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When I hear people describing the Nakba as ongoing, I generally take that as to mean that the practices and policies of the Nakba have never been reversed, that the expulsion orders are still in effect, the refugees are still as such, partitions, occupation, and land grabs are still ongoing and expanding, the right of return has never been granted.

I think this is valid because the same government entity keeps these practices and policies onto the same victims. There is also a distinction to be made on the original event which we call The Nakba and the ongoing policies which followed. It is kind of like saying that the Korean War never ended. We have this original event, and then we have the aftermath which is still unresolved (not making a comparison though granting the right of return to displaced Palestinian is a million times less complicated than the Korean reunification).

I also hear people talking about the Gaza Genocide as a second Nakba. I also think this is valid (although The Gaza Genocide is a descriptive enough name IMO) since it mirrors the original event in scope and horrors, in policies. This would be akin to calling a second world war following The Great War World War II.

The Palestinian exodus from Kuwait, or the Syrian reign of terror against Palestinians are, however, not a direct followup or a continuation by the same entity of the same practices and policies of the original Nakba.

At most I can understand the use of the word Counter-Nakba as the Jewish hostile policies of e.g. Iraq were a direct response to the original Nakba. However the scale and horrors of that policy were nowhere near that of the original Nakba (even though the scale of the results [somewhat] did). And the practices and policies of Muslim majority countries did not mirror those of Israel during the Nakba, quite the contrary.
After this, let's have a calm discussion about whether an airplane can take off from a treadmill that exactly matches the plane's wheel's speed in the reverse direction.
The problem is current price levels from recent rapid inflation. What would it take to deflate prices without a recession? Without deflation, it will be hard for the electorate to regain the purchasing power they lost. And there will be no recession due to structural demographics in the labor market (10k Boomers retiring per day, ~3.6M per year), regardless of how hard the Fed beats on the economy with the benchmark rate.
> and are a useful tool to take money out of circulation

What does this mean? What money is being taken out of circulation?
https://archive.ph/MHDIy
>menu bars are going away because GNOME doesn't use them anymore.

Where did you hear this? This is misinformation, menu bars aren't going away. The API is just changed in GTK4: https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/migrating-3to4.html#gtkmenu-gtkmen...

>GtkDialog as a notable example

GtkDialog was deprecated because other changes made it now trivial for any app to re-implement dialogs with just a few CSS classes, and it's more flexible that way too.

>a Rust-native UI toolkit library that does its own drawing, but can consume GTK3 themes

This is never going to happen unless you re-implement nearly all of GTK3 in Rust with the exact same widget hierarchies and all the quirks of its (outdated) rendering model. Why would you want this anyway? GTK themes aren't particularly special, it's just CSS.
>[from profile:] Recently quit my job, now I work on anything that holds my interest (until I run out of money)

I did the same thing... lots of fun, but the "run out of money" part is rough! I resorted to freelancing, and now I'm going back to university.
Qt apps, even in 2024, still don't feel native when used on Mac.

Personally I'd much rather just drop the custom Mac app and replace it with:

- firmware that can read/write a proper filesystem
- firmware that can create e.g. DNG files that can be handled by regular photo editors like Lightroom, RawTherapee, Darktable, etc.
- A webapp that lets you generate a configuration file and does the battery life estimation.
No, it's not fanfic. It's not set in another continuity, it's just their own fantasy worlds are even less unique than ours. They have fanfic too of course.
It is modal. https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/method.Window.set_modal.html The user can't interact with the parent until you close it.

The problem with nested event loops is that there can always be timers or idle callbacks that fire while the nested event loop is running. Back in the day where windows were rendered on demand, you could also get expose events just because the user moved another window around.

So at the code level, "modal" windows are fiction and have always been. Getting rid of nested event loops is cleaner because it forces you to get to grips with the fact that (for the programmer, not the user) everything is asynchronous in an event-driven architecture. Plus these days programming languages have better tools to deal with the asynchronicity.
Seems like a problem with your feed - lots of text posts here.
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> But books are still the best at transmitting it

1:1 interactive training from an expert is far better than reading a book, it just doesn't scale.
Looks like you watch Luis Rossman, but you didn't get the memo.

We shouldn't point and laugh at other people for getting screwed over by companies, but critizise the companies committing the crimes.

I might be wrong, and if I am please tell me.
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Only 21% of Americans have more than $5000 in savings. So their employment prospects should matter much more to them on any reasonable analysis.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/24/how-much-money-americans-hav...
I'm admittedly trying to "celebrate my constraints" of finite time and money haha. I would love to support more systems if there's enough interest.
Probiotics aren't one single thing. We generally lack evidence-based medicine guidelines for prescribing probiotics outside of a few limited situations, although this is an active area of research. Most of the OTC probiotics available to consumers are basically junk placebos.

https://blogs.bcm.edu/2023/08/11/reluctant-to-prescribe-prob...
If the FPGA representation of the Gameboy components (CPU, etc) are accurate, then there should be no discernible difference.

Going the FPGA route is great for a turn key experience whereas the a diy solution is great for scratching the builders itch. Both are good, just depends on what you’re looking to get out of it.
Recent distros have `open` as a symlink to `xdg-open` instead of the old `openvt`.
The person you're responding to is being descriptive, not prescriptive. I'm not sure why you're engaging with it as an "opinion".
That may be but there were huge increases in homicide and other crimes in the UK from 1900 to present alongside urbanization. Tolkien would have grown up being familiar with a relatively safe type of rural life. There are even many small villages today with no recorded homicides populated by humans, so I think its fair to argue those kind of places inspired the Shire.
They were aimed initially at students and higher education but too expensive for many.
How how Yi?
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There's a pretty clear chain of events post-Covid this is a reaction to. There's quite little hypocrisy going on. Nobody wants 0 Chinese goods.
If I responded in this fashion to someone who had already expressed concerns about a holier-than-thou attitude in parts of the community, I hope it would give me food for thought.
> problem is price levels. What would it take to deflate prices without a recession?

In an economy with borrowing, nothing. Deflation increases the real debt burden.

More pointedly: price levels are imaginary. The focus should be on real wages.
> All classical phenomena are repetition codes

Could you ELI5 this "bit"?

Thanks
Is hitchhiking still … awkward in China? My understanding is hitchhiking was more "accepted" in Japan and the West.
Didn't this already happen? Like, a long time ago?

"Software creators" have been making software sans large teams and capital since the earliest computers, up through BBSes, shareware, the early internet, and app stores. The latter two lowered the cost of distribution to almost nothing quite a while ago. I'd even say the concept pre-dates today's "content" creators by a couple decades at least. I mean, there's even a character archetype in media of the lone genius creating groundbreaking software all by themselves free of (or in spite of) corporate control.

I guess maybe it's trying to say that the new thing will be that you don't need the technical expertise anymore? I feel like that already happened about a decade ago too with everyone learning how to "make apps". Or maybe that you'll "follow" your favorite software creators? I guess I could see that, but that sort of already happened too (John Carmack, for example).
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What's the insight I'm missing here?
The very notion of obediency being a negative trait is flawed IMHO.

People working at humanly unfathomable size organizations being more obedient doesn't sound like an issue to me, nor would it correlate with other qualities, including intelligence or critical thinking.
Corporations keep cutting labor costs to attempt to maintain profit levels obtained during ZIRP. Only through organizing will workers have enough collective power to obtain material real wage gains, unless their is a macro lever I am missing (which is entirely possible).
>The trouble is, they don't work.

The Amish have been going strong for centuries, so there's that.

But I didn't say I want a niche commune anyway, I'd prefer society to be like that at large.
A lot of these "limitations of LLMs" are also limitations of people, despite examples contrasting them with people in the article. For example:

> LLM can make things up. Unlike people who lies, LLM are not intentional.

You would be amazed by how much people make things up unintentionally. I stared writing down a ton of information - borderline obsessive note-taking - and referring to my notes has made me realize both myself and others are wrong about past events very often.
As much as these sorts of questions get complained about, it occurs to me that they have their own convenient benefits if you take part in the system. Plenty of training resources, constrained problem space, etc. Want to get a tech job? Practice leetcode trivia for a couple of months. What's that next to 3-4 years of a uni degree?

If you really cared, it wouldn't be that hard to get good enough to deal with most of these "gotcha" algorithm questions.. (Partially giving myself a pep talk here :P)
Appeals Court Blocks Venture Firm's Grant Program for Black Women
https://archive.is/s5lXr
This is incredibly simplistic. Search engine results give a lot of context clues about the reliability of their asserted facts and provide a potential spectrum of answers. LLM-generated answers strip all that away, and give a single authoritatively phrased answer. Even if you’re inclined to disbelieve it, the LLM answer gives you no ability to dig in, refine, or compare. It just is. If you ask a chatbot if it’s sure, it might double down, or apologize and then repeat itself, or say it was right and give a contradictory followup.

Traditional pre-spam-overload Google results could often give a high quality answer, or if not, you’d at least get the sense of the low quality. Not so with LLMs.
I originally wanted this to try to catch a thief, so there's that. My neighbor recently wanted to figure out what animal is invading their garage, so that's another one.

I spent a lot of time working on the time-tracking aspect too, so making time-lapses is a third:

https://toaster.llc/blog/timekeeping

Another (incredibly stupid or delightfully whimsical, your call XD) is putting it in your fridge to have a collection of images yourself / your family when they're hungry.
Interesting, what do people think?
Thank you! That is awesome feedback. Your hard time helped motivate me to work on it as more of a priority.
This is true for a lot of things, not just AI. But in AI, a guy who didn't get a High School degree and wrote Harry Potter Fan Fiction is one of the leading voices in doomerism.

The problem is you can't just "use logic and reason" because simple models are not good enough. The nuance dominates, but that's why we have experts.

What's funny to me is that people will confidently argue with experts and others value their opinion over the expert's knowledge. But on the other hand, people tend to just take machines at face value. Maybe these aren't overlapping groups, but it does appear that way. There's a great irony in trusting a machine but not the person/s that built said machine.
So the demand for accordion trucks is increasing.
This PR blurb does not make any sense; YC is not interested in "little tech" that wants to stay little. YC are the ones that promoted the idea of "unicorns". YC needs these "little tech" companies to execute on ridiculous levels of non-linear "growth" to deliver a grossly inflated expected return on meagre investment. This led to the "growth hacking" nonsense that everyone was complaining about.

It is absurd to pretend that YC is on the side of "little tech". YC is only interested in companies that will grow large and deliver an enormous return. PG loves people like Zuckerberg and basically stated he wished all founders were similarly sociopathic^Wambitious.

"Lifestyle" software/web companies that stay small can be a good thing. Perhaps they could deliver much better than "Big Tech" if they had the chance; thanks to Silicon Valley VC greed and "Big Tech" anti-competitive practices we are prevented from knowing. YC is after "unicorns" not lifestyle or other small companies. The "success stories" YC pitches are companies like Dropbox and AirBnB. This is the furthest thing from "little tech".
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>The Amish communities are not communes.

Even if that's true (and, sure, they certainly aren't hippy communes), so?

Neither me (in the original comment that spawned this subthread) nor your direct parent said anything about communes or this idea being restricted to communes.

I just said "I'd take the simpler life, social harmony, leisure, equality and the rest, over the rat race with its technological advancements"

That said:

>Is it really a commune if they're running a capitalist business?

Yes - "commune" is not the same as "communist". Just means sharing stuff and living together as a close community, it's not tied to Marxism, the Paris Commune of 1870, or other such doctrines (and obviously many of the examples are religious based).
Nope. It was honestly our intention since the very beginning.

My wife and I are anarchists, and the idea of requiring our kids to attend a government school is kinda anathema to us. We knew about unschooling before our oldest was old enough for her peers to enter kindergarten, so we never really did anything else.

If there’s any one thing we’ve learned it’s that the key is to just let them live life with you. They’ll develop their own interests; support them in that.

If you’re concerned about them learning a specific skill or concept, find a way that it’s required for something they want to do. My oldest learned to read at a conversational pace through Guild Wars 2; my youngest learned basic math through crochet and needlepoint.

Learning is part of human nature. Kids aren’t an exception to that. As long as they have supportive people around them, they’ll learn everything they need to achieve their own goals - and in the process, they’ll learn “how to learn” and build the self-confidence needed to embark on more and more ambitious projects as they get older.
Minecraft was the first game to get me fired.

Don't play it on a banks computer. Nor visit WikiLeaks for that matter on a banks computer.

Nor changed printer status messages via Telnet to "Out Of Ink - Please insert more blood"

Or even make acknowledgment that was you.

I was 17, how I miss that age and getting away with things.
Spotify Raises Prices 2nd Time in 12 Months, Now More Expensive Than Apple Music
This reminds of another recent post on old European structures that were used as status symbols:

Medieval Bologna was full of tall towers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40453716
In my case, if you are talking about startups specifically, its true. I've been an engineer now for 15 years. About 5 years ago, long before LLMs became a thing, I got to the point where I stopped using stack overflow and google for most things, only using them for the hardest, most complex questions. Thats how I use LLMs nowdays for technical things, which is not often. Business however is new to me.

As a solo founder, i've got to be the ceo, marketer, product manager, customer service rep, tech support person and a bunch of other things i've not previously done. GPT-4 is great at guiding me on these things. In a typical 2 person CEO/CTO founded early stage startup, the CEO might be doing these non technical things until the business gets enough funding to hire their first employees.
Scientists have been obsessed with over-optimzing for FOMO for the past decade - what papers should I read that I don't have time for, what grants should I apply for that I don't know about, what projects should I work on that will give me the best ROI, who in my field is poised to disrupt or make a big leap, etc.

Some even think that the end goal is actually an autonomous research agent that can make decisions about what questions to ask and why, and that's one of the true marks of AGI. That to me is insane and misses the entire point of science altogether, even once we reach that technical feasibility. We ask questions about the universe to expand our human relationship with the universe, not to just amass more research capital for the sake of it. And the fact that the AI snake oil has infected big chunks of science reveals which parts of it are just gold rush speculation and which aren't.

There's a more fundamental challenge of training scientists to understand why we ask the questions we ask. You can't just offload that to some background task and trust that it makes sense.
Name collision with https://ogma.ai/
That is not writing with the help of GPT 4, that is letting it write for you! I can’t imagine doing anything creative and letting a computer source material for me without having reviewed the material first hand, even if it was accurate. Clearly, this is not where everyone’s head is at, and I suspect your wife’s workflow is more the common case.

I’ve said from the outset that in academic settings you should be able to cite an AI as a writing assistant, it would clear up a lot of the confusion about its use. If you used it poorly it’s still on you, but at least there’s some transparency by which to judge the work.
You’ve invalidated my reason for sharing the story in the first place. It feels that you’ve done it intentionally, but I’ll give you the benefit of a doubt. Here’s how I could have shown up and validated your viewpoint instead of arguing because I felt mine wasn’t heard:

Before you go on a tangent try validating what the other person said before. “I can see how really rich people view money differently. As a tangent, I really dislike tipping culture and wish that Warren had bought the rafting company and decided to pay them a living wage instead of doing nothing and not acknowledging the problem”

If you’re struggling you can lean into non violent communication:

- Observe: I see you’re talking about tipping
- Emote: it makes me disgusted that regular people are taken advantage of
- Need: I wish all tipping was abolished
-Request: I want my position to be heard.

> I didn’t decide anything

But your words, lacking this additional context I’ve laid out here do speak to my interpretation because that’s the part of the story I care about, it’s why I shared it and it’s why I labeled the implications of your words as I read them.
I assume the money going into their pocket, 10/10 thieves (winners) recommend theft (winning)

That's totally hyperbole. Perhaps they find themselves luckier than average - like most :) People overestimate this fairly easily/often.

It's vague... Counter point: opportunity cost. Nobody can say what will/won't happen, why even try to guess at this.

Most endeavors don't go as poorly as gambling. In my experience at least
For some values of "real life". I don't mean that sarcastically... I mean that for many production environments (like customer-facing retail web site), I agree with you.

But that isn't the entire world. I've spent a lot of time doing hard realtime code. Often on limited-resource systems. (Oddly, its more difficult to get it right on resource-rich systems...) In the realtime world, it does require a certain amount of savvy to pick an optimal trade-off of run time, memory, and I/O. Hard realtime forces you to learn complexity analysis or die. You also have the luxury of a clear, bright benchmark for "good enough to ship", which shuts down a lot of purely philosophical arguments.
$200 is a very fair price given the capabilities and novelty – since you're at it, would love to hear your BOM cost too!
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Tao Te Ching
all of the companies you listed except Huawei are in american colonies
Haha we had one roll of wire and it was 1am so we made do, I would have much preferred something a little more suitable. But hey you gotta do what you gotta do.
Is there a license? If not, then it's just source-available, not open-source.