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Reading the jj changelog is fun where you see them deprecate functions, acknowledging that they perform identical purposes. Beautiful to see this simplification that benefits all users going forward.

The one that stood out in my mind:

`jj checkout` and `jj merge` are both deprecated; use `jj new` instead to replace both of these commands in all instances.

Rationale: jj checkout and jj merge both implement identical functionality, which is a subset of jj new. checkout creates a new working copy commit on top of a single specified revision, i.e. with one parent. merge creates a new working copy commit on top of at least two specified revisions, i.e. with two or more parents.

The only difference between these commands and jj new, which also creates a new working copy commit, is that new can create a working copy commit on top of any arbitrary number of revisions, so it can handle both the previous cases at once. The only actual difference between these three commands is the command syntax and their name. These names were chosen to be familiar to users of other version control systems, but we instead encourage all users to adopt jj new instead; it is more general and easier to remember than both of these.
Gambling prohibition went fine. The laws were relaxed because there was money to be made, not because they were causing problems.

The GP outlines why alcohol and gambling are distinguished. Alcohol is enjoyed by a majority of people, with a very small minority abusing it. Gambling is enjoyed by a much smaller portion of people, a larger portion of whom abuse it. This is especially true with respect to where money is made off of gambling. Since so much more money can be made off of single person from gambling than alcohol, the portion of the money made in gambling from abusers is much higher.
Honestly, it’s wild to think how fast this is happening. By 2025, it feels like no job will be off-limits for AI—everything from customer service to content creation and even management could be taken over. Sure, companies will save money and boost productivity, but what about the people? Displacement, job insecurity, losing the creative touch—it’s hard not to feel uneasy about where this is headed. It’s not even a question of if AI will replace humans anymore—it’s how fast and what we’re willing to sacrifice.

https://www.salesforceben.com/salesforce-will-hire-no-more-s...

https://www.performancemarketingworld.com/article/1900538/kl....

CEOs are pushing full steam ahead, and with figures like Elon and Trump leading the charge, it feels like everything is heading toward AI domination. The UK is already bracing for mass redundancies next year across every sector—just look at the links above. It’s clear the mantra is shifting to "AI First," where every project and task is designed to be handled by AI. The pace of this change is staggering.
musk offers on a voluntary base competitive products/solutions that help with the climate issues, leftist cant offer solutions that appeal to the republican base, only compulsory "selfsacrifices"
Trains that run through buildings and escalators with tolls
This is my all time favorite poem simply because it is able to evoke such strong visualizations for me. I can really see the rider so viscerally and no other non visual media is able to replicate that. I don’t really understand how but Robert Frost was on to something that no one else I’ve found was.

Seeing this in HN makes me think there are others who feel similar which I think is great. Anyone have similar media that evokes a similar feeling?
Smart ring startup Ōura raises $200M as valuation leaps to $5.2B
my middle school English teacher used to say the last four lines of this poem often, but I never understood why... or maybe I do now
Isn't it simply because these people won't ever get cancer, and so they die of something else. So if you reach a certain age you outlive most people that would die from cancer.

And then always researchers try to find a clue in the patient and see like oh hey they have more iron, iron must be the solution, but maybe the person just didn't get cancer because (s)he had a healthy lifestyle and relatively little stress.
Amazon might write a letter, but if the tech is solid, they’ll probably just work with them.
Why would anyone do that?? ;)
Oh I knew that was coming. This interesting but ancient piece of trivia just illustrates something about how slow micros were back then. It’s not like printer don’t have more and multiple CPUs today. Not like whatever poorly written outsourced to India “managed” shit and other features are going to run on a potato. Whatever is driving the color touch LCD on even the Walmart econoshit is many times more powerful then that 12 MHz 68k.

Still have no idea what the GPs point was. You can just as easily run a raster on the host, if it has bugs it has bugs, where it lives doesn’t matter.

Further rosetinting is of course that LaserWriter was $20k and it’d be a decade plus before a monochrome dropped under 1. I’m gonna guess the Canon with the shitty drivers is 10x cheaper and faster.
With a name like Twtxt how are you supposed to easily talk about it with other people? Not even one vowel
Is 12 miles a long drive for a pharmacy? It's certainly more out of the way, less convenient, but I think you could still drive there for your monthly refills or etc?
YouTube also has a recording of Robert Frost himself reciting the poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rebVUgCgSAU
Wonder if Haskell is still around at Meta these days, does anybody know?
The first thing I see after clicking on this link is a popup begging for permission to spy on me. Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Another way of doing this is by using the 'Record TTS' facility of Librera Reader - a book reader for Android, available on F-Droid, no iOS version available as far as I know - which can use the TTS service on Android to narrate all formats supported by Librera to audio files.
Just an email list for interested players. I'd like to sign up for updates if possible (followed on Bluesky but I'm not on there all the time).
Depends on what you're writing I guess (as always). I write backend services and if there is an exception thrown, generally the whole request is forfeit. So a top-level exception handler is all that's needed.. no checked exceptions ruining my lambdas or streams like in Java.
If we're all stuck together in a glass labyrinth, maybe some stone-throwing is warranted anyway
The word "socialism" really means "everything that isn't capitalism, and has a more equitable distribution of resources". Making socialism work just means making something other than capitalism work, and there are lots of ideas out there.
RTIC: The hardware accelerated Rust RTOS
I think I'd pronounce it as, Twit-ext?
Intuitively, I read it as "tweetext"
If "CR" is the only bad byte, that means that 255/256 of the symbols are okay to use. That beats UTF-16 embedded in a string, where only 63481/65536 of the symbols are okay to use.

My approach was to use very large integers. You can split the input file into blocks of X bits, then represent that block as X+1 bits. The output is bigger because it can't have any forbidden bytes in there.

For the case of 255 of 256 symbols, packing 1415 bits of data into 1416 bits of space is the most efficient block size (before reaching a ridiculously large size) at 0.0706215% expansion. (For an infinite block size, you'd have an expansion of 1 - (log base 256 of 255), or 0.070582%)

Encoding: Turn 1415 bits of data into a very large number. Repeatedly divide and modulo by 255, giving a range of 0-254. Then add 1 to all bytes "CR" or larger. Now you have 1416 bits of encoded data, which cannot be "CR".

Decoding: Read a byte, decode back to 0-254 by subtracting 1 if it's greater than "CR". Multiply by 255 and add to your big number. At the end, you'll have a really big number that holds 1415 bits of data. This would be 177 big multiplies, and 177 big adds.

Decoding (the faster way):

Javascript uses floats, but you can treat them as 48-bit integers. Just watch out for the bitwise operators, they will truncate results down to 32 bits. That means use actual multiplication and division instead of bit shifting.

6 bytes at a time: 48 bits can hold 6 bytes. With normal floating point math, you can multiply each byte by 255^0, 255^1, 255^2, 255^3, 255^4, 255^5, and sum them together. Then you multiply-and-add these 6-byte chunks to a big int. Then the operations afterwards use big ints. First 6 bytes get multiplied by 255^0, next 6 bytes get multiplied by 255^6, then 255^12, 255^18, etc. Whole thing is summed together. This cuts it down to 30 bigint multiply-and-adds, (30 multiplies and 30 adds)

Homemade bigint: It's an array of doubles, but used as 48-bit integers. Compared to the actual BigInt, it removes all allocations, and you can access the bits inside directly, speeding up the part where you extract bits from the number. Only mathematical operation required for decoding is the "multiply and accumulate" operation. Using the homemade bigint sped things up dramatically.

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So then, that's a lot of math just to avoid escaping (or fixing up) your bytes, but I think that would get close to the minimum possible expansion.
I clearly remember how much better quality the writing of HBO's series were in the late 1990s/early 2000s compared to almost anything else. Even when compared to contemporaries with great writers (e.g.: Aaron Sorkin writing "The West Wing") the quality of HBO's writing was unmatched.

Nowadays that style and quality is just expected from one of the bigger drama series in any streaming service.

Agree with you it's quite strange how people seem to have rose coloured glasses from that era.
They did say they shouldn't be allowed to promote it (which I take to mean outside tribal land). A ban on advertising gambling in places where it's illegal seems reasonable to me. They could put a billboard right on the border like some states have with e.g. fireworks.
With more deregulation just beyond the horizon, I wonder how much latitude these companies are going to get with siphoning/stealing from people.

It’s amazing IJ from MegaLag, but what’s do we expect going forward?

Honey was essentially given a
slap on the wrist by a pseudo-regulator, BBB [1]

Yet another slap on the wrist with a civil suit? Honey changes their T&C. Lawyers get their massive cut of the class action settlement while individual consumers, “influencers” get a pittance?

Nothing ever changes unless C-suite starts going to jail.

[1] https://bbbprograms.org/media-center/dd/nad-honey-science-co...
Nobody forced Paul to beg for spying permission. It was a conscious choice, possibly because he somehow makes profit from spying.
Check this list out:

1994 Top 50 Movies https://www.imdb.com/list/ls076329509/ You can recognise every of these movies by title

Here TOP 50 movies list has no title from big streaming services: https://www.imdb.com/chart/top/
> And why does everybody need your email? Because your inbox is one of the few places that advertisers haven’t found a consistent way to penetrate.

Fortunately there's still the ol' good email!

I recall Robin from Teen Titans Go! at one episode saying something on the lines of "there's only one way to fight people with money: with more money!" - and it seems we haven't been able to find another way indeed.

The protests and boycott on Reddit at the end did absolutely nothing to improve it or turn people to its alter atives (at most some power hungry mods were sacked, like that one from r/art who banned someone because they said their art was done by ai). The "mass" migration of people to Bluesky seem to lose its momentum already. The Cambridge Analytica scandal did nothing to make Facebook less miserable.

It seems we are stuck in this worst version possible of internet and all things around it as long as there is absurd amounts of money governing it.
I was a bit confused by the section on backups. How do they manage moving the data offsite with the on-premises backup servers? Wouldn’t that be a cost savings by going cloud?
Here’s a moderately more “optimistic” take.

Most users just don’t care, and power users will eventually learn to use better tools.

It’s the exact same rational behind airlines charging the same, but offering ludicrously valuable loyalty programs.

User behavior changes based off of these outcomes, and the short-term hyper focus on metrics to the detriment of the long term usability will eventually have detrimental effects, and behavior will change, and we’ll get better alternatives.

Re: Netflix. Actually, most people just want to consume slop. The popularity of reality TV proves this. Now they can consume slop with their whole family for $16/mo instead of $80/mo with cable. This is an objectively better outcome, and does not preclude studios from putting out genuinely incredible works of art. I have seen some incredible movies. A24 keeps pumping out bangers, Perfect Days and Look Back were some of my other faves from this year.

But I agree with the author that the state of things isn’t “ideal”. I’m just offering a perspective that the whole world doesn’t fucking suck completely and maybe you’re being melodramatic and overly pessimistic.
Yawn. This post is all old hat.

Richard Dawkins made the same point about humans being roughly between polyamory and monogamy 20 years ago in the Ancestors Tale (and others likely made the points before that). And the evo-psy people have been saying all these points for similarly long...
I'd love a link or two if you can dig them up.
Ideas which will thankfully remain suppressed due to their socialist association. We know what happened when a socialist party with new ideas took over Germany in the early 30s, and have collectively decided the new ideas can take a hike.
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My friend grew up in Derry a few hundred yards away from the west-running brook.
> This will hopefully be finally resolved by one of the subprojects of project Valhalla

I think we'll see them come in through https://openjdk.org/jeps/8303099 although I'm not a huge fan of the approach chosen (tri state nullability: explicitly nullable, explicitly non-nullable, legacy code that should just be treated as nullable).

Except for native support for reification, almost all of Kotlin can be reimplemented by Java if you wait long enough and stack enough class annotations. It's all stylistic up to a certain point, but the classic Java style combined with the glacial improvement process is one reason why some people want to use a different language.

I think I'll have an easier time convincing someone to consider Kotlin than I'll have convincing someone to add Immutables+Manifold to the dependency chain. You end up writing Java that's not really Java like, but also not something that there's a good standard style for, and that usually ends up in a mess.

I'm glad with pattern matching, Java is now pushing Kotlin to improve rather than the other way around. I'll hope to use those features one day, when companies finally upgrade from Java 11 to Java 17 in five or ten years.
Colo is typically sold on power not space, from your example you're either getting ripped off if it's for low power servers or massively undercharged for a 4xa100 machine
Tetsuwan Scientific: making robotic AI scientists that run their own experiments
The upvotes on the pronunciation in the sibling comments should be considered legally binding and will be the authoritative pronunciation. Upvote carefully.
Most of the older folks I know get their meds in the mail these days, even from the pharmacy that’s closer than that. The pharmacist is happy to talk to them over the phone.

> They also determine which pharmacies are in network for insurance plans, and which of those are “preferred,” offering patients lower co-pays.

[…]

> Dr. Qato argues that Part D plans should not select preferred pharmacies at all.
“Allow patients to choose which pharmacy to go to, with the co-pay the same, regardless,” she said. “So the pharmacy is reimbursed fairly, whether it’s preferred or not.”

I must be missing something, but what is unfair about passing along cost savings to consumers (in the form of lower copays) when they patronize pharmacies efficient enough that they can accept lower reimbursement rates?
At this point in my life I just want to see an evolved version of capitalism, we are stuck with the bullshit from the 80s/90s being milked dry from any progress it could have generated. It's over, we need something else for the fucking 2020s.
Eleven labs does it for free (for now) and it works pretty well, multiple voices available and some are high quality
a simple database of coupon codes for each retailer. That’s it. Basically a “Retailmenot” copy.

Interestingly, RMN did sue over alleged IP infringement in 2018 [1]

[1] https://ia803106.us.archive.org/8/items/gov.uscourts.ded.656...
PMs should probably know about RAG, tool use.
Talk? You write about it, on a (mechanical) keyboard.
After dropping Apple App Store, Disney+'s revenue dropped by 16% and Hulu by 27%
There were definitely a lack of funding justification as the previous wars dragged on. Iraq and Afghanistan cost trillions of dollar each, against tiny forces. The US could hang on for as long as it did simply because of the massive budget discrepancy to their enemies. But eventually had to withdraw/surrender when it was obvious they couldn't win.

Where did this massive budget go to? There is one tank factory, 7 major shipyards, and about 250 aircrafts made per year. Except aircraft, China military production dwarfs the US in everything else.

Even Russia is producing more ammunition than the US can. Just to be clear, Ukraine is receiving aid from the entire Western hemisphere, not just the US. At the start of Ukraine conflict, the US made 28K artillery shells per month, and is really struggling to ramp up to 50K in the next few years. Meanwhile, Russia is making over 200K. Just that alone should raise alarms about how pathetic the US manufacturing base has become compared to its adversaries.

Call it my opinion but when an army become overreliant on high tech but with precious few numbers that they can't replace easily, against a new paradigm in war where disposable mass strikes, i.e. drones, is becoming dominant, it is clear who is losing. Japan lost exactly this way in the Pacific to the US.

The US military is now optimized for cost and profit, like everything else here. Lawyers and businessmen are taking charge, not engineers and scientists. Worse, they are considered a cost to be cut.
None of which have worked at scale, nor would their incentives lead a rational person to believe they have a chance of succeeding at scale.

Capitalism is the worst, and it’s the best we’ve got (so far).
SQLite is self-described as not open contribution. So yes by their own measure they've made it more difficult to mainline features (and intentionally so).
Trump says he wants to keep TikTok around 'for a little while'
Can't blame Kotlin for that. And it's a very minor sin frankly.. set-and-forget.
You're a victim of that capitalist realism the comment you replied to spoke of. I can only recommend you read about the subject.
Isn't that forcing? Who decides how much censorship people can voluntarily opt into?

If given control, I think many/most people would opt into a significant amount of censorship.
Yes.. obviously.. I meant 3rd party like the original link posted for querying the network.
Having it in the same browser window as other models and being able to go back and forth depending on your use case is a big help though.
When can infer somewhat from this section in the FrontierMath paper [1]:

"Assessment of FrontierMath difficulty

All four mathematicians characterized the research problems in the FrontierMath benchmark as exceptionally challenging, noting that the most difficult questions require deep domain expertise and significant time investment. For example, referring to a selection of several questions from the dataset, Tao remarked,
"These are extremely challenging. I think that in the near term basically the only way to solve them, short of having a real domain expert in the area, is by a combination of a semi-expert like a graduate student in a related field, maybe paired with some combination of a modern AI and lots of other algebra packages...”

However, some mathematicians pointed out that the numerical format of the questions feels somewhat contrived. Borcherds, in particular, mentioned that the benchmark problems “aren’t quite the same as coming up with original proofs.”

It sounds like it will be able to crack some hard math problems, but not actually do mathematics. Which makes sense to me, given how these oN models are being trained. Synthetic data is bound to be in some (more or less obvious) way contrieved, since it's not like we can just generate tons of new/natural/original mathematical results to train the model on.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.04872
When power cycling your (x86) server isn't enough to recover it
A million things factor into market dynamics. I don’t know why this is such a shocking or foreign concept. Why is a waitress in Alabama paid less than in San Francisco for the same work? It’s a silly question because the answers are both obvious and complex.
I know microservices and monoliths are a heated topic. However breaking up complicated code to preserve user experience is sometimes essential. However you can have machines that contain many services and that interact with each for performance if needed. You would put them into pod groups while deploying to kubernetes and have them call their service inside of the pod. This can increase performance and through put.
Wikipedia: Excess-3
Story points for our next sprint, team:

1. The user will see an AI summary.

2. The user will not turn it off.

3. The user will Like It.
i predict that within my lifetime (i've got about 40 years left) a college football player will be killed due to a spread-related mistake on the field.
Most of the question in any kind of research is “what else didn't stay equal that we didn’t pay attention to”
Yes! This is what I concluded when, a few years back, I did a similar analysis to what matthiasl posted. <shameless plug> If you're interested in this kind of thing, please check out my book, Exploding the Phone. https://explodingthephone.com </shameless plug>
Will they delete it for real? I feel like many companies either just hide the data or have it sitting in older backups, leaving everyone’s privacy vulnerable.
The primary reason American gambling has exploded in recent years is the Supreme Court, which decreed federal restrictions on sports gambling as unconstitutional: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy_v._National_Collegiate_... So "laws" aren't really enough.
> The only ethical thing that Thompson could have done is advocated for the dissolution of his and his competitors' firms, which would have had him out of a job quickly.

Since UHC is a publicly traded company, this action would actually be illegal sice teh CEO's job is to protect the shareholder.

I can image many people here have stock in these companies. So, tell me who is responsible? There is greed everywhere you look if you are honest with yourself.
Look up Hitler's views on socialism before speaking such nonsense here. The socialists and communists were the first to go under nazi leadership.