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I have ideas but if I post them, I’m guessing you are going to pattern match me to some ideological category and try to debate from that point of view.

That’s not my point at all. It’s that all our federal politicians and political parties have had their ambitions shrunk down to nothing.

No one at all is saying—-hey this credentialism thing is a serious problem, vote for us and here’s how we’ll attack it. Even if someone was proposing an idea I totally hated, I would at least appreciate the effort to actually solve a real problem.

If you think credentialism is impossible for the government to make a difference on, pick something else. Anywhere you look for the last 14 years we’ve had few to no ambitious proposals.
Custodians are not supposed to destroy what is in their care. This is not about the book, this is about the artefact. The time, the reasons, the history behind it. If that is how it came to us, and that is how it has been preserved, then there is no point in changing it. They could have written their reservations, taken the opportunity to do some ethical pedagogy about it (by far not the only artefact made of human skin, by the way), contextualised it, explained it. But to destroy it? Totally unjustifiable decision.
Good plan,I want to try it Now
You could say "writing Gtk code in X language where I implemented a DSL for this special case is easy!" in any PR piece.

You could do it in Python using contextmanager which packs after adding the widget to HBox to save a line, you could do it in Ruby using do/end blocks, you could do it in C with the help of some pretty macros.
How would you feel if after a century of your skin being on a book, that was then 'disposed of'?

This 'disposing' isnt being consented to either. Why should it be that non-consentual creation is a sin, but not non-consentual destruction?
I’m wondering why we don’t use any type and definition-aware IDEs that could render the first line as a proper table (especially once there is a list of items of the same type involved). With headers and aligned fields. Similar to how Word would do it with inline tables.

Ideally of course with a switch to change to the second, more verbose definition.
And the collected tax on gas and a vehicle do not pay for the externalities of that gas and that vehicle in NYC. So we levy and additional tax/fee for that. I'm not sure why that's hard to understand.
The state of remote work in 2024 (analysis of 1M remote jobs)
The earnings per share certainly increases. But this is (at least theoretically) offset by the fact that the firm's assets have decreased. For example, if the buyback was paid for with cash, then prior to the buyback, the shares represented a claim of ownership not just on future earnings, but also on that cash reserve.

That said, this is all under a theoretical model (as in Miller-Modigliani theorem). In practice/empirically, there is reason to plausibly believe that e.g. the decision to announce a buyback has a signalling effect and so can increase share prices.
This isn’t even necessarily true for dividend yield let alone for EPS.
My experience in very large organizations is that, other than CEOs who can go either way, the very top levels are extremely bright, surprisingly well-adjusted people. Tensions arise because, from the perspective of the senior leaders, VPs and below are indistinguishable from the most junior employees, while from the VPs’ perspective they are themselves senior leaders, leading to all sorts of friction.

It’s a bizarre environment and I cannot believe how much time I’ve spent in it.
That's what I always wondered about this kinds of services. They could easily sniper all the cool domains they found for you.
I remember watching these when growing up. At the time, he was just the "eccentric klein bottle guy" to me, so learning that he's had such a storied and interesting life from this thread came as a welcome surprise. Shouldn't judge a book by the cover and all that. Speaking of which, I definitely want to read the book now.
> Your generation seems to be the only one that I can think of that wants to make it happen via authoritarian means.

This is hard to support if you study much history. Every environmental law has been criticized as authoritarian. In the middle of the previous century, Los Angeles had smog so bad it was common not to be able to see across the street and some conservatives argued that doing anything about it was tyranny and would devastate the economy; California’s air quality laws were so effective that they were widely copied and it devastated the economy into 5th place globally. Very few of the critics ever admitted being completely wrong about that, even if they will admit that it’s easier to breathe now.

That pattern repeats for water quality, bans on all kinds of pollutants, anti littering campaigns, etc. because there are a lot of industries which have a financial incentive in preserving the status quo. Often those pushes cut across industry lines, too: for example, a decade ago there was an astroturf campaign arguing that DDT restrictions were responsible for malaria deaths (based on people not knowing that evolved resistance was already a major problem in the 1950s), and that appeared to be funded not by the chemical industry but by the tobacco companies who were looking for attacks on public health agencies in Africa in response to successful anti smoking campaigns.
> Industries such as finance and health care need to monitor incoming internet data for evidence of malware and insider cyberattacks.

Citation needed. Why do they need to compromise network security instead of doing it on the endpoints? Because they paid for expensive, crappy, software that can't do that? Sounds like their problem.

> The latest internet security protocol, known as TLS 1.3, makes it more challenging to comply with these requirements while maintaining web traffic security.

Good! This is important. Far more important than some orgs needing to buy new software licenses.
Found this aswell, I would make it more clear that guest searches are public.
Although I have nothing substantial to contribute to the topic, I can't help but notice the beautiful mess of the neural field shown in the image; a reminder of the complexity of the real world and the challenges that still remain. Very far from our organized models arranged in layers of 'objects' and the didactic diagrams containing two neurons, or even convolutional network diagrams. Which brings to mind the good Professor “it must be made as simple as possible, but not simpler”.
Nominal GDP is a good indicator of quality of consumption whereas GDP PPP is a better indicator for potential of production. If the US worker is used to a home with a lawn, he will still be undercut by a Chinese worker who lives in a 25-storey apartment.

In case of adverse currency move, EU, Russia and China may still produce as much stuff (taken together they produce all of the components, whose effective price unchanged), but their US competitors are all undercut on price. They'll consume a bit less for the duration, though.
It is highly likely that that was considered but discounted for being suboptimal.
Would it be okay if the skin, instead of being from an anonymous hospital patient it were from Abe Lincoln, or Sitting Bull, Mahatma Gandhi or Susan B Anthony?
It's a great idea from a consumer & aesthetic POV, but the technical challenges would have been interesting.

It's also a reinvention of one-bus-for-different-boxes computing from the 70s - Unibus, Massbus, and so on.

It could have been made to work, but it would have been speed-limited, and mechanically unreliable if it wasn't done exactly right.
There is a literal global organization trying to force us to eat bugs?

Could we please not discuss ridiculous conspiracy theories on hn? Reddit is already infected with qanon an the like, we don't need that rubbish here. Thank you.
Keynes gets the blame for policies he never would have supported. He advocated counter cyclic spending: deficits during recessions, surpluses during booms. That and the idea of monetary velocity are his biggest insights.

What we do isn’t Keynesian. We run deficits in recessions and deficits in booms and make them bigger and bigger. This has consistently happened under both major political parties (yes including Trump) since the 1980s.
It's a strange warping of preservation that means you'd rather the book be inaccessible but complete than accessible but complete in content.
Multiples of $8 billion? Oh no, where would we find the money? If this is truly a national security issue, perhaps some of the DoD’s ~$150 billion R&D budget could go towards it.
Well it certainly makes a market for the lucky duckies who are the counterparties for the buyback. They benefit.
Looks interesting. I'll try it.
If one were to slice the ear off of a dead body, mount it, and frame it on their wall, at what point does it stop being gross evidence of a crime and start becoming an important historical artifact and part of our heritage?

How many months, how many years? Does it matter if the person who did it is a respected scholar or a convicted serial killer?
> What needed is indifference, not hate.

Agree that hate is not the solution. But saying "no" decidedly and loudly is absolutely something that people need to relearn and I am happy to see that some do now.

Just being indifferent is not sufficient.

Finding and taking measures to protect yourself and others is a positive way to approach this IMO.
In some sense, MWI also gets rid of 3, though it's not commonly seen like that. Essentially in MWI any experiment has all possible results, so the concept of statistical independence jsut doesn't make sense.

Either way, MWI is by far the most popular interpretation that is both local and realistic.
All the HTML that worked back then still works, so I’m not sure what you’re asking? Table layouting works just as it used to. HTML 4.01 Transitional doctype works. `<body text="" bgcolor="">` works. And so on. You just write HTML. By hand. As disturbing as it may sound in 2024.

This specimen is particularly pure, not having any sort of a stylesheet (after all, we had CSS 2.0 already in 1998), the only <link> tag pointing to the RSS feed (which we didn’t have until 1999)!
Just about half of all American adults live in a house with a gun. I would say that's tending towards being armed.

As far as paranoia goes, you only have to look as far as HN, where (according to the commenters) every company is evil, every regulation is oppressive, every new technology is dangerous, every assertion by a professional is a lie, every government is tyrannical, every intention is malicious, and every Apple software release is worse than the last :-)

So for cops to think every person they come in contact with is armed is not outside of the realm of reasonable.

If you yourself are a paranoiac it is hard to see why this is wrong but I'm not so it's jarring but I understand it.
I believe that $77B as a fairly good cause for investors/other companies to set up shop and make investment into the US semiconductors market. According to random market statistic site, it is also currently growing by 10% each year.

Is that market so poor that subsidies really is needed on the basis of profitability?
[I am not a lawyer]

Your terms and conditions don't side-step liability to third parties. At best they might allow your lawyer to toss out lawsuits by people who agreed to them.

If your servers host problematic bits, you're going to need lawyers.

Good luck.
AI models were better than human experts at predicting the ratings Belgian beers received on a popular review site, researchers found.
You just described the Tragedy Of The Commons[0] - when it is "everyone's responsibility" is it NO one's responsibility

If "climate change" is a problem in the way YOU think it is (vs the way I think is or the way that OTHER person thinks it is), there is absolutely flipping NOTHING you can "do" about it.

Only* governments are "big enough" to accomplish anything ... but they can only "accomplish" something through coercive force on their governed

And the relative size/influence of an individual government also speaks into how 'effective' they might be ... Sultan of Kinakuta? Not a lot of influence. Premier Xi Jing Ping? [potentially] loads of influence ... but he only cares about his own power, his party's power, and his country's power.

Then you also have the Trade-Off Effect - fines etc can be considered a "worthwhile risk" to someone who wishes to break the regulations of their government (some might think the potential for a speeding ticket for driving 25 over on the highway is a worthwhile risk vs saving time getting where they are going)

We know it was warm enough a thousand years ago for the Norse (including the Vikings) to be farming on Greenland! Does that make global warming/cooling/climate 'change' a Bad Thing™ or a Good Thing™ or Just A thing™? Yes!

There are benefits to colder climes becoming warmer ... There are benefits to warmer climes becoming cooler

It is all about trade-offs - some of which humanity might be able to influence/control ... and some of which are entirely outside humanity's control/influence

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[0] https://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/TragedyoftheCommons.html
you're welcome.

(if you'd like, have a 1927/1984 mashup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctqMIkrqCj8 )
Purchase orders like this happen years out. Before the deliveries dry up, Intel's cash flow will dip and investors will riot until Intel is ready to do business in the US.
I thought about replying with something exactly like this, but generally this sentiment gets downvoted to oblivion.

I’ll add that we waited longer than we should have, and while it’s hard to conclusively say we would have had an easier time earlier, we ended up spending hundreds of thousands in fertility treatments.

You always think you have more time, but as they say “it’s later than you think.”
A nullable pointer is a sum type and Go has them.
While I understand their concerns, it seems a bit crazy to think you have any right to tell people what to do or not do on the moon.
Kui(the author of dungeon meshi) is probably not indicative of the norm since she has also been influenced by western crpgs(owlcat pathfinder, etc) rather than only the typical jrpgs(like dragon quest).
I think we need to be careful to assume that the AI bubble is really going to burst, there is way too much money being put into it by big players for them to just give up on it. I mean Microsoft is even pushing for a new key on Windows keyboards.

We also have to look at this bubble differently. With Crypto there was a general technical level that was required to use it that many people just did not have. I would say the same is true for most bubbles we have seen.

AI is generally available for anyone that has enough understanding on how to open a browser to use. Too many non technical people have just accepted it without understanding the risks.

Edit: You can really see just how bad this is going to get if you look at Apple. How they are deemed to be "behind" because they don't have generative AI right now and how they are so desperate that they are looking at Google.

I really don't think this is going to burst and really all that is going to happen is even more consolidation and we will be screwed.
1. Stock buybacks are always anti-dilutive regardless of the value of the stock, and so investors always benefit as future earnings are concentrated amongst fewer shares (all other things being equal). It's true that a lower price/value increases the magnitude of this effect, but the effect is always present.

2. Zero income stocks can still do buybacks when they're returning capital raised from shareholders to shareholders (this is essentially just partially reversing a funding round, which again undoes some of the dilution).

3. Companies can be deemed to be significantly valuable without paying any dividends. Companies that have a long history of paying dividends but then suddenly stop tend to be in distress, which is then reflected in their share price.
I was trying to think of what devilish tricks they had come up with to read user input via printf, but alas they also use scanf.

So the more accurate title would be "Implementing Tic-Tac-Toe Using Only Printf and Scanf".

Still, pretty neat! And should scare anyone using printf with user-supplied formatting strings, ie a great example of why that's a big no-no.
TidyBot: Personalized Robot Assistance With Large Language Models (2023)
Do their readers do contactless payment at all?

US-based here...

My local HD does NOT do contactless of any variety. It's chip or swipe.

Same for my local Thai food carry-out.

I would have sworn my local bicycle shop did contactless for cards only (but not devices) - I'll have to test that next time I'm there. It could just be that the pub/cafe side has a contactless reader but the retail side is chip/swipe-only (effectily two businesses in the same space and owned by the same person).
I've always had this weird thought - that doesn't really pass the ethics test, but here it is anyway.

I was raised by my grandmother - let's just say my parents were not ready. And I know a lot of parents that want their kids to have kids but the kids aren't ready. What if it would become the norm for Grandparents to raise the children? That way the second generation can focus on their careers, etc and the first generation could raise the third. That wouldn't mean the second generation wouldn't have a role and be a part of the process. Of course, there would have to be consent on each level - and if it was part of the culture maybe there would be. Also, technology may have a role in this also - if no one has to actually carry the children, the second generation could be more willing.

The whole point is that this happens all the time, but it's always seen as a break from the norm, not the norm. What if we just embraced it?

The next generation would happen earlier, the first generation would have their grand kids and the second generation would have time to "wait" for whatever reason.

Again, I know this doesn't really work out, but it's a thought I've always had.
In-office employers are raising compensation to compete against remote companies. Especially in tech, they need to up the ante if they're going to attract top talent.
Is ChatGPT good at day trading? Probably not
But is ChatGPT better at day trading than you? Probably
Expressing an opinion you disagree with isn't a "personal attack."
It would be unfair to only put tariffs on Intel. Maybe tariffs could be part of the solution to retain essential production capacity in the US though. It should have been done before production left, though. Right now there is very little production left in the US for anything.
But...but..BUT!!

It's self-contained, underground, and in Hawaii!!!!

/s
But that’s not what happened or is happening with the skin.
It isn't a strange warping of preservation, it's EXACTLY what preservation means. Destruction is always and everywhere the opposite of preservation.
Yeah you're referring to the Linux kernel but software is much cheaper to design, test, build, scale and turn profitable than HW, especially GPUs.

Open source GPUs won't threat Nvidia/AMD/Intel anytime soon or ever. They're way too far ahead in the game and also backed by patents if any new player were to become a thereat.
In most languages enum suck, it's not specific to Go, lot of pitfall and ABI issues, even my modern languages like C# have those.
I disagree. If something is truly damaging to society, we need to opposite it actively and crush it.

Indifference is what leads people to ignore climate change. Indifference is what leads people to allow corporations to destroy communities. Indifference is what allows global capitalism to keep going.

I am not concerned with an AI hype bubble bursting. AI already has enough power to strengthen the industrial society outside the hype. Perhaps hatred is not quite the right word. Perhaps love is a better one: a love for smaller communities and more sustainability. Wasn't it Che Guevara who said, "the true revolutionary is guided by strong feelings of love."?

Regardless, indifference is not he answer: it is passionate opposition with a zero tolerance policy towards AI, AI researchers, and AI companies.
The bill is scoped to projects in Connecticut. Nobody is relocating their headquarters over that because they’d either pay the same fee anyway or pass on those projects.
But Berkshire Hathaway does do stock buybacks.
This isn’t meant to respond directly to your statement because I’ve seen the same thing. BUT one fascinating thing I’ve learned is how scale plays into things. That $50 million project may be a Senior Director’s most important, career-making project … but less than a rounding error to their EVP.
Because it's a fundamentally historicidal act, it's destroying some past artifact solely on the ground of contemporary morality.

While not on the same level as, it's the same though process that leads to the destruction of budda statues by the talibans, or the sanding of 13-century religious engravelling by french revolutionary.
During Australia's mining boom in the early 2000's, the government was making tax dollars hand over fist. What they did was then offer all kinds of tax cuts that Australia couldn't really afford long term. Better explained here: https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/federal-budget-hangover-peter...

Basically, they purchased popularity.

Australian politics has neither the willpower nor the foresight to battle either the coal or the fuel lobby.

The current government has already started watering down its initial fuel efficiency standards: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-26/vehicle-efficiency-st...

Although an unintended consequence tax write off (which saw a massive percentage increase of US style 'trucks' on Australian residential roads) is being cut back: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/hate-all-the-monster...

Australia goes incredibly slowly in the right direction because Australians, like most Western countries' citizens, as-a-group, have their heads in the sand about the effects of the lifestyles to which they've become accustomed have on the world around them, and they're ably supported in this thinking by irresponsible media and opportunistic politics/politicians.
> Unfortunately the wonderful original C implementation of endlessh only provides text based log, but I do not like the solution that writes extra scripts to parse the log outputs, then exports the results to a dashboard, because it would introduce extra layers in my current setup and it would depend on the format of the text log file rather than some structured data. Thus I create this golang implementation of endlessh to export Prometheus metrics and a Grafana dashboard to visualize them.

" I didn't like the logging, so I re-implemented the entire thing."

I'm not mocking, I just see this often (and have done it myself!). It's interesting the things we do to get around the little things we don't like.
My guess is that a power grid engineer would include capacity factors, but I've never seen the mass media, politicians, or advocacy groups think like an engineer in this regard. Even making that adjustment it doesn't factor in seasonal variations. Not understanding these factors results in ignorant headlines like:

California just ran on 100% renewable energy, but fossil fuels aren't fading away yet
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/07/1097376890/for-a-brief-moment...

Renewables are now way cheaper than coal
https://energynews.us/newsletter/renewables-are-now-way-chea...