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I had my grandmother running on Linux since 2008, and she loved it. She wasn't gonna get a virus, she didn't have root/sudo capability on her user, which meant she wasn't going to break anything, and she had ad blocking in her browser. She was told two things: "1. If something wants to install something or update something, say no. If it keeps asking, call me. 2. You can't break this." This removed the fear she had using a computer, and went from "too afraid to turn it on lest she hear the sighs and frustrations of her now late technophile husband" to "doing everything from social media to online shopping". The last machine she had was an Asus Chromebox I bought her when the machine she was using was just not able to keep up anymore. She used Google Apps for word processing, Gmail for email, and had a ball.

Sibling commenters have it right - if a computer is an appliance to them, then going for the simplest, least likely to accidentally mess up option is the best one.
I agree with you, plus if you notice, after slavery in the UK pretty much ended before their Industrial Revolution started.

In the US North, around the time of independence is when slavery there was banned.

In both places the "IR" started not long afterwards, with the UK starting first.

Probably because labor was not cheap anymore, people had to find a new way of production.
Cannons evolved from church bell-casting technology.
I speak fluent second-language Spanish and have had next to no difficulty communicating with native Portuguese speakers from Mozambique, Cabo Verde, and Portugal. What variety of Portuguese do you speak?

I'll concede that it's possible that I actually have an advantage as a second-language speaker, since my Spanish is probably slower than a native's and when I'm listening I'm already doing more work than a native is accustomed to.
Anyone arriving at Instagram fresh in recent months would be oblivious to how comparably charming it once was, many years ago. Back then, you'd scroll through and see only content from accounts you chose to follow. If someone kept posting pictures of their breakfast and you didn't want to see it, you'd unfollow them. Easy.

Now there are the ads of course, but possibly worse is the suggested content that there are settings implying you can hide but they never work. I want to finish new content in my feed by seeing the last thing I'd already seen, not scrolling into a miasma of suggested content before I realise.

That almost every social media service develops endlessly into misery is just depressing.
For a lot, it's enough for them not to have to go out of their comfort zone and put in effort. It's a lot easier to open up a site than it is for an average guy to get laid.
Well, they could build their UI using an existing toolkit, like GTK or Qt. Though, when I previously tested Ladybird it seemed to be using GTK and the current AUR package lists Qt as a dependency, so it seems they're already doing that.

They could also rely on existing multimedia libraries for audio/video (ffmpeg). Those are the main things that jump out to me. There's so much ground to cover that there's probably more, though. Maybe SDL for gamepad support?
I think he is good at building a narrative, but I guess I have a different view of what constitutes educational content. Nothing against the guy, I'm glad hes making the videos. Though I wish he would drop his scammy sponsor - betterhelp.
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Not really. Not all memory safety violations result in segfaults, and not all segfaults are the result of memory safety violations.
I'd hazard that it was the lack of a printing press and cheap paper. Why? Because that resulted in mass literacy and dissemination of knowledge, meaning a lot of people can be involved in finding solutions.
Well, I don't know what "worse" means in this context. If it means "less memory safe", that's clearly not true: RefCell and Mutex are formally memory safe, while the C++ equivalents are not. If it means "less correct" in a more vague sense, then that's essentially an argument that Rust programs have more bugs than C++ programs, which seems dubious and certainly not something I'd accept at face value.
There’s at least one dot gov on there too. What a weird list
You might as well turn off Google then because that’s the only human content it can still reliably search
Nah. They should reorganise and focus on quality again. Remove the McDonnell corner cutters and promote the people with the right attitude.

Once they do that they can do rockets and planes just fine. If they just dump one of their activities without change they'll just keep doing the other one poorly.

It needs to come from top down: quality quality quality. It can work. The company I worked for was heavily hit by wannacry and after that it was really different. Finally us in cyber had the last word instead of being overruled. It took a year but we got there. Although unfortunate corporate memory was short and the attention lapsed again.
I would love to see them try this with the Processing/P5Js libraries. Thats what the ASTs reminded me of. It could potentially be used to help students trying to figure out how to fix their programs. I used AST-based hints for my ProcessingJS courses on Khan Academy, but I handwrote the AST patterns for those hints.
The destruction of synapse is because of one thing: They were way, way too reliant on mercury, who was there far and away largest client. Mercury woke up one day, chose violence and left synapse to work directly with evolve.

The whole thing came down like a house of cards.
I've seen Leetcode problems that Leetcode classifies as "Hard" where it is actually not at all hard to come up with an algorithm that would solve them in O(n^2) time and/or space, and this would be fast enough in almost all cases, but the problem specification specifically asks for something faster and it is achieving that that makes the problem difficult.

When companies use such a problem do they usually include the time and/or space constraints from Leetcode or are they usually fine with O(n^2)?
It depends heavily on location. When I last ended up on Cobra in California it was a touch more expensive than the marketplace plan but my work plan was much better than the best available on the marketplace so it was worth it to go Cobra.
> Yeah but the material conditions of an individual's life are determined by the goods and services they have, not by the total amount of goods and services that exist in the world.

That's obviously why distribution matters as well as total production (or aggregate utility), but fixed-sum means that distribution is the only thing subject to change, and that for someone to gain someone else must lose equally. (There's also an argument that things get closer to fixed sum in utility terms if you first lift everyone out of extreme poverty, because relative wealth/deprivation becomes a much more significant source of utility/disutility than absolute wealth is of utility once you are beyond extreme poverty, but even there its much more complex than fixed sum.)

> Moreover, certain material conditions--safety from harm, freedom of expression, and the political power to maintain those things--absolutely do not increase in some global sense the way that economic output does.

They certainly don't increase in lockstep with economic output, either globally or locally, but neither are they fixed-sum, where for someone to have more someone else must have less in the same degree (except maybe "political power").
lunchtime doubly so
Great idea.
The link remain in the page will be the only problem after support "skip to main content"
I think the way can't not popular if we don't make the link less enough, We can make it perfect if we make the link as less as possible that in the page, But this is anti trend of development.
You don't need a full CSS stylesheet just to change some colors. And no, you can't take CSS from a GTK app and use it with a web app or vice versa, the layout system and the elements/classes aren't compatible.
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The question you answered was rhetorical; obviously humans are intelligent. There is another question that actually has an interesting answer after it. In fact, it's not possible to have a meaningful discussion without answering it. I thought that was obvious :)
These are two different definitions. Can someone please disambiguate?
I saw at least two from a quick skim: bls.gov and cdc.gov.

Assuming the dump is accurate, this is at best an impractical and at worst a misguided blacklist.
> should obviously be nearly completely agnostic

Is it obvious? Is it free (as in resources) to support agnostic platforms and systems? Is the threshold for making anything that it needs to be compatible with everything?
There is also https://millionshort.com/
If can page can be display in terminal, we can drop the mouse and make all operation on the keyboard.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40556995
Well at least you also missed the dump part.
I have no problem with Recall if they give me granular controls on what apps it can and cannot monitor, and that I know it is stored only on my device. It not monitoring incognito isn't enough. If I'm working on a sensitive project, I don't want it looking at Word or Excel either. I don't want it looking at my remote desktop sessions, etc. That should all be able to be blocked. Until it is, I don't want it enabled. I'll still use Windows and look forward to the ARM chips, but I'm not enabling this until all of this is addressed. I can see how it could be very powerful and useful, especially for companies...but it needs controls, not just for myself, but also ones that IT itself could implement in enterprise settings.
I like this line of thought. It's almost like the printing press allowed ideas to be tested at scale unlike any other time in history!
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> It has been shown that LLMs are unable to learn concepts beyond the first level of the Borel Hierarchy, which imposes severe limits on the ability of LMs, both large and small, to capture many aspects of linguistic meaning. This means that LLMs will continue to operate without formal guarantees on tasks that require entailments and deep linguistic understanding.

I would tend to disagree with this excerpt and the paper it came from. I am not familiar with the "Borel Hierarchy", but from the paper it seems it is just that LLMs cannot make a guarantee that they interpret "every", "all", etc properly. I don't want to bother trying to decipher all of the math, but it seems highly questionable that they proved it "cannot be learned". The experimental section is greatly lacking in data points.

If you disagree and think the paper is good, please do explain.
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Will this work with a pigeon and a USB stick? (Given a pigeon strong and fast enough to fly back and forth thousands of times.)
The idea that time is emergent is considered unproven by most scientists. However, I personally believe there is some validity to it, even though I haven't found a single paper that convincingly supports this idea. I must admit that even some papers that are widely accepted as accurate are difficult for me to grasp and believe, as they are beyond my understanding and knowledge.
I think the person you're replying to implied what you are saying. Technology was a substitute for slavery so it's meant to replicate it at first but unlike human machines, industrial machines can constantly improve
Possibly helpful context, in case others don't know which agricultural revolution this is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Agricultural_Revolutio...
thank you this is amazing!
That book is poetic. I need to reread it paired with Marletto’s Science of Can and Can’t.
All 3 languages have a bit more letters that English. Some of those language's letters are marked with inflections.

Plus the first computers used only Upper Case Letters which were designed similar to how Ancient Latin was carve letters in stone. So it was far easier to design a printers, storage, punch cards for when you only care about 26 letters and 10 numbers and a few punctuation marks.
Rubios Coastal Grill citing rising costs shuts down 48 restaurants in California
Previous discussion:

The Walk and Talk: Everything We Know - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38761464 - Dec 2023 (20 comments)

Related:

Walk and Talk - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38613170 - Dec 2023 (36 comments)
>But in practice it seemed to go the other way around. Once the industrial revolution came, slavery was out-competed by automation.

Only after it was invented and successfully deployed. To get to that point, someone needed a reason to go to the expense and trouble of inventing that stuff. The slavery-dependent economies weren't going to do it: why would they need to?
if you get lost using argparse, give docopt a try, it's self documenting.
personal anecdata: I had written a few paragraphs of factual information, and decided to see what GPT 4 would do with it. So I asked it to rewrite the information several times, using a different voice (e.g. write it with an optimistic view, pessimistic view etc)

EVERY single "fact" was perverted by either mixing with another fact, or misrepresenting by replacing a word like "good" with "superb" or "fantastic" (I guess optimistic means lie-through-your-teeth?)

YMMV, but basically I achieved nothing except a waste of about 30mins and an honest, personal evaluation of the limits of GPT.
> So fusion has a real shot here assuming the economics work out.

They don't yet work out, and there's no evidence that they will. I would love it if they do, but I don't think past performance is evidence of future performance. We might run into a fundamental limitation at any moment, and that would be that.

Japan's median build time for fission is under 5 years[0]. If regulatory environments and engineering specialisms could be made to work, there's no reason (other than Greenpeace) that we couldn't massively curb CO2 production from power generation pretty soon; far sooner than we could do discovery and then build for fusion.

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How many of them were made to sign egregious and secret non-disparagement agreements?
with real premium bonds you are lending your money to the government treasury, which is as close to zero risk as you can get

meanwhile yotta is some shitty VC funded startup operated and invested in by people who think following regulations is something only other people need worry about

(and then they go crying for a government bailout when their bank collapses because they have no understanding of concentration risk)
Other examples: governments regulated/restricted women's ability to vote and it was given up almost everywhere and didn't act as a ratchet.
Rubio's was started by an SDSU student who stole the recipe from the lady at K14 marker in Mexico.
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Brazilian Portuguese has some phonological differences that I think confuse people in both directions more than other varieties of Portuguese, like the /tʃ/ and /dʒ/ for <t> and <d> in various contexts. For example a Spanish speaker would probably have a hard time recognizing that Brazilian Portuguese /dʒi'abu/ is cognate with Spanish <diablo>. A Brazilian Portuguese speaker who was less familiar with Spanish might similarly have a hard time recognizing /ˈdjablo/ as cognate with Portuguese <diabo> 'devil'.

Or Brazilian /'sedʒi/ is cognate with Spanish <sed> 'thirst'. A Spanish speaker will have to know to effectively ignore the /ʒi/ in order to recognize the word easily!

Maybe more extreme, Brazilian /'hedʒi/ (written <rede>) is cognate with Spanish <red> 'net, network'.

You might also be familiar with a greater variety of Spanish pronunciations as a non-native speaker... if you know Argentine /'ʃubja/ and /'ʃabe/, then you have a better chance to recognize Brazilian /'ʃuvɐ/ and /'ʃavi/ ('rain' and 'key', respectively).
You're thinking of anything but capitalism. Capitalism means you don't have to rely on powerful people sharing for you to have things. You get them because people can make money making the same product cheaper and sell it to a lot of people.

That's why all the capitalist countries are the ones where we have to keep increasing the standard of living that's counted as being in poverty. Up we go.
Or a different battery chemistry with a lower self discharge rate. No need to be rechargable in most of the use cases, I'd imagine.
Largely because they feared that large language models would be useful for large scale disinformation, election interference, impersonation, automated phishing, etc.

https://openai.com/index/better-language-models/ See "Policy Implications" and down.
Wow. Just wow. If even half of this is true I am at a loss.
The numbers suggest their efforts failed and what they should have done was waited for China to start manufacturing solar panels using the returns from heavy investment in fossil fuels.

But regardless; if we don't have any argument that Germany spent a lot of money on wind/solar and weren't getting power out of it then I think serious people would dispute that wind/solar had higher energy returns than coal at the time. It is pretty obvious that coal/oil/gas had better returns. But it has been a busy decade and it is much more plausible now that renewables are competitive. The explosive growth certainly suggests they are.
Yep, and this might be why Grassmmann was more optimistic about intertemporal exchanges.
We're actually talking about software but okay.
“What everyone knows” - https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/BNfL58ijGawgpkh9b/everybody-...

More broadly, the meaning and usage of specific words are important for these products because they shape how people perceive their utility.

If a thing isn’t “correct” because it has no sense of understanding, and therefore is only “correct” due to projection by the user, then that’s a super important distinction.
Pretty solid list.

Feel like I agree with a lot of it, but would have definitely put Channel Orange (Frank Ocean) and Random Access Memories (Daft Punk) on there, though.
I guess the word illusion is misused, as in a traffic jam is an illusion because it's just too many cars on too little road.

I don't think illusion is meant like hallucinations.
But if it is meant that way, then I guess I can't be convinced anyway, since without time I can't change my mind from not believing that to believing it.
Are these the references?

- https://web.archive.org/web/20021224053225/http://smi-web.st...

- https://www.genetic-programming.com/jkpdf/tr1314.pdf
I'm genuinely curious how, do you not store your 2FA keys somewhere safe?
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Ok yeah but the thing about the knife is just not true, a knifes not sharp until you de-burr it and if you just continue to grind the edge youre going to just be building a bigger burr and removing metal, eventually the knife will be ground away but thats beside the point. Good knife sharpening does only need a bit of grinding until you reach the grit you want and then de-burr but youre not going to make it dull by continuing to remove metal.