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>Didn't this literally just happen?
>If Biden hadn't suffered in the polls after the nature of his debate performance, I don't see how we'd be here today.

No, this didn't happen at all. There has been no election yet, and polls are not elections, they're just random-ish samplings. The polls showed voters weren't very enthusiastic about Biden, but back in 2015, the polls showed that Trump was absolutely certain to lose in a landslide to Hillary, and that didn't happen. I do agree with the poll results this time around, but that's just my opinion and not at all backed up by an actual election, which we now won't have (since the election will have a different candidate). We'll see how well the new candidate fares.

>However indirect the mechanism by which he was ousted

This "mechanism" was not part of the government at all, and not really part of "democracy". It was just a bunch of opinion polls organized by mostly the press, and they influenced Biden to stop his campaign, but again this is not some central feature of democratic systems at all. The only way of truly assessing what candidate voters choose is to have an election. Everything else is just guesswork.
I discovered Rosey via the wonderful "Free to be You and Me" TV special developed by Marlo Thomas. He sings "It's Alright to Cry". Hearing this song, in the mid-1970's, as an 8 yr old boy who never fit in with most of the other boys, was revelatory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NfaXsSSVj8
The reason there was no coming back from his debate performance is because it wasn't just some verbal slip up or "classic speech impediment" stuff. Anyone who's taken care of an elderly parent or grandparent recognized the clear signs of age-related mental decline. And it obviously wasn't that single debate, e.g. the news about Clooney's fundraiser where pretty much everyone in attendance thought he had markedly declined, or this recent BET interview where Biden got seriously confused and lost his train of thought: https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/17/politics/video/biden-youtube-.... To your question "Does it mean he has trouble carrying on a conversation in a real setting?”, that BET interview was just a taped, 2-person, no-audience interview with a friendly interviewer. I just don't understand how anyone who's been paying attention can state that Biden's mental capacity hasn't declined significantly, and more importantly, how anyone could suggest with a straight face that Biden would have the requisite mental capacity in 4 years hence.
I'm extremely skeptical. I've yet to see a treatment for ADHD that is only effective on children 8-17. If their product actually worked, I'm sure they wouldn't want to exclude the massive market of adults with ADHD.

I'm also opposed to any medical device that uses a cell phone or requires a download from an app store. At that point you're handing over at least some amount of medical information to an ad company, using a device that's entirely controlled by that same ad company, who would be all to happy to use that information against you.

That said, Their privacy policy isn't too terrible. They do sell your data to third parties for advertising (including cross-context behavioral advertising) and they're handing data over to "service providers", some of which are also ad companies. A lot of their data collection does seem to be opt-in at the moment which is nice. They say that they "seek to link only to [social media] sites that share our high standards and respect for privacy", but because they link to facebook it makes their "standards and respect for privacy" seem very questionable.

Video games in general are already known to help people with ADHD focus, the problem is that while it can greatly improve the ability to focus on the game while it's being played the effect doesn't seem to hold up for very long after the game is turned off. I suspect that the very slight improvements their own research shows could be gained by playing many other games.
And in fact people who have greatly declined and are still leagues above most of the rest - because the rest was what it was -, are very real.

So, no, decline is fully independent from state, just like a derivative, a trend, does not determine a value. There exist GDP growth of 15%/yr: they do not indicate a big GDP.
> now only the larger companies that already scraped the web can carry on in this vein

That will have a finite lifetime.

We've already seen issues with just the couple of years' difference that the first LLMs have, and it will definitely get worse, as time goes on.

They will, however, be able to improve what they do with the data, and some of them will probably get enough funding to buy the data.

Don't be shocked to find that the reason so many organizations are restricting access to their data, has nothing, whatsoever, to do with things like privacy and copyright.

They just see a lot of money sloshing around, and want to hold out for their share.

The pipes will reopen, but the free lunch is probably done.

One big issue will probably be, that the free data will be extremely low-quality (possibly poisonous) data, so that might be very bad for folks on the lower tiers.
Stimulant medication for ADHD has the highest effect size in all of psychiatry. ADHD is highly treatable, when people are properly treated. This just feels like something that somebody made for the parents who are pathologically drug averse at the expense of their children. Of course, the parents don’t realize that their kids don’t get that development time back, so the longer they wait, the harder things can get for their kids.
Asking sincerely — what has Joe Biden done that he would not have without Sanders’ influence over the past four years?
> This game is a complete bore, and I can't imagine anyone over, idk, 10 feeling differently.

FWIW, from their FAQ (and several other places on the site):

> EndeavorRx is indicated only for children ages 8-12 years old with primarily inattentive or combined-type ADHD who have a demonstrated attention issue.
sz is officially still an accepted substitution for ß though. It's basically never used, except if you capitalize a word with ß and substituting ss would lead to confusion (if both words exist and would make sense). Of course since 2017 the upper case ẞ is also an option, but nobody wants to use that either.
If this disconnect didn't exist, who would bother doing business with them? As a company they're essentially synonymous with shitty UX

OSS alternatives could eat their lunch overnight if it weren't for "corporate hospitality" or however else they conspicuously manage to shove their dogshit down everyone's throats
Great video. OP's is something that many people can make and much faster, given the low tech of it, so I appreciate that too.
How many times?

This is one bsod on windows 10. I saw another kernel panic on specific Linux distro.

What else?

One thing that is funny is that quite a few of their competitors are taking this opportunity to shit on them via Twitter and by marketing themselves as better than CrowdStrike.

Twitter, with all its issues, apparently has a feature to prevent fake news and that feature will show crowd source sentiment to debunk fake news, in this case, Twitter users showed how many times Crowdstrike competitor BSOD windows
Synthetic and generated data is also real and shouldn't be underestimated. LLM training can be very counterintuitive at times.
Also timing the media cycle with the Republican convention just finishing up. No time for much of a convention bounce
This looks like something you could game jam with a 4 person crew in a couple days (being really generous). $99 a month, seriously?
I work with someone in her 80s that’s incredibly, incredibly sharp.

This is just tech people being tech people, as always.
A shame there's only one doctor left :(
They've generally already been screwed by distributors, they're being screwed further by gen AI, and in the case where large corporations which own their works are allowed to extract further rent from those works from those creators, they will be triply-screwed. It's a shit situation but the existing copyright system is not a good solution for the average creator.
It used to matter more when it got you gpt4/opus vs 3.5/sonnet. Nowadays the GPT4o free tier is good enough for most non power users. The subscription to chatgpt also gets you some data tools (transform data documents using transformers in parallel) and dall-e use in addition to the higher quota.
Diversity in [the featuresets of] software systems has led to reduced security. The only systems without the “rails” to keep the user on-track and out of danger zones are those that provide the user with the ability to program it themselves.

Must it be this way? Can we provide the complexity of flexibility while protecting our users’ finances and other important information? I don’t know if we can, but our track record isn’t good.
void isn't a type. If you try to use it as a type you'll be told "incomplete type".

People who want void to be a type in C++ (proponents of "regular void") mostly want it to be a unit type. If they're really ambitious they want it to have zero size. Generally a few committee meetings will knock that out of them.
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https://star-history.com/#denoland/deno

Seems alive to me.

I know GitHub stars are not the ideal metric, but Deno dying seems like an extraordinary claim that requires at least a little bit of evidence.
Our stupid phobia of stimulants is a major blocker too.

Making it hard to get ADD drugs does nothing to address abuse of street drugs like meth. Unlike opiates there is no evidence they lead people toward street drugs.

I’m personally in favor of OTC availability of some kind of safe abuse resistant mild stimulant. Sure there are a few people who would try to get high with it but hard liquor and weed are legal.
Well, in some countries 60 is a retirement age.
>If, on the other hand, voter participation goes down noticeably it can drive change

I'm not American so system and the dynamic might be different there, but this comes off as wishful thinking driving a car down a cliff.

Voter participation among young is painfully low in Japan (a country I follow election results and politics), and almost every young ones reasons for this, as far as I know essentially boggles down to "it's useless for me to vote, older generation out vote our concerns and politics always favours the elder. Not voting at least sends my dissociation and discontentment to it all".

But decades of "not voting" have only told the politicians ONE message: the young voting bloc don't matter, because they don't vote, and our resources are better spent to favor the older bloc.

It's a circular logic, a self fulfilling prophecy, a local suboptimum with steep gradients.
it honestly astounds me that people did not recognize Biden’s cognitive decline in the 2020 debates. it was obvious then, and it was obvious a month ago when all the news outlets were boldly proclaiming that Biden was fully fit for duty.
is the idea this is used instead of medication or in addition to medication?
I’m not stating this as a treatise on political science or theory or the rights and obligations of the citizenry or any other high-minded ideal: come November 6th, one of either Donald Trump or whoever the democrats pick to run will be the president elect, and for the next 4 years, they will be president. What you decide to do with that fact is up to you, and your justifications are your own, but come November 6th, Donald Trump will be the president elect or Kamala or whoever the democrats pick. Those are the two potential outcomes. Talk yourself into whatever you want, just don’t convince yourself there’s a third choice.
“Debate me!”
It's a good point that whether something is testable changes over time.

But, in separating scientific from non-scientific claims, can we not distinguish those that are in some way motivated by some limited available evidence, and which would be testable with some kind of evidence which we can describe how to get in principle (if not practically), from those that don't have any real path towards being falsified?

I think roughly that Democritus probably got lucky and was essentially making a philosophical claim, and that we selectively choose to focus on the parts that were eventually found to line up with scientific results. Apparently he also believed that some atoms were hook-shaped and others eye-shaped, and though the specific texts are lost, it's hard to see how he could have arrived at that through "scientific" means.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomism#Democritus

If you wanted to say that something with no path to being testable is "science" because in the long arc of history we can't rule out that it might eventually be testable, then one has to admit a bunch of weird stuff into "science". No one today can guarantee that 2500 years in the future someone won't figure out the technology for inter-dimensional observation, and we'll find that in the next universe up we can listen to God talking to his choir of Angels -- but the absence of such a guarantee doesn't seem like sufficient grounds for someone to say "Abrahamic monotheism is a scientific hypothesis; we just don't have the apparatus to test it out yet."
The president has a large support staff to keep the lights on most of the time. Unless the nation is physically under attack, the president's day-to-day job is probably physically less demanding than that of pilots. They have plenty of time for golf.
Just provide a not-related-at-all but IMHO still interesting case: I used to have a Kioxia CM6 U2 SSD drive, it would pass all sorts of benchmarks the reseller is willing to run, but whenever I tried to clean-compile Rust on it, the drive would fail almost certainly somewhere in the build process. While there are configurations you can compile Rust using pre-built LLVM, in my tests I'm compiling LLVM along the way. So I can agree with the comment here, there might be some unique property when doing multi-core compilations, though my tests show a potentially faulty drive, while the above comment here is about Intel CPU.
The Democrat party cancelled primaries in a few states to prevent anyone from running against Biden. The party picked this guy.

https://floridaphoenix.com/2024/03/20/chair-nikki-fried-defe...

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bidens-democratic-challenger...

https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2023/12/08/dean-ph...
And, once again, I point out that X280 is not intended for general-purpose usage. It's for special purpose stuff, and I'm sure fits what NASA wants in their space PIC64 chip very well. In the specific case of the SG2380, the 16 P670 cores are there for general-purpose use, with the 4 X280s for specialised uses.

And, again, even at 1 element per cycle, using vrgather is significantly faster than not using it and using the dual-issue scalar side instead.

AND at short NEON or AVX vector lengths the X280 is single-cycle for vrgather *anyway*.
*rewritten in Rust
The constitution has a lower limit on the age of the president, why not an upper limit?
He tried a to push a lot of things in the positive direction. Democrats usually do. In addition to the chips act, there's infrastructure - saw a HN comment linking to database of where the infrastructure money went; insulin cost, public transportation, electric vehicles, climate in general, student loans. He tweeted imposing 25% tax on billionaires, which ultimately became his undoing.
> I don’t really know any 70 year olds who are “all there.”

You are almost certainly wrong, but it's also possible that your thereness measurement scale is still calibrated to the briefest and least knowledgeable period of your life.

I intend this charitably.
> it's a common error to think that overall life expectancy is relevant to this sort of thing, it's not.

That’s why I purposely linked to the official US government Actuarial Table.

Biden is 81.

The statistics state that an 81yo will only live 7-more-years.

When a presidential term (4-years) is more than half of your remaining life, the margin of error to die while in office is extreme high.

—-

Another way to look at it is …

The min age for POTUS is 35yo.

The Actuarial Table state that a 35yo will live 40-more-years (to age 75).

Then set age 75 to be the max age
I didn’t know Chatfield, but I knew Ron McDowell (also mentioned).

Ron passed away in 2012. The last thing he worked on was FreeBSD’s bsdconfig(8).
It's illustrative to hear RFK Jr's take on what initiated the Ukraine War:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBpPPki-7Rc
When you confuse the name of the leader of one country with the leader of the country they're at war against, that's...a bit more than that.
As a person who did study statistics, they found absolutely nothing useful, for the most part, if what you say is correct.

(Basically, everything they found can be attributed to random chance, and there’s no proof their game is anything special compared to other games)
I'm going to watch the video, but I'm having trouble understanding how lenses are different from filter, and perhaps map. Is it just a combination of filter and map?
The Poor You Will Have with You Always, Even with UBI
+1. I had simply never considered that one reason to not be a user of the dominant technology (writing, agriculture) was that adopting would mean losing control over one’s group’s destiny.

Gives you a different lens on enterprise software adoption and implementation!
Another approach that might work for some people is to quickly build a “block” prototype game. Basically the complete game but using boxes and quick prototype box levels to make a “completely finished” game that is ugly and unsellable but playable.

You can then iterate step by step improving the things that sucks the most, playing the game as it improves.

The huge advantage is that you will be playing the game right away and have years to refine the gameplay and come up with better ideas. And if the game is fun to play, even with ugly boxes, you know the final game will be great. It’s a great motivator.
I did games first, then switched over to crud or simple oracle form programming. I tripled my original game programmer wage overnight.
And your point is? Mitch McConnell is not running for another term, and he is stepping down from his position as Senate Republican leader in November.
From the chart I linked it seems clear to me that the US doesn't have high new immigration numbers anymore relative to its population.
I wonder to what extend the VC and tech hero sector's decision to jump on Trump/Vance as more tech-friendly will play here.

I think its arguable that its really only more friendly to the shareholders. The workforce probably doesn't entirely track with where Musk, Thiel go, and the year of 10% layoffs to improve shareholder profit will be strong in people's minds. That said, there is a lot of libertarianism at large in the tech sector so the more Trump and Vance play up that aspect (its a twaaaaaaap) then the more there will be voices lining up behind them.

I think it's very likely both D and R want regulation. They may not say so but they know ordinary consumers want AI regulated, want pricing on broadband and mobile capped, want some constraint on deepfakes, toxic social media. I'm not for one minute saying it's either simple, or even necessarily beneficial to try and do this, but I think it would be wrong to say there is no community drive here for the federal government to be seen to "try and do something"

And of course out in left field, is the attack on women's reproductive rights. I don't want to be catty about this, but I don't think either Musk or Thiel give two fucks for womens control of their own bodies. Even republican dominated states are finding that women who live there do not like what they are being told to do.

America is held up to people like me (overseas, a non-american) as the most theocratic of the supposedly athiest/agnostic states. We're repeatedly told 40% or more of the adult population consider themselves christian. I think that it's a mistake to see the drift of organised pentecostal religions to supporting Trump, and assume the voters at large christian or not, want to drop into line. Where I live (Australia) there is a huge bulk of what are called "shy tories" -people who won't espouse right wing views but are happy to vote right, in private. I wonder if in the USA there is a shy-socialist wave who keep their head down, but who are going into the voting machine booth with their secret athiest heart.
The next paragraph mentions that he retracted this statement the next year.
Nah, they just think they do because they fucked up the counting rimshot
I initially got somewhat frequent hangs on Fedora with a Radeon 680M iGPU (in a Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U APU). The hangs stopped when I added amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x10 to kernel boot options, based on some comments in an AMD Linux driver bug report [1]. That seems to disable panel self-refresh so it would seem to be related to that somehow.

Stability has been fine since. The bug report has since been closed but I haven't tested in a while to see if disabling PSR is still needed or if the issue has actually been fixed.

I haven't seen significant stability issues on Windows, although I don't use it much on the AMD device.

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/2443
How much effort would you expect in the current macro? Absolutely, effort is required to maintain relationships, and one must evaluate who is and isn’t worth the investment of time and effort. Some are worth it, some are frankly not. Not from an ROI perspective, but meeting you half way in an adult relationship.

Not many people are willing to put the effort in, in my experience. YMMV. I wish others more favorable outcomes.
>you're basically just making the argument that Trump is an incredibly effective leader capable of controlling his party's agenda even when he's not in charge of it

to my understanding, he wasn't afraid of splitting the vote and was vocal about it as far back as 2022. And apparently the R's that publicly slammed him did not want to call that bluff.

So... maybe?
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