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Many illegals/undocumented do indeed pay income tax [0]. Another myth, along with the voter fraud myth. You do know that most voter fraud brought forward to trial were committed by Americans, right [1]?

Should the American-born poor also not be represented due to the amount of refunds they get year-after-year? Should those on SSDI not be represented? Felons, where restricted by State law?

The US Constitution applies to everyone, not just Green Card holders/American citizens [2]. And thank god, imagine if a political party could arbitrarily declare that eh, water9 is no longer an American citizen... jail for life without trial.

The 14th Amendment says, in part "Representatives shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed." [3]

You cannot have a 'whole number' unless you count everyone of any status.

Your comment is inappropriate, there's no need for personal attacks.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/18/us/undocumented-immigrants-ta...

[1] https://apnews.com/article/voter-fraud-election-2020-joe-bid...

[2] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-constitutional-ri...

[3] https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv
ADS ARE THE PRIMARY WAY ELDERS GET DEFRAUDED
I really liked the Popeye movie; I rewatched it recently and still like it. It gets a lot of things wrong, but it gets other things really right. Among them Shelley Duvall.
> But before you start waxing lyrical about the halcyon days of software you "own", you've either forgotten or never experienced the shady things software compnaies did to maximize revenue then as well.

I don't think software developers not giving me new features and support options for free after purchase was ever shady. Bugfixes maybe is a grey area. Neither of these things are anything close to the level the outright scam dark patterns subscriptions now utilize almost as standard.

At the end of the day it is about leverage. With the old model the companies didn't have much leverage after the sale so there was only so many abuse angles available. With subscriptions there are tons because the customer has much less leverage.
Metrics are useful when you know what to measure, which implies that you already have a good idea for what can go wrong. If your entire product exists in some cloud servers that you fully control, that's probably feasible. Binance probably could have done something more elegant than storing extraordinary amounts of logs.

However, if you're selling a physical product, and/or a service that integrates deeply with third party products/services, it becomes a lot more difficult to determine what's even worth measuring. A conservative approach to metrics collection will limit the usefulness of the metrics, for obvious reasons. A "kitchen sink" approach will take you right back to the same "data volume" problem you had with logs, but now your developers have to deal with more friction when creating diagnostics. Neither extreme is desirable, and finding the middle ground would require information that you simply don't have.

On a related note, one approach I've found useful (at a certain scale) is to shove metrics inside of the logs themselves. Put a machine-readable suffix on your human-readable log messages. The resulting system requires no more infrastructure than what your logs are already using, and you get a reliable timeline of when certain metrics appear vs. when certain log messages appear.
That's always the main issue with any piece that is using ill-defined terms like intelligence, consciousness, self-consciousness, thinking, understanding, etc. Nobody ever came close to defining them in a practical manner in decades/centuries, but then LLMs came and suddenly lots of people are somehow absolutely sure that they don't do any of this while humans/animals do.
Why are you allowed to have an opinion that trivializes how others work, but when other people do, then its astro-turfing?
You don't even need a terminal if you can't remember the options. Extracting an archive is done by any half decent file manager.
> For a long time, I had been enduring a crisis of meaning. I wanted to live a life that mattered, to do things that were valuable – and I was increasingly haunted by the suspicion that nothing really mattered, that everything was ultimately meaningless. I decided that my new research project would be on the meaning of life.

Philosophy and the meaning of (or in) life ...
I too often have a better connection in rural America than downtown.

Rural America is largely free of interference. Even if you have a weak signal, the tower and your phone can hear each other very clearly. In a downtown, it gets messy.
Just wait till some small percentage people have random immune responses to the nanotechnology just creating another feedback loop in the system.
No, people have provided answers. One of those people is me. You just don't like them because you seem to have a problem imaging other people have differing uses than your own.

Edit: this person keeps ignoring any responses that don’t align with their world view and acting like they don’t exist. When challenged they have called multiple people names instead.

I’m not responding to them further to prevent dragging this out further.
Kernels too sometimes stop working. Am currently testing latest stable (caveat with some patches). Nothing major has changed as far as I can tell from my sources but the newest release (6.9.9) now has an unexplainable panic on boot.
> If you don't pay enough money for a product that would sustain good customer service, you won't get it.

If you do pay enough money for a product that can sustain good customer service, you won't necessarily get it then, either.

>If you pay enough money, you usually can get good customer service, but you might pay a lot.

That "usually" doesn't kick in until you have a sales rep that is worried about loosing your business specifically. Then they'll exercise soft power to escalate your tickets. Because despite their profit margin, their customer service team is still under pressure to cut costs as much as possible.
Nicknames satisfy the transitive property.
Today, Lattice Makes History and Leads the Way in Responsible Employment of AI
I've found attitudes like this to be the worst parts of the community.

Maybe it's quite nice because of how they've approached building it? I've been actively watching Helix for quite a while now, and I've observed as hostile those who approach the project are.

From what I've seen, they do listen to feedback. Perhaps similar to the person who said it had stalled, people take not saying yes as not listening to feedback?
AI hate news has been coming fast and hard as of late. It is quite unusual. Its obvious intent is to crash the market, getting the authors short positions to profit.
I don’t see any problem with that.

Doors into tech are (and has always been) open to women.

If there is no real problem to solve — how did anyone expect an organization to last long?
https://www.linuxfordevices.com/tutorials/linux/linux-on-the...
Probably not a great solution....

When dealing with code we say refactor and simplify. Superintelligence my (rightfully) consider us too complicated and a 'big ball of mud' and replace us with version 2.0.
Well, as a BBoM rolls on down through a village, it tends to accumulate various trinkets and detritus from smashed buildings, along with the broken bones and teeth of the people it obliterates, along with their pets and livestock, and any nearby wild fauna.
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The biggest factor is probably having sufficiently supportive parents. Especially on dealing with potential safety hazards like the fuel. At that age my parents didn't even trust me to use a soldering iron without guidance (it wasn't justified).
Yeah, it's interesting how the practice of only listing surnames works well in cultures where people have long and distinct surnames (and often common first names) and is just silly in cultures where surnames are short and common and most of the information content of the name is in the first name.
Any system has a 'natural set' of metrics. And metrics are not about "what [went] wrong" rather system health. So Metrics -> Alert -> Log Diagnostics.
Why Can't Houston Keep the Power On?
> after years of not eating anything with fiber,

You mean they avoided vegetables entirely?
How much is the flash attention algorithm tied to the hardware? For example, in this announcement they mention taking advantage of the async capabilities of the H100 GPUs which I assume means you won't get those speedups on non H series card. Two, the actual flash attention library requires CUDA, although the algorithm has apparently?[^0] been ported to metal. I would imagine if the algorithm was literally just a pure function it could be implemented for any GPU/ML framework?

[0]: https://github.com/philipturner/metal-flash-attention
> 20 electoral college votes would swing the elections in ways the Democrats would not like to see.

The "fewer than 475" [0] fraudulent ballots across the entire United States would not have impacted the 2020 election outcome.

[0] https://apnews.com/article/voter-fraud-election-2020-joe-bid...
Per capita the US is leading. The numbers are even worse when you consider China is the "workbench of the West".

India could catch up faster if the US would share technological advancements, or better yet, help secure the capital necessary to build out renewable infra.

The developing world is being asked to hamstring their own growth by the countries that are responsible for the bulk of historical emissions. The US, UK, and western Europe in general used cheap fossil fuels to industrialize, mortgaging our global future for quick growth. It would only be equitable (and in everyone's best interest) for us to help mitigate further harms. We need net zero. In reality we need negative emissions, but that's unproven at scale.
Show HN: Predictive Query Routing with InQuery Trino Gateway
I concur. If I am not mistaken, it's quite difficult to separate signal vs. noise.

I remember readying a study that observed that something like 50% of depressive episodes in people spontaneously resolve within a year without any treatment whatsoever.

Obviously that makes things quite difficult. If one starts an antidepressant, and six months later, is free from depression, then what evidence is there that the antidepressant vs. time was the resolution?

Perhaps stopping the antidepressant would be an indication? But then again, any rebound depression might just be from the disruption in homeostasis that the body has become accustomed to from the antidepressant.
> I know it isn't for you, but it is for me.

Maybe, but your goal is irrelevant to the authors of the GPL.

> The question here is, how is it for GNU in general.

The goal for the FSF and their GPL is, and always was, freedom for the user of the software.

Ease-of-use was never an important consideration, much less a goal. This whole discussion from you in this thread is bizarre, TBH. You are projecting your goals onto the FSF's GPL, and judging it to be a failure based on your goals.

Your goals are irrelevant to them, just as their goals appear to be irrelevant to you.
Because it looks horrendously moire if you twitch your head ever so slightly. I am, for one, very glad Ubuntu got rid of it so I don't have to damage my poor eyesight even further by ever having to look at it.
Sorry but your answer didn't actually answer what I asked for though. Which is fine, just don't claim you did and then switch to gaslighting me that "I just don't like your answer". Please keep a mature attitude and not act like a toddler.

And it's not just "my use case" that I'm referring to since I don't do any of those, it's generic use cases that I'm talking about in examples, since X86/Qualcomm are also generic chips being used for a shit tonne of use cases and not restricted to certain AppStores like the M4 is in the iPad, so if you bring M4 in comparison with those generic chips then you'd better provide argument on how they're comparable given the current SW platform restrictions, and so far you haven't.
This one and https://www.mindprod.com/jgloss/unmain.html should be required reading for all new programmers. Although sadly they can’t really appreciate them until actually subjected to them.
I guess it's not a good idea to lick them.
I was thinking the same thing. The beryllium is just the support structure. It's the coating of gold specifically for the spectrum JWST is built for, so why not coat the beryllium with a different material for other parts of the spectrum?
Mirrors can be made out of just about anything: glass, metal, ceramic, polymer, wood, you name it. The mirror itself is just a reflective coating (typically gold, silver, or aluminum), and it can be as thin as a few nanometers. The trick is shaping it and convincing it to hold that shape, which is why we currently use rigid materials like glass and metal. Something inflatable might work, but more likely we'll just stick with lightweight metals like JWST's beryllium mirrors.

However, there's already a lot of rock up there. Asteroids are numerous and big. What's the concern adding more?
So what you are telling me is that windows “recall” feature could actually protect people from phishing attacks…
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Plus, when you look at the economics it just makes sense that they are installing so much solar. Raw panel costs are so low that you can make a lot of money if you can install them cheaply and compete against relatively expensive fossil fuel plants. China is currently enjoying the feedback loop where they're installing huge amounts of solar, which means they need to make insane numbers of panels which drives down the per-unit cost, which increases demand, which means more new production needs to come online, which reduces cost, and so on.

Western countries basically gave away the solar market because it was going to undercut some billionaires businesses. Classic failure to recognize or try to stop a market disruption. It rarely ends well for the legacy companies.
Oil dependence is a risk. Chinas capacity to remove it makes them a more resilient. I wish the US would act accordingly.
Years ago, I worked on APIs for a top 10 bank in the US. In our discovery/delving into their logic, the most fascinating thing was interest rate.

Some of their systems stored - and therefore the APIs - presented interest rate as a simple number (5% was 5) where other used a decimal (5% was 0.05) and still others used basis points (5% was 500).

One of their VPs told me they once saw an unexpected uptick in loan applications and dug in to find out the quoted rate was 0.05%

Consistency is key.
Yeah I have a TB of bazel outputs in my cache directory. Unfortunately automatically deleting old bazel outputs is beyond the frontier of computer science and has been pushed out to future releases for 6 years and still going: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/5139
I guess the least bias statisic for the popularity of DEs would be Arch's pkgstats [1] and considering I would classify arch more of a tinkerer distro I would still say this is biased twards KDE from the type of user, but that is just my specualtion.

[1]: https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/fun/Desktop%20Environments/cur...
No KVMs involved - but three of the machines I have in mind (not identical, but all running the same version of Linux Mint) have two monitors attached, one of which is OK and the other isn't. (Not mine - so I haven't put any time into trying to solve it yet.)

Another machine - which is mine - used to have a 19" VGA monitor attached which worked happily at 1280x1024 for months, then one day something got updated and it wouldn't do anything beyond 1024x768 after that until I resorted to an xorg.conf file.
Yes and that sounds like par for the course. The US, and Ohio in particular, is being taken over by and destroyed by the highest bidder.

Ohio State University's hospital and modernization was bought and paid for by Jeffery Epstein's best friend and closest associate for over 10 years and we just pretend it didn't happen.

They sold a farm field down the street to my new home to Amazon and it's been a dust cloud all summer.

Our "family court" has been sold off or coopted by the Ohio Bar Association who now runs the courts like a personal income stream.

Despite the Federal government telling us not to Ohio still proudly has dozens of private prisons and coincidentally one of the highest incarceration rates.

We still have a debtors prison system for people late on child support payments but at the same time they refuse to enforce parental rights.

They just sold off oil drilling/fracking rights to all of our state parks...
Looking at the service pattern it seems the bart "routes" are more like separate branches of the same line.

In reality there's not much difference between the Hammersmith/City, Circle, and District lines, especially the wimbleware part of the district line.
Costco increases membership fee
Defi is a fraction of whats happening on cefi exchanges. I have a customer placing hundreds of billions of orders per day on binance. And they are by far not the biggest players there.
I am all for family values, but I am not convinced it will guarantee purpose in life and prevent you from spiralling into depression for some other reason.
Someone who complains is for sure a pass.

That applies to any interview test though, you don't need to contrive an absurd scenario to do it.
Shooting a gun (or whatever) in a game and "waiting" for the sound is extremely isomorphic to pressing a key on a MIDI keyboard and "waiting" for the sound.

Yes, background sound in games can be handled with very large buffers, but most players expect music-performance-like latency for action-driven sound.
What GPU will be in it?
In the end, it's a life-long process.
the thing is, it doesn't suck for a lot of people. I definitely have some minor issues with it, but it encodes the workflow i was already using in GNOME 2 as the expected workflow.
Did you just call chatGPT "he"? Oh that may get you in quite a lot of hot water this days!
LaTeX is fine to me, as well. Heck, now that I'm older, I think bare TeX is probably fine. In line with what you are saying, I can offload the semantic nature of my resume to text files and just use the markup of TeX to layout how I want the page to look. Much easier if I don't try and have a single source that is both all of my semantic data with the layout at the same time.
it would be most convenient to have no 2FA. hell, skip the password too, then nobody will forget theirs. security is tradeoffs, but NIST says "if you take security seriously, you should not use SMS 2FA".
that's called a hallucination. AI models are simply guessing what to say with differing sizes of word banks

At it's best, it may even "recognize" the top 90% of sites. Often, it's not a bulletproof solution, and shouldn't be trusted to generate either false positive/negative

My best operational security advice is not to click shit in your inbox and navigate directly to the hostname you trust to do sensitive actions
Naming can be hard, because names are important.

My wife and I legitimately sat down and came up with a list of 50 names we each liked, and from the 98 we had totaled up, we applied a series of different filters to get to an answer over the span of several weeks.

First we each went through the list, and force removed half of them, each of us taking turns eliminating one at a time.

From the remaining 50 we rated them, and removed anything that scored under a 6 from either of us, or under 15 points total.

Then we had 20 left, that we talked through each fairly extensively. We covered etymology, popularity, age association, popular cultural associations, you name it. After that we each removed 5 more.

Once we were down to the top ten, armed with frankly far too much knowledge about these names at this point, we reranked them individually and tallied up the scores.

Two names stood head and shoulders above the rest, one scoring around a 19 total and the other scoring around a 17. Those became our daughter's first and middle names.
> I cannot emphasise strongly enough how niche "compile the Linux kernel"

You can replace that with compile pretty much any software in general or do any real software development on it which isn't even remotely niche...
Take from it what you want, but he did not say that SQLite is worse, that's an inference. He just said Postgres is the best database in the world, and that's quite valid from the perspective of features, correctness, and performance.

SQLite is a tradeoff: It's very small and to make it that small, some traditional database aspects need to be discarded. That small size makes it useful when size is a factor.
I believe a good bit of it relates to "switching costs." Consumer brands that offer a new product to compete with an existing one often do it at a discounted price. The companies essentially must pay a fee to the consumer for the time, effort, and uncertainty related to trying something different.

An example is wanting someone to read a book you think they'll like. It costs you nothing to give this advice. If anything, you stand to gain in something like reputation or ego if it's helpful or something they enjoy. But it potentially costs time they they might've spent enjoying something else even more.
Why not do something similar to VLA instead. So rather than a single "big and light" dish in orbit, you make a constellation of smaller dishes that equal a single larger dish? We know SpaceX is more than capable of that kind of deployment.
That's exactly what they do!

https://www.edmundoptics.com/knowledge-center/application-no...
My gut feeling is the gen-Zers doing well intellectually / athletically are probably top 10%, and they dont correlate much with mental health issues. The average teenager is shallow and dumb, constantly looking for validation.
Requiring record keeping is not difficult to enforce.
Database Tuning at Zerodha – India's Largest Stock Broker [video]
I have yet to see an impressive resume from someone that wasn't boring in layout. Worse, I have seen very few resumes that were not boring in looks that were attached to a good candidate. :(
Dynolog: Open-Source System Observability (2022)
Fibromyalgia
Oops... Would be interesting to see what is the cause of the problem
How are "programs evil" and "apps good"? Without any convincing arguments to back up such claims, they do read like astro-turfing and just regurgitating Tim Cook's keynote speeches. This board is called Hacker News last time I checked, no?
I agree that there's a focus on algorithmic improvements, but what is the basis for assuming that we'll be able to continue to make algorithmic improvements on the same scale? The argument feels exactly backwards - if you had a deep understanding of the field, then you'd be able to discuss the untapped areas of potential algorithmic improvement and use that to predict future progress. The argument in TFA uses the trendline of past progress to predict untapped areas of algorithmic improvement.
I'm always amazed by how long video game credits got over the years.
For me Time Bandits comes to mind first, her little sketches with Michael Palin never get old.