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The space program used too much bread? How are these things related?

The space program started after WW2. There was never any famine in the Soviet Union after WW2 except the one directly after the was for obvious reasons.

And the militarization was necessary to survive against Nazi Germany and later to keep the balance of power intact against an empire that had proven two times that it was able and willing to use nuclear weapons.

The space program proved the importance of science under socialism and the great education system while the US only managed compete by stealing Nazi scientists.
Did he actually do it himself or did someone do it for him?
By more-or-less eliminating spoiler effect RCV actually benefits major and minor party candidates (and of course, voters!).

For majors the benefit is clear: you don't get spoiled.

For minors, you don't have to overcome the barrier of being a spoiler if the race looks remotely close.

And of course voters are not disadvantaged just for having two acceptable choices rather than one.
FWIW pg's twitter feed has been strongly anti-trump for a good 9 years now, so I don't think that post is telegraphing any political alignment. (To my eye it's about resisting ideological pressure regardless of political affiliation but that's just my take.)
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While more biased source, a lot more details on this topic can be seen here: https://www.lgbtcourage.org/wpath
This had been eating at me for a while before I eventually got fired for essentially being burntout and unproductive. I thought I could persevere through it as the companies values changed to no longer match my own, but I couldn't.

It's better to leave as long as that option is available to you.
> which is what actually matters, why does anyone care about raw power?

Raw power determines whether games run smoothly, how fast things compile, how fast a render takes etc. The performance per watt determines battery life but for some people that isn't particularly important. I can only run the Unreal Engine Editor for about an hour before the battery runs out on my laptop (5800H/16GB/3070). The raw performance when plugged in is much more useful to me than trying to squeeze another 20 minutes out of it. Of course I prefer using my desktop for those tasks, but sometimes I need to travel or demo so laptop (with charger) it is.
It's a disgrace that the party that was able to turn Obama from an unknown junior Senior speaking at the 2004 DNC to winning the Presidency 4 years later, now has done zero to promote more candidates over the last 4 years when Biden ran on being a single term President.

Basically, the DNC's options are the people who failed to get through the primaries in 2020 against Biden and maybe Whitmer or Newsom.

I just do not see Harris getting the middle/undecided, and it's 2016 all over again, if not worse, because SCOTUS has the deck stacked if it's even close.
> I view voting as a responsibility to pick a candidate I want to lead rather than a vote to block someone I don't want to lead

My viewing water as a non-liquid doesn’t make it less wet. Not voting is a delegated vote for the status quo, i.e. whoever wins.
Leave. I’ve never known employees to override the company. More likely you are all a bunch of good guys committing war crimes together. Is that much better?
No, the names thing has always been exaggerated.

I occasionally call my kids by each others' names. My parents would call me by my brothers' names. This is a running joke in large families. I occasionally in large meetings swap the names of two products we're talking about and have to be corrected. It's just a very low-grade "verbal dyslexia" that means nothing except that the brain isn't a perfectly-wired machine.
I think that's basically what models such as Mistral are doing. They mentioned that they use very sanitized datasets for training as compared to simply scraping the web.
Naughty old Biden used his time machine to force poor innocent Putin to invade Crimea in 2014, clearly.
Once. Never again.
if decrepitude had anything to do with voter confidence, we would have booted both candidates out after that charade that we called the "presidential debate"
Biden has a speech impediment, Judging him by his speech doesn't give an accurate picture of his mental fitness.
Dean Phillips was a candidate who tried running against Biden in the primaries. I'll link to him talking about his experience in congress and how he felt that the Democratic Party retaliated against him for running: https://youtu.be/1hh8lcoJ1NA?feature=shared&t=1308

And here's him on twitter reacting to the news of Biden standing down: https://x.com/deanbphillips/status/1815145481674358843
Optimized the service depreciation documentation process which allowed engineers to meet their quarterly KPIs?
I don't think I would because it's quite vague and metaphorical. But it may not even happen to me, certainly not by Google because I'd never work for them. Hence my question...
Something Awful GoonCon '04 documentary (2010) [video]
You should probably leave, because odds are good they're not thinking the same way you're thinking. The mutual aspect is critical; it's a Prisoner's Dilemma.

A society of constant, unthinking defectors, on the other hand, is unsustainable.
Given Biden's endorsement of Harris, a fellow Californian, Newsom will probably not be on the ticket, due to Constitutional limitations. That's not dispositive, but has generally been interpreted as requiring the two executive candidates to be from different states. The actual language concerns how electors must vote, in Article II, Section I, Clause III:

The electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves.

<https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-2/sec...>

In strict compliance, this would require California's electors to split their votes on candidates from other states, though other states wouldn't face this limitation.

History.com addressed this earlier this year: "Can the President and Vice President Be From the Same State?"
<https://www.history.com/news/can-the-president-and-vice-pres...>
The war is not about NATO.
It's too harmful to my mental health to do what you did. I just had to quit.
It's kind of like the history of the web with regular human consumers and various attempts to allow microtransactions, which receded in favor of ads and tracking.

If the pattern holds, the "cost" of training non-paywalled data will be attempts to hack/influence the model, as opposed to hacking humans.
resignation and successful impeachment rates are pretty low, so basically it's 4 years, and then later basically one can do whatever they want, they instantly have an amazing audience/market.
That quote says nothing about where happiness or health lies.
> perhaps Trump is now much more popular, but previously polls showed RFK Jr beating Trump

Trump isn’t more popular. RFK was never beating anybody. If he played his card better he might have put himself into the running for Trump’s VP.

The bigger problem is there is a strong political incentive to look at who doesn’t vote and transfer their chips to those who do. (Appealing to non-voters doesn’t work. Most non-voters aren’t principled, they’re just lazy or indecisive, irrespective of what they say.)
I wish to have a beer with you or join your matrix or something. Rarely do I run into minds like yours.
> Christianity is a tough sell, given Trump.

Evangelicals love Trump (in one of the biggest “this massive group of people clearly was lying about its stated moral principles” reveals in recent memory).
Intellectual property and privacy aren't the same thing, so the third-party doctrine doesn't apply.
There's no excuse in today's world to not write fantastic unit tests especially with LLMs. Plug for how we enable that here https://github.com/codeintegrity-ai/mutahunter
I think you misread my comment. I didn't single out Cubans.
is there something specific about this extensive breakdown of the laws around a candidate stepping down that you find incorrect? Is there any news source you have found that isn’t biased in someway?
Nothing new, sadly. Comedians during Trump's presidency were saying how they can't top the absurdness that was Trump's reality. Welcome to a slice of the madness they needed to parody somehow.
I would argue that 'win at all cost' is played by both parties. It's a form of 'the ends justify the means' and I really wish that people of both parties understood the long-term implications of that approach.
Well, Jefferson anyway (“…to the shores of Tripoli…”)
You can always hang out with them if you're all in the same area. My experience has been that as long as you filter for good work culture when applying for jobs you'll find a place with good coworkers.
I don't think you understand how public relations work. You say everything is fine until it isn't
Content creators or artists, will have to find a way to deal with AI (as a broad term). Both in how they will or won't use it, but also in how it affects or threathens their jobs and livelyhoods.

People in the AI (using this term very loosely here) business are worried that only the biggest players effectively monopolize AI with the help of badly thought out (or plain corrupt) regulations that may be set in place in the near future.

These two issues are not mutually exclusive problems, these two groups are not fighting against eachother. It feels like a typical divide and conquer, where the regular people are being pitted against eachother because of your view, while they should work together towards a solution for both of their problems and fight bad regulation (and monopolies in AI).
That isn't really what I meant :-)

What I meant was that the DNC is still, somehow, a "big tent" party. The plurality demographic within that party is liberal; if you add the next biggest groups on either side you get progressives (left) and centrists (right). The problem the DNC would face in a two-party ticket is that centrists would willingly go for such a split, liberals would be reluctant, and progressives and onwards would sit out of the vote in substantial numbers. Those sit-outs don't matter at the party level, but they do matter in general elections.

(This is true regardless of the social/economic axes used to distinguish the party's demographics internally.)
"Seeing Like A State" is a superb book, but I'll always remember Scott for "The Art of Not Being Governed." I was a history major in college, and seeing history from the point of view of non-state peoples was revelatory for a young student. I greatly enjoyed it, truly one of those experiences in life where my mind was opened and expanded in a new direction. I'll forever remember him for that, and be grateful for his contribution to my way of viewing the world.
60 is a perfectly reasonable age to take a demanding job, though. Most people would not consider that _80_ was.
I disagree (as an immigrant). In all of America, you will get your mail on time, you have fully developed freeways (although no public transit), you can flush toilet paper down the toilet, and the cars are new and clean - not to mention, drinking tap water and eating food won’t make you terribly sick. Most, if not all developing countries cannot meet those very simple standards.
I've been firmly in camp Intel ever since my third Athlon 2200XP burned itself out (and finally took the motherboard socket with it on its way to the melty grave) back in circa ~2005 (Intel CPUs had thermal envelope protection at the time, AMD CPUs did not).

This fiasco has me convinced that I will not be building an Intel system again, and I haven't even (yet) had any problems with either of the Z790 i7-14700K systems I put together in March.
I’m sure you hurt Google in this way but I feel like I have better things to do with my time than waste a few years trying to spite an employer
If you're sxuggesting he has always had one, well sadly it's become worse. The POTUS needs to be a good communicator, unfortunately for Biden.
The International Phonetic Alphabet is helpful, though it may add confusion to talk about this with people unfamiliar with IPA.

What you describe as y is /j/ in IPA.

What you describe as zh is /ʒ/.

Spanish j is usually /x/. Some languages transcribe /x/ as kh or ch. There are accents of Spanish that pronounce it as /h/ or something slightly different however.
With a specific model (just like with an intern), you only need to evaluate their work a certain amount of times to decide whether they're doing their job good enough to leave them alone and continue without further supervision
In reality it would be a situation where a/the few big players control all the usefull datasets and trained models, and everybody has to pay in perpetuity (SaaS style) to use those, rather than being able to train their own. The copyright law being ignored will not be "solved" by pushing all the benefits to a few large players, but you will create new problems up ahead.
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> A huge portion of Democratic voters wanted the candidate replaced

Those democrats should’ve joined the party, found a good candidate and done the job of fielding them. But they didn’t, because they just like to complain not do the actual work. We had primaries. Fact is simply that none of the fantasy candidates that people like to name in wonky circles actually wanted to run.
Tried an MSI B550 initially. Think the second one was an Asus B550. The CPU swap did work ok the original board!

But at that point I was using the Lenovo box. So I just sold all the crap on eBay for the next victim.
> Compare Democrat presidents and Republican presidents in general.

as I said I don't think checking historical trends is excuse for current policy.

> Seeing as Trump is a Republican, and that his spending and economy were on brand for the Republican party, I see no reason to assume covid was the sole cause

first two years of his presidency deficit was relatively low

> Given that the US economy has recovered from covid dramatically better than the economies of all other major nations, I am not inclined to assume that the US economy is currently in poor hands. On the contrary, it sure seems to be in the best hands that exist anywhere in the world.

this is a loaded question. Recovery was in expense of inflation, rise of debt. One would need to do some quantitative calculation to see if current situation is result of actual policies (and which policies: Trump's or Biden's), or just economy is flexible itself and if result could be better and if spendings were justified(or went to real estate market and stocks).
What a wonderful story about values and self-reflection.
>but when something is intelligent then it should leave us no doubt that it is.

Not that long ago, a whole lot of humans (the majority in some continents) asserted other a group of other humans were not intelligent so strongly they purchased them as property and treated them worse than even farm animals, so i think you can basically throw this one out the window.
Ah, great, I just wasn't sure what you meant with ceil(count/2).

It's not worth implementing when VLEN>=DLEN, beacause then you can replace all of the uses were you'd always get an atvantage with unrolled LMUL=1 instructions.
So I don't think it will be common in ooo designs, since they usually have smaller vectors.
Putting politics aside …

Why don’t they have an age limit on the president (or any elected office)?

E.g., you must be younger than the average life expectancy (currently men: 73yo / female: 79) - while in office.

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html
He's always talked slowly and deliberately to avoid stuttering. On a young man it adds gravitas. On an old man it makes you sound old.
Fairness, justice, liberty.
> It's all classic speech impedement stuff

Maybe 10 years ago it was that.

But in the last couple of months, it's like his tongue is not moving right. I literally can't understand some of his sentences now, the syllables are so slurred and garbled.
For synchronized group watching I typically encode to h264 and aac in mp4. Video: render subtitles if available, downscale to 720p if larger, ensure yuv420p, encode with: preset slow, crf 24, and tune animation or film as appropriate. Copy audio if aac, 2 channel, and bitrate is less than 160k otherwise: force 2 channel, encode at 128k. Fast start is needed otherwise I'd use a separate program to put the "header" at the start.

As for your command line, what do you think -g 52 does? Why do you give conflicting audio channel settings?
I think experiences like this provide a framework for us to confront and then move on from problems we are avoiding. the same goes for tarot or self help books or religions or even any abstract processes.

we inscribe ourselves into the narrative and populate it (subconsciously?) with our biggest issues. The narrative plays out and provides us with solutions to our conundrum. I believe this is how religions, cults, management paradigms (and even computer science design patterns) and are born.

All of it is just a trick we play on ourselves to get out of analysis paralysis.
I used to shoot Canon with an APS-C body for a long time the only lens I had was a 20 mm (full frame) prime.

I lost that camera and lens and when I was ready to go mirrorless I went with Sony because I could only see people complaining about the autofocus on the entry level full frame cameras from Nikon and Canon so I went with Sony.

With the Canon I had to play with the curves to get photos I liked, with the Sony I like the pics straight out of the camera and only started adjusting regularly once I started using DxO to clean up noise in sports photography.

If I had to do it all again I'd consider going with Nikon because their top-of-the-line cameras are great.
Even if you don't want to vote for president or vice president, you should consider voting in the other elections in the other state/local elections.
It’s definitely not just that. You can ask people if they’d support a hypothetical social program and then describe a real one, warts and all (they’re usually not a tenth as bad as popularly supposed—you don’t need to shy away from the down sides to make them look good) and get very high rates of support. Name the actual program, and you get a “no” and a bunch of BS about it back. It’s a propaganda thing, it’s not the price tags. I mean, sometimes, sure, but you can go out all day long and get 20-30% swings in support for this stuff with straight descriptions (including costs) vs. the name under which a program has been vilified.

[edit] one of the funniest ones is foreign aid. It’s commonly supposed to be way higher than it actually is (you’ll get answers like 5%, 10% of the budget, wildly wrong stuff) so you can consistently get people to agree that a “cut” to double what it actually is would be a great thing for a fiscally responsible candidate to propose.

[edit edit] so point is the vast majority of voters have no clue what it is they’re opposing when they say they’re against lots of things they’re against. Describe it, and they’re on board. They don’t actually know what it is.
To invoke Grestky: it's where the puck is going that's a concern. Four years from today is not the same as today.

(Agreeing with you, just adding to the perspective.)
It’s more conceivable than people are willing to believe that RFK could get more votes than trump in this election. For example, trump might die before election day, in which RFK might have a chance.

Not at winning broadly of course.
[flagged] LOL

The responses could have been reasonable and calm, like OP was, e.g.

1) You know, he might have something there. Maybe we should be more transparent about the ways we moderate stuff. -- OR --

2) Let's just circle the wagons and attack this person with everything we have, except the actual data he asked for. This IS a little club, after all.

It's too bad that you choose (2).
A corporation is not the world. Only a very few are a vehicle for progress.
Because you can unhook a "smart box" and prevent the collection of your data and the showing of ads. Also because TV manufacturers who want your data and want to push ads at you don't want the extra cost in making and selling an extra box when they can just put their consumer hostile garbage right in the TV itself.
> In FPTP, a vote is for the most preferable option of the top two parties.

I wholeheartedly disagree with this take. I owe nothing to the two parties and I don't agree that they get to control everything to the point that I can only pick between two bad options they offer me.

Allowing parties to take this power leaves the door wide open for both parties to end up providing options that want to go in directions fundamentally bad for the country and I have to vote for one of them. To be clear I'm not saying that is the case today, but your view on voting makes that possible.

If one doesn't vote when they feel strongly that both party candidates are harmful, voter participation goes down and it opens the door for a new party to step up and have a legitimate chance. Said another way, refusing to vote when I absolutely disagree with both candidates creates a market for an alternative that wouldn't exist if I gave in and accepted choosing between two bad options.
The big difference was in C you had to implement it yourself. Choosing a hash function and managing memory with malloc() was a hang up for a lot of people. It was quite common to say hashes and the various tree data structures weren't worth the complication if you didn't absolutely need to have a hash table or tree.

In later languages like perl, the syntax for hashes was built into the language.

That was a huge step forward.

Perl was slowly adopted for other reasons (illegible write once syntax). Other popular scripting languages like PHP adopted hashes from perl. This greatly helped make associative arrays common knowledge among the majority of programmers.
I'd been meaning to comment by email, but ... that tweet is an extraordinarily bad look for HN & YC in my book. One that makes me question my own participation here.

One of my major concerns with HN specifically has been its overt status quo bias. Where the status quo stands to go stridently fascist, and the founder of the company and founder don't actively oppose this ... I have extreme reservations.

I've similar concerns about other VC firms (e.g., a16z), and quite frankly the VC / tech startup ecosystem as a whole. Xoogler Vic Gundotra's own revelation as a Trumpist a few years back only cemented my own initial sentiments about him. (I'd been an active participant in G+, and what I saw of him there ... stank badly.)
Colin Furze did it a year ago. https://youtu.be/gSDtNkKPiDg

And wires with counter weights have been used in movies since forever.
> Christianity is a tough sell, given Trump

One would think so, but they've embraced him as literally God's gift, and his appointments to SCOTUS are deeply religious.
It might be the worst mistake, but number 1 was always going to happen sometime.

And even testing can't be trusted 100%, because writing code that does the right thing and code that tests things correctly are about equally hard, they just aren't always hard simultaneously.
The e-Golf was more or less literally a Golf with a different engine. The Leaf was a fairly normal hatchback, very similar to other hatchbacks popular in Europe and Asia. Tesla’s first ‘normal’ car was the model 3 (the S was too high-end/expensive to qualify), which came far later than either.

Actually, I think one lesson to the manufacturers from the first-gen was that you shouldn’t make electric cars too similar to normal cars. The e-Golf, in particular, people often didn’t realise it even existed. Second-gen electric cars like the i3/4 and Hyundai Ioniqs are notably weirder-looking than the first gen.

(Again, I do think that for America specifically the early electric cars were not well-targeted, which was more or less inevitable; the US is a more difficult market than Europe or China due to the range requirements, and also a much smaller market for electric cars than either.)