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> I wonder if Gorbachev had any pathway available to him that wouldn't have lead to the eventual dissolution of the Soviet Union?

Whatever the Chinese have been doing for the last ~40 years? The CCP still holds power, but material comfort has increased for the Chinese people.

Poland has also done pretty well in going from Communist to free-market and democratic (notwithstanding people supporting the Law and Justice party).
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That was an amazing read. Thanks for linking it.
I always thought it was some kind of protectionist mechanism amongst the academic trades.

Can't do your own taxes if you don't speak accounting, you have to pay somebody.

Can't represent yourself in court if you can't even comprehend what's being said, either.
Are you kidding? Even if you're a very skilled sculptor, you don't get an extremely accurate sculpture of a human body without a living reference in front of you. A muscular person doesn't look like a non-muscular person with various regions puffed up
Ahh that makes sense.
I learned my lesson with LIFX light bulbs. Luckily for me I was able to find an old version of the Android app. Manually installed it, and was able to rescue the few I have.

These days I’ve found that when in doubt get the device that is home kit approved. That usually ensures local only control. You have to fake it with home assistant, but it can be done with little fuss.
Economics, famine, religious upheaval, war - all factors that have kept people starving and pushed down the scale.
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I declined to attend one of my grandfathers’ funerals. I did not consider him a good man and did not feel love for him while he was alive. I have never regretted it.
That line is blurry though.

Anorexics aren't happy with their body. If they go to a site where they find acceptance and understanding, thats good?

And on the other hand, it used to be the case that Models were stick thin. If the fat acceptance crowd succeeds, and fat becomes the standard of beauty and people try and emulate that, thats bad.

The difference is that Anorexics don't accept themselves, and try to achieve an unhealthy weight. Obese people are trying to gain acceptance for the unhealthy weight they are.

The danger is that acceptance is an overloaded term. It isn't just accepting one individual who is already fat. Its shifting culture to the point where it becomes a standard for beauty, which is where people start emulating it.
For Common Lispers such as myself, who are vaguely aware of developments in the Scheme space: the most important difference between CRUNCH and Chicken appears to be that, while both compile down to C/object code, CRUNCH is additionally targeting a statically-typed subset of Scheme.

Opinion: this is great. The aversion of Lispers to static types is historical rather than intrinsic and reflects the relative difference in expressiveness between program semantics and type semantics (and runtime vs tooling) for much of computing. Now that types and tools are advancing, static Lisps are feasible, and I love that.
With llama3.2:1b, llama3.2:3b and llama 3.1:8b being the main ones I tried and found impressive.
Regulations aren't all designed to help specific businesses. Some regulations are designed for society's well-being.
How would this special court work? Can anyone including amateur scientists access it freely? Are the arguments public?

What's nice about free speech is it's a simple rule, "any citizen can speak about and promote any opinion they have." The fact that it's clear makes it difficult for the government to shut down opposition political speech.

I also think scientific inquiry should be an open process.
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If that's possible for you, installing the heat pump so that it exchanges heat underground should improve performance a lot when the air is very cold (or very hot).
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[nitpick] it's the Jevons Paradox, named for William Stanley Jevons. No apostrophe, but if you were to add one, it would be Jevons' Paradox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stanley_Jevons
Talk to me when you have to put your life on hold and change diapers 6 times a day while tolerating abuse from dementia patient.

Did you tell you kids that this what you have in store for them because you want to "continue to live" regardless of pain that causes to ppl around you? Absolutely selfish and Vile .
Yeah, but I think my brain just doesn't work like that, I kind of have to work around that. I've never managed to change this with 10+ years. I do feel guilt around it all the time when working with others.
Perhaps surprisingly, I think microcontrollers may be a place where Protobufs are not a bad fit. Using something like Nanopb [1] gives you the size/speed/flexibility advantages of protocol buffers without being too heavyweight. It’ll be a bit slower than your custom binary protocol, but it comes with quite a few advantages, depending on the context.

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Blogs are only not covered if the author of the Blog is the website owner. If the owner allows other people to post blogs - or in a forum start new threads then they have to take note of the law.
> Give me an example of where any monetary support measures resulted in anything but temporary bump in births (where people who wanted kids anyway, just had them bit sooner), followed by deeper decline later.

Hungary [1]. To your point, South Korea spent an enormous amount of GDP attempting to lift fertility rates (~$200B subsidizing child care and parental leave over the past 16 years, yet fertility rate fell from 1.1 in 2006 to 0.81 in 2021), but will be unable to overcome the inertia of female fertility intent and the overall adversarial environment one must exist in [2] [3]. Conversely, Tokyo is attempting a four day week [4], and so I would argue that efforts to date have been half hearted at best. The situation is not yet dire enough where countries will go "all in" and make lives comfortable enough for people of reproductive age to consider children (or more children than they otherwise would).

> It just doesn't work this way. To have more kids, you need to break human rights and give women no choice but to. Otherwise you will hardly have even a TFR of 1.0. Even today's European birthrates are inflated by what remains of religion, sexism, and patriarchal lifestyle.

There is nuance. There are people who never want children, and no amount of policy will sway them. They should be robustly empowered to not have unwanted children. The people who do want children but are challenged by economic or fertility circumstances, those are who policy should assist with meeting their reproductive desires and intent (if the strategy is to use fiat and policy to lift fertility).

I want to be clear, in no uncertain terms, that human rights must be respected and it must always be an individual's choice with regards to their reproductive choices, rights, and freedom. Any efforts against those rights should be met with overwhelming countermeasures.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_policy_in_Hungary

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/27/opinion/south-korea-ferti...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42068845

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42342203
> Far from adding any specificity to what you mean by likeness, your Dec. 12 post [1] continues to avoid doing so.

Very good.

My "theory", if you must call it that, is Aristotelian moderate realism. A full discussion of what I mean by "likeness" would necessarily invoke concepts from that worldview. So it would therefore involve debating the truth/falsehood of said worldview. I don't want to do that for two reasons: first because it'd take the scope of the discussion far beyond whether thought can be material or not, and time is a big constraining factor. And secondly, we'd just be re-inventing the wheel. You'll find moderate realism ably defended by several authors who I can recommend if you're interested, and no doubt you'll know of your own list of attempted debunkings.

But as a compromise, I can propose the following partial definition: Two objects are alike if they are the same in some respect.

So an apple and a banana are the same in that they are both fruit (and this works even if categorizations of this sort are merely conventional), but different in that one is red and the other yellow.

More formally, we could say that A and B are alike if we can predicate X of both A and B. As a corollary, A and B are entirely un-alike if we cannot predicate anything of both A and B.

If you're good to go with that we can proceed. It would then be necessary to ask

(1) Whether a thought must be like its object (using the definition just given) in order for it to be about its object;
(2) If so, in what manner it must be like its object;
(3) Whether said manner can be material.

I don't think "the same" can be usefully (verbally) defined, since there is a point at which verbal definitions involve defining words whose meaning is more-clear in terms of those whose meaning is less-clear.

> The challenge it presents you with is to refute it with a non- question-begging, non- burden-shifting response that would not apply, mutatis mutandis, to your own argument - and for that, it would be helpful if you list your premises as I have done.

It is possible I misunderstand you, but it doesn't appear to present me with a challenge. Premise 6 is false in any interpretation that could be given it. That is not question-begging, nor is it burden-shifting, and whether this response applies to any aspects of my own argument is precisely what we're debating. Points 1 thru 5 are unobjectionable, assuming some unusual meaning has not been assigned to any of the terms.

Is your point that I'm stating the opposite of premise 6 in my argument without justification?
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And very often means or in English - recent Supreme Court case about this.
I’ve thought the same in past years but for last year’s aoc I didn’t try to finish all the puzzles in December and let myself work on them whenever I had time throughout the year. It’s a bit less fun because the general zeitgeist isn’t focused on it outside of December but still totally possible to finish them at your own pace.
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Bacteria can often synthesize all 20 amino acids themselves if they have enough carbon and nitrogen. They don't need to ingest existing amino acids from the environment.
Name a span of time in which there wasn't war, starvation, or economic reasons that would have produced any emaciated set of people.
This sounds really close to what the CEO of Zoom promised back in June:

Let’s assume, fast-forward five or six years, that AI is ready. AI probably can help for maybe 90 percent of the work... I can send my digital version — you can send your digital version. Again, not like an in-person meeting.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24168733/zoom-ceo-ai-clone...
Most parts of the innate immune system recognize specific shapes like nucleic acids, while the adaptive immune system is more flexible in what it can recognize.
"Wasn't successful on TV"
Find the locale string somewhere in the URL and change it to something like en_US.

Alternatively, stop using Microsoft products. Tell your manager that their poor documentation incurs direct cost because instead of being productive, you spend your day clicking globe buttons.
Not necessarily. If the problem was solved more easily if one possessed some specific amount of crystallized intelligence, one could say the "tardy" person turns out to have superior fluid intelligence.
> Alternatively, looking back at the disasters of the 3rd and 4th republics

The 3rd republic was interrupted when the nazis invaded, and was replaced by an undemocratic collaboration government. I don't see what the 5th constitution would have changed in that situation. I would say that the 3rd was, by very far, the republican system that endured the worst situations in France, and it survived most situations.

The 4th republic was interrupted by a military putsch, and replaced by the 5th, who barely survived a second putsch a couple years later. Likewise, no constitutional point of the 5th would have prevented this to happen.

Like it or not, the 5th republic never had to survive any situation comparable to what the 4th and (especially) the 3rd republic survived. Personally, I'm happy that we don't have world wars and civil wars anymore, but that's unrelated to our constitution.
Thanks. People downplay what is happening in the UK.

Every-time this conversation comes up we have people downplaying what is happening. It is so tiresome.
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And even Facebook. I think the last time bespoke restaurant menu websites were a viable business was around 2010.
Wealthier people (presumably the ones who have more free time) in first world countries tend to be the healthier ones.
Whether it's boring and whether it's a waste of time are both pretty subjective. I found it to be an engaging way to shake off some rust, though admittedly I'm not going to make it through the whole month.
Not sure what you are arguing for or against at this point...

If you're the President and Parliament is against you and you don't want to quit you have to step aside as happened in 1986, 1993, and 1997 and the system does become essentially parliamentary.

Again, coalitions stem from lack of majority and potentially large number of parties, not parliamentary vs Presidential systems per se. You enter a coalition only when you have to. If you have the majority you don't.

Countries that have a "culture" of coalitions are those where there are many parties and potentially proportional representation so that majorities in Parliament are rare.

Hence the UK which is completely parliamentary but very rarely has coalitions because the system is designed to create majorities, whereas Germany rarely has outright majorities so often has coalitions.
I'm sure hackers in general rank above average in terms of paranoia. That and most also seem to think the world is black and white and runs like code instead of being all woolly like it is in reality.
Why did they not add this to the standard Expansion Bay Shell? It would make a lot of sense to have this as default.
I assume the skyscrapers are very useful, but on the other hand, the cyclical nature of building is probably extremely inefficient, so not sure about the profitability.

Sometimes governments can work against the cycle. Like build warships when drydocks don't have commercial orders and so on. I don't know if any companies or funds are big enough to do this.
It's not about attending in spite of disdain or contempt. I think you would be advised to skip that one.
Not just that. Some IQ test puzzles that were difficult to understand when I encountered them "in the wild" went from bizarre to somewhere between trivial to doable when I read an explanation online of what they were even asking. My measured IQ would have taken quite a jump on just that one bit of information, were I taking those tests.

Without sarcasm or rancor, you can profitably debate whether or not that means that those questions were just too hard and I really was indicating that I wasn't smart enough for them. I get that, and my point isn't about my intelligence or if it is measured properly; whatever it is, it is, and you are welcome to conclude that I'm just a dufus, especially if you get them without that hint. My point is more that if the tests are supposed to be good measures of whatever intelligence is, it is rather debatable whether they should have that characteristic.

I do know I have never liked the "find the next number" tests; even before I learned about polynomial interpolation in school my protest has always been that any series of any numbers can be a pattern; there are an infinite number of patterns, and even constraining them down to the "human interesting" patterns isn't enough to nail down the patterns the IQ test writer is actually using. As a passing part of this post [1] I show a number of patterns in the OEIS that start with 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 and do not proceed to 32, each of which does not proceed to 32 with a different number, and I just stopped looking after I had enough for a blog post and already was filtering the results to "things you might actually recognize", and I probably could have kept going for a while. (Yes, I'm aware that a normal IQ test won't be looking for "divisors of 496" at the beginning parts... but towards the end of a high-IQ test...?) Just realizing that they tend to confine themselves to varying levels of Newton's calculus [2] is enough to unstick me, and, again, bump my score just because I know something rather than because of "intelligence".

(This also implies that the SAT proxy measure, even though it is not a direct IQ measurement, is likely to be more satisfactory, in the cases where the test takers have the relevant mathematical knowledge in advance. The SAT did not involve any problems that I had not encountered before, and to the extent that I passed and failed the various questions it can not be said it was due to lack of knowledge of what the questions even properly were on my part.)

[1]: https://jerf.org/iri/post/2024/dry_strong/

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AuV93LOPcE
Passwords are also a standard supported by pretty much everyone, and password managers (including those built into browsers) already generate long, unique, phishing resistant (it only prompts on the matching domain) passwords.

The main difference I see with passkeys from a usability standpoint is that Firefox doesn't have built-in support for a software implementation, making them literally unusable for me.
I would love to know if this one could also be fitted in the expansion bay with the GPU?
I assume then, you don’t use HAOS? What benefit do you see by managing your config this way? Do you also have an operator to reload HA when when you update configs?
Yet it took five seconds for the pyvideo list to filter once I clicked a letter “G” while the rubyvideo site was instant.
>There really aren't more of those than there are people trying to give more credit to those women than there is evidence for.

That doesn't line up with my life experience at all. Do you have any evidence to support that assertion?
Yes, and it doesn't just apply to durable goods. Try doing comparison shopping between Costco and a dollar store. I guarantee you pretty much everything at Costco will be cheaper on a per-unit basis than the dollar store. So why do people shop at dollar stores? Because they can't afford the bigger up-front prices of buying at Costco!

Oh, and pretty much all of the durable goods sold at Costco will be much better quality and longer-lasting than the crap they sell at a dollar store, so that stuff follows the Vimes law as well.
So, even better porn?
I went to a friends mothers funeral to support him and to pay my respects. However, his brother who had a fractious relationship with his siblings did not. I can't tell you how many relatives viewed his absence negatively.
Any real-world (open-source) implementations of this?
This format barely worked for the original and it doesn't work here. I threw it in an LLM and it translated it into English, pretty good info in there.
This tool might not be as advanced as lazygit, but I've been using tig daily for 6 or 7 years at this point and I find it perfect.

It's more like a viewer and you don't use it to switch branches or author commits, but to inspect the status of a repository, the diff of a commit, or a specific git tree, it works. It's lightweight, very portable, responsive and doesn't require to learn a lot of keyboard shortcuts.
Hi, I am the author. Thanks for your suggestion! I will definitely go through that article, once I have some time. Just had a quick glance and it looks like there is also a section about transformation matrix, which is what I have been using
GPT-4o is at least 1 order of magnitude behind Claude 3.5 Sonnet in coding. I use latter.
Crazy stuff. This feels very Soviet and dystopian. This looks like something that would come from a Watchtower cult magazine. Anonymous experiences that can't be checked and conveniently and unanimously support the agenda, extended control over people's private life with severe punishment for even the slightest disagreement or god forbid an alternative opinion.
This refers to additional material appearing during October and November 2023. Did it?
> I don't think the article states this - whatever HNs many problems, 'chasing growth at all costs'

If HN is a conduit for YC, why would HN not want mindshare that reflects what YC wants? For instance, is this post not getting upvotes because it reflects negativly on these internet companies?

> That's not a reasonable standard, the target for such things has to be something like 'most users, most of the time' rather than you personally.

When you code, you have to comment so any idiot can understand your logic, correct? I do not see why this is not true here. The standards are set by an algorithm that we cannot see.

> It sounds like you want to use a messageboard exclusively on your terms.

No, dang wants it on his terms. I do not want it on my terms or dangs terms. I want it on the community's terms. But there is not voting here on the topic. It is authoritarian and I want to get rid of authoritarianism because that serves the most people the best. I know it is messy and ugly, but that is humanity.

While what I brought up here is tangential to the article, it is of the same expression. Authoritarian control for a purpose that benefits the authoritarian.
> In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn't been good versus evil. It's hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing good versus doing nothing.

Wow. This part really resonated with me. I will try to keep this in mind.
Would you expect to get nothing from selling your grandparent's letters?
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Jevons Paradox will take care of it[1]. The more efficiently a resource is used, the more demand there is for it.

The grave implication of Jevons paradox is that the fundamental conflict between sustainability and economic progress is not resolved solely by using resources more efficiently. It's a theory of supply chain constraints essentially. Once a resource is used more efficiently, its use is increased until the next most economically constrained resource hits its economically useful limit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
They're estimates but I've seen some numbers

May we ask where?
I mean, the pelican's body is backwards...
That's a great idea. Do you have any other ideas for finishing the other half of the pieces. Graphite seems too messy, and I'm not sure the different sands will look different enough.

I imagine the details that currently (and insufficiently in my opinion) distinguish the colors would be obliterated.