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The republicans have had this view for as long as I can remember. They have wanted to demolish the welfare state, and to turn this place into the Corporate States of America. And of course, they've added on extremist Christians and white nationalists to their ranks.

And now, the R's pulled the curtain on their Lee Atwater-esque double-speak and now just say what they want.

Sure, the big bugaboo right now is Trump, but he's just the current symptom. Listen to any of the current to republicans - it's either trumpean say-it-like-you-mean-it, or coded language that means the same thing.

This country is already eating itself from the inside out, primarily because those types are already in lifelong positions, and otherwise controlling the bureaucracy.

I'm expecting a civil war out of this. Except it won't be "North vs South", but "rural+suburb vs urban". And urban is the BIG coastal cities.

We're still deciding on whether to plan for civil war, or to GTFO out of here. Either way, it'll probably happen within 10y, or less if Trump is elected.
I think California is the dumping ground for America's homeless and people don't see that. They think it's a California problem.

I think we need national solutions to this issue. I think California cannot solve it alone.

A problem of this size doesn't get solved at the point of impact. You have to step back, get a bigger picture view and see where it's coming from.

It's like a flood. Drawing a line in the sand at your door won't stop it.
Are Facebook and Twitter any less culpable?
What a relief: Revealing Roman craftsmanship
> Someone could make a killing making a fake airline, taking payments for flights...

Given how (relatively) significantly-regulated airlines are in the US, I doubt that this would work for long, and I expect that the FAA would make sure that the company lost a substantial amount of money for trying that shit.
Ask HN: How many software developers have ADHD?
Today I learned that many people in my FRC team’s software subteam has ADHD, just like me. I wonder if ADHD and interest in software have some sort of correlation (probably because the ease of long coding sessions and instant feedback loop)
I'd just like to say that I very much appreciated reading both of your responses, and commend you both for firmly but politely and reasonably disagreeing.
See the original GitHub post for how this post is not about scripting other binaries with Bash but pure Bash implementations of functionality. The posted script e.g. does not call nc or grep to make the socket or process the text. What makes this post interesting and upvoted is that it's esoteric.

It's like replying to a thread about implementing a web server in C macros with how you implemented a music jukebox as a standard C program. Great, but also not the point or really even related.
Then my description isn't very good because I'm not imagining redux at all.
> You are right. I just used the term colloquially. Or perhaps working for a cable company in US I imagined satellite TV doesn't even exist :-)

Here in Australia, cable TV no longer exists - the cable TV network was shut down last year - now the only paid TV options are streaming or satellite.

The physical cables still exist, but they are only used for Internet now. They were being upgraded to support higher bandwidth Internet and in the process support for transmitting cable TV was discontinued.

I’d be surprised if the same thing doesn’t happen elsewhere sooner or later
> However, the bulk of the content appears aimed at creating a sense of dismay over the state of America without any clear partisan bent ... this content clearly also feeds into the attempt to create a sense of dissatisfaction with the state of the country among voters, as well as potentially engendering a sense of chaos in the US amongst international audiences.

It's sad to see so much provocation and doomerism on the news and social media, ironically among people who want the US to improve. I'm not saying it's as blatant or harmful as CCP propaganda, but I'm certain it's very bad for the country.
Yep. It can ALWAYS get worse.
Crafting good software and being productive? I guess it depends. I am much slower at producing code than most of my coworkers, but as a result they spend very little time maintaining/debugging it. But I spend most of my time debugging their crap (and they do, too).

I think there is a point to make that better code is often more profitable in the longer term. But the norm (at least where I work) is to swim in crappy code all day and complain about it while producing more of it.
If a human customer support person told me something and I made purchases based on that, and it turned out they lied, yeah I'd want recompense for that as well. You're allowed to be wrong (AI or human), you just have to face consequences for it.
I don’t really buy your claim that you have a “visceral” reaction to every image you see captured on actual film. Ignoring the oddity of that statement, even if you did, I’m not sure why what you feel is supposed to determine what is or isn’t art.
Humans may be lazy and produce crap, but AI is lazy and produces crap. See the difference?
> Zoom calls were cool, but nobody could take the Persona seriously.

This is going to be another of their socially awkward gimmicks like Memojis they will double down until they inevitably fail.

I really feel like Apple actually just doesn’t feel it and every time they’re pushing their weird geeky ideas onto their users they loose a bit of coolness factor. And if kids decide Apple got too cringe, while someone else manages to use that to spin their momentum (think e.g. Nokia respawning riding the 90s sentiment wave), they may actually start to seriously struggle.
API deprecation on macOS is somewhat overblown. It’s not difficult to get a decades old FOSS Mac app compiling again, and it’s even possible to get projects targeting OS X precursors building with a little effort. Binary compatibility is what gets broken more frequently and is necessary to keep an OS from tripping on its own compatibility hacks.

Should macOS ever lose its terminal and associated capabilities, it’d spur mass migration of users from several STEM fields overnight. It’d be a colossally stupid move that’d destroy a sizable chunk of revenue coming from sales of high-margin and high-spec machines and services that these users buy to use with those machines.
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Riddle me this then, why use MIT over GPL?

The point of the MIT license is to make it easier to link it to proprietary software. It is setting up a situation where users will not be free. In and of itself it isn't a bad license; it just doesn't protect freedom and it can be used in ways that block people from contributing. By design.

If you expect people to treat MIT licensed software as GPL licensed software, then they should be licensing it under the GPL. That they aren't implies that the intent is different.
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I suspect that in order to mangle with election one should have elections in the first place, so I guess that its not possible for other governments to do the same on the Chinese internet
You say this almost as if there is political clout in hyper taxing CO2 or forcefully cooling down the world economy. But yeah, it would be fun if we could simply quickly begin reducing emissions. But there is a reason emissions are instead accelerating now in the midst of public debate and constant temperature records. It's not very easy at all.
Almost time for us to spin up our SOTA LLMs and text-to-video models and show these goobers how it's really done. :)
Effect of exercise for depression: systematic review, meta analyisis
If I tell you I went to a McDonalds potato warehouse, and that I counted twenty potatoes, but "there's a lot left to count", it would not be a reasonable summary of my statement to say that "the warehouse contains twenty potatoes".
It's just proof companies don't care. The quicker they can turn their customers into little autonomous compute nodes, the better from their perspective.

I have also noticed an increase in automated call systems just flat out hanging up on me. As in: "We're experiencing higher than normal call volumes and cannot accept your call. Please call at a different time. Goodbye. <click>" How am I supposed to get help in such cases?

We've allowed companies to scale beyond their means, and they're getting away with more and more.

UPS destroyed a suitcase of ours and basically told us to go f ourselves. We could have sued in small claims court, but that's what they're betting on, that most people just give up.

And the chatbots are just terrible. And these days, the human representatives available have even less information than what the chatbots are provided with.
It’s depressing how effective this rhetoric is across the political spectrum.
Windows has a tool to diagnose network problems, and it's usually completely useless but I think DNS not working is something it does identify.
I see what you mean. I'd argue that capitalism "wants" freer markets, though, as it benefits from more freedom to spend and earn wealth (liquidity).
And the stupid optimization tricks even legitimate users do to increase their clout: post several pictures - "Which one is your favorite? Comment below" so they get engagement points by the number of comments when it's just a stream of numbers that no-one (probably not even the creator) cares about.
Where did you get that from my comment? I don't recall hearing Russia overflying US cities dropping leaflets, but there's plenty of stories of the US doing the very thing. I wasn't impling the US was the only ones doing it nor that they are not doing it now. However, it IS happening to the US now, and it is effective.

It's also much more difficult to deny a leaflet drop, but we have people here on a very technically oriented forum denying the effectiveness of these campaigns. I guess it's a positive that they are not being denied that they are happening.??
It makes a lot of sense. Corporations make more money the more junk they produce.
If you have 10 minutes I recommend watching this video about how the lobby groups invented the whole idea of recycling plastic with the little numbered resin identification code that looks like a recycling symbol.
https://youtu.be/PJnJ8mK3Q3g
Sixty years is perhaps too long, neoliberalism really kicked off in the 80s/90s with an increase in globalisation, and corporate consolidation through M&As ramped up quickly in the 2000s after financialisation of the economy went in high gear. If we backtrack to the last thirty to forty years and check which top 20 companies got to that spot through M&As it might paint a different picture.
This is also like Null Object or Special Case pattern. It simplifies error handling, and because error handling code is often poorly tested it ends up being a big source of catastrophic failures. Making illegal states unrepresentable, or as John Ousterhout puts it: define errors out of existence: https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Define+Errors+Out+of+Existenc...
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Maybe don't demand 100%, but instead responsibility for incorrect information.
I've looked at thousands of images created by people twiddling the rudimentary knobs on generative AI tools and it is universally garbage, often trumped by assembly line produced motel paintings. As someone with 5 years studying art and architecture in school, and 30 years of participating in art post school, I feel quite comfortable sharing that review.
Has anybody been getting paid for the last couple months? I heard the checks had stopped coming, even for the select few.
I think a more equitable distribution of wealth than the status quo would be great, but I'm still not sure what you think of the judge's decision. Seems to me it's a good ruling, trying to push the locals to build more affordable housing. No, it won't solve homelessness, but it seems like the judge is helping, a little bit.

[edit] or is his ruling just theater?
The fines and lawsuits may be way cheaper than human staff.
If it hasn't happened yet for employees, why do you think it will happen for chatbots?
I didn't say it's unethical to preserve "ABI compatability." It's the software equivalent of the Chinese government gaslighting everyone while they wait for the dancing grannies to get the hint and go home. It is, in fact, the exact same technique.

And not only that, we're fast approaching the day where we all power on our PCs to discover that you can login with any user you like. And it gives you the list of all users who have a one drive account.
> Someone could make a killing making a fake airline, taking payments for flights, and then cancelling every single flight and only refunding the people who fight back hard enough.

They did, it's called Air Canada. I was scammed out of Japan tickets by them during COVID, they have still not refunded me and they expired the credit for the tickets. I have tried every customer support avenue to no avail. It's a scam airline.
Where is that coming from? I just stated that I think it's humorous that the karma slap is happening. Obviously, there are "attempts" to prevent it which is the same thing that the countries the US targeted do.
What about the sand shortage I've been reading about for several years. E.g.

"Sand shortages push up cost of jam jars and fracking" [1]. (2023)

"The problem with our dwindling sand reserves" [2]. (2023)

"Sand crisis looms as world population surges, U.N. warns" [3]. (2022)

"Why the world is running out of sand" [4]. (2019)

"The World is Running Out of Sand" [5]. (2017)

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/da751338-81a8-45c6-bf2e-acd979801...

[2] https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/problem-our-dwin...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/sand-crisis-loo...

[4] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191108-why-the-world-is...

[5] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/world-facing-g...
Effect of exercise for depression: systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.

Conclusions Exercise is an effective treatment for depression, with walking or jogging, yoga, and strength training more effective than other exercises, particularly when intense. Yoga and strength training were well tolerated compared with other treatments. Exercise appeared equally effective for people with and without comorbidities and with different baseline levels of depression. To mitigate expectancy effects, future studies could aim to blind participants and staff. These forms of exercise could be considered alongside psychotherapy and antidepressants as core treatments for depression.
No, I need CEQA in order to preserve my inflated property values so I can steal other people's economic surplus. This is a bad idea
The Go hash table approach is similar to this: it's randomizedish but not strongly random enough to depend on it being actually random...

https://dev.to/wallyqs/gos-map-iteration-order-is-not-that-r...

(Which I find a hilarious second order example of Hyrum's law - if you add true randomness to prevent people from depending on the iteration order, they might use it as a way to randomly access items in the map!)
At Google (long time off and on home of Hyrum), they migrated to swisstable from other hash maps. Unordered map iterates through the elements in insertion order. They explicitly couldn't support that without adding overhead to their new table so they randomized iteration order of the map

The migrations to the new table were fun because you would migrate some code and then find a test that assumed the order things were inserted into some seemingly distant protocol buffer array were in insertion order of the map

Usually the ordering was just a defect of the test, but it required actually digging in to be sure
There's many nitter mirrors still up
I mean you're literally suggesting that people should use a third-party framework/engine/library because writing all the Vulkan boiler plate yourself is too hard.
>Most of all a lack of empathy and good will is a good sign that you keep this person at a distance

I don't think that's true, really. I mean, you might be indifferent to a given person who you've never met, but to some extent its impossible to have no feelings about someone who in some way has come into contact with you, and I would say that the more intensely you have feelings for them, either attractive or repulsive, the more you have an imagined identification, which can either be one of a sublimated erotic narcissistic attachment (empathy), or one that is destructive (removal, death and replacement), in the latter case always as a defence mechanism in the same way as repression (recall the old "fort, da" story).
But I was responding to a general statement.
You don't even notice the advertisements that affect you....
remote.origin.tagOpt=--tags

Now, is there any way to set that for all remotes?
> both will have similar policies outside

The foreign, domestic, and economic policies of both potential presidents are different. Are you really arguing that they have negligible differences?
Slightly tangential, this reminds me of how to `sleep` in JavaScript without using async: https://stackoverflow.com/a/37575602
This might partially disappear with the nitter loophole closed but the number of bots under musk has gone up an order magnitude. I used to have 5 followers now I have anywhere from 70-100 depending on the day and I guarantee you I have not become more interesting. It’s all bots.
I didn't even know until the prior poster ctrl-a and ctrl-e worked for mac apps. I guess someone added emacs binding in OS X at some point? I always learned the mac keyboard commands as:

Arrow Left/Right/Up/Down -> Move by character
Option + Left/Right -> Move by word
Option + Up/Down -> Move by paragraph
Cmd + Left/Right -> Move to beginning/end of line
Cmd + Up/Down -> Move to beginning/end of text field
Shift + any of the above highlights in that direction

Page up/page down (on laptops Fn+up/down) -> Scroll up down by page (notably this doesn't move the cursor though, so you could scroll up to read something and then start typing to return to where you were)
Home/End (on laptops Fn+left/right) -> Scroll to beginning/end of text field/document, with the same non-movement of the cursor
Shift + any of the above also highlights, which does move the cursor

I was thinking the other day as I was diving into finally trying to learn vim that this might be why I've never found whether an app had emacs or vim keybindings to be a particularly important feature. That sort of text field navigation has been available in any app using native UI elements since the classic mac OS days.
Trump practically made $4 billion today with the DWAC merger getting the nod to proceed. This "fine" is nothing.
You kind of addressed the gloves thing, but I want to express my confusion how gloves make things cleaner. Where you put your hands, you put your gloves hands, so cross-contamination works the same way.

Gloves work to:

- not get your hands dirty
- easily switch between a dirty state to a clean state (remove dirty glove)
- prevent.. body contamination? How much is that a real concern though?
What's the future of parsers now that we have LLMs?

Don't get me wrong, certainly parser generators produce fast parsers. And we know that their behaviour is deterministic. LLMs have neither of those; however they can provide intelligent feedback.

I suppose that questions like mine are lazy, because the range of possible futures is enormous.
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I'm actually not interested in the effectiveness, because as you say that's kind of a bad foundation to base a moral / retribution story off.

I'm just honest here, I have to assume we've been meddling in each other's leadership and civil directions for a long long time. Like forever. And I just can't believe that the USA is somehow unique either as a perpetrator or a victim. I could believe that there was a time when the USA was more effective and that time may not be right how, but the "coming back to bite you" argument doesn't ring true.
For inference, there is the option to produce ASIC's with the weights hard coded into the chip. They'll be super fast and power efficient, with the huge downside they aren't reprogrammable.
That’s a fair point. I cringe when I see some dumb invention like turning plastic junk into toxic bricks. But even better would be to actually re-use the packaging like old school beer bottles and milk bottles. Industry has no problem standardizing containers when it suits them like shipping containers, kegs and pallets.
Greenwashing is the worst option of all as you waste your time on things that don’t work.
This is obviously how they made their recent hit game "authenticator loop" that we all loved so much for a while there, for instance.
I mean the leader of the Russian government wants Americans to elect they guy that's saying he'll get rid of a number of constitutional protections, so there is that.
Especially once we have ai lawyers ;)
Characterizing influence as "bad" no matter what is also questionable. Yes, the US attempted influenced other countries especially during the cold war. So did Russia. Would you rather live in a country influenced by the US, or Russia?
A company is partially bound by their representatives actions, so humans can hit 100% despite making mistakes.

This is simply applying the exact same standards to a chat bot.
And I didn't comment on what the judge is doing.

Because for me, that's kind of irrelevant, for reasons I've already covered.
Where do you find these circles all the comments are spam.
With RAG it's entirely possible to essentially eliminate 100% of hallucinations, given you are ok with responding with "I don't know" once in a while. These situations are likely coming from poorly implemented chatbot, or they decided that "I dont know" was not acceptable, and really that should be a queue to send you to a real human.
I don't think so. I think embedding is just converting token string into its numeric representation. Numeric representations of semantically similar token strings are close geometrically.

RAG is training AI to be a guy who read a lot of books. He doesn't know all of them in the context of this conversation you are having with him, but he sort of remembers where he read about the thing you are talking about and he has a library behind him into which he can reach and cite what he read verbatim thus introducing it into the context of your conversation.

I might be wrong though. I'm a newb.
I agree with everything except "there will not be new jobs". There will most definitely be new jobs.
Legacy or not, OpenGL is the best cross platform graphics API we have that's actually practical for people to write directly. Metal is reasonable to write directly but not cross platform, Vulkan is cross platform but you need thousands of LoC to put a triangle on the screen.
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I'm not talking about what Google pays for vulnerabilities. I'm talking about black markets & brokers.

Edit: and "Android" as in the AOSP (where PWAs still function) does not sell data.
This is ironic because this whole thing started _with_ people getting very bothered by the choice of the term master.
I had that once with an airline, customer rep made promises and afterwards they refused

Coincidentally the audio recording of the conversation was apparently deleted …