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American culture is so doggedly hostile to friendships and really, any casual social interaction, that it's the least fucking surprising thing in the world that tons of us struggle to maintain relationships.

For starters: work. Most of us work, at minimum, 8 hours per day, 5 days per week. Most of us have an hour lunch in there, so that's 9. The average commute is just shy of half an hour one direction, so let's round that up to 10. We're already at 42% utilization for 5/7 of your average days, or 30% of the entire week, and I emphasize: this is the minimum. Many people have WAY more than this, both commute and work hours, voluntarily or by necessity. Statistically: you spend 3 out of every 10 of your hours alive either going to, being at, or returning from work.

If you're a healthy person you're getting ballpark 6-8 hours of sleep per night, we'll say 7 to make the math easier. So on the work days, before you do a SINGLE THING for yourself, that's 17 hours of your day already accounted for leaving you a measly 7. A full 50% of your theoretical week is gone already. We have not even approached the subject of child-rearing, which if you have that in your life, that remaining 7 might as well be fucking zero. Any time you don't spend at work will statistically almost certainly involve if not be entirely centered on your child.

Add in the obligations you have to your spouse, the absolute ton of things any regular old person is responsible for to constitute and maintain a "normal life" in our modern era (bills need paying, appointments need making and attending, cars need oil changes, lawns need mowing, the wife really wants that new shelf hung in the closet, did you do your taxes yet, what do you mean you forgot the groceries in the car, there was milk in there) and like.. where the hell do friends go here?

I'd like to note here, I am privileged as FUCK on this issue. I work from home, so no commute, apart from the odd business trip. I'm adamantly child-free, I have an extremely flexible and trusting employer that I love to work for who lets me slack off the schedule basically at my convenience to get appointments done, run errands, resolve family emergencies, or just have lunch with people. And despite that straight flush of "I have this the easiest I can have it" I STILL struggle to find time to fit in all the just miscellaneous bullshit that it's my responsibility to get done, and, since all my friends (of which I have about four give or take in my immediate area) DON'T have that straight flush, scheduling things with them is also a nightmare and often results in cancelled plans because people are fucking exhausted, overworked, underpaid and stressed the shit out.

I don't understand how anyone is surprised at this. We have optimized every ounce of slack out of our lives, there is ALWAYS something that needs doing. Never mind that I have no places to make friends or meet people, never mind that I haven't really made a new one since school that wasn't connected to another: WHEN. When the fuck am I meant to fill my proverbial social bar. And, for that matter, there is NOWHERE I can go right now to even try, that won't cost be money to do.
In my experience, nearly all metal-detecting enthusiasts hope to find valuable antiques, not modern iron scrap. Alright, some of them hope to find lost jewelry, but also valuable antiques. None of the ones I've known are prospecting for boring metal veins, for example.
This hits really close to home and was comforting to read.

My situation: mid 30's, got out of a domestic relationship mid-covid. By the time the pandemic ended, every single friend in my group had moved out of state for lower cost of living. My close family also moved far away or had passed away, and I found myself in a weird situation of living alone, working remotely, and spending 99.999% of my time alone.

I like being alone - probably more than most people. I would not describe myself as "lonely" but the lack of a friend/support group is a clear deficiency in my life and not one I feel easily able to rectify. All the usual meeting spots pre-covid where I'd meet people don't seem to really be the same anymore or I feel too old to really hang out at some of them (some trendier bars).

I am not religious so church doesn't really feel like an option but I am starting to consider it. Another issue is that in your mid 30's almost everyone has settled down and started having kids and only really prefer socializing with other people who have settled down and have kids, leaving you in an awkward place.
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Obligatory PSA that he is allegedly* a sex tourist with highly dubious practices off-camera.

Edit: Context provided by senorrib below - https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldAndBaldrDossier/

* Make your own conclusions
It sounds like interviewers would have to change their interview process to account for this.

Can you think of some ways that they could innovate the interview process if spurred on my this new constraint?
I'd love to have more magazine columnist friends. I'm sure they have a lot of interesting stories about weird stuff they wrote about in the past.
Autonomous group of designers in NYC disrupt Wix design event
R0BL0CH0N TDS: The infrastructure of an affiliate marketing scam
I think they might be different things. Terraform is comparable to CDK isn't it? and this uses terraform, so in the same way I think its higher level than CDK and could even one day have it as an option (e.g. terraform, pulumi, CF, CDK, openTofu etc.) I could be totally off base though, have not really used CDK tbh
Fifteen to twenty extra years of lifespan is useless? With reduced odds of cancer?

(20-25% longer life x 80 year current lifespan.)
One of my favorite aspects of the early web was the focus on customization. Your Myspace page was literally 'your space' and you were free to customize it with CSS as you pleased. There's a whole generation of developers and designers that started this way. You still see remnants of this philosophy in the contemporary web (e.g. moderators on Reddit can customize their subreddits), but that philosophy is nowhere near as ubiquitous as it was in the Geocities era.
Which is possibly worse lol, the fact SAP a company as big as they are with as much critical information as they have, fucking up basic cloud security, they didn't even fuck up something new they fucked up common shit from the sound of it.
To piggyback onto OP to ask about something very loosely related: what about miniKanren? Are there any active projects or work being done here, either in academia or industry? Most of the ones listed on minikanren.org appear to be dead -- although I haven't gone through them all since last year
Good mention of that one too. The article needed two extra lines, one
reminding to use ssh -V and one to remind us to switch off banners.
I can't even make a guess as to how such a program could be written.

anyone has an idea?
So you are successful in another culture zone but no the anglosphere?
This actually works fine in the USA where I live now. In the few letters I actually send I usually simply write the person's or company's name and the post code (zip code).

This postal trivia is becoming more amusing all the time -- I check my mailbox once every 6-8 weeks, or even less, and rarely have more than one or two items in that time. I get the impression that nobody bothers to use the postal service for anything important any more.
> This stereotype of people in “flyover states” as being uneducated and dense really needs to stop.

I live in Nebraska. We are fucking stupid.
i'm not sure it really worked as advertised, the machine didn't appreciably create more juice than just squeezing the bag yourself by hand, and the bags weren't really "fresh squeezed juice" because it was largely already in a liquid state and only required sqeezing to get the last bit out of the bag.
I love the Geocities-era Web 1.0 energy this has. Your daughter is avery creative person.
LLMs are text completion engines and can't really do math. Even if it happened to know the correct answer to 9.11 - 9.9, it could still fall flat on 9.12 - 9.9.
At least you didn't ask about finding a particular fish.
Actual article: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/07/insta... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40992302)

More about the pilot program: https://www.cos.io/about/news/meta-and-cos-open-request-for-... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40989354)
Mini is 82% MMLU and 8b is 68%
> The real problem with the class Foo above is that it is utterly and entirely unnecessary

I see this sentiment a _lot_ in anti-OO rants, and the problem is that the ranter is missing the point of OO _entirely_. Hard to fault them, since missing the point of OO entirely is pretty common but... if you're creating classes as dumb-data wrappers and reflexively creating getters and setters for all of your private variables then yes what you're doing _is_ utterly and entirely unnecessary, but you're not doing object-oriented design at all. The idea, all the way back to the creation of OO, was to expose actions and hide data. If you're adding a lot of syntax just to turn around and expose your data, you're just doing procedural programming with a redundant syntax.
I don't like it in Slack as it gives another avenue for out of sequence communication.

When we think about email is that it is really explicit when there is something new to handle. There is a new email.

In Slack there are many channels with individual messages which can have reactions, and those individual messages can turn into threads which provides another place where you now need to actively scan to see if something is relevant to you.

This in general is something that bothers me with group communication that is non-linear. It's extremely hard to keep track of it all, and to catch up. Where do you start reading?

When we talk about email, it's much easier to filter for what is important. If your name is in 'To' or in 'CC' it's important enough.

Sidenote: the company I worked at encouraged people to put the group they're emailing into BCC, which makes discoverability as to which group the email was sent (and thus which group I am a member of) impossible to find out, as that information is purposefully hidden from me. But I digress.

In general I am a huge fan of purposeful communication, i.e. tagging someone when it's for them, vs throwing something out there and see who picks up on it or not.

Not to mention that I've seen cases where people get angry for you not having caught a message on Slack. If I wasn't tagged I might miss it. That's the reality of things if you're in so many channels.

Not to mention that leaving channels was frowned upon, as it is explicitly printed.
It is simple - whenever something happens to a child, parents are blamed super hard. Every single issue child has is parents fault.

Parents spend more time and effort actively parenting kids, much more then previous generations did. And in a put 99% of discussions, there is majority throwing scorn on parents in general. It is simple, parents are internalizing those lessons and do what out current society want from them.

Plus parents are not allowed good time or something for themselves. They have only duties. Note even motivations in this article - parents ts are compassionate toward kids or want easy way for themselves. It is plan to engineer more competitive kid.
You can make a random (high e) signal look non-random (low e) by adding strings of zeros and ones to it. Or you can embed it into known formats.
Fyi: Including "the" changes the meaning - it alludes to imperial language aking to calling the nation The Periphery.
Lovely! I go to at least one of the bike parties every month (eastbay, sf, san jose or santa cruz) and I too love putting LEDs on my bike (my wheels are encoders :P). Are you local? always fun to talk with fellow LED enthusiasts.

To all of you reading who haven't been to a bike party please come out, it's amazing! It's usually about ~10 miles of biking over 4 hours, with two ~45m stops for dancing, usually at a park.
Incredible accomplishment, but the question remains what this will look like at the scale of a display on any given consumer device.

Of course, it's only just now been announced, but I'd love to see what a larger scale graphic looks like with a larger array of these to understand if perceived quality is equal or better, if brightness distribution across the spectrum is consistently achieved, how pixels behave with high frame rates and how resilient they are to potential burn-in.
Rice is good at sucking up heavy metals from the ground. American rice fields often occupy old cotton fields where lead products were used as insecticide.
Agreed, AV has full access to your system and can take whatever they want and you'd never know.
I formerly had a problem about 2 years ago where I spent entire days flipping between Youtube and Reddit outside of work, and not really accomplishing anything productive or bettering myself in any way. I started cutting back and filling that time with other things, programming, language learning, or hanging out with my friends.

I deleted Reddit entirely during the API fiasco, but I still watch YouTube since it's basically what I treat as my TV. However, I have a caveat that I keep myself productive until it's dark outside aside from the occasional 10 minute mental break, and during meals. Once it's about 10pm, then I'll relax.

I don't let any kind of entertainment or news app send my phone notifications. I interact with them exclusively on my own terms.

With how algorthmic content feed is, you've got to be willing to set boundaries for your tech and yourself. Find things you like to do, and replace social media time with that. There's an entire world of information at your fingertips to learn absolutely anything you could ever want to, take advantage of it.
More about the program: https://www.cos.io/about/news/meta-and-cos-open-request-for-...

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40989354)
when you say yearly I assume you're not conducting regular internal pentests?

any pentesting companies that you could recommend which do more than just drive-by shooting with metasploit?
Can't help but think at 2850 pounds (3650 USD) for 7 nights of course they are going to be friendly.
Wow, how come this is not a default feature.
> to ask for a comment at the same time as hitting publish and note that they’d been asked for a comment

No, this is not responsible. The reader is not aware of the time difference and cannot distinguish between a lack of appropriate time to respond and the organization being subversive. Given the context, the usually implies the latter.

I wouldn't ever want this to legally be an issue, but we do have to recognize that a lot of language is implicit and that also matters. If you did such a think I believe it would be more ethical to write something along the lines of

> we reached out to <x> at the time of publishing and will update when we receive a response.

While one could still presume subversive behavior, I think we can all recognize that this is at least less of an implicit blame. For more accuracy, you can even put the date. I've seen this format before

> On <date> the <y>-news team reached out to <x> and will update when we receive a response.

This ensures that the reader is able to properly understand the time differential and the implications. Remember that reading articles is highly asynchronous. You may be reading them the day of or a month later. If you read that line and <date> was the same day as today or even yesterday, you wouldn't think anything suspicious. But if it is a week later or a month later you have quite a good reason to believe <x> is being subversive.
> isn't dumb enough to try killing on American soil

They'll kill on English, German, and Austrian soil though...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Sergei_and_Yulia_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Litvinenko

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelimkhan_Khangoshvili

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar_Israilov
I was in Belarus recently and it did feel like I was the only non-Slavic person, and tourist, on the bus there (yes, bus, because no European country except for Turkey is flying to Belarus). Everyone else seemed like locals going back home for a visit (including my wife!).

But once you get to Minsk, it's actually pretty modern and nice, extremely clean... and clearly a vibrating city with lots of things to do, buy and see... there's quite a few non-westernerns there (Indians, Chinese and other Asians, Africans), seems like mostly students. I was told they have programs to have exchange students which was already going on since Soviet times, and Belarus has some pretty good universtities apparently.

We also had very international food! I noticed there's Domino's Pizzas everywhere. One of the best restaurants we visited was a big Chinese one in the most popular area of the city. Also tried the local Belarussian cuisine, of course, a large Georgian restaurant (both were delicious and really good prices), some Italian food etc.

We visited lots of museums and art galleries, and they have excellent ones! In most of them we were very nearly the only visitors, despite being in the middle of summer. The attendants were really happy to receive us, and we had basically private tours of everything, they gave us much more attention than I've ever got anywhere else. Forget queues to get in or crowds around the main attractions!! My wife had to translate every word, but they still made sure to answer every question and point out every detail to us, slowly so that my wife could translate everything.

Even though our world is messed up and Belarus right now is seen as an "enemy country", I hope people can understand that they're a beautiful, honest people just trying to live life, like all of us. I think if more people visited, perhaps we would be better able to understand each other and keep a closer connection that could've avoided the mess we're in. I know the EU was trying to get closer to Belarus and vice-versa before "you know what" (I saw some restored buildings in a country town that were paid for by the EU!).... that totally stopped now, unfortunately. Hope countries like Belarus and Moldova continue their modernisation and getting closer to the rest of Europe without changing their own cultures too much, they have a rich and proud history and culture that should be maintained, we shouldn't make the mistake of expecting them to become just like us... they don't even want that, they just want to be as prosperous, which is a very different thing.
This is a hilarious idea... talk about 3D chess and hiding in plain sight... convince people you're not him by actually claiming to be him with no evidence, just like a ton of other people are doing.

It then becomes literally impossible for someone to out you- nobody will listen to the guy that says "heh, I cracked the case, Satoshi is Craig Wright!"
I hope this will go into AVP3
https://eightify.app/media/fact-checking-allegations-against...
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> However, he said there were still problems, including the lack of evidence in patients and the cost of making such drugs and "it is unthinkable to treat every 50-year-old for the rest of their life".

On the "lack of evidence in patients" ... does "testing" this in humans mean decades long trials? Given that the effects in their animal model was 25%, it seems like measuring if there was such an increase in humans (and beginning taking it in late middle age) it would be a generation before you had results.

On the "unthinkable to treat every 50-year-old" comment, I think we as a society would need to change as a function of our changed lifespans -- making all the middle-aged people live to 100+ would exacerbate issues around social benefits, housing stock, etc. But if we all had longer, more productive lives (i.e. worked longer, added our skills and expertise to the economy for longer), could that more than offset the costs? If a drug raised your life expectancy by 20 years, and most people worked another 15, that's still pretty good.
> when a mechanically computed algorithm is used as a step in a process, all of this sort of reasoning goes out the window

abdication-of-responsibility-as-a-service
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This is a good and valid comment. It is difficult to predict the future, but I would be curious what the best case theoretical performance of an LLM on a typical x86 or ARM system with DDR4 or DDR5 RAM. My uneducated guess is that it can be very good, perhaps 50% the speed of a specialized GPU/RAM device. In practical terms, the CPU approach is required for very large contexts, up to as large as the lifetime of all interactions you have with your LLM.
lower energy but at least they're slow? You need to add up to the same performance level and then consider the cost and running cost. I bet it's not close on that.

Availability maybe, but as you've noted - zero availability for data center environments. Those volumes would also then fall onto TSMC/Samsung/Whatever where Nvidia is stuck as well.
Ah, yes.

Thanks, I confused those numbers!
Previously she was elected by a coalition of the center-left, center, and center-right. Due to major losses by the center, she made concessions to get the greens on board as well, which is why the vote count is up.

It's part of a broader trend in Europe where in most countries, since the share of the far-right grows and the share of everyone else shrinks, the absolute refusal to work with the far right is leading the remaining parties to attempt increasingly complex and discordant coalitions.

My take is doing this means that people who vote far-right never get any evidence that they should change their vote and people who are dissatisifed with what they vote for are left with increasingly few alternatives since the majority coalition sucks up more and more parties.

I think it will be interesting in a few years to compare the likes of France and Germany who are all in on the blockade, vs the Netherlands or Sweden where the far right is part of a governing coalition they don't have full control over.
What the fuck are you even talking about? I honestly don't know what point you're trying to make.
They've already been sold the whole suite of Western air defense systems in addition to the ex-Soviet gear they've already had. Patriot, HAWK, Gepard, etc.
Semaphores in Golang and GNU make
https://archive.is/vz8pE

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/18/technology/sp...
More discussion on official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40982118
The economy isn't a zero sum game and infrastructure projects generally pay for themselves in the long run many times over. I think we are too interested in today's budget to pay attention to historically valuable things.
I am not sure what you are talking about. Could you please elaborate?

EDIT: Found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine#Etymology_and_orthogra... now. Thanks for the correction!
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40982118
Read it again in ten years and judge if you still find it witty. If you still do, I preemptively applaud your self confidence.
Wouldn't be hacker news without a comment explaining why their bike shedding is actually good and necessary.
they could found a charity, with the aim of creating open AI models. they could call it OpenAI to draw attention that it's not a proprietary commercial technology.
>AI weapons seems like a bad bad idea.

AI weapons seems like an inevitability.
If you don't learn how to build and keep those relationships in childhood and your teenage years, you will have hard time to relate later. Also, there is huge difference between 11 years old and 13 years old. There is no meaningful difference between 40 years old and 45 years old. And as your circle shrink to primary colleagues of the same profession, you end up living in much bigger bubble then kids do.

Lack of social engagement in childhood damages those skills forever. You may learn to get along and answer politely, but learn ing to belong, to know when and how ask for what is your right and when and how step back is massively harder in adulthood.