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> It is very difficult to see what your argument is here.

My arguments are:

* free speech is not a cornerstone of our national identity (despite John Milton's attempts to make it one);

* social media causes genuine harm (but does not do so inherently);

* the Act imposes a legal responsibility on social media platforms to limit harm caused by those platforms; and

* while members of the HN community may have a personal capacity to use social media in such a way that minimises harm to them, the majority of people do not.

> The Act unquestionably causes harm - it makes it effectively impossible for open, anonymous APIs because of the age verification requirements. It requires the vast majority of operators (because the UK's definition of pornography is so impossibly wide it will catch almost anything) to collect a huge tranch of information for age verification, which will cost an astonishing amount of money and prevent many community initiatives from ever getting off the ground. It will lead to many sites simply blocking adult communities entirely for economic reasons, a part of society that is already subject to substantial discrimination from UK authorities.

Alternatively, social media platforms can ban pornography. Facebook, Instagram and TikTok (amongst others) already do this; the problem is they don't enforce these bans. My perspective on this is that if you can't effectively moderate your social media platform in accordance with the social norms of your users' surrounding social context, then you shouldn't be operating a social media platform, and if you strongly disagree with your users' social context (e.g., users in, say, Iran), then you shouldn't offer your platform to them.

Also, commercial social media platforms are increasingly disinterested in providing open APIs, anyway.

> You say that the UK is not a totalitarian state because it's half assed. And it's certainly true that enforcement will be capricious and arbitrary. But that is hardly a defence of the act - it will still have a remarkable chilling effect because you never know if it's you that will be targeted.

This is how offensive speech is policed in meatspace. On a more general note, having the right to say something doesn't mean that saying that thing doesn't make you an arsehole.

> Meanwhile, it will probably have very little effect on any of the things it is supposed to prohibit.

Maybe. Let's wait and see, shall we?

> Many communities are already discriminated against by payment providers, banks and online services, and this legislation will make those effects significantly worse, but at the same time, achieve none of it's goals.

I don't recall the Online Safety Act regulating the financial industry - could you point out which parts of the legislation relate to that? I do, however, agree that we do have excessive restrictions on access to certain financial services.
As long as the browser variants of Microsoft Office aren’t as capable as their desktop variants, that isn’t relevant. CAD software is another contender that mostly requires a Windows environment; as is lots of financial software and industrial control tools.

I agree with you that many people probably could use a Linux computer if there was any incentive to go that direction. That isn’t reality though, and likely won’t be any time soon.
> you'll have at least double the performance of a base m4 mini

For $500 all included?
Then why did all these sites comply with government directives on covid 'misinformation' or gaza? if they say "how high?" when the government says jump who cares what the official on paper corporate structures are?
So, while time to first token is lower, throughput might also be lower in most cases?
So now that a lot of books used for studying literature will become freely available, I wonder how long it's going to be before the syllabus "needs revising"
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From TFA:

> PReQuaL does not balance CPU load, but instead selects servers according to estimated latency and active requests-in-flight

So, still load balancing
I was one of those Linux evangelists back in the 90s. Tried to get all the undergrads in my CS program migrated to Linux back in the day. Fun times.
I got through level 8 by asking for a python program that checked for disallowed words by only checking the first n characters. It produced some interesting testing data.
I suspect the comment (above, at the time I wrote this), where they mention that Apple only wants partners to be usable, is the Ockham's Razor answer.

Probably some "magic key" ID.

But this is not my area of expertise. It's a cool story, though, and why I like hanging here. Considering getting a Proxmark and the NFC Tools app, just to play around.
why does nobody know what freedom of speech is anymore...
The function itself hardly communicates with the db then, does it? In your example it's the impure process that does all the actual communicating.
You’re thinking of end users. The masses of office workers in the world are, and will continue to be, using Microsoft Office as their most important tool of trade, and thus will continue to run Windows.
So this is the Kelly criteria etc (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion).

Yes I get it - but take the example on the page - 60% chance of a win and get back same bet size, I guess most people would be reluctant to bet 1/5 of their bankroll each time.

Esp if you are not sure about the 60%.

I think most people would see 1/5 as betting big. Is what I am saying.

If you see it as betting small, maybe I would like to understand
They aren't the same thing since the first is strictly speaking not well defined - see my answer to the OP. I think the problem is that physicists use the same letter, say U, to denote multiple different mathematical functions depending on the context. The "holding XXX constant" thing serves to tell you which function you're dealing with formally.
Reminds me of the movie "50 First Dates"...

I often wondered how to handle such a situation without traumatizing the affected person every single morning. Truly one of the few rom-coms that left a lasting impression (on me).
After level seven there's a button at the bottom to play against "Gandalf the White".
That's true. Perhaps I should say that data on hard drives will remain recoverable, not available, for a century.

Data on CDs/DVDs should remain recoverable for millenia (properly stored, even readable). Another advantage: CDs/DVDs can be duplicated with only analog tools maybe 10 times to further extend that (obviously not writable CD/DVS). And if we were to glue cd's top-to-top, that could be an easy hack to 10x that, which would even work for (re)writable CDs/DVDs.

(Re)writable CDs/DVDs should remain readable/recoverable for centuries too. Probably not millenia.

https://www.easeus.com/resource/does-ssd-need-power.html

TLDR: SSDs keep data for "minimum 1 year" when used as archival storage (of course specific models have been caught losing data in as little as 3 months). Keeping the SSD powered on regularly should increase that, but only to 2-5 years if you want to be on the safe side.
This is tangential, but I think TV in general, smart or dumb, is slowly becoming obsolete, especially with genZ.
You cannot. But in US you have elections every 4 years wheres in Russia or China both Putin and Xi are "elected" for their lifetime.
Does it tell you anything ?
https://archive.ph/WLcdD
One of those "scientists" was Theodore Hall. At 18 years old, he graduated with a physics degree from Harvard in 1944, and provided the single most detailed source of information on a complete working bomb to Russia. He was "worried about the possibility of the emergence of a fascist government in the United States". His brother Edward Hall was the father of the US ICBM program.

Theodore Hall was never prosecuted, but his security clearance was revoked due to receiving a letter from a relative in the UK asking "I hear you're working on something that goes up with a big bang! Can you send us one of them for Guy Fawkes Day?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Hall#/media/File:Brot...
oh, thank you!
These new Nokia models/re-issues are of very poor quality, see my other comment.

They are not made by Nokia, but by HMD which has very low standards of product quality.
I tried this (and backprop) in GPGPU compute shaders once. One issue that really tripped me up is matrix multiplication along dimensions that are not powers of 2. It will take me awhile to learn to read CUDA code -- is this just an easier thing to do in CUDA or did you figure out a good trick for it?
> This is quid pro quo

do you mean "tit for tat" or something similar?
Just in time for RFK Jr to assume his post...

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> I thought this was for men who couldn't find relationships. Why would the marriage rate go down?

Not being able to find a relationship is not binary. Having alternatives to satisfy needs means less effort is put in achieving the real thing. This goes for both genders of course, just the needs and alternatives being different.
Yeah, I was talking about an inner product space.

If you want to prove Pythagoras's theorem on Euclidean space, aren't there about a thousand proofs from that? Including the semi-original from Euclid? I assume it was proved there. And yes of course, you have to start with a bunch of axioms and earlier proofs about Euclidean space, but that's always true isn't it?

> It's not hard to show all that, but by the time you've done it you'll have accidentally proved Pythagoras's theorem along the way. It's like you've gripped on a tube of toothpaste and said "see, there's nothing there" but really you just squeezed it all to the other end.

Funny metaphor. Yes, I don't think you can "simply" prove Pythagoras's theorem without a bunch of background assumptions, it's just that usually these are all assumptions we've already learned (explicitly or implicitly). And if you want to start without assumptions, like in the case of defining inner product space from scratch, then you are by definition starting abstractly and therefore left with the problem of showing this maps onto Euclidean space, somehow.
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The sachet contains only one ingredient: magnesium (purified to 99.95%).

When it comes into contact with water, it forms magnesium hydroxide. This will change the pH of the water and give it cleaning properties.

Moreover, magnesium is the fifth most bioavailable element in seawater.

When the wastewater from the washing machine is discharged, it doesn't require any special treatment compared to conventional detergents.
After looking up the term "FPGA" I realize that my question was a bit silly. Makes sense, thanks for elaborating
Companion apps are part of the product as far as I'm concerned. There would be no reason to run the app, other than owning one of the coupled air fryers.
Smart TVs are the reason I haven’t bought a new tv in almost 15 years. I would like to upgrade to a fancy 4K one instead of my old 1080p one. Dumb TVs back then weren’t more expensive than smart TVs today so I don’t believe price is the reason for smart TVs. Margins maybe…
Exactly because I work in tech for a couple of decades that I avoid any smart appliance. I do not need my dishwasher, washing machine, dryer, coffee maker, rice cooker, stove, refrigerator, etc. to be connected to the internet to provide a "smart" feature which is just a timer, while adding to the noise of notifications. The only need I have is that they work dependably whenever I need them, at most with a timer so I can check when electricity will be cheaper and program them to turn on at that time.

My coffee maker is a sturdy Technivorm Moccamaster, the blender is a Vitamix from the 90s that still work flawlessly, dishwasher, dryer and washing machine early 2010s Bosch and Miele. They all work exactly as they are supposed to, never had to do anything more than cleaning/upkeep.

A few friends bought newly built apartments with smart fridges, washers, etc. installed by the developers, and all of them had some issue with appliances on the first couple years residing in these homes.
I’d say Christianity relies pretty heavily on fears of the guy in the sky and what happens after you die

What happens when religion loses its place in western society though. Hummmm
Right. It's like concluding that traffic congestion has no effect on mood after talking to a bunch of commuters whose commute time never varied by more than five percent during the study.
The danger with TikTok is that some already used it to influence elections (recently in Romania) so it is proven to be working.
A little background, why this is interesting. Many years ago, when I studied semiconductor engineering we learnt that copper is poison for the CMOS process and that the fab had to be kept free from copper contamination.

The reason for this is that copper, contrary to aluminium, diffuses very quickly in silicon and silicon dioxide.

Of course there are reasons why you might prefer copper over aluminium as an interconnect. So a process has been developed to make this possible and safe. The process is called Damascene and the article is about significant improvements there.
I agree but I also don't think you can have $3B ARR with only good sales.
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Sorry, I meant to leave that on the comment I originally called out (the one pushing a neo-Nazi adjacent conspiracy theory, the one you rushed to defend.)

You are just terminally online and woefully overly-opinionated. Not entirely harmless, when paired with someone like greenavocado, but mostly benign.
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and it is the top1 desktop search engine in China, way ahead of baidu.com.
> why would you give stock to employees when they enjoy none of your risks? It makes no sense, so we'll treat it as a form of salary, so we'll tax you 52% on the stock's paper value.

The Netherlands is the only country in the EU that taxes on unrealised gains.
That rests on the assumption that you'll notice that planning is "difficult". Whereas what I've usually found is that people build elaborate plans and feel like they've made progress doing so, only to discover when they come to implement them that there was a false assumption in step 1 that renders everything else pointless (or, worse, the plan should really be fundamentally reconsidered in the light of this info, but you've spent all this time on it, and it's not outright impossible to keep following it, so...).
But not skills that translate to the biggest outgoings you will have as an adult. It doesn’t prepare you for having your salary appear as a number, and your rent or mortgage disappear as another line.

They’re good building blocks but they’re not enough.
The best approach would be to treat "High Performance" as a system-controlled attribute like "Can Read Location Data"; the app can make a request for a performance profile it's designed against, the user gets final say-so, the OS records the user's decision and re-uses it for future launches.

This gives best of both worlds; users who need performance pick it, users who don't need/don't understand get to be kept safe by Apple's scheduler. Apps get back the state, so they can render a different icon or something to indicate "Hey we'll do our best but your hardware may not max out because scheduling wasn't built for this task"
It goes beyond the algorithm. Have you seen the garbage that shows up in trending lists?
Really? In '99 I had 64mb of RAM, and it was the cheapest off the shelf PC my parents could afford, in a tech backwater.
The question you should ask is for how much less others would accept to do it. How much it saves isn't how to price some work, you price work based on the people available that can do it.

If the fire department puts out a fire in your house you don't pay them the cost of the building. You don't give your life to a doctor, etc. That way of thinking is weird.
It is being deprecated now. Comparison map:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dumbphones/comments/1eppo3p/tmobile...

https://imgur.com/a/Zg6XYch

https://www.t-mobile.com/support/coverage/t-mobile-network-e...

>Capacity and coverage of T-Mobile's 2G (GSM) network is expected to change starting as early as September 1, 2024.
I really need to coin the phenomenon of when people attribute the reasoning for something happening as being due to the current thing they care about. I see it so often. Some sort of specific confirmation bias.
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And they'll have the same choice to make. That they can make this choice shouldn't alter whether the US makes the choice on it's own merits.
You don't know how it works, you think you know how it works. The algo is proprietary and secret.
Per user throughput might be lower at the moment yes. We're working on GPU kernel level optimizations now to fix that.

But across all users on our system, the throughput is better because doing more prefills or a large number of grouped decodes has better utilization of the GPU.

The idea is that this works for someone who wants to build a product that is consistent across users in terms of initial response but can trade-off some E2E latency. It ensures that no one is waiting for a long time before getting the first response.
You don't see how subordinating a country to another's goals could be worse than policy you disagree with?
Isn't the point that "choice" as you're defining it is a conscious, system-2 process, but the algo-served content is targeting much deeper, system-1 responses? If so can we say that people "prefer" to watch it, or that they've been conditioned to consume it? The question (to which I don't know the answer) is where does free will start?
That's not a source for the claim, it's just someone else repeating the same claim.
>What really kills me is the upload topping out at 100Mbps

Teksavvy resells Bell Fibe, its upload does not top out at 100 Mbps.
He is just giving the audience what it wants to hear.

There is a huge collective denial of how bad progress is stalling out because the economy and markets have basically shoved all in on AGI.

There is really no option here but to keep the poker face and bluff going , hoping to not get called as long as possible.
> But in US you have elections every 4 years

That is why populism is always the winner.

I don't like Xi, I won't support anyone to be in power for life. That being said, I'd pick Xi over losers and criminals like Trump at any day.
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> I think a big contributor that made this a much bigger and messier problem was allowing or enabling or not-forbidding the non-enforcement of laws.

That is something all legal systems have in common, alone because there won't ever be enough resources to enforce every little regulation, short of turning the entire country into an AI-enforced panopticon, and by that time people will vote with their feet (assuming they're still allowed to leave). Even the more autocratic/authoritarian systems all have had their share of selective enforcement - being a member of the ruling party or of the same religion/ethnicity (such as in Syria with the Alawites) will always bring its benefits.

> From policemen personally ignoring crimes and police departments issuing directives to ignore certain offenses, to prosecutors choosing which crimes to prosecute, to judges 'interpreting' laws and case law, and finally to the president who decides to pardon whomever he pleases for unknown reasons.

All of this is something we have in Europe as well. Low-level stuff that's technically illegal (say, running a red light, dropping a cigarette butt or chewing gum on the ground), police can but don't have to enforce. Actual crimes such as theft have to be enforced by the police, but DAs may choose to drop the case because of a variety of factors. And judges are literally there to interpret the law (because no law can account for the complexities of real life) and to determine if the letter and the spirit of the law are applicable to the case.

The key thing is that us Europeans generally trust our governments, whereas the US population doesn't even trust the government to the point that there is one single federal ID and drivers license card.
The grassland is presented as a given, but often they were created for the cattles.

Long time ago, my country used to be primal forest.

Some centuries ago most of it has been converted to “usable forest” where people grow food and wood.

Today it’s only crops and ~natural~ grassland for cattle.
oh wait do you think this is because the youth on tiktok is (correctly) against the US's role in the genocide in palestine?
>Their website is also completely down right now, which is weird.

Seems up: https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/teksavvy.com.html
Do you really think TikTok has more power in the US than the local oligarchs and warlords? Short-form video does more to "internal strife" than the lack of basic government services, widespread substance abuse and state violence?
Some of them might be the other Kadyrov?

https://ar.culture.ru/en/subject/portret-kadyrova-abdulhamid...
Exactly. The real fix here would be to require algorithmic transparency for any social media entity with a userbase greater than some threshold.

Transparent to the degree that if there were a centrally managed influence campaign, researchers would be able to detect it in near real-time.
The levenshtein distance is appalling, and my corrupted brain did the same.