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Free speech protects you from prosecution against your speech. The consequences of that speech are a separate matter and not protected by the 1st Amendment.

Again, note precisely what is prosecuted here in the US where free speech is a guaranteed Constitutional right. You can with absolute power say whatever you want, but you will need to own up to it.

If you don't or can't own up to what you say, don't speak. This isn't a violation of free speech because nobody is prohibiting or otherwise compelling you from speaking.
The politicians don’t actually represent you. The world is a democracy for the donor class.
Latency and bandwidth are often in tension. (And guaranteeing low latency can eat up a big chunk of theoretically available bandwidth, due to overhead.)

The canonical example is probably a dial-up modem or other slow link between two locations. The latency is under 1 second to send one byte over the modem. But it's probably faster to just ship a hard disk if you want to send 100 gigabytes from one location to the other, even though the latency might be hours or even days, until the first byte arrives.

In practice, you can send lots of tiny little packets with lots of overhead (but low latency) or you can send lots of big heavily buffered packets with low overhead (but with high latency).

This is why multiplayer game protocols often consist of a constant stream of tiny UDP packets containing events like "character moved 40 nits east at game time ..." or "character fired weapon at game time ...." Even a 10 kilobyte bulk state update is going to cost at least a few milliseconds, more probably tens or even hundreds of milliseconds over some wireless connection. And that's a very noticeable lag.
A vendor page: https://uk.store.asus.com/asus-vivobook-s-153388-25323.html £1300.

Big minus point: Qualcomm. Also AI Windows 11. I wonder how (if?) this thing runs Linux.
Look into Windows NT source code that was leaked. The if-else/switch statements in there is just another level of string matching hell. Seems like software development just become "let's jerry rig it to just make it work and forget about it." Pretty sure management (without tech clue) have something to do behaviours like this.
It's not a cat an mouse game; it's a diver and shark game. In SCUBA training we joked that you had the "buddy system" where you always dive in pairs, because that way if you encounter a shark you don't have to outswim the shark, you only have to outswim your buddy.

A low-effort activity that makes you not be the low-hanging fruit can often be worth it. For example, back in the '90s I moved my SSH port from 22 to ... not telling you! It's pretty easy to scan for SSH servers on alternate ports, but basically none of the worms do that.
It's DC with support for USB
> Pretty sure that tabs were introduced by a software developer without any prior request from any user.

I'm sure many, many features were introduced by software developers without any prior request from users. Users then selected what software to use based on which of those features they like the best.

This is how most product design works -- features are developed prior to being marketed, and users subsequently validate them or not -- which is analogous to how new biological phenotypes develop from random genetic mutations prior to being filtered through selection pressures.

> Few users even know what JS means, except that if they do not use it or disable it, they will constantly be met with pages instructing them, even commanding them, to enable it or use a browser that supports it. These were introduced by software developers on their own initiative.

And then users validated those introductions of new features and they became standard. This happened with JavaScript, because JavaScript enabled websites to do things users wanted to do. Conversely, the market didn't largely validate Web VBScript, Java applets, and a wide variety of other now-forgotten solutions for adding dynamic content to websites.

> Software developers at the advertising companies, e.g., Google, and their business partners, e.g. Mozilla, have the control.

No, that's very, very incorrect. Vendors can only introduce products and features -- whether or not they stick around and develop further is up to the market, via the complex interplay of end users and site authors.
To your point, I made this a few years ago using powershell. I just created a stub .exe using csc on install and renamed it to match a similar list of binary names. Maybe I will dig it up...
> many refuse to accept is that some people are, in fact, smarter than others.

... I'll caveat that "some students are smarter than others _at the same age_."

It's bizarre and frustrating because we already have the solution, we just need a way to assign students to a grade level that's based on how smart they are, rather than how old they are.
Not sure what you're replying to, that wasn't the question I asked.
Semi-related, there is an excellent manga about Kessler syndrome called Planetes.

I would avoid the anime adaptation.
Ah... the famous "macbook killer", 2024 edition.
This has more to do with totalitarism than communism. ChatControl is getting support from parties labelled as both left and right.
it's not even on the EP's schedule.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/plenary/en/votes.html?tab=ord...
The keyboard feel might be good according to the reviewer, but the layout (as with many other modern laptops) is poor:

https://www.notebookcheck.net/fileadmin/_processed_/7/8/csm_...

Manufacturers need to stop putting the power button on the keyboard deck, you're one fat finger away from turning off your laptop by accident.

IMO, the old ThinkPad 7-row keyboard is still the gold standard.
They launched in 7 countries before launching in the US. In the same year as they launched in the US they also launched in 4 other countries.

In 2012, after their "expansion" in the US they had five times as many paying users outside the US as in the US.
So, what, you’re just complaining about an easily solvable problem that ultimately comes down to not everybody agreeing with your personal preference? Don’t you have, like, a cloud you should be yelling at?

You could have just said, “I don’t like the way MacOS does X, and here’s the plugin to use to change it so it does Y.” Instead, you went on a long-winded screed about why your view was obviously the correct one, while providing no solution to the problem (and implying that there was no obvious solution, because you “run into this problem constantly”) and strongly implicating that anyone who dared to suggest otherwise was clearly wrong.

And then you wonder why people thought you were being argumentative.
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This has in fact come up before, and you may be surprised to learn the approach they take is most reasonable.
> Geekbench 6 single-core
> Snapdragon X Elite 2418
> m3 3082

Tells you all you need to know about this chip. And I bet Microsoft's ARM Translation layer will be Garbage as usual.
Nicotine by itself is not really addictive, but can be useful for habit formation.

https://gwern.net/nicotine
So true. Only the left is allowed to play word games vis-a-vis illegal aliens. I mean illegal immigrants. I mean undocumented immigrants. I mean migrants. I mean undocumented citizens.

It's downright dangerous when the right does it!
I would imagine they did it based on price range rather than presence of a fan. The cheapest Macbook Pro with a fan and the same amount of RAM and storage (16GB/1TB) is $2000, while the Asus only costs $1300.
There's a lot of people that like complexity because it makes them feel like they are doing rocket science, but in fact they are replacing a spreadsheet. Most problems on earth do not have the same complexities as those in space. Sometimes the space solution is really nice and simple though, like velcro or using a pencil instead of a fancy pen.
> So what am I thinking wrong here? Is "scale to twice the processing power" not the same as getting a second operating room? I'm not seeing where "we will actually be serving each request in half the time" comes from.

Single Core vs Multi Core (ish).

With a Single thread you must work twice as fast to handle the increased load which also means the work is done at half the speed.

With Multi threading you can shuffle two units of work out at the same time so it's twice the load but the same speed.

To go back to the cow analogy, rather than adding 24 rooms (more threads) you give each surgeon a powersaw and they work twice as fast.

So if you scale the processing power per thread up then the time goes down, if you scale the processing power by adding threads (cores) the time stays the same (ish).
"The graveyards are full of indispensable men" -- attr. Napoleon

"I can make a brigadier general in five minutes, but it is not easy to replace a hundred and ten horses" -- attr. Lincoln (exact words vary by source)

It's noticeable how few computer wargames simulate any of this, instead allowing for frictionless high speed micromanagement.
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To be fair, I had that in place 10 years ago (and if you already have a mailserver, it's trivial (as in: MUCH easier than to set up a mail server) to host a small imprinted HTML page).
- It loses in single-core benchmark (2418 vs 3082)

- It wins in multi-core (14352 vs 12087) and transcode (6:50 vs 7:19) while requiring 4 more cores (12 vs 8 (4+4)) and active cooling

Where's the blowing away part?
Valve's Steamdeck uses Plasma for the Desktop Mode. It's still 5.x though. I can't wait to see it get updated to 6.1. The Plasma teams really has been putting in lots of ease of use improvements.
> An extremely useful law to remember....

Would you be willing to provide an example where you applied Little's Law?
Micron stock has done very well.
I am still amazed at how one can return a used device a month after buying it. It would not be possible where I grew up.
And still, when I hear, "I have returned it," I am like, "What? You returned it just because you did not like it? And it was not broken? Wow!"
I'd love to see Europe again becoming a beautifully decentralized region - with many shared values but no shared politicians.
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In most European countries, you are only ever allowed to be in possession of a gun in public if you are travelling to or from the shooting range.
NSDAP hasn't been in power in Germany for like 80 years now. Meanwhile Mao's CCP is still in power and they haven't disowned him.
It won't, due the closed specs and proprietary drivers.
Laptop with fan barely beats laptop without a fan on a 6 minute benchmark, more at 11.

The M3 is throttling and almost keeping pace, Tomshardware actually knows this since they have the Geekbench score for the M3 Macbook pro, which of course beats the X-elite.

It's a huge leap for Qualcomm, but I think the comparison is kind of ruined when its obviously been staged to thermal throttle and has parroted the same benchmarks that Qualcomm selected themselves...
yeah I see; that said if for;; behaved differently than for range it would cause a different set of surprises, so I guess consistency was deemed more important.
I edited the comment with a few more numbers, if you'd like to re-read it.
I'm sorry, but you're multiply wrong. First, a "transfer" is not a term in the PCIe spec; if anything, there's "transaction". But GT/s does not refer to transactions as you seem to be implying, and in fact "GT" does not have an assigned long form in the PCIe base specification. The term is introduced / defined like this:

| The primary Link attributes for PCI Express Link are:

| · The basic Link – PCI Express Link consists of dual unidirectional differential Links, implemented as a Transmit pair and a Receive pair. A data clock is embedded using an encoding scheme (see Chapter 4) to achieve very high data rates.

| · Signaling rate – Once initialized, each Link must only operate at one of the supported signaling levels. For the first generation of PCI Express technology, there is only one signaling rate defined, which provides an effective 2.5 Gigabits/second/Lane/direction of raw bandwidth. The second generation provides an effective 5.0 Gigabits/second/Lane/direction of raw bandwidth. The third generation provides an effective 8.0 Gigabits/second/Lane/direction of raw bandwidth. The data rate is expected to increase with technology advances in the future.

| · Lanes – A Link must support at least one Lane – each Lane represents a set of differential signal pairs (one pair for transmission, one pair for reception). To scale bandwidth, a Link may aggregate multiple Lanes denoted by xN where N may be any of the supported Link widths. A x8 Link operating at the 2.5 GT/s data rate represents an aggregate bandwidth of 20 Gigabits/second of raw bandwidth in each direction. This specification describes operations for x1, x2, x4, x8, x12, x16, and x32 Lane widths.

(from PCIe 4.0 base specification)

So, GT/s is used to be less ambiguous on multi-lane links.

Next,

> the bus itself is only adding 128 billionth of a second).

no, the bus does actually add more latency since almost all receivers need to reassemble the whole transaction (generally tens to hundreds of bytes) to checksum validate and then dispatch further to continue. This latency can show up multiple times if you have PCIe switches, but (unlike endpoints) these are frequently cut-through.

However, that latency is seriously negligible compared to anything else in your system.

> In fact it does not say anything about bandwidth if you don't know how many bits in a transfer.

How many bits are in a transaction does in fact influence that latency mentioned right above, but has no impact on bandwidth. What does have an impact on available end-user bandwidth is how small you chunk longer transactions since each of them has per-transaction overhead.

And finally —

> GT/s is a measure of latency

— absolutely not. It is a measure of raw bandwidth. It indirectly influences minimum and maximum latency, but those are complicated relationships especially on multi-lane links, and especially maximum latency depends on a whole host of factors from hardware capabilities, to BIOS and OS settings in PCIe config, to driver behavior.
I stand corrected. Guess all that posturing about privacy was all empty election promises then.

Seems like only the Greens, the left and within ID the AFD voted against.
In Vietnam, which seems to have internet “problems due to undersea cables” several times per year, it’s always “sharks”.

Which is just code for “the government is doing it intentionally”.

These “problems” seem to coincide with major political events.
I'm a little surprised the OpenSSL API doesn't force you to consider this by default, but indeed it does not: https://www.openssl.org/docs/manmaster/man3/SSL_CTX_new.html...

> On session establishment, by default, no peer credentials verification is done. This must be explicitly requested, typically using SSL_CTX_set_verify(3).

Aside: According to those docs, SSLv23_client_method() is deprecated.
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Kubuntu 24.04 is also still on 5.x

If you want to use this on a distro it will have to be a rolling version like Arch or KDE Neon which is 22.04 plus the latest KDE packed by KDE devs
How to Remove Your Email from Blacklists: A Step-by-Step Guide
This is a really nice part 1. I think a series building from this up to what would be considered "secure" in modern day, with the other topics already mentioned in comments here and on the article, would be awesome. I could easily see it becoming a very popular resource among students or new devs who are solving these problems for the first time themselves. The writing is very clear and concise.
Experimental Evidence No One Expected Is Human Consciousness Quantum After All? [video]
Chromes replacement of Firefox had more to do with aggressive marketing and deliberate poor performance of their web properties like gmail on non-Google browsers. Not sure how much consumer self direction was involved.
Yeah, the only thing you need for simple SMTP services is:

- with DNS, the simplest as possible SPF record.

- Without DNS, (aka pure IPv[46] SMTP), your have implicit SPF: instead of querying the DNS and parsing the SPF record, you parse the mail header to check "reply-to/from/etc" fields (the appropriate fields) for the sending SMTP IPv[46] address, that to perform spam scoring.
> I’ll probably start communicating with my friends over phone more either way...

Talking to people is great. I write science fiction for a hobby. In my stories, when two people want to have a private conversation to discuss some economic barter that can be construed as tax evasion, they take off all their clothing and go swimming to a beach with noisy waves. But there is always that lingering fear about if anybody surreptitiously got a microphone implanted during their latest root canal treatment...

Truth be told, I'm a very unimaginative bloke, because in my current jurisdiction banks are already forced to report on their customers, and in my previous one, the government had a decided phobia of cell-phones and attributed to computer printers in the hands of civilians the same dangers of an independent printing press.
It is true that I don’t this publication. I also don’t know the author or what The Manhattan Institute is. In general unless a piece of text is asking me to take something on faith or I am unable to reason with it I don’t care in the slightest who wrote it, where it was published or what their affiliations are.
Humans use bottom-up reinforcement learning, but nearly all LLMs use gradient descent. Not only are those completely different directions (bottom-up as in humans versus top-down as in gradient descent) with completely different emergent behavior, but minimizing loss is not in the reward function of a human, even if schools like to think it makes for an effective education. (I'd argue it doesn't.)
The moment you try to define a singular "common good", you wind up with a variety of competing factions all putting forth their own wildly divergent and often contradictory notions of what that common good consists of.

Most people have an unfortunate tendency to project their own values and preferences onto the world at large, and fail to recognize when they cross the boundary out of their own spaces and into other people's.

Recognizing this means advancing solutions that primarily aim to minimize conflict among many parties, each pursuing their own particular concept of the good within their own boundaries, and avoiding trying to universalize any singular set of terminal values.

Attempting to pursue solutions that depend on everyone agreeing on the same set of terminal values will always fail, and will often generate intense conflict that escalates well beyond the bounds of the original question and causes a great deal of collateral damage.
>It's a really nasty feeling to live in a society influenced by politicians in power with ideas so far away from my own

This has made me realize that there is little difference in living in a "free" society compared to "unfree". It didn't get to be that way because of morals or sound reasoning. It ended up that way because of dumb luck in the past that and enough propaganda cemented it. That's it.

Either way, what matters is what you're allowed to do now and in the close future. Bets are off for everything else. Our societies aren't governed by what the right thing to do is.
I'll also chime in and say I was able to visualize the generic ball-ness and as soon as the question of color arose, I also immediately picked red despite not being my favorite color or anything. I blame childhood depictions of balls lol
> Which is why Spotify became available in Sweden, the US, and the rest of the EU in that order.

All that matters is the original comment: "Which is why Spotify became available in Sweden, the US, and the rest of the EU in that order."

Where reality is Spotify became available in 7 countries before attempting to expand in the US.

Which is, funnily, what you literally wrote in your edit:

> That means Spotify launched for 222 million europeans, expanded to 300 million US-americans, before becoming available for the remaining 281 europeans.

Edit Where by "expanded to the US" is literally "failed to capture any significant market for a long time"
First, LLMs are not AGI. Never will be. Can we talk now?

> if given the entire test set.

I don't want the entire test set. Or any single one in the test set.

The problem here is ARC challenge deliberately give a training set with different distribution than both the public and the private test set. It's like having only 1+1=2, 3+5=8, 9+9=18 in training set and then 1+9=10, 5*5=25, 16/2=8, (0!+0!+0!+0!)!=24 in test set.

I can see the argument of "giving the easy problems as demonstration of rules and then with 'intelligence' [1] you should be able to get harder ones (i.e. a different distribution)", but I don't believe it's a good way to benchmark current methods, mainly because there are shortcuts. Like I can teach my kids how factorial works and ! means factorial, instead of teaching them how addition works only and make them figure out how multiplication, division and factorial works and what's the notation.

[1] Whatever that means.
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Hi everyone I am a founder of a startup called Starko ONE and i want to start documenting the process maybe thro Youtube or TikTok - i believe that this would be an interesting marketing strategy to get to some initial users as well.

In short Starko is a productivity tool for SME-s that covers customer support, project and team management. I will write a propper Show thread for it but for now I would love to here some opinions. :)
And how do you think humans acquire a theory of mind other than learning behaviors and figuring out what works and what doesn’t?
Thank you! Perhaps like you trying to get the source code, I was frustrated at the lack of information and began writing a letter seeking more information to Suzanne Dodd, the Voyager project manager. I couldn't find an address to send it to, but I figured "JPL, Pasadena, California" would get it to someone who could look up her mail stop. Fortunately, I didn't need to complete the letter as things began to fall in place thanks to different bits from others on the internet and to some obscure 40- and 50-year-old papers I managed to track down. (I am grateful to the shady websites that host scientific papers for the latter. I understand the concern of professional organizations about preserving their publication rights, but at some point the information is effectively lost.) Thanks again for the kind words!
Germany committed the Holocaust in my country. They murdered more than 100k of our citizens. And even more died in the WW2 that they started. But now we are in the same political, military and currency union with them, because countries and their ideologies change.
Just because a company is 99% one thing, doesn’t mean that the 1% remaining don’t have moments of real genius. What it does mean however is that when those real genius moments happen, the company isn’t in a good position to capitalize on it (ala Xerox or Kodak mentioned previously, but there are so many more).
It's only difficult because people keep voting for politicians willing to throw fundamental rights out the window. I don't think any solution exists in this circumstance. People want to vote for bad politicians but to get good results. Good luck designing a system that does that, and does not just discount what people vote for.