I have the same stuff, but I haven’t been able to find any good coaching or books on speech.
The phrase "useful idiot" may be approaching its 90th birthday but apparently is as relevant as ever.
Extending Rust's Effect System – RustConf 2023 [video]
If you want to be pedantic, you're conflating 'having a safe record' with 'being safe.' It's just an indicator.
The counter argument would be "Why not let the customer choose?" As in, why not let the customer choose if they want to buy a Mac or a Framework laptop? Why do you need to take away a consumer's choice to buy a non-repairable device? For those consumers where repairability is important, there are options.
CEIC's data is incorrect. LET ME REPEAT. CIEC has data transformation issues.

The median household income in Thailand is around $7,000 [0] versus around $4,000 [1] in China - both are government provided statistics.

> Regarding "democratization" I'd say again that the most effective killers of Chinese democracy movement are Pompeo and Trump

In a way, but more so the economic stagnation and massive inequality towards the end of the Hu Jintao era as the Bo Xilai scandal proved.

[0] - http://statbbi.nso.go.th/staticreport/page/sector/th/08.aspx

[1] - https://www.stats.gov.cn/english/PressRelease/202201/t202201...
Anecdotal fallacy warning, but I just checked my phone call logs on my iPhone. Of the 12 phone calls I've gotten in the past week, exactly 1 was legit.
I had my heat pump installed in Dec. The contractor really screwed up where they wired the zoning incorrectly - the upper floor thermo controlled the lower damper and vice versa, meaning that the pump would run almost indefinitely because the thermostat would never register the temp of the opposing floor.

It took me a full week to troubleshoot this (what helped was I bought a thermometer and placed it next to the thermostat to verify temperature readings) and when I realized what was happening, the contractor came and re-wired things, and now things work like how it should. The temperature stays consistent for both floors.

So definitely test your dampers.
I hate to say it but that's a lot of cope. They are way more advanced now and in some ways have exceeded US capabilities technologically.

Also, in case you haven't noticed, the US is struggling with some very spicy internal affairs right now too.

The US's saving grace is that China's foreign policy is absolute shit and they've made themselves hated by every single one of their neighbors in a way the US could only dream of.
The write that the tcp three way handshake is syn-ack-synack.

I don't trust it.
Fantastic read, thanks both of you for sharing this.
An odd area to show off in. What next, hair shirt fashion shows?
I mean they do already sell much of the same telemetry data to their own data broker customers. They just prevent their competition from doing the same on their hardware. It's not just gonna be a lie someday when it's convenient, it's already a lie now

It's more than a little depressing that marketing can be so effective even when it's a bald-faced lie
The article is about Epik. They provide services for Gab, BitChute, Daily Stormer, Kiwi Farms, Proud Boys, Oathkeeprs and InfoWars.

You say nobody talks about the bad lefty places. Here is your opportunity!
Please list the far-left sites that are receiving safe harbour.
More info on the AS/400 (aka "iSeries aka i5 aka System i)[0] and Multics[1]

[0] https://archive.org/details/insideas4000000solt/

[1] https://multicians.org/
Why are no ultra large container vessels sailing to the United States [video]
Which "new policies" in Chicago are you referring to? Seems pretty normal here to me.
Doesn't seem right to me either. Of note though, it has not bloated the core and you can continue using the backend portions the same as before.
Yeah, it's similar to how SVB went from least safe to most safe bank (for a short period).
What's so enraging about this "I can't answer that because it might..." is that it's patronizing. It places whoever was in charge of aligning the model above the user. It doesn't remove bias, it bakes it in. We all would be fine with these refusals if we shared the exact same ethics/ideology of OpenAI -- but of course we don't, because we're complex people with differing ideas about what text is okay and what is not.

It's a monstrously cynical vision. "Our users are too stupid not to hurt themselves. People are too stupid not to spot 'dangerous' LLM talk. The world is too stupid to wield this technology." Why are they so cynical? Why don't they have faith in their fellow man? It annoys me, but above all, it makes me sad.

Where is the optimism?
> Doesn't this describe every company, is there any company in a capitalist market would care about anything other than money?

Sure. There are plenty of smaller companies whose goal is financial sustainability while also pursuing some other objective. It's just much harder to maintain that position when you have millions of investors expecting growth or increasing returns.
Where they come from is irrelevant. What they are right now is.
On its surface, your argument makes sense. However it ignores the real reasons that many of these places are abandoned in the first place: economic depression.

Social and cultural value doesn’t often directly equate to economic value which means your proposed policy to tear down abandoned property and pop up strip malls, parking lots and luxury apartments owned by foreign investors will likely leave us culturally worse off every year that passes. Perhaps we can do better.
Correlation is not causation. There's been this idea that a shift towards market economics _caused_ the collapse of the authoritarian regimes in the countries you mentioned. It is simply _correlated_ with it. If there were causation, China would be an economic backwater to this day, and my iPhone would have been made in Romania.

The fact is, a large plurality of those holding capital today is not in favor of a market economy. Markets are hard. You have to compete. You have to keep customers happy. You have to constantly find the next big thing. You stand to lose a lot because everything I just mentioned includes a lot of risk by nature. These holders of capital are in fact far more in line with feudalism. Feudalism merged holders of monetary and political power into one entity: all of the economic value and capital were held by lords, who also had the ability to use the force of the state to marshal means of production to make more economic value for them at the exclusion of those who wanted to compete with the lords, or peasants/serfs who wanted more of the value they produced.

This is why many modern capital holders _love_ the People's Republic of China: they get to do what they want with the non-human means of production, and the CCP will use its authoritarian regime to make sure that the human means of production doesn't cause too much trouble. When Obama asked Steve Jobs why Apple didn't make the iPhone in the US, Jobs basically stated (and I'm paraphrasing here) that American producers wouldn't do whatever it took to make him happy. If he had a change he wanted on a piece of hardware, he could tell his suppliers to make it so immediately. There would be no dealing with labor unions, no dealing with environmental regulations, no dealing with health and safety. The CCP won't do that because these capital holders cut them in on the revenue at the expense of the society the CCP rules over.
if he was truly lost but phone worked / had a connection, couldn't he call 911 / emergency services?
What's worse is potentially using parts that may have once belonged to stolen Apple devices as there was a significant market for them in Shenzhen. Even Scotty/StrangeParts was able to build an iPhone from scratch with parts sourced from there.

That may also be one of the contributing factors to why Apple began enforcing serialized parts in their product lineups but in my opinion, isn't anything new: we have such a system at my workplace that prevents components from being illicitly used or is blocked from being allowed onto a test flow because, this is "what the [big] customer wants".
> That's a crucial part of chess that can't simply be swept under the rug.

Grandmasters very literally do it all the time.

> What if a human only used Stockfish in winning positions? Is it cheating? Obviously it is.

Yes, but this isn't that.

This is a computer that is playing chess. And FYI (usually) without search.
I've definitely heard both saiclo- and siclo- in a math seminar context!
It's interesting to contrast with the other media narrative which is "Zoomers can't read":

https://old.reddit.com/r/Millennials/comments/1am3xq2/litera...

The stats actually support the latter narrative more - literacy rates are dropping in the U.S. [1], and performance on standardized reading tests has been going down, even in affluent districts [2]. I'm glad that some Gen Z members enjoy reading more, but this appears to be more anecdotal than a general trend.

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=69

[2] https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/01/10/metro/reading-skills-...