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Philosophy warning:

I don't know if there is a term for it, or if a philosopher/etc. has written about this phenomenon, but: a noticeable trend to me is what I'll call "the replacement of ethical expectations with specific, written down laws."

Rather than expecting a human being to behave in certain ways intrinsically (i.e., normative ethics) we tend to assume they will behave in the worst way possible, and then pass laws to supposedly prevent that behavior from manifesting.

This scenario is a great example of this phenomenon. Instead of discussing how car theft is fundamentally an unethical behavior, the discussion is about preventing some thing from being sold or existing, whether that be insecure vehicles or Flipper Zeroes. It's designing the playground so that kids can't get hurt, not teaching them how to play responsibly.

My theory is that this is a consequence of relativism and the general cultural exhaustion Western society seems to have with enforcing any sort of religious or ethical norms.

I really don't like the way this is going, because the end result is a world where limitations are hardwired into the environment, while at the same time you have zero ethical expectations of your fellow humans. It's very Hunger Games / Battle Royale, at a less hostile level.

Edit: just to clarify a point here. I'm not saying that there was no theft in the past, or that having ethical expectations instead of laws will somehow reduce all theft. I'm commenting more on the fact that the "new method" results in a different kind of world than the previous one (see the paragraph before this one.) It's a subtle point, but hopefully one I communicated well enough.
It's like a weather rock: if you are checking the tool, that confirms you are most likely burned out.
What will the new framework next week be?
This is exactly my experience as well. I just ended up not taking notes.
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> Is there a demo?

https://tikz.dev/ is generated from http://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/base/doc/pgfmanual.pdf. As someone else says,
> The solution is to identify, arrest, and prosecute criminals. Which the government is not obligated to do in the US.

I think it will take a multi-pronged approach that includes exactly this. Individuals must be held responsible for their actions. Car security also needs to be beefed up though. It's clearly not good enough.
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Yes, but you amortize the cost of the tooling out over the lifetime of the tooling, and you're paying on a loan for that. Labor is an ongoing, and increasing cost, not just wages, but also insurance, payroll taxes, etc.

Also remember the tooling is a fixed cost, it'll cost you (many) millions in Taiwan the same as it will in Japan or the US, so the cost of skilled labor is what ultimately affects your margins.
I'm all for this! My username is a bastardization of an Adams quote[1], because I've always been appreciative of his perspective. It was so truly unique that every aspiration to its whimsical and comprehensive majesty feels futile in the way that the mindset would naturally ignore as irrelevant to the pursuit. And if that word-salad didn't make it obvious: I was also a keen admirer of his ability to use words to explain concepts, without sounding like a pedantic lunatic.

Truly a fantastic human, and an assuring figure for the species to be moving towards, in my opinion!

[1] "If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat."
That doesn't seem overly surprising. Just as the people who acted in 2010 in a fashion that did not land them in prison probably acted in a way in 2015 that also did not land them in prison, it's not shocking that people who acted in 2010 in a way that landed the in prison might also act in 2015 in a way that lands them in prison.

I don't think that being in prison from 2011 to 2014 caused them to act that way in 2015.

We're not going to randomly assign (mostly) law-abiding citizens to prison to measure whether prison adds propensity to [what would be re-]offend, but there probably is something that is different about the never-imprisoned vs previously-imprisoned population that informs future likelihood to be imprisoned.
That’s across the US, by comparison the average office Worker base salary in the United States is $42,181 before benefits so you’re not talking 120k total.

Some places have higher salaries but also higher rent. Manhattan for example averages 81$/square foot.
Correct. I'm not saying he is bad for the world, just that he is more focused on soundbites to reel people in than on the detailed discussion being proposed by his video.
I thought he meant Scott Adams (Dilbert) and dare I say that would be more on point
Awesome! I'd love to see a detailed writeup on how the exploit works, if someone has the time and interest to put one together.

We were incredibly lucky to get one for the Switch BootROM exploit: https://github.com/Qyriad/fusee-launcher/blob/master/report/...
More discussion ended up over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39437387
Indeed, physical cash has similar limitations. Everybody understands that it's inherently unsafe. Yet crypto-currency advocates are advising people to keep a large part of their savings as an asset that's even less safe than physical currency, which is absolutely crazy.
What harm did Kia cause its customer? How are those locks adequate in say, South Korea, where there are 1:20,000 car thefts per capita yearly vs 1:350 in the US.

The locks are not the problem. Stealing cars is the problem.
But which one? All the good ones I see have also android on them!
I'm guessing that it makes it easier to pick and choose between a bunch of patches. This is something I sometimes want to do in Git, but doing so requires a bit of planning. Have all the independent features branch from the same point, then, to 'assemble' them, do an octopus merge.

If the VCS knows about dependencies between patches intuitively, it could free me from having to explain it, which in the case of Git, requires following procedures that I'm unlikely to convince any of my coworkers to follow ("ohay, first, decide on the earliest point in the history from which this patch could make sense, rebase onto that....")
A couple years back I was walking through a very affluent public high school. Nearly every kid had the same school hoodie on. Boys in shorts, girls in matching warmup pants.

There was no real dress code. Very fashion different from my era. Not sure what an advertiser would market to unless Squid Games was a fashion.
median disposable income is another measure, on which the US leads the world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...
From the article:

"It is important to note that the scale of investments being made by these cloud providers is dwarfed by actual cloud revenue. For example, Azure from Microsoft generates $25B in revenue a quarter. The ~$10B OpenAI investment by Microsoft is roughly 6 weeks of Azure revenue. This suggests the cloud business (at least for now) is more important than any one model set for Azure."

The most interesting implication in the short term is that the impact of model availability on cloud provider choice is more important than the models themselves. Will organizations choose Azure because it offers GPT-4, or AWS because it offers Claude?

This also explains reciprocal VC structures whereby e.g. Amazon invests billions in Anthropic while Anthropic in turn promises to spend billions on AWS cloud resources. Anthropic gets a higher valuation and broader distribution, while AWS gets more customers. It would be a fascinating outcome if the predicted oligopoly in fact ends up as several exclusive partnerships.
It would obviously be better if everything were done in the open. But you can't simply say "corporations will corrupt AI with copyright regime X" and compare it to a hypothetical universe "copyright regime Y will result in corporations acting with altruism." Regardless, corporations are going to be rent-seeking parasites trying to maximize their profits at all costs.

The world you're arguing for isn't one where small-time artists are adequately compensated for their work. It's one where Disney and Elsevier collect a bunch of rents and hold back development of tools that would radically improve human well-being. Even in the best case, your copyright suggestion will privilege the giant corporations who have the capability to navigate copyright rules against a bunch of other giant corporations, at the expense of smaller researchers and hobbyists.

I'd be more than happy to sign into something saying "a small artist has a right to prevent training on their work without permission for a decade after it's released." But that is not in the cards, unfortunately.
There’s typically a difference in LR between a ‘continued pretrain’ and ‘fine tune.’ I don’t have the details around miqu, but was merely trying to say that Mistral could produce a better version of these models than the OSS community might. If the size of the corpora they use means we are no longer in fine tuning territory, then okay.
You don't need a "contract" for recovery, just an account.

E.g. in the US, Mint Mobile is $15/mo. and is prepaid in the sense that you buy blocks of months at a time. But if you lose your SIM they'll still send you another one with the same phone number.

So no, if you lose your SIM you don't necessarily lose your number, even if it's prepaid. That only happens if you're buying your SIM as an "anonymous" one-off purchase, which is not what most people do these days. Not to mention the increasing prevalence of eSIMs.
All the music venues in the area are now gone.

Places to hang out are going, as an erosion of culture, as cities seek ever more business taxes to fund their stadiums and consolidate entertainment.
Is Forth really homoiconic? I’m asking as a recent fan of Forth. I would’ve thought to describe it as having strong, interactive metaprogramming but not necessarily homoiconic. Unless ‘code = data, data = code’ because they’re all bytes… haha.

Postscript would count as homoiconic, I’d think. Though I haven’t actually seen programs that so this.
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Target: MI_7_second_order_zero_intercepts_predict.out

I'm not sure what that means.

(Though I just got straight 3's on my semi-annual work eval again combined with no negative feedback, which doesn't surprise me because my boss shot down my proposals and told me to do more lackluster won't-be-noticed refactor work, so though I don't feel burned out I'm definitely going to be looking for a new job)

Although I would love to have a quick, free, easy, reliable self-reported burnout assessment tool, 1) I doubt the results would surprise me that often and 2) burnout isn't the reason why people leave my company most of the time. Typically people leave my company because they're ambitious and driven and they're seeking faster growth elsewhere.
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What an amazingly shallow way to look at the half-connected, sedentary nature the internet has wrought upon The Youth. "We've shifted from one way of splitting hairs to a different hair splitting method, and this more casual, less committed hair-slitting approach is a failure"? Riveting.
> You're ranting

There's no need for this. Marxism seems to be a re-growing school of thought, taking various angles in modern society and culture. No ranting has happened, and your mischaracterisation of things is revealing.
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Must not want anyone kissing them, then. Because once you're in that close nothing is hidden anymore.
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> Isn't police the external control? It is just that governments have failed to provide enough of these controls...

I can only speak about US law, but there has been repeated case law that the police do not have a duty to protect any person in particular (except possibly when people are in their custody which isn't really relevant here).

The function of the police isn't to stop criminals in the act - given their response times that's largely impossible anyhow (well, outside of traffic violations). They largely deter crime by catching criminals after the fact.

The examples given like military facilities have secure fences, 24 hour guards, etc. They are actually secure facilities. As opposed to someone's driveway.
This is a problem throughout Canada. BC also has a serious problem.
What is TAMASHA?
Hey now, new framework makes your brain work
>but provably always within the memory bounds

That doesn't tell the whole story in C code, though. Out-of-bounds access is UB, thus the whole branch could be assumed to be never taken and optimized out by an enterprising compiler. In this case it will only cause missing characters in console output, but "will at worst cause a crash" is not entirely true.
Related / more discussion:

Capital One to buy Discover Financial in $35.3B all-stock deal

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39437387
“is is is” would be called BillClintonLang, no?
I heard that five and ten years ago so I’m not really worried (or if you mean china will always be three years away from commercially viable high end chips?).
What you see here is that the forces are in effect as they have been for a while, if anything moreso than ever as you say, but they are not on a metaphorical frequency the author can pick up on anymore.
Yeah in this case between these 3 supermarkets there are 2 options:

1. You choose your general location or
2. You don't choose

In the first option you get one less general category to choose from (for example they may not have fresh fish)

As far as I can tell, in both cases the supermarket closest to the delivery address is responsible for filling out your order and usually what happens is that they call you to let you know that they don't have something and suggest substitutions.
> No need to develop a separate android and iOS app - just use open web standards

PWAs is just a name for cached documents the browser shows a bit differently. Notifications and badges do not make "an app".

> Literally not a walled garden

Literally demonstrated by Google recently (doing whatever they want in Chrome/imums) and Apple as per the topic of this post - PWAs are entirely dependent on the grace of the MFAANG developing your browser of choice. So yes, walled not only on device/OS level but also in user land.
You can rent a partial rack space from almost any colocation provider, and they come in units all the way from 1U to 42U. When I did my first startup it was done out of two 1U servers that I rented the space for at about $150 a month including power and bandwidth. My partner and I got access badges, walked in and racked and cabled them ourselves.
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Hey, I have had almost exactly the same experience, from the childhood experienice down to the music. For me, the functional impairment was also in things outside work, which is eventually how I got someone to refer me to a neuropsychiatrist for the full battery of tests. The treatment ended up being very helpful, but mostly for my personal life and general health.
But now that you "do know better", what's holding you from signing up?
What would "enforcing any sort of religious or ethical norms" look like in a society that used those methods to effectively prevent the exploitation of vehicle owners by car thieves?
I lived in Beijing for 9 years. You know you are doing something right when the pro Chinese crowd calls you anti Chinese and the anti Chinese crowd calls you pro Chinese.
Does anyone actually have one of these? Anything to report?
They use a lot of robots, but there are still a lot of things not automation. Robot maintenance is often a big one, though since I don't work in that environment I can't tell you what they can't do.
Even a surveillance state like China has crime - it’s not possible to deploy a police officer to every block and most people would find that objectionable for other reasons. Very few threats can be solved by a single countermeasure because the enemies are also intelligent and motivated.
Dating apps are nominally for 'hammering objects' in this example (not really, they're all a lot more like the framing hammer in the example below - but let's not digress too much.)

Saying Tinder, specifically, isn't for hookups is a bit like buying a framing hammer and saying it isn't for driving nails. Or I guess, more appropriately, saying Tinder isn't for folks using hookups as a lure.

Despite the textured face, specific head and handle size, and balance being expressly optimized for hitting framing nails all day every day.

Can you use it for other purposes? Yes. But it really isn't made or optimized for that.
I think the point is not that we don't regulate locks, but that we don't ban lockpicks.
> The "aesthetic" proliferation sounds fun and harmless.

The author's thesis is that these aesthetics have replaced subcultures and that has led to kids being lonely and sad. You can disagree with that, but it seems that you are just ignoring that.

> with a respectful interest and open-mindedness

How is the author being disrespectful to young people? The criticisms are entirely pointed at the content producing machine.
According to the US Supreme Court, the police have no duty to protect citizens[0], even if they obtain a court-issued protective order.

Cars are insecure on purpose because people accidentally lock their keys inside all the time so locksmiths need to be able to get into them. Likewise, locks on homes are insecure on purpose because people lock themselves out. The entire system of locks is based on the assumption that crime is rare and criminals will pick the easiest targets. If crime ceases to be rare, it falls apart very quickly.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-po...
Coffee machine camera at Amazon warehouse raises concerns about surveillance
I'd bet that's written by a journalist, not a scientist.
In his book The Universe Next Door[1], James Sire hypothesizes a natural progression of philosophies from theism -> naturalism -> nihilism. He provides Star Trek as an example of naturalist literature, and Adam's works as examples of nihilist works.

If we are truly moving from Star Trek tech to Hitchhiker's tech, then that might indicate a broader philosophical shift in line with Sire's hypothesis.

[1]: https://search.worldcat.org/title/424558138
I've been working on something centered around extensibility, or metaprogramming, coming from a strictly imperative angle, with the belief that anything else (functional, relational/logic based, whatever) can be built on top of that.

A few guiding principles are:

- simplicity above all, with as few fundamental elements as possible

- the parser is a separate issue, just write your own syntax to avoid the most divisive bikeshed element of PL design, or pick the C like or ALGOL like one out of the box. You very likely want your own syntax anyway as you write extensions.

- every language element, from modules down to function calls, are first class, ie have an (implementing) type, can be stored in variables and used in expressions, be introspected and evaluated/deployed.

- runs at compile time, compiles at run time (code generation/partial evaluation/dynamic code)

- generates C, Java, Python and various bytecodes to maximise interoperability, code availability and deployability

- has no standard runtime or standard library of its own, is entirely parasitic on other environments

Even if it ends up being completely useless, it's a really interesting exercise in design.
Korean car brands like Hyundai and Kia are commonly criticized for being too easy to steal. Yet somehow the rate of car theft in South Korea, where these companies have a much higher market share, is a fraction of that in the United States.
> Instead of discussing how car theft is fundamentally an unethical behavior, the discussion is about preventing some thing from being sold or existing, whether that be insecure vehicles or Flipper Zeroes.

There are already laws against theft. They apply to vehicles, secure and insecure alike.

A law mandating a minimum level of security, as GP suggests, seems to me to fit the suggestion, that auto manufacturers have a minimum standard to ethically sell a vehicle which buyers would, presumably, expect to have locking mechanisms suitable to prevent theft.
I completely disagree that status is not a zero-sum game. It definitely is!

Think about an individual's status as positive attention given to them; total number of person-hours dedicated to thinking positively about that specific individual. The amount of attention of all people on earth, especially positive attention, from which status is derived, is a limited resource. If current online celebrities are capturing 90% of all online traffic and consumers are already glued to their phones, then if I want to capture 20% of all online traffic, it means that I MUST steal some traffic from current celebrities. Existing consumers cannot create more hours in their days and they need to work for a living. The only way to get their attention is to redirect it away from other people/things towards me. Zero-sum game.

Suggesting that status is not a zero-sum game is laughably wrong. Does anyone actually believe that every person on earth could be famous? Is your own brain capable of even memorizing the names and faces of 8 billion people? Most people can barely remember 1000 people's names. Celebrities have to compete for these limited slots.
Have you seen conform.guide? It just became 1.0.0. It's pretty similar to react-hook-forms -- but it's a lot more remix-y.
If you want lawlessness go ahead, but don't come crying when someone steals your riches or punches you in the face.
> You have all the problems of a cache with fewer benefits

No you don't. You have next to none of the problems of a cache (especially as you directly have to opt-in individual queries to it) like cache invalidation, etc., with all the benefits. It's about as free as performance benefits can be (from a implementations standpoint).

I understand that for many use-cases caching at the response level may be preferable, but there are also many use-cases that are read-heavy but also involve a lot of computed values that are updated and have to be recomputed regularly, where this dataflow-based approach has been shown to be one of the least compute intensive and efficient solutions.
All planets and moons hang on to their gasses through gravity. I would think our understanding of solar system formations and solar winds makes the likelihood of lots of helium being in the outer system being quite high.

The temperature is not related to holding on to the helium, but to its density for higher efficiency farming.
Subcultures continue to exist, but they have become smaller and more focused on online communities such as Subreddits and Discord servers. Subcultures were identified by people expressing similar aesthetic values through visible means like clothing. Now there is a greater emphasis on shared internal belief systems rather than external social performances. Newer subcultures position themselves as cultural-memetic innovators within the mainstream, which proves to be more subversive than the LARP-like performances in previous visually-oriented subcultures.
"Kill all humans except for one" would be a way to resolve this (at least for 1-80 years).
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That’s actually not true anymore. El Salvador has the most prisoners per capita now.

They also have a lower murder rate than the US. The lowest murder rate in the entire Western Hemisphere, actually. Previously they had the highest murder rate in the world.

Mass incarceration works. It doesn’t work in the US because we didn’t do enough of it.